Zhou Yuan once disappeared for a period of time when Gu Qichi was nine years old.

That period was also the time when Gu Qichi’s emotions were the most stable, and it was his happiest time.

He had once docilely lain in his mother’s arms, pulling at her sleeve, and asked in a small voice: “Mom, can Dad just never come back for the rest of his life?”

The light in the dilapidated rented room was dim and yellow. His adoptive mother’s eyes were bitter and miserable. She tightly gripped his arm: “You absolutely must not let your dad hear you say that, he will beat you to death.”

The young Gu Qichi had no choice but to curl up and hug himself tightly.

Bo Yu had been investigating Zhou Yuan all along. He had also found out that it was precisely after this period of disappearance that Zhou Yuan became even more violently irritable towards Gu Qichi upon returning home. Several times he had wanted to lay a heavy hand on Gu Qichi, wishing he could beat Gu Qichi to death alive.

Bo Yu’s intuition told him something wasn’t right.

In the few years prior, although Zhou Yuan couldn’t be said to be good to Gu Qichi, he wouldn’t just beat and scold him at every turn or wantonly insult him.

When Gu Qichi was eight, Zhou Yuan lost his job. But it was in the year he was nine that he disappeared for more than half a year. It was only when Gu Qichi was almost ten that he started domestically abusing Gu Qichi and his mother.

Something must have happened during this time, or perhaps…
Zhou Yuan had met someone…

Following this suspicious point, Bo Yu had people check the surveillance footage from over ten years ago.

But the time was too long ago, and searching for it was too difficult. The equipment of the past was old, the personnel in charge had moved around, and the obsolete, lagging surveillance videos were all sent to Bo Yu’s computer, where he inspected and played them frame by frame.

There was a period when Bo Yu was very busy. Gu Qichi was with the film crew at the time. Right after finishing meetings at the company, Bo Yu would rush home and stay up late into the night in his study, checking those videos frame by frame.

In fact, if it were anyone else, they wouldn’t care about this matter at all, nor would they connect the two things together, let alone go looking for these pieces of evidence for their own absurd conjecture.

Every day and night that Gu Qichi wasn’t there, Bo Yu could see the nine-year-old him in the surveillance footage from over ten years ago.

At that time, his face was fair, his features immature, and he still had baby fat on his face that hadn’t faded.
Even in the old, dim, and yellowed surveillance video, he still looked like a white, round, glutinous rice ball, looking very lovable at first glance.

Bo Yu simply couldn’t dare to imagine how anyone could raise a hand against such an adorable Gu Qichi back then.

The lighting in the study was dim, and the empty villa was quiet; not a single sound could be heard.

Bo Yu’s profile was outlined with cold and stern lines in the shadows, his features clear, carrying an indescribable hostility.

Sometimes, A-Ci would sneak into the study to keep him company.

Animals really are wondrous things. The Silver Shaded cat’s usual attitude towards Bo Yu wasn’t considered good. When he was working, just her not coming to cause trouble or tear things up was already enough to make one thank heaven and earth.
Not to mention the study, which was an alternative “paradise” for cats.

But whenever Bo Yu was checking the footage from back then, the Silver Shaded cat would always quietly lie on his lap, keeping him company.
It was as if she knew Bo Yu was working hard for Gu Qichi, and she also wanted to do her part.

Heaven does not disappoint those who set their minds to it.

Under Bo Yu’s unremitting persistence, he discovered a clue.

On his way home after drinking one time, Zhou Yuan met a little boy.

This boy was full of gloomy air. Even though he was clearly young, his body exuded an extremely deep aura of resentment, without the slightest vibrant look of vitality.
Yet, for no reason, he looked familiar.

In the surveillance footage, he stopped Zhou Yuan, who was walking on the road.

It was unknown what he said.
But it could be clearly seen that Zhou Yuan became exceptionally agitated, even directly running over to his side.

When the two stood together, a spark exploded in Bo Yu’s mind.

He stared fixedly at the screen.

The little boy’s face inside was fifty percent similar to Zhou Yuan’s. If it wasn’t Gu Yuning, who else could it be?

