Translation by RosySpell and fingers_and_paws
BaiLuoYin slept for more than ten hours. By the time he woke up, it was already early morning of the next day.
When he opened his eyes, he hazily saw a roof that seemed to be from his memory. BaiLuoYin was shocked.
His sight roamed around the room, moving from the familiar wall patterns, to the painting on the wall that he had actually hung up himself, then toward the right where he saw the familiar door still hanging the class schedule. After years of deterioration, this class schedule seemed surprisingly bright as new.
BaiLuoYin scratched his head, looking down to see that the blanket covering him was still the same one as the one from the past. He took a few whiffs and it seemed to still carry a touch of the familiar body fragrance. So many years had passed, how could this blanket still be so soft?
He turned his head to look, and even saw the school uniform from their school days, neatly stacked on his nightstand.
What is going on?
Am I still dreaming?
BaiLuoYin pinched himself and felt a sharp stinging pain. All this is real.
Is GuHai trying to be sentimental, taking everything from the house and turning it back into a scene from the past?
While he was still pondering about this, the outside door sounded and BaiLuoYin quickly turned toward the door.
A youthful looking GuHai pushed the door opened and entered the room. He was also wearing the same school uniform from then and the same familiar gloves. He even fixed his hair in front of the mirror in the exact same movements as he did in the past.
BaiLuoYin was in a daze, did he need to act so real?
GuHai turned and walked toward BaiLuoYin, his two cold big hands dug into BaiLuoYin's blanket. It was so cold that he quivered. And then his pair of evil hands moved upward, finally arriving at BaiLuoYin's cheeks and pinched hard.
"Are you still not getting out of bed? We're going to be late if you still don't get up."
BaiLuoYin pulled GuHai's hands away, "You're really stupid."
Having said that, he turned back down and continued to sleep.
Unexpectedly, GuHai slapped his back. In the same tone from the past said, "Who's stupid? I got up early this morning to get you breakfast, came back to tell you to get out of bed and you call me stupid. Hurry and get up!"
BaiLuoYin patiently responded, "Don't give me this bullshit. I definitely won't be fooled by you."
"I'm just giving you face right? If you still don't get up, the buns would be cold. Don't blame me if you get diarrhea after eating it. I'm telling you, Auntie hadn't been feeling well the last two days. She went through great efforts to make this breakfast for us. If you still won't get up, you would disappoint her good intentions.
BaiLuoYin slanted his eyes at GuHai, "Act, continue to act!"
"What am I acting?" GuHai retorted with a serious expression, "Auntie had not been feeling well these days. We have to go home to see her after school today."
BaiLuoYin closed his eyes, with an attitude of 'letting you continue to be crazy, but not responding.'
GuHai again said, "Which little bastard was it that suggested not to do the chemical homework last night but to make it up at school tomorrow morning, huh?"
BaiLuoYin continued to play dead.
GuHai pulled him up with one hand and pointed to the electronic display on the opposite wall. Then he angrily said, "Are you still not getting up? Look at what time it is?"
BaiLuoYin did not pay attention to the time but saw the date. To his surprise, it was 2002. He was shocked initially and then immediately reacted, jokingly said to GuHai, "President Gu, your preparation in this is quite extraordinary, isn't it?"
"President Gu?" GuHai put on a confused expression.
Then, he used his hand to touch BaiLuoYin's forehead, "Have you slept for so long that you've gone crazy?"
Yeah right ...... you want to trick me into believing this little prank. BaiLuoYin fiercely shoved GuHai away and then put his head back under the blanket. But then, he got hit by something hard, picking it up, he realized it's a cell phone.
Not only that, but it was the same model cell phone as the one he had before.
BaiLuoYin remembered clearly that this cell phone was destroyed in the accident and the phone model was no longer in production. Where did GuHai get it? Also, it didn't look like a new phone. In fact, the more he looked, the more it looked like the same one he used from the past. Even the scratches on the back of the phone case seemed so familiar......
While he was thinking about this, BaiLuoYin skillfully unlocked it to find the contact listing.
Suddenly, he had a kind of tingling sensational feeling.
How could it be that the people listed in the contact list are the same ones he had from the past? Once again, he looked through their numbers. Even the numbers were the same exact numbers as back then.
BaiLuoYin tried to call BaiHanQi.
"Hello......" a tired voice sounded.
It actually went through and it was his father who had answered it.
BaiLuoYin's voice was quivering, "Dad...... Is it really you?"
"If it's not me, who could it be?" BaiHanQi yawned, "Have you gotten to school yet?"
Hesitantly, BaiLuoYin put down the phone, his palms turned cold.
GuHai coughed lightly on the side, "I'm not going to wait for you. I'm going to go eat breakfast first."
BaiLuoYin's mind was still in a mess. He kept repeatedly reminding himself that this was impossible. GuHai must have colluded with his dad...... keeping this thought in mind, he called YangMeng's number.
"I'm going to be late!" YangMeng sounded out of breath, "If there's anything you wanted to say, leave it till we're in class!!"
Du du du...... the call was cut off again.
BaiLuoYin could not believe this evil, he dialed LiuChong's number, but the person who answered is a woman, speaking a foreign accent.
"Who are you looking for?"
"LiuChong......"
"LiuChung (Chung as in onions in Cantonese)?" The woman paused, "Lei (you) dialed the wrong number, right?"
BaiLuoYin, "......."
Putting down the cellphone, BaiLuoYin was suddenly terrified. Everything is exactly the same as it was before. The bed sheets, the blanket, the clothes rack, the school bags, the slippers...
Could it be that I'm still dreaming?
