“I… I just came to see what all the fuss was about.” For some reason, Mingmei felt a guilty conscience as if she’d been caught red-handed.

Mingmei glanced at the crowd below, then turned to look at Young Master Zhang and asked, “So, don’t you need to explain anything?”

“In the mortal realm, weddings are avoided by the dead; in the underworld, daughters are married off amid the rain of the third watch.”

“Married… doesn’t that mean you’re taking a wife?” Mingmei suddenly realized, wasn’t the White family marrying their daughter to this villain?

“Perhaps.”

Young Master Zhang’s tone was indifferent, and you couldn’t tell he was the one getting married. He watched the White family’s grand procession head toward the Zhang mansion without a ripple of emotion in his eyes, less so than Mingmei, who was just watching the show.

“Do you want me to marry her?”

Mingmei didn’t show much expression, but she could certainly roll her eyes.

“What’s it to me?”

This villain was clearly out of his mind!

He clearly saw the undisguised disgust on Mingmei’s face, but Young Master Zhang didn’t seem to mind at all, and he smiled.

Then, Mingmei saw him reach out and grab her wrist through her sleeve, “Come with me.”

…

“Eight out of ten characters on these spirit tablets look the same!”

Lu Xiaoyao and the others were already seeing stars from looking at dozens of spirit tablets. Finally, they hardened their hearts and flipped over each tablet!

Full disclosure!

She just didn’t recognize the characters, so what!

They could have just overturned all the spirit tablets; why make it so difficult for themselves?

So, after rummaging through a pile of tablets with names like “deceased White maiden,” they finally found a piece of paper under one of the tablets in the front row.

“Ha! Is this it?! Is it?”

Lu Xiaoyao shook the paper in her hand excitedly, offering it to Bai Xiao and the others like a treasure. Although Bai Xiao and the others still couldn’t read the characters on it, it was hard to imagine that this one piece of paper under so many spirit tablets wasn’t the contract they were looking for, right?

“Yes, destroy it and you’ll be free.”

Just as Bai Xiao and the others were getting excited, a voice that didn’t belong to them suddenly rang out.

Young Master Zhang appeared before the four of them, bringing Mingmei with him. Mingmei couldn’t help but twitch her lips at the sight of the four of them immediately huddling together.

Their reaction speed was amazing!

More specifically, it wasn’t all four of them; it was mainly two of them who were like giant octopuses, tightly surrounding the other two in the middle. They hugged so tightly that even though the other two wanted to resist, their bodies “honestly” surrendered.

Hu Yue & Bai Xiao: Tired, just destroy us already ＿(：3」∠)_

Young Master Zhang chuckled softly when he saw this. He didn’t look at them again, but with a slight flick of his finger, the piece of paper in Lu Xiaoyao’s hand flew directly into his hand as if it had grown legs.

“Ah!”

It had to be said that Lu Xiaoyao was absolutely first-rate when it came to setting the mood.

At this time, she didn’t dare to resist the big boss, but that didn’t stop her from letting out a miserable cry when she saw the paper in her hand disappear.

The cry was two points more tragic than the caw of a crow returning home at sunset. Mingmei couldn’t help but take a few more glances at Lu Xiaoyao.

“Here.”

What she didn’t expect was that Young Master Zhang handed the paper to her in the end. Mingmei couldn’t understand the direction the story was taking.

But she still took it, looking at the contract that Lu Xiaoyao and the others had been longing for.

But this one look made Mingmei frown.

“A marriage certificate?”

“Huh?”

Mingmei’s voice wasn’t soft, so Hu Yue and the others naturally heard it clearly. “How could it be a marriage certificate? Isn’t it a contract signed between the evil spirit and the Zhang family?”

“It’s the marriage agreement between the White family’s daughter and the Zhang family.” As Mingmei spoke, she unfolded the paper so they could see it clearly, but then she remembered, “Oh, right, you can’t read.”

Everyone: …

How infuriating!

They were going to complain to the game company later. How could they not include a translation system, making them a bunch of blind people when they encountered this kind of crucial evidence?!

“What… what exactly is going on?”

Young Master Zhang stood there calmly. Although he still looked like he was in a tranquil scene and harmless to humans and animals, they still didn’t have the courage to ask him directly, so they chose to start with Mingmei.

