"Next, please let the groom say his vows."

Some words he had rehearsed in his heart a hundred times, but when it came to saying them aloud, he still stammered.

Uesugi Sakura took Hanamaru Hanabi’s hand, looking into her tear-filled eyes.

"Hanabi... I met you when I was three years old, you were wearing white furry earmuffs at the time, wrapped in a light blue little cotton coat, lowering your head shyly.

"That day I happened to be going out and happened to meet you and your mother moving in, your mother seemed to notice me too, knowing I was a neighbor, she smiled and greeted me, then bent down to whisper some words to you that I couldn’t hear clearly.

"While I was still standing dazed at the other end of the street, a pair of lively purple eyes looked at me, and when she saw I was also looking at her, she very shyly withdrew her gaze quickly, lowering her head, her face red, hiding behind her mother, looking just as shy as she does now.

"I really liked her eyes, people often say eyes are the windows to the soul, I feel her lively eyes could always speak the words she buried deep in her heart.

"She was as gentle and kind-hearted as her mother, always doing things she wasn’t supposed to do, enduring everything quietly, doing whatever she was asked to do."

"And because of this, in elementary school, classmates always asked her to keep helping, often you could see her cleaning the classroom by herself after school, tidying up the brooms that classmates had casually thrown aside.

"She loves light blue, everything she wears, her little videos always include this color, loves sharks, her room is filled with shark-related toys, and she loves eating spicy food, although I could never handle her level of spiciness.

"I have many faults, but she hasn’t complained even once in fifteen years.

"She is Hanamaru Hanabi, my childhood friend who has been with me for fifteen years.

"Her name represents her goodness, her everything to me in my heart."

"She is my lifelong love, the one I seek in my life.

"She is my accompanying sun, the light in my existence.

"She... now... is also my wife."

Towards the end, emotion choked him up, Uesugi Sakura softly said these words, gently slipping the wedding ring onto her finger.

And at that moment, with tears already blurring her eyes, Hanamaru Hanabi immediately tiptoed up, hugging him tightly.

Regardless of whether her delicate hair ornament was beautiful or not, her little head kept burrowing into his embrace, crying, her sweet and tender voice excitedly shouting in his arms:

"Sakura-kun... Sakura-kun... Hanabi... Hanabi... Hanabi loves you so much!"

The relatives below clapped warmly, celebrating this exciting and happy moment together.

The witches were smiling, the priest was smiling, everyone was smiling.

This sacred time was as beautiful and pure as breathing.

Uesugi Sakura also hugged her, tightly wrapping his arms around her back, closing his eyes, a gentle warmth flowed from her soft calls, the intimate words, the intimate embrace made a never-before-felt warmth slowly melt in his heart, spreading across his entire body. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

"I know, I know, I love you too, Hanabi."

Today is their wedding day, and also Hanabi’s birthday.

The breeze softly rustled outside the temple, blowing the drifting clouds in the blue sky, moving the green leaves of October, stirring the happiness of October.

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