When signing the marriage contract with the Chu family, Huo Tinglan took Ye Ci's feelings into consideration and was afraid that exposing it to the media would cause all kinds of curiosity and gossip that would affect Ye Ci's studies, so he only went through a series of relevant procedures and kept the marriage secret from the outside world. Later, Ye Ci told his classmates about the marriage, which only caused a lot of waves in the school, and the outside world did not react much. After all, members of wealthy families are not traffic stars, and they will not be watched and exposed by the entertainment media for big and small things.
After Ye Ci finished the college entrance examination, Huo Tinglan put the wedding on the agenda. After officially announcing the marriage to the media, Ye Ci's situation suddenly became very different from before. The media reporters who were following and filming appeared at the speed of light, and even going to a convenience store to buy something might encounter paparazzi taking pictures secretly. In addition, in recent years, the news writing style of the mainland entertainment media seems to have been infected by the gossip tabloids in Hong Kong. Most of the news published is in this style - "Huo Tinglan's century wedding is imminent. The 12-year-old gentleman is the eldest son of the third room of the Chu family. He looks white and cute." "The Huo couple showed their love at the horse riding field. Huo Tinglan accompanied them attentively throughout the whole process, making others envious." "How rich is a billionaire family? The Huo family's patriarch got married, and the betrothal gift exceeded 100 million"... The wording was extremely exaggerated, and Ye Ci always blushed and dug his toes.
Huo Tinglan's PR team has been monitoring the direction of public opinion. Reports with negative or false content are either not published or removed soon. Huo Tinglan is used to interviews and media reports, and he doesn't pay attention to them. But Ye Ci has never seen this scene. He often can't help but take out his phone to search for news about himself, regardless of Huo Tinglan's advice.
"…She's cute, that's all." In the VIP lounge on the third floor of the shooting club, Ye Ci sat on the sofa and read the news. He was so embarrassed that he kept scratching his hair. "What does 'sweet and lovely' mean…"
Who is sweet and lovely?!
The words are totally inappropriate and you will lose points if you put them in your college entrance examination essay!
"And this one, I don't look like 1.80 meters tall at all, I look like 1.75 meters tall." Ye Ci licked his dry lips and pointed at a candid photo in the news, thinking that it was an injustice for the ages. "And isn't this just a normal hug? How come it was written as me burying myself in your arms and acting like a spoiled child? I'm not the kind of person who acts like a spoiled child all the time..."
Of course it's because she looks so obedient and soft, and outsiders think she's just acting like a spoiled child... Huo Tinglan smiled slightly and said evasively, "Don't look at me, just be obedient."
"I didn't mean to stare at them, but they wrote nonsense." The dignity of the spiritual alpha was damaged, and Ye Ci said angrily, "A man who is 1.8 meters tall, even if he is an OGA, can't be described like this."
"Well, the media are just writing nonsense." Huo Tinglan replied to the young master out of conscience.
"Let the PR team withdraw. Please withdraw for a while." Ye Ci shook Huo Tinglan's wrist and asked in a low voice, "Is it okay?"
She also said that she is not the kind of person who acts like a spoiled brat easily.
She is simply an expert at acting like a spoiled child.
"This..." Huo Tinglan suppressed his laughter, pretending to be embarrassed, and sighed, "Baby, these are not rumors after all, how can we withdraw them just like that?"
Ye Ci was silent for a moment, his eyes alert: "Do you think that what they wrote is... quite right?"
Huo Tinglan said nothing, put his fist to his lips to hide his smile, and looked at the shooting range outside the window, pretending to enjoy the scenery.
"I look like this and you call it, sweet?" Ye Ci stared, pointing at his face and then his legs. He was wearing a pair of overalls today with his trouser legs tucked into his boots, which made his long legs look straight, lean, dashing and handsome.
Huo Tinglan deliberately ignored it with malicious intent.
"Uncle Huo!" Ye Ci became anxious. He stood up and moved closer to Huo Tinglan. He supported himself on the back of the sofa with one arm and pressed him down, insisting on clearing his name.
"I should be described as handsome. Otherwise, handsome is fine, but it's not sweet..." Seeing Huo Tinglan turned his head away and looked into the distance with a smile, Ye Ci turned his head with one hand and forced Huo Tinglan to look at his face. His obedient nature showed through his strong appearance, "Uncle Huo, I'm serious now."
Huo Tinglan was defeated, sneered, and took the opportunity to grab the man and kissed him hard. Thinking that the venue was reserved today and there was no one else in the lounge, he turned over and pushed Ye Ci against the sofa, sucking the soft flesh and dimples on Ye Ci's face with a fiery heart, and joined the entertainment gossip account, whispering: "Everything is sweet, baby, it's so sweet..."
