Chapter Summaries

Lu Ao and Song Zhou held their wedding surrounded by family and friends, exchanged rings, and promised their love to each other. In the epilogue, Lu Ao finished his morning swim and reunited with Lu Xihou and Song Zhou, who had brought home a live yellow-lipped fish.

• Lu Ao and Song Zhou walked through the undersea tunnel to their wedding stage as family and friends celebrated.
• Ge Ranzhou officiated as Lu Ao and Song Zhou exchanged sapphire wedding rings and became husbands.
• Lu Ao kissed Song Zhou and told him he loved him, and Song Zhou promised that his love would endure forever.
• After winter passed, Lu Ao went swimming in the sea each morning and washed himself with a burst of rain.
• Lu Xihou ran into Lu Ao's arms, and Song Zhou arrived from the mountain path carrying a live yellow-lipped fish.

Song Zhou and Lu Ao found a pregnant Chinese Bahaba stranded in a reef pool and released it into their Marine Ranch. Lu Xihou asked the orca A-Ying to watch over it, then headed home with his fathers after getting permission to visit the orca at noon.

• Song Zhou showed Lu Ao a Chinese Bahaba washed into a puddle near the reefs, and they realized it was pregnant.
• Lu Ao and Song Zhou decided to release the protected fish into their Marine Ranch, where its habitat and food supply were suitable.
• Lu Ao and Lu Xihou gave the Chinese Bahaba life force and released it into the sea.
• Lu Xihou asked A-Ying to watch over the fish, and the orca surfaced in response.
• Lu Ao let Lu Xihou visit A-Ying at noon, and the family walked toward their island home.

Lu Xihou spotted Chubby as the family headed home, and Lu Ao and Song Zhou followed them. The chapter ended with Song Zhou taking Lu Ao's wrist as they went home together.

• Chubby ran toward Lu Xihou, his long fur fluttering.
• Lu Xihou let go of his fathers' hands and ran to Chubby, calling out to him.
• Chubby jumped around his little master as they headed home.
• Lu Ao smiled at his son, and Song Zhou grabbed Lu Ao's wrist and said they should go home.