OVTTGTBE Chapter 45

Travel (3): Resolution

Travel (3): Resolution

“Who… who would believe… what you’re saying…”

Sobbing and choking, Bai Yao couldn’t control himself at all. The words that should have been a question came out stuttering.

“What I said is true.”

Liu Yucheng pointed to his backpack. “I brought my mom’s diary. I can show it to you.”

“Bai Yao, I really regret not investigating sooner. If I had known earlier that the young lady in her diary was your mother, and that her child was you…”

Bai Yao chuckled, his voice thick with a nasal tone as he questioned, “What could you have done? Even if you had known earlier, would we not have broken up?”

Liu Yucheng was choked speechless.

He was right. From the beginning of their relationship to their breakup, it had nothing to do with whether or not Bai Yao was the young lady’s child mentioned in the diary.

Bai Yao was about to leave just now because he had done something against Bai Yao’s wishes.

“Bai Yao.”

Liu Yucheng sniffled deeply, his voice trembling. “Like I said just now, I’m actually a terrible person… because I’ve done a lot of wrong things, including just now. I used my mouth to help you because I really like you, so much that just thinking of you makes even breathing painful.”

Bai Yao had already stopped crying, but hearing these words, he suddenly wished his heart wasn’t made of flesh but of iron.

Because Liu Yucheng’s face was full of tears, and seeing him like this made his own eyes heat up again without permission.

“After you came out of the shower, you kept changing clothes in front of me, taking them off and putting them on, taking them off and putting them on… As a man, I was really trying my best to restrain myself.”

“So… you can say anything about me, but… but you can’t say I’m… insincere.”

“Liu Yucheng, stop talking.”

Bai Yao silently turned around. “I don’t want to hear it. I don’t like you anymore.”

“Is that really so?”

Liu Yucheng frowned, holding his shoulders. “Then why did you turn away?”

“That day, when you were giving the speech, you could say to everyone in the classroom that you were going to let go of this relationship. But why couldn’t you look me in the eyes and say that you don’t like me anymore?”

“Liu Yucheng, I’m starting to miss your previous taciturn self.”

Bai Yao clenched his fists tightly, suppressing his emotions to keep his voice from sounding like he was crying. “If you keep pushing me, I’m really leaving.”

Liu Yucheng was startled and quickly retracted his hands.

Bai Yao didn’t rush to the door again, but Liu Yucheng didn’t dare to move, still standing by the doorway.

He watched Bai Yao walk to the bed, throw his bag onto the desk, and then untie his bathrobe, putting back on the T-shirt and sweatpants he had lent Bai Yao.

…

Fifteen minutes later, Liu Yucheng stood in front of the mirror, examining the bleeding points inside his mouth.

Bai Yao had gone out, saying he was going to buy food and bring it back to eat. The reason was that he was afraid Liu Yucheng’s bleeding mouth would scare people.

Liu Yucheng was uneasy, worried that Bai Yao would leave and never come back, so he said, “Or should I go?”

Bai Yao retorted, “I’m already starving. And if I really wanted you to not find me, I would just go home and come out to my mom. Then you would never see me again.”

Finally, Bai Yao reluctantly unblocked Liu Yucheng’s two WeChat accounts, and only then did Liu Yucheng reluctantly agree to let him go out.

Bai Yao was gone for a long time. Liu Yucheng was restless in the room, hesitating whether to go out and look for him, while also staring blankly at Bai Yao’s backpack—he didn’t take the backpack, nor did he take his phone charger, so he shouldn’t be using buying food as an excuse to get rid of him, right?

About an hour later, when it was already dark outside, Bai Yao finally came back carrying a bunch of stuff.

“Here are three fried chickens and three hamburgers. I bought them at the nearby fast food restaurant. Here, your cola.”

Bai Yao said simply.

“Thank you.”

Liu Yucheng fidgeted for a while and sat down on the chair across from Bai Yao.

“This is medicine.”