“I’m not sure either, but—at least one thing is certain: it might be a little troublesome for you to escape the town,” Mingmei said. She glanced at Young Master Zhang, and when she saw that he still hadn’t said anything, she continued, “Miss White’s parents have already carried the phoenix coronet and robes and the dowry to the Zhang family’s door.”

“What?!” Lu Xiaoyao was also dumbfounded. “What’s going on?”

Just as everyone who had asked the question was confused about what had happened, they suddenly seemed to have a hallucination. They could already hear the joyful music of the suona horns in their ears.

Everyone looked in the direction the sound was coming from, which was outside the Zhang family’s ancestral hall. At this time, Young Master Zhang’s gaze also turned to the entrance of the ancestral hall. With a wave of his hand, the tightly closed door instantly opened.

Outside the ancestral hall, red light filled the sky. Red happy silk, the people outside the ancestral hall holding the wedding clothes looked at everyone in the ancestral hall with fiery eyes, their mouths opening and closing as if to say—the auspicious hour has arrived, why aren’t the newlyweds coming out?

One bright and one dark, one gray and one red, the contrast between the bright and dark scenes, with the ancestral hall’s door as the boundary, brought great visual stimulation to the audience watching the live broadcast!

Outside the ancestral hall, there was a lively and festive atmosphere with gongs and drums and bright lights; inside the ancestral hall, the atmosphere was grim, and the cold and desolate cool tones seemed to be gradually infected and permeated by the lively atmosphere outside.

“So, do you still want this marriage certificate?”

As Young Master Zhang spoke again at this time, everyone’s eyes turned to the ancestral hall again, only to see that at this moment, the other party was already wearing a red long gown and wedding clothes!

The scarlet wedding clothes made his pale face even paler, and his red lips opened and closed as he asked the question, displaying both enchanting and terrifying qualities on the other party.

The person he was asking, Lu Xiaoyao, was also dumbfounded at the moment.

She didn’t know when, but she was already wearing a phoenix coronet and robes. Her sudden change of clothes also frightened the other three teammates, and she was immediately abandoned by the three teammates.

When Mingmei saw this, she stood there with her eyes slightly lowered. She didn’t know why, but she felt a little strange in her heart at this moment.

Just now, while Lu Xiaoyao was in a daze, the marriage contract appeared in Lu Xiaoyao’s hand once again.

“Do you still want it? This marriage certificate?”

Young Master Zhang’s voice grew louder and softer in Lu Xiaoyao’s ears. Lu Xiaoyao raised her head and found that there was no one around her at this moment. Holding the marriage certificate, she turned her head and saw the people standing outside the ancestral hall.

She saw that the originally happy smiles of Father White and Mother White, who were in the lead, were now distorted and their mouths were wide open and torn, as if they were frightened, as if they wanted to say something to her.

However, she couldn’t hear it, but the comments had already exploded at this moment.

[What is this? This scene suddenly became a little… advanced?]

[Your mother’s advanced. Wearing wedding clothes in the ancestral hall, isn’t that scary?]

[I feel like my daughter’s expression isn’t right?]

[I feel like there’s more high-energy plot coming up?!]

[This updated game is something!]

…

“Destroy it, and you’ll be free; you’ll no longer be the bride.”

Young Master Zhang’s voice rang in her ears once again.

“If I destroy it, will I no longer be your bride?”

“Yes.”

“Hey~ actually, you’re quite handsome; it’s a pity you’re not the groom.”

Young Master Zhang: …

Everyone: …

What a pity, my ass!

Everyone looked at Lu Xiaoyao, who was in a strange state and kept blurting out her inner thoughts, with a ghostly expression. For a moment, they glanced in Young Master Zhang’s direction again.

Well, no need to feel sorry. If you agree, look at his expression; he’ll kill you, you nympho!

Young Master Zhang nodded, and a different taste appeared in his eyes. He smiled at Lu Xiaoyao, who had already lost focus, “There are handsome guys everywhere. As long as you destroy it, you’ll be free to chase after more handsome guys~”.oΓg

Everyone: ??

Is this villain not quite right in the head?