Chapter 5 The Gift I Want

  Afterwards, Mo Xiao and Yang Yanjie's life was always very peaceful, sweet and loving. After the exam ended, Mo Xiao was on "theoretical" holiday, while Yang Yanjie's school exam ended a bit later.

  The night before going home, Mo Xiao was preparing to chat with Yang Yanjie all night, and Yang Yanjie also prepared a gift for Mo Xiao, asking for her address. This girl's mind is more complicated than anyone else's, so how could ordinary gifts move her?

  It's no wonder that Xia Xuan later thought that Mo Xiao Xiao was a woman who didn't eat human fireworks, just look at the gift she asked for next and you'll know her little thoughts.

  "Brother, you said you want to give me a bracelet to let others know that I'm taken, so do I need to carve 'Piao Piao's exclusive' on your face?" Mo Xiao Xiao typed with a smile.

  After the two were together, Mo Xiao's address had not changed, and she continued to call Yang Yanjie "brother". Yang Yanjie once asked her if she wanted to be called "darling", "dear" or something like that, but Mo Xiao, who was always a tomboy, felt goosebumps all over when she heard these words and flatly refused.

  "You silly little girl! I really don't know what to do with you!" Yang Yanjie said helplessly.

  "If you really want to give me a gift, then fine, I'm telling you, you have to follow through!" Mo Xiao had already calculated everything in her mind.

  The gift she wanted was one-of-a-kind and could only be afforded by Yang Yanjie!

  "You said it, I'll definitely send it!" Yang Yanjie said solemnly.

  "Alright! I want your 21 years of experience." Mo Xiao quickly sent over a message.

  “……”

  Yang Yanzhe said he never thought that Mo Xiao would want this, and when he saw Mo Xiao's subsequent reasons, Yang Yanzhe couldn't describe his emotions at the time.

  "Brother, I want to understand you bit by bit. I've said that you know me very well, but as for you, I don't know anything about you. Next semester, you'll be a senior and I'll be a sophomore, our courses will get busier and busier. I told you before, I'm going to take the postgraduate exam and go to your side. We're not in a hurry to meet now because we want to make ourselves the best and then appear in front of each other."

  I want to know about your past, so that I can figure out how to be a qualified girlfriend in the future. You once joked and asked if I wasn't afraid of being stolen away by other girls? I said no, because I knew that if you could be stolen away, you wouldn't be mine now.

  But later on, I think the reason should be like this, I would say to that girl, if you are with her, it's just repeating the path of me and you, since there is already someone who understands you so well by your side, then you don't need her.

  A thin layer of fog appeared before Yang Yanjie's eyes, he knew that it was tears, excitement, emotion, and satisfaction.

  It's great to know you!

  Yang Yanjie slowly tapped on the keyboard and typed out this passage:

  "Xiao, my past is very dark, it can only be described as dark, so I don't want you to know. I just hope you know that meeting you is the proudest thing in my life. I'm proud that my girlfriend is better and brighter than your boyfriend. Xiao, promise me, don't leave, don't take away the last ray of sunshine, okay?"

  Mo Xiao's originally smiling face gradually lost its smile, could it be that her previous guesses were all correct? But what exactly was it?

  In the past, when the two of them chatted, every time they talked about family, Yang Yanjie only listened and then changed the subject after Mo Xiao said what she had to say. At first, Mo Xiao didn't notice this, but as time went on, she stopped mentioning things about her home life.

  Mo Xiao had guessed earlier that something must have happened in Yang Yanjie's family, so he didn't want others to know, and she never asked.

  Later, Yang Yanjie had told her that he had been in love before, but they broke up after only two months. He even joked that their two-month romance didn't even involve holding hands. Mo Xuanxuan just listened obediently and didn't express any opinion.

  Later, Yang Yanjie and Mo Xiao sent an email to Mo Xiao as a response to Mo Xiao's "Beauty", with a paragraph of text that subtly hinted at his poor physical condition.

  Mo Xiao had been reading all sorts of texts since she was a child, and this hidden meaning was something she couldn't see? It was just his secret, he didn't say it, and she didn't want to ask.

