Sorry for the long wait but here’s a new chapter!
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Liang Muqiu wasn’t expecting Song Wei to come by so late.
Seeing that Song Wei’s seven orifices were smoking until he was about to explode, he hurriedly pushed Cen Nan’s back and whispered, “You go back first, I’ll talk to Song Wei about something.”
Cen Nan was reluctant to move. He looked down at Liang Muqiu. It was dark now and there was only a swaying lamp in the corridor that created a warm halo. Liang Muqiu stood in front of him. His skin shimmered with a layer of gold dust underneath the lamp. His eyes were bright and his lips were also pink, gentle and harmless.
Just a moment ago, he had kissed those lips.
With that kiss, he almost felt like Liang Muqiu belonged to him.
But now, Liang Muqiu wanted to speak to Song Wei. Even without using his brain, he could guess what Song Wei would say. It was nothing more than asking Liang Muqiu to leave him, reminding him of his betrayal and not to get confused and get back together with him again.
Cen Nan pursed his lips, his face looking unsightly.
He wasn’t as calm as he seemed on the surface. He was truly afraid that Liang Muqiu would waver. However, he couldn’t voice out the thoughts in his heart because Song Wei was right.
He was indeed unworthy of Liang Muqiu’s forgiveness.
The thought chilled his body instantly and there was an imperceptible pain in his eyes.
Liang Muqiu didn’t understand why Cen Nan still wasn’t moving.
He glanced at Song Wei beside him who was close to crying with anger. Between his best friend and his ex-lover, he’d better coax his best friend first.
He patted Cen Nan on the arm again. “Don’t make trouble. We’ll talk about it tomorrow. You quickly go back to your house.”
Cen Nan’s eyelashes blinked. The word “tomorrow” miraculously gave him a little comfort.
He squeezed Liang Muqiu’s hand forcefully. “Then I’ll see you tomorrow.”
Then, like a tamed beast, he obediently complied with Liang Muqiu’s words and turned to leave.
As he passed Song Wei, his eyes glanced down. The two men’s eyes collided. Cen Nan merely nodded in greeting and said nothing.
Song Wei rolled his eyes until the whites could be seen.
Liang Muqiu breathed a sigh of relief when Cen Nan finally went back to his house. However, looking at Song Wei in front of him, he started to have a headache again.
From the moment he started concealing Cen Nan’s presence, he knew that this day would eventually come. Now, it was time for him to face the music.
He stepped aside and invited him into his house,”If you have anything to say, let’s do it inside. Don’t stand in the corridor.”
After that, he opened the shoe cabinet and threw down a pair of slippers. It was the beige ones that Song Wei liked.
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Song Wei looked at him gloomily, thinking that what he needed the most was a few bottles of wine.
But he thought about it and said, “Coke.”
Liang Muqiu came back with two iced coke cans and pushed one towards Song Wei.
He opened the can, took a sip, and asked, “Why did you come here at this hour?”
Song Wei kicked the box beside him. “I got the materials you asked me for last time. I happened to pass by your house downstairs, so I wanted to pass it to you.”
His sudden visit wasn’t unusual. They had been friends for over a decade and he was as familiar with Liang Muqiu’s family as his own. He even used to stay over often.
He only came at this time today because he knew that Liang Muqiu would still be awake. Unexpectedly, he bumped into Cen Nan and Liang Muqiu hugging in front of the door and also found out that Cen Nan lived opposite Liang Muqiu’s house.
Thinking of this, he began to feel his stomach turn again.
The past few months, he also had some issues with his own private life and work, so he met with Liang Muqiu less frequently, inadvertently giving Cen Nan an opening.
He thought that after the meeting in the bar, Cen Nan and Liang Muqiu would no longer have contact.
He suddenly remembered another thing and looked at Liang Muqiu in disbelief. “The last time you went camping, you were with Cen Nan?”
Liang Muqiu touched his nose, too guilty to look at Song Wei. “It was him.”
With a clink, Song Wei crushed the can in his hand and his face contorted.
He didn’t need Liang Muqiu’s confession roughly guess what happened.
