Chapter 3: Setting the Wedding Date
A loud and clear voice came sharply from the phone.
Jiang Yuchen’s throat tightened, and even after hanging up, the corners of his lips kept trembling.
“There really is a bloody disaster! ¹A blind cat has indeed bumped into a dead rat! It must be a blind cat bumping into a dead rat!”
Jiang Beiting naturally heard the call too, his brows furrowing deeply.
Madam Jiang’s face also changed drastically.
Once again, that country girl’s prediction came true!
Lu Yunsheng said firmly, “Young Master Jiang, the marriage contract your grandmother made with your grandfather has already been submitted to Heaven’s decree. I hope everyone can follow fate and honor this agreement, otherwise, the consequences will be beyond what either of us can bear.”
Jiang Yuchen glared at Lu Yunsheng unwillingly. “What marriage contract? Show it to me!”
Just as Lu Yunsheng opened the contract, Jiang Yuchen suddenly snatched it away. Without a word, in front of everyone, he tore the contract from top to bottom into a big rip—then split it into two, two into four, four into eight… until it was torn into countless pieces!
Lu Yunsheng’s eyes flickered, “You!”
“What ‘you’?” Jiang Yuchen tossed the torn pieces into the air and let them scatter messily onto the floor. Then, turning to Jiang Beiting, he summoned his courage and said firmly:
“Uncle, this woman obviously has accomplices working with her. The lights falling at the dance club must have been caused by her gang! I’ve torn up the marriage contract my grandfather made—I’d rather accept the punishment than marry this liar!”
Just as his words fell, someone suddenly shouted—
“Yuchen! Look at the ground!”
“?”
Jiang Yuchen heard his mother’s sharp scream, looked down, and his pupils contracted violently.
For some unknown reason, the torn pieces of the marriage contract on the ground began to move by themselves.
The yellowed fragments aligned along a specific path, quickly rearranging and recombining, soon forming the original marriage contract again!
A flash of golden light appeared, and the writing on the contract became clearly visible, every stroke restored perfectly to its original state!
Madam Jiang was so frightened by this strange scene that she forgot all about her noble composure and immediately hugged her son tightly.
“Yuchen, Mom must be sick—Mom must be hallucinating!”
“Hallucinating?!” Young Master Jiang could see everything clearly too. His terrified voice trembled into almost a rap: “Oh my momma, oh my momma…”
When Lu Yunsheng picked up the contract in her palm, she took a deep breath.
Sure enough, this marriage was truly inescapable!
“Young Master Jiang, do you believe it now? You must marry me, and I must marry you.”
“I believe… I believe your nonsense!”
Jiang Yuchen’s face turned pale as he said to Jiang Beiting, “Uncle, you saw what just happened, right? I can’t marry her—this woman practices dark magic!”
Jiang Beiting didn’t just see it, he was the one who made it happen.
He thought, since Lu Yunsheng’s divination skills were so powerful, it would be better to bring her into the family first to shake up his useless nephew.
After all, one day he would have to leave, and someone in the Jiang family must take on the responsibility!
Jiang Beiting looked sternly at Jiang Yuchen and said, “The marriage your grandfather arranged must be fulfilled by a Jiang family fiancé marrying Miss Lu. If you refuse, do you want me to marry her instead?”
Jiang Yuchen’s teeth chattered in shock. “Th-this…”
His uncle, Jiang Beiting, was going to marry her? Wouldn’t that mean this strange woman would become his aunt?
The air seemed to freeze, as if covered by a layer of ice, and the temperature suddenly dropped sharply.
Madam Jiang’s forehead was also sweating cold beads at the same time.
That self-repairing marriage contract just now had confirmed to her that Lu Yunsheng definitely possessed some supernatural power—perhaps she really was a high disciple of one of the Five Great Mystical Sects!
If her son married her, at least as the mother-in-law, she could still hold some authority and keep this mystically gifted girl in line.
But if the person in power, Jiang Beiting, married her, then who in the Jiang family would be able to keep things under control?
Lu Yunsheng herself was stunned by Jiang Beiting’s words.
Jiang Beiting was publicly known as married, so could it be… he had never actually married?
The marriage contract only stated that she was to marry a suitable unmarried man from the Jiang family. From the beginning, she had thought this marriage was meant for Jiang Yuchen. But if Jiang Beiting was unmarried, then didn’t she have another option?
Two sparks of curiosity lit up in Lu Yunsheng’s eyes as she looked seriously and directly at Jiang Beiting for the first time.
Unfortunately, there were rules in divination: fortune-telling and face-reading must be initiated and requested by the client. Otherwise, she really wanted to read his fortune.
