Yu Huan pressed forward step by step, and Ruan Qiuping retreated step by step.
When his back was about to touch the wall, the light bulb in Ruan Qiuping's brain suddenly lit up.
"Ah! I'm going to take a shower!" Ruan Qiuping said hurriedly, then pushed Yu Huan away and ran straight to the bathroom.
Fortunately, Yu Huan did not chase him, but just stood there.
The expression on Yu Huan's face changed a little. He no longer looked as anxious as before. Instead, he became much gentler and more patient. "Then I'll go to the bathroom in the next room to take a shower. Ruan Ruan, don't panic. You can take as long as you want."
The more Yu Huan said this, the more panicked Ruan Qiuping became.
After all, the last meal of a death row inmate before his death is always sumptuous.
An hour later, Yu Huan knocked gently on the bathroom door.
"Ruan Ruan, you've been showering for an hour."
"... I... I haven't finished washing yet. If you can't wait, you can go to sleep first. I still need to wash for a while." Ruan Qiuping said as he curled up in the water.
"Ruan Ruan misunderstood. I wasn't rushing you." Yu Huan said softly, "I just thought the water in the bathtub might be cold, so I wanted to come over and help you turn on the automatic heating function."
The water was indeed a little cold. Ruan Qiuping searched carefully for a while, but couldn't find the heating switch. He reached out to cover the foldable bathtub cover and shouted, "Then come in."
Yu Huan walked in with a cane and glanced at Ruan Qiuping.
Ruan Qiuping was curled up in the water, completely covered by the wooden bathtub lid, with only his head exposed.
Yu Huan placed Ruan Qiuping's pajamas on the hanger beside him, walked to Ruan Qiuping, and stretched out his hand to lift the lid of Ruan Qiuping's bathtub.
Ruan Qiuping quickly reached out to cover the lid: "What are you doing?"
"The heating switch is blocked by the cover." Yu Huan said calmly.
Only then did Ruan Qiuping let go.
Yu Huan set the automatic heating and helped him put the lid of the bathtub back on. His dark pupils looked particularly gentle under the warm yellow light of the bathroom: "Ruan Ruan, don't be nervous. I have waited for Ruan Ruan for so many years. I can afford to wait a few more hours. Ruan Ruan can soak in the bathtub as long as you want. Don't worry about me. I'm waiting for you here and won't rush you anymore."
After Yu Huan finished speaking, he turned and left.
Ruan Qiuping silently buried half of his head in the water.
Ten minutes later.
Ruan Qiuping, wearing pajamas, pushed open the bathroom door and walked out.
Yu Huan had already cleaned up the mess of dried fruits and other things on the bed. When he saw Ruan Qiuping coming out, he took off his glasses and placed them on the bedside table along with the book in his hand, smiling: "Ruan Ruan is done."
Yu Huan's eyes were curved, and his smile was brighter than fireworks, completely different from the gentle, patient, and slightly lonely look he had just shown in the bathroom.
Ruan Qiuping looked at him suspiciously, even suspecting that what he had just said in the bathroom was a tactic of playing hard to get, and that he was soft-hearted and fell into Yu Huan's trap.
But the matter was done, he had already come out of the bathroom and could not go back.
Yu Huan looked at him, called his name softly, and asked him to come over.
Ruan Qiuping moved to the bedside step by step.
"Actually," Ruan Qiuping whispered, "I have something good to tell you."
"What good news?" Yu Huan naturally grabbed Ruan Qiuping's hand and pulled him onto the bed.
Ruan Qiuping couldn't help but follow the guidance and got into the room. "I can stay here for 60 hours this time."
Yu Huan was stunned for a moment, then his eyes lit up instantly, and he asked excitedly, "Really, Ruan Ruan?!"
"Really? Not only can I stay here for 60 hours this time, but next time I can stay here for 60 hours in three consecutive days if I can."
"It's all right!" The smile on Yu Huan's face was almost overflowing. He couldn't help but hug Ruan Qiuping, burying his face in Ruan Qiuping's neck, and said happily, "It's all right, Ruan Ruan, I'm so happy..."
"Are you that happy?" Ruan Qiuping couldn't help but laugh when she saw how happy he was.
