For the ending, I’m doing something a bit different. I’ll still write the highlights of the show, but I’ll also refer to the translation of the Final Episode for comparison.

Here’s the source of the translation I’m using:

I think it’s uploaded by the original translator who goes by the name of tofudessert.

We begin midway through the final episode at 28:35 mark.

1. Weiwei’s new home

Her friends are enjoying the view from the balcony and the interior design of her newlywed home. Erxi credits Dashen for the clean and airy style style but Weiwei sets them straight that she and Nai both created the living space.

Now, in the original novel, her roommates had to walk up several flights of stairs to get to her apartment because the elevators were out of service. They originally came to see her wedding gown. Taking advantage of the available extra pairs of hand, Weiwei took them shopping for household items she couldn’t carry on her own.

It’s another year in June.

The summer seems to have come a lot sooner this year. It was already starting to feel warm in May, and now it feels like a hot summer in June. Er Xi, who’s helping Wei Wei to carry her bamboo mat (cool mat), thumps her footsteps up the stairs while complaining, “Wei Wei, isn’t this supposed to be a high end condo? How can the elevators be out of service?”

“What high end? More like high priced,” Wei Wei is also out of energy; she is carrying even more stuff than Er Xi. She’s holding two bags full of stuff in her hands and two pillows under her arms.

Xiao Ling and Si Si are following behind them with fewer things to carry; one of them is carrying a tea set and the other is carrying a big vase……

These are all things that Wei Wei has just bought at the supermarket……

They were originally only going out for dinner, but after hearing that Wei Wei got her wedding gown today, Xiao Ling and the rest insisted on seeing it. Therefore, Wei Wei deliberately took them to the supermarket to pick up a bunch of things and got them to help carry them to her place >o<

Xiao Ling asks out of breath, “How much farther do we have to go?”

“Haven’t you been here before?”

“But I’m already feeling dizzy from climbing all the stairs.”

Wei Wei wipes her sweat with the back of her hand, “We’ll be there in no time, just two more floors.”

“There are still two more floors?!~~~” Si Si wails.

source: http://bookbychapters.com/a-slight-smile-is-very-charming-part-48/

Also, in the original novel, it was revealed that Xiao Nai’s parents gave them the down payment to purchase the apartment as an engagement gift. (See that? In the book there’d been no question that they were engaged since the beginning of her senior year in college.)

At first, Weiwei was uncomfortable receiving such a gift because she thought her in-laws couldn’t afford it. Xiao Nai didn’t help much either when he tried to downplay his family’s wealth by saying, “My mom and dad aren’t that poor.” She finally realized that her in-laws were wealthy when she received a priceless suet white jade bracelet from them.

This high level apartment is located at Ming Wei Garden. It was given to them last year autumn as an engagement gift from the Great Master’s parents.

Speaking of which, Wei Wei has never believed that parents are obligated to buy homes for their children, but since it is a gift from his parents out of kindness, she is not so hypocritical as to decline it. However, if his parents still have to live in the old apartment assigned by the school, that’s a different story.

Wei Wei did feel a little guilty when she got the apartment. After all, the Great Master doesn’t split a single penny of his company’s earnings to his parents. Thus, it puzzled Wei Wei that the Great Master let his parents purchase them an apartment when he had the money to do so himself. Although they only gave them the down payment, it was still over a hundred thousand. For a professor in the history or the archaeology department, which doesn’t bring much extra earnings, a hundred thousand must have been most of their savings.

Moreover, it wasn’t like they had to buy a new apartment. Xiao Nai’s old place wasn’t bad.

Xiao Nai was a little helpless after understanding how she felt. He explained, “They are used to living at the school because my grandpa used to live there. My dad was my grandpa’s student, and that apartment was where they first met.”

Xiao Nai said with a chuckle, “Furthermore, my mom and dad aren’t that poor.”

Later when Xiao Nai’s mom, Professor Lin, found out about this, she liked Wei Wei even more. Receiving appreciation for your kindness is one of the most satisfying feelings. Feeling delighted, Professor Lin reminded Mr. Xiao not to complain about being short on budget for his archaeological expeditions when he is in front of their soon-to-be daughter in-law, making her think that they’re “short on money.” She spoke as she flipped through her things, already planning to send more gifts.

