"Uchiha Tenshu, are you willing to spend the days ahead protecting your fiancée, Uchiha Yukino, with your life? To cherish her at all times?" Uchiha Raimon's voice was calm and gentle, as though he were asking something utterly ordinary. Yet his graying hair truthfully revealed his physical condition—it was a sign that his life was nearing its end.
In the spacious hall.
The clan's other eight elders, varying in age, silently watched this engagement ceremony. Their gazes converged as if they were all waiting for Uchiha Tenshu's answer.
However, not far away, Uchiha Lingyue's cold, exquisite face was filled with grievance, while ripples of bitterness and jealousy stirred within her heart.
They had clearly agreed that the three of them would be together!
Why was this ceremony only for Yukino and Tenshu?!
Father!
You're being far too biased!
I know you made this decision because you were worried Yukino's illness would keep her from staying with Tenshu until the end, and because you were afraid Tenshu would be wronged. But Yukino's illness has already been cured!
Uchiha Lingyue felt a wave of anguish in her heart.
She had originally thought that this engagement ceremony would belong to all three of them—Uchiha Tenshu, herself, and her younger sister Yukino—and that their father, Raimon, would entrust both sisters to Uchiha Tenshu together. But now, things had turned out completely differently from what she had expected.
Uchiha Lingyue could not help recalling their earlier agreement. Her father had once said that he would marry both sisters to Uchiha Tenshu, but now, because Uchiha Yukino had concealed the fact that her illness was about to be cured, her father had made these arrangements. He believed that Yukino ultimately would not be able to remain with Uchiha Tenshu until the end, which was why he