Reaching the age of thirty, my income randomly doubled

"Chen Qi really got the short end of the stick with this marriage,"

Just look… Pingsheng knew this topic was inevitable.

It wasn't just the grandparents who came over to say so, but even his three uncles and aunts were all talking about it.

What's the situation now?

In rural areas, when girls marry, they demand bridal gifts of hundreds of thousands.

But his little sister? She herself forked over several million to get married off.

It's beyond anyone's understanding, really.

Pingsheng didn't want to discuss this topic further, mainly because it was disheartening.

Why bring up a topic that only makes oneself unhappy?

As for Peng Ying, she was actually okay, mainly because she thought Hu Lin was really decent.

He's a teacher and highly educated, and they were about to have a wedding.

What was the point of talking about it then?

She, too, was now into stock trading with Liu Fen and was making pretty good money.

There was no way she'd want to go back to the rural hometown. Now accustomed to living in Capital City, and with both children there, who would want to go back?

"What loss? Little Qi is at least marrying a highly-educated intellectual, and Hu Lin is here so don't speak like that,"

Peng Ying discouraged further discussion on the topic.

When Chen Qi came over, she even mentioned to Pingsheng that many of Hu Lin's college friends had arrived.

She asked him if he wanted to go meet them.

That's ridiculous.

Why should he go meet old classmates on his own?

As if he just sits around drinking tea all day.

Chen Qi didn't say much, with her brother managing so many companies, and all the relatives from their hometown having come.

He obviously couldn't get away.

She went over to Hu Lin and said that, about those university classmates, he actually had very little contact with most of them.

The only ones he was close to lived in the same dormitory as him.

These days, one was working in sales at a small company, and the other was teaching back in their hometown.

Beyond them, some classmates he had barely kept in touch with also came.

Perhaps they had heard some news and that's why they had come early.

"Really didn't expect this, Hu Lin. Back in college, you were the most unremarkable one, and now getting married you're driving up in a Mercedes 600, even owning such a big house, how did you pull this off?"

The brother from the lower bunk, Zhang Yang, asked him.

Hu Lin, smiling, said, "Didn't do anything special, it was just fate."

"Damn, that line about fate has made us all envy you like crazy."

Brother from the lower bunk, Zhang Yang, said:

"Dude, I got a girlfriend from the countryside, and her family wants three hundred thousand for the dowry plus a car, dammit, I've only graduated a few years, I can't pull that much together even if I don't eat or drink."

Another brother nearby said, "You're still getting off easy. My university girlfriend ran off with someone else less than three months after graduation. If you said I treated her badly, I'd be struck by lightning because she just saw I couldn't afford a house in Capital City."

Hu Lin didn't know what to say, his situation was pretty similar.

It all changed drastically only after he found Chen Qi.

It was as if all the hardships he endured before were for this day.

"Old Hu, I heard it's not that your wife's parents are rich, but that her own brother is wealthy."

"Yeah… her parents are also from the countryside, but her brother is really something."

"Envious."

Zhang Yang didn't know what else to say, eyeing the brother from the upper bunk who got a wife driving a Mercedes 600, a wife who was also a few years younger than him, and quite attractive.

This kind of fate, why didn't it ever land on him?

While they were at the reunion, the school beauty of their year also showed up unexpectedly.

Now that was a real surprise.

You should know Zhang Yang and the others had liked Jiang Jia, the school beauty, very much back then, but they didn't dare to approach her.

She was a local from Capital City, from a very well-off family.

That type of woman was simply out of their league.

Instinctively, they dared not get too close.

A few years after graduation, and it seems the school beauty is still single. It was quite a surprise to Hu Lin that she came.

They weren't really acquainted in university either.

He had just notified everyone through the WeChat group about the wedding, and more and more people were showing up.

He didn't even realize when his popularity had grown so much.

"Everybody's here?"

Jiang Jia greeted everyone with a sweet smile, and also brought some gifts.

Hu Lin received them politely.

He still didn't know the exact reason for this major school beauty's visit.

After a while, Chen Qi also came over.

She had initially gone to invite her brother, but he wasn't free.

Jiang Jia was a bit disappointed but didn't rush off.

Chen Qi invited them all to go eat at Fei Yangyang, there was an outlet nearby.

Hu Lin went with his classmates. As the wedding was drawing near, not many relatives from his countryside home had come.

Mainly, they were planning to return to the rural home during the New Year for a follow-up celebration.

That was when his relatives from there would all come to attend.

October 18th.

The sun was shining brightly, a perfect day for a wedding.

Pingsheng, in a neatly tailored Armani suit, had arranged his sister's trousseau and personally escorted her to the wedding car.

No matter what, his little sister was getting married.

He, as her big brother, was ultimately very happy.

The wedding car was a red Rolls-Royce Phantom, specially customized.

Behind it followed countless top luxury cars, he couldn't quite remember how many cars he now owned.

If he felt it was nice, he just bought it.

Old buddies, Chang Fu, Zhang Tao, and Gao Hu, all came together to send his sister off.

In terms of the procession, it was naturally quite a sensation.

There were four or five Rolls-Royce Phantoms, none of them rented.

His sister's wedding venue was at the five-star Kabinsky, and the ceremony site was a sea of flowers.

Chen Qi knew all this was funded by her brother, purely to let her marry off in style.