The unusual red lantern skin mostly obscured the candlelight inside, making it appear from a distance as two faintly glowing red spheres in the dim light.

This all deviates from the true function of a lantern—lighting.

It's just placed outside for a "festive" effect.

"Wow, there's a really long queue at the entrance..."

Zhen Hu and his group peeked out from a nearby alley and saw the paper effigies holding umbrellas and gift boxes lined up outside the Zhang residence.

"Wow, just the queue alone, I counted over a hundred umbrellas."

Nanami's newly mustered courage was shattered once again by reality. She couldn't help but glance back at Mingmei's direction, looking quite conflicted. Just as she was about to ask, "Could I buy some more boxed lunches?", she heard Mingmei speak—

"Why didn't these people go in after giving gifts? Also, there seems to be a red sedan chair at the entrance. Is that the Bai family sending off the bride? But doesn't that mean the bride has already arrived? The sedan chair looks like it's going to be sent off to another place?"

These two were unpredictable in their intelligence, and after listening to them for a long time, Mingmei finally couldn't help but speak up to remind them.

Anyway, she's an NPC; her role is to help players get through crucial moments!

Mingmei thought this to herself, and continued aloud, "Judging from the direction they left, it doesn't seem to be going home, but rather out of town."

"ah?"

After Mingmei's obvious reminder, the two immediately turned to look outside. Sure enough, after handing over their gifts, those people all left in one direction.

"Where are they going? Out of town? Why do they need to leave? I remember the story ends when they leave town?"

Mingmei was instantly speechless at Zhen Hu's words.

What the hell?! The series will end as soon as we get out of there!