In other words, Gu Yuning had already met Zhou Yuan when he was nine years old.

Bo Yu’s breathing suddenly became heavy.

He quickly dragged the progress bar backward, matched the time, and finally found the breakthrough point of the whole matter.

It was exactly after the day he met Gu Yuning that Zhou Yuan started intermittently not returning home at night, and he even had several huge fights with Gu Qichi’s adoptive mother over this.
He even wanted to get physical a few times.

And according to previous investigations into Gu Qichi’s neighbors and probes into Gu Qichi himself…
After that day, it was the first time Zhou Yuan domestically abused Gu Qichi.

Further on, Gu Yuning and Zhou Yuan met more and more frequently. One night, after Gu Yuning came to find Zhou Yuan, Zhou Yuan disappeared.

No one knew where he went, not even his wife and child knew anything about his whereabouts.

Bo Yu directly set his sights on the merely nine-year-old Gu Yuning.

Tracing his whereabouts during that time, he found Zhou Yuan. The man had gone to Gu Yuning’s school to work as a vegetable delivery worker.

Bo Yu continued to trace along the places they had walked back then, day and night without rest, exhausting his energy.

Unexpectedly, he really found a video.

It was near Qingshui Alley where Gu Qichi lived back then. A customer at a barbecue stall was filming a video of his daughter dancing and accidentally recorded Gu Yuning and Zhou Yuan hiding behind a pillar.

The person used a newly released camera that year. The video resolution was extremely high, and the sound recording effect was also very good. The man had originally intended to use it to film his daughter at the school anniversary ceremony.

At first, he didn’t notice that he had mistakenly recorded Gu Yuning and Zhou Yuan. It was only later when he was looking through the camera that he accidentally discovered it.
Even the conversation between the two was recorded clearly.

Bo Yu racked his brains to find this video, and handed it over to the technical department staff to restore the video’s clarity and sound to the greatest extent possible.

The moment he received the perfectly restored video, Bo Yu almost rushed out of the study to shoot Gu Yuning dead with a gun.

But he forcibly suppressed his anger and endured it. Death was too cheap for Gu Yuning; Gu Qichi’s anger hadn’t been vented, and the infamy on him still existed.
He would make Gu Yuning wish he were dead, making him pay the price he deserved.

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The video Bo Yu posted on Weibo was precisely this restored video.

Everyone watched this video without taking their eyes off it.

In the frame, Gu Yuning, wearing expensive silk fabric, looked like a wandering ghost, his face pale. He tugged at Zhou Yuan’s sleeve and asked in a low voice: “Are you Zhou Yuan?”

Zhou Yuan, whose sleeve was pulled, obviously stiffened. Looking at the familiar face in front of him, his eyes filled with disbelief. He slowly replied, “Yes.”

The barbecue stall was a bit noisy. At eight or nine in the evening, it was exactly the bustling time.
People had just gotten off work, shedding their fatigue, intending to come to this lively place to relax and officially start their beautiful nightlife.

The incandescent light overhead was a ghastly white, shining on Gu Yuning’s face. There were dark circles under his eyes, clearly showing he hadn’t slept well.

No one knew how he walked all the way here, nor did anyone know his purpose for coming here.

Only Gu Yuan’an, who was struggling on his knees on the ground, suddenly stopped struggling. He stared fixedly at Gu Yuning on the screen, his eyes full of disbelief.

This place… he was the one who had brought Gu Yuning there…

The next second, Gu Yuning’s voice came out from the phone’s speaker.
It was a sentence no one had expected.

He said, “Dad.”

Gu Yuning’s voice was flat and waveless: “I know you are my dad.”

Gu Chengtian and Geng Tingxun also went completely stiff, their eyes bloodshot, looking at Gu Yuning on the screen in disbelief.

How was this possible?

Gu Yuning was only nine years old at the time! The truth about Gu Qichi and Gu Yuning’s parentage was clearly only discovered when they were sixteen. Before that, apart from Zhou Yuan, no second person should have known!

How did Gu Yuning know?
Could it be that Zhou Yuan had long told him the truth of the matter?

