nucmednet Chapter 356 Wedding Night
Chapter 356 Wedding Night
It's not usually like this, so why is it like this now?
—Although Gao Wen didn’t say a word, Sun Zhao still read the meaning in his eyes.
He couldn't really say, since Lou Yanchuan was now half-acting and half-feigning, so he could only say against his will, "The president is just a bit immersed in the role."
He thought to himself, "Gao Wen probably won't believe such a lame excuse."
But to everyone's surprise, Gao Wen nodded upon hearing this, "So that's how it is."
He suddenly realized, "Then shouldn't I also immerse myself a bit more?"
He stood there pondering his persona, "Since I was taken away by Master Gao, I certainly won't treat him well on a daily basis. I dream about the day Master Gao kicks me out."
“I don’t think he’ll kick us out,” Chi Yuan said.
"How so?" Gao Wen asked curiously.
“We can’t leave this house on ordinary days.” Chi Yuan was referring to the rules of the game. “We can only leave once a month at most, and a servant must accompany us when we leave.”
"On the surface, they are saying that the world is in chaos and they are worried that someone might harm us."
“No matter how you look at it, this is a form of imprisonment, as if they’re afraid we’ll escape,” Chi Yuan analyzed. “This might be related to the thing he’s worshipping.”
“In the story, Master Gao had seven wives, but he never favored any of them. He was physically weak and needed someone to help him walk…” Chi Yuan paused, “It was obviously not for the sake of indulging in lust.”
“I’ve heard it from the servants,” Gao Wen said. “Master Gao used to be so weak that he couldn’t even sit up while walking, but after he married his first wife, his health improved.”
As he spoke, he looked at Li Wu, the legal wife.
“Yes,” Li Wu said. “The background information I received mentioned that Master Gao has been in poor health since childhood.”
“When he was little, he couldn’t even sit up properly. Everyone said he wouldn’t live past 10, so his family found him a child bride. It’s said that after finding a child bride, his health improved a lot…”
As Li Wu spoke, noticing that everyone else was looking at him, he said, "That's not me."
"It seems that the Gao family specifically found the child bride for him."
"I don't have this person in the intelligence I've received."
“The Gao family also avoids talking about this child bride. It seems that she died before Mr. Gao was 10 years old,” Li Wu said. “But my family and the Gao family have been friends for generations, and we have heard some rumors about her.”
"It is said that this child bride came to the Gao family not long ago, and stayed for a little over a year, before she died while trying to avert disaster for Gao Ruiyun."
……
Yan Xun followed the servants to the decorated bridal chamber, where he saw Master Gao dressed in festive attire.
Everything in the room was bright red. The bed was covered not only with a wedding quilt embroidered with mandarin ducks, but also with longans, red dates, and so on. Old Master Gao's face, which was originally as pale as a dead man, had gained some color because of these things.
Huge candles were lit in the room. When Yan Xun entered, Master Gao was both happy and shy—as if he were the bride being carried in by Yan Xun, and Yan Xun was the groom who had just finished a social engagement.
Yan Xun tried hard to suppress this strange association. He glanced back at the closed door, then at Gao Ruiyun sitting on the edge of the bed, and a few words involuntarily popped into his head—
There are wolves in front and tigers behind.
"Come and sit down," Master Gao said, seeing Yan Xun standing by the door for a long time.
Yan Xun, stiff as a robot, slowly walked over and sat down next to Gao Ruiyun.
"Are you very nervous?" Gao Ruiyun suddenly asked.
"Yes, some," Yan Xun said.
“I noticed you… have been clenching your fists.” Gao Ruiyun looked at Yan Xun’s clenched fist on his knee and placed his hand on Yan Xun’s fist. “We’re family from now on, there’s no need to be so nervous.”
Yan Xun resisted the urge to punch him. "Master Gao, have we met before?"
“Just call me Ruiyun,” Master Gao said again, looking at Yan Xun. “When it’s just the two of us, you can do whatever you want.”
Yan Xun simply couldn't bring himself to treat Master Gao with such warmth, so he could only force a stiff smile.
Unexpectedly, Master Gao couldn't see Yan Xun's forced smile at all. On the contrary, he was very happy and said, "You look even more beautiful when you smile."
His hands were large, with few calluses, and he didn't use much force when he placed them on Yan Xun's hand, as if he was afraid of offending Yan Xun.
