The wake lasts for three days because that's as much as Xi Zirui can handle, and then it's finally over with a somber funeral, to which Xi Zirui wears white, because it's traditional, and because he looks great.
"Ni Ni thinks Host is just trying on sexy widower looks to piss off Su Xueyi," Ni Ni chimes in, inconvenient as always.
He's going to do much worse than piss off Su Xueyi, very soon.
Over the next couple of days, he gets everything in motion for the final steps of his plan.
But the hardest thing is convincing Su Xueyi to return to Beijing from wherever he's hiding.
"I don't know why we can't meet somewhere else, preferably as far away from the Shen family as possible."
Xi Zirui had some trouble coming up with a reason for that too. It was the only flaw in his plan.
