Chapter 332 The light of nature made her a wedding dress.
August 19, 2015.
Arriving at this small city in northern China in the early morning, Quan Zhilong felt a strange sense of familiarity when he stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the hotel suite, looking at the scenery outside, even though it was a land he had never set foot on before.
Perhaps during the journey from the provincial capital to this small town, and from the high-speed rail station to the hotel, there were traces of Yien's past life.
What would Ye-eun be like in those three years when he wasn’t involved?
The sound of Ye-eun taking a shower in the bathroom was in his ears. Kwon Ji-yong supported his chin and thought about the problem. After being stunned for a while, he suddenly lay down on the bed again, took out the prepared materials, and checked them one by one with the list in his mobile phone's memo.
After making sure that no material was left behind, he breathed a sigh of relief and put the materials back into the bag.
When Yien came out, she saw him lowering his head and carefully putting away the storage bag, with a cautious expression as if there was some business secret in it.
He has done this many times during this period.
She held back her laughter and sat next to Quan Zhilong, "If you don't sleep now, will you be able to get up tomorrow?"
"I can't sleep..." Kwon Ji-yong said honestly, and then sighed after meeting Ye-eun's gaze.
Just now, Yeen closed his eyes and took a nap on the road, but he was exhausted after singing and dancing on the stage for more than two hours. When he closed his eyes, he felt that his nerves were still tense.
He was either thinking about a scene that he had rehearsed countless times in his mind, or staring out the car window, thinking about a scene that might be related to little Ye-en.
Maybe she was born in this hospital that she just happened to pass by, maybe she was carried by her aunt on this road when she was little, maybe she also staggered and wanted to go into this small shop holding her aunt's hand...
Ye-eun didn't know that Kwon Ji-yong was already imagining the three years of his life that he had not participated in, but she could feel his inner tension and excitement intertwined.
Especially on the plane, the man's joy almost flew out of his words.
She lay down on her usual sleeping side, thinking about what to say to ease Quan Zhilong's excitement. "How about you watch another heart-wrenching movie to offset it?"
Quan Zhilong glared at her. The hotel room was air-conditioned, so even with the thick quilt on, it didn't feel hot. He lifted the quilt to his chin, held Yien's hand, and looked at her intently, "No, I can't go to register with red eyes tomorrow."
Otherwise the staff would think that I was unhappy.
Ye-eun held back her laughter, and thought that this person who was so excited and sleepless about the registration process was so adorable. "So what should we do? Why don't you stay up all night? Anyway, the photos have been taken, and it's just a matter of submitting the materials."
"No, there are videos of people following me. I must face it in the best condition tomorrow." Quan Zhilong sighed, let go of her hand, and held her in his arms, saying firmly, "I'm closing my eyes now, don't talk to me."
As if she was the culprit for his insomnia, Yien curled the corners of her mouth, raised her hands and gently hugged him, and really obediently stopped talking.
Regardless of whether the people around her could sleep or not, Ye-eun soon became a little drowsy after changing various modes of transportation. Yien vaguely felt that the person who was hugging her let go of her quietly, but she could hear the faint sound of a plastic document bag being opened and the friction sound of paper materials being flipped through.
Ye-eun turned over in a daze and slowly fell asleep in this sound.
It was not until after eight in the morning when Ye Eun was woken up by Kwon Ji-yong that the sunlight outside the window had already shone into the room through the glass, and Kwon Ji-yong had already changed into the clothes he had matched long ago and even had his makeup done.
What time did he get up... In total, she only slept for five hours. Yi Eun listened to Kwon Ji-yong's voice, but her mind was still not clear.
Seeing Yi-eun's rare dazed look, Quan Zhilong, who had only slept intermittently for a while, couldn't help but curl his lips, raised his hand and flicked her head, and said excitedly: "Hurry up and put on makeup."
Ye-en's makeup artist flew in directly from South Korea. After vaguely hearing the conversation between the two people in the living room of the suite, she lowered her head to open her tool box and looked at Tiger Brother and the others.
Today, when Quan Zhilong came to open the door with a big smile on his face, they were all surprised. The employees who followed the two of them all knew that GD was grumpy when he woke up...
It seems that he is really happy today. While the makeup artist was applying makeup on Ye-eun's face with a brush, she heard GD muttering in between meals, "Don't forget the wedding candy", "Hiong, did you get the ingredients", "Did you send gifts to the members and friends in Korea?" His tone was indescribably excited.
Ye-eun saw Kwon Ji-yong's appearance in the mirror and yawned silently. Then she met the makeup artist's gaze and they both smiled at the same time.
She shook her head helplessly. How could she put it? This man's excited state had lasted for the whole day.