But in the video, it was clearly the first time Zhou Yuan had seen what he looked like too. That momentary blankness, confusion, and shock couldn’t be acted out.

But none of that mattered anymore, because Gu Yuning’s next words made people feel even more absurd.

He stepped forward, hugged Zhou Yuan’s arm, his tone dependent and sickly: “Dad, I miss you so much.”
“Dad, I know you love me very much. Help me kill Zhou Qichi, okay—”

The wine bottle in Zhou Yuan’s hand fell directly to the ground.

The green glass bottle smashed onto the uneven concrete floor with a clear bang. A white mark was quickly knocked into the bottle’s body, and the yellow liquor inside spilled out, bubbling with white foam, scattering all over the floor.

The wine bottle rolled clattering on the ground and stopped in front of a nearby trash can.

Gu Yuning’s expression was calm, his gaze pitch-black and distant. He just stared straight at Zhou Yuan like this, as if the person who had just said those words asking him to kill someone wasn’t him.

Zhou Yuan shrank back a step, then suddenly stopped. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty.
He raised his right hand several times wanting to touch Gu Yuning’s face, but then suddenly stopped.

Zhou Yuan closed his eyes, his voice hoarse: “Child, how did you know? Did the Gu family find out?”

Gu Yuning glanced at him and silently dodged the hand that the other wanted to touch him with. He pulled away to a neither far nor close distance, his tone indifferent: “Don’t worry about how I knew. You just need to know that if I hadn’t come to find you today, the matter of the switch would have been discovered by the Gu family. Not only would you go to jail, but I would also return to this family that has absolutely nothing.”

Zhou Yuan seemed intimidated by his words; his legs went weak, and he couldn’t even stand steadily.

Gu Yuning remained very calm. He leaned closer and closer: “Dad, I know you love me very much, otherwise you wouldn’t have switched me with the Gu family’s young master.”
Gu Yuning: “The people in the Gu family all like me very much. They’ve given me almost all the best things in the family. I am living very happily there.”
Gu Yuning: “You don’t want me to return to this dilapidated family either, right? So, before the Gu family finds out, you have to help me kill Zhou Qichi.”
Gu Yuning: “Only this way will this matter not be exposed, and I can continue to be the youngest son of the Gu family.”

Zhou Yuan didn’t speak; he just leaned against the stone pillar, swallowing nervously.

This video ended here.

Gu Chengtian’s family and Gu Yuning in the hospital fell into a dead silence, as if their throats had been choked, unable to speak a single word.

No one could have imagined that the always well-behaved and sensible Gu Yuning would say such things.
Let alone imagine where exactly he learned of his true origins, considering Zhou Yuan clearly hadn’t even come looking for Gu Yuning…

Nine years old—an innocent, naive age where one was ignorant of the ways of the world. Some children didn’t even remember things well at this age; when they grew up and mentioned this time, there would be some blanks in their minds.

But Gu Yuning was only nine years old back then!

At nine years old, he could rely on his own power to find his unknown biological father. And the first moment he found him, it wasn’t a father-son reunion, nor was it warm and touching; instead, he instigated his biological father to kill another innocent child.

Just so he could continue to enjoy wealth and splendor in the Gu family.

The heat on the internet regarding the two of them hadn’t died down yet. The Bo Corporation’s official account abruptly releasing this video immediately pushed the heat to a new climax.

In the evidence listed by Gu Qichi’s studio, it only briefly introduced the complex relationship between him and Gu Yuning, but actually mentioned very little about the wealthy family’s true and fake young masters matter.

Netizens only knew that Gu Qichi was the true young master who was switched, and Gu Yuning was the fake young master who occupied the magpie’s nest and refused to leave.
But they knew nothing about the twists and turns inside.

But after releasing this video, the Bo Corporation immediately followed up by releasing an evidence statement.

It practically stripped clean every single heinous and unconscionable thing Gu Yuning had done over all these years.

He was laid bare and completely exposed before the public and netizens just like this, with absolutely no privacy to speak of.

