Snowflakes were falling.
After eating half a piece of steaming hot roasted sweet potato, the temperature outside didn't seem so cold anymore.
Xu Musen and Yao Mingyue silently watched the distant riverside together.
They said they were on a date, but it seemed like they didn't do anything at all. Other couples would at least walk around, eat, shop, or watch a movie.
But for them, it seemed most of their time was spent quietly together.
Xu Musen looked down at Yao Mingyue. She had just finished shaping a snowman and placed it on the armrest of her wheelchair. She was cold, but she couldn't resist gently poking it a couple of times with her fingers.
Her eyes were full of fondness, as if she had received a Barbie doll, and she couldn't part with it.
"Is there anywhere else you want to go?" Xu Musen asked.
Yao Mingyue's phoenix eyes turned, "I don't know."
Xu Musen smiled and gently brushed her hair behind her ear, "Don't you get bored spending every day with me?"
"Sometimes it is quite boring."
"But I like being bored with you."
Yao Mingyue looked up at Xu Musen, patted his shoulder, and spoke with an old-fashioned tone, "We're an old married couple now, what new excitement are you looking for?"
Xu Musen naturally grabbed her hand and put it in his pocket to warm it, "Old married couple… actually, we haven't really been married for that many years, just the seven-year itch."
"Seven years… If you count the time since childhood, that's nearly thirty years already. It sounds like a pearl wedding anniversary, which sounds so nice."
"But childhood sweethearts are ultimately just childhood sweethearts. Why can't we really spend thirty, forty, fifty, or even seventy years together in marriage?"
Xu Musen bowed his head, leaned towards her, and under the slowly falling snow, Xu Musen looked truly handsome with his warm smile and serious demeanor.
At this moment, Yao Mingyue felt her face heat up a bit, unable to meet his gaze. For her, this was also a regret.
From birth, they had been together through babyhood, childhood, adolescence, youth, marriage... but they just couldn't reach old age together.
But at this moment, Yao Mingyue couldn't bring herself to say it outright.
She knew that some things were left to fate. Telling him would only add to his worries.
"You're not marrying your Nuannuan? Our country does not allow polygamy."
Yao Mingyue changed the topic. Given how he was now, An Nuannuan was definitely his priority.
However, Yao Mingyue also understood that in her previous life, An Nuannuan had quietly waited for him all her life, which she deserved.
But when she thought about someday in the future, if Xu Musen, wearing the suit he had used to marry her, knelt on one knee to marry An Nuannuan, she still felt a bit unwilling...
Yet, Xu Musen just shook his head with a mysterious smile.
"Someone wise once said, if you register your marriage with two people, that's definitely a crime, but if you just get married without registering, then even if you marry ten people, there's no law saying it's a crime."
Yao Mingyue suddenly widened her eyes, "You're marrying ten!!"
"You've got the wrong focus; I was just giving an example."
"Who knows… Deadbeat!"
Yao Mingyue muttered, but her tone clearly softened a bit. A marriage certificate... having one would, of course, be best.
But a marriage certificate is only a legal acknowledgment.
That is the most important contract in public perception.
What girl doesn't like a wedding, and what girl doesn't want to marry her favorite person at her most beautiful moment?
But the more she thought about it, the more Yao Mingyue felt a hollowness inside her...
The more he described, if it was never realized in the future, the more regrets it would become.
Yao Mingyue stared blankly at the riverside. The cold wind from the riverbank made her feel as if her heart was aching…
Suddenly, a face that was deeply familiar appeared before her, and Xu Musen crouched down, gently cradling her cheek.
"You… calling me that is so cheesy!"
Yao Mingyue felt a tingling sensation all over. How long had it been since she had been called Xiao Mingyue?
Her cheeks warmed a bit, and she tried to avoid his gaze, but her cheeks were tightly held by him.
"You once said you would always follow me, never hide anything from me. Do those words still count?" Xu Musen asked with a smile.
Yao Mingyue's eyes trembled slightly, and then she pursed her lips, "Did I say that? I don't remember."
Starting to play dumb.
Xu Musen just smiled at her.
"If you don't remember, I'll just have to lock you in a dark room and interrogate you slowly."
This phrase was what the sickly Yao Mingyue used to say in her previous life. She always questioned Xu Musen about things he had said to her when they were kids.
If he forgot, she would lock him in a dark room and torment him until he "remembered," after which she would finally let him go.
Right now, Yao Mingyue felt that she might have been... a little bit twisted in the past, just a little bit.
"If someone dares to keep something from me, wanting to secretly sneak around, then I don't mind being bold once. After all, I'm familiar with how you treat me."
Xu Musen touched her cheek, making it impossible for her to avoid his gaze.
Yao Mingyue looked at him for a long time and finally managed to tear her hand from his grasp a bit.
"What could I possibly keep from you, we're an old married couple, what could you not know…"