In China, transnational marriages are handled specifically at foreign marriage registration offices. When they arrived at the appointment time, there were almost no couples who were also there to register. However, the staff was still a little dazed when they were checking the identities of the two people looking at their documents and then the two people in front of them.
Because there were a lot of materials to fill out, and they all had to be filled out in Chinese, GD seemed to be very pious about this matter. He took a pen and wrote it stroke by stroke according to the bilingual template. Occasionally, when he was unsure about something, he would turn around and ask Ye-eun.
The staff member was checking the materials while stealing glances at them. Every time they leaned close to each other and whispered, she couldn't help but smile.
After several times, she accidentally met the gaze of the bodyguards behind them, and when she saw the cameraman who was recording, she turned her gaze back, but her legs couldn't help shaking under the table.
Oh my God, my colleague told me not to take a leave this morning after reviewing a batch of foreign marriages two days ago. She didn't know why, but now she knows!
Because of the city's geographical location and history, most of the foreign couples who return to this city to register are Chinese-Korean couples. Therefore, this position gives priority to those who can speak Korean in addition to English.
Almost everyone who studies Korean follows Korean stars. Even the staff member whose phone case is a photo of two Korean stars is able to hold on thanks to her professional ethics gained from years of work. When she was registering information on the computer, her fingers were shaking uncontrollably. She took a deep breath, ignored the two people in front of her, and got back to work.
Kwon Ji-yong even wrote with a brush on a Chinese FM. He was actually quite good at writing simple Chinese, but he was too slow. After Yi-eun finished filling out her own materials, she turned to look at Kwon Ji-yong. She was more impatient than Kwon Ji-yong, but seeing that he looked serious and checked every word he wrote, she didn't urge him. Instead, she just rested her chin on her hand and looked at him.
Her eyes were so gentle that tears were about to overflow. The staff member glanced at her and began to scream in his heart, how could he ignore her! The CP that I have liked for several years is registered right in front of me!
Fortunately, she was able to get this job back in her hometown. Her eyes were actually a little moist. After realizing that her emotions were out of control, she swallowed the sobs in her throat.
Quan Zhilong, who had finally filled out the form, looked at the staff who had a serious face, entered something and deleted it from time to time, and occasionally seemed to frown. He was nervous and nervous. He asked tentatively: "Is there something wrong with the materials?"
He turned to look at Yien, and his hand unconsciously held Yien's hand. Yien glanced at the staff, shook her head, leaned close to his ear, and whispered: "It should be okay, right? I checked before, and it said that because China has not joined the Hague Convention, the review will take longer."
She squeezed Quan Zhilong's hand soothingly, and Quan Zhilong breathed a sigh of relief. However, knowing that the error rate of materials related to foreign marriages was higher than that of normal marriage registrations, he was still worried. He stared at the staff member's typing hands, fearing that she would stop because of a problem.
The staff member who was being stared at became even more nervous. Normally, she would chat with the newlyweds to practice her spoken English during work, but today she couldn't utter a word. Not only could she not speak, but she was being stared at by the two people and she even felt like going to the bathroom.
Quan Yi, I know you are nervous, but I am more nervous than you! Please give me a quick system audit!
After half an hour of agony, the system finally entered all the information successfully. When the staff adjusted the position of the printer with a serious face, fearing that the printed red book would be slightly skewed, the two of them held their breath nervously.
The perfect marriage certificate had the information of both of them. The staff took the photo, took a deep breath and pasted the photo provided by the two people on the printed red book, and then took the steel seal that he had stamped countless times and adjusted it to the best angle to aim at the red book. After everything was settled, the three people breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, "Congratulations to the two of you for officially becoming husband and wife."
When the marriage certificate was handed to him, Quan Zhilong took his own copy. He felt a little light-headed, and his voice trembled when he spoke: "Thank you."
He looked at the red book in his hand, turned it over and saw the photos inside, and suddenly laughed foolishly.
Yien was also a little dazed. When she heard the staff stutteringly asking them to go to the oath room next door, she said "Oh" blankly.
The most sober people in the whole venue were probably the photographer who came from South Korea and Brother Tiger. Brother Tiger took out some wedding candies from his bag and distributed them to several staff members in the venue.
After receiving the wedding candies in ceramic persimmon bottles with very Chinese characteristics and Korean souvenirs, the staff member who registered Quan Yi and the other child watched the two people walking towards the oath room, and finally buried his head in his workstation and burst into tears.
Seeing her like this, a colleague patted her on the shoulder and asked quietly, "What's going on?" She held the two gifts tightly, and her voice was shaking when she spoke: "...I'm too nervous. I have to offer these two gifts."
The oath-taking room for foreign marriages was thoughtfully prepared with both Chinese and Western styles. The two of them walked towards the oath-taking room with their red books in their hands, in a daze, under the guidance of the staff. Anyone could see that they had not reacted at all.
