"Okay," I said. weren't Chen Lu's family quite powerful? I wasn't entirely sure how impressive they were, but through the wedding, I might get a glimpse.
"Bingbing, you should come too," Chen Lu said again.
Zheng Bingbing yawned. "I'm not going. I've been to the provincial capital like eight hundred times, I'm sick of it."
"How is your mother doing?" I asked.
"She's doing great! Yaoyao's medicine is really effective!" Bingbing said excitedly.
"You should go home and see them."
"Really? Aren't you worried about being caught by Shakespeare?"
I believed that after our joint effort on Cui Ping Mountain, Shen Xingyue already considered us her own. Even if our request hadn't been approved by Shakespeare's headquarters yet, they wouldn't treat us as outsiders for now. However, for safety's sake, I still suggested Bingbing take a demon with her.
"Then let's have Ya Nan. She's fast. If anything happens, she can run back to report," Bingbing smiled.
"Alright, I'll talk to her later."
Back at Xijiang Yue, the demons were still asleep. I knocked on Ya Nan's door and explained my intention. Ya Nan never set conditions; she just did what she was told. She immediately started to take off her pajamas, ready to transform.
"It's raining outside," I said, holding her collar. "Don't fly. Let's take a car."
Ya Nan smiled faintly. "Okay."
After watching her and Zheng Bingbing drive away in a BMW, I knocked on Yaoyao's room. They were already up. Yaoyao was teaching Lu Qianxun how to dress. When Lu Qianxun heard I was going to the city for a wedding, she insisted on going too. However, Yaoyao was worried she would cause a scene at the wedding, so she didn't let her, tricking her by saying we'd go somewhere more fun later.
"Yaoyao, you're not going either?" Chen Lu asked.
"I'm not very interested in weddings. Let Kun Kun go with you," Yaoyao said.
Yaoyao possessed the art of observing Qi. She had already known about the ambiguous relationship between the fox demon and Chen Lu, so she did her a favor.
I drove, taking Chen Lu and the female-version fox demon, towards the provincial capital.
I didn't ask Chen Lu, but from their conversation, I had already guessed that the fox demon had fulfilled her promise to me and revealed the true identities of these demons to Chen Lu. Chen Lu had also accepted and processed this information, still able to chat and laugh with the fox demon, even seeming more infatuated with her than before. I really should ask the fox demon for her secrets on how to win over girls sometime.
When we arrived in the provincial capital, the rain had stopped. Their Chen family's influence was indeed immense, even the heavens seemed to give them face.
The wedding was held at a hotel called "Xiang Ya." It wasn't a famous hotel, but its scale and decoration were exceptionally exquisite. It was likely also one of their Chen family's properties. Chen Lu's cousin, Chen Feng, was the eldest son of this generation in the family, and his wedding was a grand affair. The venue was packed with guests, all appearing wealthy and distinguished. Their attire was also very formal, making it seem like I was the only one not wearing a suit at the entire event.
"Lu Lu, how about I go buy a suit before going in?" I whispered.
"Oh, no need. It's not that formal," Chen Lu said. Yet, she herself was wearing formal attire, a perfectly fitting blue and white floral print dress with flesh-colored high heels adorned with sparkling diamonds. The fox demon was dressed similarly, only more alluring – these were the clothes she wore for her livestreams.
I, on the other hand, was in an old-fashioned tracksuit, looking completely out of place in this setting.
"After we go in, how should I introduce myself?" I asked again. The clothes themselves didn't matter; as long as they were clean. People always said the richer they were, the less they cared about appearances.
"Just say you're my boyfriend," Chen Lu said with a smile.
"...Then I really need to change my outfit!" I insisted. "I can't embarrass you!"
Chen Lu couldn't dissuade me, but her family had already seen her and were calling her inside. She couldn't sneak out with me again. So, the fox demon and I had to leave the hotel first and drive to the nearest mall to buy a suit. My physique was decent, so a suit would suit me. To match the wedding's grandeur, I specifically chose the most expensive Armani suit from this mall, including the suit jacket, shirt, vest, and leather shoes. The total came to thirty-five thousand yuan, which was an extremely luxurious purchase for me.
After changing into the suit, I was finally satisfied and returned to the wedding hotel with the fox demon. There was a place for gift money at the entrance. Fortunately, I had prepared. When buying clothes at the mall earlier, I had also withdrawn ten thousand yuan, thinking it would be enough. However, I was surprised to find that "10000" wasn't an option on the gift list; the minimum was "30000"...