The person he was emotionally cheating with was Chen Yuan from eight years ago.
[Widower + scum gong + unfaithful gong + memoirs of a dead husband.]
They revisited old haunts, but everything had changed.
One late night, Chen Yuan came home drunk.
Shixun struggled to push him away and asked, “Did you cheat on me?”
Chen Yuan gave a lazy smile and said he’d only cheated physically. If Shixun wanted to break up, then they could break up.
“Who knows if you’ve been cheating emotionally?”
Shixun froze for a moment, then smiled too.
He said, “I have been cheating emotionally.”
Chen Yuan’s expression darkened, but he quickly composed himself and asked with a sneer, “With who?”
Shixun said softly, “With the Chen Yuan from eight years ago.”
The Chen Yuan who borrowed a classmate’s guitar just to play him a love song.
That Chen Yuan had long been dead in Shixun’s heart.
Shixun never got the chance to wait, and Chen Yuan never got the chance to stay.
Shixun would never wait for Chen Yuan again, and Chen Yuan would never stop for him.
Chen Yuan uploaded the love song he’d written just for Shixun, and it became a huge hit.
He thought Shixun was just throwing a tantrum.
So he followed the locations listed in those messages, visiting them one by one.
“I understand now, but I can never tell her.”
Shi Tiesheng wrote that about his mother.
Shixun thought about it for a long time, but left no notes.
He only wondered: if Chen Yuan understood someday, would he tell him?
Or, more accurately, would he still be by his side, waiting for him to understand?
He thought about it for a long time.
He couldn’t find an answer. He listened to the song Chen Yuan had left him.
Chen Yuan left him only two keepsakes.
One was the Chen Yuan of today. The other was the song he’d written for him.
Until one day, he couldn’t hold on to either keepsake.
He missed Chen Yuan.
So,
he listened to that song and left this world alongside Chen Yuan.
