After a Flash Marriage With the Disabled Tyrant - Chap 74
In the blink of an eye, it was Sunday.
Mo Xuanqi and Luo Yanchuan engagement banquet was arranged at the largest central hotel in the Imperial Capital. It was said that the display of splendor was the largest in the Imperial Capital in the past two years.
When Shi Yunnan arrived at the entrance of the hotel, he felt that the rumors were not false.
From the entrance of the hotel, he could see blue-tone decorations. Nearly 10,000 blue roses formed a flower route up the spiral staircase, leading the guests all the way to the main engagement hall on the third floor.
Not only that, every three meters’ distance, there was a lamp embedded with sparkling jewels. The combination of light from diamonds sets off the gorgeous and dazzling color, creating a dreamscape-like atmosphere.
“These two powerful families have joined forces and this engagement banquet cost tens of millions, right?” Shi Yunnan took the initiative to push Luo Lingsheng’s wheelchair to the elevator on the other side.
Qin Jian and Yuan Meng followed behind them and stepped into the elevator together.
Qin Jian pressed down the floor number while answering Shi Yunnan’s question just now, “I heard that the second house spent a full 30 million on this engagement banquet. On the other hand, the Mo and Fang families who married their daughters didn’t pay a cent.”
“Tsk tsk, they spent so much on an engagement. It seems that the second house of the Luo family has paid a lot this time?” Shi Yunnan looked at Luo Lingsheng and smiled subtly.
Luo Lingsheng’s fingers slightly stroke the handle of the wheelchair. His eyes showed a sharp look, “One who is not prepared to risk his child will never catch the wolf1.”
A simple common saying dug out the true intentions of Luo’s second house.
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Mo Bai’an and Fang Ya only had one daughter, Mo Xuanqi, and both of them were successful entrepreneurs. Naturally, they had abundant assets hidden under them.
To be more realistic, as long as Luo Yanchuan became the son-in-law of Mo and Fang and managed to get hold of Mo Xuanqi, his fiancé, he could get back more than this mere 30 million in the future.
The elevator door opened in response, and the noise came immediately.
Shi Yunnan pushed Luo Lingsheng out of the elevator, and then went around to the front of his lover, bending over to arrange the other party’s tie and royal blue cufflinks, “Let’s just watch a good show today.”
The two of them locked eyes.
Luo Lingsheng chuckled and lowered his eyes. He stretched out his hand and pinched Shi Yunan’s cool fingertips, “When I go abroad for rehab in a couple of days, don’t follow me.”
“Why?”
“If you don’t have a design job and you’re bored at home,…” Luo Lingsheng paused and gazed at him with affection, “You can think about how to set up our future wedding.”
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Shi Yunnan’s eyes widened involuntarily, and then he smiled, “Are you serious?”
“I am.”
Shi Yunnan hooked his lips and hummed twice, then he jokingly said, “Then patriarch Luo should be prepared to spend money like running water.”
Luo Lingsheng controlled the wheelchair and approached the door of the main banquet hall side by side with him, “Okay, you can spend the entire Luo family’s assets.”
As soon as the two entered the banquet hall, they immediately attracted the attention of many guests—
“Today’s engagement banquet is incredible. Even Luo Lingsheng, the big Buddha, was invited.”
“If you think about it, they still had the same surname. Even if the bones are broken, the tendons are still attached2. If we count back five or six years, when Old Master Luo was still alive, weren’t the second and fourth houses a family?”
“Externally, Luo Lingsheng is the head of the Luo family. Internally, Luo Lingsheng is the younger uncle of Luo Yanchuan in terms of generation, so he should come ah.”
“I really didn’t expect this. I thought that the marriage relationship between Shi Yunnan and the Luo family head was a rumor. I didn’t expect that they could still be together after so long?”
“By the way, I suddenly remembered, wasn’t it also rumored before that Shi Yunnan and Luo Yanchuan were about to be engaged?”
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“Let’s not mention the past.”
As the crowd mingled and talked, Mo Bai’an and Fang Ya rushed hand in hand to greet them.
“Mr. Shi, Mr. Luo, thank you two for coming to my daughter’s engagement banquet.”
Shi Yunnan smiled calmly, “Having received Ms. Fang’s invitation, how could I not come? It’s just that I have brought four people with me on this invitation. I hope Ms. Fang and Mr. Mo don’t mind.”
“Of course not.”
As soon as the words fell, Luo Dexing hurried over with his wife.
