Xie Luyu’s brain immediately shut down. He felt like his staying up late had made him stupid or something. He read the post several times over, using what little was left of his rationality. It’s a verified account, it’s got tens of millions of followers, it’s not a fake, it’s the real deal!
Upon coming to this conclusion, Xie Luyu paused. First, he carefully took a screenshot of the post. Even if this was a dream, he needed to have some evidence. Then, he exited the app before immediately clicking back in again. He refreshed the page and voila! It was still there! It wasn’t a dream!
Xie Luyu jumped up. He pumped his fists and let out a low roar. It was as if his favorite soccer player scored a crucial goal at the very last minute. He bounced from the bedroom to the living room, sporting a messy mop of bedhead. It was as if he wasn’t at home but rather a deafening nightclub. He even started beatboxing. Once he was done letting out his excitement, he ran back to get his phone, the mattress shaking in time with his steps.
He had to respond! It’s already been five hours and twenty-three minutes!
Due to the influx of notifications, Weibo was lagging a bit. Xie Luyu rapidly tapped at the screen, a little impatient. He clicked his tongue.
“Can you please hurry it up?”
However, once the screen finally loaded, he began to dawdle again.
Xie Luyu usually made tons of flirty remarks, but that flirtiness was nowhere to be seen now. He edited his post over and over. He’d write up a paragraph before promptly deleting it all. Nothing he wrote seemed to be quite right. In the end, he responded with a heart and a blushing emoji.
Once this post was made, fans immediately gathered in the comment sections and began to comment.
[He’s finally been married off! I can feel at ease now. I’m glad he didn’t muck it up.]
[It’s a good thing he never played along with anyone who tried to start rumors with him. Otherwise, it would’ve been over. Chi Chi definitely wouldn’t have wanted him.]
[I noticed that he was online half an hour ago. Is this all you have to show for it?]
[Idiot! Chi Chi, give me a chance! I’m way better than this doofus! I could type a three thousand word essay! I could even come up with the names of our kids!]
[Old Wang just exposed Xie Luyu. He posted screenshots from Xie Luyu’s WeChat Moments. I personally find those posts to be more sincere than this one.]
Some of the fans summed up the situation.
[Xie Luyu’s no good.]
Commenters then spammed this comment over and over.
Xie Luyu didn’t see any of this. Once he was done posting, he sent a message to Gu Qingchi. He first sent a couple of hearts.
Gu Qingchi responded with a period. It was then that he actually started typing.
[I didn’t know that you posted yesterday. I only just saw it this morning. You slept kind of late last night. You only slept for six hours if you just woke up now.]
Gu Qingchi responded slowly.
[Can we try it then?]
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
Xie Luyu’s alarm bells began ringing.
[Try what? I don’t know what you’re talking about.]
Xe Hlcumtl atbeuta tf ageis vlvc’a xcbk ktja tf kjr ajixlcu jybea.
[Try doing it.]
[Do what? I can’t understand you.]
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He needed to maintain this old-fashioned persona to the very end, and premarital sex was too forward for a conservative person like him.
Gu Qingchi replied very straightforwardly. He actually thought that Xie Luyu didn’t understand.
[Having sex. I heard it feels very good.]
[Have your parents agreed?]
[I haven’t asked them.]
Xie Luyu felt that the other might actually go ask his parents, so he frantically tried to patch things up by spouting a bunch of nonsense.
[We can’t do it even if they agree. We haven’t gotten married yet, so it would be an illicit sexual relationship.]
[Oh. Okay.]
Gu Qingchi was kind of disappointed.
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Mrs. Gu knew nothing of the video or the side account or the fact that her son had just made his relationship public.
She was only on Weibo for Gu Qingchi. The entire course of events had happened so quickly. The video had only just been posted when the side account was discovered. Gu Qingchi then stepped forward to make public their relationship. Once she finally noticed that something was up, Gu Qingchi’s publicization of his relationship was the only thing on the trending list, so Mrs. Gu only ended up seeing the end result.
Gu Qingchi’s post had been hovering about the trending list the entire time, and attached to it was his full government name. Mrs. Gu saw it while she was checking in with his super topic like she always did, and her heart instantly dropped. It’s over. Her darling boy was really in it for the long haul. He’s made it public and everything.
Mrs. Gu was so worried that she couldn’t even eat breakfast, glued to her phone the entire time.
Mrs. Gu was slowly looking through this trending topic when she suddenly came across a post. It was accompanied by many, many screenshots. If there was any personal information or stuff like that, it would be blurred out. It was clear from the number of screenshots alone that this had been a massive endeavor.
[Have they finally made it public? Good. I’ve been holding back for so long. Now, I can finally come out and say something. Here are over one hundred screenshots of Xie Luyu’s WeChat Moments. My hands are sore from all the screenshotting. I bet he’s already been blocked by all of his friends. Go ahead and condemn him. I will now tag Xie Luyu.]
The screenshots were dated. They started a long time ago and continued all the way up until now. Mrs. Gu carefully read them all one by one.
[I bought flowers for my lover today.]
[It’s so cute the way he likes to eat eggplant. It’s healthy and nutritious. How adorable.]
[In the future, I’m not going to keep a wine cabinet in my home. I’m so angry. How come there’s something like alcohol in this world? My lover’s stomach hurts from drinking again, but I know he won’t be happy if we don’t get a wine cabinet. It’s time for me to improve my cooking skills. If his stomach is full of the food I make, he won’t have room for alcohol. Okay, this plan is a go.]
[My lover’s been working so hard. He’s working hard to make money. I really want to transfer him some money so that he won’t have to work so hard, but I’m afraid that it’ll affect his career. Sigh. It’s so hard.]