Bai Yao unpacked the other bag of things he had bought, tossing the lozenges to him. “These are lozenges, just keep them in your mouth. I’ve already looked at your hand, it’s not broken, just be careful for the next few days. This is safflower oil. This stuff smells strong, so you can apply it yourself after you eat.”

“…Why are you crying again?”

Bai Yao couldn’t help but ask.

“It’s nothing.”

Liu Yucheng wiped his eyes with his sleeve. “I’m just touched that you even bought medicine for me. You’re so good to me.”

Bai Yao didn’t think it was a big deal, just buying some medicine. After all, Liu Yucheng’s mouth was bleeding because he kicked him, causing him to fall and hit it.

But now that he emphasized it like this, Bai Yao suddenly felt awkward all over and got goosebumps.

Noticing that Bai Yao’s posture had become awkward, Liu Yucheng quickly changed the subject. “Do you want to talk about something else?”

“Let’s talk.”

As long as the topic isn’t so awkward.

“Actually… your mother, she’s also conflicted.”

Liu Yucheng recalled the first time he met Bai Junyi and said to him, “She loves you very much, but when she sees you, sometimes she thinks of Cheng Tianyang and that unpleasant experience.”

“Oh.”

Bai Yao said faintly, “I’m just curious, since she got pregnant by accident, why did she choose to give birth to me?”

Liu Yucheng stood up, walked to the table, opened his backpack, and took out his mother’s diary.

Bai Yao saw a name written in pen on the cover: Ying Xuan (Echoing Star).

“The reason is here.” He flipped through a few pages and handed the diary to Bai Yao.

[The doctor said that if she aborted this child, it would be difficult for her to get pregnant again in the future. Of course, her parents couldn’t accept this result, because she was an only child, and their family needed an heir.]

[Her parents locked her in a large villa, not allowing her to go to school, and not allowing her to go out until she gave birth smoothly. Only when the sun was out in the afternoon could she walk around in the garden at the door, and only then could I have the opportunity to meet her. Every time I saw her, there were always three bodyguards following her. But those male bodyguards only reminded her of that scumbag, exacerbating her depression.]

Bai Yao closed the diary directly.

The diary was densely packed with neat handwriting, but he only read these few paragraphs and couldn’t read any further.

“My maternal grandparents actually treated my mom like this.”

Bai Yao’s heart felt like it was being cut, and he raised his head, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath. “They were very young when they left, and they were very gentle to me. I thought…”

“Cheng Tianyang is dead, your maternal grandparents have passed away, and you have grown into an adult… For her, these things are actually just past clouds.”

Liu Yucheng sighed and said, “Think about it the other way around, you are also her only relative, how could she not love you? You want to scatter Cheng Tianyang’s ashes, I won’t stop you; but if she knew, what attitude do you think she would have?”

“She would definitely say that this matter would affect my personal luck, and even if I hated him, I should never do that.”

Bai Yao couldn’t help but sigh.

“Don’t you understand that?”

Liu Yucheng smiled slightly and pushed the fried chicken towards him. “Eat quickly, weren’t you hungry a long time ago?”

Bai Yao picked up a piece of fried chicken and put it in his mouth.

When they were arguing at the door just now, Liu Yucheng said that his mother wanted to atone for her sins. But it was Cheng Tianyang who did the scummy things. Even if Little Ice Pop (Ying Xuan) wanted to atone for her sins, why would she do it through pregnancy?

Bai Yao couldn’t figure it out.

…

“Yo, which pampered young lady is hiding here crying?”

“Who are you?! Can you leave quickly? Why does my crying concern you…” she shouted, crying.

“The school’s sports meet is so lively. It’s so boring for you to hide here by yourself.”

The girl not only didn’t leave, but also sat down next to her and divided the popsicle in her hand in half. “Here, I just bought it, peach-flavored. Let’s share it.”

She had never eaten such a thing before, because it wasn’t allowed at home. But this thing was really attractive in color, and it also had a very good smell.

