After He Sinian listened to Mada Moon’s emotionless declaration, he remained silent for a long ti.
All the pieces started to fall into place; the misgivings that had bogged him for years had finally led to an answer.
“The person who saved at the alley back then….was also you.”
He clasped Chu Jiao and looked at her in the eye.
Chu Jiao blinked. Seeing that she couldn’t evade his gaze, she could only timidly nod her head.
“At that ti, I didn’t have enough spiritual power, so…. I was the reason why you got heavily beaten up by those thugs….”
Chu Jiao placed the bla on He Sinian’s injuries from back then, all to herself, having completely forgotten that at that ti, she was also just a tiny little being.
“You…..you…..”
He Sinian rested his head against Chu Jiao’s, feeling his throat close up slightly. The tremor in his heart rendered him speechless. In response, he could only kiss his little cat and thank her for doing so many things for him which he was unaware of.
“ow~” Chu Jiao stuck her tongue out and licked the tip of the man’s nose. She didn’t feel the need to specially explain the things she had done for him. Even if He Sinian wasn’t the male lead, he had picked her up, taken care of her, and accompanied her through her childhood. These feelings were worth her doing these actions.
The feelings between people have always been a two-way street.
Mutual Trust. Mutual Tolerance. Mutual Concern. And, Mutual Redemption.
Ah Nian. I saved you once but how many tis have you saved ?
The warm and affectionate atmosphere between man and cat had not lasted long for Mada Moon had interrupted them.
“The feelings between humans and demons never last long.”
It felt as though the sentence she spoke were for the two people in front of her. Yet at the sa ti, it also felt as if she were speaking to herself.
Once again, He Sinian took Chu Jiao into his arms as he fearlessly looked straight at the woman in black. “What lasts long was never about the relationships between human to human nor demon to demon.”
“It’s these feelings.”
“I love Chu Jiao, regardless of whether or not she’s a human or a demon.”
“In my eyes, Chu Jiao will always be Chu Jiao. I love her no matter what she looks like, along with her little temper and her little claws…..Everything about her makes my heart beat wildly.
“When I was younger, I firmly believed that she was the redemption the world had given because she was able to pull out of the dark abyss.”
“She is the one and only person who belongs to .”
“I’ve already lost her once. So this ti, I’m going to hold onto her tightly to make sure nobody can keep us apart again.”
“That….would also include you.”
The original traces of contempt on Mada Moon’s face had already vanished and were replaced with a complex and disbelieving look. She asked, “If she hadn’t co to find you….or say, even if you both got together now….”
“Don’t you also want to get married and have kids? When all is said and done…there’s no way for demons and humans to have offsprings together…”
He Sinian chuckled, shaking his head, “As long as I have Jiao Jiao, it’s already enough.”
“Sons or whatever, I don’t mind not having any.”
“Ha! Humans. You always say one thing but your actions say another.” Mada Moon bitterly recalled the ti when sobody had told her the sa thing. Look at what had resulted from it?
She continued to press harder.
“Even if she’s a demon? Even if she will live decades longer than you would?”
“Have you ever thought about what it would be like when you slowly grow old yet she remains young?”
“Would your feelings continue to be the sa as before?”
In the eyes of the cat demon clan, the lifespan of a human was indeed extrely brief. It was so insignificant that it could pass in a blink of an eye. So short, yet after nearly a century had passed, it was still impossible for the Mada Moon herself to forget the feelings she once had.
He Sinian had yet to respond when Chu Jiao seized the opportunity to speak out first.
“Ah Nian will still look cute even when he’s old!”
“And…And I can also grow old together with him!”
Don’t you worry about getting older because you’ll still look cute even when you’re old.
He Sinian smiled, rubbing Chu Jiao’s little head affectionately. Then, he gathered his thoughts and continued to answer Mada Moon’s questions.
“The older we age, the more forgetful we beco, but one thing will endure, and that is our yearning for each other.”
“In the last few years of his life, my grandfather couldn’t recognize anyone. Yet, his mouth continuously called out for the na of the only person whom he couldn’t forget, my grandmother’s.”
“Genuine feelings wouldn’t dissipate over ti; it would only be more deeply carved in our heart and more deeply etched in our mories.”
“When my mother gave birth to , grandfather gave the na ‘He Sinian.’ Sinian stands for yearning my grandmother(1), Nian Yue.
斯年(Sinian) is the original characters for He Sinian’s na. 思年(Sinian): Short for 思念年月 (Sinian Nian Yue), which ans to yearn for Nian Yue.
“Co to think of it…..it’s a coincidence that my grandmother also shared a ‘Moon’ (月) character in her na.”
Mada Moon’s body stiffened.
She beca disturbed. “Your…..last na is He? He Sinian?”
Chu Jiao often harped the na ‘Ah Nian’ in her ears but she didn’t know his complete na. Even if she knew, she didn’t care for it at that ti.
“No wonder…..no wonder you look so similar…..”
Mada Moon suddenly started laughing in mockery. “You said your grandma was called ‘Nian Yue’? Hehe, what a coincidence. I’m also called ‘Nian Yue.’”
He Sinian finally knew the reason why he felt that Mada Moon seed so familiar.
He stood up and retrieved sothing from the bedroom.
“This is a remnant that my grandfather had left.” He Sinian spread out his hand, revealing a bronze-colored pocket watch. “Inside….is a picture of my grandmother.”
Pressing the button on the side, the cover opened up to reveal two faded pictures. Although it was in black and white and looked extrely blurry, one could still see the man’s photograph who shared an extrely similar silhouette to He Sinian, while the girl ‘s appearance looked to be the sa as the girl in front of him if the unique hairstyle of that era were to be covered.
Nian Yue glanced at the photo and scrunched her brows. “I’ve never given birth to a child, and I don’t have a nephew as old as you.”
“My grandfather didn’t have a son. My father was given to my grandfather by his younger brother to adopt.” He Sinian closed the pocket watch. “So if we were to speak in terms of bloodline, I should be referring to my grandfather as ‘Great Uncle.'”
At this, Nian Yue’s calm facade had finally crumbled. “H-He didn’t have any sons!?”
“Di-didn’t he have a childhood sweetheart as a fiancee!?”
Nian Yue could never forget the day she escaped the clan while fighting her sorrows. And when she had finally found that person, she saw him holding a child and standing next to a beautiful girl, painting an intimate and cheerful picture.
The affection he promised her, and the future he promised her, had collapsed at that very mont.
Nian Yue fled in defeat, putting up walls around her heart from that mont forward.
“At that ti, my grandfather had gone to war and hadn’t returned for many years. His fiancee already had another in her heart.” He Sinian saw Nian Yue quietly losing control and gradually ca to an assumption in his heart. “When he ca back, he annulled the engagent.”
“He told them that he already had soone else he liked, but he had carelessly lost her. He didn’t know where grandmother went but he had always been waiting for her.”
“Just like that…he waited and waited….he waited until his head of hair turned white, and his mories deteriorated, but sadly, he couldn’t wait any longer.”
He Sinian placed the pocket watch into the teary-eyed Nian Yue’s hand.
“He never married in his lifeti, but he had always told us to call the person in the picture ‘grandmother’.”
“He had always been waiting for you.”
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