Chapter 2173
“Suit yourself, there’s no avoiding this ceremony anyway.” Pretending to be indifferent, he turned and headed for the door, “Chen Yi will change your clothes, I’ll see you at church.”
“Wait.” Gu Han called out to me, coughing violently, but hesitating in speaking.
I knew what he had in mind, nothing more than the fear that I would temporarily backtrack.
“You know me well, since I promised, I will do it.”
The words fell, did not wait for Gu Han’s reaction again, head did not return to leave.
Closing the door, carrying the bag Chen Yi had left at the door, he walked to a safe intersection a little further away and, as planned, called Pickup Jane.
“You’ve finally turned up?” From last night until now, this floor was in a closed state, so long without being able to observe Gu Han, Gathering Jane obviously sat down a bit, “Fu Shen Yan’s people won’t let me upstairs, and you won’t answer the phone, what do you two mean as a couple, even if you don’t want to get married, you shouldn’t stop me from taking care of Gu Han, there’s nothing he’s done to you!”
“Just calm down for a second.” I sighed, “I’m going downstairs now, you wait for me at the back exit.”
“You’re leaving?” Gathering Jane’s focus had clearly been swayed by irrational emotions, “Shen Shu, was I wrong about you?”
“No.” The more I explained at a time like this, the more confusing it became, so I simply dropped the phone, “Anyway, I’ll see you at the back door, come or go.”
As expected, when I arrived, Jane was already at the stairs.
She looked at me with blame and complaint and a thousand words in her eyes, but I didn’t let her vent, after standing still, I handed over the bag in my hand.
“Change it.”
Gathering Jane took the bag and took the clothes inside out and looked at them, not yet reacting to what was going on, “This is ……”
“I still say, change or not, it’s up to you, it’s the biggest concession I can make.”
Leaving these words behind, he took the lead and walked out, opened the car door and sat down in the carriage to wait.
After a full fifteen minutes, the person who was waiting finally appeared.
……
Green grass, green fragrance, the car was parked on the road in front of the church.
The first time I looked out of the car window, I could see Gu Han with his hair in a bun, draped in red and carrying a red embroidered ball, waiting for his head.
Before I got out of the car, I deliberately rolled down the window so that Gu Han could see my face clearly before I rolled it back up again, picked up the red cover that was placed next to me and turned my head to look behind me.
“Are you ready?” I asked.
All the way over, Gathering Jane kept her fingers fiddling nervously, and only when she heard my voice did she realise she had reached the church, looking up at the window in dismay, and seeing Gu Han and Cheng Er approaching, her breath caught even more sharply.
“What if they’re found out? He’s sick, he could die at any time ……” Gathering Jane lowered her head and spoke to herself, the hand resting on her knee squeezing the clothes on her leg so hard her nails almost sank in.
I took a deep breath, my mood as gloomy as hers, but it had to be done, “Like you said, he could leave at any moment, without a wedding, are you willing?”
Resigned?
Who could be willing after so many years of dying, of physical and psychological torture, of living with nightmares all day long, only to end up with nothing?
I believe that Gathering Jane already had the answer when she put on the wedding dress.
After hesitating for only a second, she lifted her head and stared at me with determination for two seconds, then took the initiative to swap seats, put that red head covering on her head, opened the car door without a second thought, handed her hand to Gu Han and stood smoothly under his tug.
Gu Han caught her hand, careful as a child, his eyes and the corners of his mouth unconsciously lifting upwards, the light in his eyes, after a long time, finally reappearing.
The bride and groom hold the red rope, swaying one step at a time, the short stone path is a complete lifetime.
He was finally marrying the person he loved most.
She, too, is marrying the one she loves the most.
Chapter 2174
As Gu Han and Gao Jian walked into the church, my mission was successfully completed and I breathed a long sigh of relief before tapping on the tablet hanging in the carriage.
The church was monitored from different directions so that the wedding could be watched in real time.
The car door opened just then and Fu Shen Yan appeared on the side near the road. After getting into the car, he naturally sat down next to me, reached around his head and took me into his arms, embracing each other as he watched the images on the tablet.
Gu Han was holding the marionette, walking extremely slowly with each step, but the smile on his face was deepening, and his breath looked no different from normal.
Gao Jian, covered in a veil, matched Gu Han’s pace, looking at her, and every curve of her dress spoke of the sweetness of her moment.
The church has been remodelled and in the centre of the hall is a candle-lit divine platform, with a couplet on red paper stating that marriage is not easy.
“Before the jade mirror stand we talk of good things, before the silver mirror stand people look like jade.”
Chen Yi, dressed in a green inter-cloud robe, stood on the stage as the witness and officiant.
“Are you two ready?”
Gu Han smiled at his words, the smile on his face suddenly faded a few degrees, not directly answering the question, but looking sideways at Gao Jian next to him.
After a moment of silence, the woman’s low voice came from under the cover, “Mm.”
The simple and brief tone was not enough to reveal her identity.
Gu Han instantly dispelled all his worries, and with the joy of a life well-lived between his brows, his voice rose, “I’ve waited nearly ten years, no need to wait any longer, let’s begin.”
Chen Yi nodded, straightened his expression and became serious and solemn, “Please have the bride and groom perform the ritual!”
“One bow to heaven and earth!”
Gu Han held the marrying red in his hand and slowly bent his upper body while looking sideways at the red wedding dress beside him.
“Second worship to the high hall.”
Straightening his body and turning his head, his gaze still resting on her, after performing the salute, without waiting for Chen Yi to say anything, he took the lead and turned sideways, waiting for his good wife to face the head.
“Husband and wife -”
“Wait.”
The word “worship” stuck in his throat, and Gu Han interrupted, saying with a slight apology, “Sorry, wait a moment.”
After saying that, his gaze once again became gentle, looking steadily at Gao Jian in front of him, his eyes clear and clear, as if he had seen everything through.
Sitting in the carriage, I couldn’t help but stiffen, did he find out?
A few moments later, Gu Han’s nostrils were lightly bared and he smiled away to himself.
“That’s enough.” Gu Han lowered his eyes, as if he was saying it to himself, “It’s enough to get to this point, it’s not a waste of me loving you.”
He paused, and as he raised his head, his eyes filled with tears, bright red blood creeping up the whites of his eyes at some point.
“I always knew that you loved Fu Shenyin and not me, but I was always resigned to it, I didn’t understand, I never wanted to hurt you, why you just wouldn’t look at me more than once, by now, it seems like I understand a little bit.
If it were me, whether Fu Shenyan is dead or alive today, there is no way I would give you away, he is willing to fulfill your compassion, I just hope we will stay together until death.
I lost, but I don’t admit defeat, and not loving you the way you like doesn’t mean I don’t love you enough.”
He must have been hurting inside, tears slipping from the corners of his eyes, yet he was unaware of them.
I don’t know if it was a problem with the transmission of the picture, but from my perspective, Gu Han’s face turned back into that of the patient whose life was rotting away in this sharp turn of events.
“You stubbornly refused to be with me, I stubbornly pestered you for so many years, neither of us refused to give way, how are the two of us not fighting, this fight, and lived out my whole life ……”