The staff had seen many couples who were still confused after getting the marriage certificate. She just heard from colleagues outside that these two were very famous artists. Thinking that big stars would be as happy as ordinary people because of getting married, she couldn't help laughing, "You are the only couple to register for foreign-related marriage this morning. The oath is not mandatory. You two can do whatever you want."
The staff member took the two gifts handed over by Tiger Brother and left the oath room with a smile.
The two finally recovered a little. Quan Zhilong looked at Yien with the red book in his hand, his eyes moist, but he covered his face and laughed, "Mo, I was confused the whole time."
He said he wanted to greet his new identity in the most handsome way, but when he sat at the registration desk, his face was so nervous that it was stiff...
Ye-eun also covered her mouth and burst out laughing, "I must have been stupid too, no wonder the staff didn't talk to me."
She had clearly heard that the staff involved in foreign marriages would ask how the two parties met, what jobs they do, where they plan to settle in the future, etc., for fear that the marriage would involve some legal issues, but this time the staff did not ask any questions at all.
Quan Zhilong looked at her with smiles in his eyes.
The sunlight poured in in front of the two of them from the window of the oath room, like golden sand falling from the sky, covering them with warmth. The feeling of happiness occupied his brain before the moment of happiness. Compared with his previous nervousness, Quan Zhilong actually felt an unbridled joy rising from his body when he got the certificate.
It turns out that people really are at a loss for words when they are happy. Holding the marriage certificate in his hand, which represents the embodiment of happiness, he thought to himself that, under the notarization of the law, the long-lasting love in their lives will never end, but will instead become immortal in a certain sense.
"Do you want to take an oath?" He looked at Yien, tilted his head slightly, and his eyes were focused.
Ye-eun flipped through the oath and nodded, her eyes full of smiles when she looked up, “Of course.”
Quan Zhilong glanced at the words above and laughed as well. When the two opened their eyes, they did not say what was written in the oath, but the oath that they had said countless times, once jokingly in the moonlight, and solemnly mentioned on the Ferris wheel.
This time it was finally mentioned again in such a formal occasion.
Brother Tiger felt a little emotional when he saw the two of them smiling at each other. It seemed that he had been following them all the way, and their happiness seemed to make him feel incomparable satisfaction.
A sturdy man actually began to hold back tears with his head tilted, while the two people who had just taken the oath took pictures in the oath room which was decorated with various decorations, just like every other couple registered in China.
The man who always likes to act cool when taking photos couldn't control the smile on his face at all when taking wedding photos, especially when the two of them held up the marriage certificate towards the camera. The corners of his mouth were covered, but his eyes revealed his joy.
In this place where countless couples have taken photos, this frame belongs only to them.
While they were taking pictures, the staff outside kept glancing at the two doors, because the morning work would be over as soon as they got off work. She began to recommend the couple to her sister who was comforting her. The timeline of how the two of them met, got to know each other, and fell in love was described in great detail. She recounted the entire love story as if she was writing a biography. After half an hour, her colleagues were stunned.
This couple, no, the lives of this couple are too transparent...
"Yes, yes, yes! The earliest photo you can find online is when GD just learned to walk, and the earliest photo you can find on Ye Eun is when she was three and a half years old." She had already put the gift aside properly. When she lowered her head to show her colleague the photos on her phone, she was so excited. "Look, isn't he super cute? Ahhh, our Quan Yi is a super cute child..."
She was still looking down at her phone. She didn't notice her colleague clearing his throat, and kept saying, "Oh my god, I'm so happy that I want to regard this day as the most important day of my life. Who can register the couple I'm chasing after? I won't be happier than this day when I get married in the future."
"Cough cough cough!" Her colleague coughed twice loudly again, and she suddenly shut up. She saw two pairs of long legs passing by in front of her, and her face turned red.
Ahhh, the "professional", "serious" and "efficient" image she has maintained for so long! It was ruined in an instant. How come they finished the oath so quickly?
The two who had always thought that the staff didn't want to chat with him because they were too nervous looked at each other and raised their lips. Ye-eun raised her hand and waved at the girl at the workstation, saying gently: "No, if you choose to get married in the future, we hope that you will be a hundred times happier that day than today."
Quan Zhilong also smiled and nodded.
There were photos of the two of them on the phone. I watched their backs as they left. Screaming is not allowed in the workplace, so the girl covered her face with her hands and was so excited that she couldn't speak.
On the way back to the hotel after the two people left the registration office, Quan Zhilong looked at the scene outside the car window and couldn't help laughing.
