Chapter 73: Come and Snatch the Bride (16)-1
“We’re so old,” Jiang Zhiyan said with a smile.
“Would you forget?” Xie Liaoyi asked.
“Just testing to see if you still remember,” Jiang Zhiyan said, looking at Xie Liaoyi and noticing the change in her eyes, knowing that the unusually active consciousness had emerged again.
“Of course I remember, I have a good memory,” she said, trying to maintain her composure, thinking Jiang Zhiyan hadn’t noticed.
Jiang Zhiyan smiled and looked away. They might not have noticed it themselves, but they were becoming more and more alike. It probably wouldn’t be long before they were indistinguishable.
Perhaps the “obsession” Xie Liaoyi mentioned was disappearing.
However, after walking thirty steps, the other consciousness retreated again.
It wasn’t that she couldn’t walk in the game, after all, it was just thirty steps.
It could only be said that once a person became lazy, they would become increasingly lazy.
Jiang Zhiyan held Xie Liaoyi’s hand tightly. As they stepped onto the last nine steps, pink flower petals began to fall from the sky, fluttering down and landing on them.
She looked at Xie Liaoyi and twitched the corner of her mouth helplessly. The two personalities were indeed fighting for control. Although she appeared calm at first glance, observing the subtle changes in her eyes and the curve of her mouth revealed much.
However, to the guests below, this was a very romantic scene.
“My god, Jiang Zhiyan’s gaze never left Xie Liaoyi.”
“Yeah, she must really love her.”
“Wuwuwu, I believe in love again.”
…
“You’ve held so many weddings with her, what’s wrong with letting me have this one?”
“I’m you, and you’re me, so it doesn’t matter who attends the wedding.”
“Then let me have it.”
“Aren’t you attached to reality? Then I’ll give you the real wedding.”
“No, who knows if you’re being serious or not? I don’t even know if I’ll be able to come out so clearly next time. Although we’re the same person, we’re still different in a sense.”
Jiang Zhiyan, looking at Xie Liaoyi’s expression, knew they had probably reached an impasse.
Finally, the two stood on the top level. Jiang Zhiyan held Xie Liaoyi’s hand, faced the crowd, and prepared for the Dao Companion ceremony.
Not many people got married in Cultivation Online, and even fewer held such grand weddings, so everyone cherished this opportunity, wanting to see the hand gestures of the ceremony clearly.
However, Jiang Zhiyan and Xie Liaoyi’s hand movements were too fast, either because they were too skilled or simply in a hurry. In the blink of an eye, the contract was complete, a golden light shot up into the sky, the sound of silk and bamboo music drifted from the horizon, perhaps with other instruments as well, sounding festive and grand. Vermilion Birds flew across the sky, and countless invited photographers took “pictures” of the two from various angles.
Xie Liaoyi smiled triumphantly, looking at Jiang Zhiyan: “As expected, I’m still slightly better.”
“Why are you always slightly better?” Jiang Zhiyan leaned closer to Xie Liaoyi. “Why aren’t you kissing me?”
“Kiss you,” Xie Liaoyi wrapped her arms around Jiang Zhiyan’s neck. “I’ll kiss you now.”
For this wedding, Xie Liaoyi had even spent money to redesign her character’s appearance, making it identical to her real-life appearance. Jiang Zhiyan would save all these photos. If she used physical photo albums, she would probably need thousands or tens of thousands of them, there were simply too many photos.
“I still need to earn more points, otherwise, when Xie Liaoyi comes back, there won’t be any space to store the albums,” Jiang Zhiyan said to the System.
“Just use digital albums, it’ll be the year of the monkey before you earn enough points to buy a mansion with a library,” the System couldn’t help but say. “It’s good to have dreams, but be realistic, you and your wife have held so many weddings, and you’ve only accumulated that many points… are you two just messing around?”
“Actually, she had a lot of savings at first.”
“And then you appeared?”
Jiang Zhiyan, feeling annoyed, didn’t answer this question, but the System was telling the truth, so she stopped arguing and deepened the kiss.
She wouldn’t let a small System ruin her good mood.
Xie Liaoyi was startled by Jiang Zhiyan’s sudden force, but quickly wrapped her arms around her neck even tighter.
The surrounding crowd cheered.
“Her temperament is indeed completely different from yours.”
“Mm,” Rong Ciqiu nodded.
“Why do you look so dazed?”
“Oh, because I’m multitasking and looking at work.” Rong Ciqiu looked up at the two in the distance.
Xie Liaoyi, panting, punched Jiang Zhiyan’s shoulders twice.
It was difficult to be kissed to the point of suffocation in the game, but Jiang Zhiyan had managed to do it.
Xie Liaoyi looked at Jiang Zhiyan shyly: “There are so many people here… can you be a little less… mm.”
She stammered.
“You were clearly very enthusiastic last time when you said you wanted to participate.”
“Mm, Xie Liaoyi was very enthusiastic,” Xie Liaoyi nodded. “She really wanted to.”
“You are Xie Liaoyi,” Jiang Zhiyan patted her head.
Xie Liaoyi coughed twice, not daring to look down, there were too many people.
They continued with the other wedding rituals, each led by an emcee, an NPC in the game, the same one who had been standing at the entrance of the secret realm when they first met.
Many people didn’t understand the significance of Jiang Zhiyan’s choice, after all, there were so many powerful NPCs in the game, but she chose the guide at the entrance of the secret realm.
However, some observant people guessed Jiang Zhiyan’s intention.