It must be Cen Nan who moved shamelessly to the opposite side of Liang Muqiu’s house. The two of them kept their heads down and looked up every day and they gradually fell in love again. Then he tricked Liang Muqiu into dating him again.
Song Wei was extremely distressed. He asked Liang Muqiu, “Are you crazy? You’re getting involved with him again. Did you forget how much you suffered when he broke up with you back then? You hugged me while crying and calling out his name drunk. Did you forget that?”
Song Wei started feeling heartbroken when he reminisced about the past events.
When they broke up, Song Wei helplessly stayed by Liang Muqiu’s side and witnessed his suffering.
During the period his worries peaked, he stayed with Liang Muqiu in class, ate with him and went to the hospital, all in fear that Liang Muqiu would faint on a random street.
At that time, he was keeping watch on Liang Muqiu’s infusion and there was a dog blood korean drama playing on the TV. The female protagonist lost her memory and forgot her fiancé. He stared at the TV and looked at Liang Muqiu who was so tired that he fell asleep next to him. He wished that Liang Muqiu would also bump his head and lose his memory, completely forgetting that there was once a person called Cen Nan who existed.
Seven years later, Liang Muqiu finally emerged. It was just unfortunate that he got involved with Cen Nan again.
Song Wei’s eyes reddened.
He was naturally soft-tempered and couldn’t get angry even when he wanted to and the tip of his nose was red. He looked at Liang Muqiu, “What the hell is wrong with you? Are all the men in the world dead? There are so many people chasing you, which one of them isn’t better than Cen Nan? Don’t hang yourself on this tree. He abandoned you the first time, will he not abandon you the second time? You almost lost half your life when you broke up with him. Are you going to lose your other half into it this time? Are you…”
He couldn’t speak any longer. He turned his head to one side and bit his lips, afraid of saying something hurtful.
Liang Muqiu quietly sat opposite him.
He knew that Song Wei was right.
He was embarrassed too. It wasn’t pleasant to dig up the past.
However, every word Song Wei said, he once uttered it to himself, but it was useless.
The moment he saw Cen Nan in the bar, the flame of the lighter illuminated Cen Nan’s eyebrows and he could see Cen Nan’s face clearly. From that moment on, these words had no more weight.
He was silent for a long time before he said, “You’re right, I also understand. But I love him.”
After all, no amount of truth can be equal to one sentence: I love him.
Liang Muqiu was even calm when he said it. After Cen Nan returned, he didn’t say a word of love to Cen Nan, but in front of Song Wei, he admitted it.
He saw Song Wei open his mouth as if to say something, but he interrupted, “You can try persuading me but I’ve persuaded myself a million times already. If it had worked, you wouldn’t have seen Cen Nan today.”
He had written several stories about passionate male and female romance, but in the end they were all empty and couldn’t help him one bit. Love is like a moth to a flame. It knows it can’t do it yet it still jumps down with its eyes closed.
Liang Muqiu continued, “I haven’t forgiven him for abandoning me. Sometimes when I close my eyes, I still dream that he doesn’t want me. I dream about him boarding the plane while I cry and shout behind him. He doesn’t even turn his head back. I dream about him being married to Ruan Zhuxian. The invitation was delivered to my house. Everyone was congratulating him but no one remembered that he was once my lover. You know how miserable I was after leaving him, but when I was with Cen Nan, there wasn’t a single day I was unhappy. It’s the same now.”
Before Cen Nan broke up with him, he was happy every day.
There will always be quarrels between lovers and the relationship would gradually become dull but it wasn’t the case for them. He woke up next to Cen Nan every day and still loved him as much as the day he confessed.
He looked down at his hand and said, “You’re right. There are many men in the world, but they are not what I want. If I had a choice, I would have started a new life seven years ago.”
He looked up at Song Wei who stared at him blankly.
He smiled and felt helpless, “Song Wei, do you think I don’t want to fall in love with someone else?”
It’s not like he hasn’t tried.
But he couldn’t.
Cen Nan was never a choice, but a requirement.
After Liang Muqiu finished speaking, the living room fell into a dead silence again.
