Chapter 32 (Internet Ending)
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Last night, my brother and I were walking down the street after dinner. I told him about the company’s special sale on rice dumplings and asked him if he wanted to buy some for his family.
Brother 6 said, "Wow, is it almost Dragon Boat Festival already?"
"Yeah, isn't it something that happened in early June?"
He thought for a moment and said, "It's really fast. Didn't we meet our parents at this time last year? My grandma made rice dumplings, and I brought a big bag to your house."
"Yes, you've already come to visit me."
"Hahaha, it really goes by so fast. We've been married for half a year now."
"Yes, it's been exactly half a year."
It really just takes a blink of an eye. It has been half a year since my brother 6 and I got our marriage certificate. Maybe it’s because we are so happy every day that we really didn’t realize that time flies so fast.
Then the two of us and our parents sent my aunt to the airport. My aunt has lived in Australia for a long time and came back specially to attend my wedding. Now she is leaving again after staying for a month.
On the way to the airport, we were chatting and discussing driving to Disneyland. My brother, who was sitting next to me, suddenly said, "Looking back, I've driven to Disneyland several times."
I turned around and looked at him, "We only went there three times."
He ruffled my hair with his hands, "You heartless little thing, have you forgotten how many times I went to pick you up?"
I thought about it and said, "Oh, right. That summer my boss and I went to the theater to see a show, and you came to pick me up."
"What else?" he said.
"Ah? Anything else?"
"You're having your annual meeting at the Paradise Hotel, late in the winter night, and I'm here to pick you up."
"Oh yeah, that's right!! That really happened, I completely forgot about it! It even snowed that day!!"
Looking back, these were all things that happened when we were dating. Actually, it was just last year, but it feels like such a long time ago.
Brother 6 looked at me speechlessly.
My aunt laughed as she watched, "How beautiful! You two have so many happy memories! You two must cherish this relationship and make sure you manage it well and be happy!"
On the way home after sending my aunt, when we were almost near home, Brother 6 suddenly pointed to a building outside the window and said, "Honey, this is where we both learned to work."
I looked in the direction of his finger and asked, "Really?"
"How could you forget again? It's right here," he said. "I still have the work I made when I was studying at home."
My mom looked at me and smirked, "Were you two together when you were studying for a job?"
"Together," I blinked. "I still remember that little mushroom-headed boy wearing an orange and white T-shirt, used to walk me home after work every day."
My mom said, "You guys really have memories from way back. Whenever you see something related, you'll slowly remember it bit by bit."
This is true.
Many times, when I am sitting in a chair, or just simply daydreaming, and suddenly see something, I will remember some details about my relationship with Brother 6. Moreover, these details not only include the time after we got married, but also the time when we were dating, and even the time when we were in junior high school.
He and I actually have so many common memories.
When we talked about junior high school, we had common friends and common topics, because we studied together for four years, we knew all these people, and we were in the same circle; when we talked about the period of courtship, we went to KTV together, ate in restaurants together, played games together, which friends we met together, when we met our parents, and every step towards marriage, we talked about it with relish; when we talked about after marriage, from getting the marriage certificate to the completion of the ceremony, all the people and things we encountered added up to more than three days and three nights.
All the small, ordinary, and common things, every day, become so different and shining because I experience them with the person I love most.
Maybe just going to eat an ice cream together is so happy for me, because I went there with my brother 6. After that, every time we pass by this ice cream shop, we will remember: Look, we came here together last time to eat.
Yesterday I asked my best friends Didi and Aqi to help me write a message for the book published by Shanhai Publishing. They both handed in their assignments very quickly. I laughed when I saw what they wrote. Didi wrote, "Ever since Teacher Sang and Brother 6 were not together, I asked them every day, are they together? Have you reconciled?" Indeed, I told Didi when Brother 6 and I first started contacting each other on WeChat. Later, when Brother 6 and I started dating, she also asked me every day how the progress was. On the day Brother 6 confessed his love, she was more nervous than I was.
Aqi was the first person to notice that Brother 6 and I were in touch with each other again. I also asked Aqi if she remembered that when she and I graduated from high school and worked in my sister and brother-in-law's store, Brother 6 and Xiao Ma (the classmate who passed us notes that year) came to see me. That was the last time Brother 6 and I met before we met again.
You see, so many moments in my life are related to Brother 6. Whenever I mention him, he is the one who comes to mind.
I remember Xiao Qi once said something to me, and I have never forgotten it. She said this:
"If one day in the future, Brother Shui and I break up, I probably won't marry anyone else, and I won't be able to fall in love with anyone else. I've spent nearly ten years of my life with this person. The time we spent together represents the best of my youth and the most sincere feelings. Everything I see reminds me of him, and all my habits are related to him. He is the only embodiment of love itself. Even if I meet someone more suitable for marriage than him, I won't want to get married, because I don't love for the sake of marriage. I love him so much that I want to be married to him for the rest of my life."
I think Xiaoqi and I are the same. We are both people who pursue love and will not compromise. If we have to choose someone to spend our lives with, we will choose the one we love the most. No one else can do it except him.