On the icy ground, someone held down Gu Chengtian and Gu Yuan’an’s necks. The lead enforcer received Bo Yu’s new instructions—

Bo Yu: “Don’t let them miss out on what Gu Yuning has done. How can we not share such good things with them?”

On the other end of the phone, Bo Yu’s voice wasn’t very steady; clear heavy panting could be heard.
But it didn’t affect his ruthlessness and decisiveness in the slightest: “Are Gu Yuan’an’s legs broken?”

The enforcer replied to him on the other end: “They are already broken. But President Bo, he’s struggling very fiercely.”

On the other end of the phone, wisps of cigarette smoke rose.

Bo Yu’s body was tense, his teeth clenched tight. Fine sweat seeped out of his forehead, covering his head.

He looked at the miserable Gu family members in his phone, a cold light flashing in his eyes. His gaze was piercing, like a blade glinting with cold light, scraping over their entire bodies inch by inch.

Bo Yu let out a laugh, his Adam’s apple bobbing. He lowered his eyelashes, sweeping over Gu Yuan’an’s heartbroken face. The expression on his face was somewhat terrifying.

Bo Yu: “Hasn’t Gu Yuan’an always doted on this younger brother of his the most? Take Gu Yuan’an to see Gu Yuning. Wait until he sees Gu Qichi, then slowly show him the rest of the evidence.”
Bo Yu: “I think he will definitely love his good younger brother to death. After all, this is the knife he single-handedly spoiled and raised, which is now stabbing him the deepest.”

The enforcer received the instruction and stepped forward steadily. His eyes were indifferent, and no expression could be clearly seen on his face: “Eldest Young Master Gu, if you please. You still have deeper sins to atone for.”

This time, Gu Yuan’an didn’t resist anymore. He was taken away in a daze.

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The video Bo Yu released was truly too bizarre and absurd.

Even Gu Qichi and his adoptive mother had never noticed Zhou Yuan’s abnormality, yet Bo Yu had actually found it.

And the evidence released by the Bo Corporation was even more shocking.

First was the truth about Gu Yuning and Gu Qichi’s parentage, listed out in meticulous detail, only hiding some of Gu Qichi’s private information and affairs.

Immediately after, no matter how big or small the matter was, as long as Gu Yuning had sought someone’s help to frame or trap Gu Qichi, all his words, deeds, and actions were displayed either in the form of pictures and text or videos.

Furthermore, Gu Yuning had once wanted to climb the social ladder into some top-tier circles and had used drugs to drug and rape quite a few people. Although in the end they were all suppressed by those scums and him, there were always people unwilling to submit to their power who wanted to seek some justice. Bo Yu spent almost no effort to find the testimonies provided by the witnesses.

Even more so, during a short period when Gu Yuning was under too much mental stress, he had followed that group of ignorant and incompetent rich second-generations and did things expressly prohibited by law for a while.

The evidence Bo Yu had collected over the past half year was exceptionally complete, encompassing all aspects, practically digging Gu Yuning up from the bottom to the sky.

Like Thor’s hammer, every hammer blow Bo Yu threw out could smash Gu Yuning into a deeper layer of hell, never to turn over for eternity.

Gu Qichi held A-Ci, his five fingers sliding on the screen.
He stared blankly at the real-time public square on Weibo.

[Rice Novel Net go die immediately]: …Shocked. Gu Yuning was only nine years old back then, and he was already thinking of harming people. Is this really a child?

[Life is a fierce firework]: What did Gu Qichi do wrong? He was maliciously switched since childhood, couldn’t get the love of his biological parents, and even had to be bullied by a domestic abuser.

