The Stars In Your Eyes

Jian Kang Lu and Bai Yutang were sitting in Jian Kang Lu's parents living room when they dropped the bomb.

"Mom, dad, I'll marry TangTang this year."

Lu Hua was still arranging the cake when she heard the news that she had been waiting for a long time. Her eyes lit up and her smile bloomed. Her hands immediately clasped in excitement. "Ah! When?"

Jian Kang Lu and Bai Yutang unanimously agreed to hold the wedding on Summer break, hence they told them. "In July or early August."

Lu Hua almost screamed, "So soon? Why?" Lu Hua remembers this couple is man and man, it's impossible they held the wedding so soon because of an 'accident'.

"Summer break." Jian Kang Lu said. "Both of us are still on our postgrad. I don't want to wait until next year, so we agreed the wedding will take place on Summer break."

Jian Shen didn't even have a chance to say anything since her wife dominated the conversation.

"Where do you want to hold the wedding? B city or W city? How many people will you invite? Have you searched for the wedding hall available? It was hard to book the hall in this short amount of time. I'll ask my friend which place they have available at that time. How about the wedding suit? Have you contacted the wedding organizer?"

The three men in the room are speechless. 

"Mom, we can't get married in this country. I planned to get a marriage license in C country. We agreed only to hold a small banquet there. I'll look for a nice restaurant there. Only close family and friends are fine." Jian Kang Lu saved Bai Yutang from answering these thousands of questions from Lin Caihong.

"I'll let you choose for the date, mother." Bai Yutang sweetly smiled.

Lin Caihong truly melted to see his soon to be son in law mild attitude. "What about your family, TangTang?" She quietly asked.

Actually Lin Caihong assumed Bai Yutang's family already accepted her son, and she asked about the parents meeting to choose an auspicious date. But Bai Yutang assumed Lin Caihong asked about his family's attendance on the wedding day.

"My mom can't attend the wedding, my sister and her boyfriend said they will come. I haven't asked my uncle yet." He answered with his head lowered.

Lin Caihong's smile is stiff. She sighed, but she didn't show her displeasure. "It's okay."

Lin Caihong has Bai Yuren's number from the last time they met each other. She contacts Bai Yuren, telling her that she and Jian Shen will come with Jian Kang Lu, officially meet as soon as they are in law to be.

No matter if Lu Hua still rejects his son, she could only lower her head in front of Lu Hua, asking her not to wronged this couple.

The meeting was arranged for another two weeks in Lu Hua's house. Actually Lin Caihong wanted to arrange it in a hotel, but Bai Yutang said it was not necessary. Bai Yutang truly didn't want his mother and his family to make a ruckus in front of strangers. It will humiliate Jian Kang Lu's family.

On that day, even Jian Kang Se will also come with Jian Ming. Fan Mingle is on her due date, she can't travel far, so she stays at home.

The reason Jian Kang Se brought his son, to show their support for his big brother. Even Jian Ming who is still in his 6th grade understands that his uncle is different from other people, but didn't differentiate nor look at his uncle and his boyfriend with malice. Jian Kang Se hoped this will soften Bai Yutang's family.

Lu Hua grit her teeth, steel her heart, when she told her parents and her brother. Her parents were truly shocked and her mother cried. 

"At least TangTang agreed to give me children, mother. I already asked him to change his mind in the past two years, but he didn't listen to me. Rather than letting him run away with that man, better to tie him this way." She explained when her mother was crying and hit her, accusing her of being a bad mother who can't watch for her own son.

"If I knew, I wouldn't have agreed when you and your husband sent him to study in B city. Big city indeed gave him the wrong education and bent his views of life. What will other people say about our family? Oh.. Shameful!" The old lady cried and wailed. Her heart is full of grief.

"Nobody will know. He didn't live here anyway. If they broke up someday, we could always say that he got married to some woman in B city and divorced." Lu Hua said indifferently. She could scold her son, but other people were not allowed. After all, she didn't want her son to face unfair treatment from society.

Bai Yutang's uncle is quiet. He didn't really oppose Bai Yutang to marry another man. After all, he received a lot of help from Jian Shen, Jian Kang Lu's father. 

After meeting him on Bai Yutang's graduation day, he learns about forex and gains some money from it. Without Jian Shen, he won't learn it successfully. All his efforts were not having good feedback, only when he followed Jian Shen's instruction, his money grew well. He still has a little daughter. How could he raise her well if he can't scrape more money for his family?

So, when it was time for two family meetings, Bai Yutang's uncle's family were showing their support, while Bai Yutang's grandparents refused to come.

