Part 5 of Chapter 82
Please Like Her 33 – Main Story Finale (First Part)
Until a picture of a young Chi Yan with a sulky expression standing behind a rock appeared.
Shang Lu was puzzled and asked, “What’s wrong with him in this picture? Did he get into a fight with someone?”
Mother Chi laughed so hard she couldn’t stop and said, “He was mischievous as a child. He saw a pretty little girl and actually pulled her braids. As a result, the girl knocked him to the ground, and he cried when he lost.”
Chi Yan denied, “You remembered it wrong. I didn’t cry.”
Shang Lu looked at him and half-jokingly asked, “How pretty was she to make you play these childish tricks and deliberately seek her attention?”
Chi Yan didn’t deny it and said, “Yes, she was exceptionally pretty.”
Shang Lu was stunned and instinctively grabbed a nearby cushion, ready to throw it at Chi Yan, but she held back when she realized she was at his home.
Mother Chi, on the other hand, snatched the cushion from Shang Lu’s hand and did something Shang Lu had intended to do but hadn’t done earlier. She threw the cushion at her own son and said, “What are you saying? Is there a girl in the world prettier than our Lulu? If you don’t have anything nice to say, just keep quiet like your Dad!”
Chi Yan bent over, picked up the cushion and put it aside, but not saying anything, just quieted down.
Shang Lu still glared at him, waving her fist in the air with a hint of threat.
At this moment, Mother Chi quickly tried to flip through the photo album and directly turned two pages at once.
Shang Lu’s attention was diverted, and she flipped the page back, saying, “Hey, I see a dress, is that Chi Yan cross-dressing…”
The answer was no.
Because in this photo, it wasn’t Chi Yan who was wearing a dress; he was the one lying on the ground.
Little Chi Yan had a face full of unwillingness, and the little girl with pigtails crookedly stretched out one foot and stepped on… well, his buttocks.
Strange, let’s take another look.
No, it’s even stranger!
This little girl’s face is very familiar.
Shang Lu picked up her phone, opened the camera, looked at her own face, and then pointed at the little girl, asking, “This is?”
“We don’t know either. It was Chi Yan’s birthday that day, and there were quite a few guests who came. We don’t know which family she was from, and we haven’t seen her since.” Chi Yan’s mother realized that something was amiss as she spoke. She hadn’t paid much attention to the girl’s face in the photos before, but now, prompted by Shang Lu, she looked carefully and muttered, “It looks very familiar.”
Mother Chi closed her eyes, her hand resting on the photo, and mumbled a few words before saying, “The aura is also very familiar, very close.”
She looked at the girl in the photo again, and this time, she finally recognized her. She looked at Shang Lu in disbelief and said, “It’s Lulu, this little girl is Lulu. How could there be such a coincidence?”
Shang Lu also found the hazy memories from that year.
At that time, Father Shang had made a few business deals, and maybe he was in a good mood, so he took her out a few times for social gatherings.
Chi Yan’s birthday was probably one of those gatherings.
Shang Lu didn’t remember the face of that little boy very clearly, but she remembered that the boy had pulled her braid and asked her why she was alone and where her parents were.
At the time, Shang Lu had been called a motherless wild child by another boy, and she was hiding in a corner alone. When the boy approached her and asked about her parents, she had reacted aggressively, and started quarrelling with the boy.
Shang Lu won the fight, but maybe it was because the boy was mainly avoiding her, showing some leniency.
When Little Shang Lu pushed the boy to the ground and deliberately stepped on his buttocks to declare her victory, the boy’s mother arrived.
At that moment, Shang Lu was very afraid. She was afraid that her father would find out and never let her go out again, so she ran away.
This incident did not come to light, and her father did not reprimand her for it. However, a few days later, she accidentally broke a frame containing her mother’s photo and was punished to kneel in a small dark room. From then on, she had little freedom to go out and play.
It’s unbelievable that the boy turned out to be Chi Yan.
When she realized that the boy’s mother was coming, she hurriedly ran away, but the photo had already been taken and stored for so long.