"Very happy." Yu Huan rubbed his cheek against Ruan Qiuping's neck, his voice tinged with hoarseness, "If Ruan Ruan can stay for 60 hours, it means 2 days and 12 hours... Ruan Ruan came at 3:40 this afternoon, which means she won't leave until 3:10 the day after tomorrow. In this way, we still have two full days and two and a half nights left... Well, I thought you were leaving tomorrow night..."
At the end, Yu Huan's voice trembled slightly.
Ruan Qiuping asked in a low voice: "You... cried?"
"No." Yu Huan said in a muffled voice.
Ruan Qiuping pulled Yu Huan away and found that he looked a little different from when he was crying, except that his eyes and nose were red.
Ruan Qiuping suddenly recalled the time when Yu Huan was seven years old and cried sadly on the bus after discovering that they had missed each other by eight hours.
But at that time I was crying out of sadness and grievance, but now my nose is red with joy.
Ruan Qiuping couldn't help laughing. He pulled Yu Huan's cheek, his eyes curved, and he called out the old name: "Little Yu Huan, how come you haven't changed at all?"
"… The one who hasn't changed is Ruan Ruan."
Ruan Qiuping pondered for a while, then shook his head seriously: "No, I have changed."
Yu Huan turned to Ruan Qiuping and asked, "What has changed about Ruan Ruan?"
"My mentality has changed." Ruan Qiuping sighed, "Thinking back to when you were so young, I was the one who made all the decisions, and you had to act coquettishly and please me no matter what you wanted to do..."
Although every time he compromised with Xiao Yuhuan.
"Now look what you have done. Seeing you look like an adult, I almost forget that I am a deity hundreds of years older than you. I always let you lead me by the nose."
Although Yu Huan's real age is the same as his.
"Now that I think about it, I shouldn't have changed my mind like that. After all, no matter how old you are, no matter how mature you look, it's a fact that I'm older than you. In the final analysis, I'm still your elder who grew up with you, right?"
I'm sorry, the auspicious god Yu Huan, I still want to take advantage of the mortal Yu Huan for a while.
"Ruan Ruan, what do you want to say?" Yu Huan gave him a suspicious look.
Ruan Qiuping looked at him solemnly: "What I want to say is, since I am the elder, do you have to listen to me in everything?"
Yu Huan suddenly had a bad feeling: "For example..."
Ruan Qiuping: "For example, since I can stay here for two and a half days this time, you don't have to rush. It's no big deal to postpone our wedding night, right?"
Ruan Qiuping glanced at the clock beside him and said earnestly, "Oh, it's 9 o'clock now. It's time for a 30-year-old kid to go to bed. Come on, let me, an elder over 200 years old, turn off the light for you."
Yu Huan: “…”
"Click."
The lights were turned off and the whole room became dark.
Yu Huan felt his heart sink.
Ruan Qiuping calmly lay down on the bed, pulled up his pants, and almost couldn't help jumping up and giving himself a thumbs up.
Ruan Qiuping lay there with his eyes closed for a while. About ten minutes later, he quietly opened his eyes.
As a result, when he opened his eyes, he saw Yu Huan staring at him.
Ruan Qiuping leaned back in fear: "Yu Huan, why aren't you sleeping?"
Yu Huan was silent for a long time before he slowly started to speak: "Ruan Ruan, why do you think I can fall asleep?"
"Why can't you fall asleep? Just close your eyes and fall asleep without thinking about anything. Sleeping is such a simple thing."
"But today is our wedding night and you are still lying next to me, how am I supposed to sleep?"
Ruan Qiuping blinked: "Then I'll go out and sleep?"
Yu Huan stretched out his arms, hugged him tightly, buried his cheek in his chest, and said in a deep and muffled voice: "Why did Ruan Ruan deliberately bully me?"
"How have I bullied you?" Ruan Qiuping felt a little guilty.
"You clearly know." Yu Huan hugged Ruan Qiuping tighter, "You clearly know that I want to be closer to you, but you always try to push me away."
Ruan Qiuping felt more and more guilty. He reached out and touched Yu Huan's hair, but did not dare to speak.
Yu Huan looked up at him and said, "Ruan Ruan, you know that you can avoid the first day, but you can't avoid the fifteenth."
Ruan Qiuping muttered softly: "It's better to hide for a while..."
