Sheng Jiayu’s eyes reddened in an instant, but she gritted her teeth and held back, continuing to listen to Mu Ke’s cool voice as he said, "I, Mu Ke, have been proud since I was a child, believing there’s nothing I want that I cannot have, until that year, when I saw you in the corner of the bleachers, skipping gym class to do competition questions."

"From childhood to adulthood, I never regretted anything, everything was within my plans, except for you, you’re the exception. Once that exception began, it flowed endlessly. Because of you, I started to question if perhaps I wasn’t good enough? Because of you, I began to understand the taste of regret; because of you, I wanted to have an everlasting love with a woman."

"From the moment I fell for you, to watching you care for someone else and giving you up; from our reunion to now, Sheng Jiayu, I, Mu Ke, have liked you for thirteen years, without regret."

The cool voice disappeared, yet no one seemed to have recovered from it. Those last two words, Mu Ke said with certainty and seriousness, as if they weighed a thousand pounds, yet through those two words, it seemed as if people could already see them on stage, growing old together.

In the crowd, someone started clapping, and suddenly, applause thundered all around.

Actually, Mu Ke’s words weren’t particularly moving, but somehow they spoke straight to the heart.

How many thirteen years does a person have in a lifetime?

And who can, after missing thirteen years, still walk side by side again?

Those who knew Mu Ke thought of him as cool and aloof, with a calmness that seemed to keep everything under control, as if nothing was beyond his grasp.

Yet today, it was this man who admitted with his own mouth that he too had experienced uncertainty, had tasted regret, had let go, but what didn’t change was that he always loved deeply.

Sheng Jiayu choked up, swallowing difficultly and picking up the microphone, letting the tears flow from her eyes without care.

"I thank your parents for giving you life. I thank your mother’s supervisor for transferring her to B City for six years. I thank your alma mater for expanding, forcing them to borrow a field from our school. I thank the B City Education Bureau for letting us still have PE classes in high school."

"I thank my mother for giving me life. I thank my high school teacher for whimsically letting me participate in the Olympiad, for all this, led you to like me."

"From childhood to now, I’ve regretted many things, but what I most don’t regret, and will never regret, is letting go of the past and falling in love with you, Mu Ke. On our wedding day today, may I give you a gift?"

Sheng Jiayu was already sobbing uncontrollably, but she still forced herself to finish these words. She had no preparation, just said what was in her heart.

And now, she pulled Mu Ke’s hand to her wedding dress, her voice still choked, but every word was clear: "Mu Ke, you’re going to be a father. We... are having a baby."

At this moment, it was as if the world went silent. Mu Ke quietly looked at Sheng Jiayu.

He knew she had a surprise for him.

And this surprise was within Mu Ke’s guesses, just that he couldn’t be certain, actually felt it was too uncertain, it was what he thought the least possible possibility.

Because he knew about Sheng Jiayu’s body, it wasn’t easy to conceive, but now she said it herself, they’re having a baby.

Mu Ke’s usually cool and handsome face broke into a smile, and the applause below was even more thunderous than before.

Loving you for thirteen years, without regret!

Giving you a baby, as the most perfect gift!

There is a long life ahead, many more thirteen years, and they will go on together, always together like this.

Until fine lines crawl up to the corners of their eyes, until white hair falls silently, to the Three Lives Stone, to the Wangchuan River, to eternity.