Surprisingly, Jiang Beiting happened to look over at her at the same moment.
Their eyes met, and her pupils suddenly widened.
His deep, dark irises transformed into a pair of golden vertical pupils!
In the center of those vertical pupils burned two fierce flames, radiating a power that seemed to engulf heaven and earth!
“??”
Lu Yunsheng immediately closed her eyes. When she opened them again with full concentration, she saw that Jiang Beiting’s pupils were back to normal, and only then did she relax.
Sometimes, she would experience illusions she shouldn’t have.
Just like when she had just come of age, strange illusions often flashed through her mind without reason. In those illusions, she was pregnant—but what she gave birth to was an egg!
The feeling of falling in those dreams was so real it seemed like an actual experience.
Lu Yunsheng believed in cause and effect, and she also believed in science. When she couldn’t figure out the source of those visions, she thought it was simply because she hadn’t rested well, causing her brain to be foggy.
Just like now, there was no sign of any demon energy here, so how could Jiang Beiting possibly have the vertical pupils that only snake-like demons possess?
She quickly realized that she had rushed all the way from her hometown to the capital city, traveling day and night without rest, so… the hallucination must have happened again.
Lu Yunsheng finally averted her gaze and didn’t look at Jiang Beiting anymore. For her, as long as someone fulfilled the marriage contract, it didn’t really matter much whether it was Jiang Yuchen or Jiang Beiting.
Seeing her look away, Jiang Beiting’s lips curved into a satisfied smile.
In the past, no matter where he went, noble ladies or female celebrities would ²fight tooth and nail just to see him, even coveting the spot beside him in bed.
But Lu Yunsheng did not show that kind of greedy look like other women—instead, she behaved with great restraint.
She was very suitable for his nephew, maybe she really could be entrusted with a heavy responsibility!
Thinking this, Jiang Beiting became even more certain of his thoughts. He turned to his nephew and threatened, “Yuchen, I’m asking you one last time—will you marry her or not?”
When he said this, the whole villa seemed to shake.
Madam Jiang tugged Jiang Yuchen’s hand and said, “Yuchen, listen to your uncle.”
What else could Jiang Yuchen say?
He muttered weakly, “Uncle, I will marry…”
Jiang Beiting responded with a satisfied “Hmm.”
Lu Yunsheng quickly asked, “When will you go to register the marriage?”
Jiang Yuchen, suddenly being forced into a marriage, was both angry and annoyed. Hearing Lu Yunsheng urgently wanting to register the marriage made him even more frustrated. “Do we know each other that well? Wait at least six months first!”
Lu Yunsheng, eager to get her grandmother out of danger, naturally disagreed, “I want to complete the paperwork within 30 days.”
“30 days?”
Jiang Yuchen glared at her displeased. “I’m saying, Miss Lu from the countryside, I am the proud young master of the Jiang family. Getting married isn’t just casually registering it, right? No wedding photos needed, no rings to buy, no time spent customizing a wedding dress? No wedding ceremony at all?”
Lu Yunsheng thought that made sense, “Then how about 31 days?”
Jiang Yuchen: “…”
He suddenly regretted talking to her, his mouth twitching uncontrollably.
Then he heard his uncle, Jiang Beiting, the head of the family, speak with authority: “The wedding will be held after 31 days. Sister-in-law, you arrange it.”
“Alright, Ninth Brother, leave it to me.” Since Madam Jiang discovered Lu Yunsheng’s supernatural ability, she was one hundred percent in favor of welcoming Lu Yunsheng into the family.
The two elders made the decision just like that, without giving Jiang Yuchen another chance to speak.
When the living room was left with only Jiang Yuchen and Lu Yunsheng, Jiang Yuchen glared at her, “Don’t get too happy too soon! I won’t let you have me!”
“Master Jiang, I never intended to have you.”
“?”
Jiang Yuchen thought he misheard and asked in disbelief, “What did you say?”
Lu Yunsheng stepped closer to Jiang Yuchen and pointed at his smooth, untoned abdomen.
“I said, I’m only interested in men with eight-pack abs. After marriage, I’ll treat you like air—don’t worry~”
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¹“a blind cat has bumped into a dead rat” (瞎猫碰上死耗子) is a Chinese idiom that means: Someone got lucky by accident. It implies that the person didn’t succeed because of skill or ability, but purely by luck or coincidence.
²“fight tooth and nail” means: To fight or struggle very hard and fiercely to achieve or resist something. It’s a strong expression that shows determination and effort, like you’re using everything you have—even your teeth and nails—to win.