AUBTN -Chapter 260 Grand Wedding

Immediately, both of them lit up with excitement!

“You mean… a grand wedding?”

Shen Jue’s voice turned slightly hoarse, and his fingers holding the bone fan unconsciously tightened.

Qin Feng nodded repeatedly. “Exactly! Your Highness… no, Miss Su and Miss Yu have been going through life-and-death situations with you. You can’t possibly not even give them a proper status, right?”

Lu Yan suddenly stood up straight.

“Do it! We must do it! And it has to be a grand one!”

That face, usually as cold as frost, now actually showed a rare foolish grin.

Shen Jue’s lips also curved slightly.

“However, we have to keep this from them.”

“I want to give my Wanwan a surprise.”

The three of them hit it off immediately, and thus a secret, heaven-deceiving wedding plan quietly began in the deep valleys of Nanzhou.

In the next few days, Su Hewan and Yu Qing began to sense something was off.

The two men who used to stick to them like glue twenty-four hours a day suddenly became elusive.

Whenever asked, they either said they were going hunting in the deep mountains or going to town to buy grain and supplies.

Not only that, even the old subordinates of Shennong Valley and the villagers of Nanzhou began acting strangely.

Several enthusiastic older women would take them to the valley entrance every day to “study herbs,” chatting endlessly from morning till night.

They simply wouldn’t allow them to wander back to the bamboo house.

Until the evening of the seventh day.

Su Hewan and Yu Qing had just straightened up from the medicinal fields.

A group of women and young girls dressed in traditional Nanzhou clothing suddenly rushed toward them.

“Oh my, you two girls, stop fiddling with those roots and bark!”

“The auspicious time is almost here, hurry and come with us!”

Before Su Hewan could even react, she was grabbed by her arms on both sides by two extremely strong older women.

Even someone as calm and rational as her looked completely confused at that moment.

“Wait! Where are we going? What auspicious time?”

Nearby, Yu Qing looked like a little rabbit about to be slaughtered, struggling wildly.

“Help! They’re kidnapping people! Lu Yan! Lu Yan, where the hell are you?!”

However, protests were useless.

The two of them were half-pushed, half-led into a spacious stilted building that had already been decorated with red silk everywhere.

What followed was a dizzying whirlwind of dressing and makeup.

When two extremely elaborate and gorgeous wedding gowns were brought before them—

Su Hewan and Yu Qing finally began to vaguely understand what was happening!

The hems of the dresses were embroidered with lifelike phoenixes and paired lotus flowers in gold thread!

On top were the most prestigious silver phoenix coronets of Nanzhou, with hanging silver tassels that jingled softly with a crisp, melodious sound.

Stunning beyond words!

At this point, if they still didn’t understand what was going on, they would truly be fools!

Looking at her reflection in the bronze mirror—her face beautifully made up—Yu Qing’s eyes immediately turned red.

“So that bastard Lu Yan! Vanished for so many days, turns out he was secretly arranging a forced marriage behind my back!”

Su Hewan was both exasperated and amused, yet a sweetness she couldn’t quite describe welled up in her heart.

“Shen Jue is the same—he’s even orchestrating a marriage in secret. I, the person involved, didn’t even get a say in it!”

Yu Qing sniffled, muttering unhappily.

“Exactly! No proposal at all! Isn’t this too cheap for them? They didn’t even ask before trying to marry us off!”

By the time the two brides were fully dressed, the sky was already dotted with stars.

Su Hewan and Yu Qing were supported by several Nanzhou women as they slowly walked out of the bamboo building.

When they reached a valley in the back mountain and saw the scene before their eyes, both of them covered their mouths in shock, letting out cries of disbelief.

“Oh my heavens…”

The originally empty valley had now been transformed into a paradise on earth.

Countless red glass lanterns hung from the branches of towering ancient trees, stretching endlessly like a crimson river of stars across the night sky.

In the surrounding grasslands, tens of thousands of fireflies had been specially released, dancing gracefully in the night breeze.

At the end of the view, a floral arch bridge made entirely of blooming flowers from the mountains spanned across a clear stream.

Two tall, upright men stood on the bridge.

Amidst the starlight and fireflies, they looked like deities who had stepped out of a painting.

Yu Qing tightly held Su Hewan’s hand, her voice trembling with excitement.

“Wanwan, pinch me. I’m not dreaming, right?”

“I never imagined that in this lifetime, I’d be getting married alongside my best friend!”

“This is basically fulfilling one of my little modern wishes!”

Su Hewan held her hand back, tears shimmering at the corners of her eyes.

“Yeah… I never thought so either.”

“I originally thought the most I could do was be your bridesmaid and watch you be happy.”

“I didn’t expect that today… I would also be the bride.”

The two looked at each other and smiled, their eyes filled with the relief and gratitude that comes after surviving countless hardships.

They stepped on the soft flower petals beneath their feet, accompanied by the melodious sound of the Southern Frontier’s bamboo flutes, walking step by step toward the two men on the bridge.

Finally, they reached them.

Just as Su Hewan was about to tease Shen Jue a couple of words—

Shen Jue and Lu Yan suddenly lifted the hems of their wedding robes.

The two men, once powerful figures who stood above the Great Wei Empire, both knelt on one knee before them in perfect sync!

A wave of shocked gasps erupted from the crowd.

A man’s knees were worth gold—let alone these two ruthless, powerful overlords!

Then, as if by magic, each of them produced a bouquet of the most vibrant phoenix flowers, carefully tied with red silk.

They raised them high above their heads and presented them to Su Hewan and Yu Qing.

Su Hewan was stunned.

Yu Qing’s eyes widened even further.

The two of them exchanged a stiff glance, their minds exploding with shock.

【Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap! How do they even know that proposals involve kneeling on one knee and giving flowers?!】

【Don’t tell me… they’ve discovered we’re transmigrators?!】

Su Hewan quickly forced herself to calm down and cautiously looked at Shen Jue.

“How do you know about this step in marriage?”

Yu Qing also stared at Lu Yan and swallowed hard in agreement.

“Yeah… who taught you that?”

Hearing their panicked internal screams, Shen Jue and Lu Yan exchanged a brief, almost imperceptible glance in midair—one only they could understand.

Shen Jue remained expressionless, the corner of his lips lifting into a flawless, elegant smile.

“What? Isn’t this a normal part of the marriage process?”

Lu Yan also spoke with utmost seriousness, spouting nonsense without blinking.

“According to ancient Southern Frontier texts, it is written so—using flowers as a medium, and kneeling to show sincerity.”

Su Hewan and Yu Qing both froze.

A hint of deep confusion flashed in their eyes.

【Could it be that ancient Southern Frontier really had this kind of proposal ritual? So advanced?】

【I scared myself for nothing… I thought they were possessed or something!】

Watching the two girls so easily fooled, Shen Jue and Lu Yan silently breathed a sigh of relief.

They didn’t even give them time to think further.

Shen Jue lifted his head, gaze burning as he locked onto Su Hewan, his voice low and dangerously captivating.

“Wanwan, I have already let go of this world. But you… you are the only obsession I will never release in this lifetime.”

“Will you marry me?”

Lu Yan tightened his grip on the bouquet, his eyes firm and unwavering.

“Qingqing, will you become my wife?”