Bai Yuchuan had called, and he was very afraid to answer, afraid to hear Bai Yuchuan’s voice, afraid of his concern, afraid of everything!
Later, Bai Yuchuan sent a text message. He said, "I heard about what happened at your house. Don’t worry, everything will pass!"
He looked at the text message and suddenly felt such sorrow that he couldn’t express the bitterness in his heart!
That feeling was even more painful, more agonizing than when he found out Nanxi was pregnant!
That evening, he went out to buy cigarettes. Just as he stepped out of the community gate, he heard a familiar honking of a car.
He squinted his eyes and immediately saw Bai Yuchuan getting out of his BMW. He waved at him and said, "Drink, shall we?"
He went, and they drank quite a bit that day, as if nothing had changed, just like before.
He even thought that maybe nothing would ever change, but in reality, he was burdened by the heavy fifteen years of emotions he had given him...
That day, he got drunk and didn’t know how he got back home; later, his father said it was Bai Yuchuan who had brought him.
The next morning, he woke up hungry, took a bath, felt much lighter, and prepared to go downstairs to buy some food when Li Xiangchen stopped him, saying his sister had just called—Yi Mu had come to look for him!
When he saw Yi Mu, there were tears on her face, obviously from crying.
That look made her seem so pitiable; he was not good at comforting women.
In the past, he was willing to comfort Nanxi, but in fact, comforting Nanxi was really just incessantly apologizing because her tears were mostly because he had gotten into a fight or done something wrong!
He extended his arms to hug Yi Mu with no other thoughts, just like a big brother embracing his crying little sister, but he realized, Yi Mu’s face had turned red!
Actually, a girl blushing is very cute. He liked watching Nanxi blush, especially when she blushed for him! But Nanxi, maybe she would never blush because of him, Li Weihuan, ever again!
Thinking of this, he sniffled. Yi Mu glanced at him and said, "You weren’t infected by me, were you? Crying?"
He furrowed his brow, a bit annoyed, and said, "Nonsense, would Young Master ever cry? Young Master has a cold, okay?"
Yi Mu listened, paused for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter. She said, "Weihuan, you can actually be so cute!"
Cute? He never thought so!
He took Yi Mu to breakfast. It seemed Yi Mu really liked him a lot. She considered his feelings in every gesture and believed everything he said, which was quite foolish!
Suddenly, he thought that if he could never fall in love with anyone else in his whole life, perhaps marrying Yi Mu wasn’t such a bad idea!
The thought had just crossed his mind when he blurted out to Yi Mu, "Do you want to marry me?"
Yi Mu was stunned for a moment, obviously not having caught on. Then he asked her again, "Yi Mu, do you want to marry me?"
After asking, he felt a sense of relief!
He thought, if he married Yi Mu, would his great-grandfather finally feel at ease about him?
If he and Yi Mu got married, would Xiaobai... finally give up on him?
Would everything, all of it, finally have a perfect ending?
It was in this impulse that he and Yi Mu registered their marriage!
Li Weihuan, from a single carefree man, became a married man with a wife, and the drama of it all left him somewhat at a loss!
But after getting married, he had regrets because he couldn’t touch Yi Mu!
Facing such an innocent and naive Yi Mu, he couldn’t bring himself to touch her!
That night, he gave the bedroom to Yi Mu and walked out alone!
Then he thought, had he been too impulsive?
He had dragged a girl down with him just to solve his own problems. How could he do that? At that moment, he even had the impulse to take Yi Mu and get a divorce the next day!
But that was clearly not realistic!
Later, he remembered what Lanlan had said about the box!
Perhaps he was trying to find a reason to let himself settle down and accept this phase of his married life!
So, he volunteered to stay in Bai Yuchuan’s apartment, telling Bai Yuchuan it was to avoid Yi Mu!
He moved in. He would occasionally observe Bai Yuchuan, who seemed no different than before, still the same old Bai Yuchuan, his good brother, Bai Yuchuan!
He also discovered the safe under his bed. Actually, he had many opportunities to open it, but he didn’t dare, truly didn’t dare!
He didn’t know what was in the box, nor could he imagine what his feelings would be after seeing the contents inside...
So he procrastinated for days, struggling many times, even thinking of giving up, pretending he knew nothing about it!
But in the end, his curiosity made him open it. The code, his birthday: 1001!
So simple, so simple that he thought perhaps Bai Yuchuan had set it casually, and it had nothing to do with him!
The moment he saw what was inside, he felt as if the sky had fallen!
It was his photos, a whole box full of his photos!
All of him for fifteen years, a him he himself didn’t even know, all here, in this box!
He went to drink. He wanted to get drunk, to numb himself with alcohol, to forget everything, to find back that himself which he may never find again!
Li Weihuan said this, shaking his head. He said, "Chenqing, all along, you, I, Zhang Mu, Xiaobai, the four of us, we grew up together. We’ve known each other for over a decade. We always stick together wherever we go. Our bond is closer than that of real brothers. I thought, we could really become real brothers, you know? Do you understand?..."
"But now, how did it turn out ..." Li Weihuan’s tears fell, his body trembling, his voice choked in his throat. He said, "Chenqing, it’s my fault. I ruined Xiaobai’s life, it was me, I ruined it!"
Kevin, having difficulty with the second update. The bonus Chapters from the monthly tickets will burst at the end of the month, so those with monthly tickets don’t save them—maybe the main text will be completed then! I’ll continue writing the second update later...