Chapter 112 I Miss You a Little
Lin Yao is truly stubborn on the outside but soft on the inside.
This statement practically grants one complete control.
Xie Xingchen almost blurted out, "My third wish is that we don't break up. Wait for me."
But those words almost trapped Lin Yao in place. What if he really didn't want to wait for him anymore?
He couldn't make any promises when he didn't know when he would return.
Xie Xingchen lowered his eyes and said softly, "My third wish is that you don't hate me and that I'm happy every day."
"Is this all?" Lin Yao felt the sourness of oranges on his tongue, so sour that his teeth ached and his heart ached. "Once the wish is used up, it's gone."
"Okay, this is it." Xie Xingchen listened to the other person's breathing. "If you promise, you have to keep your word, okay?"
Lin Yao hummed in agreement.
Xie Xingchen added, "A little while later she sent me a message saying she wanted to break up, and then deleted me."
Lin Yao choked up for a moment: "Okay."
Xie Xingchen's fingers traced the edge of the phone, his Adam's apple bobbing: "Then I'm really hanging up this time, Yao Yao, goodbye."
He hung up the phone, and a few seconds later he saw a message from Lin Yao.
γ01γ: Xie Xingchen, let's break up. Let's not see each other again.
When I replied to anything after that, I only received a red exclamation mark.
Lin Yao is really well-behaved.
He does whatever he's told, even when it comes to saying hurtful things about breaking up, he's so clumsy.
I wonder if I cried when I typed that. It's so cool, I probably didn't.
Even though he knew it was all an act, Xie Xingchen felt as if a sharp knife had pierced his heart, tearing out his flesh and causing excruciating pain.
If a prophecy comes true.
Then this sentence will become their last line of dialogue.
He lowered his eyes, staring at his phone screen, stiff as a stone frozen by the wind and snow outside, motionless.
"After talking for so long, Lin Yao won't let you leave?" Xie Hengzhi also noticed that something was wrong with him.
"Yes, she wouldn't allow it. She said she couldn't stand long-distance relationships and broke up with me."
Xie Xingchen spoke in a low voice, his words a mix of truth and falsehood, "I really am not a good boyfriend. I got her hospitalized one minute, and then I left her for my own future."
His expression was truly heartbreaking. Yun Qing raised her hand and patted his shoulder: "I told you before, you two weren't a good match. It's better that you broke up now. You're wise to understand what's more important. It's not too late."
Xie Xingchen really wanted to ask, then what exactly is important?
Was it to climb to a higher position that so many innocent people were sacrificed? Was it to steal your best friend's child for your own selfish desires? Or was it to obstruct your son's pursuit of happiness in the name of love?
He couldn't utter a single word.
Finally, she just turned over expressionlessly, pulling the blanket over her legs up to her head: "I'm going to sleep, I'm so tired."
"It's just been two days of dating, is it really that big of a deal?" Xie Hengzhi got angry just looking at him. "Omegas are everywhere, but 100% are hard to find, while 80% or 90% are a dime a dozen."
"It's your first love, it's normal to be sad for a few days after a breakup, you'll be fine in a few days." Yun Qing tidied up the messy blanket for him and gestured for him to leave first.
Xie Xingchen pondered these two words in his heart, his eyes stinging and his stomach acid refluxing.
First love, you know.
My most precious first love has been ruined by you.
Pei Yizhong was afraid that Lin Yao would be saddened and that staying here would trigger his emotions, so he helped him get a leave of absence and took him back to Nanhe Star for recuperation and training.
The unfamiliar environment and everything around him made Lin Yao feel like he was in a dream.
βIt will get better in a while,β Pei Yizhong always said.
Pei Xiang would play games with him every day after school. She was very noisy and would often act spoiled. Sometimes she would make Lin Yao laugh helplessly.
He Li would send him messages every day.
"Brother Yao, I hit the bullseye with my sniper rifle today! It wasn't luck! It was skill!"
"Brother Yao, I went to the shelter you mentioned and took some pictures of the cats. I'll send them to you."
"Brother Yao, if you don't come back soon, this dorm will become a double room for me and Cheng Boyan."
"Brother Yao, I've noticed that the school is quite deserted and boring when you and Xie Gou aren't around."
......
Lin Yao thought back to how he used to feel that no one loved him.
Now he is surrounded by all sorts of people, all trying to please him for fear of making him sad, but the most important one is missing.
When Lin Yao often wakes up in the middle of the night, he will still subconsciously call Xie Xingchen's name, and then get up in the dark and sit there blankly for a long time.
It was then that I suddenly realized that Xie Xingchen had been by my side for more than three years, but when he suddenly left, he didn't leave anything behind.
A few photos, a ring, that's all.
So I watched the video of them having a snowball fight over and over again, until I could recount the playful conversations in the background even with my eyes closed.
"If I had known that day would be the last time I saw him."