Song Wei probably wanted to scold him but couldn’t open his mouth. It seemed as if he had been personally let down. He cried with his lips pressed together and sniffled several times, looking as if he had been greatly wronged.
Liang Muqiu sighed and sat next to him to hand Song Wei a tissue.
Song Wei was good at everything and he usually looked like a person who could find both ways. However, when he got emotional, he could really cry.
When he broke up with Cen Nan, Song Wei cried more than him. Now that he was meeting Cen Nan again, Song Wei was crying like a watering can.
He could only coax him, “Why are you crying? People who don’t know what’s happening would think I have a terminal illness. Besides, Cen Nan won’t go west if I tell him to go east. Although I have been unlucky for seven years, it has taken a turn for the better.”
Song Wei glared at him with his red eyes. “Stop talking nonsense. Then you let him take a knife and stab himself to see if that dog man is willing to send himself into the ICU for you!”
Liang Muqiu frowned, “The society is ruled by law, can you talk less about the bloody things? If he stabs himself with a knife, I have to take care of the patient.”
Song Wei wanted to curse him again.
But after crying for a while and chatting with Liang Muqiu, his mood became much calmer.
He understood Liang Muqiu’s intention to hang onto the tree calledCen Nan. He couldn’t be saved, just wait for death ba.
He wiped his nose and asked Liang Muqiu, “Then how’s it going with him now? Got back together just like this?”
Liang Muqiu hesitated for a moment, then shook his head, “No, he’s chasing me, I haven’t agreed yet.”
Song Wei looked at him suspiciously.
Liang Muqiu pursed his lips uneasily, “I’ve been left behind by him for seven years, can’t I put up some airs? I’ll lose face if I promise him so quickly.”
Song Wei muttered in his heart, you don’t have much face now.
However, he didn’t stimulate Liang Muqiu and sat cross legged on the sofa. “What are you going to do, drag it out and become friends with benefits?”
Liang Muqiu choked.
What friends with benefits? They weren’t even close to that, he and Cen Nan were as innocent as cabbages.
He leaned back on the sofa and looked up at the ceiling. “In fact, what bothers me the most is that I thought he was engaged to Ruan Zhuxian. I thought he had fallen in love with someone else abroad. Whether it’s dating someone else or fulfilling his parents’ wishes, he betrayed me in the end. But it was all a misunderstanding, he was never with Ruan Zhuxian.”
Liang Muqiu bit his lips and hesitated, “Since he didn’t fall in love with others, I don’t believe he would break up with me just because he wanted to settle abroad. I always felt there was another reason.”
He didn’t believe that he loved the wrong person.
Since even the incident Ruan Zhuxian was not true, how much of what Cen Nan told him was true?
Song Wei glanced at him, “Did he explain it to you?”
Liang Muqiu stared at the roses on the table for a while, then shook his head.
“I don’t want to hear it yet,” he said. “You also know that as long as Cen Nan gives me a reason, no matter how half-baked, as long as he says that he had difficulties, I will forgive him. But I’ve been unprincipled enough since I met him, I really don’t know how much more unprincipled he could become. No matter how many reasons he had, I can’t gloss over these past seven years as if nothing happened, and I don’t have time to feel sorry for him.”
Liang Muqiu took another sip of coke, “So I don’t want to hear it now. When I see that he’s no longer worried about whether I get back with him or not and isn’t restless, I’ll listen to his explanation.”
Author’s words:
In fact, we all know what’s in Qiuqiu’s mind
I know it’s been months since the last update, things got really hectic but it’s gotten more manageable now. I’ve recently started intern and it is beyond tiring which is why even after I finished my school semester, I didn’t upload any chapters. That being said, I’ll try to keep updates as consistent as possible. Thank you for your patience and hope you enjoy the chapter!
Thank you for ur hardwork!!
Thank you SW, you yelled everything I wanted to~
Thank You for the new chapter (๑°꒵°๑)･*♡ Good to hear that things are Your side are going in right direction ^^
Poor Song Wei… when my relationship ended, i chose to suffer alone. I can’t imagine putting my best friend through my heartache just to go back to him (I never went back)
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