Chapter 676: Tang Li’s wedding 1 (2/2)

Aunt Shuang wasn’t here to make things difficult because she knew he didn’t really want to marry. This entire wedding was a complicated affair, so she couldn’t do much as Miss Jing’s servant. But a marriage was still a marriage! Tang Li would become Ning Jing’s man and her husband sooner or later. She hoped that the boy could be more sincere, even if he had to fake it. At least ask for the woman’s hand and beg her to open the door before taking Miss Jing away. This way she’d leave with pride and dignity. Even the most stubborn woman was still a girl in the end. Insistent girls had their soft sides, too.

Miss Jing had already prepared the dowry and her personal wedding clothes. She dressed herself up to marry herself off. Today, none of her family members had come. Ning Cheng, Ning Nuo, and Ning An were all absent, so no relatives would be sending her off.

“Good faith?” Tang Li mused before walking to the door with a shout. “Ouyang Ning Jing, are you coming out or not?”

What kind of tune was this? Aunt Shuang knit her brows and felt a sense of despair. She earnestly prayed that this fickle dandy wouldn’t hurt Miss Jing in the future. So much for begging her to open the door!

Ning Jing had left the window to lean against the door, a cold smile playing upon her lips. She didn’t care a whit about auspicious hours because she was determined to stay put. Tang Li could stand there for three days and three nights while she tormented him.

“Ouyang Ning Jing, you’re still not coming out? This young clan head’s warning you…” Tang Li’s tone was fierce, making him a completely different creature from the man who’d flirted with Shuang Yue just then. All of the spectators broke out into cold sweat for Ning Jing at the sight. It looks like he detests her!

“A warning?” Do you think that’ll work on me? Ning Jing smiled coldly before looking towards a servant girl. “He dares to threaten me on my territory? What can he do? Refuse to marry me?”

As soon as she finished speaking, Tang Li shouted, “This young clan head is warning you! If you don’t come out, I’ll just block up the door and refuse to leave. I, Tang Li, won’t marry anyone else except you, Ning Jing, in this lifetime!”

Ning Jing froze, her smile stiffening on her lips. The spectators were stunned as well. They hadn’t expected those words.

So…so domineering! And romantic!

As the servant girls watched, Tang Li fell on one knee with a stubborn expression. Their maidenly hearts beat fast. Thump! Thump! Thump!

Ning Jing had to press a hand over her heart as she stood there unmoving.

“Ning Jing, do you hear me? If you have the skills, stay inside! You can wait in that room for the rest of your life and this young clan head will guard you the entire time! I mean what I say! You can try it if you don’t believe me!” Tang Li shouted next.

This really was a warning! She hated it when people threatened her, but…for some reason, she wasn’t mad at him. Or rather, she couldn’t muster up her temper?

“Ning Jing, are you a scaredy cat? Do you dare to reply this young clan head?!” Tang Li began to prod. Ning Jing immediately turned to open the door, but the two servant girls on the side looked up in astonishment.

Feeling awkward, Ning Jing snapped at them. “What are you looking at? I’m just going out to teach him a lesson!”

But when had she ever explained her actions to her servants? Scared to speak, the girls kept quiet while Ning Jing flung open the doors. The first thing she saw was Tang Li dressed in red wedding robes, kneeling on one leg in front of her door. His back was straight and his bearing impressive, his movements handsome and unrestrained. His high-spirited, vigorous air was like a jade tree against the wind. Ning Jing never expected this man to look so good in red.

At the same time, Tang Li never expected Ning Jing to personally open the door, much less come out with her face bared. This was his first time seeing Ning Jing dressed in women’s clothes and wearing makeup. He discovered that she was really a beauty. The hair coiled up atop her head, those fine eyebrows and broad forehead, and those bright eyes over a pair of deep crimson lips made her as luminous as the spring, as beautiful as the harvest moon. She was a feast for the yes!

Tang Li knelt stunned as he grew dazed by the sight. He only recovered after Aunt Shuang slammed the door shut. Actually, it wasn’t just him. The rest of the spectators were all shocked as well. They never knew President Jing was so gorgeous. Aunt Shuang was quiet scared by the whole thing. When had a bride ever ran out without her red wedding veil?

“Young Clan Head Tang, congratulations. Please hold for a minute.” She neglected the explanations to pull Ning Jing onto a seat indoors. “Young Miss, you can’t show your face like that. It’s not auspicious and it’ll become gossip instead!”

“He’ll really think I’m afraid of him if I didn’t show myself!” Ning Jing looked calm, but her hands were wringing knots. She had scared herself with her actions too. Why did I open that door?

Aunt Shuang carefully set the phoenix coronet on her head before draping her in the large wedding veil. Then she checked her accessories one last time before setting her heart at ease. “Miss Jing, we’ve fussed enough. Let him come in.”

“Mm,” Ning Jing replied calmly. But for some reason her heart rate sped up. After the door opened, Tang Li strode in with large strides. He’d long recovered his senses to see Ning Jing waiting for him on the couch. A peculiar feeling fluttered in his heart, but he didn’t pay it any attention.

Standing in front of her, he said with a lazy air, “Come on, I’ll piggyback you out.”

Ning Jing’s expression was hidden, but Aunt Shuang glared at him until he changed his tone. “Jing’er, I’m here to wed you. Come home with me.”

Ning Jing silently jumped onto Tang Li’s back and wrapped her arms around his neck. Her right hand rested over his heart as she warned coldly, “Walk steadily. If you drop this young Miss, I’ll take your life!”

It was obvious that she’d returned to her senses as well. Tang Li thus carried her out of Ten Thousand Commerce Hall and placed her into the sedan chair before mounting his horse and setting off.

Where were Long Feiye and Han Yunxi now?

1. Shuang Yue (双月) – literally “double moon.”

2. Aunt Shuang (霜姨) – Shuang means “frost.”