Lin Yao closed his eyes and muttered to himself, "I should have Xie Xingchen record a wake-up call for me too. That guy, he secretly prepared everything without saying a word, he's really annoying."
Starting in his sophomore year, Lin Yao also submitted an application to join the military.
Because his Omega identity was not to be made public, he semi-joined Pei Yizhong's jurisdiction and formed the Sunrise Assault Team. With his outstanding sniping skills, he became a legendary sniper whom no one on the border dared to mess with.
At the same time, Xie Xingchen formed another Dark Star Special Forces team, which was dedicated to carrying out special orders from the military. They repeatedly achieved great feats by defeating a much larger enemy force with a very small number of soldiers, and quickly gained fame within the military.
The younger generation of players joked that the commanders of the Sun and Dark Star teams were located in the north and south of the Ninth Star System, respectively, making it a situation where "kings never meet."
"They've been bitter enemies for years, no wonder they're unlikely to meet."
"Rumor has it that they were roommates in Chongqing for a short period of six months, but because they fought every day, the league leader was afraid that his son would be assassinated, so he quickly transferred them to another school."
"Hiss, what kind of deep-seated hatred could this be? They've known each other since they were fifteen, how could the enmity be this deep?"
"Take those idiots from the Seventh Star System who came looking for trouble this time, for example. The military high command asked us to cooperate with them in operations, but these two, one launched a surprise attack at night and the other tried to snipe from a distance, and they just wouldn't show up."
"Now that you mention it, it's true. It seems like the only thing we ever did together was exchange a few commands over the communicator."
"Yeah, but I didn't understand that instruction. What did it mean?"
"I don't know, never mind, let's go, let's go eat in the cafeteria, I'm starving."
Lin Yao stood behind them, listening to the conversation of the two young players who had just joined the team, stunned and motionless for a long time.
At first, he couldn't sleep all night after seeing the names on the list. It had been almost two years since they separated.
No messages, no phone calls; the only connection was that email address.
He logs in once a month and occasionally sees an extra line of updates, like a work report to his boss, nothing more.
He tried typing in the email several times.
How are you doing?
Are you adapting well to military life?
Has your father made things difficult for you?
Happy 20th Birthday!
Another year of first snow, Xie Xingchen, I miss you so much.
But I'm also afraid that it will make things even harder for each other in the future, and I'm also afraid that two years have blurred the memories of the past.
The laboratory investigation was unfathomable. When Xie Xingchen truly delved into it, they discovered that the complex relationship that had been entangled for over a decade or two was only just beginning after two years.
So, with great difficulty, I deleted those words one by one, leaving the page blank.
During this joint operation, the two sides did not encounter each other due to the different locations of the war zones.
Just as Lin Yao was positioned on high ground, preparing to snipe from a distance, he heard a voice coming from the communicator: "Dark Star attacks first, left 2, right 4, move out."
His voice was steady, concise, and powerful; Lin Yao felt a tingling sensation in half of his ears.
Explosions could be heard in the distance, the air thick and dark, and thick smoke could still be seen billowing.
Lin Yao aimed at the small aircraft that was hastily retreating and whispered, "Sun Yao, prepare for sniping."
From a great distance, the light-speed sniper rifle silently fired more than a dozen blue beams, accurately hitting the rapidly moving target, which then fell from the sky.
"Team Leader Lin, good sniping." came the voice from the communicator.
"Team Leader Xie, you're not bad either," Lin Yao replied politely.
Then they went back to their respective battles. The joint operation ended quickly. According to his subordinates, Xie Xingchen and his team would be returning tonight.
Amidst the billowing smoke, Lin Yao lowered his head and said into the communicator, "Sun Yao, back to base."
A buzzing sound came from the electrical circuit, but after waiting for a while, there was no reply.
He jumped onto the aircraft, looked at the flashing blue lights in the distance, his fingers gripping the communicator turned white, and then he let go.
"Sir, we can go now. Commander Xie said they'll clean up the mess," someone whispered to him.
"Yeah, it's okay, let's go." Lin Yao watched the blue lights get further and further away, feeling lost and dejected.
Xie Xingchen may no longer be the Xie Xingchen who used to love teasing himself. He has become mature, resilient, and also a stranger to us.
"Team Leader Lin." Xie Xingchen's voice suddenly came through the communicator.
Lin Yao snapped out of his reverie, looked down, and pressed the button: "Please speak."
"Instruction 001 cannot be carried out at this time." Xie Xingchen's voice came from the communicator. "Team Leader Lin, 002, please reply upon receipt."
"What does this mean? What is 001, and what is 002?" The person next to him was completely confused. "What is this? We didn't agree on this, did we?"
Lin Yao stood frozen in place.
A code word that only they could understand.
001, kiss immediately.
002, I miss you a little.
Under the watchful eyes of all the members of the Sunshine Team, Lin Yao replied expressionlessly.
"Received, Captain Xie, 002, take care."
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