Always (Donghua x Fengjiu, Pillow Book Fanfiction)

Chapter 1 - GunGun and Dijun

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, its age-old pain,
Its ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man's days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –
And the songs of every poet past and forever.

-Tagore

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Gungun, I am your father

Dijun lovingly caressed the top of his head and drew him closer. Gungun felt a warm fuzzy feeling seeping through him as he wondered aloud."But! Mother said she gave birth to me by herself, I am fairy boy. Fairy boys don't have fathers like mortal boys. They only have mothers. uncle let me see my mother, I haven't seen her for so long. Mother! Mother! Wake up!"

Donghua didn't budge at all,  Gungun pouted in anger as he declared, "You move or else I will beat you up. I am Jiujiu's son, she even dares to argue with Buddha, I am not scared of anyone."

Donghua Dijun smiled ruefully as he reminisced about the time the little fox had broken a pine twig and told him that she would break him in half if he didn't stop spouting nonsense. He picked up Gungun in his arms and dejectedly mumbled to himself "she did not tell him about me"

Gungun tried to wriggle off and see fengjiu who was sleeping soundly. bai qian barged in. "Dijun, I told you once she cuts ties she can be extremely cold, she wrote to me so many times but never told me about Gungun. How that brat must have managed giving birth and taking care of a child all by herself "

"Dear Gungun, fairy boys do have fathers, see your uncle A-li, too has a father. Donghua Dijun is not lying to you he is your father. See you have silver hair like him." Gungun looked at the handsome uncle claiming to be his father, he did remember jiujiu muttering about someone called Dijun in her sleep, but she had told him that most fairy boys had silver hair like him. This ethereally beautiful lady mentioned uncle A-li, she must be his mother's aunt. Maybe she was telling the truth. It would be great if this uncle was his father, he was squishing him but it felt so nice to be held by him.

"Mother did tell me about A-li, who are you? Are you my mother's aunt?" Gungun asked her in response when a cute boy entered the room and tugged at her robe "Mother here you are, I was told my nephew is here, where is he and who is that kid you are talking to"

Gungun introduced himself to the boy, "I am Bai Gungun."

A-li pouted, "Why is my nephew such big boy already, I am not ready to be an uncle to a big boy. I thought he is a little baby, I had learnt so many nursery rhymes to sing to my nephew ,I thought i would be able to carry him all around jiuchongtian. Now i will have to get him a fire chariot like mine."
" - well that's because he was born 200 years ago. Isn't it better, you have a new playmate." His mother soothed him as he offered Gungun a smile.