Chapter 945: A Billion Stars Can’t Amount to You (Conclusion) (1/2)
Chapter 945: A Billion Stars Can’t Amount to You (Conclusion)
Translator: PaperplaneEditor: Caron_
Author: [I changed a small detail from yesterday's chapter. After Ji Yi found out she was pregnant, the time skip wasn't 20 years later, but 30 years later. This means that He Siyi is now 29 years old!]
”Miss Su, I'm afraid there's no way to make your wish come true,” said He Siyi apologetically.
”Why?” Su Xia paused for a moment then continued. ”Must I first fulfill conditions of some sort? Tell me and I'll try my best to make it happen.”
”No...” He Siyao shook her head after just one word and stopped.
”Then why?” asked Su Xia before He Siyi could speak.
It wasn't until Su Xia asked for the fifth time that He Siyi lowered her eyelids and finally gave her reply. ”Because... My mother is no longer in this world.”
Stunned, Su Xia looked as though she just heard something unbelievable. She stared at He Siyi in a daze for a long while without a reaction.
Silence enveloped the two of them for a very long time before He Siyi spoke again. ”Actually, I wasn't named He Siyi. Five years ago, after my mother passed away, my father changed my name to this.”
Siyi; Chinese characters that sounded like the words for ”to miss” and ”to long for.” Siyi; the same ”Yi” from Ji Yi —— Missing Ji Yi.
The same moment He Siyi said this, Su Xia realized the meaning behind her name.
So, the idol who she worked so hard to get close to for twenty years had already passed away.
Su Xia knew He Siyi wouldn't joke around about her mother's life, but she still couldn't believe it. ”But your latest Weibo post was just three days ago. You have many Weibo posts you create till this day, so how could she possibly be-be...”
After she said this, Su Xia gulped but eventually, her words came to a stop. She didn't manage to finish what she was going to say.
”Those are real events that did happen, but the timeline has changed,” calmly replied He Siyi as Su Xia understood what she meant.
Having understood everything, Su Xia nodded with a rising warmth within her eyes.
In contrast to Su Xia's devastation, He Siyi looked a lot more composed. ”Do you know why I agreed to see you? It's because for the past few years, whenever I log onto my mother's Weibo, I always saw your private messages. When she was famous, she had countless fans, but thirty years later, there were only a few who actually remembered her.”
He Siyi was only telling the truth, but Su Xia felt even more stifled. She picked up her coffee and took a hard sip. The bitterness made her feel a little better. That was when she suddenly came up with her next question. ”Could you... tell me how she died?” she asked carefully.
”People die from illness and aging; natural causes.”
He Siyi only replied to Su Xia with that sentence.
Deep down, Su Xia calculated the timeframe. If Ji Yi passed away five years ago, she would've been fifty-two years old.
At that age, it wasn't considered an early death, but it wasn't considerably late either. It was within the normal and acceptable age range, but she still thought Ji Yi shouldn't have died so early. The He Family was so rich and He Jichen was now a major reputable investor. Ji Yi earned an alarming amount from her acting career, so she could afford to take care of herself...
Su Xia thought something wasn't right, so she continued to ask He Siyi. However, He Siyi didn't mention anything else about her mother.
Not long after Su Xia and He Siyi's conversation, He Siyi received a call and left early, leaving Su Xia full of curiosity.
Su Xia was really curious about how Ji Yi passed away. After she chatted with He Siyi, she spent a whole week pondering this in her mind. When ”A Billion Stars Can't Amount to You” first came to theaters, Su Xia bought a ticket. She sat in the movie theater and after watching the three-hour long movie, she came up with the answer.
This movie, ”A Billion Stars Can't Amount to You,” was plain and simple in the beginning; the young students from Sucheng Yizhong wore school uniforms. There was a group of troublesome friends who played games all day and didn't study.
The young man's desk drawer was filled with multicolored love letters all the time. On his way home from school, girls would stop him to give him gifts. While he played games at the Internet cafe, a pretty girl came over to offer him a cold drink.
But the young man didn't care for any of it. One day during a lunch break, the young man lit a cigarette by the sports track in complete disregard for all the students walking around. Just as he was going to take a drag, three girls in school uniforms passed by. The girl in the middle made the young man cough when she said, ”A condom per person.” He turned around to look at her but only saw the silhouette of the young girl's back.
That was one part that made the audience laugh. Thereafter, the story continued to be shot in the young man's perspective.
