Led by Li Shengyun, everyone started shouting, expressing their inner thoughts.
Yan Qing was the first to shout, “Sun Yanzi, I love you! I must go to your concert. Wait for me!”
Sun Mengting followed, “I don’t want to become a nurse! Let me fill out my college application by myself!”
Zhao Zheng was also influenced, “I want to join the army! I will protect our country and everyone in the future!”
Guo Shichao smiled and said boredly, “I will definitely be a part of the Chinese music industry in the next ten years!”
Another member of the basketball team shouted, “We will win against First High this time! The person I like is in First High. I hope she comes to watch me play!”
Ning Zhiyu also shouted, “I want to leave Ningcheng. I want to earn a lot of money!”
Zhou Ji burst into laughter.
Ning Zhiyu turned his head and looked at him with a faint expression in his eyes.
Zhou Ji shrugged, but there was a smile in his eyes. “A very simple wish, and it will come true.”
Jiang Yumo laughed heartily, “Then I hope! In the future, I will accompany Yan Qing to concerts, and Mengmeng won’t become a nurse, otherwise, I won’t dare to go to the hospital for injections. I will tell people that I have a friend serving in the military, and also that I have a friend who is a famous singer!”
Everyone looked at her, at this girl whose hair was messed by the wind.
Jiang Yumo’s eyes sparkled. “Then, we will win the competition, and Zhiyu will earn a lot of money. Then I can go to her small house and have a meal as a guest. Hehe~”
“This is my wish!” Jiang Yumo said. “Hehe, is it a bit greedy?”
Finally, she said in her heart that she wished Duan Ye’s wishes would also be fulfilled.
Duan Ye looked at her attentively. “Not greedy.”
Her wish seemed to be just that, hoping that the wishes of her friends around her would all come true. That was her wish.
“What about you, Brother Duan?” Li Shengyun gathered his courage. “And Brother Zhou, you two haven’t said anything.”
Duan Ye had one hand in his pocket, and his dark and bright pupils were only focused on Jiang Yumo.
Zhao Zheng smiled and hooked arms with Guo Shichao. “No need to say it. Our Brother Duan’s wish is Sister Mo, of course.”
Jiang Yumo stomped her foot in embarrassment and wanted to hit him.
Duan Ye pulled Jiang Yumo and whispered to coax her, “I’ll deal with him later.”
“What about Brother Zhou?”
Everyone looked at Zhou Ji.
Zhou Ji was wearing a black coat and stood on the side. Tonight, he seemed to have integrated a little bit with Ningcheng, not like before when he felt out of place.
He spoke up, “Me? I hope the self-righteous Zhou Chenglei regrets it in the future.”
Zhou Chenglei?
Um…
Could it be his father he’s talking about?
Everyone fell silent immediately.
Jiang Yumo : “.”
Ning Zhiyu : “……”
Forget it.
“Then let me make another wish!” Yan Qing stepped in to change the topic forcibly. “I wish that ten years later, we can gather like this again!”
“Wow!!” Jiang Yumo really lives up to being Yan Qing’s best friend. She immediately caught onto her inside joke and said, “Like how Brother Xiaoyao and the others made a ten-year promise1, right?”
Yan Qing nodded eagerly, “Yumo understands me!”
“Alright!” Zhao Zheng also got excited. “Ten years later, on Brother Duan’s 28th birthday, let’s gather again and set off fireworks here!”
Everyone agreed to the promise.
Even Zhou Ji nodded. Although such a promise seemed childish, in this kind of environment, it was hard to resist agreeing to a ten-year commitment like this.
Ten years later, they would all be around 27 or 28 years old.
What would they be like at that time? It was so exciting to think about! Everyone was imagining what kind of person they would become and what kind of life they would lead. It was truly a wonderful thing.
Jiang Yumo had something important to do. She needed to give the prepared gift, but she felt embarrassed to do it in front of so many people. After thinking for a moment, she pulled Yan Qing aside and whispered, “I want to take Duan Ye away for a while. Can you take good care of Ning Zhiyu for me?”
Yan Qing pretended to be unhappy and said, “I’m jealous! You treat Ning Zhiyu better than you treat me! Can you smell the sourness? It’s the scent of vinegar I’m emitting.”
Jiang Yumo couldn’t help but laugh at her antics and held her hand, “I love it when you get jealous for me. Keep it up!”
Yan Qing : “You dream! Don’t worry, I will take good care of Ning Zhiyu. Just go on your date with your Brother Duan.”
Sun Mengting also heard and said, “Go ahead, or your Brother Duan will be disappointed if there are no gifts!”