Old Master Gao's sickly, unhealthy complexion appeared somewhat ruddy in the candlelight, but soon he covered his mouth and began to cough again... He coughed for a long time before stopping, and then looked at Yan Xun apologetically, "Xiao Xun, I don't have long to live."
"..." What does this mean? Yan Xun wondered, what should she say to be befit the status of the Seventh Concubine?
He couldn't very well say "condolences" to Master Gao, could he?
According to the plot, he was married off by his wicked uncle and aunt to a dying master Gao for good luck. Although the other party looked young, he was actually a full twelve years older than Yan Xun. He had never met the master Gao before, and he didn't know how Gao Ruiyun contacted his uncle and aunt and said he wanted to marry him.
The heartless relative who received Gao Ruiyun's gold bars didn't care about Yan Xun's wishes. He kept saying things like, "I've been feeding you and dressing you all this way for today," making Yan Xun think he had transmigrated into some melodramatic soap opera.
Master Gao simply looked at Yan Xun beside him, and even Yan Xun's perfunctory "hmm" sounded pleasant to him. He even comforted Yan Xun, saying, "I know about my old health problems."
"I don't have long to live."
He said to Yan Xun, "When I die, I will leave all my property to you."
Yan Xun felt that Master Gao was now like a shady boss making empty promises. He turned to look at Gao Ruiyun, "...But I'm worried that Madam won't agree..."
“Xiao Xun, you don’t need to worry about these things,” Gao Ruiyun said to Yan Xun. “When I die, all those house deeds and land deeds, including all the people here, will be yours.”
"But there's something you should be aware of."
Yan Xun pricked up his ears. "What?"
"You must have heard the rumors circulating that I became rich because I worshipped something extraordinary," said Master Gao.
Yan Xun knew this, of course, but outwardly he still asked, puzzled, "Isn't this just a rumor...?"
Gao Ruiyun smiled. "Of course not."
“They’re right, I did offer some things,” he told Yan Xun.
“Every 30 years, the Gao family would prepare a banquet to entertain Him.” Gao Ruiyun said, then fell into reminiscence. “It was an extremely luxurious and grand banquet, with all kinds of delicacies you could imagine appearing at the banquet.”
"Everyone must wear paper masks and wait for the arrival of that person."
"If that lord is extremely satisfied with the banquet, he will grant the Gao family another 30 years of blessings."
“If they are not satisfied, it will be a disaster for the Gao family.” Gao Ruiyun coughed a few more times as he spoke. “The family business will go bankrupt, and both the main family and the collateral branches will be infected with a strange disease.”
As Gao Ruiyun spoke, she glanced at her arm.
Because of his chronic illness, his body was far from robust, and anyone who saw him could tell that he was a patient confined to his sickbed.
“When I was five years old, I attended the last banquet,” Gao Ruiyun said. “Unfortunately, that great man did not appear at that banquet. Everyone guessed that he might be tired of the Gao family.”
“As a direct descendant…” he said, then started coughing again, “my body also became like this after that day.”
"The reason why the Gao family has so few members now is also due to this."
"In another two weeks, it will be the start date of the next banquet," Gao Ruiyun said to Yan Xun. "You will also be attending that day."
"So we all need to be careful during these two weeks."
"To ensure that the esteemed person can attend the banquet smoothly."
Upon hearing this, Yan Xun realized that this was the main quest of this instance.
He looked at Master Gao and asked, "Do we need to worship that person regularly?"
Yan Xun imitated the way Master Gao addressed him.
“You can go to the ancestral hall every day and take a look. If the leaves in the porcelain bowl in front of the ancestral hall are floating, then you can go in to worship.” Gao Ruiyun said.
"If the leaves are submerged at the bottom of the water, never go in."
It seemed that saying all this had exhausted Mr. Gao; his expression was somewhat tired, and he looked weary.
He gestured for Yan Xun to take the nuptial wine that was on the table.
Yan Xun glanced at it, then took it and handed one of the cups to Master Gao.
Gao Ruiyun looked at Yan Xun and said, "It's getting late. Let's rest after we've had our drinks."
The two drank the nuptial wine under the wedding candles... After drinking, Master Gao, probably because he couldn't hold his liquor, had a bit more color in his pale complexion. He looked at Yan Xun, seemingly wanting to say something but holding back.
Yan Xun: "...?"
What does this mean?
Gao Ruiyun took off his clothes and lay down on the bed wearing only an undergarment. Seeing that Yan Xun was still standing there like a wooden figure without moving, he said slowly, "I won't do anything."
