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The Xu Family prepared for two weddings, and so did the Zhang family!
Except... One of the grooms was missing...
Zhang Luoyin was spotted leaving Yue City, and no one had seen him since!
It was even more alarming, as his strange 'granduncle' and a few of his household servants had left with him, carrying several chests!
"No way he ran off, right?!" People were beginning to wonder.
Meanwhile, in the Xu Mansion...
"Hmph!" Linhua smiled triumphantly. "Can that trash be compared to my Cheng gē ge? Now he dares to run away. I want to see how Weiyan will hold her head high on the wedding day!"
The entire wedding was indeed a plot by Zhang Furen to shame Luoyin and Weiyan, so Linhua was pleased when the Zhang family showered her with more than fifty wedding gifts, all packaged exquisitely in reds and golds, and delivered to the Xu Manor by Zhang Cheng himself.
"Wah, I'm so envious!" The maids all looked on in admiration, as Zhang Cheng came to greet his in-laws properly.
"Compared to a certain someone." One of the older maids jeered at Weiyan, and the rest snickered behind their hands.
"I hear Zhang Luoyin is still nowhere to be found!"
"Can this even be called a wedding?"
"I suppose the *three bows will be all she can get!"
(*Wedding ceremonial bows)
The older maids tittered whenever Weiyan passed by, but Weiyan was used to things like this, and she ignored them.
"Shouldn't I just kill a few of them?!" Tong asked in frustration, but Weiyan simply smiled at her.
"Pay them no mind. The simpler the wedding is, the faster it will be." She said, heading to the Xu training grounds.
"3rd Miss! You're still in the mood to train?! Aren't you worried that Zhang Luoyin ran away?!"
Weiyan halted.
She didn't think Zhang Luoyin was the type to do such a thing, but couldn't help an inkling of doubt, afterall, 'One may know a person's face, but not their heart'...
Zhang Luoyin had rejected her in the past, so she had no guess why he suddenly proposed marriage now, but whatever his reasons, he might have changed his mind and run away...
But as she had done most of her life, Weiyan simply buried her worry and resumed walking.
"If he runs away, he runs away." She said.
Besides, training was the only way she knew to take her mind off things...
As the wedding approached, Lord Xu had arranged equal dowries for Linhua and Weiyan, sending both to the respective household.
Linhua was a bit disappointed, but Zhang Furen reassured her.
"There are always ways to undo the done." She said, and then sent over more gifts to Linhua, so the difference would be clear.
The day before the wedding, Lord Xu worriedly waited for Zhang Luoyin, but still saw no sign of him.
'I will trust him this once, since tomorrow is the promised day!' He thought to himself. 'If he embarrasses my Yanyan, I will never let him off!'
To be safe, Lord Xu insisted on buying Weiyan a large number of gifts, so her carriage would not travel alone.
The next day was the wedding!
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The Endless Promise
FantasíaYin Xiaolong, the fearsome black dragon, is finally dead. But as the world rejoices, he awakens - reborn as Zhang Luoyin, a powerless human poisoned by his own family, and who is identical to his former self. Even worse, he must marry Xu Weiyan, the...
