When first signing the marriage contract with the Chu family, Huo Tinglan had taken Ye Ci’s mood into consideration, and also feared that exposure to the media would lead to curious prying eyes and rumors that would affect Ye Ci’s studies. Therefore, they only went through a set of customs and formalities, and the marriage was kept secret from the outside world. Later, Ye Ci confessed the marriage to his classmates, which caused some waves in school, but the reaction from the outside world was not too big. After all, the members of the Huo family were not celebrities with a social media following, so it was unlikely that the entertainment media would care about the minutiae of their lives.

After Ye Ci’s college entrance examination, Huo Tinglan put the wedding on the agenda. After officially announcing the news of the marriage to the media, Ye Ci’s situation was completely different from before. The media reporters who followed the announcement appeared at the speed of light, and even when they went to the convenience store to buy something, they might encounter paparazzi secretly taking pictures. Moreover, in recent years, the writing style of inland entertainment media seemed to have been infected by the gossip tabloids in the Hong Kong area, and most of the news published was in this style – “Huo Tinglan’s wedding is coming soon. His twelve-years-younger fiance was originally the eldest son of the third branch of the Chu family, and is tender and cute.” “The huo husband and wife showed their love on the horseback riding field, and Huo Tinglan cared for and accompanied the other throughout the whole process.” “How rich is this local tyrant? The patriarch of the Huo family married with a dowry of over 100 million”……The wording was extremely exaggerated, and Ye Ci’s face was red with embarrassment, his bare toes frequently curling against the floor.

The public relations team under Huo Tinglan’s special assistant had been monitoring the trend of public opinion, and false or extremely negative news was either unable to be published or taken down within a short time. Huo Tinglan had long been accustomed to interviews and media reports, and didn’t give them much thought at all, but Ye Ci had never encountered this scene, and despite Huo Tinglan’s advice, he often couldn’t help but pull out his phone to search for news about himself.

“……Forget tender and cute.” In the VIP lounge on the third floor of the shooting club, Ye Ci sat on the sofa and flipped through the news, scratching his hair in embarrassment. “And then, ‘sweet and lovely’……”

Who was sweet and lovely?!

If you used such basic misnomers in the college entrance examination, you would lose points!

“And this one, it doesn’ look like, like I’m 1.8 meters, but 1.75 meters.” Ye Ci anxiously licked his dry lips over and over, pointing to a sneak photo accompanying the news piece anld feeling like self-realization was an eternal injustice. “And isn’t this just a normal hug? Why write that I buried myself in his arms and acted spoiled, I’m not a person who acts spoiled at every turn……”

Naturally, due to his soft and well-behaved appearance, he appeared to outsiders as spoiled and cute……Huo Tinglan nodded slightly and avoided the important issues while embracing the trivial: “Don’t focus on that, let’s talk.”

“I’m not focusing on it, but they wrote without basis.” The dignity of his inner Alpha was damaged, and Ye Ci said angrily, “A man who is 1.8 meters tall can’t, can’t be described like that.”

“En, the media are writing without basis,” Huo Tinglan answered the Little Gentleman, unconscionably perfunctory.

“Let, let the public relations team please withdraw it.” Ye Ci shook Huo Tinglan’s wrist. “Can it be done?”

And he said he was not a person who acted spoiled at every turn.

He was perfectly proficient at acting like a baby.

“This…….” Huo Tinglan endured, pretended to be troubled, and sighed. “Baby, these can’t be counted as rumors, after all, so how can they be withdrawn?”

Ye Ci was silent for a moment, his eyes vigilant: “Do you think that what they wrote……sounds accurate?”

Huo Tinglan remained silent and used his fist to cover his mouth, turning his head to the shooting range outside and pretending to look at the scenery.

“I look sweet? Ye Ci stared blankly, pointing to his face and then to his legs. He was wearing a pair of overalls today with the trousers tucked into his boots, which made his long legs look straight and thin, dashing and handsome.