Ye Ci's cheeks and lips were bruised red. After a long while, he finally struggled out from between Huo Tinglan's chest and the sofa cushion. He straightened his clothes, feeling very dissatisfied but unable to do anything about Huo Tinglan and the unscrupulous media. He could only stare blankly.
Huo Tinglan was amused by his aggrieved look, raised his hands and compromised: "How about I ask them to write a few PR articles to praise you... How do you want to be praised?" Huo Tinglan hesitated for a moment, glanced at Ye Ci's whole body, and said mischievously, "Masculine and powerful?"
That look was somewhat malicious. Ye Ci choked and his thoughts jumped to some level. His face turned even redder and he muttered, "No, no need... Can you be more serious?"
"Got it." Huo Tinglan had teased the child enough and showed his reliable side again. "Which newspaper reported it? Send me the link and I'll have someone take care of it."
Jokes aside, he couldn't allow such a trivial matter to cause trouble to Ye Ci.
Ye Ci forwarded the news link to him and then breathed a sigh of relief.
It can be seen that the burden of cool guys is really heavy.
"Come downstairs and play for a while?" Huo Tinglan simply told his assistant and put his phone in his pocket. "This is a new sniper rifle from Cheytac. I've talked to the person in charge and you can try it out."
Ye Ci was startled, and instantly threw the gossip media out of his mind. His eyes were so hot that they could burn through Huo Tinglan: "Really?!"
The gun's shape was so cool that it looked like a prop from a science fiction movie. The entire gun weighed 1,406 kg, and it took some effort for him to hold it with one hand. The last time he came to play with it, he stared at it in front of the display case for a long time, and felt that he would be satisfied even if he could just touch it.
The domestic control of weapons is extremely strict. For safety reasons, many high-end guns in this formal shooting experience hall are not open to ordinary members. They are locked in display cabinets all year round as decorations. Only very senior members can enjoy them under the full supervision of shooting coaches.
"Really." Huo Tinglan pointed to his face.
Ye Ci immediately moved over and kissed him on both cheeks.
"Let's go downstairs," Huo Tinglan smiled and looked at his watch. "Can we play until two o'clock? The designer Ms. Lin asked to come at two-thirty."
"Okay!" Ye Ci ran away like a gust of wind.
Lin Yao, who loves pomp and face, naturally regards her only son's wedding as the top priority in her life. She must have a wedding of the century. She thinks Alpha's taste is unreliable, so she simply takes on the heavy responsibility and communicates with the wedding planning team every day. The wedding venue has been selected as an ancient palace in a foreign country that has become a historical museum. It is also one of the six largest palaces in the world. The rent of an exhibition hall is more than 100,000 euros, which is the second most difficult thing. The quota is extremely rare. Only a few couples are received each year, and they have to go through a lot of review. And that number of quotas was taken by Lin Yao.
Lin Yao paid so much attention to the wedding venue, not to mention the design of the dress. Unfortunately, men cannot wear wedding gowns, and the design of men's dresses should be simple, which left her with less room to play.
Different from the traditional "wedding photos-wedding ceremony" process, Lin Yao's plan includes a first look session, which means that the groom will not see the bride in her wedding dress before the wedding is officially held, but the surprise is concentrated at the last moment. Even the toughest grooms often shed tears on the spot during the first look session, and the wedding photos can be taken later. I don't know if Lin Yao has some bad taste in this arrangement, after all, Huo Tinglan has never cried since he was five years old...
In addition to the main suit for the ceremony, the two grooms need to change suits many times during the three-day wedding process according to different occasions and casual clothes for the afterparty. In total, each of them has about ten suits. Just hearing about it makes people dizzy, especially Ye Ci, who is a complete layman in this area. Fortunately, Lin Yao regards this as fun and does not mind the hard work. She takes the design power alone. Ye Ci only needs to empty his mind and honestly serve as a model for the designer.
Of course, there were more things to do before the wedding. There were many other trivial matters. Ye Ci sent out nearly a hundred handwritten invitations. He didn't think he had many friends, but when he invited them, he found that there were many people he could invite. In Class 7, except for Cheng Xiao and his friends, the rest of the students had a good relationship with Ye Ci, and there were also some OGAs from other classes who were familiar with him.
On the eve of the wedding, Ye Ci and a group of classmates and friends who were invited to attend the ceremony boarded Huo Tinglan's private plane with laughter. Jiang Yan said with deep resentment that Ye Ci's face, which was so small that it made people eat lemons, seemed to have become thinner, and his chin was sharper than the last time they met, which made the nervous Lin Yao keep shouting that Ye Ci should eat five meals a day to gain weight urgently in the next two days to prevent his waist from shrinking. After all, if the size of the dress is changed, it will take ten sets of changes.
