Chapter 31

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I had actually prepared this surprise for Brother 6 in early April.

When Brother 6 and I were discussing the wedding process with Teacher Y face to face, I took the opportunity when Brother 6 went to the bathroom to quietly ask Teacher Y, saying that as a romantic literary worker, I wanted to give Brother 6 a wedding surprise, and asked him if he had any creative ideas, not a gift that can be bought with money, but a gift that represents my heart and a sincere surprise.

Teacher Y said: What do you think is the most special thing about your love story?

I thought about it: We met in junior high school fourteen years ago, so we were each other’s first love.

Teacher Y: Yes, so for example, you can go back to where you first started and create a surprise?

I immediately understood what Teacher Y meant.

I think this will be a very meaningful, unforgettable and touching surprise.

After returning to work, I immediately called over my best partner, Xiao Qi, and gave her a rough outline of the effect I wanted to create. "You accompany me back to the junior high school where Liu Ge and I went to record a video. I'll start by introducing you at the entrance, then go to the horizontal bar area where we used to date after class, and then to the basketball court where I watched him play basketball... I'll talk as we walk. What do you think?"

Xiao Qi, who majored in radio and television in college and was extremely talented in everyday photography and videography, thought for a moment and said, "Sure. Then I can also record an aerial view of the school exterior and the road you two walked together. You can then add a quiet narration to create a more emotional effect."

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"Then you can also prepare a beautiful glowing balloon. After you show him the video, suddenly take it out and put it in his hand. Tell him that this balloon represents your past, present, and future, and that you are now giving it to him."

"Holy crap!" I immediately hugged Xiao Qi, "You're so good at this! You're an incredible kid!!"

“Hahahahahahahaha!!”

I did it right away. I first wrote down on the computer what I wanted to say in the video. Since they were all from the heart, I could recite them quickly after writing them. Then my personal cameraman Xiaoqi asked Brother Shui to borrow a small professional camera, and then we found a day at noon to rush to my and Brother 6's alma mater to check out the location.

After arriving at the gate, I found that the school was now under strict management and people were not allowed to enter or leave at will. Xiaoqi and I walked around the school gate. Xiaoqi took some pictures of the school's exterior. We discussed it and decided to sit in the coffee shop across the street to shoot a video with narration first.

I sat in my seat, Xiaoqi walked back and forth in front of me looking for a suitable shooting angle, and I silently recited in my mind what I was going to say later.

"Are you ready?" Xiao Qi asked very professionally.

I nodded and took a deep breath.

"3, 2, 1, start."

"Hello dear Brother 6, I am your smart, cute, charming, beautiful, virtuous and interesting wife. Am I perfect? ​​I love you~ Pen core!" My movements were very exaggerated and my expression was also very exaggerated.

I saw Xiao Qi trying hard to hold back his laughter across from me.

Then, I stroked my chin as if I had a beard. "Umm... I guess you must be wondering what this funny wife is up to now. Exciting, right? Nervous, right? Hahahaha, then, I'm going to take you on a magical journey today. Are you ready?!?"

"Click." Xiao Qi pressed the pause button.

I passed these two paragraphs after recording them twice. Xiaoqi taught me that after I finished speaking these two paragraphs, I could count down "3, 2, 1" while slowly moving closer to the camera, and when I finally said "1", I could cover the camera with my hand to create a black screen effect.

I had to praise her again, "That's great, it feels like making a short film!!"

After recording these, I stood opposite the school. Xiaoqi shot from behind my face, just enough to capture the school gate. I smiled and waved at the camera, "Hahaha, guess where I am now?"

Then the camera switched and immediately cut to the school behind me.

At this point, the narration segments were all completed. I rewarded Xiaoqi with lunch and went home.

Considering that the school is now under very strict management, I directly contacted Teacher Chen, my and Brother 6’s former homeroom teacher, and told her that we wanted to enter the school to shoot a video. Teacher Chen said it was no problem and asked us to tell the guard that we were her students and then come in.

So Xiaoqi and I went to school again before the Qingming Festival.

Unexpectedly, when the security guard saw the camera in Xiaoqi's hand, he refused to let us in to shoot no matter what we explained our purpose. I suddenly had an idea and said that we were just going in to visit the teacher and not to take any videos. Anyway... After a lot of lobbying, we were finally allowed to enter the school. Xiaoqi even hid the camera inside his coat like a secret agent and sneaked in.

After entering the school, Xiao Qi and I exchanged glances, and I pulled her straight into the horizontal bar area, as we were familiar with the place. Because it was noon, there weren't many people in the area. Xiao Qi immediately poked her head out of her windbreaker pocket and took out the equipment, then said to me, "Come on, hurry up."

I immediately geared up and stood at the horizontal bar area that Brother 6 and I were most familiar with, and started talking. "Hahahahaha, after a battle of wits and courage with the security guard, I'm finally here! 15 years ago, in September 2004, we became junior high school students at this middle school. Back then, you still had a mushroom-shaped haircut and the same "OK" expression as Xiao Liuya, and I still wore pigtails every day. We were in the same class, you were number 10, and I was number 42. That was the beginning of our relationship."

"Look at the horizontal bar area behind me. Does it look very familiar and nostalgic? This is where we used to meet secretly. Whether it was during breaks or at noon, we would come here to chat, just like the secret base of young lovers in romance novels."

