After the ceremony, Neville takes the trophy – it wasn’t that fancy, just a simply plaque – to St. Mungo’s; Gran offers to go with him, but all his life, he’d (with varying degree of reluctance) always gone to St. Mungo’s with Gran, never alone. Today, he wants to go alone; he needs to go alone, to show them – her, especially – how much he’d grown.

“You know, Mum, all my life they’ve compared me to Dad, and when I succeed they tell me I’m my father’s son and how Dad would be proud of me, but I hope that maybe, just maybe, from now on they’ll start to see you more in me than just in my face.”

-Ruan Chun Xian