To us, this wedding didn't count for much. Everyone knew Dianweinas was getting remarried, so we all just sent modest gifts. However, as City Lord, I still sent 20 Points, plus ten portions of the most precious body-tempering resources.
Dianweinas was up at the crack of dawn, calling his two wives out to train. The two sisters came out to join him; it had become a habit, though today’s session was exceptionally brisk. After receiving those ten portions of body-tempering materials yesterday, Dianweinas was eager to use them on his wives first thing this morning. The fool didn't even think to warn his two delicate wives that the body-tempering process was excruciatingly painful. He felt nothing himself, so he assumed no warning was necessary. The sisters, trusting him implicitly, agreed to use the tempering medicine without a second thought.
The result, under Dianweinas’s guidance, was a series of earth-shattering screams and wails from the two sisters. They screamed until their throats were hoarse. Many people had stayed up the night before, hoping to eavesdrop—though the young ladies of noble birth were too demure to admit it, they were certainly curious. When there had been no sound the previous night, only for such miserable, piercing cries to erupt at the crack of dawn, it was a real eye-opener for the group of young ladies. Eventually, they all crept to their windows, poking holes in the paper to peek outside. They saw Dianweinas hovering over the two women, while the s…
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