Seeing the long queue outside the steaming snack bar on the roadside, he curled his lips and felt healed as he watched the light drifting into the sky; the lights of the cars that occasionally passed by their car seemed to become more interesting; the blue sky, white clouds, flowers, plants and trees also made him feel relaxed.
It seems like the whole world has become a little more lovely.
So happy that he wanted to announce his joy to every passerby, Quan Zhilong pointed the red book at the car window and waved it proudly.
As if anyone really cares about the marriage certificate that flashed by on the car window.
Seeing his action, Yien couldn't help but burst out laughing. However, when her eyes swept across one of the bridges, she was suddenly stunned again, "Ah, that bridge, I remember I took a photo on it..."
Unlike Kwon Ji-yong, whose life was recorded since childhood and even had photos of his birth, she was raised by her mother alone before going to Korea because of the man's cheating. It was hard enough to take care of a child alone, and Li Zhen had no money or energy to take photos and videos of Ye-eun.
I basically didn't take any photos as a souvenir. The only photo I had before going to Korea was the one of my mother holding me on this bridge as I was about to start a new life. *
Ye-eun looked at the bridge that had been left behind by the car, and said with some emotion: "My mother must have made a great decision to take me to a completely unfamiliar country."
Then you will meet me.
Quan Zhilong looked at her and held her hand silently. Ye-eun hummed and shook hands tightly, her eyes full of happiness, "Luckily, my mom made that decision at that time. Not only did she get happiness, but I got it too."
She raised the red book and took a photo of the bridge, which was only a little bit left. After sending the photo to Li Zhen, she turned to look at Quan Zhilong with a smile, "How about we go there and take a photo?"
Quan Zhilong nodded, hugged her gently, and said firmly: "Oumoni will definitely be very happy when she sees it."
Who is your mother-in-law?... Hearing that Quan Zhilong had immediately changed his words, Yien couldn't help but look at him and tilted her head to tease him: "Does my mother agree with you calling me that?"
"Of course." Quan Zhilong also looked at her with a smile, glanced at the two people in front of him, lowered his head and whispered in her ear, "In fact, I think it's better to just call me Ou Ma. Anyway, my aunt and I are so familiar with each other, you can just call me Ou Ma Ou Ma."
Yien glanced at him and was about to speak, but the car had already turned and drove under the bridge.
They got out of the car and walked towards the bridge hand in hand. The bridge over the river is no different from the one it was more than 20 years ago. Yien received the photo sent by Li Zhen and walked to the center of the bridge based on the position of the bridge back then.
The river under the bridge was full of sparkling water, the aroma of snacks wafted from the stalls beside the bridge, and occasionally children holding balloons ran across the bridge, their childish laughter untainted by worldly affairs.
I don’t know if it’s because they are in a good mood or because the world is just so lovely, but in their eyes, everything seems beautiful.
They held hands and leaned against the stone bridge, and their crisp laughter emanated from their heads as they whispered to each other. Occasionally, passers-by did not pay attention to this couple holding hands and chatting on the bridge. Only the children playing relay race with balloons on the bridge would always sneak a peek out of curiosity.
When it comes to love, children who are only six or seven years old are at the age where their faces turn red when they see kissing on TV. When they see two brothers and sisters wearing masks but dressed exquisitely and talking with their heads down, they are curious and shy.
Until the older brothers and sisters said something and took off their masks. The child who was running in front of them with a balloon looked at his brother in a white shirt and blue jeans holding his sister up like a child. The various bracelets on his brother's wrists collided with each other and made a crisp sound. He covered his eyes shyly.
Ye Eun, who was picked up, put her left hand around Kwon Ji-yong's neck and held their marriage certificate in her right hand. When she bent down to kiss Kwon Ji-yong, the marriage certificate gently blocked their faces.
In the distance is the water surface sprinkled with golden light, on the bridge is a couple hiding behind their marriage certificate and kissing secretly, the white skirt of the girl who is picked up is not long, but the golden light shining on her body not only makes her look like she has been given a veil, but also extends the hem of her skirt which only reaches her ankles.
The light of nature made a wedding dress for her.
The child next to them has his back to the camera, but from his elbows in a horizontal V shape, it can be seen that he is shyly covering his eyes, perhaps secretly looking through his fingers at the brother and sister who are secretly kissing.
The balloon broke away from the child's hand and began to fly into the sky. The children who were playing relay race on both sides didn't care about the two people kissing. They sprinted to the middle of the bridge in shock and frustration, with their hands raised high, and seemed to be shouting "my balloon" in their mouths.
The static photos came alive because of the children. When they posted their ID registration photos, several carefully "posed" photos of the red book, and this photo to IG, which is only visible to friends, even Lee Soo Hyuk, who usually has the slowest internet speed, commented almost immediately.
[…No filter added? You are indeed crazy. ]
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