Ch57.2 - You Are as Bright as the Moon

Editor: MinMin

By the time the movie ended, it was almost eleven o’clock.

Qi Xun led Bai Xi out and asked, “Why don’t we go take a walk? The moonlight is beautiful tonight.”

Bai Xi admired the moon and agreed, “Why not.”

He did not ask where they were going. He just let Qi Xun hold his hand and led the way as they walked aimlessly.

When it was almost midnight, there were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the road. The longer they walked, the more Bai Xi felt that it was familiar.

They watched the movie today in a theater outside of downtown. Qi Xun seemed to have deliberately picked a deserted cinema with a small traffic flow. At first, Bai Xi assumed it was to avoid the crowd.

But now that he was looking at the square in front of him, he finally realized where they were.

This was the place where he encountered Qi Xun after running away from home six years ago.

It was also the beginning of his love for Qi Xun.

He and Bairuo have grown up long ago, and their family will not hold any birthday party for them like they did when they were children. They just have a meal as a family, give gifts, and cut a cake at the end.Since the twins have long grown up, the family did not throw them a birthday party like they were kids, instead, the family would enjoy a meal together, exchange gifts, and cut the cake at the end.Bo Ruo and him didn’t give each other gifts. Their birthdays were on the same day, one minute apart. What could they give each other?

For the past six years, he had passed through this place several times. During these years, the place had gone through reconstruction, so now it had a brand new look. A shopping center stood where the small park used to be.

But miraculously, the square remained untouched. Even the floor tile remained mostly untouched. It seemed to be forgotten by time.

Qi Xun took his hand and walked to the place where they had met, step by step.

It was the same bench under the streetlamp.

There was also a red vending machine beside the bench, but it was no longer the one they got their hot cocoa from.

Bai Xi was pressed down on the bench by Qi Xun.

He raised his head in confusion. Under the light, Qi Xun was dressed fully in black and looked at him gently. For a moment, he almost thought he had returned to the snowy night of more than six years ago.

Where Qi Xun, twenty, met his eighteen-year-old self.

The young man felt a rush of excitement in his heart, silently, like the snow falling to the ground.

He did not know why he felt nervous as he kept his head in the same position and asked foolishly, “Why did you bring me here? Are we not going home?”

Qi Xun was also staring at Bai Xi from above.

For a long time, he did not remember that he had sent Bai Xi home more than six years ago. The other man talked about it in detail, and judging by the emotion contained in those descriptions, that day sounded so wonderful. But no matter how hard he tried to search for that memory, it was as if the image was covered by a layer of watery mist.

It was not a while ago when he drove through here by chance. When he glanced out at the window and saw the square, the memory rushed into his head. He remembered everything from that night.

Qi Xun recalled the eighteen-year-old Bai Xi, still young and tender, with the tip of his nose red from the cold, looking up at him with grievance.

Then he thought of Bai Xi standing by his parents’ garden. The moonlight was bright and the fine snow had accumulated on the ground, but neither of the natural wonders prevented him from noticing the heart on Bai Xi’s white sweater.

He was sending Bai Xi home as a kind senior. For him, it was an insignificant deed, but to Bai Xi, it was enough to fall hopelessly in love, enough to last for six years.

He knelt on one knee, trying to get slightly lower than Bai Xi’s line of sight.

In front of him was twenty-five-year-old Bai Xi.

Over six years had passed by, but the young man seemed to have not changed at all. He gazed into Bai Xi’s eyes, crystal clear as water, filled with so much trust.

“We are not going home yet. I have something to tell you,” he said in a warm voice.

Bai Xi could guess what Qi Xun was about to say.

But he was not a hundred percent sure, as an indescribable panic lurked in his heart.

He searched for the lucky bracelet around his wrist, stroking it to calm his nerves. The small round button got infected with his body temperature because of its closeness.

In the dark cinema, Percy was drinking milk tea and vaguely felt as if he had forgotten something.In the dark cinema, Bai Xi drank milk tea, then he had a vague feeling like he had forgotten something.

When the hero and heroine kissed each other in the rain, he suddenly remembered that Qi Xun still owed him a second birthday gift.

