The King’s Enchanting Chapter 1793 - 1807: The Grand Finale (Part 10)

Two months later.

The wedding day arrived, and Yu Zexiao and Jian Anning always wanted to hold a Huaxia-style wedding—

In the Qin Family’s villa in Yancheng, Jian Anning was sitting and doing her makeup.

Jian Anning had acknowledged Qiu Yixian as her godmother. This time, as it was a Huaxia-style wedding, naturally, a few days before the wedding, she was taken away to prevent her from seeing Yu Zexiao. Early this morning, she was woken up to start getting ready.

Since the two were already legally married, this was just a supplementary wedding ceremony. So, several etiquettes before the "Six Rites" of the wedding customs were directly skipped. This morning, as long as Yu Zexiao personally came to pick her up, they would hold the ceremony together.

Jian Anning wore ancient Hanfu, with a cross-collar and right lapel, light clothing with a wide belt, and a long skirt cut from the finest silk inside. The outer cape was quite wide and embroidered with silk threads showing "A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix," luxurious and smooth, appearing festive while exuding an elegant and noble aura.

Complementing the outfit were Jian Anning’s beautiful accessories. A bright red belt woven with Golden Silk had flawless jade in the center. The belt was tied with a lover’s knot, which would be tied to Yu Zexiao during the wedding. Her hairstyle was even more luxurious. The magnificent flying fairy bun, like the "flying goddesses" in the Tang Dynasty murals of Dunhuang, was styled into high hair loops, fixed with gold hairpins and a Phoenix Hairpin, looking strikingly regal and eye-catching. Such a bun was only possible for Jian Anning due to her abundant and long hair. In the Tang Dynasty, only noblewomen could wear such flying fairy buns; common people typically styled their hair this way only for significant occasions like weddings.

—However, such a bun is indeed impossible for regular people to use. It’s insanely heavy! And too complicated! Not to mention the hassle of piling all that hair on the head and creating numerous loops, just fixing it with gold hairpins, Phoenix Hairpins, and a gigantic Golden Silk Phoenix. Considering Yu Zexiao and Jian Anning’s wealth, there was no way they’d let her wear copper ones at the wedding, right? They’re all solid gold, weighing several kilos just by themselves! Constantly having such a big thing on one’s head, like the Qing Dynasty flag heads, would undoubtedly tire the neck.

After the outfit and hairstyle were ready, it was time for the makeup. The makeup followed an ancient method—face threading.

This involved using fine silk threads to remove the fine hair on the face, called "face opening," signifying the end of childhood and the start of becoming someone else’s wife.

The makeup artist initially wanted to go even more thoroughly and do an "moth eyebrows," but Jian Anning firmly refused—the so-called "moth eyebrows" (as seen in Liu Jialing’s version of "Detective Dee"), where Wu Zetian had moth eyebrows, supposedly the most popular style in the Tang Dynasty. To be honest, it’s a bit ugly, and Jian Anning could not accept it.

Everything was ready, and Jian Anning and Yu Zexiao went all out for this wedding. Not only did the newlyweds wear Hanfu, but friends and family attending the wedding received a set of Hanfu a week before the wedding. At the time, following the classical ritual, Yu Zexiao would be dressed in a bright red wedding robe, sitting on a high horse, and she would be in the sedan chair behind, with music and fanfare along the way, which seemed quite impressive!