That day was good weather, only requiring clothes for early spring or late autumn. By noon, the sun had raised the temperature by a few degrees, neither hot nor cold, just right for going out.

Because they needed to take photos when getting the marriage certificate, both Wang Zhao and Li Zhenguan dressed up a bit, wearing very formal attire. They both wore white dress shirts underneath, with sweaters on top.

However, Li Zhenguan had specifically taken Wang Zhao to his father’s usual styling salon in the morning to get their hair done, and had the stylist apply light makeup to both of them.

This was the first time Wang Zhao had worn makeup since coming to this world, and she felt quite uncomfortable with someone fussing over her face.

This world was a bit different from her previous life. Perhaps the gender reversal also caused some different social phenomena. In this world, people greatly valued beauty, and basically all men and women wore makeup, although most people didn’t wear heavy makeup. They emphasized the principle that both light and heavy makeup should be appropriate, with a focus on enhancing one’s natural features.

This preference also made the beauty industry in this world very developed, as cosmetics had become almost daily necessities for people, their importance comparable to daily necessities like firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea.

By the time they arrived at the marriage registration center, it was already past ten o’clock. As soon as they entered, they had to fill out a form. Because it was an online appointment system, they didn’t need to queue. However, just when they thought it would be over quickly, they found out that after filling out the form, they still had to go to the side for a pre-marital health check.

Blood tests and examinations would take about forty minutes. During this time, she and Li Zhenguan were taken to a more private room for a check-up. Afterwards, when they came out, each of them was holding a small red gift bag containing the local “specialty” – contraceptives.

About forty minutes later, they received their health check reports and went to the front of the marriage registration center to register their marriage. The whole process took less than fifteen minutes, including taking the oath, having photos taken, and getting the seal stamped. By the time they walked out, Wang Zhao felt a bit dazed.

She opened the small red book in her hand and looked at the photo inside. Both of them were smiling in the picture, with Li Zhenguan smiling particularly sweetly, his eyes seemingly twinkling with joy, which made her facial expression seem rather cold in comparison.

The young man beside her lovingly stroked the cover of the little book, looking at the photo inside and saying it looked good.

Wang Zhao smiled.

How could it not look good?

The two of them had spent about two hours at the styling place. Early this morning, Li Zhenguan had the family driver take him to the Wang house, picked her up, and headed straight to the styling place. She had sat in the chair for over an hour, being meticulously made up. If it didn’t look good after all that, then the few thousand yuan they spent would have been wasted.

Even a potato makes a sound when thrown into water.

“Let’s tell our parents first.” Wang Zhao took out her phone, but then looked at the man beside her and asked with a smile, “Do you want to call or should I?”

“You call,” Li Zhenguan put the book in his hand into his backpack. “My dad told me that he and Zhang Shu have booked a private room at Jinxiu, planning to have a family meal there to celebrate. They should be there by now, we can head over.”

Wang Zhao nodded while saying to Zhang Ke on the phone: “Dad, Zhenguan and I have gotten our marriage certificate. We’ll be heading over there soon, you can order the dishes first.”

Zhang Ke said okay and told them to come quickly, everyone had arrived, even Li Zhenguan’s sister Li Zhenwei was there.

This time there were no outsiders, just the two families eating together.

The private room was booked by Wang Xuechun and Li’s mother together. It was a very large room, with a leisure area on one side and a dining area on the other. Next to the dining table was a huge floor-to-ceiling window, offering a view of the river not far away, with tall buildings standing in rows, a soft red glow stretching for miles.

The view was expansive.

When Wang Zhao and Li Zhenguan arrived, the others were playing mahjong, the game in full swing. Li Zhenwei was sitting on the sofa with a laptop on her legs, her fingers tapping on the keyboard as she dealt with work.

Li’s mother was now in a semi-retired state, and Li Zhenwei was not the kind of person to let good wood rot, so she didn’t find a professional manager to run the company, but instead was preparing to hand it over to Li Zhenwei.

She pushed open the door, and the people in the room immediately surrounded them, wanting to see her and Li Zhenguan’s marriage certificate.

Everyone’s faces were filled with joy, especially Zhang Ke, who finally felt relieved.

“Is it done?” They all gathered around, holding the two marriage certificates and looking. “The photo looks good.”

The elders turned the certificates over and over, examining them. Li Zhenguan stood by, feeling embarrassed at the praise. “When we went to register today, they said we needed a pre-marital health check. We waited forty to fifty minutes for the results, so we were delayed there for a while.”

“It’s good that everything went smoothly.” Yang Jin said, handing the marriage certificate back to Li Zhenguan, telling him to keep it safe.

Li Zhenguan put it away carefully.

Now that everyone had arrived, the waiter began to serve the dishes. The seven of them filled a table perfectly, eating while discussing how to hold the wedding a month later. The Li family had quite a few relatives, and no matter how low-key they wanted to be, some relatives and close business partners would have to be invited. That being the case, the venue absolutely couldn’t be small, and it needed to be more formal.

So the two families discussed whether to have an outdoor lawn wedding or hold it in a hotel. The Li family owned a chain of hotel brands, so finding a place to hold the wedding wouldn’t be difficult. However, they still wanted to ask the opinion of Wang Zhao’s parents, otherwise if they took too much initiative, it might make the other side uncomfortable, making Wang Zhao seem like a son-in-law marrying into the family.

As they talked, they also asked the young couple for their thoughts. Li Zhenguan instinctively looked towards Wang Zhao.

Wang Zhao ladled a spoonful of soup for Li Zhenguan, and meeting everyone’s gaze, said very naturally: “Let’s see what Zhenguan thinks, I’m fine with either a hotel or outdoors.”

As expected, once she said this, Yang Jin’s expression improved considerably, and even Li’s mother glanced at Wang Zhao, her expression unreadable.