He looked at Chu Cheng in confusion, and Chu Cheng smiled and said, "Look at the fountain."
Ji Qingzhou had no choice but to look at the fountain again. Soon, the two high school students grew up and became two young people. Ji Qingzhou looked at the figures on the fountain and was a little surprised. It was not for anything else, but because the two young figures looked too much like him and Chu Cheng. He saw him sitting on the bed, Chu Cheng half squatting, holding his hand and looking up at him. This was the time when Chu Cheng confessed to him.
Afterwards, the scene changed quickly. He and Chu Cheng seemed to have matured a lot. Chu Cheng was holding a square box in his hand. The box fell when he was crossing the road. He quickly picked it up, crossed the road, and after returning home, he put the box next to his pillow while he was taking a nap.
The light and shadow alternated rapidly, and when they reappeared, they were both old. Chu Cheng held his hand and walked slowly down the stairs. They passed by a photo studio and went in to take a photo. In the photo, the two old people were smiling very happily. They walked out of the photo studio with the photo. A gust of wind blew and the photo flew up. The two old people looked up at the photo, and the past scenes of their youth emerged one by one.
Ji Qingzhou saw the scene when he and Chu Cheng filmed for the first time; he saw the way he bent down and folded stars when he appeared on a variety show for the first time; he saw Chu Cheng suddenly appear at the hospital entrance; he saw the nine bright red roses.
The scenes kept switching, he watched the light and shadows in front of him, as if he saw their past again, he watched Chu Cheng carrying him on his back, watched two similar jade pendants touch each other, watched him sitting on the bed while Chu Cheng half-knelt down and kissed the back of his hand, and also watched them hugging and kissing on the frozen river.
When the fireworks rang out, Ji Qingzhou was startled. He looked up involuntarily and saw the fireworks like a grand meteor shower, falling in the dark night sky and in his heart.
Those fireworks continued to bloom in the sky, like roses, like stars, like a rain, like a gorgeous dream.
Ji Qingzhou heard Chu Cheng calling his name gently. He turned around and found that Chu Cheng had half-knelt down without him knowing when. Ji Qingzhou looked at him in a daze. He thought he knew what Chu Cheng was going to do.
Chu Cheng looked up at him, his whole body trembling, his heart beating so fast that it seemed as if his heart would fly out of his mouth. He looked at Ji Qingzhou and said nervously, "In a few days, you will go to receive the award. I believe you will win the award, so I want to do this before you receive the award."
Ji Qingzhou looked at him, wanting to say something, but seemed to not know what to say.
"I know that if I do this now, you may think it's too early and that I'm a little impulsive. If I'm rational enough, I should wait another two years, until we've known each other long enough, until you have enough confidence in me and in the future, before I do this. However, I don't think it's necessary. If I can already be sure of my feelings in two years, five years, or even ten years, or fifty years, then can I also put your mind at ease in advance?"
Ji Qingzhou looked at him, his eyes slowly becoming sore.
"So, I don't want to delay it for that long. I want to settle down with you as soon as possible. I want to tell you that from the moment I started liking you, I just want to be with you forever, for the rest of my life."
After Chu Cheng finished speaking, he slowly took out a navy blue square box from his pocket, slowly opened it, and presented the custom-made ring to Ji Qingzhou.
He looked at Ji Qingzhou with gentle eyes, and he said, "If a person's life is like a journey, with the end of life as the end point, and childhood, adolescence, youth, middle age, and old age as the stops, then I hope that I can accompany you to complete this not-too-long journey. If possible, I would like to accompany you on this journey in childhood, but the scenery that has passed is hard to recover. I can only get on the bus at this stop of your youth, but I can never get off the bus until you reach the end of the journey."
Ji Qingzhou looked at him and suddenly remembered the people they met along the way when they drove here, the two young boys, the two high school students, the young man who was going to see his lover, the middle-aged uncle who prepared a wedding anniversary gift for his lover, and the last two old people who passed by them hand in hand.
He originally thought that these people were just passers-by he met by chance, but now he understood that this was not an accidental encounter, but an inevitable meeting - this was what Chu Cheng showed him, the life that they should have together.
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