Shang Lu looked at Chi Yan, and he seemed quite indifferent, as if he had known about this all along.
Shang Lu immediately guessed, “You knew, didn’t you?”
Chi Yan sat on the nearby sofa, holding his face with one hand and looking at Shang Lu with a mischievous smile, “Guess.”
Shang Lu : “?!” D*mn, I’ve never thought Chi Yan could be so annoying!
Mother Chi also seemed to understand everything in an instant and said, “He knew. We scolded him at the time, and he said he wanted to apologize to you and ran off. He kept going out early and returning late for a week.”
Mother Chi looked at Chi Yan with some anger and asked, “Why doesn’t Lulu remember? You didn’t lie to us and claim to apologize while actually playing outside every day, did you?”
Chi Yan didn’t answer his Mom’s question but closed his eyes, sniffed, and said, “Someone’s specially baked cupcakes seem to be burning.”
Mother Chi screamed, said “I’ll deal with you later,” and hastily went to the kitchen.
Chi Yan picked up a cookie from the table, sat down next to Shang Lu, and opened the cookie. He handed it to Shang Lu’s lips and said, word by word, “I went.”
He continued, “Try it. This is my favorite cookie, I hope you like it too.”
Shang Lu lowered her eyelashes and looked at the plain, unremarkable cookie. It was a well-known national brand, but it held a special place in her heart. Because during that week, every day, the little boy who sent her notes through the window and gave her milk and cookies had given her this exact type of cookie.
The first note he gave her at the time read, “This is my favorite cookie; I hope you like it too.”
Shang Lu slightly lowered her head, took a bite of the cookie from Chi Yan’s hand, and already understood Chi Yan’s intention. She said directly, “It’s not him, it’s you.”
Both of them naturally understood what she meant.
Chi Yan nodded, took back his hand after finishing the cookie, and said, “Indeed, it’s my favorite taste.”
Shang Lu smiled, her eyes unconsciously getting a little teary. She asked, “When did you find out that this person is very important to me?”
Chi Yan didn’t lie, “When I helped you with the plush toy that Shang Mu sent.”
Shang Lu continued to ask, “Why didn’t you tell me?”
As she spoke, she blinked, and tears rolled down her face, despite her efforts to smile. She couldn’t control her tears.
Chi Yan raised his hand and gently wiped away her tears with his fingertip, his voice becoming even gentler, “I didn’t want you to agree to be with me out of gratitude when you didn’t really like me. After being together, we wouldn’t find the right moment to talk about it. Are you angry?”
“No,” Shang Lu shook her head. She held Chi Yan’s hand and pressed his palm against her face, tilted her head slightly, and let her tears fall into his hand.
Chi Yan furrowed his brows slightly, feeling the warmth of her tears in his palm, which made his heart ache.
Naturally, he couldn’t bear to see her cry, but this time, she was crying because of him.
Shang Lu held Chi Yan’s hand even tighter and said sincerely, “Chi Yan, I’m very happy that it’s you. I feel very lucky.”
The boy who had shown her countless kindness and warmth hadn’t become unrecognizable with time, as she had feared. He was still the same as in her memories, even more beautiful than before. This was a good thing.
Seventeen years ago, he had helped her and warmed her.
Seventeen years later, he still chose to love her.
Every time she met him, she felt loved.
So now, she wanted to love the world even more.
Ah, I wish the author hadn’t gone this route. It’s too cliche and idealistic in a story that has been so grounded until now.
Truly regrettable. To be honest, even if the plot is hindering and there’s little chance also that things just happen, I still wish there was no such misunderstanding. That way, Shang Lu might not even glance at that scum.
Mhh I knew it would turn out like that but I find it regrettable. It’s too prefect. It’s sweet and wholesome but the author has shown great talent in describing human emotions realistically on many occasions so this fairy tale ending is a bit perfunctory.
I knew it wasn’t Jiang Yi, such a scumbag isn’t capable of such heartwarming actions.
I’m so glad for her, she had that trauma, that someone who was once so sweet to her had turn so malicious and bully her, but now she knows it’s not true and that those sweet moments with him were always true