"Are you going to let an Oga like me who eats a pound and gains two pounds live?!" Jiang Yan pinched Ye Ci's clothes around his waist and complained to Lin Yao, "Auntie, he must have lost weight behind our backs. Look at his waist. Please take care of him!"
The sweatshirt was loose and baggy, and nothing could be seen at first, but Jiang Yan squeezed the excess fabric tightly, which made her waist look thin and tough. Ye Ci smiled and broke Jiang Yan's hand. Before the plane took off, the two of them were laughing and making a mess on the sofa. Only Lin Yao complained sadly: "Ting Lan is really not good enough to take good care of you..."
"How could that be? There is no alpha more considerate than Tinglan. The main reason is that Xiaoci has never been able to gain weight since he was a child..." Ye Hongjun hurriedly defended Huo Tinglan.
Huo Tinglan, who was sitting on the sofa nearby, sighed helplessly and echoed, "I was just wondering, Xiao Ci finally gained a few pounds, and you have been..."
The wedding was so large in scale and involved so many procedures that it took away all the weight that Ye Ci had gained. It wasn't that he didn't take good care of himself, he was just tired.
Lin Yao was being affectionate with Ye Hongjun while she turned around and looked at her son quietly, with a hint of murderous intent in her gentleness.
"…" This person was someone that even Huo Changyu couldn't afford to offend. Huo Tinglan had no choice but to surrender unconditionally. "It's my fault for not taking good care of Xiao Ci."
"I'll try hard. These next two days I'll...eat more midnight snacks and drink more milk tea." In order to calm the dispute, Ye Ci made a solemn pledge, vowing to gain weight enough to fit perfectly with his dress uniform.
"Listen to what he said, I've given up milk tea for half a month!" Jiang Yan was so angry that he turned his head and wailed at Ye Ci's OGA groomsmen. The groomsmen complained and wanted to donate their extra flesh to Ye Ci.
Huo Tinglan had never seen Ye Ci chatting and laughing so cheerfully with his peers in his previous life, and even in this life, the chance was rare, so he didn't mind the noise of the boys and girls at all. He kept smiling and looking at Ye Ci gently, as if he couldn't look at him enough.
A few little ogas noticed it and started whispering in Ye Ci's ear while laughing.
"Mr. Huo has been staring at you." "What do you mean by staring at you?"
"Oh." Ye Ci pretended to be calm, but his thin skin was burning. He quickly glanced at Huo Tinglan. His eyes were so gentle that his heart skipped a beat. He was too embarrassed to raise his eyes for a long time.
The plane took off in the morning. After a 10-hour flight, the first batch of guests arrived at their destination smoothly. After landing, they were arranged to be picked up, accommodated and have dinner. It was another chaotic period, but despite the hustle and bustle, the atmosphere was extremely cheerful. A group of teenagers, who had just escaped from the misery of senior year in high school not long ago, were all very excited, chattering and laughing, like a group of noisy and cute chicks.
The venue layout, rehearsal... took some time. The first batch of guests who arrived were treated very well. The groomsmen on both sides had to follow the rehearsal to get familiar with the process. The others were responsible for eating, drinking and having fun in the local area. The Huo family paid for it, which was almost like a tour.
On the wedding day, at dawn, Ye Ci was taken into the dressing room by the old sisters Lin Yao and Ye Hongjun to get dressed. In order to maintain the sense of mystery, the dressing rooms of the two grooms were separated by half of the hotel, and no one could see each other before the ceremony officially began.
Ye Ci is young, and has naturally red lips and white teeth, so he looks good on camera. Makeup would ruin his clear and youthful look, so he just did some skin care to improve his skin condition, and kept his hairstyle natural. Ye Ci seemed to cooperate honestly, but his big amber eyes kept glancing away, looking uneasy.
"Is your hair done?" Lin Yao walked into the dressing room in high heels, holding a bridal veil and a small crown in her hands, and said affectionately, "Xiao Ci, be obedient, put this on when your hair is done..."
What you fear will come true. Ye Ci's eyes suddenly widened, and he jumped up like a frightened cat. He was about to jump up and run away, but Ye Hongjun held him back with a smile and comforted him softly: "Oga has to wear it when getting married, who doesn't wear it..."
"I can't wear this. It doesn't look good." Ye Ci's alpha illusion was crushed by the thin veil. He struggled in vain. Seeing that he couldn't escape, he begged, "Can I not wear the crown? Can I change the veil? Can I change it to one without embroidery?"
How could Lin Yao forgive him? The crown in Ye Ci's mouth, which was the bridal tiara, was designed by Lin Yao at a great expense. The diamonds inlaid on it alone cost nearly two million.
"Oh, this headdress is specially designed for male ogles. Look at this style, it doesn't look feminine. Otherwise, it would look ugly with just a formal dress on, and it wouldn't look like a wedding..." Lin Yao gently comforted him while instructing the stylist to make it a done deal, "Put it on, put it on, quickly."
