Jin Boyuan resumed his coordination with the hospital chapel, ensuring that everything would be ready for a ceremony that would bind his sister to someone they had all been taught to address with generational honorifics.
Tang Zichen began making calls to extended family members who would need to be informed about this development, preparing himself to defend Zhou Yuxi's choice against anyone who questioned the appropriateness of her marrying someone from the older generation.
And through it all, Zhou Yuxi and Mu Yunchen remained connected, hands clasped and eyes meeting in silent communication that required no words, knowing that they had cleared this hurdle of family acceptance and that tomorrow they would make permanent what already felt inevitable and unbreakable.
