Chapter 443 Breaking off friendship
Early winter has passed, and what came before the heavy snow was Su Zhengyang's wedding.
The Su family has been a family of nobles for generations. The father and son of the Su family are responsible for the command of the Beijing Army and the Imperial Guard, and their influence is considerable.
As a result, almost all the important people in Kyoto came, and because of the new law of "equal rights for women", the wedding banquet was no longer divided into inner and outer seats for men and women as in the past, but all were placed together.
The guests gathered together and talked lively. The topics were nothing more than how gorgeous today's wedding was, and also about the two powerful figures Huo Gannian and Yun Chen, as well as the current new policies.
Now, Yun Chen and Song Qiaoqiao are both good friends with Su Zhengyang. Although that guy didn't send them an invitation, the two of them still came in a swagger, carrying gifts.
On the way to the Su Mansion, Song Qiaoqiao muttered to herself as she walked:
"This guy actually didn't invite me? Today, after he lifts the bride's veil and the bride comes out to serve tea and wine, how am I going to report him for his wrongdoing? Hehe..."
Song Qiaoqiao smiled very sinisterly, while Yun Chen rubbed his hands and said excitedly:
"You focus on his wife, and I'll focus on him—just wait and see how I'll make him drink until he's down!"
On the side, Lu Liang, who was leading the guards and carrying the gifts, approached Yun Chen and whispered:
"You forgot, the young master reminded you before you came, telling you not to drink too much today. The young master is waiting for you tonight."
After Lu Liang’s reminder, Yun Chen’s excitement immediately disappeared by half.
Lu Liang is now the chief guard of the Huo Gang, taking over Ye Yan's position and taking charge of the entire Huo Gang.
Originally, Yun Chen thought that after Ye Yan left, she would feel uncomfortable and reject anyone who became the chief personal guard.
But it happened to be Lu Liang.
When stealing the Wind-burning Grass in the Dongyan Palace, Lu Liang had saved her life. In order to divert the guards, he was seriously injured and took three years to recover. This also ended his career as a secret guard who had won the first place in the Feifu examination.
Yun Chen had an old friendship of gratitude and guilt towards Lu Liang, so when she saw that he was the one who would replace Ye Yan, she could no longer reject him.
"Okay, I'll drink less, you go get him drunk!"
Lu Liang waved his hands repeatedly and said, "How dare I?" The rules were indeed rules, but Yun Chen just felt that something was missing and he could no longer find the close feeling he had with his personal guard brothers.
She pressed her brows together, trying to get rid of this inappropriate emotion, and became happy again. She walked into the Su Mansion arm in arm with Song Qiaoqiao.
Soon, the wedding ceremony began.
Amid the sound of joyful firecrackers, the guests surrounded the Su family's wedding party and entered the house.
Su Zhengyang wore a peacock feather crown, a bright red wedding dress, rode a tall horse, and led the sedan chair in.
He personally dismounted to help the bride out of the sedan chair, holding her delicate white hand with one hand and gently covering her veil with the other to prevent it from falling off, which caused the surrounding guests to laugh:
"Ouch, oh, oh, does it hurt so much?"
Su Zhengyang smiled so hard that his eyebrows curved and his cheeks flushed. It was obvious that he was happy from the bottom of his heart.
After the bride entered the house, the next steps were the usual archery ceremony, worshipping in the hall, etc.
When the banquet began, the bride finally came out to serve tea and wine, and the guests were able to catch a glimpse of her beauty.
At today's wedding banquet, Su Zhengyang's parents are the eldest and sit in the main seats. There is also a third main seat, which is occupied by the highest-ranking official present.
Right now, Yun Chen has the highest position in the room.
She sat down in the third main seat, waiting expectantly for the bride to come and serve tea, to see what a beautiful wife Su Zhengyang had married.
I heard that the newly married Mrs. Su Zhengyang was not from Kyoto and did not have a good family background. No one had ever seen what she looked like, but they only knew that she was a stunning beauty.
In order to marry her, Su Zhengyang seemed to have had a falling out with the Su family for a while and suffered a lot before he got what he wanted.
Yun Chen straightened his clothes and silently practiced the blessings he would say to the bride and Su Zhengyang when he was served tea. He was completely unaware that as soon as the bride appeared, the expressions of all the guests became subtle, and they kept glancing at him secretly out of the corners of their eyes.
Song Qiaoqiao was even more stunned. She tried her best to wink at Yun Chen from a distance. The look in her eyes when she looked at Su Zhengyang was enough to contain three hundred dirty words.