He ordered countless people to find ”Cola Girl,” but they couldn't find her. When he returned home, he saw ”Cola Girl” sitting in his dining room and having dinner with his family. That was when the names of the boy and girl were first introduced to the audience - He Jichen and Ji Yi.
After almost an hour into the story, the film showed scenes of wonderful times on the school grounds. The young man sneakily highlighted points in the girl's textbook and bought her snacks, and the young man was the first to launch punches at whoever bullied the girl. It wasn't until their high school graduation and college entrance exams that the story instantly turned upside down after the boy and girl's drunken sex episode.
The following story was from thirty years ago. Whoever paid attention to entertainment news back then knew about it.
The young woman was sabotaged by her best friend and was put in a coma for three years. Every month, the young man would visit the young woman.
It wasn't until after the young woman woke up that the young man insisted on leaving his prestigious school to attend B-Film to remain by the woman's side. Their story continued after they met up again.
The film was shot artistically with many, many classic quotes.
”I wish you would get lost forever and come to my side.”
”The person I love is not my lover.”
”There's no justice. Only she is right and you're wrong.”
”You were never alone. You still have me.”
Half an hour into the movie, the first background song appeared in the movie. It was an old song; ”Within Your Radius.”
Ji Yi was finally moved by He Jichen, but their story wasn't as everyone imagined and they couldn't be together easily.
After the video of He Jichen stabbing someone was leaked, they were separated for the second time in their lives.
The story continued with more drama until a moment when Ji Yi stood on a stage to accept her award. In front of everyone in the world, she confessed to He Jichen and they finally ended up together.
When Ji Yi found out she fell for the wrong person, when she found out that her best days were spent with the young man after all and when she decided to dedicate the rest of her life to the young man, tears welled up in Su Xia's eyes.
Thereafter, the story shifted to the explosive news from thirty years ago.
The truth behind He Jichen stabbing someone was unveiled and Ji Yi got pregnant.
From then on, the story was incredibly sweet.
Ji Yi's pregnancy wasn't stable, so she had to stay in the hospital for a while. Behind Ji Yi's back, He Jichen bought an exquisitely decorated villa. He stood inside the villa while video-calling Ji Yi.
In the video call, he carefully explained the layout of the villa. In the end, he pushed open the master bedroom doors, where the bed, floorboards, and walls were all covered in roses.
Amidst the sea of flowers, he kneeled before her and pulled out an embroidered box. Sincerely and seriously, he said, ”Ji Yi, marry me.”
Ji Yi remained in the hospital for a month before she could return home.
He Jichen didn't go to work and always stayed at home by Ji Yi's side to take care of her during her pregnancy.
One night six and a half months later, He Jichen slept a whole week without changing his clothes when Ji Yi was due to give birth.
He Jichen instantly woke up, picked Ji Yi up and rushed to the hospital. In the late afternoon of the next day, the sound of a baby girl crying could be heard from the maternity room. The man who stood outside quietly for eighteen hours abruptly fell on the chair as though he lost all strength in his body.
The year He Jichen's daughter turned two, he returned home to take over the family business.
Because he was busy with work and Ji Yi was rather weak, their wedding wasn't held until the year their daughter turned five.
The wedding was grand but not many people attended. The people who did were their close family members and friends.
The wedding ended at three in the afternoon.
He Jichen and his friend, Chen Bai, sat in front of the tall windows and drank tea. On the other side of the tall windows, Ji Yi played with her five-year-old daughter and their friend, Han Zhifan's, seven-year-old son.
Chen Bai talked with He Jichen non-stop. In the beginning, He Jichen replied, but in the end, he was transfixed, watching Ji Yi play with the two kids.
Chen Bai noticed that He Jichen wasn't replying, so he followed his line of sight. When he saw Ji Yi, he said, ”Everyone said that marriage is the death of romance, but I never saw the shadow of those words with the two of you.”
He Jichen didn't say anything.
”How does it feel to be married to her?” asked Chen Bai after a while.
He Jichen still didn't say anything.
It was unclear how much time had passed; it was so long that Chen Bai thought He Jichen wasn't going to reply when suddenly, He Jichen's brows relaxed. His voice became gentle like he was talking to himself. ”Life was a barren field before, but after marrying her, a million lifeforms miraculously came to life.”
Everyone thought the movie ended there.
After the screen turned black for a whole minute, the image of He Jichen and Ji Yi arguing appeared.