[My lover gave me a cup today. How can he be so good? He must have been an angel in his previous life. I’m only going to use this cup from now on.]
This post was accompanied by a picture of a cup. There was a comment underneath it that read, “Can you please wake up!? It’s plastered in a company logo! It’s obviously a freebie!”
[I just bought a book on marine biology. My lover’s been interested in raising hermit crabs lately. I need to study up.]
[I learned how to make milk tea! Hahaha, I can guarantee that it tastes just as good as the store bought kind.]
As she continued to read, Mrs. Gu suddenly came to realize that Xie Luyu loved Gu Qingchi even more than Gu Qingchi loved Xie Luyu.
After the text messages from before were exposed, there had been rumors that Gu Qingchi’s depression was caused by Xie Luyu’s neglect. Gu Qingchi denied it, and Xie Luyu’s behavior had always been very good.
Nevertheless, Mrs. Gu was still very uneasy. It was inevitable that people would change. She was afraid that Gu Qingchi would be hurt.
However, now, she was gradually starting to set her mind at ease. Once you love someone very much, you’ll be reluctant to hurt them.
It was always the one who was deeper in love that got hurt.
Mrs. Gu put down her phone and sighed. She had already come to terms with it all. Still, she was very angry that her darling boy was about to be snatched away from her.
Mr. Gu was in the kitchen. He cleared the dining table and placed the dishes in the dishwasher. He then brought over a bowl of fruit.
“Have some fruit. You hardly ate anything at breakfast.”
“Save some for Chi Chi. He likes to eat sweets.”
“I’ve already saved some.”
Mrs. Gu didn’t eat very much before putting down her spoon.
“Good boy really likes Xie Luyu. You should look after him a bit more in the future.”
Mr. Gu nodded. He had already been familiar with the young man from before, and he’d had a pretty good impression of him at that time. He became a little more discriminating after learning that his child was in a relationship with him, but, even so, he didn’t see any big issues with him.
His career went without saying. He became an established actor at a young age, graduated from a prestigious business school, and he had a pretty good eye. His investments had all produced fairly good results.
In terms of his past relationships, Xie Luyu had never had any sex scandals with anyone else. Some artists had tried to get involved with him for his popularity, but they would always find themselves read for filth by Xie Luyu. If you looked at it that way, his temper did seem a tad short, but he was always very gentle in front of their good boy.
“He doesn’t really need me to look after him. He’s a pretty impressive kid. Gu Xie’s even worked together with him before.”
Mrs. Gu didn’t like to hear such things, so she responded with a few cursory words before continuing.
“How is Xiao Chi’s condition?”
“He’s getting better, but he still has to continue taking his medicine. His doctors want to try to identify the cause of his condition since it might be able to help him get better sooner. If we’re lucky, he may be able to recover completely.”
The atmosphere always got a little heavy whenever this topic was mentioned.
“I’m really afraid. I’m afraid he won’t get better … ”
Mrs. Gu choked up.
Mrs. Gu has read a lot of material on the subject. She had looked at the recovery rates and the relapse rates, and the more she understood, the more afraid she became. She couldn’t rest assured, even if the recovery rate was high.
Mr. Gu comforted Mrs. Gu.
“He’s getting better, and the dosage of his prescription has also been reduced. His doctors said that he’s doing well, so let’s listen to them.”
Mr. Gu paused at this moment. He suddenly had a thought. If marriage hadn’t been the cause of his depression, then it could be family-related? However, that didn’t make a whole lot of sense either. Gu Qingchi had been fine when he was in high school.
“Say, do you think his condition — ”
Mrs. Gu raised her head to look at him. He shook his head and smiled.
“Chi Chi’s definitely going to get better, so let’s show him a lot of love.”
Mr. Gu had been in contact with the doctors, and they’d discussed what could have caused his condition. No matter what the cause was, once someone developed depression, there would be physiological effects. Identifying the underlying causes may not necessarily cure his depression, but it wouldn’t hurt to know.
He had just speculated that Gu Qingchi’s condition may be caused by memory. He and Mrs. Gu, for some inexplicable reason, both found themselves privy to another possibility, another set of memories. In fact, Gu Xie seemed to have changed recently as well. If those muddled memories were enough to emotionally bankrupt Mrs. Gu, then what about Gu Qingchi?
Could he also be suffering from the blurring between reality and these memories?
His mother was no longer his mother, his father was no longer his father, and his brother was no longer his brother. Instead, they were strangers that had nothing to do with each other.
Once he returned to this family, it was the people he was familiar with, but they weren’t familiar with him. Other than his mother who was very close to him, his father and brother’s attitudes were that of caution.
However, what if their attitudes gradually returned to what they used to be?
Irrespective of whether this was the cause or not, they were going to love him very much and make up for all the love they didn’t have before.
Mr. Gu had never been good at expressing his emotions, but he would make an effort this time to get closer to his child, to let him know that he really truly loved him very much.
Awww that was so cute 🥰!!!!
From Xie Luyu freaking out, to him guarding his chastity and our favourite parents I laughed so hard and felt so touched hehe
💅😭 All this happiness is making me tear up fr. Fluff and Joy all the way!!
Thank you for the update!
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
Gosh I’m tearing up! 🥹
Thank You for the new chapter ( ˘͈ ᵕ ˘͈♡)˚๐*˟ ♡
This is going into the right direction, my heart feels so warm and fluffy 😭♥
».. to make public their relationship.« their relationship public (?)
At least, GQC can be himself when he’s with XLY, since it seems he isn’t telling the doctors everything bc they’re in touch with his family.
Thx for the ch ٩( >ヮ<)۶
Awn! That’s so cute! I even feel more energetic!