What Happens In Rome.... [Lgbt] [✔]

Chapter 9

Life with Qiqi was easy, she was a sweet girl and tried to be of help in any way she could to repay him of what he was doing for her.

This was her chance to pursue her dreams while at the same time escaping her parents' plans. She had no intention of getting married, not to her doctor's son or any other man, she didn't want to become the perfect wife waiting at home for her husband to come back from work, she wanted to become a great chef and open a place of her own, one day.

She was aware of why she was here, but she hoped it wouldn't come to that. She had discussed the conditions with Chu, he himself had exchanged a lot of mails with Wei, so she knew she had to play the part of his fiancee, but for now there had been no definite talk of an actual marriage.

She was living by the moment now, and if that case presented itself she would make a decision when the time came.

Wei seemed as nice as Chu had said, and she thought that marrying Wei would still be better than that arrogant man with sneaky-eyes set on her as if she was a prey. She had never liked her doctor's son, but he was good at hiding that side of him when he talked to the elders. He had won her parents over, charmed by his good manners and his father's reputation.

No, she'd die before she'd agree to marry that guy. Wei was a different matter though. From what she knew of him, Wei was his complete opposite, and with him she had a chance.

She could always run away again, if he turned out to be bad after all, but she still had hope that she could be free to follow her dreams here.

The language barrier would be an obstacle of course, she couldn't speak Italian yet but she had the will to learn, she had never imagined she'd come here but she had always dreamed of travelling so she had some knowledge of English that she hoped would help her a little.

She had also some money to start. Wei had paid for her ticket and provided her with a place to stay, so she  planned to use the money she had brought with her, everything that she could call her own, to fulfil her dream.

It would be hard at first, not knowing how to ask and being unable to read the local language, but she wasn't alone.
She needed help, and there was only one person she could ask.
Unfortunately Wei knew even less than she did since he only spoke Chinese, so he needed help as well.

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Wei looked around for Yunlan, he was feeling nervous because they had spoken very few words to each other since last week, and he wasn't even sure why. Yunlan hadn't stopped being extravagant but things were back to normal anyway, nobody paid him too much attention since it wasn't a novelty anymore.

Wei finally found him and approached him hesitantly. Yunlan's gaze when their eyes met was hard to decipher, and Wei didn't know how to start the conversation.

Yunlan gave him a smirk, lowered his eyes then opened his arms in a 'you see?' gesture. He looked him in the eyes and said, "You can talk to me now, nobody will think badly of you."

Wei was stunned. "What do you mean?"

"Weren't you avoiding me because of all the fuss? As you can see it's already over, so you don't have to fear the stares."

"I wasn't avoiding you," Wei said, but Yunlan's look told him he was not convinced.

"Well, I for one don't care at all if people stare at me or what they think of me, and I will not live my life putting that before my happiness. See? Everything's over already and nothing bad happened."

Wei was speechless, was that why he did it? To show him that he didn't care, that he wasn't bothered by such things, to prove the point he had made the other night?