Jiang Yumo approached Ning Zhiyu and whispered with a blush, “Zhiyu, I need to leave for a moment to get a gift for Duan Ye… But don’t worry, I told Yan Qing and the others, they will take care of you.”
Ning Zhiyu chuckled, “I’m not a child, and besides, you forgot, my house is just down the embankment. Go ahead!”
Only then Jiang Yumo felt relieved to leave with Duan Ye.
She tiptoed and whispered in his ear, “Let’s run away!”
Duan Ye was taken aback, but when he looked at her, he saw a firm determination in her eyes, as if she was ready to go with him.
“Okay.” He smiled, and his heartbeat quickened once again.
The two of them left.
But it wasn’t a secret departure because Duan Ye was riding a motorcycle, carrying Jiang Yumo away.
They went to a farther place on the embankment.
Accompanied by the roaring sound of the motorcycle, Jiang Yumo sat behind Duan Ye, wearing a helmet.
She reached out and placed her hands on both sides of his waist, gripping his clothes.
~Driving my motorcycle, taking you slowly away2…
As the motorcycle sped past, the wind tousled Jiang Yumo’s hair. She was still wearing Duan Ye’s hoodie. Her heart was beating fast, and above her head was a starry sky.
~While time haven’t noticed us yet, let me take you away…..
At this moment, Jiang Yumo thought of the martial arts dramas she had watched in her childhood.
She felt like she was in one right now.
Just like when the male and female leads fell off a cliff and arrived at a secluded paradise meant for only the two of them.
She and Duan Ye seemed to be planning to go to a place where it would be just the two of them, taking advantage of the fact that no one else knew and time hadn’t noticed.
She even though, “Jiang Yumo of the original plot, I believe in your choice. From adolescence to the age of thirty, it has always been only Duan Ye, right?“
That was also the choice and decision Jiang Yumo would make.
After a while, the car stopped, and Duan Ye took off his helmet, turned around, and reached out his hand. He was one step ahead, helping her remove the pink helmet that belonged to her.
Jiang Yumo tidied up her messy hair.
The two of them sat side by side on the motorcycle.
Jiang Yumo thought of the watch in her backpack.
There was a rabbit in her heart, the rabbit she had raised as a child that had gone to heaven. It had always been there, able to sense all her joys and sorrows.
Just like at this moment, that cute rabbit was hopping around in her heart, so strong that she could even hear her own heartbeat.
“Duan Ye, close your eyes first,” Jiang Yumo blinked, “If you peek, there won’t be any surprises.”
Duan Ye could guess that she was going to give him a gift.
He smiled and closed his eyes.
Jiang Yumo, who was still very childish, reached out and waved her hand in front of his eyes to make sure he wouldn’t peek. Only then did she unzip her backpack, took out the black watch she bought in the provincial capital, and gathered her courage to pull his hand and lower her gaze as she put it on for him.
She was too focused, too nervous, and didn’t notice that after feeling the touch, Duan Ye involuntarily opened his eyes and looked down at her.
She carefully put it on for him.
It was done with great solemnity, as if… as if she was putting a ring on him.
Duan Ye’s gaze gradually shifted downward, from her forehead to his wrist, and he finally remembered this watch. It suddenly dawned on him, and his heart was filled with realization. So, it was a gift prepared for him.
Jiang Yumo raised her head and met his gaze. Her eyes widened, “I didn’t tell you to open your eyes! How could you open them!”
Duan Ye still looked at her, so serious like never before.
His pupils seemed to possess a magical power.
It gave her a feeling that only they existed in this world.
Under such a gaze, Jiang Yumo began to curve her lips and no longer blamed him.
She was also filled with joy and excitement in her heart, a bit shy, but still said, “Duan Ye, happy birthday.”
—I can never afford a Patek Philippe in my whole life.
—But I hope you like the watch I’m giving you! I want to give you the best I can, even if it’s not the most expensive!
—To the very best person in the world, Duan Ye, happy birthday!
Duan Ye looked deeply at her. Although her appearance had already been engraved in his heart, every detail was deeply imprinted, but he still wanted to look.
In this moment, he faintly heard a voice saying—
“Duan Ye, whether you believe it or not, you will truly love her for a lifetime.”
- This is talking about a classic Chinese Xianxia drama ‘Chinese Paladin’. The protagonist (Li Xiaoyao) and his friends each stated their own ideals and made a promise to realize their ideals and see each other again in ten years ↩︎
- from the song “Split” by Jay Chou released in 2002 ↩︎
I think i am about to get diabetes.
their love is sooooo cute 🥺
This is the best teen romance, im having a blast.
Crying
AAAAAAA I LOVE THE SMMM