Chapter Summaries

After graduating, Su Can traveled to Beijing with Tang Wu and old friends for Lin Luoran’s wedding to Wei Yuanhu. As Lin Luoran and Su Can confronted their unresolved feelings, Tang Wu acknowledged their bond and urged Su Can not to let Lin Luoran’s unhappiness define their future.

• Su Can graduated from Nanjing University, while Cheng Congcong went to Germany and shared photographs of her life there.
• Su Can learned Lin Luoran was marrying Wei Yuanhu and flew to Beijing with Tang Wu, Zhang Xian, Xue Yiyang, Liu Rui, and other friends.
• Wang Weiwei welcomed Su Can’s group and took them to Lin Luoran’s childhood courtyard and then to her new home, where friends had gathered before the wedding.
• Lin Luoran and Su Can reminisced together on the lawn, and she asked whether their lives would have been different if they had met before Tang Wu; Su Can said they could not know, though things would not have turned out as they had.
• Su Can wandered through Lin Luoran’s childhood courtyard that night, and Tang Wu told him she understood his feelings and did not want Lin Luoran to remain unhappy.

On the day of Lin Luoran and Wei Yuanhu’s wedding, Lin Luoran confessed her love to Su Can, but she left when the motorcade arrived. At the ceremony, Su Can realized he could not let her go, seized her hand, and ran from the ballroom with Lin Luoran and Tang Wu; later, their friends and families built lives across China and the world.

• Lin Luoran rushed to Su Can’s courtyard house before her wedding, confessed that she loved him, and left when Ye Huishang warned that the wedding motorcade was coming.
• At the Wangfu Hotel, Lin Guozhou told Su Can that the Lin family would have accepted his relationship with Lin Luoran, while Wei Yuanhu told Su Can that he had won.
• As Lin Luoran and Wei Yuanhu’s wedding ceremony began, Su Can left the ballroom, then returned and took Lin Luoran’s hand before pulling Tang Wu away with them.
• Su Can Licheng became mayor of Huangcheng, Phoenix Industries grew into a major coal-coking company, and businesses connected to Su Can’s friends expanded.
• Su Can, Lin Luoran, and Tang Wu traveled around the world, while Su Can sometimes remembered friends who had disappeared from his life.