In fact, after I separated from Brother Liu in junior high school, I felt that I had never forgotten him. I even remember that when I was in high school, I often dreamed about him. As I mentioned before, even after so many years after we separated, he has always been the white moonlight in my heart.
There is only one white moonlight in a lifetime, it is clear and pure, and it is the only one.
When I was single, many people asked me, what is your ideal type?
I always say: A boy with fair complexion, tall and thin body, big eyes, a particularly nice smile, smart and kind.
Finally, I would add one sentence, it’s like my first love.
Junior high school, high school, college, work...this is what I say to everyone who asks me.
I remember when my aunt first came back to Shanghai, she grabbed me at the airport and said, "I've read your Shanhai writings, and I think you've always loved 66. Even when we were apart, you kept thinking of him. Maybe you didn't even know it or realize it."
Maybe I didn’t notice it at first, but later I think I knew it.
Because when my brother 6 and I were still in love, when we talked about getting married one day in May last year, when we started to envision our future together, I suddenly realized it.
When he sent me back home after the conversation that day, I suddenly burst into tears as I watched him leave.
Because I was really scared, I was so scared that I couldn't go on with this person.
The sentence in my vows, "No matter how many difficulties I encounter, I have never thought of marrying anyone other than you," was exactly how I felt that day.
Because I found that I didn't want to just have a relationship with him, I didn't want to just walk this small journey of life with him and then part ways. I wanted to walk with him forever, I wanted to start a family with him, I wanted him to be the father of my children, I wanted him to be in my life every day, I wanted to live with him in the future, do many things together, until I leave this world.
I can't imagine what it would be like if one day I can no longer see him, if one day he is no longer in my life. I dare not even think about it, and I will cry when I think about it.
It's like this to love someone so much that you're so afraid of losing them.
Only then did I realize that this person was the one I wanted most all along.
From my youth to adulthood, it turns out that what I wanted most was him.
From that day on, I truly understood the meaning of THE ONE.
This person cannot be replaced.
As I mentioned above, we had a big argument before we got our marriage certificate. At that time, I said something angry, something like, "What if we're not together in the future?" He, who has always been very calm and rational, was so angry that he stomped his feet. I still remember the way he yelled at me downstairs in my house, "How can I not be anxious when you say something like that?"
After the fight, he hugged me tightly and said, "We must continue on this path together. Baby, you are the one I love and trust the most. We must be happy forever."
My sixth brother is not perfect, but he has a sincere and kind heart that loves me. He is more determined than anyone else to stay with me and build a happy family with me.
I really feel very lucky that I can marry him, the person I love the most and who loves me the most.
He tolerates my bad temper, my bad habits, listens to me and watches me perform, accompanies me to do what I want to do, respects my opinions first no matter what happens, and supports me in pursuing any dream I want to pursue.
We rush home after get off work every day, and say "I miss you" and "I love you" to each other countless times every day. Whenever we are together, we are like conjoined twins.
It took exactly half a year from the busy time after getting the marriage certificate to the end of the wedding. We have officially entered the ordinary and long days of married life. In the future, we will experience more beautiful memories together and create more shining moments together.
The serialized story may come to a halt one day, but the story between me and Brother 6 will continue.
Life is long, but we always feel that the time we spend together is not long enough.
I love you, from this day, until the end of my last day.
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Closing message:
It’s really not an exaggeration. I cried through more than a dozen tissues while writing this chapter. I never cried this much even on my wedding day. I couldn’t stop crying halfway through writing.
Maybe it's really because I need to put a temporary end to the online version of this story in form. Looking back on all the happiness, sweetness and every important moment before, all of these added together make me feel that it is really not easy for Brother 6 and I to come this far. It's great that I can be so happy now.
Brother 6 and I have been together for a long time, from meeting, first falling in love, breaking up, meeting again, falling in love, to getting married. I cherish this happiness very much, and I am really happy that this story can be recorded by me and shared with each of you.
I think this book is the most special one in my writing career, because after I wrote so many stories about other people, I wrote my own story. It will become the best memorial. I will show it to my and my brother’s babies in the future, and I will be able to look back at it again when I and my brother are old.
When we are both old and gray, I will say to Brother 6, look, we have really been together until today, hand in hand and love each other through mountains and seas.
This book will be published by Charm Culture in the second half of this year. The physical version will have a special extra chapter, a message from my bestie, and the most anticipated postscript from Brother 6! He saw your calls and said he would definitely write it, haha.
There will also be autographed physical books!! I promise I'll have Brother 6 sign a few of them too.
Thank you for your support and love for me and Brother 6. I will not mark the online serialization of this book as finished. When I have time, I will continue to serialize some of my daily life with Brother 6. This is what I promised you on Weibo~ So continue to collect this book~ (My Weibo is: "Sang Jie", welcome to come and play with me)
Well, next I will devote all my energy to preparing a new work, the thirteenth Sands love letter, Comets and Nocturnal Animals, and we will see you there.
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