The music was playing, and a young male emcee introduced the bride and groom at the front.
Georgia Lane was standing at the back with Vanessa Cooke, waiting for the emcee to announced the bride to walk towards the groom. At that point, Vanessa would get to the steps, walking on the red carpet, step by step towards Alfred Chow down the flower-filled aisle.
Alfred was wearing a white suit today. Normally, he always had a stern look. But today, he wasn't as incisive as he used to be, and he looked gentle.
Georgia listened to the emcee from a distance, introducing the identity of the wedding couple and how they knew each other in dribs and drabs.
For this kind of wedding occasion, not sure whether the music was too touching or the emcee was too good at creating the atmosphere for the wedding ceremony, Georgia couldn't keep from moving to tears, as if a lot of heartaches finally turned into a beautiful blessing at this moment. She watched Vanessa put on her wedding dress, step by step towards her happiness.
The emcee said a lot, and the guests clapped their hands several times. Even Vanessa couldn't help having watery eyes.
"Gigi, I'm really nervous. I thought that Alfred and I would get married calmly. But just now, when the emcee said this, I realized how much Alfred and I have gone through."
Vanessa still had some words to say. What the emcee said were all the sweet memories of Alfred and her when falling in love. She didn't tell the emcee about this, so it must be Alfred, the one who said to the emcee. And this touched Vanessa. So Alfred did remember their past clearly, and he didn't forget her. Perhaps they could really start over as a happy couple.
"You deserved this happiness. Don't be nervous. I'll always be by your side, watching you. You should deserve the best happiness in the world." Georgia and Vanessa encouraged each other, and they were so delighted.
The emcee spoke for a while beside them, and finally, the wedding march started playing. The emcee took the microphone and spoke to Georgia and Vanessa.
"Let's have the bride over! The groom, are you wanting to welcome your beautiful bride now?"
"Yes!" Alfred responded loudly, but the emcee teased him.
"It's too soft. I can't hear you. Do you guys hear him?"
The guests jeered that they didn't hear it too. The emcee spoke to Alfred again.
"We didn't hear what you said, and we can't feel your passion for meeting the bride. Say it again. Show us your love to her!"
The crowd laughed while Alfred silently looked in Vanessa's direction. He then shouted out to the hundreds of guests below the stage.
"Yes, I want to meet my bride now!"
His sound was deafening. Alfred didn't even use the microphone, just shouted out with his own voice.
Vanessa, who had been dewy-eyed, couldn't help but shed tears finally. She had been suspecting Alfred for a long time, thinking that he might still have hatred and misunderstanding towards her.
But at this moment, Vanessa suddenly felt that Alfred really loved her.
Just like when Alfred confessed to Vanessa, she actually liked him, but she always teased him.
"As long as you dare to let the entire building hear your sound confessing to me, I'll agree to go out with you."
At that time, Vanessa was obviously thinking of teasing him. But Alfred delivered on that, and he did shout loudly beside the dorm. Again and again, he shouted until many inside the dorm opened their windows to look over. Then Alfred spoke to Vanessa.
"I've succeeded. Are you my girlfriend now?"
Vanessa still remembered her expression and action back then. She immediately rushed over and hugged Alfred. In fact, Vanessa had a crush on Alfred for a long time. Just that she was being melodramatic and wanted to tease this man.
The man's performance satisfied her very much, and she recalled the bits and pieces of their past. The emcee said something else, and then he spoke to the bride.
"The bride, do you want to come to the groom's side? Please say it out loud if you want to!"
Vanessa took a deep breath, and she shouted out loud like Alfred.
"I do!"
This time, the atmosphere was totally enlivened, and the guests were laughing merrily. Everyone could feel the love that the bride and groom had for each other.
"In this case, let's have the bride come over so that this happy couple can be reunited together, and let us witness their happiness!"
After the emcee finished, the wedding march started to play while the hotel staff helped Vanessa up the steps and headed towards Alfred.
The staff scattered red roses petals along the way as Vanessa walked over step by step. She and Alfred looked at each other. They were just a few meters apart, but Vanessa felt it very long.
The guests on the sides were spraying ribbons, and flowers were falling from above. Pink lights were shining on the wedding couple as if it was a dream-like wonderland.
Vanessa once told Georgia that she knew nothing about the scene of the wedding site, as it was all prepared by Alfred.
