One of them, wearing a suit, was stunned by Wang Zhao’s calm gaze, then smiled and said, “The bride must first find the groom’s shoes before going downstairs.”

Xu Yingchun and others looked down and indeed found that Li Zhenguan was sitting on the bed wearing only socks, his shoes nowhere to be seen.

So many tricks!

Xu Yingchun cursed inwardly, looked at her watch, afraid of missing the time, and quickly pulled people to start searching for shoes all over the room.

Wang Zhao lowered her head to meet Li Zhenguan’s gaze, couldn’t help but smile, “Do you know where the shoes are hidden?”

The people around who heard Wang Zhao’s question immediately glared at her angrily, feeling that she wasn’t playing fair, how could she directly ask the groom this question without making any effort herself.

Xu Yingchun walked over with a pair of shoes, a pair of leather shoes found in a decorative vase.

“The shoes are found, put them on quickly and go downstairs.” Xu Yingchun walked over and handed the shoes to Wang Zhao.

It’s best if they leave at ten o’clock, they had calculated the time when they left in the morning. The wedding venue is probably waiting, and they won’t let the guests wait too long.

Wang Zhao took the leather shoes and immediately frowned, then looked at the size of the shoes. Without even crouching down, she just looked at Xu Yingchun: “The size of these leather shoes is not quite right, it’s not this pair.”

Xu Yingchun was stunned. Another bridesmaid also found a pair of shoes under the sofa and brought them over: “See if these are the right ones?”

This time, almost without needing to take them, Wang Zhao saw at a glance that something was wrong, and couldn’t help but feel a headache: “The size of this pair is not quite right either.”

The bridesmaids all froze in place, starting to complain about the surrounding groomsmen, saying they were playing too many tricks, telling them to quickly hand over the shoes, otherwise it wouldn’t be good if they missed the time later.

The groomsmen’s gazes all focused on Wang Zhao, the group teasing that the bride had a discerning eye, immediately seeing something was wrong, but not saying where they had hidden the leather shoes, only saying they were hidden in this room, and in the safest place.

After another round of teasing, Wang Zhao still found the leather shoes hidden under the bed with Li Zhenguan’s hint, right under the bed where Li Zhenguan was sitting, covered by the red blanket so they hadn’t seen them. To be precise, it wasn’t Wang Zhao who found them, but Li Zhenguan who kicked them out with one foot.

The moment they were kicked out, the groomsmen’s expressions were quite unpleasant, mainly disappointed with Li Zhenguan as the groom, not even making things difficult for the bride on their wedding day, after marriage he would be completely hen-pecked, wouldn’t he just listen to everything Wang Zhao says.

Wang Zhao, however, couldn’t help but laugh, and Li Zhenguan laughed along with her. The two of them laughing together made Xu Yingchun’s bridesmaids and the groomsmen opposite unable to watch, directly calling for the newlyweds to go out and pay respects to the groom’s parents with tea.

When paying respects with tea, Wang Zhao changed her form of address, and incidentally collected a wave of red envelopes, but there was no place to put them on her body, so she directly handed them to Xu Yingchun when she went out, asking her to keep them for her, and then was about to carry Li Zhenguan.

This is also one of the wedding customs in this world. Both women and men still worship strength, but perhaps due to genetics, women are naturally a bit stronger than men, but only a bit, not as big a difference as in the previous life’s world.

So naturally strong women are easily sought after, so during the bride pickup, after paying respects to the groom’s parents, the bride must carry the groom out and sit in the wedding car, and during this time cannot touch the ground, otherwise it means the bride’s body is not very good.

Well… the meaning of this is open to interpretation. If you don’t want to be teased about this every time you see the elders after marriage, the bride had better do some degree of fitness before the wedding, while the groom needs to lose weight.

To be honest, this was the first time these two had been so close. Their most intimate action before was Wang Zhao patting Li Zhenguan’s head, or her holding his hand. They had never hugged before.

