Early morning.
Xing Peng, the newly promoted Patrol Captain of the Third Outpost, stood before a full-length mirror, meticulously putting on his Patrol Captain uniform.
Just then.
Light footsteps sounded behind him.
A pretty face appeared in the mirror.
It was his fiancée—Fan Xiaoqian.
The soon-to-be-married couple met each other's eyes in the mirror and smiled knowingly at the same time.
Xing Peng suddenly sighed. "I keep feeling as though I'm dreaming."
Half a month ago, he had been a nobody. Then he had been taken to a banquet, passed Director's assessment, and luckily become a Patrol Officer.
Now, he had rendered great merit, become the fastest-promoted Patrol Captain in the history of the city's Patrol Department, and was about to marry a gentle, beautiful wife.
For all of this, Xing Peng only wanted to devoutly say one thing: thank you, Director.
Fan Xiaoqian smiled sweetly. "Yes, it feels like a dream."
She was overjoyed to be able to marry the youngest Patrol Captain in the city, a male classmate for whom she had felt a slight affection years ago.
Fan Xiaoqian covered her mouth and smiled again as she shared some news. "My father said that when we officially get married, he'll add another two hundred Gold Coins to my dowry."
Xing Peng merely smiled and said nothing more.
His future father-in-law, Fan Ancheng, had originally promised a dowry of eight hundred Gold Coins. Now it had risen to a thousand. He knew full well that this was all thanks to his position as Patrol Captain.
Incidentally.
His wealthy merchant father-in-law had originally arranged for the two of them to marry two days ago. Unfortunately, because the Heretical God's Utterance Incident had broken out, the wedding had been forced to be postponed by ten days.
Worried that something might