Huo Tinglan deliberately didn’t look at him.

“Huo-shushu!” Ye Ci was anxious, so he got up and moved closer to Huo Tinglan, leaning one arm on the back of the sofa and leaning down on him, relentless in his desire to settle the matter.

“They should, should use ‘handsome’ instead of ‘sweet’……” Seeing Huo Tinglan turning his face to look into the distance, Ye Ci turned his head back with one hand to force Huo Tinglan to look directly at his face. The sweetness in his bones shone through the illusion of strength. “Huo-shuhu, I’m being serious now.”

Huo Tinglan’s true colors were exposed. He scoffed and took advantage of the opportunity to grab him and kiss him hard. There was no one else in the lounge, so he turned over and pressed Ye Ci into the sofa, heartily sucking and biting at soft flesh and the dimples on Ye Ci’s face. In line with the entertainment gossip accounts, he said lightly: “You’re sweet all over, baby, so sweet I’m going to die……”

Ye Ci’s cheeks and lips were red from being ravished. After a long while, he struggled out from between Huo Tinglan’s chest and the couch cushions and pulled his clothes into place. Unconvinced and unable to deal with Huo Tinglan and the unscrupulous media, he could only glare insipidly.

Huo Tinglan was amused by his aggrieved appearance and raised his hands in compromise, saying: “How about I ask them to write a few public relations drafts that describe you well……how should they describe you?” Huo Tinglan pondered for a moment, drew his eyes across the entirety of Ye Ci’s body, and said mischievously, “Masculine and mighty?”

That look was somewhat insidious. Ye Ci choked and didn’t know where his mind had jumped to, but his face became even redder and he muttered: “That not, not necessary……can you be a little more serious?”

“I understand.” Huo Tinglan had his fill of teasing children and showed his reliable side again. “Which report is it? Send me the link, and I will ask someone to deal with it.”

It was time to be serious. He couldn’t let this trivial matter trouble Ye Ci.

Ye Ci forwarded the news link to him, and then heaved a sigh of relief.

It could be seen that the burden on his ‘cool guy’ side was very heavy.

“Want to go downstairs and play a little longer?” Huo Tinglan gave a brief order to his assistant, then picked up his phone. “I made an agreement with the person in charge that the sniper rifle from Cheytak’s new factory can be tested.”

Ye Ci was startled and immediately forgot about the gossip media, his eyes so fiery that they could burn Huo Tinglan through: “Really?!”

The shape of the gun was as cool as a prop in a sci-fi movie. It weighed 14.06kg and took a little effort for him to hold it in one hand. The last time he came to play, he had looked eagerly at the front of the display cabinet for a long time and felt that even if he could touch one, he would be satisfied.

Domestic weapons control was extremely strict, and for security reasons, many high-end firearms in this officially operated shooting experience hall were not open to ordinary members. They were locked in a display cabinet all year round, and only very senior members could enjoy them under the full escort of the shooting coach.

“Really.” Huo Tinglan pointed at his own face.

Ye Ci promptly leaned forward in tacit agreement and kissed him on each cheek.

“Let’s go downstairs.” Huo Tinglan glanced at his watch. “Can we play until two o’clock? Madam Lin asked the designer to come over at 2:30.”

“Yes!” Ye Ci had already sped down like a gust of wind.

Lin Yao was the sort of person who loved ostentation and saving face, so she naturally wanted to make her only son’s wedding the top priority in her life. She insisted on having a special wedding and felt that an Alpha’s taste was unreliable, so she simply took on the heavy responsibility and communicated with the wedding planning team in full swing every day. The wedding venue selected was an ancient castle in a foreign country that had been converted into a history museum. It was also one of the six largest palaces in the world, and rent for an exhibition hall was over 100,000 euros. The real difficulty was that the number of openings was extremely limited, and only a few couples were selected each year. She had to go through a lot of scrutiny, but Lin Yao stubbornly won one of those openings.

