Mistaken identity. Unreciprocated first love. Worst first impression. All the bad ingredients that connected Qing and Dayu's fate together. Both of them thought they chose the other one, for obvious reasons. But only one of them got it right. The ot...
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Present Day
Dayu's Apartment, Shijiazhuang
Dayu's POV
I saw Qing's Rover SUV, parked at the usual spot in front of the apartment complex, as I arrived. And I felt my heart twitched a little. I knew I was happy and excited, knowing that he's waiting for me.
In the beginning, there was a slight discomfort and pain mixing together with the excitement when we first dated, whenever I saw his car in front of my house.
We parted ways almost four years ago, in such a bitter way; and even though I thought I was ready for it knowing that the end was inevitable for us; it still hurt me. It hurt me so much that I never wanted to cross paths with Qing again.
When he found me, I think I hated and resented him because I was still very much in love with him.
Qing came, a different person, talking in a different tunes than he did four years ago. He acted so unlike the Qing I lived with for two years.
He said he loved me. Be pledged his life to me.
I doubted him. I didn't believe it. It was too much of a shock for me; the changes in his behaviour and the way he treated me; I almost couldn't believe that he was the same Qing from four years ago.
But still; I accepted it when he asked me to date him.
I didn't believe him but I accepted him as my boyfriend. And even though everything seemed unreal to me; I still went on to do my best in this relationship.
I reunited with Ann, Qing's cousin and my friend for almost ten years. I was also able to meet my former colleagues at the hotel restaurant again.
And Qing even brought me back to Beijing, to meet his parents. Qing's parents were cool. They were amazingly cool. They treated me normally, even though I was the reason their straight son was not so straight anymore.
No, I have to amend that. Saying that Qing's parents, treated me normally would be an understatement. They didn't just treat me normally. They treated me awesomely special. I thought that it would be awkward meeting the parents of my partner, for the first time but the awkwardness didn't last very long. They made me feel at home, talking and smiling to me genuinely.
To say that I didn't have any guilt for being in a same sex relationship with the heir to the Wang business empire, at all, would be a lie. For I did have it. I am a man; I was a man and I will always be a man. Qing and I ; even if we lasted a lifetime, like he pledged, might never be able to produce grandchildren for Qing's parents. At least not naturally. And there would always be some parts of the society that won't accept us and our kind of relationship. Being gay and living together with a partner of the same gender; might not be against the law anymore but, there were people who still consider it taboo and an abomination. We could change the law but we could never be able to force people to change. It's each and every person's right and prerogative to accept our kind of relationship, or not.
