Xiao Hanjin narrowed his phoenix-like eyes, enunciating each word deliberately, “Even if you didn’t, I’d never leave you.”
“But I love you.”
Seeing the sudden shift in his expression, she curved her lips into a smile. “Love isn’t just about beautiful, positive emotions. I get angry, jealous, and lose my temper too. When you didn’t chase after me just now, I couldn’t help feeling anxious and annoyed. When you talk to other women, I get upset. Even knowing you love me, I can’t control these feelings—human emotions are just that unpredictable, aren’t they?”
Xiao Hanjin barely registered what she said after that. All his focus zeroed in on her opening words.
[“But I love you.”]
Though he’d once shamelessly forced those words onto her, it felt like lifetimes since he’d last heard her say them willingly. He’d even thought she’d never say them again.
“Xiao Hanjin.” Di Ronghua waved a hand in front of his face, annoyed at his dazed stare. “Have you gone dumb?”
“…Can you say it again?”
Di Ronghua squinted under his burning gaze, then burst into laughter. “I love you, I love you, I love you! You have to give me the grandest, most beautiful wedding, never glance at another woman again, and love only me forever.”
His chest trembled, his unsteady heart rippling like a drumbeat, waves swelling into a majestic tide.
After a long pause, he managed a single, “Good.”
Her smile softened, eyes tender as she leaned close to his ear, her voice low and gentle. “Then… if you can do all that, I’ll never leave you either.”
“…Good.”
May all past regrets fade away; may this life know no more partings.
—
The wedding was set for an auspicious day half a month later.
The weather should’ve been cooling, but that day dawned clear and warm, the sky stretching endlessly blue. Surrounding them was a sea of white crabapple blossoms, while below, civil and military officials gathered in a grand spectacle of reverence.
A simple coronation would’ve been far less elaborate, but today’s ceremony was closer to a true wedding.
Di Ronghua had thought only Su Miao would attend, and that alone would’ve satisfied her. Yet her wedding gained one more guest—her brother, Di Beiyu.
Blood ties mattered, but their bond would never fade even without them.
The ceremony diverged from any she’d seen before—Su Miao’s idea, apparently. Di Beiyu, representing her maternal family, led her to Xiao Hanjin for the vows and offerings to the heavens, stunning and envy-inducing Beixi’s courtiers.
A shared thought bubbled up in every onlooker’s mind: A queen cherished by an emperor, handed their national seal, backed by her imperial brother—who in the world would dare cross her?
Music swelled.
The crowd, Su Miao, Feng Hua, even Xiao Yixun, watched her with warm smiles below. Xiao Hanjin had only grudgingly allowed Feng Hua—little fox that he was—to attend. Honestly, the man was petty.
[“Xiao Hanjin, in poverty or wealth, in sickness or health, will you stand by my sister, never abandon her, always love, cherish, and protect her?”]
Su Miao called it a wedding vow.
Di Ronghua gazed at the man just a step away, his eyes brimming with deep focus and adoration. His thin lips parted as he said, “I will.”
And so, she smiled.
She thought, she too was more than willing—to be with him, lifetime after lifetime.
The End.
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