Chapter 80 The Time of the Grand Wedding

As night deepened, lanterns lit up the moon, colorful lights adorned the entire capital city. Especially the Qiu residence was brilliantly illuminated with red lanterns up and down, adding an extra touch of radiance to the already prosperous capital. Huge fireworks rose brilliantly in the night sky, blooming into a magnificent flower, making the stars and moon lose their luster at this moment.

Red candles flickered on windows pasted with the character for “double happiness”, casting dancing shadows of people. The entire room was filled with red curtains, setting off Yue Guanyi’s wedding clothes beautifully. The gold-embroidered soft gauze seemed to shimmer with flowing gold. Only a small section of fingertips was exposed, with a pair of red coral and green jade bracelets on the wrists. The coral red as dripping blood made his wrists appear as white as jade, as pure as the moon. He tightly fiddled with the jade belt at his waist, revealing the barely contained nervousness of the person under the veil.

Qiu Shuzhi slowly walked in and lifted the red veil embroidered with dragons and phoenixes, with four corners hanging pearls from the East Sea. In an instant, it was like colorful clouds obscuring the bright moon had dispersed, revealing exquisite beauty.

The thick hair like a waterfall was tied into a bun, with the rest of the black hair lightly hanging behind. The tied-up hair was adorned with a gilded vine-patterned red jade lotus flower crown, with gold filigree diamond flowers surrounding the red jade. The intricate and complex crown made Yue Guanyi appear less cold and otherworldly than usual. Yue Guanyi, who usually wore almost no makeup, also applied light makeup on this day. Especially a stroke of red at the corner of the eyes added a touch of charm befitting a groom.

Seeing that Qiu Shuzhi had not spoken for a long time, Yue Guanyi thought that his attire today was not to her liking. His ten fingers tightly intertwined, the lowered eyelashes trembled nervously, and his fingertips were even more pale and colorless.

“Qiu Niang-” The phoenix eyes glistened with a hint of unease in the flickering red candlelight. He looked up, quickly glancing at Qiu Shuzhi’s expression.

Fortunately, it wasn’t dislike.

Qiu Shuzhi looked at the usually calm and composed Crown Prince, who was as nervous as a frightened little rabbit tonight, and felt her heart melting uncontrollably.

“Yue’er is so beautiful tonight!” She smiled, deliberately teasing him.

Yue Guanyi lowered his head, biting his lower lip with his pearly teeth, his face becoming redder and redder, as if painted with a layer of madder red rouge.

Qiu Shuzhi picked up the prepared nuptial wine from the table and handed it to Yue Guanyi. Her low voice was filled with ambiguous laughter: “After drinking this nuptial wine, you will be mine from now on.”

Yue Guanyi was so embarrassed that his ears were burning red, almost melting.

There was no need to drink any nuptial wine. From the moment he first met Qiu Niang more than ten years ago, he had been hers.

Originally, their status was worlds apart. He was lowly and humble as dust, while she was like the bright moon in the sky, surrounded by stars. How could she notice him, gazing up at the moon from the gutter?

It was all because of his desperate persistence, shamelessly clinging to Qiu Niang, that he gained her favor today.

Yue Guanyi tremblingly accepted the nuptial wine. Under Qiu Shuzhi’s gaze, he slowly drank from the interlinked cups. The wine in the cup reflected his current appearance. Although he had tried his best to conceal and disguise it, the wild joy in his phoenix eyes still surged out uncontrollably.

After drinking this cup of wine, he would be Qiu Niang’s rightful man. He was her properly married primary husband. Even when they grow old in the future, he would be the only one who could share the same bed in life and the same grave in death with Qiu Niang.

Sharing the same bed in life and the same grave in death, never to be separated for all eternity.

He tilted his head back, and the slightly spicy nuptial wine slowly flowed down his throat. The stimulating potency made him, already immersed in fantasy, contract his throat and tongue. The spicy alcohol immediately surged up, and he coughed violently, covering his mouth with one hand and supporting himself on the edge of the bed with the other.

“Did you choke on it?” Qiu Shuzhi gently stroked his back as he kept coughing.

“No!”

How could he let Qiu Niang worry because he choked on such a joyous day? He hurriedly denied, though his voice was somewhat muffled by the alcohol, the voice hoarsened by alcohol like rabbit tail grass.

Suddenly he felt something pressing against the palm of his hand supporting on the edge of the bed. He picked it up and saw it was a red date.

Yue Guanyi turned his head slightly. Their wedding bed was covered with peanuts, lotus seeds, red dates, and longan, taking the homophone meaning of “having children soon”.

Qiu Shuzhi took the red date from his hand and said with a smile, “I told those servants earlier to sprinkle less, it would be uncomfortable for you to sleep at night. But they wouldn’t listen and stuffed the bed full. How are we supposed to sleep at night? Should I remove some of these?”

“No need.” Yue Guanyi grabbed her hand, the smooth and delicate skin held in his palm. His ears slightly reddened: “No need to remove them. I think it’s very good as it is.”

Not only was there no need to remove them, he wished they had sprinkled even more.

Having children soon!

Yue Guanyi was extremely excited about this clever homophone in his heart. Didn’t he want to have children soon? To conceive Qiu Niang’s child early, to continue Qiu Niang’s lineage, to win Qiu Niang’s pity and love.

Qiu Niang’s liking for him was just a temporary pleasure. Only by giving birth to children who shared flesh and blood with Qiu Niang could he truly gain Qiu Niang’s attention.

If he was fortunate enough to give birth to several daughters, even if there were other beauties in the future, Qiu Niang’s heart would surely linger on him to some extent. Thinking of the scene of himself and Qiu Niang surrounded by countless children in the future, Yue Guanyi smiled foolishly.

“What are you thinking about? You look so happy?” Qiu Shuzhi tilted her head slightly and smiled.

The candlelight cast shadows on her softly contoured profile, and her clear eyes also had a hint of warm pomegranate wine-like crimson. The corners of her thin lips curved up slightly, as gentle as the rippled spring pond water, stirred and disturbed, causing a pool of ripples, a romantic mood arising.

Yue Guanyi almost became mesmerized by the sight, and had to bite his tongue hard with his teeth to barely come back to his senses. Today was their wedding night, he was the new husband and should serve Qiu Niang… Not just today, he wanted to serve Qiu Niang day and night from now on.