Lin Yao was concerned about the event venue up until then, not to mention the outfit design, but it was a pity that the male omega couldn’t wear a wedding dress. The design of a mens outfit should be based on simplicity, which left her with a lot of room to play.

Different from the traditional wedding where wedding pictures were taken beforehand, Lin Yao’s planning meant that the groom could not see the bride in his wedding outfit before the ceremony. This concentrated the surprise in the last moment, and even the toughest groom would often cry on the spot at that first glance. The wedding pictures could be taken later. Perhaps Lin Yao’s arrangement was sort of kitsch, because Huo Tinglan hadn’t cried since he was five years old……

In addition to the main outfits during the ceremony, the two grooms needed to change from dress clothes to casual clothes several times for the afterparties during the three-day wedding process. In the end, there were about ten sets each. Just one would make people dizzy, especially Ye Ci, who was a complete foreigner in this respect. Fortunately, Lin Yao saw this as a fun thing. She didn’t mind the hard work, and had complete control of the design. Ye Ci only needed to empty his mind and act as a model for the designer.

Of course, there were not only these things that needed to be done before the wedding, but there were also many miscellaneous and trivial matters. Nearly a hundred handwritten letters from Ye Ci had been sent out. He usually didn’t feel that he had many friends, but when he held the invitations, he found that there were quite a few people that he could invite.

Apart from Cheng Xiao and his pack of rogues, there was Class 7. Ye Ci had a good relationship with the rest of his classmates, and he was close to several Omegas in other classes.

On the eve of the wedding, Ye Ci boarded Huo Tinglan’s private jet along with a group of friends and classmates who had been invited to the wedding. With deep sorrow, Jiang Yan lamented that Ye Ci’s face, which was already so small that it could make people jealous, seemed to be thinner again, and his chin was sharper than the last time they met. Lin Yao got worked up and declared that Ye Ci had to eat five meals per day to urgently gain weight in the next two days, so as not to shrink his waistline. After all, a change in size meant that all ten sets of outfits would have to be altered.

“Can you have mercy on an Omega like me who only eats a little but still gets fat?!” Jiang Yan grabbed the clothes around Ye Ci’s waist and complained to Lin Yao, “Auntie, he must have lost weight behind our backs, look at his waist, ah. You take charge of him!”

The sweater was loose and bulky. Nothing could be seen at first, but then Jiang Yan gripped the excess fabric tightly and stretched it back to outline a strong, thin waist. Ye Ci smiled and broke Jiang Yan’s grip. The plane hadn’t taken off yet, and the two were laughing and joking on the sofa, with only Lin Yao complaining miserably: “Tinglan really doesn’t know how to take good care of you……”

“How can that be? There is no Alpha who is more considerate than Tinglan. It’s only that Xiao Ci has not been able to gain weight since he was a child……” Ye Hongjun hurriedly defended Huo Tinglan.

Huo Tinglan, who was sitting on the sofa beside her, sighed helplessly and echoed: “I also want to say that Xiao Ci has gained a few pounds with great difficulty, and during this period of time, you……”

The scale of the wedding was so big, and there were so many processes to go through. All the weight that Ye Ci had gained was tossed away. It wasn’t that he didn’t take care of himself, but that he was just exhausted.

Lin Yao treated Ye Hongjun affectionately, but turned her head silently to give her son a murderous look.

“……” This was someone that even Huo Chanyu couldn’t afford to offend. Huo Tinglan had no choice but to surrender unconditionally: “Blame me for not taking care of Xiao Ci.”

“I will try hard. In the next two days, I must……eat more at dinner and drink more milk tea.” In order to quell the dispute, Ye Ci seriously issued a military order, vowing to be fat enough that he would fit the outfits perfectly.

“Listen to what he just said, ah, I’ve quit milk tea for half a month!” Grief-stricken, Jiang Yan turned his head and wailed at Ye Ci’s group of Omega groomsmen. The groomsmen complained loudly, wishing to donate their extra meat to Ye Ci.