Therefore, the night before the wedding, Wei Wei received a suet white jade bracelet that was supposedly passed on in the family. This was when Wei Wei finally believed what the Great Master said. As a prestigious family who delve in literary works, others may mistake them for being poor, but for all we know, a calligraphy painting that is hung casually on the wall could be a priceless masterpiece from a famous artist.

The suet white jade bracelet made Wei Wei very nervous. There is a price for gold, but not for jade, especially for suet white jade. Although the Great Master’s mom said that it was only of fair quality, Wei Wei was still afraid of breaking the bracelet, so she was determined to only wear it once during the wedding and never again afterwards.

source: http://bookbychapters.com/a-slight-smile-is-very-charming-part-48/

Weiwei’s friends want to see the wedding gown. She says she can’t carry it because it’s heavy so they’ll have to go to the bedroom instead. The girls are of course befuddled because how can a wedding gown be too heavy to carry?

But she isn’t exaggerating. Her bridal dress came in three large boxes which indeed be too heavy to carry single-handedly. The girls are astonished at her beautiful coronet.

Erxi: I wonder how mush this thing cost.
WW: I don’t know. You’d have to ask Dashen. I think, something about more than a hundred thousand.
Erxi: OMG! You’re basically wearing a bathroom on your head.

lol. I think she’s saying that the coronet costs as much as a bathroom. But when Erxi said that, the mental image I had was Weiwei with a toilet on her head.

Weiwei explained that Nai thinks of the coronet as an investment.

WW: Master said this depreciate in value. Thus, it’s not considered an expense.
XiaoLing: That’s right! Dashen’s wedding can’t be haphazard, can it? Even if Weiwei does wear a bathroom on her head, it won’t be a big deal.

lol. I’m reminded of their first encounter online when Naihe asked her if she would like to have an even grander wedding than the one her ex-husband organized for his new wife.

Erxi: But even if it doesn’t lose its value, it can’t lay eggs. (meaning, it won’t earn more money.) Is it worth it?
Sisi: Weiwei will lay eggs.
WW: I do it through vivipation. Do you understand vivipation?”

Now, this is a weird conversation so I checked out the book.

Er Xi is squatting by the bedside staring at the wedding coronet in Si Si’s hands.

“Even if it doesn’t degrade in value, it’s not like it’ll lay eggs! Is it worth it?!”
“Oh, as long as Wei Wei can lay eggs (have babies) then that’s fine.”

For some reason, an image appears in Wei Wei’s mind— a round and smooth white egg suddenly cracks, and a chubby and pasty baby staggeringly crawls out with the top of the egg shell on its head. It looks at her with sparkling black eyes while opening its soft and pink little pair of lips……

Wei Wei immediately halts her thoughts before the baby calls out; she repeats in her heart a hundred times: I was born through viviparity, I was born through viviparity……

source: http://bookbychapters.com/a-slight-smile-is-very-charming-part-48/

My interpretation: Jokingly, Sisi is saying that no expense is spared as long as Nai marries the girl he loves and who will bear him children. But Weiwei, being very literal-minded, gets this image of babies coming from eggs. She reminds herself that she doesn’t lay eggs but she gives birth to babies.

What does this conversation tells me about Weiwei?

It tells me that she isn’t ready yet to think of the sexual intimacy. Rather than human reproduction, she imagines birds (oviparous animals) and reminds herself that she’s a mammal (viviparous animals) when Sisi jokes about “laying eggs.”

Then they proceed to admire her red gown. Xialong says that she doesn’t understand why they follow the Western tradition of wearing a white bridal gown when their traditional phoenix crown and ceremonial robe look wonderful.

My comment: The Chinese Ministry of Culture will definitely approve of that comment!

