CH 21

Gu Jiuci drank the wine quietly. The more he drank, the soberer he drank.

He thought of the day of the funeral of Tang Ziyou’s grandfather. Tang Ziyou couldn’t cry by himself as he watched his grandpa’s body cremated.

He cried so pitifully later that Gu Jiuci felt soft for a while. He walked over and took him into his arms.

He said, “Don’t cry. Your grandpa is gone. I will be your family from now on and I will take care of you.”

This was his promise to Tang Ziyou’s grandfather. If he agreed, he would remember it.

Tang Ziyou cried harder when he heard the words. Gu Jiuci patted him on the back and hugged him until the funeral was over and sent him home.

He looked at Tang Ziyou who was watching him leave blankly and suddenly felt that he was actually very young, too small to bear the joys and sorrows.

He touched Tang Ziyou’s head and went home.

Later, Tang Ziyou came to him and said to him cautiously, “I want to move in.”

Gu Jiuci had no reason to refuse. He was his fiancé. Whether he liked it or not, willing or not, so he helped Tang Ziyou move together.

After that, everything became logical. Tang Ziyou moved in and he accepted the life with Tang Ziyou.

He wasn’t used to having other people in the house, but it didn’t seem unacceptable to have Tang Ziyou there.

He didn’t like Tang Ziyou. He didn’t have ambition and didn’t want to make progress. However, he didn’t seem to be incomprehensible when he saw that the other party was waiting for him to go home no matter how late it was.

He was like a man dancing in shackles. He instinctively hated the shackles on his body but was attracted by the grace of the dance. He wanted to break free from the shackles on his body, but he didn’t know how to stop the dance.

While resisting this marriage, he unconsciously accepted Tang Ziyou.

Until Tang Ziyou got sick.

Tang Ziyou’s illness came suddenly. It wasn’t serious. He just caught a cold. He sat on the bed obediently, sneezing quietly.

Gu Jiuci took medicine and water to him and asked him to take the medicine.

He even took a bag of biscuits, fearing that he might feel the bitterness of the medicine.

Tang Ziyou took the medicine quietly, then grabbed the corner of his clothes and asked him, “Can you sleep with me for a while?”

Gu Jiuci didn’t refuse.

Tang Ziyou smiled happily, leaned forward, and kissed him on the cheek. He said cheerfully, “Thank you, husband.”

Gu Jiuci was stunned for an instant.

He said, “Don’t call me that.”

Tang Ziyou asked him, “Why not? We are already fiancés, aren’t we?”

“That’s not married.”

“So you can’t call it that until you get married?”

Gu Jiuci gave a hum.

Tang Ziyou nodded, seeming to understand.

Gu Jiuci was inexplicably awkward and a little embarrassed. He pulled off the quilt and let Tang Ziyou lie down.

Tang Ziyou approached him and said coquettishly, “Will you hug me? I want you to sleep with me.”

Gu Jiuci had to hug him.

Tang Ziyou was happy again, “Thank you, husband.”

After he finished speaking, he realized that he couldn’t call it that way. He changed his mouth with a smile, “I was wrong. Thank you, Xiao Jiu. Xiao Jiu is really good.”

Gu Jiuci looked at the smile on his face. For a moment he almost felt that it didn’t seem that he couldn’t call it that way. What he called didn’t seem so important.

He thought so and lowered his eyes.

Tang Ziyou had closed his eyes and fell asleep after a while.

Gu Jiuci looked at him and hugged him quietly. He was not sleepy and could not sleep, but he did not get up.

When Tang Ziyou woke up again, it was already afternoon. Gu Jiuci looked at his sleeping red face and squeezed it.

Tang Ziyou rubbed his eyes and saw him as soon as he opened his eyes. With a smile, he hugged his neck, buried his head under his jaw, and rubbed him gently.

He rubbed too softly and the temperature in the room was so warm that Gu Jiuci lowered his head slightly and almost kissed him on the cheek.

It was really just a little bit. Just as Gu Jiuci was about to touch his cheek, he woke up like a dream to see the shackles on his body.

Then he remembered that he wasn’t a free dancer, he was a man dancing in shackles.

He should have hated these shackles and wanted to break free. How could he accept or even get used to it at this time, not long after wearing it.

He was so reluctant before, so resisted this marriage, whether with his grandma or Tang Ziyou, he said that he didn’t like him, he wouldn’t like him. So how could he kiss Tang Ziyou at this time after they got engaged?

He let go of Tang Ziyou and got out of bed like an escape.

From that day on, Gu Jiuci began to alienate Tang Ziyou deliberately.

He still cared about Tang Ziyou’s body, would take care of him when he was unwell, and would hug him when Tang Ziyou took the initiative to say to him, “Can you hug me?”

It was just that at other times, if Tang Ziyou didn’t want it, so he wouldn’t give it.

Tang Ziyou wanted to see him, so he went home or had a video call with him.

Tang Ziyou didn’t directly express that ‘I wanted to see you’, he just pretended not to know and kept a distance from him.

He rationally grasped the distance between him and Tang Ziyou, maintaining a close relationship between the two.

He told his friends and admirers without shyness that he was engaged and had a fiancé.

He refused the approach of every admirer and wore a necklace with their engagement ring every day.

However, he didn’t dare to get too close to Tang Ziyou, let alone allow Tang Ziyou to enter the circle outside his family.

He thought, when they stayed together a little longer then he would get used to the existence of shackles on his body, accept them, and perhaps turn shackles into bracelets and foot chains.

It was just not possible now. He couldn’t do it yet.

