Rong Lan casually comforted Bai Rongran a few words and returned the phone to Bai's mother, afraid that if they stared at each other like this, they would start arguing again.
"Your cultivation is so high that you can see the state of someone thousands of miles away?" Rong Lan asked in surprise.
After all, even after five hundred years of cultivation, she could only see a person's causal lines when face - to - face with them. In a video call like this, her ability to see causal lines didn't work.
"Yes. As long as I have a medium, whether it's a video or a photo, it'll do." Si Mo said calmly, as if it were just an ordinary thing.
Rong Lan wanted to clap for Si Mo. This person's cultivation was truly unfathomable to the fox. She wondered if it was too late to curry favor with him now.
They stayed in the suite for an hour and a half. Finally, a waiter came to the door of the suite to remind them that they could go downstairs to the banquet hall on the second floor and get ready to walk down the red carpet.
Si Mo, the "flower boy", stood up upon hearing this and tidied his little suit on his own. He was very dedicated.
Just as Rong Lan was about to stand up, Bai's mother held her down and called over the makeup artist and hairstylist who had been waiting on the side. "So much time has passed. Come and touch up Lanlan's makeup. Our Lanlan must walk down the red carpet in her best state."
Rong Lan had no choice but to sit obediently and let the makeup artist touch up her makeup.
After the makeup artist finished, just as she stood up, Bai's mother took her arm. "Let's go. I'll walk Lanlan to the door of the banquet hall and then hand Lanlan over to Lao Bai."
Bai's father, called Lao Bai, coughed lightly. "Let's go."
Si Mo followed closely beside Rong Lan. No matter who was holding Rong Lan's arm, it didn't affect his role as the flower boy.
Outside the banquet hall, before even entering, Rong Lan could feel the joy and excitement inside. The usually calm little fox suddenly felt a strange sense of nervousness.
Bai's mother opened her arms and hugged Rong Lan. Her eyes were red, but the smile on her lips was gentle. "Okay, I'll go in and take my seat first. Later, Lanlan, you and your father will walk in. Don't be nervous. The person you like is waiting for you at the end of the red carpet."
Rong Lan nodded obediently. "Mom, go in. Take Ranran to experience the excitement of the banquet hall."
"Okay." Bai's mother let go and walked into the banquet hall with the still - on video call phone in her hand.
Si Mo looked up at Bai's mother and then at Rong Lan. Fortunately, this little fox didn't really like that human. Otherwise, in this atmosphere, she would surely cry later. He was most afraid of girls crying.
After Bai's mother went in, Bai's father, who had been silent all along, lowered his head to tidy the cufflinks on his sleeves. "Lanlan, if you had a choice, would you rather walk in with me or with your biological father?"
His voice was very soft, but Rong Lan could feel the depression in his words.
This was a tricky question. If she didn't answer it well, Bai's father would probably be unhappy.
She suddenly remembered the wedding in the extra memory, a wedding without any warmth.
But she also didn't want to only please the Bai family against her conscience. "If I can be sure that my biological father has nothing to do with the matter of Ranran and me having our lives swapped, I hope I can hold your arm with my left hand and his with my right hand and walk down the red carpet together."
If her biological father was completely innocent, she also wanted to get close to him.
Because... her biological mother had passed away a few years ago. Now that Bai Rongran had returned to the Bai family, how lonely he must be.
Bai's father looked up. The stubbornness in the little girl's eyes was so much like his own. Even though she wasn't his biological daughter, she was still the child he had raised...
He instinctively wanted to reach out and touch her head. However, just as his hand was about to touch her hair, the hairstylist waiting on the side nervously blocked his hand. "Mr. Bai, Miss Bai's hairstyle can't be messed up now."
The hairstylist didn't care if this was a touching moment. The hairstyle he had worked so hard on must not be messed up!
Bai's father stiffly put his hand down and coughed lightly in embarrassment. "Sorry, I forgot."
After protecting the hairstyle he had done, the hairstylist stepped back a few steps.
Bai's father sighed softly. "Lanlan, thank you, and I'm sorry."
He said sorry because, as an experienced person, he could tell that Rong Lan had an indifferent attitude towards this wedding. With such an attitude, she must not like Chu Hengyuan as much as she said. So she was compromising for the sake of the Bai family, and as an elder, he could only let his child make such a compromise.
As for thanking her, it was because he was grateful that his proud daughter was willing to compromise this time.
She said she liked Chu Hengyuan and was getting married for love, which saved some face for the Bai family.
Rong Lan's eyes swept across Bai's father's slightly graying temples. She took his arm. "Dad, you don't need to say thank you or sorry. I've enjoyed a life of luxury for more than twenty years. It's only right for me to do something for the Bai family."
Marrying Chu Hengyuan could make the Bai family remember her kindness, earn the one - million yuan from Bai Rongran, and fulfill the original owner's wish. It was a great deal!
Si Mo played with the rose petals in the flower basket boredly.
After waiting for a while, the waiter waiting on the side pressed the Bluetooth earphone on his ear and stepped forward to make a gesture of invitation to Bai's father. "Mr. Bai, you can take the bride out."
Hearing this, Si Mo immediately showed a sweet fake smile unique to children. He carried the flower basket on his arm and grabbed a handful of rose petals with the other hand, ready to scatter them.
Although with his current height, it was impossible for him to scatter the petals on the bride's head.
But he, as a flower boy, was just for the atmosphere.
Rong Lan took Bai's father's arm and walked onto the red carpet. Just as she walked into the banquet hall, before she could even look around at the guests on both sides of the red carpet, she was startled by the enthusiastic cheers and applause.
Because this kind of friendly and lively atmosphere was absent from the wedding in her memory.
Everyone gathered here, regardless of whether they had had a feud with her before or said bad things about her, naturally joined in the celebration and applauded politely.
Chu Hengyuan, standing at the other end of the red carpet, saw the dazed little girl and suddenly let out a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the little girl was reliable. Until the second before the wedding march started, he had been worried that she would be incited by someone and run away from the wedding. After all, there were so many people who wanted to see him make a fool of himself. What if someone happened to offer her something she was interested in?
Even after Bai's father placed her hand in Chu Hengyuan's, Rong Lan was still in a daze. Because she couldn't help but start analyzing the causal lines of the people present. The causal lines of these well - known people in the circle were extremely complex.
Chu Hengyuan thought the little girl was nervous. He just smiled and politely nodded to the flower boy who had always been beside Rong Lan.