Because of You: Junping and Yuerong

Epilogue: Preparing for the Next Chapter

Author's Note: As everyone knows, I was thrown when I found an important detail I forgot to include (*cough*kidnapping*cough), but I also felt I needed to cut more from the epilogue and leave it more open than I planned since they are posting about a possible season two for the show.

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We stayed in the room for a long time afterward, holding each other. Even when Yue Wu came pounding on the door, we ignored her.

We  laid down on the bed hugging each other as we both cried. We even fell asleep for a bit exhausted after all the crying, but even after we woke up, we didn't move. We didn't even move when the daylight left and the room darkened with dusk. 

We laid there and then Yuerong told me everything he had said to his sister and why. How he'd been so desperate to keep her away from me, and how he couldn't think of anything else. Ironically, Yue Wu didn't see her self in the descriptions labeled on me (despite the fact that they actually fit her), and she hated when people fooled around on her or flirted with others.

I asked him why he just didn't tell her how he felt, and he said because he wasn't confident in my feelings for him, and he knew that if he said anything, Yue Wu would have immediately contacted me and laughed at the idea. He couldn't bare the thought of the important feelings he had for me to be mocked. He didn't bother updating her because he assumed she had moved on. In fact that night, she was scheduled to go on a date with someone else.

When I realized I had to take a piss and couldn't hold it anymore, and Yuerong realized he was hungry (I was, too), we decided we should probably get up. Yuerong told me he'd bring up food while I was in the bathroom, and he did.

He also did something else that surprised me. He got out his suitcases and started packing up his things.

"Yuerong, what are you doing?"

"I'm moving back in with Grandfather until I can get my own place. I refuse to live here anymore."

"Yuerong, don't be hasty. Won't you regret this tomorrow?" I grabbed a sandwich and sat on the bed watching him fold. This was not a throw everything together in a rage packing. This was calm, I'm leaving forever with nothing left behind packing.

"No, I won't. I'm tired. i'm tired of always putting up with her. Of cleaning up after her. She never ever thinks about how much she hurts me. I almost lost you because of her. I'm not going to risk things for her anymore."

He was so quiet and calm when he said this. It reminded me of the Yuerong from that math classroom when I had been accused of cheating. I knew I wasn't going to change his mind.

"You got any boxes? I'll help you pack."

Thus, when we were invited to go to dinner at Jundao's place, we really didn't have any time to bake a cake (not that we would have anyway), so we bought a cake and frosted and put it together there. I thought I couldn't be happier than  when I was with Yuerong, but sitting around that table with my brothers and their boyfriends and seeing everyone so finally settled into a future they hadn't known they wanted made me laugh out loud. 

It really wasn't at all because I thought of the look on our father's face when he found out all three of his sons had boyfriends. No really, it wasn't. Okay, maybe a tiny bit.