My Dearest Author [ZhanYi FanFiction]✔️

Chapter 18. The author's past...

Chapter 18. The author's past...

"You Zhan?"

"Yeah?"

"Could you tell me the story of how you met your ex and how you got together? You once said that when we were alone and had time, you'd tell me about it. And right now, by the lake, by the campfire under the stars, it would be ideal, wouldn't it?"

"True. All right, his name is Shou Nian. He just transferred fresh to our school and at that time, he and I were sixteen years old. He was in the swimming team and I was in the school newspaper.

Shou Nian was popular with everyone. He was handsome, athletic, smart and always friendly to everyone. He was especially popular with the girls at school. Sometimes he couldn't escape from them. They ran after him, showering him with love letters and declarations of love, as well as gifts.

I still only saw him on the sidelines at the time. I had been too busy working on the school paper. On the one hand, week after week I wrote a chapter of a romantic story about a boy and a girl who fell in love when they were on a school trip, the story was really popular with the girls.

And I worked for the grief section of our school paper. It hadn't always been easy and you needed a lot of empathy. Well, at some point there was another competition of the swim club, but the student who normally reported about it had been sick at that time and could not go to the competition.

So it was decided that I should take over. Me, where I had no idea about all this stuff. So I sat there with the camera and a notepad and just wrote something down. Weight, speed, endurance, victories and that sort of thing.

The competition started and I watched the swimmers doing their best to be faster than everybody else. Not to splash too much with the water, not to look up too often and look good while doing it. It was all too high for me and I was bored.

Until Shou Nian sat down next to me, in his swimming pants and with a sweatshirt jacket and asked me if I was the new reporter of the school newspaper. I shook my head and explained to him that I've been with the newspaper for a long time, but I'm only here as a substitute.

He laughed and said to me "I hope you like me." At first I thought I misunderstood him. I didn't react.

It was Shou Nian's turn, I wrote down his data and took some pictures. Bored, I watched him winning. I wrote down the times, took a few pictures of the victory ceremony and disappeared again.

Only in his swimming trunks and with a small towel over his shoulders Shou Nian ran after me and asked me if he could impress me. "Um, yes. Well, it's not really a sport I'm interested in." I answered and wanted to leave.

But he did not want to let me go yet and held me by my wrist, said I should give him another chance to convince me of himself. I laughed, pulled my hand away and left.

From then on, he kept showing up around me. Wanted to talk to me, accompanied me to the cafeteria, waited for me at the school gate. Wrote me notes and threw them in my locker. But I had no interest in him.

Because of his achievements he was accepted into the Olympic swimming team and had to leave school for that.

Shortly before the end of my studies at the university, I met him again. And this time he didn't give up. He told me that he was in love with me back in school and that he fell in love with me again after we met again.

I got to know him from another side, one that I liked very much. We started dating and I also fell in love with him. After three years he proposed and wanted to marry me. I accepted and was happy.

But then, half a year later, I wanted to surprise him at his home and I went to see him. With my key to his apartment I opened the door and found my fiancé in bed with his ex-boyfriend.

The ex boyfriend had reappeared in Shou Nian's life only a short time before and I already had a bad feeling about it. But I trusted Shou Nian. Only to have to watch them doing it in the bed that Shou Nian and I had bought only a short time before.

I threw my house key at Shou Nian's head, which finally made him notice me. He practically jumped off his ex, grabbed a sheet and tried to come up to me.

But I just pulled the ring off my finger, threw it at him and left. He ran after me, called out for me and wanted me to stop. So I stopped, I punched him in the face, looked him right in the eye and said "It's over!" Then I went to my car and drove away.

Every day from then on, he called or wrote me. Many times he'd get up at my door. But I never even gave in. I can forgive a lot of things, but nothing like that.

Everything about the wedding, I called it off in one day. The date, the reservations, the arrangements.

I also took it upon myself to explain to Shou Nian's parents why their son and I are not getting married. They were both extremely angry. Because they were already looking forward to it. And I was happy too, because I knew that they would not let Shou Nian get away so easily. They would show him what they think about this.

For two whole months he had been harassing me constantly until I told him once again very clearly that he had no more chance with me.

And that was also the time when Shou Nian had given up on calling or writing me daily. I don't know why it stopped so abruptly, but I was very happy about it.

But what makes me even happier is that on that day I met my future husband and I love him, you Yibo, so much and I know that I can trust you completely.

Yibo took Zhan in his arms and kissed him. "And do you know how he is now?"

"Actually, no. And I don't really care either. He's part of my past. I only care about the present and my future. I care about you and I don't look back. Because everything I want, I have. I have you, and that's all I need."

Yibo was glad that Zhan had told him the story and sad that his beloved author had to go through such a terrible experience. But at the same time he was happy because so he could meet him and so he is going to marry his dearest author already in five weeks. His life didn't only become better, but also happier thanks to Xiao Zhan.

And for Yibo it was clear that he would give everything to make his fiancé always happy. He would never do that to Zhan. He couldn't do that either, because he loves Zhan too much.