The wedding was livestreamed by the sister, revealing his identity as a Taoist priest.

"Holy crap! Holy crap! Look at this!"

Lin Keke jumped up from the sofa and shoved her phone in front of Chen Xiaoyu.

Chen Xiaoyu was stuffing potato chips into her mouth when she was startled and jumped, scattering crumbs all over herself.

"Are you crazy, Lin Keke? It's so late at night!"

"You look first!"

Chen Xiaoyu glanced at the screen.

It topped the trending search list, highlighted in red.

[#Shen Family Heiress Announces Engagement#]

It ranked second on the trending searches.

[#Shen Nianqing's fiancé's identity speculated#]

It ranked third on the trending searches.

[#The Shen Group's arranged marriage partner is actually an ordinary person?#]

Chen Xiaoyu munched on potato chips, showing little interest.

Who is Shen Nianqing?

Lin Keke's eyes widened, giving her a "you're kidding me" look.

"The sole heir to the Shen Group! Last year's Forbes Under 30 list! Just received his PhD from MIT last month! The one who looks like he stepped out of a painting!"

"oh."

Chen Xiaoyu continued chewing potato chips.

"What does it have to do with us that rich people get married? We haven't even finished writing our scripts for tomorrow's live stream."

"You don't understand!"

Lin Keke frantically swiped the screen.

"The key point is the way she made the announcement. She just posted a photo, without any text, revealing nothing about the man's face, name, or family background. The entire internet went crazy!"

Lin Keke enlarged the photo and handed it over.

Chen Xiaoyu glanced at it.

The visuals are minimalist.

A dark-toned photograph showing two hands clasped together.

The woman's hands were fair and slender, with a diamond ring the size of a pigeon egg on her ring finger.

The man's hands had distinct knuckles, his skin was tanned, and he wore a low-key platinum bracelet.

"The whole internet is speculating about who the man is. Some say it's from the Lu family, some say it's from the Zhou family, and some have even dug up information suggesting he might be someone outside the entertainment industry..."

Lin Keke's voice gradually faded into background noise.

Chen Xiaoyu stared at the man's hand.

Her gaze was fixed on him.

The outline of the hand's bones, and a faint, almost invisible old scar at the base of the thumb.

The cell phone suddenly rang loudly.

Chen Xiaoyu was startled and looked down at the caller ID.

mom.

"Hey, Mom, what's wrong?"

On the other end of the phone, Wang Guifang's voice was both urgent and excited.

"Xiaoyu! Your brother called back!"

"My brother?"

Chen Xiaoyu frowned.

"Didn't he go on another business trip somewhere? Last time he said he was going to the Northwest, and then he disappeared for three months."

"Don't even mention it! He called back this time and said he's getting married!"

The bag of potato chips in Chen Xiaoyu's hand fell to the ground with a "clatter".

"marry?"

"Yes! Just one phone call, and they said all the formalities were done, that we didn't need to prepare anything, that they'd arrange the banquet, and then they couldn't contact us anymore! Can you believe it!"

Chen Xiaoyu's temples suddenly throbbed.

Her brother, Chen Shidu, has been like this since he was a child.

He ran away to work at the age of sixteen, never saying what he was doing, and was never seen again throughout the year.

When they occasionally call back, it's always just the same six words: "I'm fine, don't worry."

My family is used to it.

"Mom, what's my sister-in-law's name?"

Chen Xiaoyu asked, rubbing her temples.

"Your brother spoke too fast, I didn't quite catch it... I think his surname was Shen?"

Chen Xiaoyu's hand froze.

"What's your name... what's it pronounced again... Nianqing? Right, Shen Nianqing! That's the name your brother was talking about!"

Wang Guifang's voice continued to chatter on the phone.

"Xiaoyu, isn't it strange? Your brother is such a rough guy, he never even gets a girl's phone number, and suddenly he has a wife. I don't even know what she looks like or what her family does for a living."

Chen Xiaoyu could no longer hear.

Her ears were ringing.

Shen Nianqing.

It's the number one trending topic.

Top of the Forbes list.

