Pei Yi in the photo subtly combines the immaturity of a young boy with the maturity of experienced growth, which becomes his unique demeanor. His eyes are filled with spirit and tenderness, making people who see this photo feel as if they are amazed by the boy.
The way he looked at Jiang Se showed his love without any concealment. The scene of the two of them leaning on each other, the tacit understanding and natural intimacy almost overflowed the Internet, allowing everyone who saw it to feel it.
This report from China News is like a dessert before dinner, which has once again stirred up the heat for Jiang Se's wedding. As the wedding countdown approaches, many people have begun to look forward to what the couple will look like on the wedding day.
The wedding venue was set at the Zhongzheng Grand Hall in the imperial capital. This is a royal garden left over from the early Qing Dynasty. Even though it was occupied by the Japanese invaders during the revolutionary war, it is still well preserved.
After the founding of China, improvements were made to the original unique flavor of this place, maintaining its own architectural characteristics, while also repairing some places that had been corroded by time.
Outside are large tracts of wild plant gardens. The Zhongzheng Grand Auditorium is located right in the middle of the garden. The large characters "Zhongzheng Grand Auditorium" above its head were written by the emperor himself when the garden was built.
Jiang Se and Pei Yi's wedding was held here. The interior of the hall was very large. It was the place where the emperor summoned ministers to discuss matters when he was resting in the garden. Tables and chairs have been set up and the scene has been almost set up.
In order to prevent any problems on the wedding day, Jiang Se rehearsed with Pei Yi a few days in advance.
As Pei Yi is the eldest grandson of the Pei family, he cannot be careless at all at his wedding. Even though the list of guests has been carefully considered, there are still quite a few people invited in the end.
Jiang Se has gone through the wedding process twice. As the wedding date approaches, in addition to her and Pei Yi, Pei Jinhuai and Mrs. Pei are also coming. Feng Zhongliang, as the elder who will hold Jiang Se's hand on the wedding day, is naturally also invited to rehearse.
He attached no less importance to this wedding than Jiang Se. After watching Jiang Se walk on the stage twice in high heels, the wedding planner confirmed that she was correct in this regard and came down to ask him to accompany Jiang Se for the walk.
Feng Zhongliang threw away the crutch at hand and stood up with the help of a chair. His action scared Xiao Liu who was standing beside him. He hurried to help him, but Feng Zhongliang slapped Xiao Liu's hand away.
"grandfather."
Jiang Se saw this scene, frowned, and looked at him disapprovingly. He laughed:
"I can't bring a cane with me if I want to accompany you on this journey."
"But your legs..."
His legs were originally injured, and he needed to use a cane when he went out after he got older. In recent years, he even needed someone to support him. In order to decorate Jiang Se's new home a few days ago, he traveled all over the country and abroad, which was not good for his legs and feet. This was just a rehearsal, so he threw away the cane.
"Don't be scared by what your uncle Liu usually says!" Feng Zhongliang turned his head to look at Xiao Liu, then turned back to look at Jiang Se and smiled again:
"It's just a few steps. It's not like Grandpa can't walk anymore. There's no need to be so squeamish."
He stepped up the stairs with some difficulty. When Jiang Se reached out to help him, he put his hands behind his back to avoid her support:
"Look, isn't this coming up?"
It's not that he didn't want to hold his granddaughter's hand, but he was still a little nervous. He attached no less importance to this wedding than the Pei family. When he was about to hold Jiang Se's hand and walk through the wedding, even though he knew it was a rehearsal, he still felt so excited that he couldn't suppress it.
This kind of ceremony was different for Feng Zhongliang, especially since he thought he had lost the qualification to hold his granddaughter's hand and solemnly hand her over to Pei Yi. However, he did not expect that in the end the responsibility of holding hands would fall back on him.
So even during the rehearsal, Feng Zhongliang wanted to do his best. He even refused to use a crutch. Even though the movements of going on stage made his old leg injuries sore and painful, he said nothing.
When he reached out and held Jiang Se's hand, his eyes were hot. She was slender and graceful, with eyes and eyebrows completely different from Feng Nan's back then, but her temperament and demeanor remained the same.
"I called the boss and asked him to rush to the capital tomorrow night to attend the wedding."
He spoke softly to Jiang Se, and the palm of his hand holding Jiang Se was unusually warm.
