The Martial Arts Competition to Choose a Husband that had caused a sensation across the Seven Villages, a mysterious supreme treasure gifted to a live-in son-in-law, the bride and groom forbidden to meet before the ceremony, a grand wedding...
All these attention-grabbing antics had actually been Master Gao's way of arranging a ghost marriage for his deceased daughter.
He did not care about his dignity at all, nor did he fear becoming the laughingstock and gossip of Seven Families Town.
He remembered only that Ming Yue had been eighteen when she died, just the age to marry.
Today, guests filled every seat, with over a hundred tables serving the banquet in rounds. Every part of the proceedings matched a wedding in a wealthy household. The only difference was that the bride was a painted paper figure.
When the wind blew, her folded-paper skirt rustled.
Aside from Butler Liu and the servants from the Women's Quarters, every guest present was stunned. Players and locals alike felt their scalps prickle and their breathing quicken. Yet none dared whisper among themselves or show any unusual expression.
Master Gao looked far too unhinged. As though he really were marrying off his daughter, his face showed excitement, exhilaration, and even a little reluctance to part with her.
His behavior made everyone clearly sense that if anyone disrupted this wedding now, he would never let them leave Rage Village alive...
The appointed hour arrived, and the bride and groom performed the wedding ceremony.
The paper figure could neither bend nor walk, so Old Liu had to perform every ritual alone.
Dressed in a bright red jacket, his face brimming with a joyful smile, he seemed to have entered a peculiar state. Willingly, he bent and knelt, bowed to heaven and earth, bowed to the parents, and