A billionaire heir.

The three words struck her like three muffled blows to the head.

"Little Rain? Little Rain, are you listening?"

"mom."

Chen Xiaoyu's voice was dry.

Are you sure it's the name Shen Nianqing?

"Yes, I'm sure. I even had your dad write it down. He wrote a note and stuck it on the fridge. What's wrong?"

Wang Guifang suddenly became alert.

"Do you know this girl?"

Chen Xiaoyu did not answer.

"If you know her, help Mom go check on this girl and find out about her family. Your brother is such a tight-lipped guy, he won't say anything..."

"Mom, I'm hanging up now."

"Why!"

The phone was disconnected.

Chen Xiaoyu gripped her phone, her knuckles turning white from tension.

She clicked on the trending photo again.

enlarge.

Zoom in again.

The man's hands had distinct knuckles, a wheatish complexion, and a scar on the web of his hand.

That scar.

When she was a child, Chen Shidu climbed over the wall to pick green dates from the neighbor's date tree for her, and got scratched by the wire.

She watched as her hands were covered in blood.

Chen Xiaoyu zoomed in on the photo to its maximum size; the pixels were so blurry they resembled a mosaic, but the location, shape, and length of the scar remained clear...

It was exactly the same as she remembered.

"Light rain?"

Lin Keke leaned closer.

"Why are you so pale? Who called?"

Chen Xiaoyu didn't move.

Her mind was filled with noise, as chaotic as the morning rush hour at a farmers' market.

impossible.

That's absolutely impossible.

Her brother, Chen Shidu, left school before finishing high school.

My family lives in a small fourth-tier city. My parents work as a taxi driver and run a breakfast stall.

Shen Nianqing is the heir to the Shen Group, a company with assets worth hundreds of billions.

The fact that these two names appear in the same sentence is more absurd than the sun rising in the west.

But it was the name Mom mentioned.

But the hand in the photo.

But that scar.

"Xiaoyu, what's wrong with you?"

Lin Keke shook her shoulder.

"Don't scare me!"

Chen Xiaoyu turned her head stiffly.

She looked at Lin Keke and her lips moved twice.

"Can."

"Um?"

"If I say..."

Chen Xiaoyu swallowed.

"The fiancé of Shen Nianqing who's trending on social media is my brother."

Do you believe it?

Lin Keke's expression froze for three seconds.

Then she let out a scream.

"Chen Xiaoyu, are you crazy?!"

"I think I'm crazy too."

Chen Xiaoyu handed over the phone.

"Look at this hand, the scar on the web of my hand. My brother got it when he was a kid picking dates for me. I've remembered it for over ten years."

Lin Keke took the phone, stared at the blurry photo, her mouth agape as if she could fit an egg in it.

"No...no way...isn't your brother the one you never see all year round, the one you don't even know what he does for a living?"

"Yes, that's the one."

"How could he possibly know Shen Nianqing? Shen Nianqing gave a keynote speech at the Davos Forum last year! Your brother... wasn't your brother wearing a white camouflage T-shirt when he came home last time?"

Chen Xiaoyu didn't say anything.

She stared at her phone screen; the comment section was already flooded with hundreds of thousands of messages.

Who is it?! I'm so worried!

I don't understand the world of the rich; this ring must be worth at least eight figures.

The man's hand is so beautiful; his bone structure is amazing.

How could Shen Nianqing have poor taste? She would definitely marry into a top-tier wealthy family that is her equal.

Right.

Top-tier wealthy families.

Chen Xiaoyu thought of her old 60-square-meter house, where her mother had used an old-fashioned sewing machine for more than ten years in the living room.

I thought of her dad's taxi that had driven 300,000 kilometers.

She remembered that every time her brother Chen Shidu came back for the New Year, there was only one set of clothes to change into in his schoolbag.

I have to go find her.

Chen Xiaoyu suddenly stood up.

"Who should I look for?"

Lin Keke jumped up and grabbed her.

"Shen Nianqing!"

"How are you going to find it?"

Lin Keke's voice cracked.

"You don't even know who they are, let alone which way the door faces!"