Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The wedding was scheduled for the end of March.
The summer came earlier this year. In mid-March, the greenery in the garden in front of Luo’s house was already in full bloom, and the temperature was much more pleasant.
The wedding venue at noon was arranged at a private resort estate in the countryside.
According to the Luo family’s procedure, today’s wedding had a double banquet: those who would arrive at the manor at noon who were relatives and friends of the two families either related by blood, or personal friends who cared about Luo Xiu; and those Luo family’s family friends who would come to the door with invitation letters at night for the dinner party.
In the manor, the bride’s room.
After being woken up at around three o’clock in the morning to deal with skin care, beauty, make-up, styling and wedding dresses, Gu Nian’s nervousness and inability to fall asleep the night before was gone –
As long as she had a fulcrum, she could fall asleep standing up.
“Hey, don’t move, don’t move, the flowers on the veil are going to be crooked!”
“…”
Gu Nian was just beginning to nod off in a drowsy manner when Jiang Xiaoqing’s whirring voice rushed over to her.
Gu Nian raised her eyelids with difficulty.
Jiang Xiaoqing looked at her for two seconds, then she couldn’t hold back her smile and turned around: “Yuanyuan, look how sleepy our Gu Nian is. Her eyes are lifeless and dull. She doesn’t look like a bride about to walk down the red carpet at her wedding, does she?”
Qin Yuanyuan had also finished putting on her bridesmaid makeup. She and Jiang Xiaoqing came in from the door one after another. Hearing Jiang Xiaoqing’s joke about Gu Nian, she walked around to the makeup mirror and couldn’t help laughing when she saw Gu Nian: “Today is your wedding, so hurry up and get rid of the sleepiness and cheer up.”
Gu Nian was like a lost sloth. She paused blankly for two seconds before speaking softly: “Let’s see you fall asleep at two o’clock in the morning, and then be picked up to wash up and dress up at three o’clock in the morning, then we’ll see if you can still be energetic?”
“Haha, then who kept you up so late?”
“It’s my wedding after all…” Gu Nian couldn’t help but yawn. She was sleepy and her voice was so light that it seemed like she was about to fly to the clouds at any moment. “Facing this important moment in life, I will be nervous and unable to sleep.”
“Listen to this, it sounds like gossamer,” Jiang Xiaoqing couldn’t help but laugh, “Then you’d better stop talking and save some energy. Use it later when you have to walk down the wedding red carpet – the Luo family is really rich. They have almost built a ten-mile street.”
Qin Yuanyuan nodded in agreement.
Gu Nian’s eyes fell on the two of them and paused for a few seconds, “If I remember correctly, I should have three bridesmaids?”
Jiang Xiaoqing smiled: “Lin Nantian didn’t come in, she burst into tears halfway through putting on makeup. Then she pulled the makeup artist and told her how when you two were childhood sweethearts, you climbed trees together, dug out bird’s nests, and fished for fish eggs in the river—“
Although Gu Nian was sleepy, her reason was still there and she denied with a dull face: “I didn’t.”
“Oh yes, you were always watching her climb the tree and go down to the river.”
Gu Nian paused, probably remembering something, and smiled sleepily: “Is this why she was crying?”
“No, the main thing is that before she took biology class at the age of 12, she always thought that she would marry you in the future. She didn’t expect that she would have to turn around and send you into a dragon’s lair with her own hands.”
“…”
She thought for a moment, lowered her eyes, and smiled.
After the makeup artist finished applying the last bit of powder, Gu Nian carefully tensed her neck and turned back, seeing that there was still no movement at the door of the bride’s room.
Gu Nian turned back and asked curiously: “So is she going to touch up her makeup now?”
“No,” Jiang Xiaoqing said, “This sister is very brave. After crying, she wiped her tears and held up her skirt to guard the stairs on our floor.”
Gu Nian: “…ah?”
Qin Yuanyuan interrupted with a smile: “She said you couldn’t meet before the wedding, but she has seen the possessiveness of your evil dragon with her own eyes, that person will definitely not be able to help but come to you.”
Gu Nian was startled and smiled: “Listen to her talking nonsense.”
Jiang Xiaoqing said seriously: “I think she is right. That person in your family is indeed a very possessive evil dragon.”
Gu Nian: “I don’t deny this, but that’s not why she didn’t come over.”
“What’s the reason for that?”
“Well…she is like this. She looks carefree and has a bad temper. She has been more boyish than boys since she was a child, but she is particularly sensitive about this kind of thing.” Gu Nian’s eyes curled up. “She is afraid that she will cry when she comes here and then I will cry too, that’s why she didn’t come in.”
“That’s it.”
Jiang Xiaoqing and Qin Yuanyuan suddenly realized.
Another ten minutes passed, and Gu Nian had put on the last bit of clothing. Her makeup artists and stylists gathered around her, and the last person in charge carefully led her to get up from the chair.
“Miss Gu will be walking on the red carpet alone later, right?”
“Yes.” Gu Nian nodded.
“Then a flower girl will be arranged to hold the hem of your skirt for you, but you still have to be careful.”
“OK.”
Jiang Xiaoqing and Qin Yuanyuan had been standing by.
Hearing this, Jiang Xiaoqing asked uneasily: “Gu Nian, is it really okay for you to walk alone? I went over to see it when I came here in the morning. The red carpet is really long, and you are wearing such an inconvenient wedding dress… No, what if you fall?”
Gu Nian smiled: “My balance isn’t that bad, right?”
Qin Yuanyuan looked hesitant: “Isn’t it enough to provide a substitute male relative?”
