Chapter 34: The Significance of Icebergs (Final Chapter of this Volume) Seeking Recommendations

  April 18th, evening

  "You're not even worthy of being my younger brother, Lee Hyori!"

  "You're no longer my son, get out!"

  "No!" The heavy head, the lingering words, and the fragmented pieces, like boiling water, kept churning in Muzi's mind, making his face, which had slowly subsided from its red swelling under Kim Min-hee's care, contort again in this agony...

  "Zi Qiu, how are you? Are you feeling better?" Jin Minhe had been pretending to sleep on the sofa, but Mu Zi Qiu's current condition didn't allow him to relax even a bit. Whether he could pass this test depended on whether his words would be useful after waking up.

  "Golden room long? How did I end up here, wasn't I at home? Sister! I want to go home!" Realizing he was not at home now, Muzi Qiu immediately got out of bed, but his body, which had been sleeping for a day, had no strength in its limbs, causing him to fall directly from the bed and heavily crash onto the ground.

  "Last night..." Kim Min-hee immediately stepped forward, re-lifting Muzi Qiu onto the bed, and firmly pinning him down with both hands.

  "No! My sister won't abandon me!" As soon as he thought of last night, Muzi Qiu's eyes immediately turned red, and he wished it was just a dream.

  "Zi Qiu..."

  "I want to go home, Jin Shu Chang, please let me go home, I want to see my sister!" For the first time, Muzi Qiu shed tears in front of a stranger, for the first time, begging a stranger...

  "Muzi Qiu! Is this all you're capable of?" Jin Minhe looked at Muzi Qiu, who was being held back by himself, and couldn't help but let out a sigh.

  "I don't want anything to happen! I just want to stay by my sister's side!"

  "What about you? Lee Hyori has already told me that you're not worthy of being her brother, and at first I didn't believe it! But now, looking at your current state, I've come to believe it too - you really aren't worthy of being her brother!"

  "I don't deserve..." The limp body, which had no strength to begin with, was now completely immobilized under Kim Min-hee's tight grip. Kim Min-hee's words reopened the wound on his heart that had not yet fully healed, and Lee Hyori's words from last night rose up from the depths of the ocean, piercing through the calm surface...

  "You don't deserve it! But..."

  "But what? I'll do anything!" In the dark and endless sea, Kim Min-hee's one "but" was like a lighthouse that gave him a glimmer of hope...

  "I have a way to get you back to your sister's side, and she'll acknowledge that you're her brother with a happy heart!" Although this method is foolish and anyone can see through it, for Mokuzi Aki who is currently stuck in the mud, these words are undoubtedly a lifeline.

  "Golden General, you, tell me! Please, teach me what to do!"

  "Follow me and I'll make you into someone worthy of being Lee Hyori's brother!"

  "Alright!" Muzi agreed without hesitation, even if it meant going through thick and thin, he was willing to do it, all for the sake of being worthy as Kim Min-hee's partner and as Lee Hyori's younger brother.

  "First of all, I must change your name! Are you willing?" This is a small private mind of Jin Minhe.

  "No! My name was given by my sister, I won't abandon it!"

  "You don't have to share my surname, my wife's surname is Li, you can share hers if you want. Want to change it? I think the two characters 'Mu Zi' are a split of the character 'Li', Li Qiu, what a nice-sounding name, and shares a surname with Xiao Li."

  "I'm changing!"

  "After we've taken care of these things, we'll go to Japan!" Ah, Xiaoli, are you Zǐ Qiū's weakness or his Achilles' heel? Sigh...

  Outside the window, in the general red sunset, a star is shining brightly.

  ……

  Namsan Park Entrance in Seoul

  "Are irises? Tell me, why did you agree to meet but didn't show up?" Zheng Xiuyan stood up, holding her phone that had been unreachable for a long time, gazing at the flowerbed where there was only one blue iris and fallen blue petals...

  "Zheng Xiuyan, happy birthday......" Not a single ripple on her face, but her eyes gradually clouded over with an irrepressible disappointment. "That guy is really bad! He actually stood me up! I, Zheng Xiuyan, was stood up for the first time by a boy I asked out!" Although they had only been together for less than two months, she, Zheng Xiuyan, had unknowingly fallen deeply in love with him from the moment they met, just like the ivy outside the classroom window that had quietly spread to cover an entire wall. It wasn't until he smiled at her in the practice room that she realized some things she had never thought of before, which led to today's date. But, she was stood up...

