Three days later was the agreed-upon date.
Li An's parents arrived as scheduled.
The two families met at the appointed location, exchanged a few pleasantries, and then formally began discussing the wedding arrangements.
Overall, the communication was quite harmonious.
Regarding pre-marital assets, dowry and betrothal gifts, specific procedures, and even the scale of the wedding, neither family had major disagreements. Or rather, the other side basically agreed to everything, not objecting to the demands proposed by Ding Yun.
Thus, the matter was settled.
Even the engagement date and wedding date were smoothly agreed upon during this discussion. As for overly detailed issues, Ding Yun expressed that she would completely let go,
allowing the young couple to negotiate and handle them themselves.
This would also serve as a final pre-marital adjustment. If at this stage they suddenly discovered significant differences in their worldviews, there would still be room for compromise or regret.
With Qian Ya's wedding essentially confirmed, only the final ceremony and legal registration remained. Both Ding Yun and Zhou Pinjuan couldn't help but turn their attention to the other two unmarried individuals in the family, Ding Jun Ya and Qian Wen.
Zhou Pinjuan was particularly concerned.
On the evening of the day the families discussed the wedding, she began repeatedly muttering that Ding Jun Ya was four years older than Qian Ya, which, when rounded up, made him almost thirty, and it was time for him to date or go on blind dates.
She even registered him on a dating website that very night.
Ding Yun wasn't as eager. She only told Qian Wen that if he intended to get married, he should do so sooner rather than later, advising him not to be a playboy and end up marrying in his thirties or forties, as that would be unfair to the woman.
Qian Wen responded perfunctorily, and
the matter was temporarily put aside.
Afterward, Ding Yun and her family resumed their normal lives. Qian Ya and Li Ning, on the other hand, seized every spare moment to prepare for the wedding. This included, but was not limited to, wedding dresses, banquet menus, deciding who to invite, and even spending a long time debating and discussing details like the bouquet and veil.
They selected seven or eight alternative plans.
Let alone the choice of wedding dresses.
They liked Western-style wedding dresses, they liked Hanfu wedding attire, and they liked modern, improved Hanfu wedding attire even more. Fortunately, they were not short of money, so the final decision was to have them all, even if it meant being more tired on the wedding day.
They would simply change outfits multiple times.
They busied themselves with these preparations for half a year, which also included an engagement ceremony, before finally finalizing all wedding matters and officially choosing an auspicious date for the grand wedding.
The wedding wasn't overly extravagant and didn't make the news.
But it wasn't bad either; at least both parties were satisfied.
Because Qian Ya married at a relatively young age, Ding Yun had not yet prepared to distribute shares. Therefore, she did not give her shares during this marriage. Instead, she gave her eighty-eight million yuan as dowry, along with several properties.
The specific distribution of shares would have to wait until after she had finished imprinting her mark on the world's origin.
As the wedding concluded, everything naturally returned to normal. Ding Yun continued to tirelessly introduce various new products to the market, hoping to replicate the success of a previous world by selling her company's products to every household worldwide, thereby increasing her influence.
And because her products were excellent and outstanding,
this plan proceeded in an orderly fashion.
However, this plan suffered a fatal blow four years later. The international situation began to grow increasingly tense, with wars erupting in some regions. Furthermore, it was revealed that Ding Yun's family business had collaborations with many military enterprises and was even involved in the research and development of certain weapons and technologies.
New alloy materials, chip technology, and the like,
all bore the imprint of Ding Yun's family.
Consequently, before long, all of Ding Yun's family's products were predictably placed on the embargo list of adversarial nations.
They even falsely accused her of stealing foreign technology,
which was truly laughable.
However, in this world, one's arms can never out-muscle a thigh. No matter how powerful a company is, it is difficult to contend with a vast nation, let alone a coalition of nations led by a vast nation. Although Ding Yun's influence surged briefly when her products were first embargoed, it was not enough to shake the world's origin.
Her influence gradually diminished thereafter,
which was an unavoidable outcome.
In response to this situation, Ding Yun spent three days and three nights in deep contemplation. Then, she gathered a pile of documents, used her connections to contact the authorities, and prepared for deep cooperation.
Originally, although Ding Yun had collaborations with the authorities, the actual contributions she provided were not substantial. For instance, she had not revealed technologies such as fusion, mecha, psychic powers, superhuman gene modification, artificial sun, or wormhole travel.
This was because Ding Yun's primary objective was to increase her influence, not national strength. Therefore, there was no need to do these things. Simply trading some useful technology for protection was sufficient for her.
However, the provocations from the adversarial nations
directly compelled Ding Yun to find another way to gain influence. Since the so-called federal nations considered her a threat and falsely accused her of stealing technology,
she decided to show them how much of a threat she was and what kind of technologies she had stolen that they did not possess, forcing them to confront their own blatant lies.
Most importantly, to increase her influence, Ding Yun no longer cooperated with the state covertly as before. Instead, she cooperated openly, publicly announcing that certain technologies were her research and development, and frequently appearing in national media.
This period is historically known as "I'm not hiding it anymore, I'm laying it all out."
"I am a technological powerhouse!"
Over the next ten years, Ding Yun, with a meteoric rise, helped her country achieve technological leaps, essentially fast-tracking into the sixth and seventh industrial revolutions, and embarking on interstellar colonization for the great age of space exploration.
Then, the adversarial nations completely and utterly shed all pretense of civilization.
They refused to acknowledge patent rights.
They began dispatching personnel to assassinate Ding Yun and simultaneously steal her technology, regardless of the cost.
They even attempted to incite war, hoping to stifle the rise of Ding Yun's country amidst the conflict.
However, as soon as they initiated hostilities, before they could develop adequate defenses, the fully realized space-based weapon system, materialized by Ding Yun, was successfully installed and immediately delivered a fatal blow to the fleet dispatched by the adversarial nations. It completely destroyed three of their aircraft carriers in three seconds,
and also destroyed several of their weapons bases.
Under this deterrence, they finally became somewhat more compliant, refraining from attempting to incite war and resorting to protests instead, their disgusting behavior on full display!
When they could overpower, they resorted to military suppression and sanctions.
When they were outmatched, they spoke of civilization and moral blackmail.
However, no one was foolish. After this incident, who could still fail to see through their true nature? It was at this point that Ding Yun's influence reached its zenith.
She was just a step away from entering the world's origin.
Therefore, she promptly seized the opportunity and used the satellite network to announce globally that she was initiating the Mars terraforming plan and Mars colonization plan, inviting enthusiastic volunteers.
Then, before the plan even began,
her influence finally met the required standard.
She successfully imprinted her mark into the world's origin.
At this point, Ding Yun did not immediately depart. Instead, she specifically stayed to complete the follow-up work, which was to complete the previously announced Mars terraforming and colonization plans. Afterward, she split the company. The formulations for daily chemical products were organized into a daily chemical company and handed over to her daughter. The formulations for pharmaceutical products were organized into a pharmaceutical company and handed over to her son. The remaining formulations were divided equally, with half going to her younger brother, Ding Jun Ya, and the other half to Qian Ping An.
Thus, Ding Yun finally departed from this world with peace of mind.