Luo Dexing met Luo Ling Sheng’s eyes hidden under his lenses, and he felt a sense of urgency for no reason, “P-patriarch, why didn’t you notify us in advance? We could have come downstairs to greet you personally.”
Even if he was two leaps older than Luo Lingsheng, he was still the nominal “cousin” of the other party.
However, Luo Lingsheng’s methods against the main house and the third house in those days were too harsh and merciless, so to this day he still has lingering fears and only dared to refer to him as “patriarch” like outsiders.
Shi Yunnan silently took a half step back and let Luo Lingsheng handle the second house.
In the next second, Luo Lingsheng said indifferently, “Cousin, you’re welcome.”
The word “cousin” didn’t contain any sense of intimacy, as if it was an invisible warning.
Luo Dexing and his wife glanced at each other, and a sense of resentful weakness came over them.
Others were afraid of Luo Lingsheng, but for Luo Dexing and his wife, who had witnessed the main house being “exterminated” and sent into prison, they were afraid from the very bottom of their hearts.
The pause of less than five seconds seemed like a century to Luo Dexing and his wife.
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“Today is Yanchuan and Miss Mo’s engagement. Yunnan and I are just here as witnesses and to send our blessing.” The strong pressure that Luo Lingsheng hid in his voice suddenly disappeared.
No matter what the outcome of this engagement banquet would be, it was a happy event in the eyes of everyone.
Luo Lingsheng wasn’t fond of dealing with others, but that didn’t mean he didn’t know how to show a rare friendly side.
Shi Yunnan responded with a smile, “Yes, Ms. Fang, we will find a place to sit down. You can take it easy.”
Fang Ya glanced at her husband and nodded her head with a smile and calm.
They hadn’t done anything wrong, so naturally they weren’t afraid of Luo Lingsheng, the “big Buddha.” What’s more, the visitors were all guests. It was good to have more people to give their daughter’s engagement a blessing.
Shi Yunnan found his friend Yuan Rui and said to Luo Lingsheng, “Shall we sit with Yuan Rui?”
“OK.”
After Luo Lingsheng and Shi Yunnan left, Luo Dexing breathed a sigh of relief. He rubbed his hands a few times, trying to wipe away the sweat on his palms.
Fang Ya asked, “Mr. Luo, Mrs. Luo, are you all right?”
Luo Dexing steadied himself, “We’re fine.”
“This auspicious time is about to arrive. Shall we take our seat?”
“Ok.”
Fang Ya nodded to the two future in-laws and took her husband’s hand back to the front.
When Mrs. Luo saw the two in-laws leave, panic surfaced at the bottom of her eyes, “Old Xing, why did Luo Lingsheng come here? Didn’t Yanchuan say he went abroad for surgery again?”
“You ask me, who do I ask?” “He’s already here; who dares to invite him out?” Luo Dexing’s forehead began to sweat again.
He now only hoped that Luo Lingsheng and Shi Yunnan really just came to the engagement banquet to send their blessings.
Mrs. Luo covered her heart and said, “Today, I kept feeling restless, like something was going to happen.”
“Yanchuan has been messing around for so many years and finally found a girl from a good family like Xuanqi to settle down with. I hope nothing bad happens.”
“Alright, stop talking about it.”
Luo Dexing interrupted his wife’s chatter, “The engagement banquet is about to start. Let’s go and take our seats too. If anyone dares to make trouble at this wedding, I’ll fight with him!”
The engagement banquet cost their family 30 million yuan, and they deliberately stopped Mo and Fang from spending money.
Luo Dexing didn’t agree at first, but Luo Yanchuan discussed with him in private—
Their family must use this engagement to grab Mo Xuanqi’s heart tightly. Holding her was equivalent to holding the assets of the Fang and Mo families, and it was also equivalent to holding their future.
“We were a bit cowardly back then. We can only hope that this engagement banquet will solidify Yanchuan’s position in the Imperial Capital, allowing him to…” To obtain more capital to fight against Luo Lingsheng in the future.
Luo Dexing looked at Luo Lingsheng not far away, and buried the rest of the words in his stomach.
1
To achieve a certain purpose, one must pay a corresponding price.
2
A metaphor means that although there are conflicts between relatives, because of the blood relationship, they are still a family.
At a guest table closest to the main stage, Yuan Rui took the initiative to ask for two glasses of champagne for Shi Yunnan and Luo Lingsheng, “I thought you guys weren’t coming.”
Shi Yunnan took a sip of his wine and said, “Coming early to do what? I don’t want to be left out to dry like you.”