  "What a beautiful star!" In the sunset glow that was slowly falling, a star gradually emerged. This star was very bright, and even though it was still daytime, the naked eye could still feel its dazzling sparkle.

  "Jung Soo-yeon, be prettier! Next Monday, go to school and scold him loudly. Yes, it's best to beat him up too. This is the real Jung Soo-yeon!" Facing the sunset, Jung Soo-yeon smiled slightly, gazing at the twinkling longgang star, let out a sigh, dragging her long shadow, humming that song, and slowly heading in the opposite direction of the South Mountain Park entrance, leaving...

  If it were up to me, I would give up on the whole world

  At least you're worth me cherishing

  And you're here

  It's a miracle of life

  ……

  The sunset in the evening, the twinkling long star, the intoxicating dusk, the stretched human shadow, the beautiful singing voice, and a withered blue iris flower...

  ……

  April 21st, Monday, early morning, heavy rain

  "It's raining!" After a happy weekend, the joy of her birthday still lingered around Jung Soo-yeon. As soon as she left her dormitory, she found that Seoul, which had not rained for a long time, was pouring heavily. Holding a pure white flower umbrella, Jung Soo-yeon was the first to enter the classroom and sat in the corner seat, looking out of the window at the gray wall and the ivy being battered by the rain...

  "Isn't she coming today?" Since she and Muzi Qiu sat together, Muzi Qiu's attendance has been increasing gradually, even setting a record of attending school for a whole week consecutively. But today, she didn't show up. Last Friday, the day they had agreed on, she also didn't appear...

  Soon, the bell for class rang out across the campus, and Han Sun-mi, carrying her textbook and holding a pointer, walked into the classroom.

  "Before class, I have some bad news to share with everyone. Mu Zi Qiu, the pride of our Class 3, Grade 2, has submitted a withdrawal application directly to the principal on Saturday..." Han Shanmei's words did not stir up any ripples, and the entire class of dozens of people showed no reaction, with some even revealing hidden smiles on their faces...

  "Bang!" After hearing Han Sun-mi's words, Jeong Su-yeon slowly turned her gaze outside the window, staring at Han Sun-mi for a moment, then slammed her hand on the desk and stood up, rushing out of the classroom under the watchful eyes of all her classmates...

  "Hey! Jung Soo-yeon! Where are you going?" Han Soon-mi's words didn't catch up to Jung Soo-yeon's hasty footsteps...

  "Is that how you leave? Without a word, just like that?! When I just found out, you vanished into thin air like a shooting star?!

  The heavy rain poured down, her small body was instantly drenched. Her long hair, soaked by the rainwater, clung to Zheng Xiuyan's face, her pitch-black eyes refused to close amidst the pounding rain. The rainwater carried a salty taste, falling onto the puddles on the ground, leaving no trace..."

  At the fork in the road not far from the school gate, one side was Zheng Xiuyan's path back to her dormitory, and the other was Mu Ziqiu's path home. Many times, Zheng Xiuyan and Mu Ziqiu had parted ways here. Today, Zheng Xiuyan didn't turn around to head down the road she usually took, but instead walked towards Mu Ziqiu's path home. The desolate street, made even more dismal by the heavy rain, was lined with a small figure walking alone...

  Muzi Qiu returned home, but actually had to take the bus at this fork in the road, however, Zheng Xiuyan had never noticed it before, not even once. Moreover, she didn't know where Muzi Qiu's home was. Along the street, just like that, she kept walking forward until the end, and at the end was that river, as calm as a mirror, the Han River...

  "Mù zi qiū, wèi shén me lián zǒu yě gào su wǒ yī shēng! Nǐ kě zhī dào, wǒ yǐ jīng fā xiàn le! ǎi gè tǔ bāo zi……wǒ xǐ huān shàng nǐ le……" A small figure sat on the riverbank path, silently sobbing. The heavy rain continued to pour down, drenching her outside and in.

  ……

  When the rain meets the iceberg, no matter how big the rain is or how long it lasts, it cannot melt the eternal and unchanging iceberg. Instead, the rainwater will be assimilated by the iceberg, becoming a solid ice block on its surface, expanding the iceberg's body. Then, it will drift with the iceberg in the endless and icy sea, continuing to freeze more rainwater...

  After a long time, Zheng Xiuyan wiped the rain from her face, sniffled, and took one step at a time towards the fork in the road where she usually parted ways with Muzi Qiu.

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