Chapter 387: Meihua’s engagement.
The Soaring Swan hotel was the kind of hotel which had ten butlers lined up outside in sharp dark suits, long white cloaks on their backs and wore white gloves on their hands. They always looked neat and noble, like royal knights plucked straight out of the old days.
It was the kind of hotel which had lanterns that had seen dynasties change, chandeliers that once dripped with blood of beheaded nobles and paintings that once hung over beds of the rich from many centuries ago. Some of those paintings had been smuggled out of their empires of origin during wars and changed many hands before finding a home in the grand hotel which was one of the few to sit in the center of the capital city.
It was a combination of four royal castles and maintained most of its original appearance on the inside but exuded modernness on the outside. It hosted royals, nobles, rock stars, movie stars, affairs and divorces.
The Soaring Swan had been the breeding ground for more than a few scandals in the empire and the peep star had written about it a total of fifty one times. Always...always...scandal related.
This night, it was hosting something that was scandalous in the eyes of some people: the engagement of Rong Meihua and Duan Siping.
Meihua, twenty nine years old and one of the heiress to the Rong luxury empire was walking like a goddess from out of space, which she sort of was because of all the shiny meteor stones on her dress.
Siping, on the other hand came from a humble long line of scholars. Most of them his family consisted of professors, philosophers, linguists and others that were scattered in the education related professions. He was more reserved and letting Meihua do all the talking for them.
Their relationship was somewhat of a scandal in the eyes of some people because Meihua was older than Siping by five years. She had paid a dowry to his family and everyone knew that she had had been involved with another man no more than two months ago.
Some thought she was marrying just to spite her ex boyfriend who was also already engaged to a young woman from the noble Qin family.
The extravagant engagement party was the Rong family’s idea and Meihua supported the grand affair naturally. She planned to marry only once in her life. If she ever got divorced, she planned to date but not to remarry. And if she did remarry, she did not want a grand affair. So, she was going all out for the only wedding she planned to ever have.