  Now that there is this opportunity, Mo Xiao really wants to understand him, she wants to protect him. Such thoughts have been sprouting from who-knows-when, perhaps it was when he first scolded her, or perhaps it was when he didn't respond to her text messages for a long time...

  He was afraid of losing her, he was afraid that she would leave without saying goodbye, he was afraid of the pain that love had brought him.

  Mo Xiao was silent for a moment, then sent over a big smiling face with:

  "I'm a band-aid of the sticky type. Now that I've stuck to you, even if you ask me to leave, I won't go! We're tied together, through thick and thin!"

  "Stand by me!"

  Yang Yanjie simply replied with four words and fell silent, Mo Xiao also didn't know what topic to bring up next. The two of them stared at the computer screen, the words on the editing page slowly disappearing.

  "Brother, shall we have a love affair that will never part?"

  Mo Xiao couldn't bear this suffocating atmosphere of silence and simply typed a few words.

  "Ah, okay! Undying love." The weight of these few words was crushing Yang Yanjie, leaving him breathless.

  Irreconcilable love? Is he worthy of having it?

  He had always thought that Mo Xiao Xiao's feelings for him were just dependence, not real romantic love. Perhaps she was still young, or perhaps she mistakenly believed her dependence on him to be love, so when Mo Xiao Xiao asked him back then, he said it was suitable.

  His suitability was just a desire to protect this sunbeam with his last strength and safeguard what he cherished most.

  But now looking at the things that Mo Xiao Xiao had sent, he knew that if he continued on like this, it would really ruin Mo Xiao Xiao's entire life. But to just give up like this, he couldn't bear to do so, he really couldn't bear to do so.

  He had once said to Mo Xiao that perhaps she didn't like him that much, but Mo Xiao's answer made him deeply feel that he really couldn't leave this girl.

  She said: "I don't like you, but I love you!"

  "Xiao, I really want to be that sunny and handsome big boy in your heart, just like your profile picture. You said you like this photo of me the most, pure and without any impurities. But as I told you before, my heart is already battered and bruised, I'm unable to love anyone. My existence is only a burden to those who care about me. Xiao, I'm afraid of losing you, but I'm even more afraid of hurting you. Sorry."

  A passage full of heart-wrenching words flowed before Mo Xuan's eyes, and in an instant, he was at a loss for what to do. Was this a sign that they were going to part ways?

  Mo Xiao took a deep breath, calmed herself down and wondered what was going on. They were just chatting normally, did she accidentally touch upon some sensitive topic? Mo Xiao, being the straightforward woman that she was, didn't care about anything and would directly say whatever came to her mind.

  "Some people say that when the other person is saying bad things about themselves or saying you're too good, it's a sign of breaking up. Brother, our love is not going to break up, so I choose to ignore these three words "sorry", but I want you to give me a reassurance pill, I want you to tell me that you'll be with me all the way, and any other answer will be swallowed."

  Mo Xiao's eyes narrowed slightly as she grandly clicked the send button, and it was unknown whether the enter key on the keyboard had been pressed to death by her.

  Yang Yanjie closed his eyes, furrowed his brow, not wanting to let tears fall, and slowly typed out a line of text: "Xiao Xiao, get some rest early! Tomorrow we still have to take the bus back home, it'll be very tiring on the road. I'll send you a text message tomorrow."

  Mo Xiao tightly clenched his fists and kicked the table, feeling like he could kick it to pieces. The sisters in the dormitory stared at him with wide eyes, shocked that Mo Xiao, who rarely got angry, was actually losing his temper!

  Everyone looked at each other in dismay, and no one spoke. It's inevitable for a young couple to have some disagreements, as long as Mo Xiao didn't cry, it wasn't a big deal.

  "You clearly know that's not the answer I want!" Mo Xiao's anger was rising rapidly! Everything has to be put off until tomorrow! How many more tomorrows are worth wasting?!

  Yang Yanjie slowly replied:

  "Do you want to hear my story?"