"Just lie down next to me."
"Let's talk together."
Yan Xun looked at Gao Ruiyun lying on the bed and thought that even if this person really wanted to do something, he probably wouldn't be able to.
He took off his heavy wedding robes, saying, "Go inside a bit."
He said to Gao Ruiyun.
Gao Ruiyun's face flushed even more, whether from the alcohol or shyness, he didn't know. He lay down a little further in, and saw Yan Xun lift the blanket and lie down next to him in his undergarments.
Yan Xun lay on the bed, feeling as if a thousand-year-old corpse was sleeping next to him, with no warmth at all.
Gao Ruiyun didn't know if she was afraid of offending Yan Xun, so she kept her distance, wishing there was another person between them—of course, that was just a figure of speech; if someone were actually to lie between them, Gao Ruiyun would be the first to jump up and object.
Yan Xun pretended to close his eyes, but actually secretly opened the live stream—
[Oh, finally showing us some content that members can watch?]
【Wait, what are you two doing between each other? Are you planning to squeeze someone else in?】
[Your Majesty, I find this Master Gao quite handsome; why not just take him as your concubine?]
[Tell me honestly, what were you doing between this dungeon and the last one?]
【Huh? Tiezi knows about this?】
[I don't know about other things, but before the main pack entered this instance, there was another earthquake in a certain garden (laughs)]
[The garden you're talking about isn't the one I'm thinking of, is it? (shudders)]
[Is things getting better in our livestream? We're even daring to openly discuss those guys now?]
[Those who don't watch the live stream probably don't know what we're discussing, right?]
[Witch: I heard that after that person threw a huge tantrum, they recently shut down the garden.]
Yan Xun knew from the witch's words that she was referring to the one in the Garden of Bones.
[Yan Xun: Then He probably won't have time to bother with us lately, right?]
[Witch: Who knows? Maybe he'll recover and return sometime.]
[Witch: I'm curious, what have you been up to lately?]
Yan Xun naturally wouldn't dare discuss this in the public chat, but fortunately, the witch didn't seem inclined to delve into it. She simply gave Yan Xun another reward and then left a meaningful remark—
[Witch: I'm so excited!]
Yan Xun could sense that the witch didn't have any ill intentions towards him; she seemed more like a neutral person who enjoyed having fun.
[Night will never return: Be careful lately.]
Yan Xun was surprised that the Sun God was still in his live stream. Could it be that the Sun God had heard about his "rumors" some time ago...? That's why he came to his live stream to see if Yan Xun was continuing to mislead others?
[Night will never return: He's been insane for a long time.]
[Night will never come again: He says you stole his things.]
Yan Xun immediately understood what the Sun God referred to. It must be the one at the end of that instance, where, under Levi's leadership, the Church of Angels was overthrown, and the "Holy Grace Church," which they led and whose faith was based on Yan Xun, became the new faith in that world.
To the skeletal angel, wasn't this just Yan Xun stealing what He had?
When the witch and the sun god were speaking, the entire chat became completely silent, and no one spoke.
[Yan Xun: You guys logged off?]
[…No…who dares to speak…]
【Master, please teach me, why aren't you afraid?】
[Does the main package manager not know what these items with specific IDs are? (Question)]
No, the main contractor knows, but he's incredibly bold and doesn't care about such things!
[Private Marseille, I'm starting to ship you guys...]
【What audacity! They dare to kowtow like that?】
[Is nobody shipping them? I think the gentle older man and His Majesty are a great match, right?]
[Heh, you're just waiting to die!]
While watching the live stream, Yan Xun kept his eyes closed and remained motionless. Gao Ruiyun, who was next to him, probably thought he had fallen asleep, so he turned his body from lying flat to his side.
The candlelight in the room was still burning, and he sat there, his body turned to the side, staring at Yan Xun's profile.
Yan Xun: "..."
He felt like his cheeks were being stared through.
He dared not breathe too loudly, afraid that Gao Ruiyun would find out he was still awake.
Finally, Gao Ruiyun seemed to have overcome some kind of inner struggle, and he reached out his hand—
He poked Yan Xun's cheek with his finger.
Yan Xun: "..."
dare not move.
Gao Ruiyun poked it again.
After Gao Ruiyun poked him three or four times, Yan Xun couldn't pretend to be asleep anymore. He grabbed Gao Ruiyun's fingers and looked at the panicked Gao Ruiyun, saying, "Stop messing with me."