—In the super talk of the cultivating cotton base.
[I heard that Director Hong’s new variety show is about to start filming. Have you heard about it, Sisters?]
[The official Weibo hasn’t been posted yet. But it seems that someone has sent a behind-the-scenes report.]
[Is it still a romance show?]
[I guess so. It is a couple’s travel variety show.]
[What are the young couple doing? I miss them so much… crying.]
[Since Brother Mian went abroad to study for a doctorate, there has been too little sugar! JL’s official Weibo isn’t open at all!]
[Hahaha, didn’t they just release the sweet news of the engagement a few days ago? Mianmian also posted on Weibo.]
[(Pointing) It is just a drop in the bucket.]
[Forget it. Eating cold food might be my fate.]
[Congratulations on your engagement. By the way, I am asking for some candy, even just a photo together.]
[Brother Mian has more business surprises now. At least he has posted on Weibo, unlike when he was a missing person before. Hahaha.]
[The little chicken feathers are so cute.]
[Since the end of Matching Heartbeat, it seems that only Guan Tong has been the most active in business. His channel has almost 3 million fans now. He is considered a big blogger.]
[I met Shen Nanxiao by chance in Italy. He is even gentler in person than on the show.]
[I miss the days when I followed the variety show. I have been watching all the episodes of the show like crazy.]
[+1 to watching them like crazy.]
The cotton workers in the super talk lost contact with You Mian and Pei Huaiji after the show ended.
Not only did these two people not do business at all, but they also rarely posted on Weibo.
Thus, this huge group of cotton workers were scattered everywhere while trying their best to find sugar.
Occasionally, some foreign art exhibition organizers would release photos with You Mian. A few snapshots of You Mian sitting in the sculpture room would also appear sporadically on Clios’ external forum.
These were the few channels that fans could use to obtain news about You Mian.
It was so cold that they were going crazy.
After the show was aired, the enthusiasm for crazy CP consumption gradually faded away. The number of active people in the cotton base’s super talk was also getting smaller and smaller. There were almost no new Weibo posts all morning, but there were a lot of comments.
They got together and talked and laughed. They had everything except for sugar.
But this situation was broken at a very ordinary moment this morning.
As all the cotton workers thought that the ranking of the cotton base’s super talk would continue to decline every day, a forwarded post was suddenly pushed to the top of the super talk’s homepage.
[Look what I found? Director Hong’s new variety show, ‘Island Adventure’, has invited Mianmian and Chairman Pei to participate in the advance live stream of the first hot spot!]
The moment the news came out, the dull atmosphere of the entire super talk changed instantly. Countless comments came in.
It seemed that the previous calm and boring scene was all an illusion. A single stone caused a thousand ripples.
The blog post was quickly forwarded.
[!!!]
[Where did the news come from? Is it true?]
[Haven’t there been many people who came forward in the past two years? I won’t believe any of them before I see the official list.]
[Once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of a well rope for ten years. It is better to be safe, although I have already started to scream!]
[The first hot spot advance live stream. It is a bit hard to pronounce. What type of show is it?]
[These days, there will be promotions before a new variety show is aired. Yun Guanqing participated in the advance live stream of several actor-related shows. To put it bluntly, it is to create popularity for the show and increase the audience.]
[The person who posted the information is a marketing account. It isn’t reliable.]
[The first show after the engagement! I’m looking forward to it!!]
[Hold steady, don’t panic. Ahhhh!]
[Really? This information seems a bit fake. Has Mianmian returned to China?]
[I checked the ticketing app and found that a flight from Paris to China landed an hour ago.]
[Whether it is true or not, I’ll go first!]
Just as everyone wanted to believe it but didn’t dare to, the popularity of the fans’ comments and forwards directly pushed the marketing account that released the explosive content to the top of the hot search list!
Seeing this, the cotton workers panicked.
Who would’ve thought that the fan base would still be so large after two years?
[I don’t know if this is a real hot search, but won’t it cause trouble if it is at the top? It is better to keep silent for now.]
[Yes, don’t get excited everyone…]
However, the situation soon turned around. To everyone’s astonishment, Director Hong’s personal Weibo account actually forwarded the blog post ten minutes later.
[Hong Sheng: @You Mian @ Pei Huaiji, can you two first scout out the way for our other guests on Lonely Island Adventure?]
Director Hong spoke in person and directly confirmed the authenticity of the news.
Now no one was wondering whether it was true or false. No one hesitated or restrained themselves any longer. Everyone started to celebrate.
[A lifetime series!!!]
[Ahhh! I’m running around the dormitory right now after hearing the news!]
[I’m so excited, hahaha. Get the melon seeds and peanuts ready. Get the whole video ready.]
[Woo woo woo, I’m so greedy. I was very happy after seeing it was a live stream before. Now that I know it is confirmed, I actually want Mianmian and Chairman Pei to record the whole episode together! Why don’t they record the whole episode? Who isn’t a husband and wife?]
In the bustling and spacious airport with people coming and going, You Mian followed Pei Huaiji with sleepy eyes. His hat was lowered and he was holding a light blue jacket of the right thickness in his hand.
