World Three

Yu Chengxu did not miss the indescribable expression on He Xing's face, but he still resisted the urge to move his hand away and handed the bouquet to He Xing.

——Are you kidding? He spent a long time picking these flowers just for this moment. Wouldn’t it be a shame not to give them away?

He Xing had a feeling that if he didn't accept the bouquet, Yu Chengxu would keep playing the game of "status" with him. So even though he was very reluctant, he still accepted the bouquet: "Tell me, why are you here?"

"I came to see you." Yu Chengwei replied.

He Xing held the bouquet of flowers and felt a little embarrassed.

His anger had disappeared after he played seven songs in the bar, and now he couldn't get angry at Yu Chengwei at all.

But he also couldn't smile or talk to Yu Chengwei in a nice way.

"What do you want from me?" So He Xing was still struggling with the embarrassment in his heart. "Do you want a ceremonial breakup? Then I can -"

"I came here... to apologize to you." Yu Chengwei didn't come here to speed up the breakup process, so he immediately interrupted He Xing and said, "I'm sorry, I concealed the truth from you and lied to you."

He Xing looked at Yu Chengwei without saying a word. This unexpected development made him frown.

"I was... really too self-righteous at the time," Yu Chengwei continued. "I wish I could come up with a solution that would have the best of both worlds, but that hasn't been possible since I realized I'm gay."

"Really?" He Xing twitched his lips, but there was no smile in his eyes. "That seems a bit of a pity, huh?"

"...Wait, that's not what I meant!" Yu Chengwei was about to nod when he noticed his expression was off, and quickly explained what he had just said. "What I meant was, I do want to satisfy my parents, but what they want most is for me to get married and have children, which I haven't been able to do since I found out about my sexual orientation."

"Oh." He Xing's dissatisfaction dissipated a little.

"So you came here specifically to apologize to me," He Xing lowered his head, looked at the bouquet in his hand, and got to the point. "How did you know I was here?"

"If you're asking me how I know your train's destination," Yu Chengwei took a deep breath and chose to confess, "It's because the person in the photo with you is my cousin."

He Xing made a loud "tsk" sound, not caring at all what Yu Chengwei, who was standing in front of him, thought.

"But we don't usually chat. Because she's a woman, her father disinherited the company. Since then, she's loved traveling, and we've become even less familiar with each other." Yu Chengxu explained to He Xing in a rapid pace, "She posted a photo of you and her on WeChat Moments today. I saw it, so I asked her if she knew your destination."

"However, I didn't ask her your specific location." Yu Chengxu added, thinking of something, "I found this place by myself."

He Xing wanted to reply, "She didn't know where I was going anyway," but when he looked at Yu Chengwei, who was choking because he spoke too fast, he didn't say it.

He looked at Yu Chengwei.

To be fair, Yu Chengwei's apology did touch his sore spot.

But after thinking about it calmly, he found that he was not that surprised.

Yu Chengwei should have apologized after he lied to himself. He even missed the best opportunity to apologize, and his apology came too late.

So is there anything to be happy about?

"Did someone provoke you?" He Xing said, gently moving the flowers in her hand. The color combination was quite good, probably because Yu Chengxu asked the florist to match them. "Or do you think an apology should be sincere, so you brought me such a large bouquet."

The system was pleasantly surprised to find that the degree of transformation had risen to 15% during their conversation. It had never thought that one day it would be happy because the degree of transformation was rising so slowly. The lower limit was indeed being lowered step by step.

"Yes." Yu Chengwei nodded without hesitation.

"Okay, I accept your apology." He Xing's tone was quite calm, and if you listened carefully, there was even a hint of a smile. "You can go back now."

It seemed as if he had forgiven Yu Chengwei's previous concealment and deception, but the transformation degree that had just risen to 15% began to slowly decline while he was speaking. After He Xing finished his sentence, the transformation degree dropped to 7%.

The system suddenly felt like crying.

"We haven't broken up yet." Yu Chengwei paused and said, "Why should I go back?"

Well done! The system mentally waved its nonexistent hand.

Although it knew very well that Yu Chengwei's trick would be useless against the host who was as stubborn as a rock, it could at least... delay some time?

"Yu Chengxu," He Xing laughed out loud after hearing this. "You think I won't dare hit you just because I accepted your flowers, right?"

"No, I don't think so, and I dare not think so." Yu Chengwei replied.

This submissive statement made He Xing speechless. He suddenly felt as if he was punching cotton.

He looked at Yu Chengwei and always felt that this person seemed different from before...but he couldn't tell exactly what was different.

"I remember you used to like flipping a coin to decide which bus to take," Yu Chengxu said, taking out a coin. "So when we got to this place, I wanted to see if I could be so lucky and run into you."

"Look," Yu Chengwei tossed the coin and caught it with both hands, "I'm still pretty lucky."

The system silently called up the panel, which could show the future after the host and his lover were no longer together, and of course it could also see the scenes from Yu Chengxu that he had missed.

[Host.] The system suddenly flew to He Xing's side.

He Xing didn't say anything, just glanced at it.

"I don't know what to say now." Maoqiu sighed, "I suddenly feel that having my own consciousness isn't such a good thing."

It felt that He Xing's idea was correct, Yu Chengwei did do something wrong, and the apology came too late.

But it also saw the scene on Yu Chengxu's side. It saw this person overturning his blind cognition of his parents, "I do whatever they say," in order to pursue He Xing again. It also saw this person getting on and off the bus to find He Xing.

When it completed its first mission, it did not have much consciousness of its own, and was more likely to follow the route arranged for it by its creator.

