Song Wanning sat on the bed without saying a word. She looked at her rubbing hands together and waited for Yin Yichen to come and lift her veil.
"Aren't you tired of wearing such a heavy crown on your head? I thought you would take it off." Yin Yichen moved closer, bent down and lifted Song Wanning's veil, revealing her appearance today.
The crimson wedding dress set off her red lips and white teeth, and she looked charming yet graceful. Her eyes fell on Yin Yichen, and a hint of smile appeared on her face. "Now that the rules are like this, only by abiding by them can we have a happy marriage. It's okay for me to wait a little longer."
"I'm very happy that Madam is so considerate of me." Yin Yichen took off the veil on Song Wanning's head and helped her take off the hair crown on her head.
A faint smell of alcohol came over, but Song Wanning didn't feel disgusted when she smelled it. However, she still asked in a low voice, "Have you been drinking?"
"I just had a few drinks, it's nothing." Yin Yichen sat next to Song Wanning and explained calmly, "Those officials actually took advantage of such a big day to force me to drink. I'm afraid they don't want to wear this official hat anymore. I'll find trouble with them in a few days and you'll know what's wrong."
Song Wanning found it a bit funny to hear Yin Yichen say this. She looked at Yin Yichen helplessly and said, "I'm afraid not many people would dare to force you to drink. You just wanted to drink."
Yin Yichen was stunned, then relaxed. He snuggled up to Song Wanning and said slowly, "Did I scare you today?"
Song Wanning nodded slightly, "Yes, a little, but I didn't take it to heart. I'm waiting for you to come back and explain to me."
"My relationship with the Yin family has always been bad. Today is my wedding day, and I didn't expect my aunt and her family to take my parents' place and ask me to kneel down and worship them." Yin Yichen thought of this, and quietly clenched his right fist, saying in a low voice, "They don't deserve it, so I naturally refuse to worship them. It's just that today is our wedding, and there's such unpleasantness. After all, I've let you down and overestimated their family's reputation."
Song Wanning knew Yin Yichen's character, so she simply reached out and placed her hand on the back of Yin Yichen's hand, saying in a low voice, "I understand you. Back in the General's Mansion, the Second House family and I were all people who lived with masks on. Now, even if I were asked to pay them homage, I wouldn't want to. It seems that the issues between you and the Yin family are more than just a matter of discord. Since there's discord, things you don't want to do shouldn't be done, and you shouldn't endure it. We're husband and wife, and we should be united in facing the outside world, instead of harping on each other's impoliteness."
Yin Yichen held Song Wanning's hand in his backhand, looked at her and said, "Wanning, this huge Prime Minister's Mansion has become a home only because of you. If you marry me now, I'm afraid you will have to deal with the Yin family."
"When I was at home, I also fought with the second branch of the General's Mansion, but at that time, we had already torn our faces apart and the words were harsh. Now I'm just changing my tactics and pretending to be a smiling tiger. It's okay, I still know how to do it." Song Wanning responded with a smile, "You were able to protect me before, and I can help you now. No matter how difficult the future is, we can always move forward. But now, why don't you tell me about your past with the Yin family so that I can be more prudent in my future actions."
Yin Yichen sighed and told his own life story. "When the current emperor ascended the throne, several sons of the previous emperor all competed for the position of crown prince. My father supported the current emperor, but he was assassinated by his rivals. My mother was pregnant with my younger brother and was about to give birth. Wu Junrou came to see my mother and pretended to accidentally let the cat out of the bag, causing my mother to have a miscarriage. Wu Junrou's evil ambitions are obvious. Although I haven't done anything to her now, sooner or later, I will make her pay for her blood debt with blood."
Song Wanning was also a little frightened when she heard Yin Yichen say this, but she didn't dare to interrupt him. She only listened to Yin Yichen continue, "I lost my father and mother all of a sudden, and I don't know what life was like in the mansion. Wu Junrou and Yin Yunqing saw that I was disobedient and shouted in the mansion that Wu Junrou was a murderer. They had people lock me up outside the mansion. I was even hunted by assassins sent by the prince who was vying for the throne. I went through a period of time without enough food."
"It was at that time that I met you, Wan Ning." Yin Yichen recalled that day and could even laugh out loud, a rare moment. "You were wearing a snow-white coat and standing in front of me. I thought I was dead and the gods in heaven had sent a fairy to pick me up. I thought at the time that people should go to the underworld after death, not to heaven. Could it be that the gods took pity on me and allowed me to go to heaven and become a fairy after death? Later, the emperor ascended the throne and was grateful for my father's merits. He asked about my whereabouts in the court. The Yin family was afraid that the emperor would blame them, so they took me back."
Song Wanning couldn't help but feel distressed when she heard about Yin Yichen's life story. She had once lived under someone else's roof in the general's mansion and understood this feeling. "It must be very difficult to live in the Yin family, right?"
Yin Yichen nodded slightly and said with a smile, "Wu Junrou has two sons, both very naughty, who always find ways to bully me. But how could I let them bully me? I always retaliate in a more severe way. If someone bullies me one point, I will return ten points to them."
Song Wanning thought for a moment and smiled, "So, it's those two children who are unlucky. I'm afraid they've suffered a lot since they were young."
Yin Yichen knew Song Wanning was joking, but he also smiled and responded, "Wu Junrou's son put charcoal on my stool to make me sit down, so I put a red-hot iron on his stool and broke his butt."
Song Wanning chuckled and asked, "What else?"
"Madam, it's getting late." Yin Yichen pointed to the dark sky outside the house and said in a low voice, "If you don't sleep now, I'm afraid it will be dawn soon."
Song Wanning looked outside in the direction Yin Yichen pointed, but she didn't expect that Yin Yichen had already moved closer and kissed her gently on the cheek.
The warm kiss fell on Song Wanning's face, making her a little dazed. She turned her head halfway to look at Yin Yichen beside her, but happened to see Yin Yichen's bottomless eyes.
Song Wanning always felt that there was something magical about those eyes. She used to say that she should never get close to a dangerous man like Yin Yichen. But she didn't know when her heart started to get close to him.
Seeing Yin Yichen getting closer and closer to her, Song Wanning closed her eyes.
His soft lips landed on hers, and Song Wanning hugged Yin Yichen's neck and slowly responded. He kissed the corners of her lips, and the two of them pressed tightly together. Although Song Wanning was a little shy now, she didn't mind his touch.
The moonlight shone through the gauze window and sprinkled all over the floor. The curtain fell, illuminating the intertwined figures of the two people.
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