Jian Kang Lu's family were not stingy, they brought so many betrothal gifts, as if they wanted to propose for the emperor's beloved daughter. Luckily Bai Yutang's house environment classify as middle class family neighbourhood, no fussy neighbour stick their head out to see these small occasion.

Lu Hua herself didn't decorate her house. She just stood quietly in the living room, while Bai Yutang and his sister were busy preparing for lunch.

Lin Caihong flashes her socialite's smile after she sits on the sofa along with her family. "Mrs. Lu Hua, I thank you for welcoming us. Here are small things we brought from our family as our gratitude."

Lu Hua could scold and give Jian Kang Lu harsh treatment, but she couldn't do the same with Lin Caihong and Jian Shen. After all, they were her seniors. Lin Caihong herself is 11 years older than her.

The meeting is not warm, but also not as bad as Bai Yutang imagined. The two families settled the date, which is mid July, earlier than what Jian Kang Lu and Bai Yutang planned.

Jian Kang Lu himself only invited his closest friends, 5 people with their family. But this family extended to their parents also. Jian Kang Lu's best friend's parents were very fond of him and didn't see Jian Kang Lu's sexual preference as bad things.

From Bai Yutang's side, his uncle's family will come, Bai Yuren and He Zheng also come. Bai Yutang invites his 3 best friends, who agreed to come once they know Jian Kang Lu will provide the plane ticket and hotel.

Who will reject a free trip to C country? 

Since Lu Hua refuses to take part in this wedding, Lin Caihong freely intervenes in this couple's wedding without having to think about her in law's preference.

In the end, Bai Yutang, who cut all of his lover's ideas, had to surrender in front of his mother in law.

Their suits, their shoes, the family's attire, even their shoes and the restaurant's menu, all taken care of by Lin Caihong and Zhou Qunfei. Wu Yajun also intervenes and even looks at Jian Kang Lu and Bai Yutang with disdain.

"Both of you truly a disgrace to gay's community. I never met gays who didn't have a sense of style like both of you." She said. 

Wu Yajun herself already has a boyfriend who is two years younger than her. They planned to have a wedding next year. She cursed Jian Kang Lu who got married earlier than her.

"I thought I would save my money by not giving you a red envelope for the rest of my life. Truly, Jian Ge, you're so lucky to meet this poor lamb who wants to jump into the pit together with you."

Jian Kang Lu only drinks wine with a smug face and sly smile. 

"Don't forget to give me my money back on my wedding next year." Wu Yajun sneered.

"I will, don't worry. After all, my husband is younger than yours." Jian Kang Lu said happily, earning him a jab on his ribs from Wu Yajun.

In the end, the number of people who come to Jian Kang Lu and Bai Yutang's wedding is less than 100 people. Most of them know each other, they don't need Bai Yutang and Jian Kang Lu to force them to talk to each other.

Even the shy He Zheng finally opened up and his face brightened when he was praised by Huang Yin and Cheng Rong.

Huang Yin, Cheng Rong and his wife, are the only doctors from Jian Kang Lu's circle who were invited to this event. When the hospital exploded from the news of Doctor Jian's wedding, Jian Kang Lu only smiled and never intended to show his soon to be husband's name, occupation, nor the gender.

Most people in the hospital of course could guess, but when the person who will get married himself didn't confirm, what else could they say? Jian Kang Lu only prepared 1000 tumblers as his wedding souvenir and apologised for not inviting them to the wedding.

After all, these people will someday see him with Bai Yutang, and will notice they wear the same wedding ring. No need for Jian Kang Lu to shout to the world that he will marry this man he loved so much. The world is not that kind to them anyway.

Bai Yutang thought this wedding is just a small ceremony for him, it does not mean so much to him. All that matters is the person beside him will be by his side, forever.

Yet, when he stepped into the C country marriage bureau, he suddenly felt sentimental.

From this day on, July 15th, was the day where they will celebrate the day of both of them tied in legal bind. The day where the world forced to admit that both of them have equal right in the eye of law as other heterosexual couple.

The day where Jian Kang Lu signed the piece of paper stating that he agreed to be the husband of Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang felt his eyes getting warm and he bit his own lips, preventing his eyes from forming tears. His slender hand signed the paper. The officer congratulated them with a warm smile.

Jian Kang Lu held his little husband's eyes and kissed the soft lips he adored so much.

"My little husband." He whispered in Bai Yutang's ear and kissed the soft cheek before giving him a bright smile.

Bai Yutang returned the smile.

We've come a long way, yet we still have many years to come. I've fallen and risen again, for you always be there to hold me in my stormy days. I've been weak, and you've been my strength. In love, one plus one is not always two, yet two of us will always be ready to face the infinite.

Because I love you.

Because you love me.

Because our love is enough. 

You, my husband, are more than enough for me.