Chapter 553 - Actor

"I'm so sleepy."

Xiang Wai gave Huang Shuyi a sideways glance, "When are you not?"

Huang Shuyi looked at her straight posture and shook his head. In fact, he wasn't all that surprised when she joined the army. He always had an inkling she'd do it. She talked like a soldier and acted like one from a young age. Except for the times when she was looking for trouble. 

"When was the last time you attended a wedding?" he asked her.

Xiang Wai shrugged her shoulders, "I can't remember. But I'm sure it was a wedding of one of my colleagues."

"After that, you didn't bother attending your colleagues' weddings?"

"No," she shook her finger before his eyes. "No other colleague of mine got married after that." She looked at him and asked, "What about you? Any of your colleagues got married?"

Huang Shuyi chuckled at that, "As if marriages are that common in the entertainment industry." As the band started playing music, he leaned close to her and whispered, "I just mixed a whole lot of our classmates. Did you recognize everyone?"

"Of course," she replied.

"I shouldn't have even asked that question," he said. "How can Major Xiang Wai's memory be so bad? She had always been the smartest in our class."

Xiang Wai snorted, "I ain't that smart."

"You always stayed in the top 3 of the whole grade and at the top of the class and yet, you want to say you aren't smart?"

"You are calling me smart because you haven't met my brother who had always topped not only in the grade but the whole city! And if that's enough, you definitely should learn about my sister. Apparently, she is a genius who skipped classes and graduated by the age of 15!" She looked at him straight and added, "With this kind of a family, do you think that I'm smart? I seem pretty average."

"Who said there is anything wrong with being average?" he questioned in displeasure and turned silent once the bride and groom stood in front of each other on the stage. He didn't know when did she start calling herself average? She had always been pretty satisfied with what she was. 

And in all honesty, the fact that she never took her studies seriously was infuriating to most nerds since, at the end of the day, she'd still be the first one in the class and in the top 3 of the whole grade. So, he believed if she really paid attention, she'd be just like her siblings or maybe even more.

After all, they all shared the same genes. 

The wedding ceremony was the same old, exchanging vows, rings, and they kiss. Nothing new about that for sure. They sat through the ceremony and joined the reception to congratulate the newlyweds. 

"I see Shuyi is still close to Wai," said Tang Ping when she looked at these two.

"Have we been close?" asked Wai as she looked at Huang Shuyi. "I don't think so."

"Oh, come on! You guys had been deskmates for years. You still want to say you were never friends?"

"Look at us," said Wai. "He had always loved to sleep while I loved to party. We have nothing in common except for the fact that we sat together for years."

Tang Ping chuckled at her, "If you say so."

"And here I thought we were best friends," Huang Shuyi pretended to be hurt. "I always shared everything with you and here you are..."

"I thought you're a singer, when did you become an actor?" asked Xiang Wai.

"Don't you know? Everyone in this industry is an actor," was Huang Shuyi's response.

"Tang Ping, what's your cousin doing here?" 

Tang Ping lifted her eyes to look at the woman who was walking towards her right now. Xiang Wai and Huang Shuyi also followed her gaze to look at the woman. Clad in a sapphire-colored dress, the woman had her long locks laid over her chest in loose curls. She wore moon-shaped earrings studded with diamonds and a matching necklace and bracelet.

"Congratulation, Xiao Ping," said the woman with a smile on her face as she came to stand before Tang Ping.

Tang Ping had a complicated look in her eyes as she looked at this cousin of hers and tried to smile back, "Thanks."

"I'm sad that you didn't even invite me to your wedding."

"I didn't even know that you're back, Bebe."

Tang Hebe didn't continue this topic and shrugged, "Well, I'm happy I got to be here today."

Huang Shuyi pulled Xiang Wai back and asked, "Why does this atmosphere look so strange?"

"Do I look like the narrator of gossip girl to you, Shuyi?"

"No," he replied.

Xiang Wai gave him a fake smile, "I certainly am not. What makes you think I'd know about gossips?"

"I thought Tang Ping didn't invite anyone from the Tang family."

Just because they didn't know what was going on here, didn't mean there weren't people who were as oblivious as them.

"Isn't that because Tang Ping's parents had separated from the Tang family long ago?"

"But Tang Ping always had a good relationship with Tang Hebe. I was surprised she didn't invite her to her own wedding."

"Who knows what's going on? These big families are always messy."

"And the children from these families are never as innocent as they seem."

Xiang Wai started to walk away since she wasn't interested in listening any more. Huang Shuyi followed her and said, "Hey, I never knew Tang Ping was part of a big family."

"So what?" retorted Xiang Wai. "Does it matter? Who her family is none of our concern. Especially since big families are really no good."

"Major, are you forgetting that you are also from a big family?"

Xiang Wai frowned, "There is only a handful of people alive in my Xiang family.. How does that make me a part of a big family?" She rolled her eyes at him and continued to walk.