Jiang Se was stunned for a moment, and soon realized that the 'boss' Feng Zhongliang was talking about should be her 'father' Feng Qinlun, but now she didn't know how to address 'him'.
"Whether they're estranged or not, I think they should see you get married."
There was some sadness in Feng Zhongliang's words. Jiang Se was silent for a while and replied softly, "Yeah."
After two rehearsals, the old man came down, feeling a little tired. Mrs. Pei asked worriedly:
"Uncle Feng, Dad was worried about your leg a few days ago, so I contacted a doctor named Li for you. I plan to have him come and take a look at you and give you some treatment."
"I'm really sorry to trouble the old leader." Feng Zhongliang endured the discomfort and said to Mrs. Pei with a smile:
"Speaking of this, I would like to discuss something with you, Xiao Ning."
His words surprised Mrs. Pei and her husband. As soon as he finished speaking, Pei Jinhuai said:
"You say."
"It's like this. On the day of Sese's wedding, Ayi and the others were going to drive over to pick her up. I was thinking that the place where she lives now is a house rented for her by Chaoqun, so it's not appropriate for her to get married here. I have a house in Nanjinwan, so Sese can just stay there the night before the wedding, and it will be convenient for the car to pick her up the next day."
Everyone knows Jiang Se's "family" environment. Her relationship with the Du family in recent years is not stiff, but it is not close either. It is not her real "hometown", so Jiang Se naturally never thought about marrying in the Du family.
The Nanjinwan mentioned by Feng Zhongliang is the top brand in the imperial capital. The brand specializes in building villas and selling them to wealthy families. The price of each square meter of villas has been hyped up to a sky-high price, and there is often a shortage of buyers.
He invested in real estate in his early years and bought two houses. He started renovating them two years ago, but no one has ever lived in them, so he usually hires servants to clean the houses.
"this… "
Pei Jinhuai didn't expect him to make such a request. "I'm sorry to bother you. To be honest, Aning also has..." Before he finished speaking, Feng Zhongliang reached out and held Pei Jinhuai's wrist:
"No trouble." He shook his head, looking serious.
"Sese lives in this house. I will give it to Xiao Liu to transfer the ownership of the house later. It can be considered as my dowry to Sese." Even though he had insisted on decorating the new house for Jiang Se and Pei Yi and contributed money and effort, which had surprised Pei Jinhuai and his wife, it was not as surprising as hearing his words at this moment.
"Uncle Feng..." Pei Jinhuai subconsciously looked at Pei Yi, and Feng Zhongliang took his hand and said:
"You know, I usually don't have anyone to talk to. Sese is like my own granddaughter. She's getting married, and I feel like this house is too little for her to call me 'grandfather'. Just listen to me. I'm asking you for this one time with a thick face."
Pei Jinhuai knew Feng Zhongliang's character very well. He was stubborn and seldom asked for help from others. But now, for this matter, he even said the word "beg".
Pei Jinhuai didn't dare say anything when he made such a scene. However, when he returned to the Pei family afterwards, he told old man Pei about it.
Pei Jinhuai originally thought that Mr. Pei would be as surprised as he was, and would call to reject Feng Zhongliang's request. He even prepared to be scolded by his father. However, after listening to him, Mr. Pei sighed and said:
"Just let him do it."
This gave Pei Jinhuai another fright.
After confirming this, on September 19th, Jiang Se had already moved into the house that Nan Jinwan and Feng Zhongliang had adopted into her name, and prepared to get married.
Mo Anqi and others had moved her things from the rented house a few days ago. She invited Xia Chaoqun, Mo Anqi and others as well as Dai Jia to be her bridesmaids.
At the beginning, Dai Jia was actually very surprised when she received Jiang Se's call.
She was still bothered by the fact that she had killed someone and had been in jail, and was afraid that it would have a bad impact on Jiang Se's wedding, but Jiang Se insisted on inviting her.
There are not many people who can be called Jiang Se’s friends, but no matter which friend they are, they are all friends he has known for many years and are worthy of close friendship.
Even though she doesn't have much contact with Dai Jia due to work, some friendships will still be there regardless of whether they get together or not, and will not change with the passage of time or changes in status.
On the evening of the 20th, Pei Yi called. He couldn't sleep because the wedding tomorrow was something he had been looking forward to for many years.
From the naivety of his first love in his youth to his later determination that she was the only one for him, he had imagined his dream wedding countless times, and it was not until now that his wish was finally fulfilled.