To me, it’s going to be hard to convince young people that the traditional style is “better” or “prettier” than the Western style outfit, when the Western style has already become a status symbol of modernity or coolness among young couples. Moreover, I think the whole traditional outfit, with the hand-embroidered lace and that gold coronet, will be ridiculously more expensive than the Western bridal gowns.

However, what I find really funny here is that Weiwei’s wearing a Chinese traditional wedding dress, but the newlyweds are coming home to a house that’s very much Western in style. The Western “style” really can’t be escaped.

2. Marriage license

The viki sub is bad so I’ll use Netflix instead.

Sisi: Weiwei is getting married soon.
WW: Not soon. I’m registered already.

And she glances at their marriage certificates displayed on the bedside table.

Remember when we were wondering whether they’re officially married? The answer is YES.

Once a couple applies for the marriage certificate and registers their union, they’re officially married. The wedding or the celebration can be held on another day.

Marriage date: September 18, 2016. (Well, what do you know? They’re going to celebrate their 3rd anniversary soon!)

I also found out that, for their marriage license, a couple needs to provide a photo. It looks like a passport photo, except that there are two people and the background is red. I read the color red is auspicious for marriages.

That’s why the couple in my other Cdrama favorite, “Put Your Head on My Shoulder,” had their picture taken with the red background.

They also applied for their marriage certificate, although they solemnized their wedding in a Catholic (sigh…Catholic again!) church in Germany.

And this couple from “The Story of MingLan,” also married for real and shared their photo from their marriage certificate.

Anyway, here’s the photoshoot for Xiao Nai’s and Bei Weiwei’s wedding ceremony. It’s too bad we didn’t see this scene anywhere in the series.

Interestingly enough, the book does NOT mention Nai and Weiwei getting their marriage license. In the book, the girls teased Weiwei about her rush to marriage and she divulged that Nai didn’t propose to her.

The three girls looks at the gown and all the strings around the waist area; they stare at each other, and Si Si immediately changes the topic and sighs, “Oh, I can’t believe you two are getting married.”

Er Xi adds, “Yeah, do you guys have to be in such a hurry to get married right after graduating? It’s not like you’re pregnant.”

Since Wei Wei has gotten teased enough by YuGong and the others, she isn’t affected by what Er Xi said at all and replies instead, “I’m afraid that if I postpone it, you guys will run away and I won’t be able to collect your red pockets.”

Xiao Ling thinks it’s rather unbelievable, “Wei Wei, you agreed to marry him just like that? Why not make him wait another two years?”

Si Si says mischievously, “How are you so sure that it’s the Great Master who’s in a hurry? Maybe it’s our Wei Wei who’s anxious to tie the knot.”

Xiao Ling is enlightened, “Oh yeah! How come I didn’t think of it that way? Wei Wei, don’t tell me, were you the one who proposed?”

Wei Wei is struck dumb, “Of course not.”

Er Xi presses further excitedly, “How did the Great Master propose to you then? Were there flowers? Ring? Did he bend down on one knee?”

“……Er Xi, even the TV dramas nowadays are not that old fashioned.”

“Hurry, and tell us!” Er Xi nudges her.

“Uh, you know how I’ve been working as an intern at his company for the past two years? I’ve never once gotten paid, so one day, I finally remembered to ask him about it, and then he said……”

Wei Wei’s face is flushed with embarrassment.

Er Xi’s and Si Si’s eyes are fixed to her anxiously waiting to hear what happened next.

“He said……if you want money, I’ve got none. I can only give you myself.”

Er Xi is flabbergasted, “Your Great Master is indeed scheming as usual.”

source: http://bookbychapters.com/a-slight-smile-is-very-charming-part-48/

3. Meeting Xiao Nai

Xiao Nai arrives just as the girls were about to leave. Like a nice girl, Sisi says that they are leaving so as not to disturb the couple anymore. Erxi, however, starts to instigate trouble. She says, “Senior Brother, you’ll hold your wedding soon. It’s not a good idea to live together now. Let Weiwei come over to XiaoLing’s home and stay with us tonight.”

He looks at Erxi first then looks at Weiwei.

Weiwei asserts her independence, “Do I still need someone’s approval to stay somewhere?”

