More and more friends and relatives came over. Du Chen and Wang Luqi stood by the hotel gate, patiently waiting for every guest to arrive.
"Why don't we go in first? It doesn't look like anyone else will be coming."
Du Chen glanced down at his watch, estimated the time, and thought it was about time, so he suggested to Wang Luqi. After all, it was still a bit cold to stay at the door all the time.
"Well, let's go in then!"
Wang Luqi nodded in agreement. After standing there for a while, Wang Luqi felt uncomfortable all over, as if she and Du Chen were going to get married and were waiting for relatives and friends here.
Du Chen and Wang Luqi entered the hotel and headed straight for a small ballroom, the very same one where Du Bin and Ding Miaomiao's engagement ceremony was held. As soon as they pushed open the door, they saw it was already packed. Du Bin and Ding Miaomiao were beaming and greeting the other guests, like two adorable mascots. However, Du Chen took a closer look and noticed something unnatural about the couple's expressions; even their smiles seemed strained.
"You guys come up!"
Gu Yue suddenly appeared in front of Du Chen from the side with a smile on her face.
“Well, Sister Yue, look at my brother, Sister Miaomiao!”
Upon hearing this, Gu Yue looked back at the two of them curiously, but did not find any difference.
"What's wrong?"
"Don't you see those two fake smiles on their faces?"
Du Chen asked Gu Yue and Wang Luqi while holding back his laughter. The more he looked at Du Bin and Ding Miaomiao, the funnier they found them. Both of them looked unnatural and stiff from head to toe, but they had to smile and chat with everyone, like puppets.
"Hey, it really is!"
With Du Chen's reminder, Gu Yue also noticed the unnaturalness of the two people.
"This is the first time I've seen Brother Binbin and Sister Miaomiao so uncomfortable!"
Gu Yue looked at the two of them mischievously and poked Wang Luqi.
"Don't talk about them, I feel so uncomfortable now!"
Wang Luqi whispered in Gu Yue's ear.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Gu Yue also asked Wang Luqi quietly.
"Look at the way people around here are looking at us!"
Wang Luqi reminded Gu Yue.
Gu Yue looked around and found that friends were all chatting with Comrade Lao Du and Ren Surong, while relatives were all secretly glancing over here, glancing at Du Chen and Wang Luqi.
"Forehead……"
Although Gu Yue was not involved, she felt uneasy looking at the looks of these relatives...
"Du Chen, come here!"
Du Chen was chatting with a friend on the other side, and Gu Yue called Du Chen over.
"What's wrong?"
Du Chen walked up to Gu Yue and asked her doubtfully.
"Look at the eyes around you!"
This time it was Gu Yue's turn to remind Du Chen.
Upon hearing this, Du Chen looked up and around, and immediately discovered the root of the problem.
"It's okay, everyone can watch if they want! We'll meet again in the future anyway!"
Du Chen shrugged his shoulders and spoke indifferently to Wang Luqi and Gu Yue.
"That's true!"
Gu Yue nodded belatedly. Indeed, if Du Chen and Wang Luqi had always been together, they would have many opportunities to meet in the future...
"Hello everyone!"
Suddenly, the host's voice came from the speakers in the ballroom.
"Dear guests, dear friends and relatives..."
The magnetic voice filled the entire hall. Everyone who was chatting fell silent upon hearing the host's voice and listened attentively. This was the first time for everyone to have seen an engagement ceremony. Previously, engagements were just two families sitting down for a meal, chatting, eating and drinking. They had never seen such a professional scene...
"Chenchen, where did you find this host? He sounds very professional!"
Gu Yue asked Du Chen curiously, and Ding Miaomiao beside him also looked at Du Chen curiously. Indeed, the host's voice was full of magnetism and very pleasant to the ear as soon as he opened his mouth.
"This is the host of our city's radio station. What do you think? Not bad, isn't he? Pretty professional!"
Du Chen smiled and explained to the two of them.
"Auspicious times bring joy and auspicious days bring about a happy marriage. On this beautiful and festive day, we all gather together to hold an engagement ceremony for Mr. Du Bin and Ms. Ding Miaomiao!"
“Pah pah pah…”
When they heard the host get to the point, everyone couldn't help but applaud. The lively atmosphere is always contagious. Everyone grinned happily and looked at Du Bin and Ding Miaomiao standing on the stage.
As the process progressed, cheers from everyone could be heard from time to time throughout the small dance hall.
Du Bin and Ding Miaomiao were like puppets, doing whatever the host said.
"well……"
Gu Yue sighed.
"What's wrong?"
Du Chen asked Gu Yue curiously.
"It's quite high-end, and the ceremony is great, but it's quite time-consuming! Getting engaged is already such a hassle, what about getting married? Wouldn't it be exhausting?"
Wang Luqi also nodded in agreement. She also saw the trouble, and for someone with social anxiety, encountering such a thing would really make them faint...
"If it were me in the future, I wouldn't go through so much trouble. I'd just do it like I do abroad, traveling and getting married, without a wedding banquet, just relaxing and comfortable!"
Gu Yue expressed his own opinion.
"Sister Yue, you say this now, but that may not be the case when the time comes!"
Du Chen refuted Gu Yue's point of view.
"How can it be uncertain? Isn't this my own choice? Can you force me to do it if I don't want to?"
Gu Yue looked incredulous.
"Okay, let me tell you something. First of all, how much money have your parents spent on gifts over the years? How are you going to recoup the money if you don't have a wedding? They've spent quite a bit on gifts over the years, right?"
The gift money in Yuncheng has increased from one hundred yuan, two hundred yuan, to three hundred yuan now. By the time Du Chen and his wife got married, the gift money had increased to five hundred and one thousand yuan, which is also a considerable amount of money.
“…”
What Du Chen said made so much sense that Gu Yue couldn't think of any excuse to refute it.
"And the other point?"
"The second point is that your current thoughts may not be the same as your future thoughts. Right now, you're just thinking about how troublesome and tiring these things are, and how they're just for show! But on your actual wedding day, you'll be thinking about becoming the most beautiful bride in the world! You'll want to show everyone your best side! You'll want the whole world to know about your happiness!"
"Think carefully about what I said, am I right? Just like when you think back on those three years of high school that you thought were unforgettable or difficult back then, don't you think they were just that, not as difficult as you thought back then?"
Hearing this, Gu Yue and Wang Luqi both quieted down and carefully recalled some sad things that happened at that time, and suddenly realized that it was just as Du Chen said.
"People's thoughts change every moment. Can what you think now be the same as what you will think in the future?"
Du Chen asked the two of them one last question.
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