Epilogue (2/2)

Dayum!

Am I that hot?

Hahahahaha.

When I got to the computer section, the girls asked me for fake Samsung phones while staring at my neck without even blinking. I thought I must’ve had something on my neck.

They kept looking until I felt a bit creeped out. But you see, I’ve started a new life for so long and my temper got a lot better. I went to the restroom to look in the mirror and it turned out I had a red mark on my collarbone. It’s all Ah-ge, kissing me like crazy the previous night.

I was a bit weirded out.

What’s going on in the girls’ heads nowadays? Thank G.o.d I didn’t have to marry one.

After, the girls came to hang out a lot and we got to know each other. A few of them are pretty close with Ah-ge, always discussing some writing. I felt a bit down and wondered what Ah-ge was writing behind my back.

But honestly, I’ve thought through it. I might say I’m gonna do this and that if he had a change of hearts, but I’m just a d.a.m.ned n.o.body while he’s the only son of the Qian family. Muma and Jiye(G.o.dfather) both really want to have a grandchild.

If a girl is what it takes, I’d be okay with that, really…

I brought this up the other day and Ah-ge’s face just went sour.

He turned into a monster at night and I couldn’t even get up the next morning. Do not try this at home, kids.

My Ah-ge is very fierce to start with. He might look skinny and he might be shorter than me, but he dared go up against Brother. Of course, it was for me…

I’ll always remember.

I’ll be with someone who’d do that for me for as long as I’m alive.

So I gotta live on and listen to him, not go down the wrong path, not fight and not curse—be the model gay man of the new century.

Even if he gets married. I won’t complain.

His son will be my son.

But I won’t tell him this. I’ll just keep it inside.

He always says that love is dedication. If he got married while liking me, that’d be unfair for the girl.

I’m happy when I hear that. There’s actually tons of people out there who has a mistress or maybe two or three or four mistresses. Ah-ge is one of the last men on earth. A real man.

I was right about him.

My intuition is much better than Ding Hongmei, I mean, my ma.

We’re bringing Muma and Jiye to Shanghai for New Year’s this year. Lin Dongfu and the gang are coming too.

It’s actually been ten years.

So much has happened in ten years, but it seems fast to me, a lot faster than the eighteen years before that. I just feel joy and happiness everyday. I haven’t forgotten about the past—being bullied and killing people—but it has really just pa.s.sed by.

And it’ll just keep pa.s.sing by.

Lin Dongfu, the little s.h.i.+t, he stopped selling motorcycles and started selling j.a.panese cars back home and made a ton of money. He who used to do the worst in school actually got married with a teacher from the provincial high. An English teacher! And the other guys, one of them opened a poultry shop and another is driving for a long-distance coach service. All are doing pretty good.

I really like watching a few of the rated films that Ah-ge has. I can’t p.r.o.nounce the names but they’re awesome. It’s like reliving the days of my youth.

In the last ten years, Ah-ge’s idol jumped down from the twenty-fourth floor and Ah-ge started a gay blog as is the popular trend. But I’m not gay, I just like Ah-ge.

Author’s note

After so many years, I wrote a short epilogue for the New Year’s.

Because Shen Bin is the narrator, I became a bit wordy and couldn’t describe things that well.

The two are very happy.

Report over!

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