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For the past twenty-seven years, he had been crowded around and looked up to.This was the first time he lowered his head to pray for another’s pity.

Without breaking their eye contact, he said, “Xi Xi, I did not know when I started falling in love with you. Maybe it was the moment when I opened the door to see you in Luohai City. Perhaps it was the moment I drove to your house on Valentine’s Day and looked up at you from the garden.Maybe, it was earlier than that. You have always been special to me since we began to cross paths.”

They have known each other for too many years.

In college, Bai Xi was just another faceless junior to him.

But Bai Xi gradually integrated into his social circle after graduation.They traveled together, took vacations on the beach, climbed the mountains, admired the stars, and stayed up late to watch ball games.

He gave up smoking for Bai Xi, went to buy food for Bai Xi in the middle of the night, and watched over Bai Xi the entire night at the hospital then rushed to his meeting the morning after.

He had always been indifferent and thought he was only taking care of a friend who was younger than him.

But if they were just friends, why was it just Bai Xi and not someone else?

Qi Xun never thought about this question.

He stared at Bai Xi. “Do you know that Liang Song secretly asked me a question? He asked me if I was drunk and the next day, the person lying next to me was not you, but someone else, would I still be willing to have a relationship with them?”

“I told him no.”

If the person was not Bai Xi, then none of these things would happen.

There was only one Bai Xi in the world, who entered his world and was recognized.

He saw Bai Xi crying, and the hot tears softened his heart.

Bai Xi’s eyelids were light in color and would easily turn red, and when he was full of tears, he was particularly beautiful, like a pearl hidden in a dark room, and also like a little prince locked up in a high tower.

And Qi Xun was the dragon guarding the outside of the tower.

As he was guarding his treasure, he failed to notice he had a different emotion towards the little prince because he was guarding the precious one for so long.

He also did not think about why the little prince never escaped when there was no lock to the tower.

He reached out and wiped away Bai Xi’s tears.

“Xi Xi, during our time together, you have taught me many things. You gave birth to my possessiveness and encouraged attachment, and I drank liters of vinegar.”

“These are all things I once hated. I thought I would never love someone like this in my life. I am used to having everything in my control, used to restraint, and used to handling and treating every person with rationality. All except loving you. That is not under my control.”

Love is irrational.

By the time the movie ended, it was almost eleven o’clock.Qi Xun led Bai Xi out and asked him, “Would you like to go for a walk? The moonlight is pretty good tonight.”Qi Xun led Bai Xi out and asked, “Why don’t we go take a walk? The moonlight is beautiful tonight.”Percy thought for a while, “That’s okay.”Bai Xi admired the moon and agreed, “Why not.”He didn’t ask where he wanted to go for a walk, so he was held by Qi Xun and walked aimlessly.

No matter how calm a person can be, they will turn into clumsy fools in front of the person they love.

“Every day that you are not by my side, you are constantly on my mind. You have changed me into a different person.”

When Qi Xun said that, it was also the rare moment his heart beat restlessly.

It was the first love confession in his life.

He locked eyes with Bai Xi.

The night breeze was as cold as water, under the streetlamp it was silent, and there were children’s stickers pasted on the red vending machine.

Today is Bai Xi’s birthday.

His Xi Xi waited for him for six years before he finally came and became his lover.

He closed his eyes and placed Bai Xi’s hand on his heart. When their hands were laced, two identical rings around the ring fingers were side by side, glowing as bright as the stars above.

He spoke the words from the deepest parts of his heart.

“I can’t love anyone else the way I love you.”

He opened his eyes and smiled affectionately at Bai Xi.

He was no longer his twenty-year-old self, he would be twenty-seven this year. He had become a mature and calm adult, but he was still a beginner when it came to emotions.

But he was willing to spend his life as Bai Xi’s matching lover.

Bai Xi’s tears ran down his face.

Before Qi Xun spoke, he could already guess what the other man was about to say after seeing the square, streetlamp, and long bench.

He was not all completely unaware.

In the past few months with Qi Xun, he truly felt Qi Xun’s love and attachment to him. But whenever he was restless at night, he also wondered if maybe Qi Xun loved him but was unaware of it.

