Chapter 870: The Wedding
Lu Chuan couldn’t possibly put all his energy into matching this half fingerprint.
Whenever there’s downtime at the team, Lu Chuan would open the system and casually look at about twenty or thirty fingerprints a day.
On busier days, he could look at seventy or eighty, sometimes over a hundred.
But a week passed, and Lu Chuan had looked at over 500 fingerprints, yet none matched.
Chen Bing had settled in, staying at the Criminal Investigation Team dormitory and eating at the team cafeteria, saving himself the expense.
And Lu Chuan was also facing the most important event of his life.
By mid-June, his wedding with Shen Yan was to be held.
The couple held their engagement ceremony at the start of the year, and after checking the dates, decided to hold the wedding in mid-June.
Time flew quickly, and for half a year, Lu Chuan was always busy with cases without a break, and suddenly half a year had passed.
Wedding house.
In the Chenguang District, Lu Chuan and Shen Yan received a separate villa.
Chenguang District was built quite early, and at the time there were only a few separate villas left.
Typically, the younger generation marrying wouldn’t receive a separate villa; most would live in the same house with their parents.
But Lu Chuan was different; in the Lu family genealogy, his name had its own page, and his status in the Lu family was quite esteemed.
Though the group had arranged for a wedding company to handle the wedding and decorating the bridal house, the couple personally attended to it when they had time.
"This house... is too big..."
Shen Yan slumped on the sofa, reflecting.
Actually, Shen Yan’s family house wasn’t small either, at over 170 square meters.
But compared to a villa of four or five hundred square meters, it was completely different.
According to Shen Yan, walking around the house was enough for a workout.
"It’s just a bit big," Lu Chuan surveyed around, "Looks like we’ll have to have quite a few kids later..."
"You’re awful..."
Shen Yan, bright and beautiful, cast a sidelong glance at Lu Chuan.
"How’s the banquet arranged?"
Both were quite busy with work, so the detailed arrangements for the wedding were handled by Lu Yao, who helped with various aspects.
"Apart from classmates, there are more relatives and a few colleagues from the unit due to regulations, we only invited a few people."
Lu Chuan was responsible for drafting part of the guest list.
Sending invitations wasn’t simple either.
Things were easier for Shen Yan; she had no official position, but with Lu Chuan, as the head of the High-tech Zone Criminal Investigation Team, he was already at a departmental leadership level, making all weddings and funerals reportable with a specific range.
No more than ten tables.
But Lu Chuan wasn’t just a police officer; he was also the young master of Qiangsheng Group.
Lu Chuan’s grandfather definitely used this opportunity for a lavish affair.
For this matter, Old Lu already communicated with those above.
No one was creating problems for those above; the wedding was held at a hotel, but the tables were separated by screens between Lu Chuan’s tables and the Lu family’s banquet.
Only at the wedding celebration would the screens be drawn back, and during the meal, each group ate separately.
Song Jiangguo approved with great enthusiasm.
After all, the regulations were to prevent individuals from exploiting such occasions for personal gain.
However, these regulations were clearly not suitable for Lu Chuan, given that he was unlikely to exploit the event for gain; instead, not losing money would be fortunate.
Song Jiangguo himself would attend the wedding and act as Shen Yan’s witness.
The simple reason he wasn’t Lu Chuan’s witness was because his rank wasn’t high enough.
Lu Chuan’s witness was arranged by the old man.
Haizhou City Mayor personally stepped in.
The Lu family had many descendants, leading to numerous guests, but for Lu Chuan’s occasion, it was the first time the old man personally managed the arrangements, so all parties would give face.
"First bow to heaven and earth!"
"Second bow to the parents!"
"Bow to each other!"
"To the bridal chamber!"
The couple chose a complete Chinese wedding process, adhering entirely to the traditional ceremony.
Today, Shen Yan, adorned in a phoenix coronet and embroidered cape, seemed like a lady stepping out of an ancient painting.
Lu Chuan wore red and green, with no trace of a police officer.
Chinese weddings were grand and complex with many rituals, and the wedding celebration lasted about 40 minutes in total.
Haizhou City had no wedding traditions for playful teasing.
After the wedding ended, Lu Chuan and Shen Yan changed into their toasting attire, went around tables toasting, and the wedding concluded.
The moon hung across a sparse starry sky.
At night, Lu Chuan and Shen Yan had changed into sleepwear, lying in the starry sky bedroom on the villa’s top floor.
This was a request Shen Yan made after the villa was given to Lu Chuan, to alter the bedroom with a centerpiece cut-out glass roof to see the stars outside.
Later, Lu Chuan named it the starry sky bedroom.
The couple lay on the bed hand in hand, quietly gazing at the stars.
A meteor flashed across the sky.
Lu Chuan tightly grasped Shen Yan’s hand.
Having been reborn and traveled through time, Lu Chuan never felt as real yet dreamlike as he did at that moment.
He didn’t know whether his rebirth was a dream or something else.
It seemed like everything was the same, yet everything was different.
"Let’s sleep..."
Lost in thoughts, Shen Yan interrupted him.
Lu Chuan turned over and pressed his wife beneath him.
Yes, it was time to sleep.
A moment’s time in spring was worth a thousand gold; today he finally got married.
The next day, the couple embarked on their honeymoon journey.
This time the holiday was quite long, and they planned a globe-trotting trip.
A vacation of over 20 days, coupled with a private jet, visiting only famous countries, the time seemed adequate.
But plans couldn’t keep up with changes; man’s schemes were inferior to heaven’s plans.
As soon as the couple arrived at the airport, ready to take off, a call came from the Criminal Investigation Team.
"Captain Lu... Chen Bing has died!"
Lu Chuan, receiving the call from Chen Jiang, was stunned.
"What are you saying?"
Chen Jiang’s voice came through the phone: "The retired detective Chen Bing from Beizhou City was killed this morning!"
"The sanitation worker reported it, and when found, it was already too late."
"Stabbed in the chest, died from massive blood loss!"
After hanging up, Lu Chuan called a flight attendant over: "Notify the captain, flight canceled."
Shen Yan asked curiously, "What’s wrong?"
"Do you remember the retired detective named Chen Bing I mentioned to you two days ago?"
Shen Yan nodded; Lu Chuan had told her about the retired detective, who even after retirement couldn’t let go of a case; as a police officer herself, Shen Yan had great respect.
"What happened to him?"
"He died, was found just now... murdered."