Gu Nian adjusted the hem of her wedding dress in front of her belly. “After my parents divorced, my father and me haven’t contacted each other. My mother is an only daughter.” She looked back with a smile, “Can you go out and borrow an uncle?”
“…”
The two looked at each other hesitantly.
Gu Nian slowly dragged the hem of her wedding dress, walked to them, and whispered comfortingly: “It doesn’t matter. No matter how bumpy the road in the past few years was, I have made it through without them. How could a mere red carpet defeat me?”
Jiang Xiaoqing, the little fan girl got up and was the first to turn her worries over. Then she gave a thumbs up to Gu Nian at the scene: “Are you kidding? We are so blind, let alone walking into the venue alone in a wedding dress, you can just pick up the skirt and run a marathon. No problem!”
Gu Nian couldn’t help but laugh: “Not even I can do it.”
Jiang Xiaoqing was still not convinced but wanted to say something. There was a hurried knock on the door of the bride’s room. The servant who was waiting ran over and opened the door, and vague sounds came from outside.
“It’s almost time, it’s time to go downstairs and get ready.”
“Good.”
Gu Nian smiled.
Even though she had spoken so much before, this was her first time, so no matter how big of a heart she had, she would still be nervous.
Jiang Xiaoqing noticed it, smiled and leaned over, and gently held her waist: “Don’t shake, Mang Zhi is big, Yuanyuan and I will be standing behind you when you walk on to the red carpet. We will protect you!”
Gu Nian’s heart softened, then she looked back and smiled sincerely: “Okay.”
“…”
The red carpet was long.
The rose gallery filled with holy white roses stretched forward in front of her.
Gu Nian stood at the starting point of the red carpet, holding the bridal bouquet tightly in her hand. The sun was warm and dazzling. In her blurred vision, at the end of the red carpet stood a man wearing a straight suit.
“Wedding March” had been echoing over the wide grassland. On both sides of the red carpet, the eyes of the guests were focused on her from near or far.
Gu Nian took a deep breath, lowered her head and held the bouquet tightly.
The flower girl had already lifted up her skirt.
Lin Nantian and Qiao Xi, as the maid of honor and best man respectively, were waiting under the emcee’s stage, holding the wedding rings in the ring holders.
Qin Yuanyuan and Jiang Xiaoqing were by Gu Nian’s side.
Amid the eyes of more and more people looking at her, Jiang Xiaoqing tilted her body slightly and said in a low voice: “Your Majesty, why don’t you walk?”
Gu Nian holding the bouquet: “…My legs are weak.”
Jiang Xiaoqing didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: “Don’t worry, don’t let your guard down at the critical moment, show off the spirit you just showed in the bride’s room.”
“I’ll try my best.”
Gu Nian’s legs were really weak.
This red carpet seemed longer than the twenty years of life she had walked before.
She was nervous, but not afraid.
Because she knew that with the person standing at the end of the red carpet was where she most wanted to be for the rest of her life.
Gu Nian took a deep breath and took the first step. Following the wedding march, she walked towards Luo Xiu at the end of the red carpet little by little.
On the right side of the long carpet were the distant and near relatives of the Luo family, including many who had never met Gu Nian before. Everyone’s curious eyes were on her.
Mixed in among the notes of the wedding march, there were subtle voices of discussion.
“Is the bride alone?”
“There is no father accompanying her.”
“There aren’t many people on the relatives’ side. It seems that relatives on the father’s side are not present as well.”
“…”
During a certain gap, Gu Nian lost her mind in those soft conversations. Her figure swayed slightly, but fortunately she stabilized herself quickly.
The guests nearby were obviously aware of it and looked over nervously.
Gu Nian stopped and looked to her side, receiving worried looks from Qin Yuanyuan and Jiang Xiaoqing. Especially Jiang Xiaoqing, it seemed like she couldn’t help but want to come up to help her.
Gu Nian shook her head very lightly. She tensed her back and her mood calmed down.
Along the way, there had never been a lack of criticism and slander around her. If this level could make her fall, then she would never reach Luo Xiu’s side.
Gu Nian relaxed the bouquet in her hand and took a step forward firmly.
Just at this second, she heard a muffled low sound from the guest seat——
It seemed that something unexpected had happened that shocked them.
Gu Nian subconsciously made sure that there was nothing wrong with herself, and then turned to her side. After Jiang Xiaoqing came to her senses, she exclaimed in a low voice: “Gu Nian, look ahead!”
“?”
Gu Nian raised her head, then froze.
In her sight, the man at the end of the red carpet had started walking toward her at some point and was now only a few meters away from her.
She could see the guests beside him who had turned around in shock.
“…Luo Xiu?”
Gu Nian spoke out, but the man had already stopped in front of her.
Luo Xiu’s breathing was subtle and rapid. He didn’t know whether it was because of his pace or nervousness. He stood in front of her for a few seconds before whispering: “I came late, Nian Nian.”
Gu Nian came back to her senses: “It seems you should have waited there for me to come over…”
“This is the red carpet for the two of us,” Luo Xiu interrupted her warmly, his eyes shining, “How could I let you walk it alone?”
Gu Nian was startled, then lowered her eyes and smiled: “You will be scolded badly by Grandpa Luo.”
“Then I’m willing to bear it.”
“…”
Luo Xiu leaned forward slightly, stretched out his hand towards her as a gesture of caressing her, and then eyed her from bottom to top.
He looked at her deeply, his eyes as deep as gentle lakes filled with only her figure.
“Dear Princess, are you willing to be snatched back to the castle by the evil dragon and accompany him for the rest of your life?”
Gu Nian lowered her reddish eyes.
She smiled to hide her sobs and held his fingertips tightly——
“I do.”
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