[The Phoenix Arrives]: I really cried. Our Xiao Chi is the true phoenix! [Tears] [Tears] I knew Xiao Chi had it rough, but I really didn’t expect him to have it this rough. The last time I saw him, he even told me to go home more often to keep my dad company. Thinking of himself at that time, how much it must have hurt! [Tears] [Tears]

[Copyright belongs to your mom]: People are born good… Gu Yuning was rotten to the core right from birth, wasn’t he? How can someone have such a vicious heart! [Husky]

[nead a break]: The things Gu Yuning has done are enough for him to eat prison food for a few years. Wishing him a happy time stepping on the sewing machine (in prison). [Rose] [Rose]

[before i can say]: But according to the evidence released by the Bo Corporation, the Gu family treated Gu Qichi very poorly too! They completely failed to fulfill their responsibilities as parents, and instead favored that scum Gu Yuning so much…

[Cut off contact with you]: I am Gu Qichi’s elementary school classmate. He lived in a very dilapidated, old alley back then. The rumors yesterday about him stealing things never happened at all. We always liked him very much, and we all hated his scumbag dad too. [Tears] [Tears]

[Spicy shredded chicken]: Gu Qichi is really so good! He is super serious with his fans. When he sees us, he greets us right away and never brushes us off. So he was cyberbullied for two years, making us miss him for two years, all because of that animal Gu Yuning? [Tears] [Tears] I really hate it so much! [Tears] [Tears]

[Protecting the best Gu Qichi in the world]: My Chi-chi has really suffered too much. The first time he was framed by Gu Yuning and cyberbullied two years ago, he even sent private messages to our few remaining fans, telling us to stop following him, otherwise we would be cyberbullied. [Tears] Fortunately, we’ve pulled through it all. [Tears]

[Cicadas chirping to complain]: My Xiao Chi, this time, I will definitely stay by your side for the rest of my life.

[Sunny March]: Things have already developed to this point, why hasn’t Gu Yuning come out to apologize yet? Is he still dreaming some pipe dream of being acquitted? [Soybean Eye Roll] [Soybean Eye Roll]

The real-time square was filled with netizens whose hearts ached for him, comforting him in all kinds of ways, wanting to bring a little solace to his once riddled and battered heart.

To say he wasn’t touched would be a lie. Gu Qichi pressed his lips together, the corners of his eyes somewhat red.

His fan group was actually even livelier. Everyone had done anti-black PR work all night, battling all night with fans of Gu Yuning and Song Zhian, as well as a large group of ignorant passersby.

They had finally waited until Gu Qichi released Thor’s hammer to clarify things, but it also hammered his fans’ hearts heavily.
Some young girls cried directly in the fan group.

As Gu Qichi’s fans, they forever hoped that Gu Qichi could be happy and joyous, forever safe and smooth sailing.
Instead of being like today, after being framed, having no choice but to tear open his own bloody scars to clarify himself.

How much that must have hurt.

Gu Qichi.
Betrayed by everyone, loathed by his parents, rejected by his older brother, almost put to death by his adoptive father. No one had ever loved him.

Gu Qichi, back then, how much pain must you have been in?

On this day, the “Plane Trees” (fans) exclusively belonging to Gu Qichi silently swore in their hearts:

Gu Qichi, from today onwards, not only do you have your lover Bo Yu by your side, you also have us.
The Phoenix rests on the Plane Tree, relying on nothing else.
We Plane Trees will be your lifelong reliance.
We will accompany you for a lifetime, and love you for a lifetime.

As an announcement, this message was directly posted in Gu Qichi’s personal super-topic.

Gu Qichi asked Luo Qianqian, followed her instructions to enter his own fan group, and sent a paragraph with red eyes:

“I’m very well, you don’t need to worry about me.”
“Thank you all so much for the efforts you’ve made for me all along. I am also very lucky to have had you all continuously by my side during my most painful and frustrated times.”
“You don’t need to love me for a lifetime. Compared to loving me, I hope you can love yourselves for a lifetime.”
“From today on, the darkness is hard to find, the dawn returns. We will all walk out our own scenery on our respective paths of life.”

The meaning of celebrity worship never lies in liking a virtual character, nor does it lie in how much money you spend on him or what you do for him.
The meaning of celebrity worship has always only been about whether that person is worth it.

Gu Qichi was worth it, worth the Plane Trees rushing towards him.

Because all the Plane Trees knew that on this difficult avenue of stars, Gu Qichi was at the other end of the road, also working hard to run towards them.

Adding flowers to brocade is easy, but providing charcoal in the snow is hard.
What moves people’s hearts the most is forever the most unadorned, wordless affection.

