Two years later
It was March when an invitation letter was passed to him by Fan Jing, his manager.
The next month, both Jiang Li and Selena Tang had to attend a wedding since the bride and groom were no strangers to them. One was Wen Hui, an upcoming politician, the other was Tang Yu Yan. At the reception, the latter greeted both of them with a smile. Selena's attitude towards her was not warm, at best cordial, but she didn't take offense.
Tang Yu Yan had learned to repent for her actions in the past and apologized twice, the first was done publicly when she was still a bit of a b*tch scheming to use the crowd to make Selena forgive her, the second was when she truly repented and wanted true forgiveness. It was only unfortunate that Selena was quite the bad character herself and only treated her apology as a joke.
Well, for her, apologies were really a joke. If one wanted to admit her sins, it was not enough to simply vocalize it. An action should accompany it.
Tang Yu Yan showed it by simply not intruding in Selena's life or annoying her in any way.
Not long after, the wedding reception formally started. Speeches were delivered at the sa ti that the food were served. Jiang sat next to Selena joining Qin Tai's bunch.
Dong Lan was there. According to the younger man, he was invited because when the newlyweds were having a cool off, Tang Yu Yan went to the then famous fortune-teller. His statent was rembered up to date by the woman, 'You know, it's you who should wake up and realize the other party had given so much. Even if you are the female protagonist of so drama, you are still not entitled to only receive and not reciprocate.' so he was invited.
It was Jiang Li's first ti eting Dong Lan after the latter reawakened his talent and mories. He then rembered that from Ye Xinya's world he encountered sobody with the sa na. But his encounter with that person was so brief and left no impression. Jiang Li also didn't know the man's relationship with the strange female fortune-teller, plus the appearance was difference so he didn't pay any more attention to the coincidence.
"Hehe. I know for sure that you won't be married before ."
""
With that simple statent, Jiang Li was guided not to notice the knowing smile on Dong Lan's face.
A large part of the mories had been recovered so the younger man finally rembered that there was a dangerous person from his previous lifeti nad Jiang Li who his adopted mother warned him about. His tarot divination before had confird that his guess was correct. The person before him was the sa Jiang Li, the annoying guy previously nad Jing Mo. On why there were sent to another world, he had yet to rember the reason, if there were any.
Ti passed and the danced floor was opened to everyone after the beautiful and happy newlyweds dance.
Selena didn't want to join the people locking the dance floor. 'Why would I want to dance on sobody else's wedding? I never danced, even on my parents' birthdays,' she said with a scoff when he invited her.
He simply shrugged and did not take the rejection to heart. The at dishes were more tempting anyway.
The throwing of the garter and the bouquet part arrived. But neither of them stood up. In the end, the one who got the two was the fortune-teller. Yup, only Dong Lan since after catching the garter, he shalessly tagged along the bachelorettes and raced with them to catch the bouquet for his girlfriend.
Jiang Li and co sneered and laughed disdainfully at him. The damn guy was so desperate that he had no qualms embarrassing himself in the gathering. Where else would one see this kind of scenario? So this was why he said he would be married first before anyone else?
"If you're not invited there, I wouldn't have even considered attending," said Selena after they reached her penthouse which was on top of the sky-high building actually next to the hotel where the reception took place.
The two left the mont the newlyweds vanished from the hall, going who-knows-where for their first night.
"Your parents would have forced you nonetheless so there's no way you won't." He chuckled.
The woman narrowed her eyes as she threw her phone and bag on the sofa because without her permission, the annoying man was already inspecting her ref.
"Hey, why do you only have wines and canned beers here?"
"Because obviously I ran out of milk, yogurt, ice cream, and milo and I've yet to stock up on them?" She sarcastically said, joining him in checking the bottles before picking up the one with the highest alcohol content not. She randomly grabbed a bottle of red wine.
When he was about to remind her evil thoughts easily ran a man's mind for a drunk woman, he saw her marching towards the kitchen.
Half a minute later, she ca out with a dish in hand and widened her eyes in fake surprise. "You are still here? I thought you went ho already."
""
'Is she really treating as her future husband?'
It was quite amazing that he managed to flash a smile at that ti. "You haven't told to. And the door is locked from the inside. If you forgot, you haven't told your boyfriend the password so I was wondering if you want to lock him up here. I'm sure he would be willing."
Selena was planning to enjoy her food in front of the TV since she didn't eat much at the party, but without a choice, she placed the plate and spoon down and walk towards the door. "I don't want a rogue to stay the night."
Jiang Li looked at her back for so ti as she keyed in sothing on the door keypad. Her hair was down, reaching halfway her back. Its black hue was exactly the sa as the color of her black dress that clung tight on her body.
He selectively forgot what she just said and gently hugged her from behind. When she puzzledly turned her head to him, he planted a kiss on her lips.
Normally, this would be out of character for him. But maybe all this ti, he was finding an Original which easily allows a man to express himself and be affectionate with sobody without seemingly going OOC.
"What do you think are you doing?" After recovering from her dazed state, she asked as they briefly parted.
All of a sudden, instead of answering her, he said, "Selena Tang. Let's get married...."
The words were deafening and shocking since they seed to have co out of nowhere, done spontaneously out of jealousy of the newlyweds from earlier.
Yet she only sneered and said, "So you're asking to marry you so you can achieve your goal of bringing ho? Mr. Jiang, you're downplaying this matter. Marriage is sothing you at least have to think over a hundred tis before deciding. If your second marriage failed, people will start to think sothing is wrong with you."
'Our marriage will what?' he started blinking his eyes.
Then the man laughed since the question sounded stupid. They never had a failed marriage. Not even once. Proven and tested many tis already through the magic of ti and reincarnation.
Also, wait, shouldn't she first comnt on how he was asking her hand in sothing serious without a ring or anything? This was the first ti he brought up marriage. This was making him feel like his regret for not competing with Dong Lan for the bouquet was unnecessary.
He chuckled and shook his head. "It won't fail." He said with certainty.
The beautiful eyes staring at his face glimred with doubt. For her who lost her mory every lifeti, it was unfathomable how a guy who loved so much and got betrayed could still be this reckless in making important decisions like this.
"Your confidence is making , the partner, feel awkward."
"Hmm? Why?"
One corner of her lips lifted up and answered, "Because you know, just now, I was thinking nothing is absolute so you should not count your chickens before they hatch."
The reply she got was a aningful grin and sothing else that completely shut her up and later left her panting for breath, mind blank.
Lost in her man's soulful gaze, the passionate kiss successfully made her forget about opening the door and pushing him outside.
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