Wu Chun stared at Xu Shi Yao’s face, his heart filled with a complex mix of emotions, unsure of how to express his current state of mind.
Unintentionally, tears silently streamed down from the corner of his eye.
When Xu Shi Yao extended her hand, Wu Chun turned his face away.
“I understand.”
Wu Chun hastily wiped away his tears, and after drying them, he turned his head to look at Xu Shi Yao. For a long time, the atmosphere between them was unusually quiet.
The night was very quiet.
Except for the occasional croaking of frogs, there seemed to be no one under the mountain tonight.
Wu Chun stared at Xu Shi Yao’s face for a long time. In the end, he was the first to turn his head slightly. However, at that moment, Wu Chun held Xu Shi Yao’s face with both hands, forcing him to look at him once again.
“Xu Shi Yao, I understand what you’re saying, but I just like you. What should I do?”
Wu Chun said seriously. As soon as the words came out, he saw Xu Shi Yao’s lips move slightly. After a while, he heard him slowly utter two words: “I’m sorry.”
In an instant, tears welled up in Wu Chun’s eyes again.
“Why are you apologizing to me?” Wu Chun asked chokingly.
Xu Shi Yao avoided eye contact and remained silent.
Wu Chun released his grip, sat up straight, and looked ahead.
After a while, in the still night, Wu Chun suddenly spoke loudly, “If anyone should apologize, it should be me. It is my feelings that have caused you trouble, but can you please…” Wu Chun’s voice trembled considerably, and he took a deep breath to calm his emotions. After a moment, Wu Chun exhaled again and continued, “Please don’t avoid me, okay?”
As the last word left his lips, Wu Chun seemed to have exhausted all his strength. He leaned back against the tree trunk, his gaze still full of determination as he looked at Xu Shi Yao pleadingly.
Wu Chun waited for Xu Shi Yao’s answer.
However, Xu Shi Yao remained silent for a long time.
“Xu Shi Yao, please answer me.” Seeing Xu Shi Yao’s continued silence, Wu Chun quietly urged him, grabbing the branch he was sitting on.
Wu Chun trembled, his eyes fixed on Xu Shi Yao’s lips as if waiting for a verdict.
“Wu Chun, don’t come any closer. Return to your own world.”
Xu Shi Yao’s words were like the ringing of a bell that signaled the end of a judgment. At that moment, Wu Chun was sentenced to death.
“Xu Shi Yao…”
Wu Chun refused to give up, as if he had never expected Xu Shi Yao to avoid him before this moment.
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“Xu Shi Yao, please don’t avoid me, okay?”
Wu Chun cried out once again. Today’s tears seemed to be the accumulation of all his tears from the past eighteen years. He pleaded with a sorrowful voice, but he received the same rejection from Xu Shi Yao.
“Go back, Wu Chun.”
Wu Chun finally fell silent. After a while, he hugged the tree trunk and slid down from the tree. The moment his feet touched the ground, the pain in his ankle wound immediately awakened, and a sharp, tingling sensation spread throughout his body. Wu Chun immediately fell to the ground.
At the same time, Wu Chun saw a white figure flash in front of his eyes. The next moment, he was lifted up from his waist.
“I’ll take you back,” Xu Shi Yao’s voice came from above.
Wu Chun looked up and grabbed the hem of Xu Shi Yao’s clothes.
“Don’t avoid me, okay?”
This was Wu Chun’s last plea tonight, even though he had been rejected many times before, the reluctance in his heart still wanted to try again.
Xu Shi Yao stared into Wu Chun’s eyes full of longing. His Adam’s apple trembled slightly, and despite the reluctance in his heart, Xu Shi Yao repeated the words he had said before.
“I’ll take you back.”
The anticipation in Wu Chun’s eyes faded as Xu Shi Yao’s words came to an end.
It was still a “death sentence”.
Even though it was the expected result, there was an indescribable feeling of uneasiness in Wu Chun’s heart.
Wu Chun released the hands that were clutching Xu Shi Yao’s collar and let out a slow sigh.
After a moment, Wu Chun chuckled in self-derision.
“Let me down, Xu Shi Yao.”
Xu Shi Yao completely ignored the request and continued to hold onto Wu Chun, walking at a noticeably slower pace tonight.
“Xu Shi Yao.” Wu Chun struggled to free himself from Xu Shi Yao’s embrace. Fighting back the tears in his eyes, he suppressed his sobbing voice as he said, “I can do it on my own.”
However, the more Wu Chun struggled, the tighter Xu Shi Yao’s hands became around his waist.
“Don’t move, listen to me. I’ll take you back.”
Wu Chun looked at Xu Shi Yao’s expression and was stunned for a moment. Finally, Wu Chun gave up the fight and buried his face in Xu Shi Yao’s embrace.
During the ride, neither of them said a word.
When they arrived at Wu Chun’s grandfather’s house, Xu Shi Yao let him down.
Xu Shi Yao crouched down and gently touched Wu Chun’s injured ankle.
A cool sensation passed through, relieving some of the pain in Wu Chun’s ankle.
“Go back, it’s late,” Xu Shi Yao stood up and said to Wu Chun.