Gu Qichi hugged A-Ci, tear tracks sliding down his face. They dripped onto A-Ci’s thick cat fur, not soaking in, but instead forming rolling pearls on top of it.

The Silver Shaded cat meowed in his embrace, her voice sweet and cloying. Her tail wrapped around his body, acting spoiled and cute as much as possible.

Hoping Gu Qichi would stop being sad.

And on the other end of the internet, things suddenly started developing in a strange direction.

[Day and night in a flash]: Sisters, Gu Yuning’s account was directly banned by the official platform! [Soybean Backpack] [Soybean Backpack]

[Copyright belongs to me]: Reporting! Gu Yuning’s super-topic has also been directly banned! [Cheer] [Cheer]

[Mountains and rivers don’t feel guilty for me]: Reporting again! Gu Yuning’s several big fans have also been directly muted!!! [Rose] [Rose]

[Bo Yu you deserve a wife]: Revealing an industry insider secret [Push Glasses]. Gu Qichi’s husband directly bankrupted the Gu family that treated him badly. [Push Glasses]

[zgldqlwidhli]: Don’t be too ridiculous, has a novel shone into reality? [Husky]

[Strawberry raw cheese plus cheese]: The weather is turning cold, it’s time for the Gu Corporation to go bankrupt. Lighting a cigarette.jpg

[Koi Girl]: Don’t say it, you really don’t say it! I am an employee of the Bo Corporation. Everyone can go take a look at Song Zhian’s family company. Severe financial issues appeared a few months ago, and it was our President Bo who made the move! [Doge Head] [Doge Head]

[Happy New Year’s Eve everyone~]: The weather is turning cold, it’s time for the Song Corporation to go bankrupt. Lighting a cigarette.jpg

[Meow Meow Punch hits Tiger]: Fuck, I used to think these were scenes that only appeared in dog-blood novels like “The Domineering CEO Falls in Love With Me”. I didn’t expect it to happen in reality.

[Gu Qichi’s Boudoir Beauty]: After all, if he didn’t work hard, he wouldn’t have such a beautiful wife! [Husky] [Husky]

[Lillian]: Speaking of which, he really cares about Chi-chi. Of course, this man is also a bit petty, blocking everyone under his posts who calls Xiao Chi ‘wife’, just like that rich woman YUCHI.

[if i alone]: By the way, what does Bo Yu look like? Neither of them posted a photo showing his face! [Doge Head]

[Asteroid hitting Earth]: That’s not important. The important thing is that he stole my wife! [Tears] Damn it, I’m going to his comment section to snatch my wife back! [Tears]

[Wife Wife]: Bo Yu: Block warning!

[Stop talking, going to snatch wife]: Do you guys think there’s a possibility that this President of the Bo Corporation and the rich woman YUCHI are the exact same person?

But the person who asked this question was quickly submerged in swarms of comments, failing to attract much attention.
Later on, people would even post comments to refute her.

How could a domineering CEO who deals with tens of thousands of matters every day have so much time to fight three hundred rounds with people in fan groups, and still have the leisure time to block group members one by one, camping for Gu Qichi’s materials and latest behind-the-scenes clips?

This was truly too absurd.

With such a rich imagination, it’s better to think about how one can marry into a wealthy family like Gu Qichi.

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When Bo Yu entered the door, Gu Qichi was curled up on the beanbag sofa shedding tears.

The skin around his eye sockets and the corners of his eyes was bright red.
Tears smashed onto his phone screen.

Hearing the footsteps, Gu Qichi lifted his head. The teardrops hanging on his eyelashes slid down and were wiped away by someone raising their hand.

Bo Yu’s walking posture was a little strange, as if he was avoiding something, but his strides were large, and in the blink of an eye, he was in front of Gu Qichi.

Warm breaths intertwined. Bo Yu knelt on one knee beside his leg, his thumb pad rubbing over the skin of his eyelids.

“I’m late.” Bo Yu’s voice was strained, leaning very close to Gu Qichi.

The beanbag sofa sank into a deeper curve, fabric rubbing together. They pressed close together. With A-Ci between them, Bo Yu pulled Gu Qichi into his arms. Carrying an unfathomable possessiveness, as well as a bit of helpless fear, his force was so great it seemed as if he wanted to embed the person into his own body.

