1.
My name is Yang and his name is Lee. We were both born in a remote village in the Yimeng Mountain area of Shandong Province. We are not only from the same hometown but also distant relatives. Although I am 23 and he is 35, he still calls me uncle in order of generations.
We met when we went back to our hometown for the Chinese New Year in 2017. I remember it clearly. On the 28th day, I was really bored in my hometown, so I downloaded the dating app again.
I was surprised. Although in the village, there were also a few people using gay app.
Suddenly, there was a guy who said hi to me. I could tell by the distance that the man was from my village.
With a bit of nervousness and expectation, we meet at the corner of the village.
When I arrived, he was already there, looking around under a telephone pole. When I saw his face for the first time, I was both delighted and surprised, delighted that he was my type and surprised that I remembered his face.
The village is not big. After a short conversation, we realised that we are distant relatives. When I was small, he held me before!
We just walked and talked and got to know each other.
I didn’t finish high school and went to work before I finished junior high school. I was working in sales for a real estate company.
But he is different. He is a university graduate who has been doing animation design in a company in Qingdao. I was married, but I got divorced in two months.
In the past few years in Qingdao, he hasn’t been back to his hometown for the Chinese New Year. If his two brothers hadn’t insisted on his coming back this year, I’m afraid it would be difficult for me to see him. Speaking of which, it is also a rare fate.
This was the first time we met. We chatted for a while and left each other our phone numbers..
2.
Early the next morning, we went to the mountains.
Suddenly he took me by the hand and pulled me into the pine forest, a wood of two acres. He stopped in the middle of the wood, under the cover of a mountain, and involuntarily embraced me. “From the moment I saw you,” he said, “I had an indescribable feeling that I liked you.”
The sudden confession caught me by surprise. We’ve only known each other for a day, and we’re related. I said a few words of refusal, then broke away from him and walked home down the hill.
I was lying. Although there will be a lot of obstacles, but the people who I am interested in also like me, just this one thing, enough to make people happy.
When I got home and took out my phone, he sent me a message on WeChat: “I will pursue you until you accept me, or I will not give up.” I didn’t respond.
The New Year in the countryside is very lively, with all kinds of rules and ceremonies, the whole busy for several days, we did not have time to chat.
We met again on the second day. Lee and his mother visited my house. While they were chatting together, he pulled me to the mountain again, the same mountain path, the same pine forest.
A few pairs of birds were standing on a branch not far away, chattering happily. He was the first to break the silence, to say pitifully to me, “See, even birds make a couple. How wonderful it would be for us to be together — a small house, two lovers, three meals a day, four seasons a year.”
I refused, but could not resist his sweet words, and finally agreed to be his boyfriend.
There was no one but chirping birds. It was the first time we kissed on the great and romantic Yimeng Mountain.
3.
Six days later, I returned to my home. He also lived with me and began to live together without shame.
To be with me, he quit his company in Qingdao and joined my sales team. We rise with the sun, we sleep with the moon.
In the morning, he would get up early and make breakfast, and then he would whisper in my ear, “Honey, I made breakfast. I got up and we went to work.” Sometimes when I would lie in, he would arrest me, dress me, and occasionally tease me.
At night, he would be in the lobby, waiting to go home with me. Sometimes he would hold a cup of milk tea in his hand because he was afraid of getting cold. He said holding the milk tea in his hand, just like holding me in his hand.
He’s a romantic guy, and I’m more conservative. Every time he tries to make me happy, I would say it was wasting money.
After three months and nine days of living together, I lost my virginity to him.
That day, I came home late because I was working overtime. When I opened the door, I was blindsided.
The table was covered with my favourite dishes. When he heard the door open, he came out of the bedroom with the beautiful flowers in his hand, but he was completely naked!
The candlelit dinner was delicious but more delicious was him.
4.
We’ve been living together for ten months. We fought, but we made up after every fight.
However, around the Mid-Autumn Festival, I came across that every night when I was asleep, he would quietly get up and chat with others on the balcony or toilet, and every time he would chat late into the night.
