Chapter 105: She Must Marry Shen Lan

Li Xuan was truly somewhat afraid of Shen Lan in this state.

It felt as if ever since his divorce from Si Rong, Shen Lan had become a completely different person.

He had become volatile, no longer possessing the gentle and refined gentlemanly demeanor he once had.

The hand gripping her throat was like a demonic claw, leaving Li Xuan unable to catch her breath.

However, she was determined to marry Shen Lan.

Otherwise, she would become an object of ridicule for Si Rong, which would be even more unbearable than death.

"Choke me to death then, that person is not easy to find..."

Forcing these words out from her throat, Shen Lan finally loosened his grip.

Li Xuan collapsed to the floor, gasping desperately for air.

"Speak."

Shen Lan said impatiently.

"You agreed to register our marriage and hold a wedding ceremony with me?" Li Xuan could not help but want to confirm it once more.

"Register the marriage, hold a wedding ceremony."

Having received such a definitive answer, Li Xuan was still not satisfied, "I want to hold the banquet at Zuiyun Pavilion."

Last time, Si Rong held her engagement banquet at Zuiyun Pavilion, and it looked very high-end.

"Go hold it at your mother's grave!" Shen Lan looked at her as if she were an idiot, his gaze of disgust falling on her chest, "Is Zuiyun Pavilion a sucker? Would they host a banquet for you for free? Are you dreaming?"

Li Xuan remained sullen and silent, forgetting that they had no money now.

"Then where shall we hold the banquet?"

She did not want to be too far inferior to Si Rong.

"Just set up two tables at the entrance of the residential complex and be done with it."

The wedding banquet was decided in such a shabby manner; although Li Xuan was not very satisfied in her heart, she did not dare to challenge Shen Lan's bottom line again.

"Fine, Shen Lan, as long as I can marry you, I don't care about the grandeur. After we register tomorrow, I will tell you the whereabouts of that person."

Li Xuan had kept an ace up her sleeve.

"That person was sent down to the countryside to live in a cowshed back then, and has kept a very low profile all these years."

Shen Lan gave a faint response.

At this moment, the door was knocked; it was Shen Mu.

She looked much older, and as soon as she entered, she grabbed Shen Lan, "Hurry and come to the hospital with Mom, something has happened to your younger sister."

"What happened?" Li Xuan asked.

Shen Mu glared at her with displeasure, "What does it have to do with you? Can you provide money, or do you have connections at the hospital?"

This daughter-in-law was simply useless now; if she had known earlier that she was this incompetent and couldn't even take care of a child, she should have treated Si Rong better back then.

But there was no such thing as a regret pill in this world.

Right now, the most important thing was her poor daughter.

She had originally thought it was a pregnancy, and the son-in-law had been treating her daughter much better, but who could have guessed it would be that kind of illness?

It was simply too shameful to even speak of.

This son-in-law was a rotten-rooted piece of trash!

She didn't know how Si Rong had found such a partner for her daughter; now it had caused her daughter to wash her face with tears all day long, and it truly pained her to death to watch.

Li Xuan did not say anything more, only suggesting that she also wanted to go along to see the younger sister.

This old hag was no good, and since Shen Lan was going to register their marriage tomorrow, she could not afford any mishaps right now.

Hearing that she wanted to go see her, Shen Mu glanced at her empty hands, "You're going to visit like this?"

Li Xuan had no choice but to painfully bring along one of her silver ornaments.

It was something Shen Lan had bought for her when he took her on a business trip to a neighboring city in the past.

On the way to the hospital, the three of them happened to run into Jiang Cheng and Si Rong in front of a newly opened wedding photography studio in Huaiyang.

Si Rong was holding Jiang Cheng's arm, saying something with a smile on her face, while Jiang Cheng leaned in to listen attentively.

"Pah!" Shen Mu said indignantly, "Truly shameless!"

Shen Lan, however, remained dazed for quite a while before finally coming back to his senses.

As if speaking to Shen Mu, yet also as if talking to himself, "We are going to register our marriage certificate tomorrow too."

"At your age, just living together is fine, why bother registering for that certificate?"

Shen Mu rolled her eyes.

Li Xuan used to be a Dance Teacher at Huaiyi, which was barely a match for her son, but now that she had no job and was good for nothing, how could her son, the golden phoenix who flew out of the mountains, marry such a wife?

Li Xuan did not like hearing this.

She had never asked for too much to begin with.

Look at Si Rong; that woman was on her second marriage, yet when she married Jiang Cheng, she still got everything she was supposed to have, and she heard from classmates that the betrothal gift was over ten thousand yuan.

Now Jiang Cheng was even taking her to get wedding photos taken!

What had she asked for?

"Mom, what you said is wrong; if a certificate isn't important, then why did you make your daughter register when she married that Yang Junwei?"

Li Xuan retorted.

Seeing that she dared to bristle in front of her, Shen Mu immediately wanted to show her who was boss.

She grabbed Li Xuan's hair, intending to throw her mother-in-law's weight around.

She even dared to talk back to her! Even a wealthy young lady like Si Rong had been obedient in front of her in the past!

Just as a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law battle was about to unfold, Shen Lan intervened in time.

The family then went to the hospital to see Shen Yun, though they were harmonious in appearance but divided at heart.

Shen Yun did not know why she had ended up in this state.

After finding out she had contracted a venereal disease, Yang Junwei gave her a brutal beating.

He insisted that she had been messing around with others.

Yet heaven is my witness, she had only ever slept with one man, Yang Junwei.

But no one was willing to believe her.

During her hospitalization, not a single person from her in-laws' side, including Yang Junwei, came to see her.

She could not help but feel some regret; was this the husband she had been so insistent on marrying back then?

Shen Yun could not help but think back to the warning Si Rong had given her previously, when Si Rong said that Yang Junwei was not a good match.

At the time, she had even felt that Si Rong just couldn't stand to see her doing well.

The person staying in the ward next door was the wife of the man Si Rong had introduced to her and told her to seriously consider.

That woman had just given birth to a big, healthy baby boy, and the family of three was very happy.

If only she had known back then...

Business at Jixiang Wedding Photography Studio was booming.

Young people nowadays were all into taking wedding photos when they got married.

Si Rong called Ming Zi over to help her with some advice.

There were three main styles of wedding dresses available now, categorized into red, pink, and white.

Si Rong chose a pure white wedding dress.

Jiang Cheng was wearing his military uniform.

They first took a wedding photo like that.

Afterwards, following Ming Zi's suggestion, she tried on a red one, while Jiang Cheng changed into a black suit, and they even went behind the studio to take a few outdoor shots.

Inside the fitting room.

Ming Zi helped her adjust the wedding dress and asked her, "That, Jiang Cheng, that aspect of him, have you tested it yet?"

Si Rong:...