Su Xian nearly dropped to his knees and kowtowed to Shen Lian.
Even after they had walked some distance away, Chu Yilan was still saying, "Who uses green and blue wrappers for wedding candy?"
"That's to show they're different flavors!"
Chu Yilan raised an eyebrow, unconvinced.
Shen Lian was only clearheaded for those few minutes. Taking photos, getting the stamp, collecting their certificates-he barely remembered how they had left the place. He held on to the marriage certificates without giving them to Chu Yilan, and only began carefully leafing through them once he was sitting on the steps.
No matter how little he had thought he cared, once he held them in his hands, he cared after all.
Shen Lian brushed his fingertips over the gold-stamped design. In the photo, his head and Chu Yilan's leaned slightly toward each other, their smiles free of any strain or stiffness.
A cold wind carrying fine snow blew past. Shen Lian breathed into his palms, then kept looking.
Chu Yilan didn't fuss about where he sat and settled down beside Shen Lian.
Shen Lian came back to himself. "You haven't looked yet, have you?"
Master Chu sounded rather aggrieved. "You haven't let me hold them once since we got them."
Laughing, Shen Lian pushed them into his arms.
Chu Yilan brought up his hands to shield them, protecting the corners for fear of damaging them.
"So we're married now," Shen Lian marveled.
After a long while, Chu Yilan murmured, "Mm."
They didn't stay in Country S for long, returning to Qu City the next day. As Chu Yilan put it, "There's still a lot to do."
Even so, the first thing Chu Yilan did after returning to Qu City was something unprecedented: he posted on Moments.
Within thirty seconds, his phone started going