Yuan Rui grunted angrily, and before he could refute it, there was a sound from the opposite side: “Yo, we meet again.”
Shi Yunnan and the others who were sitting next to each other raised their eyes and accidentally bumped into two figures—
Gu Jue and Xie Keyue walked over side by side and stopped at the vacant seats opposite their round table.
“Come on, Keyue, sit here.”
When Xie Keyue saw the familiar faces on the opposite side, he instantly felt the desire to escape. As long as he met Shi Yunnan, things would never end well!
Before Xie Keyue could make a choice, Gu Jue intimately pressed his shoulder and sat down.
Xie Ke was helpless, “…..”
“What? It’s only been a few and you don’t recognize me anymore?” Gu Jue’s playful eyes glanced at Yuan Rui and Shi Yunnan. It was not until he met Luo Lingsheng’s heavy gaze that he had to reign in a bit.
In order to hide the embarrassment of being startled by Luo Lingsheng’s sight, Gu Jue reached out and put his hand on the back of Xie Keyue’s chair, half-embracing Xie Keyue in his own territory.
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This situation was enough to verify that the relationship between the two of them wasn’t simple.
Yuan Rui’s face changed. He couldn’t help but leaned in and whispered to Shi Yunnan, “Holy sh*t, who doesn’t know that Gu Jue can eat both men and women, and is particularly promiscuous? Xie Keyue actually has this kind of relationship with this kind of person, I..…”
Yuan Rui wanted to say something but stopped.
Facing the current Xie Keyue, he felt like he had been badly blinded before.
Shi Yunnan laughed and had to admire Xie Keyue’s ability and means.
Even if this person was kicked out of the Shi family by Shi Sheng, he can quickly find a new backer.
“We just didn’t expect that President Gu and Lingyu Jade, who were both blacklisted from Fang’s auction, would still be able to attend this engagement party.”
Shi Yunnan retorted, and his joking gaze fell on the two of them like what they had done to him, “President Gu, is this a lover? Or a boyfriend?”
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“…..”
Gu Jue and Xie Keyue changed their expressions at the same time.
Xie Keyue’s hand hidden under the table involuntarily clenched into a fist, and the sound of his breathing trembled.
He didn’t know when it started, but right now he already hated Shi Yunnan to the core!
Gu Jue replied with a smirk, “Mr. Shi needs not worry. If you can get the invitation, we can naturally get it too.”
Due to the loss of 10 million yuan last time, Gu Jue’s teeth itched with hatred now that he thought about it. Even more so, he couldn’t stand the look on Shi Yunnan’s face.
Speaking of which, Gu Jue met Luo Yanchuan at a cocktail party a while ago. The two of them chatted very happily, and then they reached a preliminary cooperation agreement: they wanted to take this opportunity to let Lingyu Design and Fang form a partnership and completely replace the studio of Shi Yunnan and Yuan Rui.
After all, in Luo Yanchuan’s words, he could use Mo Xuanqi to persuade Fang Ya, who loved her daughter like her life. In this way, Fang’s auction house would give up the studio of Shi Yunnan and Yuan Rui, and instead reach a cooperation with Lingyu.
During this period of time, Lingyu relied on the small scheme of mixing genuine and fake products at the Zeguang auction and finally recovered the company’s working capital. They will be able to make better and more decent designs in the future.
As long as he could reach an agreement with Fang, he and Luo Yanchuan could also share the subsequent profits privately.
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Gu Jue thought of this and said confidently, “I know this newly engaged couple a little better than your partnership with Ms. Fang.”
Yuan Rui lowered his voice disdainfully, “Stop pretending. Be careful of things going awry like at the auction last time. In the end, you might turn into a joke and give everyone a good laugh!”
Shi Yunnan remembered Mo Xuanqi’s announcement two days ago and couldn’t help but smile.
He ignored Gu Jue’s self-righteous demonstration and whispered to Luo Lingsheng beside him, “It seems that there is indeed a good show to watch today.”
Luo Lingsheng raised his glass and clinked with his lover, likewise ignoring the two idle people across the table.
Just in time, the lights and music changed.
The host of the engagement ceremony came up, and after a skillful opening, Luo Yanchuan, one of the protagonists, appeared in everyone’s field of vision.
Luo Yanchuan wore a dark blue suit today. He looked particularly handsome and charming under the spotlight.
Many rich young ladies at the scene, including Wen Wanyou, looked straight at this scene, feeling bitter and envious of the other protagonist, Mo Xuanqi.