A beautiful young man with delicate features like Ye Ci looks good in a veil, and there is almost no sense of incongruity. However, Ye Ci still feels uncomfortable all over and wants to tuck the veil into his collar.
There were still more than two hours before the wedding officially started. He was afraid of being seen, so he stayed in the dressing room with a red face and refused to go out. He drank a large glass of juice for breakfast, and now he was in a hurry, but he didn't even want to go to the toilet, and his legs were shaking. After shaking for a few times, Ye Hongjun saw the clues, so he had to bite the bullet and go to the bathroom. Fortunately, it was next to the dressing room, just a few steps away. He walked along the wall with his head down, as if he had just stolen eight million from someone.
The wedding started at noon. Several exhibition halls in the palace had been cleared and were now filled with guests attending the wedding banquet. The red carpet was laid out from the stage all the way to the door of the exhibition hall. The sun shone in from the carved glass windows on one side of the corridor, casting warm light on the red carpet, extending forward like a signpost. After leaving the hotel, Ye Ci gradually entered a state of nervous confusion, fidgeting and not worrying about the veil and crown. He only pricked up his ears to listen to the music and the voice of the master of ceremonies at the wedding scene inside the gate.
“… Then, let’s welcome the other groom with warm applause…”
"Go, Xiao Ci." Ye Hongjun handed a small bouquet of lilies to Ye Ci with a smile, and patted him gently on the back.
Ye Ci stepped onto the red carpet.
Maybe the blanket was too thick and too soft, and his already light-footed steps almost staggered. Ye Ci was introverted after all, so he was inevitably nervous in such occasions, and his palms holding the bouquet were full of greasy sweat.
Two waiters opened the door at the right time, and the sound suddenly surged out. Behind the door, at the end of the red carpet, Huo Tinglan was wearing a pure black dress with his back to the door, his shoulders straight, and his figure sharp and upright. The moment he saw that figure, Ye Ci's heart, which had been beating wildly due to stage fright, was soothed, and the frequency suddenly slowed down. The red carpet was very long, and Ye Ci's steps became more and more steady. He walked through the joyous guests and the noisy waves, and stood behind Huo Tinglan.
Ye Ci took a deep breath, his cheeks puffed up childishly, and then he let out the air, blowing his hair and the veil in front of his eyes upwards: "Huh—"
Some guests who were nearby noticed this small detail and laughed in good faith. Huo Tinglan's shoulders also trembled slightly, as if he heard Ye Ci's nervous breathing.
After a moment of mental preparation, Ye Ci raised his hand, patted Huo Tinglan on the shoulder, and whispered, "Tinglan."
Huo Tinglan turned around.
Ye Ci stepped on the bright red flower carpet, her tall figure, youthful and vigorous, she looked up at him through a layer of tulle, her slender frame wrapped in a pure white dress, with the red behind and under her feet setting off, like a pearl buried in a red brocade box, shiny, precious and aura-floating.
Huo Tinglan raised his eyelids in surprise. He had never seen Ye Ci wearing a veil. At the wedding in the previous life, Ye Ci refused to wear one no matter how much he persuaded her.
Unexpectedly...
Huo Tinglan lowered his eyes, first looked at Ye Ci and curled the corners of his lips. After a few seconds of staring at each other, he stretched out his arms and embraced Ye Ci in his arms, slightly arching his straight shoulders, and resting his sour eyes on Ye Ci's shoulders, silently.
“… Don’t, don’t cry.” Ye Ci first stroked Huo Tinglan’s back, then, as if infected, he pursed his lips, and a faint pink appeared in his eyes.
"Baby."
"Um?"
"I got you."
"Me, me too."
He never admits defeat.
Huo Tinglan smiled indulgently: "Yeah."
The two hugged each other for a while at the end of the red carpet.
The hall was filled with music and laughter. It was noisy, but inexplicably gave people a feeling of warmth and tranquility.
Huo Tinglan stood up, his eyes were as black and bright as ink jade. Ye Ci raised his hand to hold his face and wiped away the moisture from the corners of his eyes with his thumb.
Then, Huo Tinglan lifted the veil, leaned over and kissed Ye Ci on the forehead amid the cheers and applause of the guests.
The camera freezes this moment into eternity.
A veil as misty as white fog rose and fell, enveloping the two people, and a series of continuous shots faithfully recorded the whole process.
In the viewfinder, Huo Tinglan held Ye Ci in his arms. The boy had a slender figure, thin neck and thin shoulders. He was hugged by the tall alpha, looking happy and comfortable, like a small ship anchored in a calm harbor.
From now on, there will be no more wind and rain, only warm sunshine.
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