“So, why do you make yourself so miserable?” Venus Mu wiped away her tears with a towel and asked, “Tell me where you’re going. Why do you want to say goodbye?”
Xiaozi frowned and said, “I have a mission. If I succeed, I might not have to leave.”
“Don’t worry, you will.” Venus believed in him.
Xiaozi gazed into her watery eyes, complicated inside. If Venus knew the truth, she might regret saying that today.
“Venus, if one day… You find out that I’m actually not the person I am now, but the complete another one. Will you still see me as a friend?”
Venus held his hand and said firmly, “Xiaozi, for me, you will always be Xiaozi and no matter what you become, you will always be my best friend.”
“Really?” “Of course!”
Moved, Xiaozi took her hand and said, “Venus, can I take you out now?”
“Wait.” Venus ran into the dressing room to put on a long coat, then said to Xiaozi, “Let’s go.”
“Fuck you, Kerry.” Venus thought that she shouldn’t care too much and there would always be a way.
“Close your eyes.”
The wind whistling in her ears and Venus hugged his waist tightly, remembering the day when she first met him. She told Xiaozi to take her with him when he left, but she didn’t expect that now that he was going to say goodbye. However, she couldn’t follow him, for she had to stay here to expose Hao Nangong’s plot and find her brother.
“Alright, open your eyes.” Xiaozi said softly.
Venus felt her feet on the ground, her hands loosening his waist and opening her eyes.
Wow, so beautiful.
A poem she had learned as a child came to her— the bright moon shines between the pines, the clear spring flows on the rocks.
It was the scene right now.
“Where is this? Why I haven’t seen it?” Venus’s long hair was blown up by the wind, showing her slender neck and her face was full of surprise.
Xiaozi moved his hands and after a few seconds, one, two, three… countless fireflies were lit up in the darkness, seeming to be summoned by God. They danced around Venus.
“It’s so beautiful,” Venus lifted her finger and a bright firefly stopped at her fingertips, and after a moment, it waved its wings and flew away.
“Xiaozi, you’re so amazing.”
Xiaozi gazed at her beautiful face, wishing that she could only remember this moment and remember that he was omnipotent.
The fireflies flew around them for a while and then left.
Venus’s gaze followed those bright lights, “Why? Why are they leaving us?”
“They’re going home to rest.”
“Okay.” Then Venus took off her shoes and stepped on the smooth boulders, the running water just missed her feet, “It’s so comfortable, Xiaozi, you still haven’t told me where this is.”
…
Venus, however, was ‘captured’ by Kerry that night. Shortly after Xiaozi left, Kerry came in and presses her down. But this time, there was some sadness within him, which couldn’t be understood by Venus.
Sadness? Could he know what this was?
How could he be sad when he was a man without any feeling.
Venus was so exhausted that she gradually went into sleep, but she seemed to hear him whispering something. However, she was too tired to hear it clearly.
Wednesday, July 15, cloudy day
When Venus woke up, Kerry was still asleep. She looked at the time on her phone, 8 am.
Wasn’t he going to work?
Venus pushed his shoulder and Kerry nasalized “Huh?”, sexy as hell.
“You’ll be late for work,” Venus reminded him coldly.
Kerry circled her into his arms, and said in a hoarse voice, “No work today.”
Venus rolled her eyes—off on Wednesday?
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