Duhhhh. Girlfriend, you’re married.

Nai simply answers, “I’m afraid not today.” The girls grumble. He offers to drive them home and Weiwei encourages to leave. She says, “Okay, stop pretending. I’ll loan you Dashen so that you can ogle at him a bit longer today.” Erxi says, “Don’t be silly. We’re not shy about that.”

This scene mostly follows the book except that in the drama adaptation, Weiwei played peacemaker right away once she saw that Nai was firm about her staying home. I guess she realized that Nai wasn’t at all kidding when he told her that, even if Da Zhong had no objections to the four roommates living together in XiaoLing’s apartment, he minded that set-up very much.

It’s almost 9pm when Xiao Ling and the rest have finished looking at and touching each piece of clothing, shoe, and accessory. It’ll be too late if they don’t head back now. Thus, Wei Wei walks them to the bus stop. But before they make it out of the entrance of the residential area, a black sedan slowly stops beside them.

The car door swings open, and a handsome figure comes out of it.

“Senior,” Xiao Ling and the others call out.

Xiao Nai nods to them, “You’re all here.”

Under the streetlamp, Xiao Nai looks even more dignified and elegant after two years since they’ve seen him. And in these two years, he has become a legend among the junior classmates even though he has already graduated. Although Xiao Ling and the others are very outspoken in front of Wei Wei, they immediately become well-mannered whenever they see him.

Si Si says, “We’re just leaving. We won’t bother you, Senior.”

Er Xi tries to hold it in, but couldn’t. She asks with a wicked smile, “Senior, would you please let Wei Wei stay over at our place today?”

Wei Wei is speechless. She gives Er Xi a glare. Would she need his approval if she wanted to go stay over at their place?!

Xiao Nai glances at Wei Wei and replies with a smile, “I’m afraid not today.”

He could have avoided the question completely, yet he answered it in such a serious manner. Therefore, Wei Wei turns to glare at him in frustration. Xiao Nai pretends that he doesn’t see it, and says to Er Xi courteously and with good demeanor, “It’s very late. I’ll drive you guys back.”

source: http://bookbychapters.com/a-slight-smile-is-very-charming-part-48/

4. The Couple Moment

This occasion doesn’t need explanation, screenshots or gifs. You and I know what happened next.

But here’s the book version for comparison.

At this point, Wei Wei’s face is as red as the wedding gown in her hands. They started living together at the beginning of school this year; there’s probably no one that would believe that till this day, they still haven’t gone to the very last step.

She carefully puts the wedding gown back into the box. The corner of the shawl is a little dirty from being draped on the floor by Er Xi just now. Wei Wei takes it to the bathroom and washes it with some water. Her body feels a little sticky after doing all the cleanup, so she takes a shower. She has been too immersed in her thoughts, so it’s not until she comes out of the shower that she realizes she has forgotten to bring some clothes to change into.

Although no one else is home and the curtains are closed, Wei Wei still doesn’t have the courage to dash to the bedroom without any clothes on. There’s no helping it. She’ll just have to wrap herself with the shawl. Even though it’s thin and transparent, it’s still better than not wearing anything.

Wei Wei pulls the bathroom door open and walks quickly towards the bedroom. But when the bedroom is just a few steps away, she hears a click followed by the sound of the door opening. Wei Wei’s body is frozen.

How come he’s back so soon?

He clearly wasn’t expecting to see this when he opened the door, so his fingers are still resting on the door handle.

Wei Wei holds the piece of the clothing against herself more tightly out of reflex. Thank goodness she didn’t decide to walk out without wearing anything at all just now. But she doesn’t realize that seeing her damp hair resting loosely, her wet body half covered by the shawl, her pearly wrists exposed by the large sleeves, and her long legs and small waist slightly visible from the transparent garment is ten times more seductive than not wearing anything.

“Our wedding clothes are here?” Xiao Nai closes the door slowly.

“Mm, they were delivered in the afternoon,” Wei Wei answers, feeling a need to explain why she’s standing here wearing this, “I……I was taking a shower just now but forgot to bring my clothes. This was dirty and was in the bathroom……”

“Dirty? Where?”