Anyway, they had been bound together. They would be together for a lifetime, so it wasn’t too late.

In Gu Jiuci’s life plan, there was his brother, his grandma, his parents, and Tang Ziyou.

He never thought that he would break up with Tang Ziyou and the two would go their separate ways. Even Tang Ziyou sent him a WeChat message saying that he was gone, he didn’t take it seriously.

He knew that Tang Ziyou liked him. He believed that they would be together forever, so he didn’t take it seriously and didn’t reply.

However, he didn’t expect that Tang Ziyou really wanted to leave.

He was as he said—if we were really inappropriate, then it would not be too late to break up.

He did what he said, which made him happy, but under the joy, he was more reluctant to give up.

He didn’t want to force him for the rest of his life, Gu Jiuci thought. He did what he said and gave him freedom. Then, he could reconsider Tang Ziyou’s true behaviour and accept him again.

So he wanted to redeem it, wanted to have a good talk with Tang Ziyou, wanted to ask him, didn’t you like me? So now I say we start again, would you like it?

However, he was not even qualified to ask because Tang Ziyou refused to communicate with him, and his grandma also persuaded him to give up.

From the beginning to end, he was like a passerby who had accidentally entered into someone else’s theatre.

When Tang Ziyou needed him, he was Tang Ziyou’s leading actor. Even if he was unwilling to play, he had to wear a costume and sing on stage without complaint.

And when Tang Ziyou didn’t need it anymore, then he needed to be kicked out. Even if he had already predicted in his heart how to perform the remaining tracks, no one wanted to know.

Tang Ziyou sentenced him.

His grandma ruled him out.

The curtain fell, leaving him alone.

However, from the beginning, it was obviously not that he wanted to take the initiative to take the stage. Why did Tang Ziyou have so many opportunities when he liked him? His grandmother helped him and his grandfather helped him, even if he clearly said that he didn’t want to and didn’t like him. After thinking about it, he could still exchange rings with himself and make a marriage contract.

When it was his turn, he was still trying to recover, but he had already been sentenced out.

From beginning to end, he was the only one who was the most insignificant person in this scene.

Gu Jiuci drank the last glass of wine, leaning on the sofa sleepily. He was very tired, he wanted to sleep.

The author has something to say:

Is the first half of this chapter pretty sweet, hahaha. To get back to the subject, there is actually another chapter in this part, but by this chapter, the general framework has been basically out, and you should all understand it. Many people used to guess whether Xiao Jiu loved him but didn’t know it. In fact, he didn’t know. He was too self-knowing. So after discovering that he had a good affection for Xiao You, he began to alienate him intentionally. The more you like it, the more you resist.

This book has shortcomings, not perfect. I know that many little angels (readers) like chasing their wives. The gong is really scumbag, he repents and chases his wife, but I don’t seem to be able to write this [covering face], because I think, if this is the case, why not change the gong? Just like Ying Nian and Tang Yu (can you tell me the story Author mentioned? I don’t read all Author’s works), Ying Nian is not wrong, Tang Yu is really scum, Tang Yu repented, chased his wife, but I still did not let him be with Ying Nian, I chose to change the gong. Because I think Ying Nian deserves better. So the setting of this book is that both gong and shou are wrong, so they can correct each other and start over after attacking and chasing his wife.

Why is Xiao Jiu unwilling to dissolve the marriage contract now? One is the promise to Grandpa mentioned in the previous chapter and the other is that he really likes Xiao you. Xiao You is very smart. He forced Xiao Jiu to get engaged. He did wrong, but I have to say that this is indeed the most effective method. If there is no responsibility after the engagement and a little bit of cohabitation, Xiao Jiu will not like a person easily.

But Xiao You was also not very smart because he did not do what he said. If it is not suitable, then separate. So Xiao Jiu from the previous life had a prejudice against him and wanted to wait a little longer, long enough to obliterate his unwillingness, and then be together with Xiao You.

In this life, Xiao You was born again, gave up and left, and fulfilled this promise by mistake. Xiao Jiu didn’t believe it at first, but later found in the hospital that he really wanted to set him free, and then he believed that he really wanted to dissolve the marriage contract, and then he was willing to look at their engagement again. That’s why he went to redeem Xiao You.

It’s not because Xiao You doesn’t love him anymore, he is not used to it, so he goes to redeem Xiao You.

Before talking in the hospital, he didn’t believe that Xiao You really wanted to leave, so his attitude has always been that ‘you don’t play hard to get, stop making trouble’. After talking in the hospital, he believed him. He felt that Xiao You had fulfilled his promise and didn’t lie to him. Only then did he start to re-examine this relationship and really want to redeem him.

After talking with grandma, his explosion was that grandma asked him to give up. He felt that it was grandma who let them be together. Grandma got him involved and now he is asked to give up. She never considered his will from beginning to end.

In general, Grandma, Xiao You, and Xiao Jiu are all at fault. Grandma made the mistake of repaying her favour by focusing on Xiao You. She did not consider the counter-effects brought about by this, and she did not take gentle and effective measures. Xiao You made the mistake of insisting at the beginning and not respecting Xiao Jiu’s will. After the forced request, he felt that Xiao Jiu still didn’t love him, but he was unwilling to let go. If he didn’t do what he said, he would break up. Xiao Jiu’s fault was that he was not honest enough. He obviously had a good impression of Xiao You, but because of his unwillingness, he was unwilling to get along well with Xiao You. So they took the wrong step and they were interested in each other later, but they didn’t get together well.

Well, after these chapters, the next step is to chase the wife and sweet~~

This book is not long. I obviously feel that the rhythm of my book is quite fast~