Lin Wan always thought she should be grateful that Mrs. Lu didn't hold their wedding in Antarctica. Maybe it was because Mrs. Lu was afraid of the cold. Even so, it still took a long time to choose the wedding venue. Finally, Lu Zhihang got impatient and then just picked a place.
When Mrs. Lu saw it, she thought it was a great place. In this sweltering summer, it was neither too hot nor too cold, just to Mrs. Lu's liking.
So their wedding was set in Country A in the Southern Hemisphere.
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On the night before the wedding, as usual, Young Master Lu, who was about to go back to the room with Lin Wan to embrace his lovely fiancée and sleep, was grabbed by the back of his collar by his mother and thrown into the adjacent hotel room.
Being separated from his future wife like this, Young Master Lu finally got angry and immediately argued on the spot.
"Why do you separate me from Wanwan!"
"For no other reason. It's an old - generation custom that the bride and groom should sleep in separate rooms on the night before the wedding!"
"This is the modern era. Why are we still following this? I don't want to be separated from Wanwan!"
"You have to be separated. You have no choice!"
"I won't!"
"I...!"
Finally, under Mrs. Lu's death glare, Young Master Lu cowered. With a resentful look on his face, he turned around and went back into the room, slamming the door shut.
Lin Wan watched helplessly at the door. Finally, Mrs. Lu pushed her into the room with a smile and kindly told her to have a good rest before closing the door.
That night, Lin Wan was lying alone in bed, looking at the chandelier on the ceiling. Suddenly, she found herself unable to fall asleep. Her heart was filled with mixed feelings. There was the excitement and nervousness of the upcoming wedding, as well as the longing for Lu Zhihang. She never knew it would be so hard to be separated from Lu Zhihang for just one night. Thinking carefully, she seemed to have never been separated from him before.
Just as she was thinking about this, there came a pounding sound from outside the window.
Lin Wan was stunned. At first, she thought it was a hallucination. But after a while, the pounding sound came again. She suddenly sat up from the bed. Just then, she saw Lu Zhihang's face with a faint smile on the small balcony outside the French window.
She quickly went over and opened the window. Before she could say anything, Lu Zhihang lowered his head and kissed her.
Lu Zhihang savored her lips carefully. After a long while, he let her go and said with a low laugh, "I miss you even for a single minute when I'm separated from you!"
Warmth welled up in Lin Wan's heart. She smiled, rubbed her chin against his affectionately, and hugged him even tighter.
After the two had been intimate on the balcony for a while, Lin Wan noticed the structure of this balcony and the one opposite. Actually, the distance between the balconies of the two rooms was neither too large nor too small. Just looking at it made her feel it was a bit dangerous. Suddenly, she felt scared in a belated way.
"You're not allowed to climb over such balconies again!" Her voice was a bit stern, and she unconsciously raised her voice to warn her lover.
Lu Zhihang laughed softly, his eyes full of tenderness. "Don't worry. I've calculated. It'll be okay."
"Even so! It's so high up here. What if...!" Before she could finish, Lin Wan stopped herself. She realized she had said something she shouldn't have.
Lu Zhihang gently kissed her forehead and said with a smile, compromising, "Okay, okay, okay. There won't be a next time. Next time I'll come in through the front door. I definitely won't let you worry!"
Lin Wan nodded, and the tense line of her lips relaxed. Finally, she felt a bit more at ease.
"Are you nervous?" Lu Zhihang carried her to the bedside and whispered in her ear.
"Not nervous." Lin Wan shook her head.
A look of surprise flashed across Lu Zhihang's eyes. He had specially asked his elder brother's wife about how she felt on the night before her wedding with his elder brother. So he specifically asked Lin Wan if she was nervous. According to his elder brother's wife, women were always a bit nervous on the night before their wedding, but Lin Wan said she wasn't.
"I'm very happy." Lin Wan looked into Lu Zhihang's eyes. Her hand gently intertwined with his. The warmth of their palms merged, fitting perfectly and making her feel at ease.
Lu Zhihang was stunned for a moment and then laughed. He kissed Lin Wan again. "I knew it. My Wanwan is always unique."
"Yeah." Lin Wan didn't deny it. She closed her eyes slightly and responded to Lu Zhihang, a faint smile on her face.
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According to the original plan, the groom could sleep until 8 a.m. on the wedding day, but the bride had to get up at 6 a.m.
According to the comprehensive evaluation and advice of the exclusive makeup artist hired by Mrs. Lu, from skin care and maintenance to makeup and changing clothes, their third young mistress had to get up at 6 a.m. to have enough time.
As a result, when it was still dim outside, Mrs. Lu knocked on Lin Wan's door.
Lu Zhihang almost jumped out of the bed in fright. If Mrs. Lu knew that he had sneaked into his future wife's room last night and slept with his precious fiancée for a whole night, she would definitely break his legs on the spot.
However, just as he was getting out of bed in a hurry to find a place to hide, the commotion in the room had obviously caught Mrs. Lu's attention.
Mrs. Lu didn't even need to guess. She said, "Lu, you little rascal. Open the door for me. Do you think you can run away so easily after having your way with her? I've been to your room. You weren't there at all. Hurry up and open the door obediently!"
Lin Wan & Lu Zhihang: "..."
Finally, Lu Zhihang, who had dressed up, opened the door bravely under the sympathetic gaze of his future wife.
Mrs. Lu was standing at the door with her arms crossed. When she saw Lu Zhihang, a look of "I knew it" appeared on her face. The moment he saw that expression, Lu Zhihang felt something was wrong.
Sure enough, Mrs. Lu immediately reached out and grabbed Lu Zhihang's ear and dragged him out of the room.
"I knew you were up to no good last night. I've caught you! How dare you sneak over here!" Mrs. Lu's voice echoed in the corridor. At this moment, even the stupidest person could tell that Mrs. Lu hadn't actually been to Lu Zhihang's room. She was just bluffing, and her son had been successfully tricked.
In the room, looking at the makeup artists filing in, Lin Wan felt sorry for Lu Zhihang and mourned for herself at the same time.
A few minutes later, she was forced by Mrs. Lu to sit in the big dressing chair in the outer room of the hotel suite. Her expression was as if her soul had left her body.
In a daze, she let a bunch of makeup artists and stylists surround her and apply all kinds of scented cosmetics on her face. Lin Wan had completely given up struggling.
"Don't move! I'm doing your inner eyeliner. I might poke your eye in a minute!" The makeup artist said seriously as she held Lin Wan's face still as it tried to shrink back.
Lin Wan wanted to cry but had no tears. "Can you do the outer one instead? I'm not comfortable with this. I'll die when I remove the makeup!"
"No. Your natural looks suit inner eyeliner better. It'll look absolutely great in the photos later!"