Chapter 70: Homecoming

Chapter 70

Thanks to Qiao Yan's careful planning, the wedding went off without a hitch.

October 6th, a sunny day, auspicious for all affairs.

At 8 minutes past 10 in the morning, the groom, his groomsmen, and a large group of people arrived at the bride's home.

Nian Suian and the others had been at Yuan Yuan's house since early morning. During the red envelope tossing, she managed to snatch two with her quick hands.

Everything was perfect, except for when the bride was teased for not being able to cry as she left her family home.

"I'm too happy, why should I cry!" She had been overjoyed since the night before.

Yuan Yuan's parents couldn't bear to look at their unimpressive daughter, their usual sadness and reluctance to part with their daughter significantly diminished.

After leaving the house, everyone followed the bridal sedan chair. Qiao Peipei recorded a video and sent it to Shen Huaizhi, telling him she wanted to get married like this too.

Shen Huaizhi only replied with "Okay" and nothing else. He silently took note of the style in the video, adding it to the previous lawn wedding, church wedding, and travel wedding ideas Qiao Peipei had sent before. There were already eight different styles, and if Qiao Peipei attended a few more weddings, they could have a different wedding every day for a month when they eventually got married.

Gu Zhijing also secretly took a video and sent it to Gu Junxing. In the video, Nian Suian was holding a basket, walking and throwing candy, smiling happily.

[Gu Zhijing: Dad, why didn't you and Little Mother-Sister have a wedding? That wasn't right of you.]

[Gu Junxing: No need for you to worry about that.]

When they got married, Gu Junxing had suggested having a wedding ceremony, after all, it was a marriage and didn't need to be kept secret. However, Nian Suian had refused at the time, finding weddings troublesome and unnecessary.

Gu Junxing didn't have any objections; not having a wedding indeed saved time, and he left for a business trip shortly after they got their marriage certificate.

Nian Suian didn't know about Gu Junxing and the original owner's situation, but if given the choice, she would also opt not to have a wedding. Simply put, she found it troublesome too, and thought weddings were more interesting to watch than to participate in.

Gu Zhijing sidled up to Nian Suian, "Little Mother-Sister, do you want to have a wedding? I could still manage to be an overgrown flower boy." N/nêw n0vel chap/ers are published o/n n0v/e/(lb)i(n.)co/m

Nian Suian looked at Gu Zhijing, who was a head taller than her, and felt a bit speechless, "People don't usually choose flower boys taller than the bride. I don't want a wedding, don't worry about it."

"Why does everyone say I'm worrying unnecessarily!" Gu Zhijing felt wronged, after all, who was he doing this for? How would this family manage without him!

"On such a beautiful day, how can you bring that up?"

"I'm reminding you not to try and avoid reality."

"We'll talk about it tomorrow. I can't write my homework until the evening of the 7th." The deadline is always the primary motivator, no matter when.

"Oh right, the stuff we bought online was picked up yesterday. Let's give it to Mi Mi's mom before we leave tomorrow, we won't need it when we go back home," Nian Suian said. She had asked someone going to town yesterday to bring back the cat supplies they had ordered. "Mi Mi still doesn't have a name. When we get home, you should name it, after all, you're the one who found it."

Neither Nian Suian nor Gu Zhijing knew that Mi Mi was now a little female cat named Nian Hu.

Early the next morning, they gathered in the courtyard just like when they first arrived.

"Thank you all for participating in this show. Our program is coming to an end here. Goodbye." The director was as laconic as ever.

"Director, it's bad enough that you didn't give us proper tasks, but now that we're all leaving, can't you say a few more words?"

This was possibly the strangest variety show they had ever participated in. No script, no planning, barely any tasks, plus a director who was stingy with words. They had somehow muddled through a week like this.

"Because this is life." The director left this one sentence and then walked away.

The cars that had brought them here were waiting outside to take them home.

"Let's go deliver the stuff," Nian Suian said.

After saying goodbye to each other, everyone went back to their rooms to pack. Nian Suian also took out the things and went with Gu Zhijing to deliver them.

As expected, it took quite a bit of back-and-forth before they could successfully deliver the items, and they had to strongly emphasize that they were leaving soon to avoid being invited to stay for a meal.

When they returned, Qiao Peipei told them that Xiao Zheng and Xiao Yan had already left. A car from the Xiao family had come to pick them up, without Xiao Mo.

Early this morning, Butler Su had once again carefully styled his hair, and Nanny Zhang had started preparing food early.

Gu Junxing was in his study as usual, but the financial report that hadn't been turned for half an hour revealed where his thoughts were.

"We're back!!!"