He couldn't sleep, and neither could she.
After tomorrow, she will become a wife and daughter-in-law, and her long-term love affair with Pei Yi has finally come to an end.
She rarely suffers from insomnia, but tonight many things came to her mind.
The makeup artists were the same team that Jiang Se was used to using. They stayed at her house the day before the wedding. Feng Zhongliang and others had already arrived before dawn, along with Feng Qinlun and his wife.
When they came over, Jiang Se had already changed into her wedding dress and her makeup and hair were almost done.
Since the previous rehearsal, when Feng Zhongliang said that he had notified the couple to come, Jiang Se had already anticipated that she would meet her 'parents'. She had thought about the scene when she met Feng Qinlun and his wife many times, whether she would have tears in her eyes, whether her emotions would be up and down, whether she would have difficulty controlling herself, and whether she would feel resentment because of the knot in her childhood.
She thought a lot, but when she saw the couple's polite but somewhat suppressed smiles, she felt relieved.
There was no excitement, no sadness. All those old memories and emotions seemed to have disappeared with her rebirth.
What trapped her in the past were all her haunted memories. There were no more expectations, no more desires, and even no more complaints.
She could see that the smile on Mrs. Feng's face did not reach her eyes. The criticism and disgust in her eyes were hidden too deeply, but Jiang Se had lived with her mother and daughter for many years, so he knew her character well.
Mrs. Feng was wearing a white knee-length dress with a pearl-colored haute couture jacket on the outside. She was holding a handbag and standing beside her husband with a smile and a hint of the reserve of a wealthy upper-class person.
She had put on decent makeup and had her hair permed, looking quite presentable, but it was like she was wearing a perfect mask, and she felt out of tune with the people at the scene. At Feng Zhongliang's signal, she greeted Jiang Se, and only when she saw Xia Chaoqun did she show a friendly smile and walked up to Xia Chaoqun and took his hand:
"Chaoqun, long time no see."
In Mrs. Feng's mind, the concept of class is actually quite clear.
Jiang Se has become very famous in recent years. The products she endorses and the movies she has acted in are all very good. But no matter how famous and popular she is, in Mrs. Feng's eyes, she is just a star.
If she hadn't been lucky enough to marry into the Pei family, and if her father-in-law hadn't called and asked the couple to go to the imperial capital, she might not have come to the wedding of a star like Jiang Se even if she begged.
It is not easy to marry into the Pei family. The current relationship between the Feng and Pei families has always been maintained because Feng Zhongliang is alive. But he is old after all. Once he dies, the connection between the Feng and Pei families will be cut off. This is a good opportunity to get close to the Pei family. When Feng Qinlun heard that Feng Zhongliang asked him and his wife to attend the wedding, he was so happy.
People from the other three branches of the Feng family knew that they were coming to the imperial capital to attend the wedding of Pei's eldest grandson. They were extremely jealous of the couple and often said behind their backs that Feng Zhongliang was biased.
Although Mrs. Feng was happy to attend this wedding, she still couldn't understand why the Pei family would agree to let Pei Yi marry a girl of such an ordinary family.
In her opinion, this marriage was just a match made in heaven, but her father-in-law had warned her about it before she left, so she didn't dare to say more.
She held Xia Chaoqun's hand and whispered intimately. Jiang Se just glanced at her and turned away.
Feng Zhongliang's face became more and more gloomy. Feng Qinlun could see that his father was a little unhappy. He frequently wiped the sweat from his head with a handkerchief, complaining in his heart that the older this old man got, the weirder his temper became. He didn't know what he was angry about.
Mrs. Feng talked to Xia Chaoqun for a while, and then she winked at her husband as if she remembered something. Feng Qinlun was really fed up with following Feng Zhongliang so closely, so he found an excuse and left at the same time as Mrs. Feng.
"Alas." Feng Zhongliang shook his head. He had other intentions in mind when he brought Feng Qinlun and his wife to today's wedding, but the couple's performance disappointed him.
"Grandpa." Jiang Se went to hold his hand. Mo Anqi and others were also putting on makeup. The remaining staff members left considerately at her signal, leaving a short time for the grandparents to spend time together: "I know your intentions, but some things can't be forced."
She only understood this principle now.
"I know you want my parents to accompany me at my wedding and have the blessings of my family, but for me, having you always considerate of me is enough." (To be continued)