They only learned today that the financial resources of the Luo family’s second house, which was a side branch of the Luo family, were also not to be underestimated. This engagement banquet was so extravagant and dreamy, and Luo Yanchuan was so handsome and charming!
Hearing the exclamations from the surroundings, Shi Yunnan didn’t even look at the stage. His hand hidden under the table was playing with the couple’s watch on Luo Lingsheng’s wrist, “…My husband is still the most handsome.”
Luo Yanchuan, as the “world protagonist gong,” did have the look and some capital, but it was completely different from Luo Lingsheng.
In his opinion, Luo Lingsheng’s appearance was more in line with the protagonist.
Luo Lingsheng heard Shi Yunnan’s muttering and smiled as he held his lover’s hand.
The two interlocked their fingers, tacitly and skillfully.
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Yuan Rui, who was sitting on the same side, couldn’t stand this dog food anymore, “These two overlords, please tone it down a little bit. Don’t bully an unloved single dog like me.”
Shi Yunnan deliberately shook their interlocked hands in front of Yuan Rui and answered irrelevantly, “You’re getting more and more skilled at calling me dad1.”
“Get lost.”
Yuan Rui smiled and dismissed him.
Sitting across the table, Xie Keyue witnessed the interaction of the three and Luo Yanchuan, who was dressed in formal clothes on the stage. These sights caused his inner discontent to gradually bubble.
Yet at this moment, he had no choice but to endure it. He will one day reclaim what was rightfully his!
Gu Jue at his side noticed Xie Keyue’s mood swing and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Xie Keyue shook his head and smiled, “It’s nothing.”
The relationship between the two was indeed “friend with benefit,” but in this relationship, he still lived with a mask—what Gu Jue ate was his “clean” cover.
The host on the stage began to enter the next process.
“Next, let’s invite today’s most beautiful protagonist—Miss Mo Xuanqi!”
Fang Ya, who was sitting at the front, heard this and immediately looked at the main entrance where Mo Xuanqi was going to enter, with anticipation and reluctance intertwining in her heart.
In the beginning, Luo Yanchuan rescued Mo Xuanqi, who was harassed by a hooligan outside. Later, the two developed a romantic relationship.
More than a month ago, Luo Yanchuan took the initiative to propose marriage. Mo Xuanqi, who was blinded by love, agreed without thinking.
Fang Ya originally disagreed with Mo Xuanqi getting engaged so soon, but she couldn’t hold back her daughter’s plea for love, so she reluctantly agreed to it.
Fortunately, Luo Yanchuan really loved her daughter in every possible way, and the second house of the Luo family was also willing to spend money on this engagement banquet to prove their sincerity.
That being the case, Fang Ya could only relent.
As long as Luo Yanchuan was willing to be nice to Mo Xuanqi, she and her husband were also willing to hand over the assets in their hands to this young couple in the future.
The music to welcome Mo Xuanqi’s entrance played again and again, but the door remained empty.
Just when Fang Ya felt something was wrong, Mo Xuanqi’s friends suddenly ran in, “It’s not good! Qiqi is missing!”
As soon as this exclamation came out, it instantly caused a commotion.
Shi Yunnan and Luo Lingsheng glanced at each other, obviously not expecting the engagement banquet to start off in such a good way.
Mo Bai’an and Fang Ya stood up immediately, “What?”
Luo Yanchuan, who was standing in the center of the stage, also rushed up to ask, “What do you mean by missing?”
“Just after Aunt Fang left, Qiqi said she wanted to take a nap for a while. We saw that there were still ten minutes before the start of the engagement banquet, so we all left the dressing room.”
Unexpectedly, they couldn’t find anyone when they went back in.
“I’ve searched everywhere I could, but there’s no sign of Qiqi. I can’t get through to her cell phone either.”
Mo Xuanqi’s two friends were about to cry.
Everyone in the banquet hall finally reacted, and began to make a lot of puzzled noises—
What’s going on here?
The engagement banquet just started, but Mo Xuanqi, one of the protagonists, disappeared?
Did she escape the engagement banquet, or was she kidnapped?
Just as everyone was caught in various speculations, the side door of the banquet hall was pushed open, and a voice came, “Dear guests, I apologize for being late. I just changed my clothes.”
The “disappeared” Mo Xuanqi suddenly walked in wearing a comfortable and casual outfit. She still had a microphone in her hand, which was now connected to the sound around the banquet hall.
