Chapter 103 Chapter 103 (1/2)

Resplendent Times

Chapter 103

Ji Yushi rested in Jiang City for two days before leaving for Ning City.

He wasn’t dropped off by Song Qinglan this time because he had to go directly to the Ji residence and seeing the parents would be too troublesome. In fact, neither of them wanted to push that matter ahead. The two of them took their time taking in each other’s warmth before he left. Song Qinglan hugged him from behind, reluctant to part with him.

The marks on Ji Yushi’s body had mostly faded. Ji Yushi naturally didn’t let him mess around. He didn’t want Song Qinglan to leave Old Ji with a bad impression.

“Really don’t need me to send you there?” Song Qinglan tried to make him change his mind.

“No need.” Ji Yushi spoke calmly, “This time you can just stand and watch the train take me away and then watch it bring me back from Ning City. As your boyfriend, I should fulfil your wish.”

Song Qinglan, “………”

Who the hell wants this kind of wish.

Ji Yushi didn’t say much. He didn’t show any hesitation when he left.

Song Qinglan watched him enter the elevator and only went back inside when he saw the elevator number reach the first floor.

The place suddenly seemed very empty without Ji Yushi. Song Qinglan circled the living room and began to think about how to change up the place. There was a reason why he didn’t insist on going to Ning City with Ji Yushi. He had to remodel all the rooms over the next few days while Ji Yushi is gone and give him a nice surprise.

When he waited for Ji Yushi’s reply after his confession, he felt that time was too slow.

Now that they were together, he conversely felt that time went by too quickly. He felt that even if they spend their entire life together, it still wasn’t enough.

While calling someone he knew who worked in the relevant field, he entered his room.

Two things at the bedside table caught his attention.

One was a small square box with a clean surface.

It was Ji Yushi’s box of medicine.

The other was a small black and white handheld game console. It was very retro in design and the symbols on the buttons had long worn off.

It was Ji Yushi’s game console.

It was unknown when Ji Yushi had hid that box of medicine. When Song Qinglan confiscated his medicine last time, it was clear that he hadn’t honestly handed all of it in and secretly kept some stashed away. After they returned to get their personal belongings from the third command centre, Ji Yushi had brought it with him.

As for the game console. That was something that Ji Yushi would never part with.

Song Qinglan remembered how angry Ji Yushi was after the dark-skinned man smashed his game console in PU-31. Even Song Qinglan felt the pain when the knife penetrated through the back of that man’s hand.

Song Qinglan’s lips bent upwards.

Ji Yushi had left these two things because he would be back.

The windows were clean and bright. The sky was clear blue.

In fact, his life with Ji Yushi was still very long.

*

Ji Yushi returned to Ning City.

When Ji Minyue heard that he was finally willing to come back from his partners side, he couldn’t wait to bring the three cats over to the station to pick him up. The cat-dog battle between Middle Black and the corgi at home was about to drive him crazy.

“Little classmate Ji, you’ve changed.” Ji Minyue said ruefully, “I have always thought that you wouldn’t fuss over mundane things but who knew that not only did your mortal heart get moved, but your mind has also become filled with love! You don’t want your cats or your family anymore?!”

“What?” Ji Yushi was shocked, “You and sister-in-law moved in together after being together for three months. Why are you complaining about me?”

Ji Minyue, “So what about it?!”

Ji Yushi got in the car and randomly took out a cat from the cat carrier, “Nothing much. I just wanted to tell you that we will be moving in together too. It only took one and a half months.”

Ji Minyue felt like his head was about to explode.

Even something like this had to be a competition?!

Seeing that his younger brother was treating him like air and focusing on petting the cat, Ji Minyue roared, “Cohabitation? Have you asked for my opinion? Have you asked for Old Ji’s opinion? Let me tell you, Old Ji will definitely not agree!”

Ji Yushi petted Big Black. His fingers slid across its silky black fur.

The other two cats were meowing in the cat carrier. Surrounded by the three cats, his expression was calm, “Work requirement.”

These three cats are in fact already seventeen years old.

From that summer rainstorm where he first started living alone, he had them accompanying him until now. It was about time for them to find a new owner to be with.

It is said that cats don’t have good memories.

But Ji Yushi felt that Big Black must have recognised the person who had rescued them that day when Song Qinglan properly came to his place for the first time.

