Ch44 - End of the Main Story

I was packing in my room the night before we left. The luggage had been checked in advance of time and consisted of little souvenirs.

Zhou Chen purchased a little double apartment there, and when you open the window, you could view the turquoise Danube River. 

I dislike living in a large house. He jokingly said that I didn’t have a luxurious life since I married into a wealthy family but didn’t know how to appreciate it.

I told him to have fun, and he didn’t have to drill into my tiny quilt if he had the ability to.

He bullied me, pulled me up, and tossed me on the bed, claiming that the little thing was becoming more bad.

“I have sharp teeth and a sharp mouth, but soft skin and bones,” I purposefully yanked his shirt with my toes. Do you want to give it a shot? ” 

His gaze was intense, and it lingered on my waist a few times, telling me to act properly.

Why should I be proper if the night was long?

“Sir…” I knelt and walked over, clinging to his neck and biting his chin.” You can’t do it?”

Sir was excellent.

While changing condoms in the middle, I grabbed his hand and voiced a topic I had been thinking about for a long time. “Zhou Chen… Do you want to have a child?”

His eyes darkened.

“I asked the doctor… My womb isn’t damaged and it is usable…although the chances are slim, however…”

Our situation at the moment, with such words, made me blush with shame. 

He sighed and hugged me tenderly. “It’s enough for me to have you. You’re my little friend.”

“But…”

I could see he was concerned about my health and the significant risks of beta fertility. But what if I leave too soon and he’s left all alone…

Zhou Chen seemed to see through my heart, saying, “You will live a long life and will spend a lifetime with me. I’ve given all my love to you, baobei. I have nothing to give to anyone else, not even to my children.” 

I pressed my brow on his shoulder and couldn’t help but notice a foul taste on my nose. “You’ve made far too many sacrifices for me…”

There was nothing I couldn’t put my heart and soul into, so it was not hard to love him wholeheartedly. But I couldn’t fathom how much love it would have taken for him to give up his belongings easily, his family business position, his connections, his career, and a family with a house full of children and grandchildren in his old age for me.

“That’s not how the word sacrifice is used,” he said as he caressed the back of my head like a kid, “In the previous many years, I have doubted everything, loathed everything, and even my own flesh and blood wasn’t enough to earn my faith. What you believe I was sacrificing was never important to me in the first place.”

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He said in a low voice, “At that time, I couldn’t determine my relationship with this world until I met you. Growing up with you is also a way for me to connect with the rest of the world. It’s not the same as a parent rearing a child or an alpha marking an omega. There is no physical bond between us, but your life is inextricably linked to mine.” 

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“I am who I am today, not falling, not rotting, because of you.

“So I didn’t save you, you saved me.” 

He kissed my forehead lightly as he said, “Of course, now, this connection has a new name, called love.”

It was the first time he’d spoken to me about the past since I discovered the CD and journal.

remembered him saying that he and Qi Shu had similar upbringings and blood, therefore he should have been the same cold and ruthless guy, but he wasn’t.

Maybe it’s also because of me… 

He kept his love and affection for me, and I gave him renewed courage.

It turned out that everything had been arranged a long time ago.

In the everyday sunset, we loved the world again because of each other.

When we arrived in Vienna, it was pouring. I’d been struggling for a long time the night before, and I didn’t get any sleep on the plane. My bones felt like they were crumbling. As we drove home from the airport, Zhou Chen was helpless and concerned, and he wouldn’t even let my feet touch the ground. I was exhausted and drowsy, so I fell asleep in his arms unwittingly. 

I awoke in a trance to find myself in an unfamiliar room with a strange bed. For a time, I had no idea where I was. Fortunately, the scents around me were familiar. It was a pheromone released by Zhou Chen to appease me.

I stepped out with my slippers and spotted him in the kitchen preparing porridge.

The rain had ceased outside the window, and when I opened it, the Danube River in the distance sparkled brightly in the light.

The entire city exuded classical romance and grandeur, and the approaching wind was blowing with sleeping notes. 

I was yanked back by the waist and the window slammed shut before I could blink.

“You’ve only just gotten out of bed, yet you’re already letting the wind blow on you. Do you want to give me trouble again?” Zhou Chen’s expression was not good.

I had to turn around and apologize to him, saying sorry while I tiptoed to kiss his lips.

I did my best to coax him until the porridge was finally cooked. 

During dinner, Zhou Chen mentioned that Mr. Evans was on tour with the orchestra and would be back in a few days; during this time, he could show me about and have fun.

I seldom travel, so when I heard we’d have a good time, the porridge in my tongue was no longer fragrant.

“First, eat,” he replied, caressing my brow. “Little buddy.”

Autumn in Vienna was stunning. The city was covered in golden leaves, and the structures from centuries past glowed like frozen music in time. 

We kissed at the highest point of the Platt Park Ferris Wheel, hugged in the red leather train on Schafberg Mountain to watch the sunset, and were intertwined in the hot springs of Badgastein, with a blue sky over our heads and snow-covered Alps behind us.

I told Zhou Chen I loved him 10,000 times, and he responded 10,000 times.

I love you, therefore I’ll share my love for the world with you.

On the day we went home, we picked up a kitten under the apartment building. 

The more than three-month-old milky white kitten was lying in a cardboard box with a note under its body, saying, “Please take me home.”

So we took it home.

When it was brought to the vet for a checkup, the kitten was docile and gentle, and it didn’t cause any trouble. It only whimpered when it was vaccinated, as though lamenting about human violence.

Zhou Chen was overjoyed. “It’s like you; when you’re bullied, you just cry and not fight back.” 

I instantly gave him a solid pinch to establish that I was not what he claimed I was.

When we arrived home, the first thing we did was name the kitten.

Zhou Chen said without thinking, “Call it Xiao Dao.”

“Why? It’s weird.” 

“If I tell you, you mustn’t be angry.”

Puzzled, I replied, “Okay. ”

Zhou Chen said that during the time he was hospitalized at the age of nine, he’d listen to an uncle next door playing the cello everyday, and he became familiar with him. He knew that this uncle had a little baby in his stomach.

The little baby grew bigger and bigger. Zhou Chen was overjoyed. He’d always sat on the sidelines, watching. Later, he was allowed to get near to the baby occasionally to listen to its fetal movement. 

He asked his uncle what the little baby’s name should be, but he said he hadn’t decided yet. Xiao Zhou could help him think of one.

Zhou Chen thought for a while, and said, “My name is Xiao Zhou, so name him Xiao Dao ba. ”

Uncle was taken aback, then laughed loudly, and said, “Xiao Dao has a foreign taste, no good, no good. Let’s call it Xiao Yu ba. Dao and Xiao Yu’s yu have the same meaning.”

So the little baby had this name. 

And the “Xiao Dao” that was denied, after many years, fell on the poor cat’s head.

“Xiao Dao.” I held up the cat’s face, and it looked at me innocently with wide eyes. “If you don’t like this name when you grow up, don’t blame me, blame Papa.”

Xiao Dao may not understand what I said, but he meowed cooperatively.

“Hmm. Good boy.” 

A few days later, MPO returned to Vienna from its tour, and Zhou Chen accompanied me to meet Mr. Evans.

The whole process went so smoothly that I never dreamed that I would join the best orchestra in the world.

On the same day, Zhou Chen told me that he had returned to his job and formally accepted the appointment of the hospital as a gland surgeon.

A rare bottle of red wine was opened in the evening, and in the beating candlelight, I raised a glass to Zhou Chen. “To health and life.” 

He chuckled slightly. “To music and art.”

To all the encounters and waits in the world.

To love and freedom.

——End—— 

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