Epilogue
After our wedding, I came to understand just how long Shen Zhiye had carried that childhood promise in his heart.
He had waited for me all those years, rejecting every false daughter the Gu family tried to substitute.
The moment he saw me, he recognized me instantly and did everything in his power—gifts, protection, fierce loyalty—to make me his.
Even his playboy reputation had been a deliberate shield to avoid marrying the wrong person until he found me.
The mermaid wedding dress he designed himself had been years in the making, refined over time for the day he finally had me.
Standing beside him under the spotlights that day, I felt the full force of his joy.
From then on, every morning when I opened my eyes, the first face I saw was Shen Zhiye’s.
And that was all I ever needed.
(The End)