Chapter 253: Shattered Dreams
Mu Xingchen was confused: "If that's the case, why don't we stop the wedding before it starts...it will be so troublesome after the wedding starts."
"To cut the grass, you have to uproot it. Brother Qi must be trying to play the long game and hook the big fish. Bai Yu has a deep obsession with the other teacher. I believe he will not just let his puppet marry him. Maybe when he takes the oath, he will replace the real body to exchange rings and vows." Miao Yue guessed.
Qi Gu had the same idea, so he nodded and said, "Just like I won't use a puppet to eat my favorite snacks."
Pubugesang had been selecting candy from a huge wedding gift box. He looked up when he heard this and said, "Snacks, what snacks?"
Miao Yue said as if it was normal: "I'll give you the snacks in this box as well, and you give me the crystal glass in the gift box."
She just had one set.
Pubugesang nodded rapidly, thinking that he had gotten an advantage, and completed the exchange quickly, fearing that if he was a little slower someone else would preempt him.
On the side, Lin Hanzhi and Qi Gu were silent. One kept putting food into the other's bowl, while the other just kept eating.
Because the behavior was so natural, the three little ones no longer took it seriously and were completely used to it.
They just pick up some food and eat it by themselves, so what!
Half an hour later, the guests were almost all arrived and the newlyweds had basically finished their welcoming work. They went to the wedding room to touch up their makeup and adjust their state in preparation for the upcoming wedding ceremony.
The bride's parents still had the task of leading the bride to the wedding stage, so Fang Heng went to the main table and sat down first, waiting for the ceremony to officially begin.
Seeing Fang Heng coming, Lin Hanzhi took the initiative to take on the task of giving him a vaccination.
"Mr. Fang, how are you feeling recently? How's your heart?" Lin Hanzhi asked in a tricky way.
Fang Heng was about to answer with a smile when he heard the first half of the sentence, but when he heard the second half, his smile froze on his face. He took a deep breath and said slowly, "If you have something to say, just say it."
"There's something wrong with Ma Shu. She is a puppet controlled by Bai Yu." Lin Hanzhi said.
Fang Heng's face was pale. Fortunately, he was sitting on a chair, otherwise he would hardly be able to hold on to his crutches. His chest was shaking violently. He took several deep breaths before asking with difficulty: "How sure are you?"
Qi Gu said: "One hundred percent."
Fang Heng smiled bitterly and leaned back in his chair dejectedly. "...What do you think is going on in our family? My wife died early, and Yuanwang has been targeted by that witch. Master, are you sure you can catch that witch this time?"
Qi Gu held up his chopsticks and said calmly, "The reason why I didn't tell you before the ceremony was to resolve this matter once and for all."
Lin Hanzhi explained the whole story to Fang Heng, comforting him a little, and then asked, "You have had contact with the elders of the Ma family. They should not be puppets. Did you find anything unusual during the contact?"
Fang Heng thought carefully with a serious face. He didn't take it seriously at the time, but now that he thinks about it carefully, there are indeed many doubts.
For example, Ma Shu never picks up the dishes prepared by Ma’s mother, which are said to be her favorite.
For example, they would remember the wrong color of Ma Shu's favorite clothes.
There are many such cases.
At that time, Fang Heng just thought that the Ma family's parents did not pay enough attention to their daughter's situation. He also thought that since they would become a family in the future, he should remember to be careful and not let his daughter-in-law be sad.
Now that I think about it, those were all flaws revealed by Bai Yu in his haste.
It's funny that he really tried to remember it.
Fang Heng was really used to suffering. Apart from feeling numb, he could not feel any other emotions at the moment. He just watched blankly as everything went according to the process.
After the emcee warmed up the atmosphere and Fang Yuanwang made a sincere confession, Ma's parents, one on each side, held Ma Shu's hands and slowly walked over from the other side of the long red carpet. She was wearing a white gauze dress inlaid with pearls, and her face was beautiful and gentle. She didn't show any of Bai Yu's paranoia or madness, but she made Fang Heng in the audience shiver with coldness.
"Master——" Fang Heng urged.
According to Qi Gu's assumption, Ma Shu at this moment should be Bai Yu herself, but after a little investigation, Qi Gu soon discovered that Ma Shu was still the puppet just now.
Qi Gu rarely miscalculates. He was stunned for two seconds before coming back to his senses and said, "Bai Yu didn't come... I misunderstood. She doesn't really care who makes the vows. That's too pure love. What she really cares about is the moment when Fang Yuanwang truly becomes hers. In other words, she should show up in the bridal chamber."
Fang Heng was choked, and his pale face turned red: "Master Qi, what about my son's innocence?"
He found it a bit ridiculous when he said this, and stopped halfway through.
Qi Gu said sternly: "Don't worry, we will do our best to protect Teacher Fang's... innocence. Please reserve a room for us next to their room."
Since Bai Yu could only show up after the wedding banquet, Qi Gu didn't need to feel sorry for wasting today's banquet. As the king crab, lobster and other dishes were served, he began to eat seriously.
When he finished eating a huge crab leg as thick as skin care water and looked up again, Fang Yuanwang and Ma Shu had already changed into toast clothes and were holding glasses and toasting everyone at the scene.
Ma's parents also sat down at the table and started to eat their meal which was tasteless.
Fang Heng had misunderstood the couple before. Now that he knew the truth, he had a vague guess about their daughter's fate. He asked carefully and tentatively, "Father-in-law and mother-in-law, do you think there's something wrong with your Shushu recently?"
After these words were spoken, the two people, who were already dissatisfied with the food on the table, looked even uglier.
Ma's father's face turned pale: "You, what do you mean, both children are married...what's wrong with Shushu!"
Ma's mother's eyes were sore and she immediately shed two lines of tears and sobbed continuously.
They are her biological parents, so how could they not notice that her daughter’s personality has changed drastically? They were worried, guessing, and uneasy, but they dared not say it out loud even once.
Even if they don't say it out loud, they still have a thought in their mind, and they can deceive themselves that Ma Shu is still their biological daughter, who they raised with their own hands and fed with milk and food.
But, it’s just different.
His personality and way of speaking are different inside and out.
But the appearance is exactly the same, and sometimes, that appearance will naturally reveal a few small movements that the real Ma Shu would often do, such as curving the corners of her mouth when eating delicious food, and subconsciously clenching her right hand into a fist when she is happy.
Late at night, the Ma couple would talk in a low voice in the room with surprise about the small discoveries of the day, and kept telling each other that it was their Shushu, and that Shushu was still there.
The reason why she is like this now may be because she is in love or has experienced certain things.
For several months, the Ma couple lived cautiously in this fantasy they had woven bit by bit, constantly looking for evidence that Ma Shu was safe to deceive themselves.
Like an ostrich burying its head in the sand, trying to escape the truth that drives you crazy.
Until the inevitable moment.
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