On his way to buy wedding rings, Lu Qushen received an anonymous text: Xie Xiyi is in Room 08 at Yuan Ting Bar. He brought Wei Yan, the new star at his company., Room 09.
His foot eased off the gas. It all happened in an instant. The car behind him rear-ended him, sending his car crashing into the roadside.
He woke up in the hospital, but he couldn't remember why he had fallen for Xie Xiyi over the past year or so. Unexpectedly, yet inevitably, he also saw that text.
And the messages before it. Why had he been keeping such close tabs on someone named Xie Xiyi?
Or was it because the baby needed a father...? When he got home, just as expected, Xie Xiyi wasn't there. He found the prenatal checkup form he'd left in a drawer to gather dust half a month ago. He must not have told Xie Xiyi yet.
He had no recollection of the previous year and a half, but it seemed that Xie Xiyi had been very well-behaved during their time together. Maybe that text had been a misunderstanding. For over a year, he'd been keeping an eye on someone who had meant nothing to him just a year earlier.
If he really had been the one to pursue Xie Xiyi, and the other man had been faithful, then he could keep treating him well.
If only for the sake of this innocent child. Surprisingly, he accepted the situation very quickly.
Perhaps someone had been taking care of him before, because he quickly got the hang of it again, going from unfamiliar to familiar. If it had been his former self, he could never have imagined himself taking care of someone like this.
...In fact, going from loving someone to feeling indifferent might just be a matter of switching personalities in an instant.
He still couldn't find the feeling of loving that person, but he felt vaguely dependent on him.
This made Xie Xiyi a little too bold.
While chatting with a friend, he accidentally overheard that Xie Xiyi didn't actually like men and had an ambiguous relationship with Wei Yan, a woman at the same company.
His heart trembled. Although it was his alternate personality who had fallen for Xie Xiyi, and that personality had always been hopelessly romantic, the affection built up through all the time and energy he'd spent caring for him was not something he could dismiss. He was torn.
But when he heard Xie Xiyi make a joke of the whole thing, he had every reason to bring up breaking up. It felt as if he'd poured his heart out to a dog.
But he wasn't the one who had loved Xie Xiyi for a year and a half.
He shouldn't have to take responsibility anymore...
Theme: There's no need to take responsibility for things you didn't do. You can't bear that burden.