Ji Minyue was stunned, “Work?”

Ji Yushi raised his head. His expression was as cold and calm as ever, but his eyes contained something Ji Minyue had never seen before. It was an interest towards his new life, filled with vitality. That Ji Yushi from before who used to carry all his burdens alone seemed to have disappeared.

“I have already agreed to be transferred to Jiang City to be an official Guardian.” Ji Yushi said, “Teacher should already know about it.”

Anything Chief Lin knew; Old Ji would also know.

Ji Minyue hadn’t heard anything about that. It seems that Old Ji was still waiting for Ji Yushi to return and tell him about it himself.

Probably because Ji Yushi appeared serious and behaved too naturally, Ji Minyue found that he couldn’t find words to refute him. Only after driving for several more kilometres, he belatedly realised, “Wait a minute.”

Ji Yushi turned his head and looked out the window.

He was in fact laughing.

“What work requirement?” Ji Minyue slammed his fist against the steering wheel, “You’re clearly transferring there just so that you can cohabit with your man!”

The two returned to Ji Yushi’s place first. They released the cats, helped fill their bowls and add water and even gave them a few pieces of dried fish along the way before heading off to the Ji residence together.

Today was a very important day to the Ji family.

Since the day Ji Yushi officially became a member of the Ji family, the shadow belonging to 1439 had continued to hang over their heads. Over the years, it had not only made it difficult for Ji Yushi to sleep, but it also became a source of heartache for the rest of the Ji family.

The small Ji Yushi was taken care of and protected as he grew. There were traces of him left everywhere in this big house.

To him, he didn’t go back to 1439 to seek his roots. After all, this place was his real home.

Everyone in the Ji family was waiting for him to reveal the answer to the mystery. They waited for him to tell them everything about that year.

When Ji Yushi arrived at the Ji residence, Aunt Su said that Professor Ji had a guest.

There usually wouldn’t be many guests over, and the occasional ones were mostly Professor Ji’s students or a few good friends like Chief Lin.

Ji Yushi didn’t disturb them and went back to his room first.

A certain captain surnamed Song was upset about how he had ‘kissed Han Han for three minutes’ when he was a child and insisted that the person who was kissed had remembered wrongly. He wanted to look at photos of Han Han when he was a child in search for that subconscious ‘three-minute kiss’ memory buried in the depths of his mind and even righteously complained that a certain someone with hyperthymesia cannot deprive him of the right to remember it.

“How did I kiss you?”

The kisses that fell one after another were sometimes light, sometimes heavy. From the back of his neck to the end of his spine, that person asked mischievously while breathing heavily, “Tell me, Han Han. How do you remember it so clearly?”

Ji Yushi stood before the table. The ringing of his phone returned him to his senses.

Some inappropriate scenes flashed across his mind. It made his face red and he even sweated a little.

Fortunately, something like this happened to him often. At least this time it was a pleasant memory.

He took out his phone. It was just the person he was thinking about.

Song Qinglan was calling him.

“Have you arrived home?” Song Qinglan’s tone was light, “Picking up so quickly, were you missing me?”

He hit the right mark.

Ji Yushi didn’t panic. He just said, “I sent the cats home first and just got here. What’s that sound on your end?”

“Café?” Song Qinglan’s end seemed a little noisy. He just had to tease him, “I’m on a blind date.”

Ji Yushi was speechless.

Song Qinglan no longer continued the act, “I’m accompanying Old Duan to his blind date.”

Someone cleared their throat next to him, “Advisor Ji, can you rein him in?! Who would need someone like him to accompany them? Someone like me is enough!”

That voice was Li Chun’s.

The other end was rowdy. Ji Yushi also heard the voices of other people; the Tang Qi and Tang Le brothers, Zhou Mingxuan and Duan Wen.

Everyone had gathered together. It was very lively.

Song Qinglan cursed at them and drove them away. Once it quietened down slightly, Ji Yushi asked, “Old Duan really needs a blind date?”

“He’s after all not that much of a scum like Li Chun. A single old man in his thirties with only men around him, apart from going on a blind date, he can only come out of the closet.” Song Qinglan laughed, “Just kidding, the lady already left. We’re just having a meal since we’re here. When you’re back, we can all go out for another meal.”

Ji Yushi agreed.

“Oh right.” Song Qinglan continued, “A good news and a bad news. Which one do you want to hear.”