Get up, Pa said to Yuan.
Yuan looked at him while carrying tears in his eyes and then he got up from there. Yuan now stood just in front of Pa, facing him.
"Xu Yuan," Pa said, and then he continued, "are you really in love with my daughter? Just answer me this question," he asked Yuan.
Yuan looked at me and smiled through his tears and while still looking at me he said, "Mr. Zhao, you talk about love, then I answer it as the word love only exists in my world because of her, because before her I was really not aware of what love truly looks like. She came into my life and made me know what really love is. She made me know that loving someone unconditionally without even expecting anything in return is a kind of love. She made me know that love does not always mean staying together. She loved me from far away and even when she knew the reality very well back then that she would never be able to meet her love or get her love in this lifetime, still she decided to give her entire life to me without even thinking for a second. She was ready to give her whole life to me despite knowing that I might never be able to know her existence in this world. Still, she was ready to endure that pain of love for her entire life," Yuan said.
My eyes got teary while listening to Yuan's words. It really melted my Mr. Heart.
Yuan continued and said, "You know, Mr. Zhao, that your daughter is so passionate about everything she does, but what a girl she is... she only does one thing passionately and that's loving me that passionately when even I didn't know about it. She just gave her whole Mr. Heart into my hands and she was ready to get it broken by me, but she is too brave that she still has that courage.
I won't say that she is different from other girls because I haven't seen any girl other than her in my whole life. Even being so young, she never even looked at any guy in her campus, not even anyone passing nearby her. When she knew that she would never get me in her real life, then also she decided to stay honest with me even when I didn't know about it.
Tell me, Mr. Zhao, where could I get a girl like her for myself, who just worshipped me in the name of love? She has already given her whole youth to loving me. I never knew that one-sided love was this beautiful. I never knew it and if fate had not made us meet each other then I would never have been able to know the beauty of one-sided love," Yuan said.
Then he looked at me and said, "You know, silly girl, thank you. I am saying this thanks to you in place of everyone and to all those people who loved their loved ones one-sidedly. Zhao Shiza, you made one-sided love reach another level. From now onwards, whoever has one-sided love for their loved one, I'll see them with different eyes.
I never knew it, you made me know that one-sided love is this beautiful. It's painful, it's enduring, but I must say that one-sided love is way more beautiful than two-sided love because in two-sided love both people show their love equally and when they aren't able to meet each other's expectations, they part away forever.
But in one-sided love, the one person who is doing it already knows that it has lots of pain and only pain. There is no future for this kind of love. There will never be two conversations in this love. This whole love only depends on that one person, and that one person, I must say, is really very strong because from the beginning that person is ready to take up all the responsibility of love on themselves only.
And Zhao Shiza, witnessing one-sided love like yours is truly an honor for me in this lifetime. You made it reach another level and the kind of respect my heart has now for all those people who are in one-sided love has increased. And I must say to them, keep loving your loved ones because this is the true beauty of one-sided love — giving your life completely to a person even when that person doesn't even know that you have ever existed in this world.
You just beautified one-sided love so beautifully that no one could have ever imagined it," Yuan said these things while looking at me and tears continuously fell from his eyes.
I immediately moved my steps towards him and started wiping his tears with my hands and said, "Don't you know Yuan that I don't like it when you bring tears into your expressive charming eyes? Don't you know that? Then how could you dare to?" I said to Yuan while crying.
He smiled and said, "Still now also, you only care about me. No matter how bad the situation is, you always end up with me only," he said.
"Isn't it quite true?" he asked.
Then Pa came towards us. His steps felt heavy because I really didn't know whether Yuan's confession melted Pa or not, but the only thing that mattered to me right now was that even if Pa denied our relationship, then also I would never stop loving Yuan. Never. My whole life is for him.
Then Pa said while looking at us, "I have never seen a man who came here not to impress his girlfriend's father but instead came here to flatter how much his girlfriend loves him."
Pa let out a small laugh and continued, "It seems more like you are here to tell me how beautiful and outstanding your girlfriend's love for you is. From the past few minutes whatever Xu Yuan spoke was not about himself, when in such situations men usually try to impress the parents, but Xu Yuan is here to tell me how passionately my daughter loves him.
In all these minutes, whatever he said was just about you, Xiao Shiza, just about you, which truly shows that he is not here to impress me. He is here to tell me that no one could ever love someone the way his girlfriend did. I am thinking this is quite a good trick to make me fall into your trap, isn't it Xu Yuan?" Pa asked Yuan.
Yuan smiled shyly while putting his hand on his hair and said, "Is this working on you?" he asked Pa.
Pa laughed a little more than before and said, "It quite indeed is."
Then all three of us laughed together there. The heaviness of the room had finished now and right now the room which was sad and depressive from the past few days was now filled with our laughter and I hoped, I really hoped, that these were our never-ending laughs.
I really hoped that good fortune would fill our lives with happiness together forever and ever. This was the only wish I wanted to make.
Then Pa asked us, "So kids, what now?"
Then we both looked at each other and after a minute Yuan said, "What else could it be other than our wedding?" he said.
I got a little shocked hearing that and looked at Yuan and asked him, "Are you sure? The Xu Yuan, the C-drama's most loved and handsome actor, is going to get married to an ordinary girl?"
Yuan tapped on my forehead with his fingers like his usual habit and said, "Don't you dare call my would-be wife an ordinary girl."
Pa smiled shyly while hearing our conversation and then he said, "You two may live happily together like this. My best wishes are always with both of you. Now you both can leave my house, I have things to do here."
And then suddenly Pa pushed us out of the house and closed the door in front of our faces and then...