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The two chapters have been combined to enhance continuity.
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The table was set up on the bed, and about a dozen brawny young men stood in a full circle around the wedding bed, with the bride and groom trapped in the middle. The best man and the maid of honor were kept outside the circle, and on several occasions when they tried to climb onto the bed to protect the bride and groom, they were stealthily blocked and turned away.
According to custom, the table should have been placed on a traditional kang bed-stove, but since the Zhou family's mansion didn't have one, these people, in the mood for fun, forcibly lifted the table onto the bed.
Normally, no one would dare to pull Zhou Mikang's 'tiger's whiskers', but today, no matter how much they teased, the groom couldn't get angry, and he certainly couldn't take revenge afterward. They weren't foolish—how could they miss such a golden opportunity?
