Our Scattered Everyday Lives

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Also known as: Changyan and Me

Everyday life of a couple in love, a short story

1

We used to call dating "walking the streets."

I got to experience it while Li Changyan and I were still in the talking stage.

Two people, four feet.

Step, step, step, step.

The road got flatter and flatter.

2

Li Changyan was practically the definition of a B-king, and he was also a top student. In a novel, everyone would be falling for him.

But in real life, Li Changyan grew up being ostracized. The boys at school didn't like him, and neither did the girls.

He didn't know how to make friends, and he didn't care to.

I nodded. "I understand. I really do."

"Understand what?"

I couldn't get away with bluffing, so I kept nodding with a grin like the Buddha of Good Fortune. "I understand all of it. All of it."

Li Changyan silently moved the chicken wings away from me.

3

Toothache.

Half my face was swollen when I woke up. I refused to see a doctor, and Li Changyan got furious. He went to the pharmacy with a sour look and bought painkillers.

I pressed an ice pack wrapped in a towel against my left cheek. I couldn't eat, but I still smiled and tried to get a kiss.

Someone was stingy and wouldn't give me one.

I spouted nonsense. "This works better than painkillers!"

I went up on my toes, held the back of his head, and kissed him.

Li Changyan gave a little grunt. "Does it work?"

Maybe it was just in my head, but it really did hurt less.

Turns out Doctor Li had a folk remedy after all.

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Everyone thinks Lu Chen is easygoing, with a fair, clean face and an innocent, harmless smile. Ji Tianyang brought him home on a one-year contract, secretly hoping to keep him for life. But before the year was up, the pretty little sweetheart couldn't keep pretending anymore and coldly demanded to end the contract.

After that, Ji Tianyang did everything he could to renew the contract, indefinitely.

He wasn't stupid. He could tell Lu Chen liked him a little. He just never imagined that little bit of affection had lasted for over ten years.

Ji Tianyang was baffled. How could someone like another person for so long? What kind of perseverance did it take? What did it feel like? Most importantly, why was he the one being loved?

Ji Tianyang asked Lu Chen sincerely, "What is it you like about me, anyway?"

Lu Chen thought about it for a long time, then simply shook his head. "I don't know."

Ji Tianyang: "?"

Lu Chen: "If I knew, I probably wouldn't have liked you for so long."

A secret crush isn't painful. It's wanting too much that ruins everything.

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