Gradually, he began to lose his temper with me. We began to quarrel, but he stopped coaxing me. Sometimes he stayed out all night and didn’t come back. The next morning, he was so tired that he fell asleep and didn’t even go to work.
This time, we quarrelled again, and sure enough, he stormed out of the house again. I snuck up behind him and saw him leave the neighbourhood and get into a car. The car stopped in front of a hotel. He got out with a handsome man and cuddled into the hotel to check in.
I drove along, and when I saw what I saw, I wanted to go ahead and kill him, but I didn’t.
Since then, I’ve moved into another bedroom and slept in a separate bed from him. A few days later, he confessed to me that he had fallen in love with someone who was a few years older than me, better looking, more romantic, or whatever.
After the breakup, he moved out and moved in with that guy. I, on the other hand, quit the company to get out of his shadow.
After I quit my job, I started my own business with the savings I had saved. Starting with selling fruit, I changed several businesses, but none of them were very prosperous. Finally, under my mother’s persuasion, I decided to inherit her mantle, do the ancestral tofu business.
After a month of hard work, my business became famous around the neighbourhood. Everyone knows that the tofu made by my family is the best.
Business is booming, the whole person is also proud, but in the face of feelings, or in the heart. Countless moonlight pale night, recall our bit by bit, always sleepless.
5.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, I went to the temple fair alone. Fireworks, silver flowers, lights such as day, the size of vendors, people coming and going, it is very lively.
The full moon gradually climbed the branches, wandering all day. I am also hungry. I bought some snacks, ate and walked. Suddenly, I looked up, Lee was unexpectedly standing opposite me.
I saw him, and he saw me, and, meeting after a long absence, our eyes met.
My heart shivers hit a shock. I admit I couldn’t let him go, but my first reaction to him was to turn around and run. After returning home, hiding in the room suddenly burst into tears, tossed and turned, sleepless all night.
A glance at the temple fair brought me back to my original sad state. After months of being strong, he was routed at a glance.
To avoid him, I got up early the next day and drove back to the county. But I did not expect him to actually chase me.
It’s been a long time since we left. He was thin and not in good shape, and I got wet in my eyes. After being out in the cold for two hours, he said he wanted to go inside and warm up, and I knew what he meant, so I let him.
He took a hot shower, changed into my clothes, lit a cigarette and apologized.
He said, he was dumped by the guy after we broke up for a month. The man also cheated him out of his money. Later, he was fired by the company because of his work mistakes. He found a new job in the city, which was not enough for daily expenses, but also owed a lot of debt.
Late in the evening, when he missed the last bus, he said he wanted to spend the night on my couch, and I didn’t stop him.
In the middle of the night, I was afraid he was cold, so I got up and changed him to a thicker quilt. He saw I did not sleep and said he was hungry embarrassly. Then I just realised that we hadn’t eaten all day, and I made a few dishes for us
He said he thanked me and hoped I could forgive him. He knew he was wrong. He said if he couldn’t get back together, he hoped we could be friends.
6.
Early the next morning, I was awakened by noises.
Two of my friends came to my house. They suddenly saw Lee was sleeping on the sofa. They knew about Lee cheated me before. So, when they saw him, they started punching and kicking.
Lee did not fight back and lay paralyzed in a corner with bloodstains on his face and unable to move his arms.
He was taken to the hospital for an examination. It was a slight fracture. In the hospital, he was simply bandaged and prescribed some medicine.
He was injured and had to be attended to. I waited for him every day from that day until, two months later, he was almost well, except for a scar on his face.
I helped him to pay off the debts, and did not let him continue to work. But I hoped that he would do tofu business with me, although he did not want to, but still obediently agreed.
During this period, we stayed together the whole time. He kept apologizing to me, and I was softheart. I really hate him and love him, but also willing to work hard with him, together back in the past.
On August 15, 19, we brought both our parents together and officially came out. We spent months in fear, but instead of being surprised, our parents wished us well.
We got married on October 19, in the presence of our family. Although the law does not recognize us, at least we have the support of each other, family and friends, and that is enough.
“The END”