Seeing this, Fang Ya, Luo Yanchuan, and others walked to Mo Xuanqi’s side one after another.
Fang Ya’s heart was almost in her throat; her eyes were already tearing up, “Qiqi, what’s the matter with you? Why didn’t you wear the evening gown? Why did you change into such a dress?”
Mo Xuanqi looked at Fang Ya’s tearful eyes and caught a glimpse of the concern on Mo Bai’an’s face. Unable to bear her complicated feelings, she reached out to hug her parents and whispered her apologies.
“Dad, Mom, I’m sorry, I… I’ve embarrassed you.”
Hearing this soft apology, Luo Yanchuan’s eyes changed, but he had to pretend to be gentle and asked, “Qiqi, are you not feeling well? If there is any discomfort, let’s go to the hospital first. The engagement banquet can be held another day.”
As always, he said what a good boyfriend, or even a good husband, should have said.
Mo Xuanqi’s eyes overflowed with laughter as she tilted her head closer, “Brother Yanchuan, you spent such a large sum of money, and I invited almost the entire Imperial Capital’s gentry. How can this engagement party be changed to another day?”
“…..”
Luo Yanchuan felt that something was wrong.
It’s just that before he could realize what this “wrong” was all about, Mo Xuanqi took his arm like she always did.
Under the watchful eyes of the public, the two walked towards the stage again.
Just when she walked to the front row, Mo Xuanqi’s eyes suddenly stopped at the table where Shi Yunnan and the others were. A hint of complexity and determination flashed in her smiling eyes.
Shi Yunnan sat calmly in his seat and shook the glass lightly to greet her.
He was getting more and more curious.
What exactly did Mo Xuanqi discover to cure her “love brain” disease?
Wearing casual clothes at an engagement banquet was a clear prelude to not wanting to get engaged.
In the blink of an eye, Mo Xuanqi and Luo Yanchuan were on stage.
Under Mo Xuanqi’s gaze, the host had no choice but to turn off the microphone and exit.
Luo Yanchuan frowned, “Qiqi, what happened to you?”
Mo Xuanqi clenched the microphone in her hand and smiled, “I just think the normal engagement process is too boring, so I want to host it myself.”
She no longer looked at Luo Yanchuan but continued to speak to the guests at the tables under the stage.
“Luo Yanchuan and I got to know each other in September last year. At that time, I was hanging out with some friends in a bar until late at night, and after we separated, I planned to go to the parking lot to wait for a chauffeur, but I ended up meeting a drunken gangster.”
Just like the hero saving the beauty in fairy tales, this cliche pattern also moved Mo Xuanqi’s heart.
“Later, I took the initiative to seek him out and meet up several times. In order to get to know him better, I also secretly investigated…”
Mo Xuanqi learned that Luo Yanchuan used to be a playboy.
She also found out that Luo Yanchuan had rumored a marriage alliance with the second young master of the Shi family, but the other party did not hesitate to refuse and ran away from home.
Luo Yanchuan himself told Mo Xuanqi that he was not interested in the same sex and was more than willing to close his heart for Mo Xuanqi.
“In the process of falling in love, I feel that Luo Yanchuan has satisfied all my longings for another half.”
“So two months ago, after the unexpected marriage proposal came, I accepted it without hesitation.”
Not only that, she was also anxious for the parents of both sides to select a date for the engagement banquet.
“I really, really want to marry him.”
Mo Xuanqi’s face still carried a smile while recounting the sweet memories, causing many guests to smile along with happiness.
The unease floating in Luo Yanchuan’s heart gradually dissipated—
That’s right.
The Mo Xuanqi he knew was someone who was willing to depend on him and obey him for love.
Mo Xuanqi looked at Luo Yanchuan again, but her smiling eyes suddenly cooled down, and then the hatred that had been suppressed for a long time overflowed from the depths of her pupils.
Luo Yanchuan was startled.
Then he heard Mo Xuanqi say, word by word, “Until I saw some videos when I hacked his computer.”
Everyone present felt the change in Mo Xuanqi’s tone, and they extracted keywords from it.
video?
What video?
Just when everyone in the audience was puzzled, the large screens on both sides suddenly lit up. Before everyone could react, excessive moaning reverberated in the banquet hall.
On the screen, two naked men were intertwined together.
One of the protagonists only showed a blurred side profile, vaguely resembling Luo Yanchuan on stage.
The other protagonist was not so lucky. The video screen was facing his visage, occupied by lust. It was Xie Keyue sitting in the front row of the guest table!
The good show has finally begun.
