novelraw Chapter 848: The Fated One 1
Chapter 848: The Fated One 1
Xia Wangyang was excited. After Ye Siyuan sent him the photos, he couldn’t even bother playing cards; he opened the photos immediately, and everyone gathered around, wanting to see the scene from Ye Siyuan’s wedding.
"Wow, what kind of wedding banquet hall is this? It’s so beautiful and romantic, and this hall is huge!"
"Is this a wedding themed around mermaids and... dragons? It’s stunningly beautiful!"
"Si Yuan, you’re over the top! Such a beautiful wedding scene, and you didn’t even invite me to see it!"
"..."
Everyone crowded together to look at the photos, which showed the wedding dinner arranged with the theme "Mermaids and Dragons."
The ceiling of the wedding banquet hall was designed to look like the deep blue ocean, with playful white mermaids and a majestic white giant dragon frolicking and chasing in the rolling sea—it was a creative vision, and the classmates found it very interesting.
Xia Wangyang asked Ye Siyuan, "Does this theme have any special meaning?"
Ye Siyuan, holding Si Lisao’s arm, said, "It symbolizes that I’ve found my destined prince!"
Generally, the term "destined prince" refers to a dragon.
Xia Wangyang understood, "You’re comparing your husband to a destined prince, using the dragon as an obvious metaphor?"
Ye Siyuan winked at Xia Wangyang, "Smart."
Xia Wangyang rubbed his chin, saying, "This theme is quite interesting. I’ve even come up with a news headline: The destined prince of the national treasure mermaid is actually him..."
Ye Siyuan laughed and said, "Is your magazine that lowbrow?"
Xia Wangyang laughed heartily again and added, "Hey, I thought anyone who married you at least had to be a prince. Had I known you could marry down, I should’ve chased you back in high school!"
Xia Wangyang thought that any man able to marry Ye Siyuan would certainly have to be of unparallel status, otherwise Ye Siyuan’s overprotective brother would never agree. Unexpectedly, she ended up marrying someone from the management level of a large corporation.
Had he known this earlier, he definitely would have shamelessly pursued her during high school—after all, his family background wasn’t bad either!
However, during high school, Ye Siyuan was infatuated with a poor boy...
Of course, Xia Wangyang always believed that the poor boy was merely an experience-gathering tool in Ye Siyuan’s love journey and wasn’t worth considering. Xia Wangyang simply felt his status wasn’t enough to match Ye Siyuan.
"I don’t have any takers," Ye Siyuan snorted, "Who’s interested in you! I only have eyes for my husband!"
Si Lisao, a reserved man, didn’t involve himself in their conversation. He quietly sat beside them as the dashing man, listening to her chat with classmates, and he gently patted her head to show appreciation.
At that moment, Xia Wangyang received a phone call, his voice suddenly rising: "What? What did you say?"
Seeing Xia Wangyang’s startled expression, everyone quieted down.
Xia Wangyang took the call for five minutes, and after hanging up, he forcefully tapped his cheeks with both hands, then looked at Ye Siyuan with a face full of curiosity: "Si Yuan, aren’t I your absolute best old classmate?"
"No!" Ye Siyuan dismissed the notion without mercy, then curiously asked, "What’s happened? Did the sky fall?"
Xia Wangyang said, "I just got some news, news that’s shocking the entire world!"
Ye Siyuan blinked, wondering what news could shock the whole world.
Others were curious too, eagerly urging him, "Don’t keep us in suspense, tell us already! What’s shocking the world?"
Xia Wangyang said, "The Undersea World doesn’t only have the Atlantis Empire!"
Si Lisao, sitting relaxedly next to them as the quiet handsome man, had his eyes dim subtly.
Ye Siyuan sat up straight, laughed, and said, "You heard some nonsense?"
"It’s not nonsense. It turns out there’s another Undersea Empire besides Atlantis!" Xia Wangyang had received confirmed news, saying with great certainty, "Si Yuan, you surely know; you just didn’t want to tell me. Six years of friendship from junior high and high school alone were all in vain!"
Ye Siyuan threw her mahjong tiles, "Vain my foot! You say, what other Undersea Empire?"
Ye Siyuan thought to herself, could it be that some ignorant person has exposed the Mu Continent?
Or perhaps the media uncovered her husband’s true identity, thereby learning about the strongest Undersea Empire, Mu Continent?
Xia Wangyang said, "That country’s name consists of three characters!"
Ye Siyuan’s heart fluttered. Had it really been dug up by the media?
She turned her head to look at Si Lisao, her eyes written with three words: It wasn’t me!
The other classmates urged, "Oh come on, Xia Wangyang, you’re just no fun. Hurry up and tell us what country it is, what are the three characters?"
Si Lisao’s face grew increasingly somber, then suddenly softened upon hearing Xia Wangyang mysteriously utter three words: "Gendaya!"
Si Lisao’s tense expression noticeably relaxed, eyeing Xia Wangyang with amused interest.
After speaking, Xia Wangyang sought confirmation from Ye Siyuan, "Isn’t it right, Si Yuan?"
"Uh, what? I don’t know, who did you hear that from?"
Xia Wangyang knew Ye Siyuan wouldn’t tell him a thing, so irritated he didn’t want to divulge any details. But his classmates all looked at him with sparkling eyes. Xia Wangyang swore he simply wanted to satisfy his classmates’ curiosity.
Xia Wangyang said, "The W Country government’s foreign ministry just announced today that another Undersea Empire, Gendaya Country, wants to establish diplomatic relations with W Country, to communicate and exchange..."
"Really? Oh my god, just how many countries are there under the sea?"
"Gendaya? Could that be the lost Gendaya civilization? I seem to have read it in an ancient civilization book; let me search online for a bit."
It’s actually the policy that Qu Liushang implemented after assuming power in Gendaya, which surprised Ye Siyuan seeing it align with her brother’s approach.
Ye Siyuan pressed her lips slightly, refraining from making any remarks.
Without seeing specific news reports, she wouldn’t casually disclose matters from another country to avoid causing trouble for herself. But her classmates were greatly interested, stopping their card games to sit there searching for information on the "Gendaya civilization."
The internet provided plenty to find.
Ever since Atlantis was exposed to the world decades ago, land dwellers have been fascinated with oceanic culture, and there have been many hypotheses about several lost ancient civilizations. Related films, novels, and comics often use this as a theme for storytelling. Not to mention serious materials, even informal ones can be found in abundance.
"I’ve found it, from the encyclopedia, it says the Gendaya civilization is one of Earth’s five major civilizations, also known as the super-powered civilization. Unfortunately, the Gendaya civilization perished in a disaster involving a great flood. In records by the Mayans, it describes how Gendaya people failed to use their superpowers reasonably, only knowing how to use them for territorial and dominance battles. This led to them not knowing what to do when the disaster struck later, causing the Gendaya civilization to vanish in the long river of time."