The Old Photo (旧照片)

Chapter 2

Translator: MysticRain

02.

Then, time just flew by slowly.

Li Yu was a good man who took care of his family, he also liked to live a quiet and ordinary life, some matter——feeling, love, and whatnot——in fact, it was not so great, when you aged, all of your passion will gradually form into a small stream of water that flows forever.

At least that was what Li Yu thought.

He really liked the proverb "small stream of water that flows forever¹", because it sounded like as long as you cherish this feeling, then love will be there forever, despite being swept by the wind and battered by rain. However, "A small stream of water flow forever" also doesn't mean there wasn't love, on the contrary, it was because love had saturated in every cell of his body that Zhao Mu could take root in his heart.

He loved Zhao Mu.

Can you imagine? The appearance of a 1m80 man cramped in a narrow kitchen skillfully cutting radish into julienne strip, and on his body often accompanied with the usual injury that hadn't disappeared. On the small table outside the kitchen sat a young man that was beautiful as a picturesque with a guqin next to him and written songs in his hand.

Li Yu showered Zhao Mu with all of his love, they were once a match like that, love each other like that, however that time, after all, was the period of 5 years ago from the current time.

5 years.

Zhao Mu, he was suffering and had gone insane.

The happiness that loves initially brought him, in the beginning, had gradually drowned by the dejection of unable to attain his dream and he learned to bellowed at Li Yu.

Li Yu had become his air, he loved him, he also knew the importance of air, but will the air leave him?

No, it won't.

As a result, he then became absolutely unrestrained.

Li Yu always coaxed him, he quickly became unaware of his own weight.

"I should be a genius!!" He often yelled and flipped over the table, his reddened eyes looked at the flying papers like snow-filled the room and angrily said, "What are they, dare to judge me like that!!!."

The foods on the table were scattered all over the floor, the porridge stuck on the floor like his shattered dream and self-esteem.

Zhao Mu wasn't anything good, Li Yu clearly knew that.

But what could he do?

He can only carry the tray and crouched on the floor, his tall body shrunk, looking for pieces of food on the floor that could still be picked up to eat.

Maybe it was touched a little bit of dust, but it doesn't matter, he will leave the pieces with dust for himself.

He loves Zhao Mu and practically spoiled him.

——And these things that he did, for a very long time, Zhao Mu knew nothing about it.

His heart was filled with ambition and full of unwillingness, it rigidly lay stones and had built into a block of stone, despite Li Yu desperately used his own heart to warm it up, it couldn't be warmed up.

They had been sleeping in a different bed for a long time, Zhao Mu always slept on the table, he would fall asleep with his face turned toward the pile, that to Li Yu was garbage.

As a result, Li Yu thought at that time, maybe the feeling was gone.

He loved a madman, but that madman wasn't crazy about him. A madman had countless of things in his mind, but his dream was only to have a madman. He doesn't understand what was an aspiration, for him, aspiration was that Zhao Mu eats well, sleeps well, also when he smiled, his peach blossom eyes will squint upward.