Another ending.
It seemed like he had a very long dream, a dream filled with sunshine, his mother, and a boy waiting for him.
He opened his eyes and was surrounded by unfathomable darkness. He could hear steady breathing and felt a warm body holding him tightly.
Shen Ye stirred with some difficulty, but the person beside him woke up. He looked up and met Lian Jingzhi's dark eyes, the moonlight softening his calm features.
Seeing that the person in his arms was awake, Lian Jingzhi's thin lips curled up slightly, "Awake?"
Shen Ye nodded, feeling inexplicably guilty for some reason.
Lian Jingzhi raised an eyebrow, a wicked smile spreading across his face, and said bluntly, without any hesitation, "Changjun, I've thought about it."
As he spoke, he pulled Shen Ye's hand and pressed it into his bulging crotch.
"What are you thinking about..." Shen Ye blushed slightly and turned her head away, refusing to look at him.
"I missed you." She forcibly turned Shen Ye's face towards her, her cold eyes fixed on him.
"Am I not... here?" My ears are burning.
Suddenly, he lowered his head and gently kissed Shen Ye.
His kisses meandered down his body, each touch sending a shiver through him; he was so sensitive.
After a fierce battle, Shen Ye lay on the big bed, not wanting to move at all, let alone take a shower.
Lian Jingzhi turned over, reached out and hugged Shen Ye, holding him tightly in his arms.
Listening to his strong, resonant heartbeat, Chen Ye felt uneasy, as if it were all unreal.
Can they really grow old together?
"Changjun." His voice was low and husky, with an irresistible charm.
"I am here."
"If love is something more than liking, then what is something more than love?"
"More than love?" Shen Ye looked up at Lian Jingzhi, then smiled faintly and said, "For me, it's you!"
"Xiao Zhizhi, do you love me?"
"like!"
How long will we be together?
"For a very long time!"
Will we grow old together?
"meeting."
Hearing Lian Jingzhi's reply, Shen Ye hugged him even tighter, as if she wanted to melt herself into his body.
"Changjun, there's something strange about you."
"What's strange?"
"It's really pretty."
Ever since he met Shen Ye, Lian Jingzhi seems to have lost all sense of propriety.
It wasn't that he originally liked boys; it was because he liked Shen Ye that Lian Jingzhi started liking boys and only liked him.
The stream outside flows quietly, its calm and peaceful rhythm a testament to life and to their love.
Regarding this forbidden love, some people offered their blessings, some condemned it, some mocked it, and some cursed it.
Shen Ye gazed at him; his chiseled features appeared even more mysterious in the moonlight.
He lowered his head, his eyelids drooping slightly, his eyelashes like the wings of a black butterfly, trembling gently, his eyes, as beautiful as stars, overflowing with tenderness.
He hugged him tighter. "Since you came into my life, I've been happier than ever before, but I'm also more prone to sadness. In the future, I just want to live a simple and peaceful life with you here, and be your lover for life."
Heaven favors everyone, and after three years, this love that defied the laws of nature and morality was gradually accepted by the people. The new emperor also intended to take them back to Chang'an, but Lian Jingzhi refused. No matter how good the bustling place of Chang'an was, it was not as good as a place with a quiet night. Simple meals every day were fine. As long as he was there, everything was good. Wherever they went was a paradise.
Many years later, both of them had gray hair, and Jingzhi had fulfilled his promise to grow old with him.
Shen Ye had a wish: to return to Lian Jingzhi's mansion with him and stroll hand in hand.
At that time, he didn't know him, and neither of them knew what love was; they simply spent their nights together in passion.
Lian Jingzhi took him back to the place where they had once shared love and hate. They sat side by side in the corridor outside Feiyu Pavilion, talking incessantly, occasionally kissing and embracing tightly.
Lian Jingzhi pointed to the dried-up hot spring and recounted some interesting stories from back then.
"Back then, you so recklessly barged into my heart. Before I met you, I felt that everything in the world was the same color. After meeting you, I saw nothing else but you..."
After saying this, he waited a long time for a response from the person beside him, and even Jingzhi's face turned pale. He turned around and found that Shen Ye had leaned on his shoulder and closed her eyes...
He knew he was gone...
"Swing water, bamboo horse path, one glance at you, and everything else pales in comparison..."
The night after Shen Ye died, Lian Jingzhi followed him in death.
Lian Jingzhi woke up in a bamboo forest. When he opened his eyes, he saw an old man holding a whisk. “Nanqing Divine Lord, you have lost. My Chixiao Sword is destined to remain ungiven.”
As the old man spoke, he flicked his whisk and stroked his snow-white beard with his right hand.
After failing his tribulation in the mortal realm and returning to the Heavenly Court, Lian Jingzhi gradually remembered that person as time passed—that foolish boy who would die for him.
Before I knew it, tears were welling up in my eyes. It turns out that the piece missing in my heart was him.
"Lord Nanqing, do you know the consequences of your actions?"
"As punishment from Heaven, he was stripped of his position and banished to the mortal realm to experience birth, aging, sickness, and death, endlessly reincarnating..."
"Then why bother?"
“He is the apple of my eye. Without him, I spend every day in pain. Do you know how agonizing this pain is? Every time I think of him, it feels like someone has poured a bucket of sulfuric acid on my heart. The pain is unbearable.”
"When you go to the mortal world, he may not recognize you, but you will definitely not recognize him. Before you are punished, all your memories will be taken away. After you go to the mortal world, your memories will be blank, and you will not remember that person at all."
"It's alright. If you can't find it in this life, then in the next. If you still can't find it in the next life, then in the next, and so on... You'll eventually find it..."
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