How We Love - Volume 1 Chapter 17

Chapter 17 – The End

Cai Xin quickly took out her phone to look at the picture Zhang Heran posted only to realize she had actually forgotten to turn on the plane after she landed.

As soon as her phone was switched on, her phone rang. It’s Zhang Heran!

As soon as the call was connected, Cai Xin shouted, “Zhang Heran, where are you? Don’t hide, come out quickly! I’ve come to find you!”

Zhang Heran’s voice came from the other end of the line, “If you can wait for me for three hours, I’ll come see you!”

Cai Xin firmly answered, “Okay! I’ll wait for you!”

***

Zhang Heran was amazed, shocked and shaken when he saw Cai Xin’s comment on his post. He almost pressed the dial button to call her, but thinking about how much suffering she had put him through, he gritted his teeth. He decided to suffocate Cai Xin, suffocate her until she fell in love with him and then jump out and eat her vegetable heart1 [javascript:void(0)]Choy Sum’s literal meaning.. She secretly looked at the comments and messages Cai Xin left, he felt extremely satisfied with himself. The time and energy spent on secretly loving her was finally being reciprocated gradually.

Recently, however, he could feel that Cai Xin was becoming increasingly agitated with him. So he decided to throw her a bait. He uploaded a picture to Weibo and had her follow it. Who would have thought that after he uploaded the picture, his phone would lose signal. After he came down the mountain and signal returned, he saw Cai Xin’s comment.

Cai Xin’s comment shocked him. She said she would go to Mount Wutai to find him.

He felt cold sweat drip down his back. Sure, he was at Mount Wuyi2 [javascript:void(0)]The Chinese characters for Yi and Tai look really similar., not Mount Wutai! The Mount Wuyi he was at was clearly a new tourist attraction in the outskirts of the city. When he took the picture, he laughed to himself thinking that the contractors were so funny, they actually copied the stone tablet from the real Mount Wutai. Now he didn’t think it was funny at all! With a sliver of hope, he started calling Cai Xin, but her phone was turned off.

Zhang Heran was in despair. It seemed that she had really flown out to Mount Wutai. Zhang Heran quickly rushed to the airport and on the way didn’t stop calling Cai Xin. Off, off, and still off. Just as he was about to board the plane and turn off his phone, thank the gods, the call finally went through!

He heard the silly older sister shouting at him, “Zhang Heran, where are you? Don’t hide, come out quickly! I’ve come to find you!” Her voice crackled with the mountain breeze, making him happy, tickled and touched at the same time. How could she be so careless and slow!

He gritted his teeth and blabbered, “If you can wait for me for three hours, I’ll come see you!”

He thought she would probably find it unreasonable and argue and ask him why. Who would have thought that she would agree so decisively, “Okay! I’ll wait for you!”

Those five words made his whole heart melt.

He turned off his phone and took great strides as he boarded the plane.

***

Three hours later, Zhang Heran finally appeared at the peak of the mountain. She was over the moon. She rushed over and grabbed Zhang Heran, screaming, “You’re so mean! You actually took a whole three hours to come out! Is this something that someone secretly in love would have the heart to do?”

Zhang Heran looked at her, took out his phone and handed it to her. He panted, gritted his teeth and asked, “Lady, tell me, in what way is the mountain in this photo Mount Wutai!”

Cai Xin looked at the photo, looked and looked, and finally saw… “F*ck! Isn’t this Mount Wuyi, the mountain village in the outskirts of the city?! I haven’t been there but I’ve seen the news in the newspapers…”

Cai Xin put down the phone and looked at Zhang Heran. She hesitantly asked, “So, you… came directly from Mount Wuyi…?”

Zhang Heran looked at her angrily, “Shut up! Pay me back the ticket fare!”

Cai Xin smiled gleefully, “I’m broke!”

Zhang Heran pulled her to his chest and hugged her, “Well, then, there’s no other way. You can only pay it back with your body!”

Cai Xin smiled in his arms, raised both arms and hugged him tightly.

***

It was once again the Spring Festival.

Cai Xin asked Zhang Heran, “How much do I have to pay to hire you and bring you home this year?”

Zhang Heran chuckled at her, “I’ll pay you instead this year.”

He took out his wage card from behind his back and handed it to Cai Xin.