Loved You Once But He's My Forever

Chapter 543 The Grand Epilogue—Fulfilling a Thousand-Year Promise

We had chosen to keep the wedding simple, but that didn't mean we cut corners when it came to the preparations.

We decided on an outdoor, vintage-style wedding. Damian cleaned the cabin from top to bottom and filled the courtyard with ambient lights. The entire area, within a few miles, was decorated with the cabin as the centerpiece-even the arched bridge was draped with twinkling lights, and a red carpet stretched across the ground.

Unlike my previous two weddings, the first one with Luke had been weighed down by gloom and uncertainty. I had even planned to expose his affair with Wisteria right there at the ceremony. By then, it wasn't even a real wedding anymore-it felt more like a final reckoning for our long, tangled relationship. And in the end, my death became the closing chapter of our story.

Now, as I stood on the brink of marrying Carl, I was genuinely looking forward to it, yet a lingering unease clung to my heart.

Maybe it was because I still didn't know when the so-called death curse would strike. A quiet anxiety gnawed at me.

It felt as if my first wedding had been doomed from the very beginning.

Maybe it was fate at play-pushing me to fulfill a wish I had made a thousand years ago.

When I closed my eyes, I could almost see a young girl kneeling beneath a cherry blossom tree, desperately pleading for her beloved to return safely. He had promised that once he came back, he would marry her.

But she waited for years, and he never returned in victory-only the news of his death reached her.

Carl wrapped his arms around me from behind. "What are you thinking about?" Only then did I realize Everly had been tugging at my hair and chewing on it for quite some time, but I had been too lost in thought to notice.

"I was thinking about my beloved general."

Carl froze for a moment. "You remember everything?"

I smiled softly. "Of course. I remembered a long time ago. General, I've come to fulfill our thousand-year promise."

Carl's eyes reddened slightly at my words. He pulled me and the baby into a tight embrace. "You fool."

Everett, who had been lying on the bed, saw us hugging and eagerly crawled toward us.

Then, he tumbled off the bed with an audible thud.

But he was a brave little boy. Even though he had fallen, he didn't cry. Like a little turtle, he scrambled toward me, inch by inch, stretching out his chubby hands as if nothing had happened.

"Alright, alright, our family has to

Everly to Carl. The two kids were too heavy for me to carry at the same time, and my body wasn't strong enough to

arms and gently tapped the tip of his nose. "Hello there,

several sets of outdoor-friendly outfits for the

directing Harlan on where to hang the decorations. "A little to

into her mic, "I told you there were enemies in the left and right

Harlan was speechless.

tirelessly, moving with practiced efficiency as they secured the string lights in place. By nightfall, the entire area for miles around was bathed in a dreamy sea of

all this way for the wedding. Kate supported Josh as he walked—after getting his prosthetic leg, his gait was so seamless that no one could tell

busied himself with setup around the

all the preparations just in time before the

prevent any unexpected mishaps this time, Carl and I decided not to see each other on the eve

stayed in the cabin with Zoey, watching the children drifting off

bed with her hands tucked behind her head, listening to the chirping of insects

lie, I'm pretty excited. I've never been to a vintage-style

did you guys come up

smiled at her. "Just fulfilling a

"There you go

important. It's late-we

the darkness, her voice floated over. "Chloe, you have to be

hardships had followed me one after another. This time, however, I believed things would be

arms around her waist

reply, lost in her

place at dusk. There was

like last time, and everything proceeded

dress, and the striking red made me look

head, studying me. "You look beautiful.

is my body,

unfamiliar-like I've become someone

gazed at my reflection in the mirror. She wasn't

from the red mole between my brows, my features seemed to have subtly changed. I was beginning to resemble the person I had been a

was young,

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