After faking his death, he stopped pretending to be a substitute.

After Chu Yanyi stayed in the Chu family for three days, he returned to the imperial capital with Song Yanxi and Chu Lin on the morning of the fourth day.

Although Chu Yunsheng was very angry about Chu Lin entering the entertainment industry without telling his family, he was not a stubborn parent.

After Chu Yanyi's lobbying, he agreed to let Chu Lin continue to stay in the entertainment industry.

The next day when Chu Yanyi returned to work at the company, he met an unexpected person.

"Mr. Tan, what do you want from me today?" he asked with a faint smile.

After hesitating for a few seconds, Tan Huaicheng handed the red card in his hand to him, with a complex emotion in his eyes that was not easy to detect: "This is the wedding invitation between me and the third daughter of the Weng family. The date is set for the 26th of this month. I hope you can come to my wedding then."

Chu Yanyi was stunned for a moment, then took the invitation and said sincerely, "I'll go when I have time."

After Tan Huaicheng left, he opened the invitation and looked at the woman's name. He didn't expect that the person Tan Huaicheng was going to marry was Weng Junze's half-sister.

Since the last time he went to the hospital to visit Tan Huaicheng, the two had no contact again. Chu Yanyi couldn't understand why Tan Huaicheng would send him an invitation and deliver it in person.

Just when he was wondering, the front desk called.

"Boss Chu, there is a man named Weng Junze who wants to see you. Do you want to meet him?"

Weng Junze?!

Haven't heard this name for a long time.

Wasn’t the lesson we learned before enough? This guy actually dared to come to the company.

I want to see what he wants to see me about.

"Let him come up."

"Okay, Mr. Chu."

Just a few minutes after I hung up the phone, Weng Junze arrived.

"Shine, I'm glad you are willing to see me." Weng Junze smiled affectionately.

Chu Yanyi only felt that the smile on his face was extremely hypocritical: "If you have something to say, say it. If not, get out of here."

Weng Junze's eyes darkened slightly, and he took out a red card from his briefcase and handed it over, with his usual hypocritical smile on his face: "The 26th of this month is my sister and Tan Huaicheng's wedding day. I hope you can come to my sister's wedding."

Chu Yanyi did not reach out to take the invitation: "I am not familiar with your Weng family, nor do I know your sister. Take the invitation back. I will not go."

Weng Junze's eyelashes drooped slightly, and he caught a glimpse of the invitation card spread out on the desk. He asked in surprise, "Why do you have the Tan family's invitation card? Who gave it to you?"

"You don't need to know this." Chu Yanyi's tone was extremely cold.

The card in Weng Junze's hand wrinkled unconsciously: "Was it sent by Tan Huaicheng?"

"You are not welcome here. Mr. Weng, you'd better take your invitation and get out right away, or I will have the security guards throw you out."

Seeing that he was ruthlessly driving people away, Weng Junze had no choice but to leave.

He did not take the crumpled invitation away.

Chu Yanyi glanced over and threw the two invitations casually on the corner of the table.

At noon, Song Yanxi came to find him and saw two invitations stacked on the corner of the table, so he asked casually, "Whose invitation is it?"

"Tan Huaicheng's."

Song Yanxi knew about the marriage between Tan Huaicheng and the third daughter of the Weng family.

I also received an invitation today.

"Both?"

Chu Yanyi's hand, which was halfway through signing the document, suddenly paused, raised his eyes to look at Song Yanxi, and said without hiding anything: "One was sent by Tan Huaicheng, and the other was sent by Weng Junze."

"Did they deliver it personally?"

"Yes."

Song Yanxi picked up the crumpled invitation: "What's going on?"

Chu Yanyi said succinctly: "I told Weng Junze to get out with the invitation, and he got angry and did this."

"Weng Junze has approached you again and again. Although I don't know his purpose, it is definitely not well-intentioned. For this known potential danger, it is better to resolve it as soon as possible."

Chu Yanyi leaned back in the leather chair: "What are you going to do?"

Song Yanxi put the invitation back to its original place: "The Weng family is now caught in a battle for succession. As long as I secretly support Weng Junze's competitors, once the Weng family has chosen a successor, in order to prevent family strife, the loser will inevitably be exiled by Mr. Weng to a poor country abroad to manage the Weng family's branch. In this way, Weng Junze will almost never return to China in the future, and you can turn a blind eye to it."

"Then do as you say." Chu Yanyi nodded, as if he had thought of something, and suddenly asked: "Have you received the invitation?"

"Yes, it's from the Weng family."

"Will you be there then?"

"When my grandfather was alive, he had some friendship with Mr. Weng. I must go."

Chu Yanyi leaned forward, resting his elbows on the table, and crossed his fingers to support his chin: "Why did Tan Huaicheng marry the third daughter of the Weng family? He is obviously gay."

