During Fu Siyan’s undergrad year, he was somewhat of a celebrity on the campus. Not only was he handsome and smart, but he had also completed projects and received national prizes. His achievements were shockingly above average. Unknowingly, he was named the most handsome guy in the school. For he was full of vim and high-spirited during that time, making it hard for people to look directly at him, like someone on a pedestal that no one could hope to reach.
And a person like that could humble himself when it came to love.
During Fu Siyan’s third year in college, he came out of the closet within his small circle; his roommates and close friends. However, there was always someone who couldn’t keep their mouth shut as soon, more and more people learned of this matter.
People were already finding it shocking that Fu Siyan, the computer science major wizard, was actually homosexual. This was why many people wanted to know how otherworldly Fu Siyan’s partner looked, in order to bend Fu Siyan.
Someone secretly followed Fu Siyan and snapped a picture of him hugging Qi Jia, posting it on the university’s discussion board.
Everyone was disappointed after looking at the photo. Although the partner was pleasing to the eyes with his fair smooth appearance, Fu Siyan was still way over his league. Should Fu Siyan not get together with someone who excels in all aspects as well?
Afterward, when this entered Fu Siyan’s ears, he finally learned just what kind of things were being discussed on the forum. With a straight face, he reported the post. It was only thanks to his roommates’ great effort that he didn’t shut the university’s discussion site down.
No one knew what method Fu Siyan used, but otherwise, no students dared to let loose their tongues.
Lu Yan had always perceived Fu Siyan as more mature than people his age. Not only was he a great planner, but he was also a great executor. When other people were wasting their days away, Fu Siyan had already made his mark in the world. Even if the real world sliced away some of his brilliance, he was still the same Fu Siyan.
But when it came to feeling, Fu Siyan became a whole different person. He was reduced to becoming childish, impulsive, and passionate.
Originally, Lu Yan didn’t think these two people would stay together for long.
However, many years later, these two became more intimate than other average lovers. Lu Yan wondered if his traditional way of thinking was wrong? There are so many people in the world. It didn’t feel right to keep happiness away from other people just because their method was not in line with his own.
“You should go back. Rest assured that I’ll help you keep an eye on the matters here.” Lu Yan patted Fu Siyan’s shoulder. Fu Siyan then bid goodbye to Lu Yan and got into the rental car as well.
On the way to the airport, Qi Jia spoke zero words to him.
On the flight back home, Qi Jia spoke zero words to him.
On the ride back home, Qi Jia was still ignoring Fu Siyan.
Fu Siyan was at his limit. After an anxious journey home, he embraced Qi Jia tightly into his arms as soon as they got home. “Darling, don’t be like that. I know I’m wrong.”
“Wrong where?”
“I shouldn’t have lied to you.”
Qi Jia’s eyes reddened as he said in a trembling voice, “How good do you think your body is for you to drink that much alcohol? Do you not remember the stomach pain you got in the middle of the night from your irregular meal and rest schedule in your university year? It took years for me to finally nurse your body back, and you go and indulge in alcohol, and get yourself hit by a car?! Only heaven knows how much you consumed that night! Just the thought of it haunted me with the possible aftermath. If anything happens, do you want to die or want me to die?”
He simply didn’t want to think about it. If that car had gone any faster…he would feel suffocating inside, like someone was squeezing his lungs.
“Why can’t you cherish your body?”
“Darling, I’m sorry. I will never drink again.”
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Qi Jia didn’t reply because of how deeply it hurt inside. He pushed Fu Siyan aside and entered the bedroom. Being shut out of the bedroom, Fu Siyan piteously scratched at the door. Qi Jia was completely unmoved, determined to teach him a lesson.
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Fu Siyan shifted to the side, lifted the quilt and buried it under the nest, wrapping his arms around Qi Jia’s waist and leaning over to bite Qi Jia’s earlobe. Qi Jia frowned and stopped him. “I’m not in the mood today. Don’t touch me.”
Feeling helpless, Fu Siyan let go and lay down on the side.
Qi Jia turned off the bedside lamp, turned over and slept with his back to Fu Siyan. All kinds of feelings swell up inside of Fu Siyan, but he didn’t dare to voice anything. All he could do was get closer to Qi Jia, and make sure the blanket was covering Qi Jia, before falling asleep.
The next day, Qi Jia got up early. He made breakfast for Fu Siyan and left for work without waiting for Fu Siyan to get up. By the time Fu Siyan was up, his heart sank as he caressed the cold spot beside him.