Yu Huan almost laughed out loud. He let go of Ruan Qiuping, and they shared a pillow, saying, "Ruan Ruan is hiding from me like a monster..."
"You said that first." Ruan Qiuping lowered his head, his voice weak.
Yu Huan raised his head towards the ceiling and said softly, "Ruan Ruan, I know that you feel that our progress is too fast and you can't accept it... After all, for you, you just reunited with me the day before yesterday, got engaged to me yesterday, and are going to be married to me today. I guess there is no buffer time at all."
Yes, yes.
Ruan Qiuping nodded secretly.
Yu Huan took Ruan Qiuping's hand gently from his left hand and interlocked his fingers. Yu Huan's low and pleasant voice became even gentler in the quiet night: "For me, I have waited for Ruan Ruan for many years... Ruan Ruan, do you know when I started to like you?"
Ruan Qiuping shook his head.
Yu Huan asked again: "Do you remember what I once said about falling in love with someone? What kind of experience is it for me?"
Ruan Qiuping thought for a moment and nodded: "You said that falling in love with someone is like witnessing the growth of a tree. You remember when its seeds were planted, but you don't know when it sprouted. You know when it broke through the soil, but you don't know when it grew up."
Yu Huan smiled and said softly, "The seed of the tree was planted the moment you appeared. It sprouted quietly as you appeared year after year. When I was 15 years old, the moment I knew that same-sex people could fall in love, I noticed that the little bud had broken through the soil, and it grew slowly every day that followed."
"So Ruan Ruan, I have liked you for nineteen years, and have waited for you for nineteen years. I have always thought that it would be nice if we lived the same time. In that case, Ruan Ruan would get along with me day after day, and no matter how slow it was, I would always be able to wait until the moment when the seeds sprouted... In that case, how long could I wait? If Ruan Ruan's seeds did not sprout for one day, I would wait for one day. If they did not sprout for a year, I would wait for a year. If they did not sprout for ten years, I would wait for ten years... But we live in different time and space. I would like to wait for Ruan Ruan, but I am afraid that I will not live long enough to wait."
At this point, Yu Huan held Ruan Qiuping's hand tighter and laughed softly, "If Ruan thinks today is too soon, I will wait until tomorrow. If Ruan thinks this year is too soon, I will wait until next year. I have waited for nineteen years, so one or two days, one or two years doesn't matter. I can't wait for ten years in Ruan's time, but I can still wait for ten years in the mortal world, as long as Ruan doesn't despise me for being old and ugly by then."
Ruan Qiuping suddenly felt as if a small needle was gently pricking his heart.
He held Yu Huan's hand tightly, lowered his eyes, and whispered: "... I am indeed not ready for anything... But since you have waited for so long, please give me some of your waiting time."
Yu Huan was stunned for a moment.
Next, he saw Ruan Qiuping kiss him carefully and said, "Yu Huan, you have waited for me for nineteen years, so you should give me some of these nineteen years of waiting. Now, it is equivalent to me preparing for several years."
Ruan Qiuping closed his eyes, his eyelashes trembling slightly, and said: "Yu Huan, now... I'm ready."
Yu Huan was stunned: "... Ruan Ruan, you are not afraid anymore?"
"I'm not afraid."
"What if Ruan Ruan regrets it later?"
"I have no regrets."
The air was quiet for a long time, and then a trembling breath came out. Yu Huan leaned down and kissed her slowly, restrainedly, and tremblingly.
Yu Huan's movements were gentle and restrained. He would ask for his opinion at almost every step. When the kiss fell on her skin, it felt a little hot and a little itchy, like plum blossoms blooming lightly on the snow. Sweat slightly wet her hair. Ruan Qiuping breathed lightly, her ten fingers sinking into Yu Huan's soft black hair.
He suddenly felt that things were not as bad as he had imagined.
He shouldn't have been so resistant to this.
He has no regrets at all and no fear at all now.
Half an hour later.
Ruan Qiuping: “…”
Sorry, I'm scared.
An hour later.
Ruan Qiuping: “…”
I'm sorry, I regret it.
Two hours later.
Ruan Qiuping: “…”
Beast! Let me go!
Three hours later.
Ruan Qiuping: “…”
I am dead, please burn some paper if you have any questions.