" I had hoped, perhaps foolishly, that you would at least give us some time to adjust to the reality of this marriage before rushing into it with the kind of speed that suggests you are afraid something will prevent it from happening if you wait too long."
"I am afraid something will prevent it from happening if we wait," Zhou Yuxi admitted with characteristic honesty. "I nearly lost him to an assassination attempt. I nearly lost him again to my own despair when I thought he did not remember me."
"I have learned that the universe seems to enjoy testing us in the most dramatic and traumatic ways possible, and I am not willing to give it another opportunity to separate us before we have made our commitment legally binding and permanent. So, we will take advantage of us being here and get married since the legal age is 18 and not like back home, that's 20."
