The customs of a wedding in Japan are sowhat different from those in China, although in recent years, influenced by Western culture, weddings in both countries have taken on a bit of a Western flavor, such as the Chinese tradition of paying homage to Heaven and Earth and the Japanese tradition of the San San Ku Do ceremony have evolved.
But overall, a wedding is still a ceremony where two people in love pledge their lives to each other.
For Chen Yu, however, his own wedding today was indescribably... odd.
A Chinese man marrying a Japanese woman in a Western-style ceremony, with Japanese cuisine prepared, and guests from both China and Japan isn't all that strange, but who has ever seen a bride whose bridesmaids were all her ex-girlfriends?
Chen Yu had heard of people getting married where the groom had a separate table for his ex-girlfriends, but this was the first ti he had seen a bride have her ex-girlfriends as bridesmaids.
But that wasn't the weirdest part for Chen Yu. What really made him feel strange was Suzuhi and the deity beside her who claid to be the Matchmaking God.
Chen Yu could tell, although her power was very weak, not even comparable to Suzuhi at her side, she possessed a true Divine Rank, a real deity.
Having deities attend his wedding? Chen Yu shook his head helplessly; these two were there to bless him on the orders of the Inari God, and he had no reason to send them away, so he simply accepted the fact.
"Brother Yu, you look especially handso today!" teased Inomata Naoki, who had specially travelled from his hotown in Kumamoto. After recovering from his cancer, Inomata Naoki was doing very well, his complexion ruddy, showing no signs of his near-death state just a year ago that left him almost indistinguishable from a living corpse.
Hearing his good friend's teasing, Chen Yu just smiled and said, "Do I need you to tell I'm handso? Today has to be the day a man looks his best in his entire life!"
"Hahaha, today you're the groom, you're the boss, whatever you say is right," laughed Inomata Naoki. Today, as Chen Yu was the groom, he naturally wouldn't fail to show him respect.
Seeing Inomata Naoki laughing at him, Chen Yu naturally had to strike back, delivering a verbal jab straight to the heart, "I'm getting married today. What about you? I rember you said you were going to find a partner while you were in the hospital, it's been a year now, where's your girlfriend?"
"Let's not talk about that if we're still friends!" Inomata Naoki's face imdiately fell.
While the two were chatting, a staff mber ca running over and whispered to Chen Yu, "Mr. Chen Yu, please go over there to get ready, the bride has arrived."
"Alright, I got it," Chen Yu nodded, turned to Inomata Naoki, and said, "I'm going to get ready, you should take your seat."
Having said that, he then went off with the staff mber towards his position, while Inomata Naoki hurried back to his own seat. Although he and Chen Yu were very close, he wasn't the best man today due to his health.
"Speaking of which, Inomata-kun, you and Mr. Chen Yu were classmates too. How co you didn't beco a doctor later?" The table where Inomata Naoki was seated was for close friends and family, and next to him sat a girl he didn't know. After chatting for a while, she couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.
After all, Inomata Naoki also had a doctorate from the University of Tokyo dical School, and such high qualifications not leading to a career as a doctor was sothing that piqued people's interest.
"It was mainly due to health reasons, I guess. I had cancer at the ti, and even though Brother Yu developed a drug that could control it, which patient would want to consult a doctor who couldn't even cure himself?" Inomata Naoki laughed, his expression tinged with resignation and regret.
Just as he was about to say sothing more, the lights in the venue suddenly dimd, and the spotlight fell on the entrance.
As music started playing, the heavy double doors opened, and Jounouchi Hiromi, clad in a pure white wedding dress, appeared at the entrance. Under the spotlight, her white bridal gown seed even more pristine, prompting a round of enthusiastic applause from all the guests present.
Watching Jounouchi Hiromi walking towards him, Chen Yu couldn't help but smile, his face radiant with a brightness it had never known before.
He rembered how Jounouchi Hiromi once confessed her love to him, and how he had rejected her because he was the Necromancer. He couldn't help but laugh to himself—was everything in the world indeed subject to the "true fragrance" principle?
But looking at Jounouchi Hiromi, so stunning in her simple white, he felt that admitting it tasted "true fragrance" just this once wasn't such a big deal after all.
Soon, Jounouchi Hiromi, with the accompanint of music, had made her way to Chen Yu.
Gently taking Jounouchi Hiromi's outstretched hand, covered in a white silk glove, Chen Yu whispered to her, "Hiromi, you look really beautiful today!"
"Really? Does that an I'm usually not pretty?" Jounouchi Hiromi joked, then stood by Chen Yu's side, both of them receiving the blessings of the guests and posing for the photographers.
anwhile, the MC, following the wedding proceedings, invited Jounouchi Hiromi's bridesmaids to begin reading letters.
This was a common elent of Japanese wedding ceremonies, in which the bride's close friends or bridesmaids offer their blessings. Seeing her six ex-girlfriends lined up, Jounouchi Hiromi felt an unusual flutter of panic, worried they might cause so serious trouble at her wedding.
Chen Yu naturally noticed Jounouchi Hiromi's nervousness and teasingly whispered in her ear, "Are all six of them your exes?"
"Just youthful indiscretions!" Jounouchi Hiromi blushed at Chen Yu's comnt, her face shielded by the bridal veil, yet the sight of each bridesmaid holding a letter made her grip her bouquet tightly with anxiety.
Fortunately, though all six were ex-girlfriends and each held a letter, it seed they had consulted with each other beforehand. The content of the six letters was the sa, with each bridesmaid reading a line. The words were sowhat ambiguous, but could also be interpreted as a deep bond between sisters, so no one would misunderstand it as the bridesmaids still having feelings for the bride.
After nervously listening to the letters read by the six bridesmaids, Jounouchi Hiromi followed tradition, squeezing out a few tears and speaking out words of gratitude with a hint of crying in her voice. With that, the segnt thankfully passed without incident.
Seeing this, the MC hurriedly announced the comncent of the next part of the ceremony.
Next was the exchange of vows and rings between the bride and groom, the most important part of the wedding ceremony. But before that, the MC took to the microphone, as planned, and asked, "Does anyone object to this union?"
"I object!" More than one hand shot up.
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