“Uh, the bottom part of it. It’s already……” Wei Wei lowers her head subconsciously to look at the bottom part of it. Before she finishes talking, she is already lifted up off her feet. She can’t believe he has already made his way to her and is carrying her to the bedroom.

“Put it on for me to see.”

“…..I don’t know how to.”

“I’ll teach you.”

He pulls her fingers away from the shawl, and the shawl slides down from her shoulders. She’s sitting on his lap with only a thin layer separating them. Wei Wei tilts her head and buries it between his neck and shoulder as she doesn’t dare to look at him.

He is really going to teach her. Slowly and patiently, he puts each piece of clothing on her one by one, and explains each part of it in detail; the under layer, the top, the skirt, the waistband, and the shawl……His burning fingers come into contact with her skin. Wei Wei lets him do all the work; she raises her arms or stands up when he tells her to. He sits her on his lap again; he cups her feet and helps her put on the embroidered shoes.

She is now completely dressed in her wedding clothes. Her long and slender legs bend slightly down from sitting on his lap, and her cheeks are blushing. He stares at her, and then suddenly grabs her waist with force. He lifts her up and puts her down on the bed.

The wedding gown is like fire, her black hair like a silky waterfall, and her skin is as smooth as jade. Wei Wei watches him nervously. His arms are stretched up on each side of her head to hold him up, pressing down on some of her hair strands. His eyes are gazing deep into hers, but he doesn’t make a move. Wei Wei can’t stand him staring at her anymore and turns her head to the side.

But in the next second, he locks her lips and kisses her aggressively.

He presses his body down on her as he kisses her passionately. Out of all the other times that he has kissed her, this is the most wild and wantoning. It’s as if he has finally reached the end of his patience and has thrown away all of his worries. Wei Wei is out of breath from his kissing, so she has no choice but to follow his rhythm in swallowing and breathing. She can feel that her wedding gown is being pulled apart. She can feel him sucking on the side of her neck, and can feel a bit of pain from his pinching. She feels his kiss making their way down……the temperature in the room is rising, and her mind is in a mess as she groans lightly. She suddenly feels her waist exposed; her skirt has been lift up.

He suddenly stops.

But it doesn’t make Wei Wei ease up. They usually stop at this point in the past……or use another way, but, but……Wei Wei looks at him with her blurry vision.

His clothes are already in a mess with his well-built chest exposed. He’s breathing quickly, and his blazing eyes are fixed on her. As if in slow-motion, he grasps her hand and leads it to his belt.

Wei Wei understands what he wants from his action. Her heart is beating uncontrollably, and her body is so tense that even her fingertips are shaking.

“Wei Wei, don’t be nervous.”

He presses her to move on while sealing her lips at the same time; showing his patience yet continuing to tempt her with his gentle kiss.

His kiss moves down gradually. He sucks on her earlobe and murmurs, “Wei Wei, I can’t wait anymore.”

source: http://bookbychapters.com/a-slight-smile-is-very-charming-part-48/

The book is steamier than the drama.

5. Showing her the place where he first met her

He brings her to his uncle’s former internet cafe.

Remember: in the beginning of the Cdrama his uncle offered to give it to him but he declined.

He wanted to purchase it with his own money.

Now, he’s proudly showing her around because he’s bought it.

I’m going to combine the subs from Viki, Netflix and the original book.

Nai: When I first met you, you were sitting there.
WW: So it was love at first sight for you, right? (he doesn’t answer) I just realized that you’re a wolf. (he looks at her) Don’t you have any objection?

He smiles at her then walks toward her and pulls her in his arms. He’s trying to scare her.

Nai: I don’t. But I think it doesn’t do me justice. At the very least, I should be called a wicked wolf with a voracious appetite.
WW: So shameless! Are you proud of this?
Nai: As a wicked wolf with special and unique taste, not being voracious is even more shameful.
WW: Errr… I’m going to check the back area.

lol. While it’s funny that Nai is comparing himself to a pervy wolf who’s only hungry for tender lambs like her, what I like about this dialogue is that she’s finally getting the sexual innuendos.