Huo Tinglan had never seen Ye Ci talking and laughing so cheerfully with his peers in his last life. There were not many chances to see it in this life, so he didn’t think these children were noisy at all. With a smile on his face the whole time, he looked at Ye Ci tenderly, as if he couldn’t get enough of him.

A couple of little Omegas noticed and whispered in Ye Ci’s ear.

“Mr. Huo has been watching you.” 

“He can’t take his eyes off you, ah!”

“Oh.” Ye Ci pretended to be calm, but his thin skin was burned through. He quickly glanced at Huo Tinglan. Those eyes were so gentle that his heart palpitated for a moment, and he didn’t have the nerve to raise his eyes again for a long while.

The plane took off in the morning. After a 10-hour flight, the first batch of guests arrived at their destination smoothly. After landing, they arranged for pick-up, accommodations, and dinner, but there was a lot of hustle and bustle, and everyone was very cheerful. The group of teenagers who had just escaped the bitterness of their third year of high school not long ago were all excited, chattering and laughing non-stop like a group of cute and noisy chickens.

The venue layout, the rehearsal……those took some more work. The first guests to arrive were well-received. The groomsmen on both sides followed the rehearsal process, and the others were responsible for eating, drinking, and having fun in the local area. The Huo family took care of the bill, and it was almost like being tourists.

On the day of the wedding, Ye Ci was taken to the dressing room at dawn by the good sisters Lin Yao and Ye Hongjun to take care of styling. In order to maintain a sense of mystery, the dressing rooms of the two grooms were separated by more than half the hotel, and neither could see the other before the ceremony officially started.

Ye Ci was young, with red lips and white teeth. He looked good on camera, and makeup would destroy his fresh and youthful look, so they just performed some skin care and left his hairstyle mainly natural. Ye Ci seemed to be cooperating sincerely, but his big amber eyes kept looking away, restless.

“Is the hair styling finished?” Lin Yao stepped into the dressing room in high-heeled shoes, holding a bunch of bridal veils and a small crown in her hands. She said affectionately, “Xiao Ci is well-behaved. Put this on after the hair styling is finished……”

As if afraid of something, Ye Ci’s eyes widened suddenly. The frightened cat jumped up and was about to run away, but Ye Hongjun pressed him back down with a smile, and comforted him softly: “It must be worn by Omegas when they are married. There is no one who doesn’t wear it……”

“It, it won’t look good on me.” Ye Ci’s inner Alpha was crushed by the thin, light layer of a veil. He struggled in vain, and seeing that he couldn’t escape, he begged, “Can I not wear the crown? Can the veil be replaced with a non-embroidered one?”

How could Lin Yao spare him? The crown that Ye Ci was talking about, that is, the bride’s tiara, was designed by Lin Yao at a high price, and the diamonds inlaid on it alone cost nearly two million.

“Aiya, this tiara is specially designed for a male Omega. Look at this style, it doesn’t have a feminine appearance. Without it, the outfit you’re wearing will look too plain, and it won’t look like you’re getting married……” It was too late to change anything now. Lin Yao calmed him down gently and tenderly while instructing the stylist, “Quickly, put it on.”

Ye Ci, a beautiful young man with exquisite features, looked good wearing a veil. There was almost no sense of disobedience, but Ye Ci still felt uncomfortable all over, wishing to tuck the veil into his collar.

There was still more than two hours before the wedding officially started, and he was afraid of being looked at, so he hid in the dressing room with a red face and refused to go out. He’d had a large glass of fruit juice with breakfast and was feeling it now, but he didn’t even want to go to the toilet, so his legs were shaking. After a few shakes, Ye Hongjun noticed the signs, so he had to brace himself and go to the restroom. Fortunately, it was right next to the dressing room. After just a few steps, he bowed his head in shame, as if he had just stolen millions from someone.