What was particularly coincidental was that the day Xiaoqi and I came was during the school basketball game, which immediately reminded me of the first game that Brother 6 played in. It was very appropriate to the occasion. So after Xiaoqi and I finished filming in the horizontal bar area, we immediately came to the side and back of the playground. With the young and vigorous basketball game background behind us, I recorded the last video.

"Brother 66, look, do you remember? This is the playground where we used to have physical education class and play basketball. They're playing basketball games now! I used to sit here and watch you play. You were truly the most handsome schoolboy in the world during those school basketball games. Whenever I think about it now, I'm like, 'Oh no! My heart is fluttering! How could you be so handsome!' I'll never forget that handsome boy in the sunshine!"

After recording this, Xiao Qi across from me clicked “click” and burst out laughing, “Oh my god, this is so corny, I can’t stand you!!”

After the filming was complete, I went up to find Teacher Chen and brought him some wedding candy and gifts. Teacher Chen was very happy to see me. While congratulating me and Brother Liu on our wedding, he also asked me, "Have you two been together all these years?"

I smiled and shook my head. "No, we got together after he came back from studying in England two years ago."

Teacher Chen sighed, "Then you two are truly destined to be together. I hope you will live happily ever after!"

I remembered my mother told me before that when Teacher Chen was in charge of my and my sixth brother's premature love, he once told her that he thought my sixth brother and I were a perfect match, but we were just too young and it was affecting our studies.

Haha, I think Teacher Chen certainly didn't expect that after all the twists and turns, Brother 6 and I would end up together. Maybe we are really a match made in heaven and are destined to be together, which is why we can come back after going so far.

After I went back and edited together all the videos Xiaoqi took for me, I recorded a quiet narration in the last empty scene.

"We spent four years here. We studied, learned jobs, went on spring and autumn outings together, played games, and chatted... How many four years in life can be as happy and carefree as those? And the best years of my youth were spent with you. You are my white moonlight."

"After graduating from junior high school, we each embarked on different paths in life. Who could have thought that I would meet you again 14 years later? Before I met you again, I kept wondering how lucky a person could be to marry the person they truly love. Just when I didn't hold out much hope, you appeared again. I have always marveled at the wonders of fate. After going around in circles, we have returned to the starting point again."

On the night of our wedding, when I played the entire edited surprise video to Brother 6 on my phone, I saw his eyes moisten.

When he first watched the show, the corners of his mouth were always raised. He laughed so hard when he saw me playing basketball. But when he watched the end, his eyes became redder and redder.

After the video was over, he hugged me tightly.

"Baby, I'm so touched. Thank you. I really feel so, so happy."

I said, "Wait a minute! It's not over yet!"

Then I took out the glowing confession balloon that my wedding planner sister Feng had prepared for me from behind the curtains on the windowsill, and gave it to Brother 6 and stuffed it into his hand.

Brother 6’s eyes were red: Wow.

I looked at him and said, "Although you've gained ten pounds since we've been together, and although you no longer play basketball, and although you no longer have a mushroom head, you're still the same person I remember: gentle, shy, kind, and steady. In my heart, you're the most handsome school hunk in the world."

"From today on, I want to give you my past, present, and future. We will have four more years to explore every corner of the world together, discover more beauty together, and experience the next few decades of our lives together. No matter happy or sad, as long as you are by my side, I am willing to go on. Thank you for coming into my life, the eternal white moonlight in my heart."

These are truly what I really think. I know too well that I want to be with this person for the rest of my life, from youth to old age. As long as I am with him, no matter where we go, no matter what we do, no matter how ordinary the day is, I feel it is shining.

This was a real blow to Brother 6. I feel like if he hadn't restrained himself, tears would have burst out of his eyes in the next second.

I said, "How about this surprise?"

He: Ten thousand points!

Me: Originally I wanted to arrange this surprise at the wedding, but Teacher Y said that you thought of many surprises but none of them seemed perfect. If they were not perfect enough, you would rather not have the surprise part. So if I have a surprise and you don’t, wouldn’t that feel very unbalanced?

He put the balloon aside, hugged me and said very seriously: Yes, I am not the kind of person with a lot of ideas. Before I met you, I was even more dull in emotions and couldn't express it at all. I have become much better after being with you, but at most I can only say a few cheesy love words to my little treasure. I will not stop loving you just because there is no surprise. I don't want to repeat what others have done. Happiness is like drinking water, only you know whether it is hot or cold. There is no need to show it to others. The most important thing is how we will live after we get married.

"Xiaobao, I love you very much. I am willing to do anything for you. I always think of you, protect you and love you. Our determination and attitude to live together are more important than anything else. I feel that ordinary life with you is full of surprises. Every day is Valentine's Day."

I rubbed my eyes and said, "I'm going to cry."

He laughed. "Silly, this is what I really think. It's not a surprise."

"It's a surprise! You don't usually say things like that."

"Haha, but I'll tell you when I see you."

We just hugged each other and kept grinning.

On the wedding day, we got up early in the morning and didn't go to bed until the early hours of the next morning. We didn't rest for a minute. However, this wedding is one of the most beautiful memories of our lives. It is a formal symbol that we will stick together through thick and thin and will never be separated.

Just like the name my wedding planning sister gave to our wedding decoration - Return to the City.

14 years later, we are still back to each other, with the sweetness of youth.

And now, it is a lifelong harbor.

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Brother 6: I was even more moved after reading it than I was at the time. It’s so well written. Really, it’s so well written and so sincere. I feel like we are such close friends.