Also because it was the first time carrying him, Wang Zhao had no experience, and Li Zhenguan was also a bit stiff, mainly because he didn’t dare to raise his hand and put it on Wang Zhao’s nape. The two stood there like fools, fumbling for a minute or two, and Wang Zhao still hadn’t picked Li Zhenguan up.

Seeing that if they continued to be at a standstill, it would be embarrassing, Xu Hao finally stepped forward. Among their bridesmaids, she had the most dating experience, and at this time, it was her duty.

After another minute of chaos, Wang Zhao finally managed to carry Li Zhenguan. Fortunately, she herself was very tall, and due to her natural genetic advantage, she was quite strong, otherwise she really wouldn’t have been able to carry Li Zhenguan, after all, he was pregnant now, and during this time, not gaining too much weight would be good enough, let alone losing weight.

Li Zhenguan crossed his hands behind Wang Zhao’s neck, his whole face turning red, almost burying it in Wang Zhao’s neck. The hot breath hitting her neck made Wang Zhao’s arms weaken, and the person in her arms almost fell to the ground, startling the people around, especially those who knew Li Zhenguan was pregnant, watching this scene was simply heart-stopping.

Fortunately, she reacted very quickly, holding him tight, letting Li Zhenguan hug tightly, she hugged him a bit more.

It was just difficult to walk, but before going out, Zhang Ke had prepared a pair of sneakers, specifically for her to wear in this situation.

So apart from the formal dress somewhat restricting her movement, everything else was quite good. After going down the stairs, Wang Zhao walked swiftly, quickly putting him in the wedding car. Even before the photographer could react, the two of them were already sitting in the wedding car.

Xu Yingchun and the others following behind also quickly got in the car. The bridesmaids would sit in the car behind later. After a few minutes, the entire motorcade set off.

Wang Zhao sat in the car, turned her head to look at Li Zhenguan beside her, and asked in a low voice: “How are you feeling? Is there anywhere you feel uncomfortable?”

Li Zhenguan shook his head, his fingers interlaced and placed on his knees, the fingertips seeming to be tinged with a layer of pink.

This place was very close to the wedding venue, less than ten minutes by car, actually only a five-minute walk for people. They took a roundabout route. Wang Zhao carried Li Zhenguan out of the car, this time much more skillfully.

The wedding officiant was already on stage, Li’s parents had come over with the car. There was a small room here, she directly carried him over. Li Zhenguan still needed to touch up his makeup, Wang Zhao actually needed to touch up too, but she found it troublesome, saw that her facial makeup was still fine, so didn’t let the makeup artist come over.

She went out to take a breath, and only went back in after Li Zhenguan was ready.

Li’s parents were not here at this time. Wang Zhao looked and found that Li Zhenguan had changed into a different outfit. She was a bit surprised: “Why did you change clothes?”

Li Zhenguan was a bit embarrassed: “That outfit was a bit tight.”

“Wasn’t it altered just three days ago?” Wang Zhao asked reflexively, but as soon as the words left her mouth, meeting Li Zhenguan’s gaze, she felt her words were not quite right and couldn’t help but pinch her own finger.

Looks like he gained a bit of weight.

She smiled: “It’s fine that you changed, this black outfit looks good too. Let’s go, we should make our entrance, Mom and Dad are waiting up there.”

Li Zhenguan wanted to say something, but in the end said nothing.

Their wedding was designed without a handover ceremony, they would enter hand in hand together, several children from the Li family were chosen to be flower children.

Li Zhenguan handed the bouquet to Zhang Ke on the stage, then Li’s parents said some touching words, Wang Zhao and Li Zhenguan said a few words, the officiant connected the proceedings, Wang Zhao kissed Li Zhenguan on stage, and then the two could cut the cake and open the champagne.

The process up here had been reduced a lot after discussion between Wang Zhao and Li Zhenguan, only keeping the exchange of vows, and some speeches from relatives and friends were also cut. In the end, the entire wedding process took less than half an hour, truly the most smooth and quick wealthy family wedding in history.

