"Only you..." he said.
After hearing this, Song Lianhe should have been moved, yet she felt nothing at all.
She nodded, a bit dismissively. "Alright, I understand."
Zhou Cangyan stared at her. "If we complete this ceremony today, there's no turning back. Do you understand?"
Song Lianhe was getting impatient. "So are we doing this or not?"
Xuan Mei and the others looked over, giving the Princess Consort supportive gazes for being so bold.
Zhou Cangyan merely furrowed his brow. He looked at her, his voice dropping even lower. "Alright."
He glanced at Pang Jiliang, who took the cue and immediately cried out, "First bow to Heaven and Earth!"
Song Lianhe took a step back, turned, and bowed to Heaven and Earth with him.
Until the cry of "Ceremony complete," Zhou Cangyan still felt as if he were in a dream.
Just now, while bowing to Heaven and Earth with her, fragmented images had flashed through his mind—of him and her, performing this very same ceremony...