When she says that she “just realized” that he’s a wolf (in the Viki and Netflix subs, she calls him a pervert and lech), she means that she mistook him to be some kind of monk or asexual person. But after their marriage, she discovered that she couldn’t have been more wrong in her assumptions about him.

Nai then tells her that heeyyyy! if she’s going to call him names, then she should do it properly. He’s actually worse than a wolf. When it comes to passion and lust, he’s also wicked, perverted, lecherous, and… insatiable.

lololol.

The old Weiwei would have blushed and scampered away. The new Weiwei tells him that he’s outrageous. She’s too nice to call him “horny!”

He answers back that there’s nothing outrageous or shameful about the way he feels for her. In fact, it would be more shocking and disgraceful if he does NOT desire her that way.

Especially since they’re newlyweds and he was on voluntary self-control for two years, it would definitely be weird if he didn’t have “the hots” for her.

Anyway, I’m going to mention here that book actually had a follow-up scene after their “first” night together that didn’t appear in the series. I’m including it here because it’ll explain WHY Weiwei thought that Nai was a “wolf.”

On the next day, Wei Wei’s biological clock wakes her up even though she is exhausted. The sky is fully lit with the sun shining through the thick curtains.

She is laying on top of her wedding gown, which is now in a mess, and a set of arms is wrapped around her waist, embracing her from behind. He notices her waking up right away from her slightest movement; he moves closer, breathing against her.

“Wei Wei,” his usual crisp voice is a little raspy. She seems to have responded to him absent-mindedly. He pecks on the back of her neck and then her back, and then……

It’s almost noon when she wakes up again.

Wei Wei can feel dampness when she opens her eyes; he has a towel and is wiping her body lightly with it. Wei Wei wants to hide from embarrassment, but she soon discovers that her waist is completely sore the moment she tries to move. She doesn’t even have the strength to budge.

Xiao Nai hovers over her, “I’ll carry you to the shower?”

Wei Wei shakes her head.

“Does it hurt?”

source: http://bookbychapters.com/a-slight-smile-is-very-charming-part-48/

There! Do you get why he’s a “wolf”?

Wei Wei shakes her head again. She stares at him, raises her arms, and hugs him by the neck.

She just wants to lean on him right now.

Wei Wei doesn’t regret doing this before getting married, but the consequences sure give her a headache.

One of them being her wedding gown ==

Because……therefore……anyhow, after that night, her wedding gown……is a complete disaster…..not only is it all in wrinkles, there are also many……spots. The wedding gown is made of expensive silk fabric. Fabric like these are very hard to take care of, so Wei Wei has no clue on how to wash it, but it’s not like they can give it to the dry cleaner. Therefore, under Wei Wei’s furiousness, this task has been delegated to the one who caused it.

As a result, Xiao Nai has to find time between his busy schedules to research on how to wash the gown.

source: http://bookbychapters.com/a-slight-smile-is-very-charming-part-48/

She made him clean up “his” mess.

Another consequence is…..sigh……

Wei Wei now realizes that doing it a month before the wedding is a very bad idea. Either you should venture off early on so that he won’t get too worked up before the wedding, or wait until after the wedding.

During their busiest time, she now also has to deal with the requests of a certain someone who says he’s already very self-restrained. She’s definitely feeling drained out of energy.

June is indeed a busy month.

source: http://bookbychapters.com/a-slight-smile-is-very-charming-part-48/

And that’s why she calls him a wolf. He tires her out.

The director and screenwriter didn’t choose to show this segment on film anymore (for obvious reasons) but that’s the backstory of Weiwei’s telling Nai that he’s a wolf.

6. Ending

With Weiwei exploring the place on her own, he walks to the exact spot he first saw her and recalls the moment.

This is how the book described his thoughts while he smiling at the empty space.

As Xiao Nai watch her disappear from the staircase, the corners of his mouth raises slightly.

How did he feel when he first saw her?

