Chapter 2612

At this moment, He Yingxiu was wearing a snow-white wedding dress, and combined with her figure and temperament, which far surpassed those of her peers, she stunned the entire audience in an instant.

Although Su Shoudao had accompanied her to choose and try on this wedding dress, seeing He Yingxiu wearing it on the wedding stage now, Su Shoudao still felt his eyes light up.

Subsequently, guided by the emcee, he walked to the front of He Yingxiu and Old Master He, took He Yingxiu from Old Master He's hands, and then led her onto the stage.

At this time, the emcee spoke: "Next, we would like to invite a special guest. He is the witness specially invited by the newlyweds today. Both of them have told me that they owe their coming together to the help of this witness. So, now, let us invite the witness, Mr. Ye Chen, to the stage to deliver a speech!"

The guests off-stage applauded one after another, and Ye Chen, having changed into a suit, also slowly stood up and walked toward the stage.

Before going on stage, a staff member from Bai Jinhangong handed Ye Chen a microphone. After taking it, Ye Chen strode onto the stage and came to the side of the newlyweds.

Holding the microphone, Ye Chen paused slightly for a moment, then spoke: "I am very honored, and also very apprehensive, to be invited by two elders to such a meaningful wedding scene to serve as their witness. I haven't prepared any long-winded speech this time; I just want to share some heartfelt words with the two elders and all the guests present."

As he spoke, Ye Chen paused for two seconds and continued: "My parents passed away very early, but the fortunate thing amidst the misfortune was that when I was young, they gave me a perfect family atmosphere. They loved each other and were able to tolerate, understand, and support each other in life;"

"And they used their practical actions to make me understand a truth: as long as you meet the right person and find the right direction in life, you can overcome all obstacles and be invincible;"

"This kind of overcoming obstacles has nothing to do with ability or wealth, nor does it have anything to do with strong enemies or danger. This kind of overcoming obstacles concerns all the negativity and trivialities in life;"

"In my memory, even when they eventually had nothing left and could only take me to rent a dilapidated and simple small courtyard to live in, they still loved each other deeply and loved life;"

"My mother would do her best every day to tidy up every corner of the house, and would also put her heart into preparing every ingredient on the cutting board, and always maintained enthusiasm and a smile;"

"And my father would try his best to find opportunities to support the family in this city. Even when he returned covered in dust and sweat, he, just like my mother, maintained enthusiasm and a smile;"

"Although that period of time was very hard for him, he never complained about the setbacks and hardships of life, because in his eyes, as long as his wife and son were by his side, there were no hardships in life;"

"Moreover, they never neglected my education because of the hardships of life;"

"In my memory, the last time my father taught me to read, he read 'Yueyang Tower Record' by the Song Dynasty literary figure Fan Zhongyan. When he reached the passage 'not rejoicing in external things, not grieving for oneself,' he put down the book and told me that in this life, one should not covet how wealthy one lives, nor covet how far one goes. As long as one is always doing what one wants to do with heart and always doing the right thing, even if it looks like one has achieved nothing in the eyes of others, one has not lived this life in vain;"

"My father's education of me has deeply influenced my outlook on life and values, and also allowed me to truly achieve 'not rejoicing in external things, not grieving for oneself,' allowing me to maintain enthusiasm and a smile toward life even when sleeping on the roof of a construction site over thirty stories high, looking up at the starry sky;"

Speaking of this, Ye Chen took a deep breath and said earnestly: "I say these things because I want to tell all the guests present today that my parents told me with their practical actions that the greatest fortune in life is not how much wealth or how great an achievement one has, but being able to meet the right person at the right time, and doing the right thing together with the right person. If everything meets these three 'rights,' then you are the happiest and also the most successful;"

"Therefore, I also sincerely hope here that the two newlyweds can also join hands for a lifetime and be happy for a lifetime on the basis of these three 'rights'! Thank you, everyone!"

Ye Chen's heartfelt speech made everyone present unable to help but be moved.

While they kept applauding, they also couldn't help but feel admiration and longing for the fairy-like love of Ye Chen's parents.

Moreover, these people at the scene all knew Ye Chen's identity.

They knew the desolation when Ye Changying left Yanjing with his wife An Chengxi and son Ye Chen back then, and knew that they died here not long after coming to Jin Ling.

But they didn't know that even after shedding the halo and background of a big family, they had no desolation or unwillingness. They could still face life optimistically and manage their own small family perfectly to the extreme.

Even without relying on anything from the Ye family, Ye Changying could still, as sung in a song, build a small boat belonging to his own small family with his own hands, then wash his hair clean, climb the mast, and prop up that home that was like the tender leaves of a grapevine.

And An Chengxi could also give up all her halos, wholeheartedly guarding by his and their son's side, using her heart to dress up this small family to be warm and beautiful.

At this moment, everyone looked at Ye Changying and An Chengxi with even more admiration.

And Su Shoudao also felt extremely ashamed in his heart. Recalling his own anger and unwillingness after losing power in the Su family, he was really a hundred and eight thousand miles away from Ye Changying.

It was also at this moment that he understood why his own son was just a good-for-nothing with a flashy academic and experience background before, while Ye Changying's son, even growing up in an orphanage and growing up on a construction site, could be extraordinary.

The real gap was Ye Changying's attitude toward life and family. That open-mindedness, that responsibility, and that enthusiasm and dedication were something he couldn't catch up to even with a whip.

The Su family's old master had just been secretly cursing his son and grandson for being incompetent in his heart, but at this moment, he realized that the incompetence of his son and grandson largely stemmed from his own education and influence on them.

Neither he nor his son had been able to be as great as Ye Changying, so neither he nor his son had a son as excellent as Ye Chen.

Ito Yuhiko was already streaming with tears at this time.

He could use his life to spoil Ito Nanako in this life, but the biggest regret in the depths of his soul was not being able to leave behind a son to continue his surname and mantle.

Hearing Ye Chen's words this time, this regret was instantly magnified countless times.

The regret was instantly magnified so much that he felt in his heart that there was only one opportunity to make up for this regret, and that was to let Ye Chen be his son-in-law.

A son-in-law is half a son. Even in Europe and America, the term for son-in-law is "son-in-law," which literally translates to a son at the legal level.

Ito Yuhiko couldn't help but shout in his heart: Damn it! A son at the legal level is also a son!

And at this very moment, those confidantes of Ye Chen off-stage also already had red eyes one by one.

They knew that Ye Chen's life from childhood had not been easy for many years. Only today did they realize that what he had lost was actually such a perfect pair of parents. If it were someone else, perhaps that gap from heaven to hell would have long since made them unable to recover.

But Ye Chen relied on the spiritual legacy left to him by his parents and persisted all the way.

At this time, they also asked themselves a question in their hearts in unison: In Ye Chen's heart, who exactly is that right person?