Dark Fruit

[Blurb]

Wen Ying loved Wen Jing for many years.

From her first year of high school to her last, and from her first year of college to her final year.

From secretly admiring him to openly loving him, following him all the way from the leaf-strewn north across most of China to the hot, humid south.

In the end, perhaps her persistence had touched Wen Jing.

"Wen Ying," Wen Jing said, looking at her calmly as he held out a hand.

"Be my girlfriend."

After waiting so long, the clouds finally parted and the moon appeared. Wen Ying covered her mouth, biting down hard as tears streamed down her face.

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Wen Ying thought that the prodigal had finally decided to come back and look at the shadow that had followed him all this way. She had finally made him stop, breaking the age-old curse that a prodigal only returns for his first love. After all those years by his side, she could finally enter his heart.

But then, after they had an argument,

her best friend held up her phone and asked her cautiously,

"You and Wen Jing... are already living together?"

Wen Ying: "Yes."

Her friend: "Then on December 6 last year, were you in the same bed with him too?"

Wen Ying: "Yes."

Her friend was at a loss for words.

After a long moment, she handed Wen Ying her phone.

Wen Ying looked down and saw the WeChat conversation.

It was Wen Jing's chat history.

The person he was talking to was the first love he had kept in his heart for all these years.

Her friend said, "This screenshot is from a conversation just after five in the morning on December 6 last year..."

That was the previous December.

The time when they had loved each other most, when Wen Ying thought Wen Jing loved her more than ever.

Wen Ying suddenly laughed. "So while he was lying in the same bed with me, his back turned, he could stay up chatting with his first love until five in the morning."

[That was when he seemed most like he loved me.]

[Maybe he did love me once, but perhaps that was as far as it went.]

--Wen Ying's diary

Note:

1. Bad ending.

2. A crossover story with Bitter and Sweet.

Theme: Peace and love advancing together.