It’s been too long ago, so he can’t remember clearly. However, he remembers he had no interest in meeting her in the beginning even when they got married in the game.

source: http://bookbychapters.com/a-slight-smile-is-very-charming-part-48/

This is interesting. Although he already knew who she was at the time of their online wedding, he wasn’t keen on meeting her offline…unlike her ex-husband, Shaoxiang, who was curious to know how she looked like in real life.

One time, he came to the internet cafe simply due to business, but the sight of her was a surprise.

Through his eyes he saw a girl controlling her keystrokes and mouse beautifully. It immediately captured his attention, so he watched her for a bit longer. He watched her dictate a guild battle smoothly and won perfectly despite her team was weaker than the opposing party.

At first, he was only focused on the computer screen and her fingers dancing on the keyboard. It was not until the battle was over that he shifted his gaze to her face.

The side profile of her pretty face came into view, and she actually looked quite familiar.

Thanks to his great memory, her name quickly surfaced to his mind.

Bei Wei Wei.

The Bei Wei Wei who made all the guys excited just from seeing her walk pass them from afar.

source: http://bookbychapters.com/a-slight-smile-is-very-charming-part-48/

It was her skill that first caught his attention.

He stopped in his track when he saw her playing and he approached her to watch her play.

But when he saw her profile, he recognized her as that campus belle. He also remembered her name.

Watching her play, he saw her name and memorized it. The name wasn’t unfamiliar to him because he’s seen it online when he was playing the same game that she was playing in the internet cafe.

Then there was another coincidence.

It had been a long time since he logged into Dream Voyage of Rivers and Lakes. He was online gathering some information on Dream Voyage when he saw her name appear on the world channel.

She was called ReedWeiWei this time.

Her name was easy to remember, so after watching her fight in the guild battle at the internet cafe, he memorized it. A refreshing name, but it also showed how lazy the owner was in coming up with it.

She’s actually divorced? And she wants to steal the groom?

It was rare for Xiao Nai to be interested in the commotion. He arrived at the Vermillion Bird Bridge alone, watching the red silhouette be surrounded by onlookers.

Is she really going to steal the groom?

Xiao Nai watched from a distant, but he subconsciously felt that it seemed more like she was going to slash that heartless man with her big saber than anything else. And in the end when she sat down and started selling medicine, everyone was dumbstruck. Xiao Nai was laughing out loud in front of his computer.

source: http://bookbychapters.com/a-slight-smile-is-very-charming-part-48/

He laughed at her because he admired her quick thinking, her ingenious scheme, and her determination not to be made into a laughing-stock by the wedding spectators. He knew that she’s got spunk.

He suddenly felt a need to help her.

He didn’t know where this impulsive thought came from, but it was definitely not an outcome from any rational reasoning. He had never felt this way with anyone before, yet the feeling was strong.

How could he let his junior classmate be dumped by someone? How could he let her feel depressed?

Therefore, he proposed.

Therefore, the grand and extravagant wedding happened.

He was not a hundred percent confident that she would accept his marriage proposal, but the moment she said “yes,” a hint of romance grew in his heart.

source: http://bookbychapters.com/a-slight-smile-is-very-charming-part-48/

So it wasn’t love at first sight for him. He wasn’t smitten by her beauty. His love grew as he got to know her better.

As Nai reflects on the early beginnings of their relationship, Weiwei walks around the room. She notices that Nai isn’t paying attention to her so she returns to his side.  She asks him what he’s doing.

Nai: I was thinking about your question just now.
WW: Did I ask a question just now?
Nai: I was thinking if I had known about today, I would have fallen in love with you at first sight.

And the book ended with these lines:

If I knew that I would love you so much one day, I would definitely fall in love with you at first sight.

🙂 He’s repeating what we said earlier about the old man, old lady and their twilight romance. It’s that whole “When Harry Met Sally” quote.

It wasn’t love at first sight for him. But if he had to do it all over again or if he were in an alternate reality and met her for the first time, then he would definitely fall in love with her at first sight.

He would have wanted to fall in love with her at first sight, so he could love her immediately, without delay, without further ado.

The end!!!