"It's not that he wants to marry, but he has to. If he wants to secure his position as the heir of the Tan family, he must follow Mr. Tan's arrangement and marry into the Weng family."

Chu Yanyi sighed when he heard this: "It turns out that he has no choice."

Song Yanxi smiled scornfully: "To put it nicely, he has no choice. To put it bluntly, he is incompetent. If he had the ability to become the leader of the Tan family, how could he be controlled by the family and have no right to decide his own marriage."

Chu Yanyi suddenly raised his eyes and stared at him: "What about you? Do you have the right to decide your own marriage?"

Song Yanxi smiled softly: "My parents are open-minded people, and I have always made my own decisions about my marriage. No matter who I choose to marry, they will respect my choice, so you don't have to worry about that."

Chu Yanyi: "..."

……

As a first-class wealthy family in the imperial capital, on the day of the wedding of Tan Huaicheng and the third daughter of the Weng family, almost half of the political and business celebrities in the circle were present.

Yu Xiao and Jing Xiuyuan also came. Seeing Song Yanxi and Chu Yanyi appear, Jing Xiuyuan waved his hand: "Yanxi, this way."

Song Yanxi and Chu Yanyi walked over and sat at the same table with them.

The wedding ceremony was held in the most luxurious hotel in the imperial capital. The venue was decorated in red and pink tones, which was fresh and elegant yet gorgeous. The pink roses blooming everywhere added blessings to the venue.

The bride was wearing a white strapless floor-length wedding dress. She held Tan Huaicheng's arm like a little bird, and her face with delicate makeup showed a sweet and happy smile.

Tan Huaicheng, however, had a blank expression on his face the entire time, showing no joy at being a groom. Even when the bride tilted her head and smiled at him while talking to him, he still had a stern face and looked indifferent.

The marriage of children from wealthy families is just a tool to consolidate the family's status, and the individual's wishes are not important.

Even though Tan Huaicheng had a stern face and looked reluctant, no one said anything.

As for the bride, although she smiled sweetly and happily, everyone could see that her smile was not real.

There is no true love in a marriage that is arranged for family interests. It is just an act of a loving couple in front of outsiders.

This is something that everyone knows.

The wedding ceremony begins, and after a series of procedures, it is time for the bride and groom to toast the guests.

Tan Huaicheng and the bride held up their glasses and toasted the guests at each table one by one, and soon it was Chu Yanyi's table's turn.

"Yan Yi, thank you for coming to my wedding." Tan Huaicheng looked at Chu Yan Yi and showed the first sincere smile ever in the wedding.

Chu Yanyi was slightly startled, and clinked glasses with him with mixed feelings: "Congratulations."

Apart from saying "congratulations", he couldn't say any other words of blessing.

After all, this wedding is a combination of the interests of both families, and Tan Huaicheng is not willing to do it.

If one wishes the other party "a son soon and a happy marriage", it will only make Tan Huaicheng more upset.

However, someone just wanted to make him upset.

Song Yanxi held up his wine glass and smiled sincerely, "Mr. Tan, congratulations on your marriage to Miss Weng. I wish you a happy wedding, a son soon, and a long and happy marriage!"

Tan Huaicheng opened his mouth, but words were stuck in his throat.

Seeing that Tan Huaicheng looked a little unhappy, the bride smiled sweetly to help him out: "We are honored that Mr. Song can come to my wedding with Huaicheng. Thank you for your blessing."

After toasting at this table, Tan Huaicheng took the bride's arm and walked to the next table.

In a corner where no one was paying attention, Bai Ziyu was looking at the backs of Tan Huaicheng and the bride from afar. His expression was very complicated, and there was an indescribable loss on his face.

When Chu Yanyi accidentally glanced at Bai Ziyu in the corner, he was a little surprised at first, but then he thought about his relationship with Weng Junze, and he was no longer surprised.

Bai Ziyu was wearing a high-end suit, and he looked obviously haggard and tired, with obvious dark circles under his eyes.

It had only been a month since we last met by chance at Shishanxuan, but Bai Ziyu had become so thin that he looked like a skeleton from a distance.

He had more or less heard Rong Yu talk about some of Bai Ziyu's recent events, and he had no sympathy for Bai Ziyu's experience.

After all, everything is Bai Ziyu's own choice.

He has hands and feet and is in good health. Even if the Bai family is gone, he can support himself with his own hands, but he has allowed himself to degenerate.

She first gave up her studies to get involved with Tan Huaicheng, and after being driven away by Tan Huaicheng, she followed Weng Junze.

She thought she had climbed up the social ladder, but in the end, Weng Junze asked her to sleep with clients and partners.

Bai Ziyu has done what he has to do and cannot blame anyone else.