My Groom Ran Away

After hanging up the call, Ruan ZhiYin caught a glimpse of the red notification mark on the WeChat icon that could not be ignored and opened the app.

As she scrolled down, there were dozens of people contacting her.

Almost all of them were offering words of condolences that were half true half fake after they had seen the trending topics. She could already tell that the wedding had already become their topic of conversation.

Ruan ZhiYin did not have many friends in China and she did not have a deep relationship with the people who had sent the messages to her.

She only opened a WeChat group with three people.

Her good friends Gu LinLang and Ye YanChu had already scolded Qin Jue and Lin JingFei for eight hundred rounds.

Gu LinLang: “Damn, I used to think that Qin Jue wasn’t bad. But I never expected that even though I’m young, my eyes are already blind.

Ye YanChu: Please lock them up. Let Lin JingFei experience Qin Jue making things difficult and see if the hypocrisy can be exposed.

Gu LinLang: Ai ya, Ah Jue and I are siblings. Otherwise, that year… Cousin, how could you misunderstand?

Ye YanChu: “Ah! Whenever I think of that sentence I want to throw up. She got drunk on Valentine’s day and then used the excuse that she was being harassed to call Qin Jue away. How could she even have the gall to say that YinYin overthought it! Shit brother and sister!

Gu LinLang: Damn, Lin JingFei’s necklace was the one bought by Qin Jue at the auction? That eight-figure pink diamond helped set up as the entertainment circle’s princess. My fist was clenched so tightly.

Ye YanChu: YinYin originally stayed in the States to make money for him just to let him buy diamonds for other women?! I really want to extract the Croatian Rhapsody from that man’s face!

TL Note: I’m not sure why this song showed up here. It is basically some sort of metaphor.

Gu LinLang: The defenses have been breached! He’s so disgusting it has disturbed this mother’s grace. This old lady wants to take this pair of dog man and women and make them do thomas flares and blast them out of the skyline. Then they can finally understand what is really justice!

TLNote: So… Thomas flares is some breakdance move. But I do believe we can just change it to blast them off into the distance team rocket style. But these were just strange. I hope we don’t run into any more of these.

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The rest of the content was even more “exciting.”

Ruan ZhiYin gave it a few glances and directly went to the latest messages.

Ye YanChu: YinYin, can I still be a bridesmaid?

Since Gu LinLang had already gotten married, the task of being a bridesmaid had naturally fallen onto Ye YanChu.

Ruan ZhiYin had wanted her to stay at the hotel last night, but she said that she had to send a contract to Party A’s father. So she had not come in advance.

Ruan ZhiYin replied: Don’t worry. I’ve found a groom.

Ye YanChu: Crying face. I never would have thought that Senior Cheng would have a better conscience than Qin Jue.

Gu LinLang: Remember, Cheng YueLin’s poisonous mouth that can trample all of the toxic peach blossoms is a good point.

TL Note: peach blossoms == other girls

Ruan ZhiYin: “…”

Complimenting people in such a way really is not necessary.

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11 o’Clock. Sima Hotel. All the guests had arrived.

Gu LinLang and Ye YanChu wore their dresses. They smiled and stood in the wedding’s reception hall and greeted the guests and helped them to their seats.

Grandpa Ruan was currently bedridden with illness and Ruan ZhiYin’s parents had died young. So it was very fortuitous that she had two good friends.

With the names of the Ruan and Qin family on the wedding invitation, more than half of the wealthy people in LanQiao had received an invitation. The rest were classmates from Lan HighSchool and A University.

Naturally the Qin family did not send out another notification and because of the news of Qin Jue running away from his wedding had gone onto the trending topics. In the end, only half of the original guests had arrived.

Most of them were curious about how the Ruan family will clean up this mess of a marriage. But most of them were on good terms with the Lin family or wanted to physically see Ruan ZhiYin become a laughingstock.

Even though there were much fewer people, it was already enough.

In the banquet hall, Xu Fei and Weng Xin sat at one of the tables. The two were well-known hedonistic young masters. They liked to spend their time eating, drinking and playing. They generally had good relationships with other people.

After arriving, Wang Xin tried to strike up a conversation with Gu LinLang and Ye YanChu. But they smiled without saying anything and did not bring up anything related to the wedding. This made him even more curious.

On the other side, in the bride’s waiting room.

Kang Yu opened the door and walked in.

“Miss Ruan, everything has been prepared.”

“I’ve troubled you, Kang Yu.”

Ruan ZhiYin was leaning against the sofa and a makeup artist was helping her do her makeup. She looked at Kang Yu through the mirror and smiled sweetly and her lustrous phoenix eyes shone brightly.

Kang Yu felt overwhelmed by receiving favour and shook her head. “It was no trouble. This is my job after all. But the groom…”

The wedding had been prepared, but the groom was gone. He was “gone” in every definition of the word.

Kang Yu thought about her previous ridicule —

“As long as President Qin wasn’t blind, how could he not like this fiancee who was as beautiful as a fairy, and instead treat Lin QingFei, who only knew how to market her beautiful face as the pearl of one’s eye.”

Well. She had really put her foot in her mouth.

TL Note: The literal translation was “Blame her crow’s beak.” It’s a metaphor for someone who said something unlucky and then it became true. It’s similar to Speak of the devil? I’m not sure what would be an equivalent saying/idiom.

President Qin was really blind.