Gu Qichi shook his head: “It’s not late, Bo Yu. You’ve always been behind me, I know…”

The person in his arms was actually trembling slightly. Bo Yu comfortingly patted his back, picked up the phone from the ground, and tapped the screen on.

Inside was a handwritten letter from one of Gu Qichi’s fans to him.
It was sent last night.

Bo Yu scrolled a bit; he had already clicked open many private messages.

In those private messages were unavoidable insults and abuses, enough to pierce a person’s heart full of holes.

Bo Yu turned off the phone and pulled him into his arms, hugging him even tighter.
His lips pressed against his warm eyelids, able to feel his slow heartbeat and fluttering eyelashes.

“Gu Chengtian, Gu Yuan’an, and the rest have all been cleaned up by me.” Bo Yu held his hand, intertwining their five fingers tightly, and said slowly word by word: “No one can bully you anymore.”

“From now on, you can do anything you want to do, say anything you want to say. I will always stay by your side.”

His breath was scorching hot, hitting heavily against the auricle of his ear. Gu Qichi noticed his own heart begin to beat slowly, emitting faint vibrations within his chest cavity.

Bo Yu held his hand and lifted a corner of his clothes.

Below his abdominal muscles, there was a patch of red, hot skin.

When Gu Qichi’s fingertips touched it, he could feel a faint unevenness on it.

He lowered his eyelids, his eye sockets burning red. It wasn’t until Bo Yu covered his entire palm over that patch of skin that Gu Qichi clearly saw there was a tattoo there.

Bo Yu’s skin had a sickly pallor, and the black tattoo was exceptionally conspicuous on his skin.

He had tattooed the two characters “Qi Chi” (栖池).

The intertwined characters slanted downward, outlining a blooming lisianthus flower.

“I originally wanted to wait until your birthday to show you,” Bo Yu said. “But I really couldn’t wait anymore. This is something that belongs to you; you should see it at the very first moment.”

His forehead pressed against Gu Qichi’s forehead. The tip of his nose slowly drew near, and he kissed him very lightly.

“Gu Qichi, I love you.”

That’s why I searched for you for so many years, that’s why I couldn’t wait to bring you under my wing, that’s why I want to stay by your side for a lifetime, spending our whole lives together.

“I know you have a little habit. You like to write your own name on all your belongings. This is probably also a type of possessiveness.”

“So I branded your name on my own body.”

Bo Yu held his lips in his, his scorching breath passing into Gu Qichi’s mouth bit by bit:
“Can you let me become your belonging?”

He asked.

A-Ci, who had been hiding in their arms, silently jumped out.
She didn’t disturb them anymore, leaving enough space for the two of them.

Gu Qichi’s fingertips curled up, trembling uncontrollably. His eye sockets were severely red, his eyes burning hot.

Actually, sometimes he also couldn’t figure out why Bo Yu would treat him so well.

Bo Yu’s love was the wilderness burning to ashes, the snowy mountains collapsing. It was swearing never to let go when the end of the world descended; it was a desperate gamble risking everything.
Bo Yu’s love would break through time, shatter space, walk through half a lifetime, remaining steadfast until death.

The sourness and aching in Gu Qichi’s heart surged up densely, surging and unstoppable.

He met Bo Yu’s eyes.

Those eyes, which had always been cold and stern, were like lonely, freezing glaciers melting into spring water when facing him, babbling and wrapping him up.

Gu Qichi leaned closer and rubbed against the lisianthus embedded with his name: “Bo Yu, does it hurt?”

Bo Yu shook his head.

Gu Qichi’s hands rested on the back of his neck, and he recklessly leaned over to kiss Bo Yu.

His hands sank into Bo Yu’s hair. In the silent space, one could hear two beating hearts gradually reaching resonance.

“Bo Yu, do you still remember? I said I wanted you to chase me.”

Gu Qichi pulled back a fraction of an inch, his eyes moist: “You caught me.”

“Now, I am also your belonging.”