Chapter 169 Ceremony
As soon as these words were spoken, it was like a bolt from the blue, exploding in the hearts of several men.
Zongfang's ears began to buzz, and he frowned, suspecting that he had heard it wrong. His attitude, which had always been nonchalant, suddenly turned into leaning forward, and he questioned Liberi: "Say it again?"
"I said, I will marry Sui Sui." Libery said word by word.
Carl laughed in disbelief, while Sang Yan was surprised and a little stunned.
Only Luka remained sitting upright, legs crossed, silent.
Zong Fang's chest rose and fell. He turned his head and held her hand, gritted his teeth and asked: "I want you to say it yourself, do you agree?"
There were complicated emotions in Qiao Susu's eyes, but this time, she was not flustered or guilty, but nodded frankly.
Liberi stood up and announced to everyone: "Yes, Sui Sui has agreed to become my queen. From now on, Oslan will be hers."
Qiao Susu frowned in confusion. She had never heard of the second half of the sentence.
Liberi walked up to her, took her hand, and kissed it softly: "From the day I decided to conquer Oslan, that was when I started preparing to give you this gift."
Qiao Suisui listened to him in surprise. "The initially turbulent situation in the Oslan Empire has now been fully stabilized by me. You don't need to worry too much about it. Just do what you want to do. Suisui, do you remember what you said when I wanted to give up everything here and take you away? Now I have fulfilled it."
She looked at Liberi's excited eyes and was a little dazed.
At that time, she had just escaped from Zongfang, and she said at that time -
"What I want is a stable and safe life. Ash, thank you so much, but I don't want to live a life of hiding from people, and I shouldn't live that kind of life."
It turned out to be like this. Surprisingly, a seed was planted in Libery's heart because of what I said at that time.
"You thought I was not strong enough to protect you. Now I have done all that." Libery smiled a smile that had not been seen on his face for a long time. That smile suddenly reminded Qiao Susu of the elegant and romantic man she first met at the Legault Palace.
The mixture of power, time and emotions changed him a lot.
Qiao Susu was filled with emotion.
She gently pulled her hand back and stated her decision, "Ash, I want to have a ceremony for five people."
Hearing this, Liberi's smile froze on his face.
Surprise flashed across Luka's eyes, and he looked at her: "Sui Sui, are you saying that you and the four of us will be paired together?"
Zongfang still had a gloomy face, but the murderous intent around him was visibly reduced by half.
Karl blinked three times a second, pointed at himself and asked, "Let me confirm, my name should be among these four people, right?"
Qiao Sui Sui glared at him with amusement, "Without you, the fourth person is A Yao."
When Karl heard the name "Ayao", he knew he was in the bag. He immediately grinned like he was free and said in a sticky voice, "Okay, I have to practice these few days. I've gained some weight."
Libery held his forehead patiently. He tried to reason with Qiao Suisui, but she interrupted him first: "Ash, do you want to keep dragging them along?"
Immediately, Libery's face turned pale.
"I'm Sui Sui. At that time, I was just..."
"You don't have to explain."
Qiao Suisui smiled faintly. In fact, Libery's words hit her sore spot. It seemed that she was being manipulated, but in fact, she really began to think about getting married. It was precisely because of his words that she realized that she had been habitually repeating the pattern in her childhood in her subconscious mind - when she encountered warmth and love, her first reaction was not to hug happily, but to be uneasy, afraid that one day she would lose it. Until she finally pushed away the person who loved her, she was relieved at the same time as she was sad, and she would comfort herself by saying: See, they will leave after all.
Ultimately, it was a belief that she had been subconsciously playing out, even though she herself was not aware of it: I don’t believe that I will be loved.
So she never faced up to her feelings for them, because if she admitted that they were important to her, she would start to fear losing them and then repeat the familiar pain.
But Luka's unchanging waiting, Anubis's assurance to her, Zongfang's unwillingness to let her get pregnant again, Carl's absolute gentlemanly attitude towards her wishes, and even the pressure from Libery because he wanted to get her, all made her extremely sure -
They loved her, and she deserved it.
Maybe it was because of the advantages given to her by the childbearing system in the beginning, but she has been trying to be independent in this world without relying on the system, to have her own source of income, to learn to control her mental power, to establish her own organization, and to investigate the truth about the rebels. One by one, she has walked the path step by step.
Whether their love will always be there or not, she is still her.
It is Qiao Susu who can find a way to survive no matter what the environment.
"If you don't want to, then let's put this matter aside for now." She picked up the teacup and took a sip, then said lightly.
"Who said I don't want to!" Carl sat up straight and said, "I do. If they don't want to, they can just marry me."
"I do." Luka looked at her with a gentle and reserved gaze, and an indescribable feeling in his eyes. The three steady words, like a thousand pounds of weight, settled properly in Qiao Suisui's heart.
She looked at Zongfang and asked, "What about you?"
Zong Fang looked back at her for a long time, sighed, and then whispered in her ear: "Qiao Qiao, you obviously know it."
He had already surrendered his love for her.
Qiao Sui Sui smiled knowingly, then looked at Liberi and said deliberately to anger him: "Then I'll trouble Ash to help everyone prepare." Then she looked at Sang Yan who was in a daze and said: "Since it's a rare trip, why not call Gai Meilun and A Yao to participate in my marriage ceremony together?"
Sang Yan's expression froze for a moment, then he nodded and forced a smile, with a lonely blessing in his black pupils: "Okay, I will definitely be there."
Libery's eyes had turned red without him noticing. He stared at her, his eyes filled with a thick, inextricable feeling of helplessness. It was like a punch on cotton, and the cotton wrapped him up.
Qiao Suisui glanced at him and deliberately retaliated: "If you don't want to, then let's hold it for four people this time."
He felt his chest was extremely stuffy, blocked by the three words "Qiao Sui Sui".
Libery swallowed the bitterness in his mouth, as if he was swallowing strong love and unwillingness at the same time. At this moment, he loved her as much as he hated her, hated her for being cruel to him.
When the man spoke again, his voice trembled slightly: "Okay, I'll do it." After saying that, he could no longer hold back his tears, and he turned around and strode away in a disguising manner.
Luka stroked her hair and comforted her, "Don't worry too much. Do you want me to talk to him?"
Qiao Suisui smiled and said, "I'm not worried. You'll know in the evening."
That night.
The guards of the imperial court, the servants coming and going, and the people coming and going, all witnessed with their own eyes that outside the door of Qiao Susu's palace, the Sun of the Oslan Empire, who was famous for manipulating people's hearts, was now kneeling on the ground drunkenly and knocking on the door like a man from an ordinary family.
According to the guards on duty that night, Miss Qiao even closed the door of the outer hall this time. Yang Yang kept saying all kinds of things at the beginning, and even cried at the end. Then someone inside said, "I want to sleep," and he didn't dare to knock on the door again. He just sat outside the hall door and kept guarding all night.
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