Generally speaking, it was very easy to appease Qi Jia’s anger, but when it came to a matter of principle, Qi Jia became unmoved by force or persuasion.
That matter of principle was Fu Siyan.
Fu Siyan took out his phone, opened Zhihu, and first he entered: [How to make your boyfriend forgive you?]
But on second thought, it didn’t feel right, and he changed it: [How to make your girlfriend forgive you?]
He scrolled through tons of responses. Below were some of the followings:
[Take her out to eat.]
[Let her shop to her heart’s content.]
[When the enemy advances we retreat, when the enemy rages we knee…]
Fu Siyan read many of the responses and still came out empty handed. Qi Jia usually don’t fuss or cause trouble, get on Taobao less than Fu Siyan, and throwing money at Qi Jia proved to be useless. As for the other more shameless methods, Fu Siyan had used all of them in ordinary times, to the point that Qi Jia might have developed immunity.
Fu Siyan listlessly fixed his eyes on his phone. Suddenly, a line of response came into his view. The moment of inspiration got him off of bed. He read over the response multiple times and began to slowly form a plan inside.
On the other hand, Qi Jia was indeed very angry, at first, because he couldn’t stand staying mad at Fu Siyan. So now, he could only act in a fit of pique and refuse to acknowledge Fu Siyan, giving the man some sense of urgency and not to neglect his body.
Once he was about done with things at the law firm, he rushed to his parents’ house. He accepted that his cooking left much to be desired, but he didn’t want to leave Fu Siyan to suffer his cooking, especially during his recuperation. So, he had to ask his mother to stew a pot of bone broth for him to pick up after work.
“How careless of Xiao Fu. Are his injuries serious?” Mama Qi asked.
Qi Jia shook his head. “He is fine and recovered quite well. I’ll take him to visit once he is better.”
“Oh, no need to be in a hurry. Just help get Fu Siyan back on his feet.” Mama Qi said with a smile, “He is much more thoughtful than you are and visited us just last month. He even brought us goodies. So filial of him.”
Qi Jia curled his lips and said in confusion, “He stopped by last month? Why didn’t he say anything to me?”
“He actually visits every month. You don’t know this?”
“No, I don’t.”
Qi Jia was really in the dark about this. It turned out that Fu Siyan quietly did many things for him.”
A mother and her son exchanged a look. After a while, Qi Jia puffed out a chuckle. “You must feel relieved by time with how good he is treating me.”
Mama Qi said with a smile, “Yes, relieved, very relieved. Back then, I kept worrying that you’ll get hurt being together with another guy. Now it seems that the one getting the short end of the stick is Xiao Fu.”
“What? How?”
“He is hurt, and you couldn’t even stew a bone broth for him.”
Qi Jia rolled his eyes. “There’s no way I will stew it for him.”
When he got home, Fu Siyan was on a business video call with the people at the company. Leaving the man to his work, Qi Jia heated up the food and soup, sat at the dinner table and waited for Fu Siyan to finish.
Soon, Fu Siyan came out of the study. Because his kneecap hadn’t fully healed, he still had problems with walking. By using the wall for support, he slowly reached the dinner table.
He sat near Qi Jia, smelled the rich aroma of the bone broth and praised, “Darling, the broth you stewed is smelling heavenly.”
“I didn’t stew it. I got my mother to make it for you.”
“Ah…you told mother about this? You don’t have to tell her something so trivial. Lest have her worry.”
Qi Jia countered, “Then don’t get yourself hurt in the first place!”
Fu Siyan knew he was in the wrong, shut his mouth and focused on drinking the soup.
After dinner, Fu Siyan went back to his study. Qi Jia knew the other person must be buried with work, after so many days of absence. Thus, he retired into the bedroom by himself to read his book.
After a while, the doorbell suddenly rang. Just as Qi Jia was about to get it, he heard Fu Siyan yelling from outside the bedroom. “It’s nothing, darling, only a delivery. I’ll go get the door. You don’t have to come out.”
Qi Jia saw nothing wrong with this.
Anytime they were not on speaking terms, he was used to Fu Siyan doing all sorts of stuff to get brownie points.
From the bedroom, he could hear Fu Siyan getting the door and closing the door, then what it felt like, mysteriously turned to his study.
When he woke up the next day, the first thing he saw was Fu Siyan’s hand in front of his face. This guy was clinging to him like an octopus again. He could feel how tightly Fu Siyan was stuck on his back, and it was hot as hell, as if he was burning up. Qi Jia moved Fu Siyan’s arms to the side, covered the sleeping man with the blanket and slowly left the bedroom.
