Chapter 4
I found a video on my phone that you took last year during the May Day holiday. We had agreed to go on a road trip, but I overslept. You took out your phone and started filming my bare face, laughing as you filmed: "Hey, who's the lazybones? Look, you said you were going out for some fresh air, and it's already ten o'clock and you're still not up. Who's the lazybones? Hmm? Who's the lazybones?"
You pinched my face until it turned red.
"You're so annoying."
"Hey," you laughed in the video, tossed your phone aside and reached out to grab me. The camera was pointed right at us, and sunlight streamed in from the floor-to-ceiling window behind you, making your hair glow like an angel. "I'm sorry, honey. Sweetie, wake up! Jia-ge is taking you out to have some fun. The weather is so nice today, birds are singing and flowers are blooming. Qi Chengheng, baby, darling, I love you."
I sat up like a corpse with my eyes closed, struggling for ten minutes before finally opening them. The first thing I saw was your smiling face. I pulled your neck and kissed you, burying my face in the crook of your neck, feeling your heartbeat, your warmth, and your boundless, sincere love. I asked:
"Where shall we go, darling?"
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