You Are The Apple of My Eyes
Chapter 616 The Wedding (Part One)

It was the end of October and the cool autumn breeze was blowing across the region. The maple leaves were red like fire as they covered the hill.

The North Mountain was verdant, and covered in banyan trees. There was a castle standing on the mountain.

John had initially built his house there, thinking that it would serve as his retirement home, but now, he wanted to live there for the rest of his life with Nina and his kids. The lush banyan trees were like guards, which were guarding their queen, Nina, who was to move in with her king, John.

Once the North Yard castle's construction was completed, Helen took over as its senior housekeeper. She then recruited many servants dressed in neat uniforms to work under her.

Thirty-seven of John's bodyguards were now transferred to North Yard castle and were made responsible for guarding the castle.

Every security guard had a concealed Bluetooth receiver hidden behind their ear for communicating with each other, and Richard was responsible for the control room.

The castle was nearly as big as half the mountain, and one of its entrances was located near the countryside.

Normally the guests would be allowed to come inside driving their cars, but that day, they had to get out at the main entrance and walk 800 meters to the wedding venue.

Amy stood at the main gate. She would only let a guest in if they showed her the invitation card with their name on it.

One of the guests wanted to bring a date, but since the woman's name was not on the invite, she was not allowed to get in.

Someone tried to get in using someone else's invitation, but the facial recognition software instantly found that he was impersonating someone else, and Amy kicked him out of the North Mountain. There were also people who wanted to use drones to shoot the event from air, but Richard took a chopper and took down every one of those drones, thus warning the people who were controlling them. John and Nina did not want the media to capture their wedding. They had only planned it for close friends and relatives.

A black Rolls-Royce came to a halt outside the castle's gate. Seeing that, Amy instantly found it to be one of John's cars. They had arranged the car to pick up another powerful man in the city, Tim. The first person to get out of the car was Victor, who was dressed in a formal suite. He looked much more decent than his usual self, which made Amy feel like it was almost impossible to recognize him

But the moment he spoke, his usual rude tone returned, making the expensive suit nothing but a decoration to cover up his personality.

"We're here. Mr. Shen, please get out of the car." Victor looked up at the castle and exclaimed, "Rich people know how to live, don't they?"

The moment he said those words, someone looked at him. John's and Nina's families were both very respectable. They were not just wealthy, but also powerful.

Although they were too educated to look at Victor with disdain, they could not hide their doubts about his nature.

Once Tim got out of the car, some of their expressions changed from confusion to a sense of complexity.

They had no idea who Victor was, but they were able to recognize Tim. They weren't friends with him, but they had heard of him quite a few times.

Tim used to be a mercenary while Victor used to be a gangster. Hence, Tim was cool and indifferent with a murderous gaze, while Victor was more loose-lipped. There was a scar on Tim's left eyebrow. His gaze was fierce, like that of a hungry lion's.

There were bags under his eyes. Usually dark circles would make a person look tired, but on Tim's face they looked scary.

He stood there like a cloud of darkness from which people would want to walk away.

"Shut up! Today is John's big day, so please don't get me in trouble." Tim taught Victor a lesson.

Victor immediately slapped himself as a punishment.

Seeing Tim, Amy rushed to welcome him and said, "Mr. Shen, please come in."

"Where is your smile? You need to smile when you welcome him. Don't you know the rules, you silly woman?" Victor said discontentedly as he challenged Amy.

Amy looked at him coldly and retorted, "You are the one who doesn't know the rules. You are in the North Yard castle, so you must abide by our rules, or leave immediately."

"You..."

Victor was about to yell, but Tim glared at him and he stopped.

"If it weren't for Mr. Shen, I would have beat you up," Victor hissed.

"A loser like you has no right to talk to me," Amy said with a sneer.

"What the fuck? Do you seriously want to fight me, woman?" Victor asked, rolling his sleeves.

Three years ago, Amy had beaten Victor up and sent him to the hospital, hurting his ego as a man.

So, as soon as he was better, Victor had started practicing kicking and punching, hoping that he would defeat Amy one day.

During the past three years, victor had tried to provoke her numerous times, but she never allowed that to happen. She would just call him a loser every time he tried to pick up a fight with her. And it had only angered him more, making him want to fight her every time they met.

Tim was tired of watching them. He wanted to kick Victor, but he stopped the violent action as soon as he remembered the purpose of his visit. 'What if the girl gets frightened again?'

"Enough," Tim said impatiently, and Victor understood that he had to shut up.

Amy snorted as she turned her back to him.

Since they did not have an invitation, Amy had to escort Tim and Victor inside on her own. Seeing that, the guests felt relieved.

As Amy had received them, they thought that Tim and Victor must be one of John's more important guests.

Some people even thought that Tim was John's business partner.

But then, if that were true, then the situation in the city would be much different.

When Adrian heard that Tim was going to attend the wedding, he strongly opposed, as he believed that Tim had an ulterior motive behind attending the wedding.

For most common people, wedding was just a happy occasion, but for the wealthy and powerful, it was often filled with secrets or politics.

Apart from John's family, there were three other powerful families attending the wedding, and one of them was the Xu family from B City. Someone had predicted the possible outcomes of the event, and advised people about the protection that they needed to take, as well as the business opportunities that could come out of it.

It was always a win-win situation. Besides, the people who were attending the wedding were very close to John and Nina.

Upon seeing Tim, people became more careful and began to observe from afar.

Tim was totally indifferent to their thoughts, but the moment he learned that he would have to walk 800 meters to the wedding, he was shocked.

The 800 meter stretch to the venue was covered in a red carpet. Beautiful white pillars with rose bouquets were placed on either side, along the entire stretch. There was a sheer pink cloth connecting each pillar to the next and the air was filled with a faint fragrance of English roses.

Above each pillar was a photo frame on which John and Nina's picture was placed.

The first frame on the left was framed with a sketch of woman, which was drawn by John. The woman was Nina and there were a few words written under it. Pointing at the words, Victor asked, "Sir, what are these words? Why don't I understand them?"

"Are you blind? It's a kind of calligraphy. It says, 'To my wife, Nina.' John drew the picture himself," Tim replied as he slapped Victor on the back of his head. Rubbing the back of his head, Victor praised, "Mr. Shen, you are so smart to understand something like this!"

Ignoring Victor, Tim walked to the right pillar and saw an oil painting of John.

Victor pointed at the writing below it and said proudly, "I can read it this time, it says, 'My hero John.' Looks like this is a painting that Mr. Shi's wife made for him."

"It's their story." Tim stepped closer to the painting and took a closer look. "It is two versions of their love story."

"I really can't understand the rich. Why do they need two versions of the same thing?" Victor asked with a puzzled expression.

"Not all rich people do that, you know?"

Victor quickly corrected himself and said, "I don't understand the educated ones, then."

Tim was stunned, looking at the paintings.

He suddenly felt jealous, seeing their love depicted in those pictures.0000