The wedding started at twelve o’clock noon. Several exhibition halls in the palace had already been cleared, and now were full of guests attending the wedding banquet. A red carpet was spread all the way from the stage to the door of the exhibition hall. Sunlight poured in through the stained glass windows on one side of the corridor, casting warm light onto the red carpet and extending forward like road signs. After setting off from the hotel, Ye Ci had gradually entered a state of being so nervous that he couldn’t sit still. He didn’t worry about the veil and tiara anymore, and just listened to the wedding music inside the door and the voice of the master of ceremonies.

“….Next, let’s welcome the other groom with warm applause……”

“Go, Xiaci Ci.” Ye Hongjun smiled and handed him a small bouquet of lilies, patting him on the back.

Ye Ci stepped onto the red carpet.

It may have been that the carpet was too soft, because his already unsteady steps suddenly staggered. Ye Ci had an introverted temperament, after all, so it was inevitable that he would be nervous on this occasion. The palms holding the bouquet were covered in slippery sweat.

Two attendants opened the door at just the right time, and sound burst out suddenly. Behind the door, at the end of the red carpet, Huo Tinglan was wearing a pure black outfit with his back facing the entrance. His shoulders were straight, his figure tall and strong. The moment he saw that figure, Ye Ci’s wildly beating heart was soothed out of its stage fright, and the frequency of his heartbeat eased. The red carpet was very long, and Ye Ci’s steps became steadier as he walked, passing through the beaming guests and noise to stand behind Huo Tinglan.

Ye Ci took a deep breath. His cheeks puffed up childishly, and he let the air out again, blowing the hair on his forehead and the veil in front of his eyes straight up: “Phew –”

Some of the closer guests noticed this little detail and laughed in good humor. Huo Tinglan’s shoulders also trembled slightly, as if he had heard Ye Ci’s nervous exhalation.

After a moment of mental preparation, Ye Ci raised his hand, patted Huo Tinglan’s shoulder, and whispered, “Tinglan.”

Huo Tinglan turned around.

Ye Ci stood tall on the bright red carpet, fresh and high-spirited, gazing up at him through a layer of tulle. His slender frame was wrapped in white dress clothes that set off the red beneath his feet. He was like a pearl buried in a red brocade box, radiant and priceless, a precious treasure.

Huo Tingla raised his eyes in surprise. He had never seen Ye Ci wearing a veil, and Ye Ci didn’t say anything about it in his previous life.

He didn’t expect……

Huo Tinglan looked down at Ye Ci with curved lips, and after a few seconds of gazing at each other, he reached out and pulled Ye Ci into his arms. Arching his broad shoulders slightly, he pressed his burning eyes against Ye Ci’s shoulder and remained silent.

“……Don’t, don’t cry.” Ye Ci stroked Huo Tinglan’s back and then, as if infected, he pursed his lips as his eyes reddened.

“Baby.”

“En?”

“I married you.”

“Me, me too.”

He never admitted defeat.

Huo Tinglan smiled indulgently: “En.”

The two simply embraced for a while at the end of the red carpet.

The hall was filled with music and laughter. It was noisy, but gave people an inexplicable feeling of tranquil warmth.

Huo Tinglan straightened up, his eyes as deep as black jade. Ye Ci raised his hands to hold his face, and wiped away the wet marks at the corners of his eyes with his thumbs.

Then Huo Tinglan lifted the veil and leaned over to kiss Ye Ci’s forehead amidst the cheers and applause of all the guests.

The camera froze this moment for eternity.

Wispy gauze like white mist rose and fell again, enveloping the two together, and a series of continuous shots faithfully recorded this process.

In the frame, Huo Tinglan held Ye Ci in his arms. The young man was tall and slender, his lean shoulders hugged by the tall Alpha. He looked happy and content, like a small boat moored in a calm harbor.

From now on, there would be no more wind and rain. There would only be the warm sun.

【The End】

T/N: And that’s it! I hope you all enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed translating it!

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