Unfortunately, Yun Chen was so busy memorizing the words that he didn't see it at all.
"Father, please have some tea."
A pleasant and shy female voice sounded not far from Yun Chen. After paying respects to Su Zhengyang's parents, a slim figure came in front of Yun Chen.
Su Zhengyang was accompanying them, but he suddenly lost the joy he had when he welcomed the bride into the house. He looked nervous and expectant, and glanced at Yun Chen from time to time.
Yun Chen's entire attention was on the bride. She inexplicably felt like an elder. She looked at the bride with satisfaction as she knelt down to pay her respects, then offered her tea and raised her head.
The moment their eyes met, they were both stunned.
Looking at the bride in front of him who looked like a mirror, Yun Chen's smile froze on his face.
Looking at Su Zhengyang next to him, he was calm and affectionate, emotions he had never shown in front of Yun Chen.
Yun Chen finally understood why Su Zhengyang had avoided talking about "marriage" before and did not invite her and Song Qiaoqiao to the wedding banquet.
No wonder Song Lan had asked her to pay attention to the bride with a deeper meaning!
It turns out that he found a "Yun Chenping substitute"!
Those eyebrows, those eyes, that nose bridge and that little mouth, they look like they were carved from the same mold as Yun Chen!
It’s just that the bride’s temperament is too gentle, without the clean and neat murderous aura of Yun Chen. At first glance, she is a gentle and good-natured person.
Yun Chen was surprised that she only realized Su Zhengyang's feelings for her at this moment.
But seeing the bride's astonishment, and then tears slowly welling up in her eyes, with a complex look that was trying hard to hide the sadness, Yun Chen glanced at Su Zhengyang's self-righteous behavior, and his heart was pounding with anger.
She took the tea from the bride and forgot all the words of blessing she had prepared in her mind. After a long while, she used all her brains to work like crazy, secretly cursing Su Zhengyang eight hundred times, and finally said with an awkward smile:
"Before I met Su Zhengyang, I heard Ah Nian say that I looked a lot like the young lady that the eldest young master of the Su family was pursuing. Now that I see you, it's true. When Ah Nian and I get married tomorrow, remember to come and let Ah Nian see if he can tell us apart, haha..."
As soon as these words came out, the guests around them all looked enlightened:
It turned out that Su Zhengyang knew the bride first and did not look for her based on Yun Chen's appearance.
It sounds like both the Su and Huo families know about this. Even the jealous Huo Gannian doesn't mind it, so it definitely doesn't mean that Su Zhengyang is obsessed with Yun Chen.
Moreover, the two people only look similar, but their temperaments and personalities are completely different.
Just a coincidence!
Here, the bride saw that she was about to become a laughing stock in the whole of Kyoto, and was afraid that she would have to live under the shadow of the so-called "white moonlight" for the rest of her life. But in the blink of an eye, Yun Chen reversed her reputation with just a few words and calmed the "misunderstanding".
The bitter tears in the bride's eyes slowly fell. Looking at Yun Chen again, her heart still felt a little sour, but she suddenly understood why Su Zhengyang was like this:
Faced with Su Zhengyang's sudden "indirect confession", Yun Chen was not happy, but had an expression that wanted to curse.
At that moment, Yun Chen only wanted to rescue the bride.
Who can not like such a smart and kind person!
Thinking of this, the bride's concerns disappeared and she sincerely offered the tea:
"Tea, please, sir."
On this side, Yun Chen took the teacup and drank it in one gulp. She caught a glimpse of Su Zhengyang's parents looking grateful to her. The bride also seemed to be in a much better mood and started smiling again.
Only Su Zhengyang had a somewhat lost look on his face, which made Yun Chen feel like punching him.
After the tea ceremony, when the rest of the ceremony was over, Yun Chen sat at the main table and took a few bites of food. He then left the Su Mansion on the pretext of being busy with government affairs, without even bothering to say hello to Song Qiaoqiao.
With a dark face and a depressed look, she hurried towards Prime Minister Wu's residence.
Lu Liang and other guards followed quietly behind.
At this time, Su Zhengyang's voice came from behind, calling "Yun Chen".
Yun Chen was so shocked that he stopped in his tracks, and turned around with a jump. He was so frightened as if he had seen a ghost that his voice was distorted when he spoke:
"Why don't you get married properly? What are you doing here?"
Su Zhengyang ran over breathlessly. His bright red wedding dress made him look elegant and handsome, and he was particularly handsome and eye-catching standing on the street.