It can be said to be very low-key, the highest expense of the whole event was probably the fresh flower walls on both sides during the entrance. The two walls together must have cost over a hundred thousand.

After cutting the cake and opening the champagne, Wang Zhao finally breathed a sigh of relief. Li Zhenwei had arranged special cars and reception staff to take the guests to the banquet. There were two types of banquets arranged, one was buffet style, one was seated. People could choose freely. Most children liked to play on the grass, so there were more children at the buffet side.

She and Li Zhenguan had to go to the hotel to change clothes, they still had to toast at the banquet later.

The two changed formal wear in separate suites. Wang Zhao changed into formal wear and saw that next door was still busy, so she simply took a pack of ladies’ cigarettes and went out, finding a secluded spot to take a breather.

From this morning, she had been surrounded by a large group of people, she didn’t even have time to drink water.

The environment of this hotel was very good. She found an empty balcony and sat down, looking at the lake not far away, there were even submarines on it. There seemed to be a wetland park around, surrounded by mountains, the scenery was particularly nice, just that the land price was terribly high.

The cigarette was lit, she took a puff. This was given to her by Zhang Ke, originally for entertaining guests, but not really used along the way. The taste of the cigarette was minty, without much nicotine, like chewing a piece of gum.

She tapped the ash on paper, the cigarette butt hadn’t yet touched her lips when she heard a voice: “You didn’t like smoking before.”

She was surprised.

Mainly because this voice was a bit familiar.

Looking back, it was actually Chen Fangli. He was wearing a black formal suit standing behind the glass door, a corner of a handkerchief showing from the pocket on his chest. He calmly looked at the woman sitting on the balcony smoking, then walked a few steps forward and sat opposite Wang Zhao.

Under Wang Zhao’s gaze, he took away the ladies’ cigarette from Wang Zhao’s hand, taking a puff without any reservation, a very light feeling, the taste of this cigarette was too light, without any stimulating sensation.

“The taste is a bit light.” Chen Fangli smiled, giving such an evaluation to Wang Zhao.

Wang Zhao also smiled, her gaze moving from the cigarette in Chen Fangli’s hand to the young man’s face. Compared to the last time they met, he seemed to have lost quite a bit of weight.

“I remember you have stomach problems.” She said emotionlessly, mainly because Chen Fangli’s stomach problems had left a deep impression on her.

Chen Fangli neither confirmed nor denied, his gaze slowly falling on Wang Zhao. Her current formal wear was more casual, but also very fitted, with a bit of cheongsam design, making her whole person seem much gentler, appearing more approachable.

“You look good in green,” Chen Fangli said softly. “I’ve said before that green suits you well.”

This kind of talk was not appropriate anymore. Wang Zhao stood up, preparing to leave.

She had sent an invitation to Chen Fangli, but she hadn’t expected him to actually come. This was a bit unexpected.

She had sent the invitation earlier because he was considered a university classmate. It wouldn’t be right to send invitations to everyone else and leave out only Chen Fangli. So out of politeness, she had sent an invitation to Chen Fangli. She just thought he wouldn’t come. How many fools in this world would still attend their ex-girlfriend’s wedding?

“Wang Zhao.”

Just as Wang Zhao was about to step out the door, she was suddenly embraced by someone. However, she reacted quickly and pushed Chen Fangli against the wall. She used force with her hands, and could even hear the sound of Chen Fangli’s bones hitting the wall.

Caught off guard, the man under her hand let out a muffled groan, and his other hand instinctively grasped Wang Zhao’s wrist, pulling her. As a result, Wang Zhao lost her balance and was pulled into his embrace.

In that instant, a somewhat familiar scent wafted over.

Just then, the sound of knocking on glass rang out. Wang Zhao and Chen Fangli turned their heads simultaneously, and saw a person standing behind the glass door, looking at them with an ambiguous smile.