“Haven’t you seen Jiang Zhiyan’s gaming videos? That NPC witnessed their first meeting! Now she’s witnessing their wedding, how meaningful.”
The people next to her looked like they suddenly understood.
“Jiang Zhiyan is so thoughtful, I also want someone to treat me like that.”
“No wonder they’re together, so sweet, my teeth hurt.”
“Such a grand wedding, it’s like a real one.”
“It is real, didn’t you know they’re also preparing for a real-life wedding?”
“Huh?”
…
Jiang Zhiyan and Xie Liaoyi’s wedding ceremony was nearing its end.
The two hung their names on the marriage tree. Jiang Zhiyan hung hers in the middle of the tree, where the wind and rain couldn’t reach it.
They looked up.
“Doing this every time, don’t you find it troublesome?” Most of the time, it was Jiang Zhiyan who prepared the weddings.
“Most protagonists in novels get married at the end and live happily ever after, we’ve gotten married so many times, we’ll definitely live happily ever after.” Jiang Zhiyan leaned against Xie Liaoyi. “It’s a kind of beautiful hope.”
Xie Liaoyi kissed Jiang Zhiyan’s earlobe.
“When you’re completely back, I’ll talk to the Main God and ask them to officiate our wedding.”
“You’re really good at dreaming things up.”
“Will they actually listen to us?”
“The old Main God didn’t want to work and ran away, the new Main God… I’ve already mastered the art of negotiating with them.”
“Behave, the other parts of the wedding aren’t important, as long as we’re together, that’s enough.” Xie Liaoyi hugged Jiang Zhiyan’s waist and poked her nose.
Jiang Zhiyan suddenly picked Xie Liaoyi up: “It’s not appropriate with so many people watching, so let’s log off?”
“What?” Xie Liaoyi didn’t react for a moment.
“Although there’s also a consummation part of the wedding online, it’s very boring, you definitely don’t like it,” Jiang Zhiyan said, looking into her eyes. “So let’s run away.”
Jiang Zhiyan had already experienced everything she wanted from this wedding.
“You’re the one who doesn’t like it, I actually quite like it,” Xie Liaoyi snorted softly.
“So are we going or not?” Jiang Zhiyan asked again.
“Going,” Xie Liaoyi nodded.
The two logged off, letting the System control their characters. There were still other parts of the wedding that could increase intimacy, although they didn’t want to stay online themselves, they didn’t want to miss out on the rewards either.
As soon as Xie Liaoyi logged out, someone covered her eyes.
“What are you doing?”
“Taking you somewhere,” Jiang Zhiyan said, lifting Xie Liaoyi up.
Xie Liaoyi felt Jiang Zhiyan leaving the apartment and getting into a car.
“You can sleep for a while,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
“Where are we going?”
“You’ll know when we get there,” Jiang Zhiyan leaned against Xie Liaoyi and yawned.
The car drove for about an hour before reaching their destination. Xie Liaoyi was carried out again. She tried to figure out where they were by listening to the surrounding sounds, but she couldn’t hear anything.
Not being able to see was very unsettling for many people.
But Xie Liaoyi felt very calm.
From the scent and the echoes, she sensed that they had gone from outdoors to indoors.
“Sit here.” Jiang Zhiyan put Xie Liaoyi down. Xie Liaoyi touched the seat; it was a plain wooden chair.
“Okay.” Xie Liaoyi nodded and sniffed. “Incense?”
“Mm, don’t worry, it’s just for the fragrance,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
Xie Liaoyi chuckled: “What are you doing? I think I hear something.”
“Guess,” Jiang Zhiyan said, adjusting her clothes and hair in front of the mirror, then walked over to Xie Liaoyi. “Okay, you can take off your blindfold now.”
Xie Liaoyi quickly removed the blindfold, looked at Jiang Zhiyan in front of her, stunned for a moment, then looked around the room.
“You recreated our wedding room from the game?” Xie Liaoyi was speechless.
“More or less,” Jiang Zhiyan pointed to the incense burning on the table. “I made those myself.”
“So you’ve been busy with this recently…” Xie Liaoyi looked at Jiang Zhiyan, who was wearing a wedding dress. “Where’s my dress?”
“Over there, I wanted to help you change, but I was afraid you’d call me a pervert.” Jiang Zhiyan pointed to another outfit hanging there.
These two wedding dresses were also the same as the ones in the game, the only difference being that the ones in the game were made by Jiang Zhiyan herself, while for these, she had only embroidered a few flowers, she didn’t have time to do everything herself.
“Then wait for me.” Xie Liaoyi’s eyes reddened, and she took a deep breath.
“Why are you crying?” Jiang Zhiyan wiped the corners of Xie Liaoyi’s eyes.
“It feels like the last time was so long ago.”
“I came too late,” Jiang Zhiyan touched Xie Liaoyi’s forehead.
“It’s not your fault.” Xie Liaoyi changed into the dress. Jiang Zhiyan, dexterous, styled her hair the same way it was in the game.
She asked the System to take many pictures of them. After they finished, Jiang Zhiyan muted the System.
“Is this the legendary burning bridges after crossing them?” the System wondered. “Forget it…”
It dutifully started processing the photos. It was currently multitasking on four fronts: controlling its own game account, queuing to receive small gifts at Jiang Zhiyan and Xie Liaoyi’s wedding, controlling Jiang Zhiyan and Xie Liaoyi’s accounts, staying in the wedding room to gain intimacy points, and processing their wedding photos.
The System felt like there was no better system in the world than itself, and it wasn’t even asking for points.
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