Fortunately, it was late at night and there were not many people walking on the street, but Lu Liang still quickly formed a circle with the guards to form a human wall so that Yun Chen could take action... No, it was about talking.
Su Zhengyang took a step forward, frowned slightly, and said with courage:
"I know I can't hide it from you. After the wedding today, you will know... my feelings... Yun Chen, I have always liked -"
"Shut up!" Yun Chen interrupted Su Zhengyang's confession, his face turning green with anger. He pointed at Su Zhengyang with shaking hands, wanting to curse him but not knowing where to start.
She wanted to scold Su Zhengyang for pretending to be friends with her when he clearly had other feelings for her?
I wanted to scold him for not confessing his feelings earlier, or simply not saying it at all in his life, but having to make such a scene at the wedding!
When he looked into the eyes of the bride just now, Yun Chen felt more nervous than his mother going to the battlefield. Her brain almost burned out before she could come up with those appropriate words.
"You, you, you..." Yun Chen was shaking with anger. He took a deep breath to calm himself down, and then he started to curse loudly:
"Su Zhengyang, you're such a fucking bastard! I don't care what you feel! But you absolutely shouldn't have roasted your newlywed wife on the fire in public! You almost ruined her once-in-a-lifetime wedding!"
Su Zhengyang seemed to have expected Yun Chen to get angry. He was neither surprised nor refuted. He just stood there quietly, still looking at Yun Chen with those affectionate, aggrieved and lost eyes.
Yun Chen felt his whole body crawling with fear when he was stared at. He raised his fist and wanted to give Su Zhengyang two panda eyes.
But her eyes fell on his bright red wedding gown, and thinking that he would have to go back to entertain the guests soon, she could only grit her teeth and lower her fist as if she had swallowed a fly.
"Su Zhengyang, I always thought you were a gentleman, but I didn't expect you to have the heart of a villain! The reason you didn't tell me your feelings in advance was simply because you wanted to see what my reaction would be when I saw the bride looked like me. You hoped to see my surprise, to prove that I have feelings for you too, right? From now on, you want to be an ambiguous confidant of mine, more than friends but less than lovers?"
These words hit the nail on the head, causing Su Zhengyang's face to turn red. It was obvious that these words hit the mark of what he was thinking.
"Yes, that's what I thought." Su Zhengyang straightened his back, looking frank. "I didn't expect anything to happen with you. I was afraid you'd know, but I also hoped that from today on, you'd understand my feelings and treat me differently..."
"Okay, okay..." Yun Chen laughed in anger, his forehead veins throbbing with rage. "I know most of you men are used to having three wives and four concubines. But let me tell you, Su Zhengyang, that girl who only got half or even a third of your love, her whole person! Her whole heart! Her whole life is devoted to you! Do you have any conscience?!"
The last sentence made Su Zhengyang stand there in a daze, with his mouth open, unable to refute a single word.
Obviously, Su Zhengyang had never thought about what Yun Chen said.
After cursing for so long, Yun Chen's anger subsided a lot. He felt that there was no point in continuing. Su Zhengyang needed some time to figure it out.
She sighed heavily and waved him away:
"Alright, stop wasting time and get married. This is a great day for you and your wife, so stop being such a nuisance! Tonight, kowtow to your wife and admit your mistake. Tell her you'll never see me again!"
"What do you mean?" Su Zhengyang frowned, "Why would I lie and say 'I don't see you'?"
"What else?" Yun Chen's eyes widened, and his voice rose again: "Don't keep returning it? You, you, you!"
The anger that Yun Chen had just suppressed suddenly came out again, and he squeezed out a sentence from his back teeth, "You evil creature!" Then he looked around and snatched the shoulder pole that the guard had just used to carry the gifts.
She shouted at Lu Liang, "Take it off!" Lu Liang understood and immediately took off his coat with swift hands and feet and tied it tightly to the carrying pole. This was the way to beat someone painfully but without leaving any marks. It was guaranteed to make Su Zhengyang cry for his parents, but without leaving any bruises.
Seeing Yun Chen rushing towards him with a carrying pole and looking really angry, Su Zhengyang felt something was wrong and turned around and ran, but he still got hit on the buttocks more than a dozen times.
"Yun Chen, you have such a cruel heart! You don't have any feelings for me at all? Ouch——"
"You keep saying you're concerned about how sad my wife is, but why don't you think about whether I'm sad or not? I just like you, is that wrong? Ah, it hurts—"
"I don't want to break up! Can we still be friends? It hurts!"
"I was wrong, I was wrong! Stop hitting me. I'm getting married today. Let's talk it over and don't hit each other—"
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