It sought out lovers who should have had a chance to be together but were separated due to misunderstandings, selecting those who would find their lives unreal if they weren't together in the future, and then bound them to the one who was more influential. Because it lacked its own consciousness at the time, it was able to force its first host to accept its existence.

But now it has gradually acquired a real consciousness of its own.

So after being persuaded by He Xing, it began to feel that it didn't matter if the task was completed slowly.

That's why after seeing what Yu Chengwei did, I felt as if he was trying his best to make amends.

But it doesn't know what to say to the host now. Should it say 'Things are not what you think' or 'He actually did a lot for you'?

It can say it now, but what about after it leaves?

If the host and his predecessor encounter the same situation again after he leaves, how should he solve it? Should he wait for it to return to this planet next time?

"Okay, I know you're annoyed with me right now." Seeing He Xing not saying anything, Yu Chengxu thought He Xing was just too lazy to pay attention to him. He sighed, "But before we break up, can't I have an observation period?"

A very common way to refuse a breakup: Death row prisoners still have a period of observation, you can't just chop off my head so arbitrarily, right?

But He Xing has always been a soft-hearted person, otherwise he wouldn't have said to Yu Chengwei when he was pursuing him so openly, "If you ignore my wishes again, I will beat you up." Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so angry after Yu Chengwei's first reaction was to ask, "Did you look at my phone?"

Moreover, Yu Chengxu's current identity was that of his ex, so He Xing only sneered when he heard this: "You're just wishful thinking."

Then Yu Chengwei suddenly looked up at him. Just when He Xing subconsciously tensed his muscles to prepare for a fight with Yu Chengwei, he saw Yu Chengwei forcibly shrinking his 1.8-meter height to 1.7-meter.

Then Yu Chengwei put his hands together and said, "——Please."

He Xing silently took a half step back. How should I put it? He was not surprised by Yu Chengxu's behavior. The other party often acted like a coquettish child after being with him.

But Yu Chengxu had never been like this before, acting coquettishly while deliberately softening his tone of voice.

The key is that the other person's voice is not suitable for doing this kind of thing at all, but when Yu Chengwei said this, his expression was very sincere, without any falsehood.

The combination of these two things gave He Xing goosebumps. "Can you please speak properly?"

"We started in that rental house, so we should break up in the same place, right?" Yu Chengxu noticed He Xing's hesitation and took a few steps forward with his hands clasped together. "If you still want to break up with me after we go back this time, I'll break up with you. Okay?"

He Xing was just about to point out that "I don't need your consent to break up" and "Stay away from me, don't get so close to me," when he saw Yu Chengwei decisively take a half step back and wave his hand: "Please, please—"

He Xing, who always gives in to soft tactics and doesn't tolerate hard ones: ...

--Hold.

Don't do this, I'm scared.

It was getting darker as the two chatted. Without the host's reminder, the system automatically helped He Xing find the nearest hotel and planned the route.

Just as He Xing was about to leave, he glanced at Yu Chengwei who was standing in front of him, and then looked at the ball of hair next to him.

Those big eyes blinked at him, and there was a strange cuteness in them.

He Xing didn't quite understand why he could read both grievance and anticipation in the system's eyes. He sighed and asked Yu Chengwei, "Okay, have you booked a hotel?"

"No," Yu Chengwei answered subconsciously, "Why did you book a hotel?"

He Xing didn't bother to answer his stupid question and just continued to ask, "Did you bring your ID card?"

"I brought it." Yu Chengwei straightened his chest and raised his head, "By the way, I bought all the train tickets this time by myself!" Although he had someone to guide him remotely, to round it up, he bought the train tickets himself.

He Xing didn't understand where the pride on Yu Chengwei's face came from when he said this, but he thought about when he was about to go ashore.

He was preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination, and Yu Chengwei was complaining to him that his family had spent two million to set up a company for him, but he had to fall into a trap and had no faith in his own abilities at all.

He was using the experience shared by his predecessors on the postgraduate entrance exam to improve himself, striving to pass it in one go. Yu Chengwei was telling him that a group of people in his company were not working hard, and he wanted to manage them, but didn't know how.

He played drums to relax during his break. His then-boyfriend Yu Chengwei, who was with him, said in a very calm tone that his company still collapsed, but he also gained a lot of experience from it.

With the Yu family's educational method of giving opportunities for trial and error, it is normal to cultivate someone like Yu Chengwei who feels proud because he knows how to buy a train ticket.

"Forget it, you should come with me. Don't let someone sell you out and you won't know why." He Xing figured out the logic behind this, and when he looked at Yu Chengwei, he no longer had that "nothing to be proud of" expression. However, he still emphasized the point again, "We'll break up when we get back. Remember?"

Yu Chengxu didn't reply to He Xing's second half of the sentence. He simply quickened his pace and walked side by side with He Xing. Then he turned around and asked He Xing, "...By the way, what do you think of this flower?"

He Xing looked at the bouquet in his hand, then looked at Yu Chengwei who was looking for praise, and decisively handed the flowers to Yu Chengwei: "They are very beautiful, so you should take them yourself."

Although the flowers were well chosen, he would have to go into the hotel later and would definitely have to book a room for Yu Chengwei, an idiot with zero life skills. He didn't want to go in with these flowers in his hands.

"There's no point in taking back something you've given away!" Yu Chengxu didn't care and stuffed the flower back into He Xing's hand like he was playing a trick. "Just hold it well, and you really suit this flower!"

And when He Xing received the flowers, he would never get tired of seeing that cool guy's surprised expression even if he saw it a hundred times.

"...What?" He Xing didn't even want to count how many times he had frowned today. "What did you just say? Say it again if you have the guts."

"No," Yu Chengwei put his hands behind his back, "I mean this flower is really beautiful!"

Especially suitable for you!