First, he went to turn on the bread machine, poured a glass of milk and put it into the microwave. Then he went to the bathroom to do his morning routine. As he was brushing his teeth, he caught a flicker of light in the mirror. Huh? He lowered his head to look and saw the platinum band around his right hand’s ring finger.
He brought the ring closer to have a look and saw F&Q engraved on the ring.
This suddenly brought him to tears.
Tears rain down from his face to the bathroom floor as his eyes stayed on the two English characters for a very long time. Then he used his hand to wipe away his tears and dashed into the bedroom. Fu Siyan was yawning, about to get dressed. When he saw Qi Jia rushing in, his brain shut down. He remained where he stayed seated, not daring to move.
Qi Jia seized Fu Siyan’s hand and sure enough, saw the same ring around his ring finger.
“You…you saw it? Do you like it?”
Qi Jia didn’t reply as the next thing he went for was to remove Fu Siyan’s ring.
This shocked Fu Siyan greatly as he instantly hid his hand behind his back. “Darling, what are you doing?”
“Remove your ring first.” Qi Jia kept his grip around Fu Siyan’s ring finger, trying to remove the ring after he spoke.
Fu Siyan’s eyes reddened from the anxiety. He protested, “No way. Qi Jia, let me tell you know, keep our quarrel as quarrel. If you dare to say you’re breaking up with me, I…I won’t hear it. I’ll have you know, we are married now that I got a ring on you. If this really won’t do, we will fly out tomorrow to get our marriage certification. I’m not giving you the chance to back out on this…”
Qi Jia looked at Fu Siyan’s restless expression and remained silent. He forcibly removed Fu Siyan’s hand, put great effort to feel Fu Siyan’s ring, and smoothly took it off.
Fu Siyan fixed his blood-shot eyes on him, giving Qi Jia the illusion that he was going to spit out flame the next second. Thus, he grasped Fu Siyan’s hand again, placing it in the palm of his hand. He held Fu Siyan’s ring finger and placed his full attention on putting the ring back on Fu Siyan’s ring finger.
Fu Siyan’s slender and pale fingers really brought out the platinum ring. Qi Jia was pleased by the sight.
He threw a glance at Fu Siyan and rebuked with a smile, “You fool. Who in their right mind will put on their own wedding band?”
Fu Siyan was still out of it, staring at his own hand in a daze.
It wasn’t until Qi Jia held hands with him and created a crisp sound from their rings making contact that Fu Siyan slowly came to his senses. He buried himself into Qi Jia’s arms, as if he woke up from a dream. “Darling, you scared me to death.”
“When did you prepare these?”
“Yesterday.”
“Are you serious?” Why did Fu Siyan always approach major events like this at the last-minute. Qi Jia could never understand.
Their beginning was very messy, Fu Siyan asked him out of the blue, and even proposed to him out of whack. However, fortunately, Fu Siyan was his destined match. Neither of the two cared about formality, because what they wanted was to live well in their simple life.
“Then do you like it?”
“I do.”
How could he not? Sometime, Qi Jian would think how could there be a wholehearted feeling?
“When I called to order the ring, the person asked me what I would like to engrave on it. I told him F and Q. I felt a great shock after saying that. It was the same feeling as the old man under the moon recording names on his marriage booklet, and our fates were set in stone, just like that.”
“Our fates have long been set in stone. As early as six years ago in the subway station.” Qi Jia lay in Fu Siyan’s arms, turned and asked, “Tell me. If you weren’t at the station that time, or you arrived at an earlier or later time, won’t that mean there wouldn’t have been an after story between us?”
Fu Siyan gazed towards the person in his arms and said after a moment of thinking, “But I did appear. I neither arrived too early nor too late. I saw you as soon as I raised my head.”
So sweet 😭 what a way to feed us single dogs 🥺🥺
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I want to cry, but I’m on lecture now😭😭😭😭
Thank you for your translation 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
i like faq tho. it represents how they met on an ask forum, and how they grow closer by learning more about each other or something. lmao. so i don’t care that it’s not ‘accurate’.
So sweet and cute!! Thank you for translating this wonderful story ♡
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Thank you for translating! It was such a nice story 💞
Oh those two… They are giving me headache and warm heart~ (❁´ω`❁)
Thank You for the new chapter (⋈◍＞◡＜◍)。✧♡
The cutest boyfriends became the cutest husbands, I love these two so much 😍
thanks for the chapter!