Wu Chun looked at him, his lips moved, but in the end, he didn’t say anything. He turned around and limped back to his house. After a while, Wu Chun suddenly turned around as if he had made a sudden decision. He looked at Xu Shi Yao with determined eyes and said, “If you hide from me, I will stay here and guard the mountains forever.”
After finishing his words, Wu Chun quickly turned around without looking at Xu Shi Yao’s expression. He casually picked up a wooden stick from the ground and propped himself up as he walked towards his home.
The lights in the courtyard suddenly lit up.
Wu Chun turned around in a panic and saw a faint white figure in the distance, lingering there, unwilling to leave.
“Chun Chun, what happened?”
Wu Chun quickly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and forced a smile, “It’s nothing, Grandpa. I accidentally fell.”
…
Tonight, Shili Mountain was unusually quiet.
Xu Shi Yao sat on a pine tree and looked at the bright moon hanging high in the night sky. After a while, he let out a slow sigh.
Half a moment later, a faint green light flashed, and rows of tree barks appeared in front of Xu Shi Yao.
These tree barks happened to be what Wu Chun wanted to see. They contained records of everything about Wu Chun.
Xu Shi Yao arranged the tree barks in chronological order and started reading from the first one.
Every day at midnight, Xu Shi Yao’s records would be deleted, but he could still quickly memorize them after reading the contents once.
From an unknown moment, when Xu Shi Yao looked lost while his memories were being erased, a familiar figure would always appear in front of his eyes, as if it was the first thing he saw.
As far as Wu Chun was concerned, Xu Shi Yao seemed to have forgotten, but not forgotten either. Whenever they saw each other, all the unfamiliarity in their hearts would disappear.
Every time Xu Shi Yao saw Wu Chun, the adorable boy with bright eyes and two dimples when he smiled, his lips couldn’t help but curl slightly. It turned out that there was still someone in the human world who could touch him deeply, so he could not resist the urge to break through the barrier between their two worlds and truly be by his side.
It was only that night, after hearing Wu Chun’s words, that Xu Shi Yao suddenly woke up. He realized that he shouldn’t be like this.
Perhaps Xu Shi Yao still didn’t fully understand the meaning of love, but that night, he sat alone on the pine tree and thought for a long time. Despite the immense reluctance in his heart, he pulled back the hand that was reaching out to Wu Chun’s world.
Humans and ghosts have different paths, and Wu Chun should not be tied to him. He should follow his own life path and create his own world in the outside world that he often mentioned.
During this process, Xu Shi Yao’s presence would only hinder the other person.
So Xu Shi Yao hid. He looked at those tree barks that contained the records of the other person and thought about destroying them. However, Xu Shi Yao couldn’t bring himself to do it. He couldn’t bear to erase Wu Chun’s traces from his life.
Xu Shi Yao’s world was too monotonous, as if every day was a blank sheet of paper. It was Wu Chun’s presence that added some touching content to that blank page.
“Wu Chun…”
Xu Shi Yao muttered softly, remembering the words the other person had said tonight, and finally let out a sigh of helplessness.
Immediately after that, Xu Shi Yao waved her hand, and soon a phrase appeared prominently in the middle of a tree bark: “To like is the feeling of every moment spent with Wu Chun.”
Xu Shi Yao covered her lips with her fingertips, remembering the feeling of Wu Chun’s kiss. After a moment, another phrase appeared on the bark of the tree: “A kiss is the moment when the lips touch softness, and the calm heart becomes excited, unable to control the desire to possess.”
For the first time, Xu Shi Yao felt selfish. On the one hand, he wanted the other person to leave his life, but on the other hand, he couldn’t wait to record every moment of the other person’s existence in his own life.
However, this selfishness was only known to Xu Shi Yao himself.
Xu Shi Yao would continue to guard this mountain and the people in the village below, while Wu Chun would return to his own world.
Their lives would no longer cross. However, in the silence of the night, Xu Shi Yao would sit alone on the pine tree, greedily absorbing every word written on the tree’s bark.
A sensation of burning heat spread across his cheek, and Xu Shi Yao touched his own face, feeling something moist. Bathed in the moonlight, it shimmered faintly.
With a gentle touch, Xu Shi Yao reached his eyes and they became moist.
Xu Shi Yao had once pondered over Wu Chun’s question of whether he would cry. At that time, Xu Shi Yao had answered with a firm “No”.
But now, it seemed like maybe that wasn’t the case.
Xu Shi Yao stared at the water droplets on his fingers with a dazed expression. Were they tears? His fingertip once again brushed his eyelid, and he remembered Wu Chun’s eyes filled with tears. After a moment, Xu Shi Yao let out a soft laugh.
“Tears,” he muttered this word in a low voice.
After being away from the mortal realm for five years, he had regained this phenomenon.
The green light faded, and the tree bark disappeared into the darkness of the night.
Xu Shi Yao stood under the treetop, gazing at the slumbering Shili Village, and eventually hid inside the pine tree.
The sun will rise the next day as usual, and everything should return to its original state tonight.
A soybean:
Believe in Chun Chun’s ability to move forward with determination!
I knew it. Now I’m inside a cubicle at the mall, crying my eyes out.
Still waiting for the moment when I can laugh merrily after reading a chapter.. 🙁