As soon as he has picked Anna up, she looked at him, then buried her head in his chest as she felt embarra.s.sed, as this was the third time, he had done this today. She whispered loud enough for Hou Yi to hear "Yi, this is getting so embarra.s.sing."

"Sweetheart, you do not need to be embarra.s.sed." With that he carefully put Anna down on here feet and took her hand in his. "Mother, Father, is everyone around?"

"Hou Yi, you better have a good explanation for this behaviour. The family are gathered in the formal lounge, so you better come with us immediately." Stated Hou Jang, and both he and Du AnLing turned and walked to a door just up the corridor from where they were.

Anna, turned to Hou Yi, and said "Yi, why do I get the feeling that we are about to be children told off by their elders."

"Because that is what is about to happen. My parents, grandparents and aunt, your in-laws, will tell us off, for multiple things, including me carrying you over the threshold." With that Hou Yi took Anna's arm and escorted her through the door that his parents had good through.

As soon as they were inside the door "Hou Yi, shut the door. You better then give us all an explanation for your behaviour that we just witnessed and explain who this woman is. We thought you were marrying Yang Lin today, and have been waiting to welcome her into the family," demanded Hou Jang.

Hou Yi turned and shut the door. He then escorted Anna to an empty couch, and they both then sat down on it, looking at the people a.s.sembled before them. Hou Yi took Anna's hand in his, as a means of giving her some comfort. "Well Hou Yi, we are waiting. You better explain yourself," Hou Jang demanded again.

Looking at each of the others in the room, Hou Yi, firstly raises Anna's hand to his lips, kisses it and lowers it. Anna, using her thumb, commences stroking his hand. Hou Yi then starts to speak "Grandfather, Grandmother, Father, Mother, Aunt. There is a simple explanation for what you have seen. I simply was carrying my bride over the threshold of the family home."

Before he could say anything else, there were five different voices, all saying "Bride. When did you get married? Why were we not there?", in different tones, some joyful, some in surprise, and one completely stunned at what was said.

Hou Yi paused for a few seconds, to let the news settle in to everyone. "Grandfather, Father, you demanded that I present my bride to you by tonight. The punishment for not doing so was that you were willing to hand Hou Enterprises to the Lu Family. If I did, while I would guarantee you an ongoing income from the company for the rest of your life, you would no longer have a say in it. After meeting Anna here six months ago, I have spent my time trying to convince her to end the relations.h.i.+p she was in and marry me. It was only a few days ago I achieved that. However, as she knows my past, she wanted to properly end that relations.h.i.+p without any deceit before we would marry. That was only achieved today, and as soon as it happened, we married. Yang Lin, was never really a marriage prospect, but she had always said that she was willing to marry me to protect the company. As to no one from the family being here as Anna's family could not travel from Australia, we decided to keep it simple, and have the issuing of the marriage certificate filmed, and then give everyone a copy."

The other five people in the room, looked at each other, as to determine who would be their spokesperson, to question Hou Yi and Anna about what had happened. With a nod of heads, it appeared that Hou Jang was elected the group's spokesperson.