Rong Lan squinted her eyes and immediately thought of Si Mo, who could use magic freely.
Si Mo was now practically her prospective employee. It shouldn't be too much to ask Si Mo to do a little favor for her, right?
"Do whatever you want. Anyway, there's no way I'm going to back out of this marriage," she said. Then, without waiting for Chu Chuan to keep yapping, she turned around and walked away.
Left standing there, Chu Chuan watched the graceful figure of the woman disappearing in the distance. His expression darkened.
"Humph, how ridiculous! There's actually someone who insists on marrying such a good - for - nothing. I don't believe it. If I can get the real daughter of the Bai family, how can I not handle a bastard child!"
At the Chu Family's old mansion—
Suddenly, the phone on the table rang. Chu Hengyuan glanced at the caller ID on the screen, picked up the phone, and answered it.
Less than a minute later, he hung up, put the phone back on the table, and continued to write the wedding invitations with his head down.
The old butler and Zhen Rui, who were sitting right across from him, both looked up at him simultaneously. Zhen Rui gave the old butler a look. The old butler was helpless but finally spoke up, "Master, do you have other things to attend to?"
Hearing this, Chu Hengyuan didn't even lift his head. He lowered his eyes to hide the annoyance in them. "No. I just received a very interesting call. Someone told me that Chu Chuan went to see Lanlan again."
Counting this time, it was already the second time Chu Chuan had shown up in front of Rong Lan.
He wondered what his good younger brother was secretly scheming.
Zhen Rui scoffed. "Aren't you afraid he'll run away with your prospective fiancée?"
"Not really." There must be something on him that Rong Lan wanted, which was why she wanted to marry him. Chu Chuan had no idea what Rong Lan was after, so there was no way he could turn Rong Lan against him.
However... it was okay for him to show up once, but showing up so frequently in front of his little fiancée was really annoying...
—
Rong Lan went home with the ring. Mrs. Bai wasn't at home. She had no idea if her mother was busy with wedding preparations or out having a get - together with her little sisters.
She sat down on the living - room sofa alone and looked at the opened file bag on the coffee table. For a moment, she didn't know whether she should take a look or try to resist her damned curiosity.
Her intuition told her that what was in the file bag was related to her. But the owner of the file bag was obviously not around. It wasn't right for her to secretly peek at others' things.
After hesitating for a full five minutes, Rong Lan finally gave in to her curiosity. She reached out her hand towards the file bag.
It only took her ten minutes to skim through the dozens of pages in the file bag. Then she put the file bag back in place, pretending nothing had happened.
She had originally planned to try to persuade Mrs. Bai to invite her biological father to the wedding. But now, it seemed that she couldn't say anything. Because the file bag contained the investigation materials of the doctors and nurses in the hospital where she and Bai Rongran were born. There really was a blood - related relative of hers in the delivery room back then.
Combined with the little story Si Mo had once told her, could it be that her blood - related relatives were really behind the baby - swapping?
The causal lines on her father's body were clean, but it didn't mean that the causal lines of her other blood - related relatives were clean.
Moreover, if Mrs. Bai had already read the file, she must have believed that it was someone from her biological parents' side who had messed things up. No matter what she said, Mrs. Bai wouldn't agree to invite them to the wedding.
But she always felt that things weren't that simple...
If it was really someone from her biological parents' side who had done it, it would have been too easy to find out. When the ghost Bai Ronglan told her about this wish, her expression wouldn't have been so complicated...
She couldn't completely trust the truth found by others. She had to find it out herself. The truth she discovered on her own was the most reliable.
Over the next month, Rong Lan frequently went to City F and didn't even have time to talk to Chu Hengyuan.
So much so that on the night before the wedding, when Chu Hengyuan counted on his fingers alone, he found that he had only seen Rong Lan twice in the past half - month.
They both didn't have a regular nine - to - five job, yet it was so difficult for them to meet?
Chu Hengyuan doubted life and fully suspected that things would be the same after they got married.
Rong Lan didn't share Chu Hengyuan's worries at all. Because almost at midnight on the night before the wedding, she was still sitting in the living room. Her hand was held by Mrs. Bai as she listened to her mother chatting about trivial family matters.
As they talked, just when a bit of indescribable sadness welled up in Rong Lan's heart, Mrs. Bai started to cry.
She fumbled around to find a tissue for Mrs. Bai and tried to comfort her. Instead, she herself calmed down.
It wasn't until after one o'clock in the morning when Mr. Bai came back from a business dinner and took over to comfort Mrs. Bai that Rong Lan was finally able to go back and rest.
However, the little fox, who had taken a shower and gone to bed after two o'clock, was woken up by Mrs. Bai at six in the morning. The makeup artist, hairstylist, and costume designer were lined up at her bedroom door, ready to start working.
Rong Lan, who was pressed in front of the dressing table, was so sleepy that she wanted to cry. "Mom, isn't noon the auspicious time? Why do I have to get up at six?"
Hearing this, Mrs. Bai gently patted the back of Rong Lan's hand. "Of course you have to get dressed up beautifully in advance. Most people only have one chance to hold a wedding in their lives. Moreover, you and Hengyuan like each other, which is even rarer. You must dress beautifully and take nice photos."
Rong Lan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She didn't want to take nice photos. She just wanted to sleep a bit more.
Even Si Mo, a minor, knew that today would be very tiring and had specially sent her a message telling her to sleep more the night before. However, she didn't have the chance.
Mrs. Bai lowered her head and tapped on her phone a few times. After making a video call, she propped the phone up on the dressing table and gently patted Rong Lan's shoulder. "I have to go downstairs to greet the guests. Lanlan, you can chat with Ranran. That way you won't be bored. I specifically told Ranran to clear her schedule for this day and spend more time with you."
So, Rong Lan saw Bai Rongran with a rounder face on Mrs. Bai's phone.
"Pfft—" Rong Lan couldn't hold back her laughter.
Bai Rongran, who had been smiling obediently when she heard Mrs. Bai's voice, immediately scowled when she saw Rong Lan's face. After a few seconds, she forced a sweet smile again. "Happy wedding, sister."
With the hairstylist tugging at her hair, Rong Lan couldn't move around. She could only raise her hand and wave it slightly. "Thank you, Ranran. Haven't seen you for over a month. You've gained quite a bit of weight. Your face has even rounded out."
She knew that Bai Rongran's face was rounder because she was pregnant, but others didn't know.
Since she could see that there were quite a few people standing around Rong Lan, even though Bai Rongran was almost furious, the smile on her face still remained, as if she was wearing a semi - permanent fake - smile mask. "Maybe it's because I've been eating too much recently. After all, I don't have to wear a wedding dress like you, so I don't have to maintain a perfect figure."