Back Then, I Adored You

Despite the loud music, Lu Bancheng could still hear sobbing.

He was not sure how long he’d been standing there. When Gu Yusheng, who had been slumped and seemingly asleep on his desk, finally moved, Lu Bancheng quickly stepped aside and hid himself behind the wall.

Lu Bancheng stood there for a long time before he realized that Gu Yusheng kept playing the same song. The melody was familiar.

He couldn’t recall the song until he heard the lyric, “I learned how dangerous love is when she slowly disappeared from my world.” Just a few days ago, Gu Yusheng and Lu Bancheng had been playing a beer game with their friends.

Wasn’t that the song Gu Yusheng sang when he lost the game?

What was the name of that song? Why does he play it so much?

Lu Bancheng fumbled for his phone thinking about it. He searched for that lyric and found the name of the song, “The End.” His brows furrowed.

Why does it sound so familiar? I must have heard it somewhere. Who sang this song?

He suddenly found the original singer’s name and instantly understood everything.

This is the song Gu Yusheng wants to play when he proposes to Liang Doukou’s body double, and this is the singer he asked me to contact.

What did he say back then?… Little Hellraiser loves this song, and he wants the original singer to sing it for her.

So, the Gu Yusheng I’ve been dealing with for the last few days has been faking his emotions.

He looks so calm, like nothing has happened. He acts so peaceful in public.

If he hadn’t seen Gu Yusheng by accident, he would never have realized the pain he truly suffered.

Lu Bancheng was afraid Gu Yusheng would be embarrassed if he saw him, so he quietly left without getting the files.

He glanced into the room through the door crack before leaving. Gu Yusheng sat up and bent his head back with his hands covering his face. Tears streamed out from between his fingers.

Gu Yusheng was murmuring, but Lu Bancheng could not make out what he was saying. As he stepped quietly away, he only heard “little troublemaker.”

Lu Bancheng walked back to his car and waited for two hours before Gu Yusheng’s car finally exited the underground parking lot. It was then that Lu Bancheng decided to follow him.

He maintained a good distance behind Gu Yusheng’s car and followed him to a plaza.

Confused, he watched Gu Yusheng park his car and walk to the wishing well in the center of the plaza.

Gu Yusheng fumbled a coin from out of his pocket and tossed it into the well. Then seriously and sincerely, he began talking to himself.

Lu Bancheng rolled down his car window. Gu Yusheng did not talk loudly, but the breeze carried his words clearly to Lu Bancheng’s ears.

“I wish she could be brought back to me.”

Lu Bancheng’s eyes became warm. He immediately looked away, rolled up his window, and sped away.

Once he had driven some distance, he pulled the car over, and his childhood came back to him.