A Harmonious Marriage

New York.

By the Hudson River.

Vance Mout Hotel.

Wedding venue.

With Adam repeatedly helping defuse potential disasters, the wedding finally proceeded smoothly, just as Lily and Marshall had hoped.

The exchanging of wedding rings and saying things like "I do" had already taken place in the chapel within this castle-like hotel.

Now it was time for the wedding banquet.

"Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to address them that way for the first time. Let us welcome Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Erickson and Lily Aldrin."

In the banquet hall, as the host gestured and finished speaking, the newlyweds walked in hand in hand.

Marshall wore his hat.

Faintly visible beneath the back of Lily's wedding dress were red words: "Exclusive to Marshall Erickson!"

"Why don't they have the same last name?"

Tatiana asked curiously.

She clearly remembered that her dad and mom had the same last name.

"That was your Aunt Lily's choice."

Adam explained gently, "Although she married your Uncle Marshall, that doesn't mean she has to become dependent on him from now on. She hopes that husband and wife can exist as equals.

Rather than taking her husband's surname after marriage like everyone else, she would rather keep her original surname, or have the two of them create a new surname together and use it as the symbol of their new family."

Both the East and the West had customs of women taking their husbands' surnames after marriage.

But East Country had long since changed, abandoning that custom.

Yet in the West, it was still being followed and accepted by the vast majority of people.

The devil was always in the details.

Who was more civilized was obvious at a glance.

Besides.

How could several companies compare civilizations with an entire civilization?

"Oh."

Tatiana nodded as if she