But now he heard it.

Qi Xun loves him.

Qi Xun loves him.

Qi Xun does love him.

His world seemed to light up in an instant.

With tearful eyes, he mumbled, choking with sobs, “Is this the second gift you wanted to give me?”

“Yes.” Qi Xun nodded.

“Are you willing to accept me?” He asked, “The second gift may be a little tacky, but I already proposed to you. But I still want to ask you again—Xi Xi, will you like to be part of my life, now and forever?”

Bai Xi could not contain his sobbing anymore.

He could not form a word between the sobs, but he nodded desperately.

“I do.”

He extended both his hands outward, asking Qi Xun to hug him.

And Qi Xun fulfilled the request by standing up and tightly embracing Bai Xi in his arms.

This night was the same as more than six years ago.

Except for the young Qi Xun and the young Bai Xi, they did not hug or hold hands. There was only the black coat with the lemony Buddha’s hand scent enveloping Bai Xi.

But more than six years later, they became lovers.

Qi Xun said, “I am sorry to have kept you waiting for so many years.”

He reacted too slowly and was too focused on taking responsibility, ending up neglecting Bai Xi’s love.

He raised his head in confusion. Under the light, Qi Xun was dressed in black and his eyes were gentle. He looked at Qi Xun’s face, and for a moment he almost thought he had returned to that snowy night more than six years ago.He raised his head in confusion. Under the light, Qi Xun was dressed fully in black and looked at him with gentle eyes. For a moment, he almost thought he had returned to the snowing night more than six years ago.Twenty-year-old Qi Xun.

Bai Xi buried himself in Qi Xun’s arms, soaking Qi Xun’s shoulders with his tears.

He shook his head and whispered, “It does not matter.”

Because you love me now, nothing else matters.

You are a little late, but I am still beyond happy.

He raised his head and kissed Qi Xun gently.

It was almost midnight.

His birthday was about to end.

Qi Xun repeated, “Happy birthday, Xi Xi.”

The first birthday present he gave was to wish that Xi Xi’s life would be peaceful.

His second gift was to wish that Bai Xi would be a part of his life every day for the rest of his life.

Bai Xi looked at him with red eyes and smiled.

He thought that Qi Xun was right. This was indeed the best birthday gift he had ever received.

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In this place, he fell in love with Qi Xun.

He also received Qi Xun’s love and promise.

Like a seed planted in winter that has now sprouted in spring.

This seed had finally taken root, emerged, and bloomed into an extraordinary flower.

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It took Bai Xi a long time to stop his tears.

Qi Xun took him home.

While in the car, Bai Xi looked out of the window.

In a night as tranquil as the sea, with no one in sight. He thought of the Lunar New Year, which happened to be on Valentine’s Day. It seemed that Qi Xun also took him out during the dead of night, as though they were eloping.

He turned to Qi Xun.

The moon was bright tonight, and Qi Xun was like the moon in his heart.

“Qi Xun.” He called out softly.

“Yes?” Because he was driving the car, Qi Xun could only spare him a glance. “Something the matter?”

Bai Xi sweetly looked at him and said what had been hovering in his heart.

“Let’s get our marriage license tomorrow.”

On the first day you told me you loved me,

We should finally tie the knot.

Qi Xun smiled. It was as soft and gentle as being blanketed by the moon.

“Okay.”

The author has something to say:

Pine Nut Tea: This is the end of the story. Getting the marriage license, their wedding, and the party are stuffed into the extra. Thanks everyone for reading, a bow from this author and mwah!

Translator has something to add:

Teo: That concludes the main story! To be honest, originally I wanted to add ‘If readers love seeing that backstabbing friend, dog-blood family (drama), that one crazy former boyfriend, handsome competition or satisfying face slapping, this is not the novel to read. But if the readers want a sweet novel after a super angsty one, this is the perfect novel!’ in my chapter one intro. But I thought it would be better for readers to enter the story blind like I did (also be misled by the author’s sweet andsoursynopsis—yes, the author left the sour in even though they questioned themselves on if the story was even sour).

The only thing I wanted from the author was to give Su Ye a happy ending qwq but he is just a side character for the development of plot (sob).