She took it and said softly while sobbing, “…Thank you.”

“Just now, in the 1500-meter women’s long-distance race, a girl fell on the track, not only fell very badly, but also missed the top three. Is that you?”

It would have been better if she hadn’t said anything. Mentioning this made her cry again, sobbing, while not forgetting to take a bite of the popsicle in her hand.

This thing was quite delicious.

“My leg is injured, and it will definitely leave a scar. Scars are so ugly!”

“No, how can scars be ugly.”

She smiled faintly and said, “This is a medal for you once brought glory to the class at the sports meet. You should be proud. My name is Ying Xuan (Echoing Star), from Class 3 of the first year of high school. What about you?”

“I, my name is Bai Junyi (White Beautiful Jade), from the biology competition class… This popsicle is really delicious…”

“Hmm? You’re so greedy? Then I’ll give you my half too.”

…

“Little Ice Pop (Ying Xuan), what should I do? I’m only 19 years old and I’m pregnant. My whole life is ruined, Wuwu—”

“Don’t be afraid, look, I’m pregnant too. Let’s have babies together!”

“Little Ice Pop (Ying Xuan) ?! You?? How…? Whose child are you pregnant with??”

“Hehe, my dad wants me to get married early, so people always come to my house to propose marriage. This time, the person who came to propose was a man with the surname Liu, so I just agreed. Our children will definitely have a good relationship in the future, they will definitely accompany each other, just like us.”

Hearing these words, she cried even more painfully: “Wuwuwu…Little Ice Pop (Ying Xuan), you… but what about your ballet dream, don’t you want it anymore…”

“It doesn’t matter, okay, okay, Miss, don’t cry, you won’t be pretty if you cry anymore.”

…

“President Bai, President Bai? You’ll easily catch a cold sleeping like this.”

Bai Junyi (White Beautiful Jade) suddenly raised her head and found that she had actually fallen asleep on her desk.

There was an empty wine bottle on the table. She couldn’t remember when she had finished drinking it, but the sleeves she had been using as a pillow were all wet.

Assistant Zhou stood in front of her, still holding a document in her hand. She quickly wiped the tears from her face and said, “Xiao Zhou (Assistant Zhou)? Has the project proposal been sent over? Let me take a look.”

“Uh, no.”

Assistant Zhou said helplessly, “This is the tomb relocation procedure you gave me before. I’m taking it to make a backup. President Bai, we’re leaving to sweep the tomb at dawn. You’ll easily catch a cold sleeping like this. Let me send you back.”

“Dudu (Bai Yao) didn’t come back during the holidays.” Bai Junyi (White Beautiful Jade) was a little puzzled. “Is he with Xiao Liu (Liu Yucheng)?”

“Yes, President Bai.”

“Xiao Zhou (Assistant Zhou), don’t you think the relationship between Dudu (Bai Yao) and Xiao Liu (Liu Yucheng)… is a bit strange?”

…

At the same time, at more than three o’clock in the morning.

Bai Yao was lying in bed, still not asleep. He had an indescribable feeling of discomfort in his heart, like anxiety, but it didn’t seem to be.

He tossed and turned in bed, occasionally raising his head to take a look at Liu Yucheng in the bed next to him.

Liu Yucheng was lying on his side with his back to him, covered with a quilt and motionless, as if he had already fallen asleep.

He couldn’t sleep, but he was sleeping so soundly. How annoying.

Bai Yao gently lifted the quilt, got out of bed, and tiptoed to Liu Yucheng’s bedside.

He’s covering himself so tightly, doesn’t he feel hot?

Thinking this, Bai Yao secretly lifted Liu Yucheng’s quilt, wanting to see if this person was asleep or not. As a result, Liu Yucheng instantly turned over, giving Bai Yao a big scare.

“What’s wrong?”

Liu Yucheng looked at him sideways. “What are you doing lifting my quilt?”