BaiLuoYin clenched his fist tightly. The feelings in his body and mind are so clearly lucid, that he was definitely sure that he is awake.
But then why......
GuHai leisurely ate the buns, quietly waiting for BaiLuoYin to explode. Just when the bun in his hand had one bite left, BaiLuoYin finally rushed out of the room with his hair in a mess and his face dirty. Under GuHai's pretended surprised expression, he clutched his hand.
"You're deliberately trying to scare me, right?"
GuHai trying to hold in his laughter, "Why am I trying to scare you?"
"Do you dare say that all this was not prearranged in advance?" BaiLuoYin intently observe GuHai.
GuHai cupped BaiLuoYin's cheeks, looking at him with a nervous expression.
"What's wrong with you?"
"Right, teeth mark, teeth mark......" BaiLuoYin said while pulling at GuHai's collar, staring at his shoulders to check for the teeth mark. But to his dismay, he did not see anything. GuHai's skin on his shoulder was smooth.
"What teeth mark?" GuHai was still trying to play the fool.
At this point, BaiLuoYin is extremely horrified. His hands tightly strangling GuHai's neck, hysterically growling, "How could this be? I clearly bit you last night! Where did that teeth mark go? Teeth mark went where!?"
GuHai hugged BaiLuoYin tightly, patiently calming down his emotions, "Baby, are you not awake yet? Is this sleepwalking? Don't scare me!" After saying this, he touched the back of BaiLuoYin's head.
BaiLuoYin refused to believe this even in death. He just had a dream and he actually time traveled!!
GuHai wanted to drag BaiLuoYin to a place to sit down but BaiLuoYin refused to sit. He kept turning in confusion looking around the house. He must find the flaws, must find the flaws!!
However, whatever he could think of, all the unforgettable memories, GuHai had it shown right in front of him.
"Ah ah ah...!...! " BaiLuoYin roared in the bedroom, "My uniform, where did my uniform go?!"
GuHai leaned at the door, looking at him with interest.
"Did you want to skip school? Is this why you're acting like a devil in front of me..."
"The one acting like a devil is you!" BaiLuoYin quickly rushed over and yanked on to GuHai's collar with one hand, "Your Company had just listed, right? I've just completed the flight performance, is not it?"
GuHai dragged BaiLuoYin's hand down, "That's enough, hurry up and put on your clothes. If we leave for school right away, we could still catch up to the first class."
BaiLuoYin collapsed and used his fist to hit GuHai's chest, this 'crazy after being teased' look is really cute.
"You know how make a lot of food, isn't it? Zucchini egg stuffing dumplings? Sauce crackled diced chicken? Pot tofu? You also said that when I return, you would be making me a good meal to help me replenish my body's energy......"
GuHai got a boiled egg from the table behind him and held it in front of BaiLuoYin.
"I know how to make this."
Oh why?!! BaiLuoYin grabbed GuHai's hair tossing it to death. How could this be? It was not easy to survive the past nine years! It was not easy to get to today's position! It was not easy for him to become such a great cook!! How is it that in one second, he returned to only the level of boiling eggs? How is it that in one second, we returned to the old life?
No matter what, BaiLuoYin refused to accept this reality. His heart was already twisted like dough. Just when he was in so much pain that he didn't want to live, suddenly, he was aware of something.
Everything could be prearranged inside the house, but he won't be able to arrange the outside world, right? Even if he is extremely capable, it is impossible to create a street out of thin air, or build a building, right?
How is it that I just realized this now? ... ... with this thought in mind, BaiLuoYin quickly ran toward the window.
Just as he opened the curtains to the window, a huge rumbling sound erupted immediately, followed by several loud explosions. BaiLuoYin quickly took two steps back but his entire body was still sprayed with rose petals.
"Hahahaha......"
BaiLuoYin hadn't even steadied himself yet before he was shocked seeing the scene in front of him. LiuChong was piloting a helicopter and YangMeng sat beside him, those two accomplices still have the nerves to wave at him.
"You two......" BaiLuoYin didn't know whether he should be angry or laugh.
The helicopter ascended slowly, a huge panel of fresh flowers opened up in front of BaiLuoYin's eyes. The borders were made up of red roses while the inside contained four big shimmery glittering words. Word by word, it rise up to BaiLuoYin's eye level.
"Hap – py – Birth – day! 1"
1Note: the actual four Chinese words are 生日快樂
The panel was as long as ten stories high and as wide as two doors. It was entirely made with weaving fresh flowers together. Flower petals drifted everywhere on the ground. This spectacular scene attracted a huge crowd while BaiLuoYin was stunned standing at the window.
Not long after, LiuChong lowered the helicopter to the level of floor BaiLuoYin was at.
The cockpit door opened, YangMeng shouted from the inside.
"Get in the helicopter! Brother will take you on a journey of time travel."
End of the Chapter
Sharing a poem written by a reader...it so perfectly describes this chapter.
My Heart Remember It All
Credit: mwni / guhaibailuoyin
Bailuoyin:
I want to go back to the old days
The days when there was you and I
I want to feel your warmth, you care, your love.
I want to taste the old feeling that I've been longing for (the past eight years).
I want to relive those treasured memories in my heart.
Gu Hai:
I will bring you back to the memories of the past.
Let's forget the years we've been apart.
We will continue our love and make it last.
I will make you feel and see all the things we have.
The laughter, the pain, even the jealousy that strengthens our affection and trust.
I will make you remember from the moment we've known each other.
How we quarrel and how we get along.
Do you remember the day I first carry you on my back to bring you home?
How many fish we caught?
And that night at the rooftop...
I remember everything we've said
Even the smallest details, I... I remember it all.
Not just by my mind...
My heart remember it all.