Only at this moment, Georgia then felt that Alfred prepared for this attentively. All the flowers were Vanessa's favourite.
Finally, Vanessa was about to get in front of Alfred.
The emcee laughed at the side.
"The groom! The bride is almost here. Aren't you supposed to greet the bride?"
After the emcee saying this, Alfred took a big step towards Vanessa, and then the two of them interlocked their fingers. Vanessa then rested her hand on Alfred's arm, and the two walked towards the centre of the stage.
Vanessa was an orphan, and she had no parents. Alfred's parents were not there, and none of his relatives attended. So the emcee hosted this session without having both of their parents on stage.
The emcee let Alfred and Vanessa stand facing the guests while he teased the newlywed couple on the side.
"The bride and groom are here now. According to our tradition, after starting a family, all the cards are kept by the wife. Have you given your bank cards to your wife?"
Alfred was about to speak, but the emcee took the microphone to Vanessa.
"The bride, we don't trust what the groom said. We just want to ask you, have the groom handed all his bank cards to you?"
Actually, no. But Vanessa made Alfred look good by smiling at the crowd.
"He has given them all to me."
After saying this, the crowd burst out laughing.
The emcee joked for a while and then smiled at the wedding couple.
"Before the wedding, we received a secret gift. I heard that it was a video of the wedding couple's friends sending their blessings. Such a warm blessing. Do you guys want to see it?"
As the emcee just said this, Georgia subconsciously felt something fishy.
She quickly walked to the front, wanting to ask Vanessa if she knew about it. But the crowd was already shouting.
"Yes. Show it to us…"
Everyone was yelling. When Georgia walked to the front of the stage, she could see Vanessa's bewildered look. Alfred didn't speak anything, as if he didn't know who had sent the video.
Immediately, the emcee instructed the staff below.
"Let's have a look at the blessings from the newlywed couple's friends. And hope that this newlywed couple can have long-lasting happiness!"
After saying this, the video was played on the big screen above the stage.
"Miss Cooke, you're really lustful, wanting the few of us to service you…"
In the video instantly appeared several lewd-looking men. The man who spoke had yellow hair on his head, and the freckles on his face were so unsightly. And in front of him was Vanessa lying on a bed, naked. She just smiled faintly and didn't say anything.
But to the crowd, Vanessa's expression was actually acquiescing in it, with a sense of seduction too.
The crowd was in an uproar.
Georgia was dumbfounded, and she only then realized what caused her the uneasy feeling. She recalled what Rachel Scott said previously. Rachel said she wanted Vanessa to be happy at this wedding.
The video was still playing. Georgia watched as Vanessa turned pale, going to pieces completely, while Alfred turned ferocious instantly, having a gloomy face. The staff at the side was trembling with fear, trying to close the video. But the video was almost ended. Vanessa and the few men were all naked, with all kinds of restricted scenes playing on the screen.
Georgia remembered that Vanessa once said what happened to her back then, and it was Vanessa's painful memory. The video was played in front of everyone, and it was even her wedding with Alfred.
Georgia couldn't even imagine how devastated Vanessa was at this moment. She looked around for the power source, finding a way to stop this video. But Georgia simply didn't know where it was played, and she was so anxious that she cried.
She was trying to do something, and she saw Alfred frantically lifting a table and smashing it on the screen above the stage viciously.
Vanessa turned pale, standing in place. The guests were already whispering and jeering, attacking her from all directions. Vanessa's body tottered. It was her deepest memory and the source of her nightmares.
Georgia quickly got up the steps, wanting to grab Vanessa and telling her not to panic. She was here…
But Vanessa suddenly rushed down the steps, darted towards the crowd. Georgia immediately followed Vanessa, and she grabbed Vanessa's hand.
"Vanessa, don't worry. Let's get out of here. Don't be afraid…"
However, Vanessa shook off Georgia's hand, and she walked through the crowd step by step. No matter how the surrounding people jeered her, she just headed straight to Rachel step by step.
When Georgia had just arrived at Vanessa's side, Georgia saw Vanessa picked up a water cup from the table and smashed it on Rachel's head, without even letting Rachel speak!
The glass-made water cup instantly shattered.
At this moment, the whole banquet hall was in a complete uproar, and screams were heard one after another.
Blood was dripping down Rachel's head, and she was screaming in pain!