Pei Huaiji pushed the suitcase while holding You Mian’s arm with his right hand.
The extremely tall and strong man attracted the attention of other people in the airport as soon as he appeared.
Pei Huaiji walked out while listening to You Mian answering the phone in a daze.
“Yes… I just arrived,” You Mian said to Hong Sheng on the other end of the phone.
Hong Sheng’s excited and joyful tone was about to jump out through the screen.
After hanging up the phone, Pei Huaiji turned sideways and asked softly, “What did he say?”
You Mian rubbed his eyes that were dazed due to over ten hours of sleep on the long-distance flight. He said in a hoarse voice, “Director Hong said that someone would come to the airport to pick us up and asked us to pay attention to the staff holding the sign.”
Pei Huaiji looked around when he heard this and immediately spotted a young male staff member standing not far away.
The other party saw that they were finally looking at him and waved the sign even harder.
“This way! This way!”
You Mian slowed down his pace, tidied his hair, and finally became much more awake in the breeze blowing through the door.
Several staff members grabbed their suitcases skillfully and quickly.
You Mian saw that they were all acquaintances from the recording of Matching Heartbeat. Now there was a bit of the feeling of old friends who hadn’t seen each other for a long time.
The youngest of them smiled and said, “The live stream won’t start until the afternoon. The hot and restaurant facilities of the island are complete. Let’s take Brother Mian and Chairman Pei to rest first.”
You Mian was stunned. “Go directly to the island now?”
He hadn’t forgotten the words ‘isolated island’ that Director Hong said when introducing the new show. How come the facilities on the island were complete now?
The staff member seemed to see his confusion and explained with a smile, “In fact, they are two adjacent islands. One is the tourist island I just mentioned that has been developed. The other is a deserted island where the development application hasn’t been approved yet. It is completely correct to call it an isolated island.”
Pei Huaiji nodded slightly while thinking that this was really Hong Sheng’s style.
The group walked out of the airport.
The young staff member in charge smiled and said, “Fly a helicopter.”
You Mian blinked before sitting on the helicopter arranged by the show’s staff. He flew to the tourist island with Pei Huaiji.
If talking about how they decided to participate in the advance live stream of Hong’s new show, he had to mention the gift that Hong Sheng gave to You Mian on his birthday.
You Mian and Pei Huaiji weren’t opposed to doing another live stream. Since Hong Sheng brought it up, they had no intention of refusing.
On this desolate afternoon, the only sounds of the deserted island were insects and flying birds.
The moment the live stream was opened, thousands of viewers entered immediately.
Faced with the deserted island scene with only three seats and no one else around. The barrage flew everywhere.
[Haven’t you started yet?]
[Someone posted a leak of Mianmian and Chairman Pei on the super talk. They are really here!]
[Hurry up, hurry up. I miss them so much. I haven’t seen a live chat event in a long time.]
After all, it was a pre-release live stream for a promotional variety show. Thus, Hong Sheng didn’t keep people in suspense.
A sea breeze blew by. Hong Sheng walked into the camera first in a suit, holding a cue card in his hand. He looked like a host.
[Hahahaha, what the hell.]
[Director Hong changed his career? Hahaha.]
The first live stream was mostly funny and light-hearted, so Hong Sheng personally took part in it.
The moment he sat down, there was movement in the camera again.
Two handsome men, who just finished their grooming, walked out from the left side of the screen.
In an instant, the frantically screaming barrage covered the entire live stream screen.
You Mian was wearing a white haute couture suit with an iris pinned to his chest. His chestnut brown curly hair was deliberately curled, and his cold white skin made the entire screen brighten up as if it was lit.
A pair of amber eyes smiled at the camera, the sunlight revealing a bit of green in them. The sea breeze lifted his hair, his long eyelashes fluttered, and he looked full of energy and vigor.
[Ahhhhh!]
{White! Western! Outfit!]
[Woo woo woo, why do I feel like my Baby Mian has lost weight?]
[He has become thinner and taller. I feel like he is much more mature than when I was recording the show. I like it so much!]
[Baby Mian has an iris pinned to his chest!]
Pei Huaiji, who was walking one step behind You Mian, also appeared on the screen.
The man’s aura was still oppressive. His cold jaw was at a sharp angle, and his dark eyes were chilling when they weren’t smiling. His aura was enough to make people not dare to look up again after one glance.
But once Pei Huaiji turned his head to look at You Mian, all his tyranny was smoothed away. Only a gentle smile remained in his eyes.
[Chairman Pei is awesome. He is as biased as ever.]
[Hahaha. Chairman Pei is also so handsome.]
Pei Huaiji combed his black hair back, revealing his smooth forehead and sharp eyebrows. He looked more dignified than usual. The high-end suit made his straight shoulders and back stand out even more. This made people feel that he was worthy of being in charge of JL.
On the chest, there was a lily of the valley.
[Ahh, is this the return of Matching Heartbeat? I am satisfied.]
[Apart from anything else, doesn’t everyone see something from the suits the two of them are wearing?]
You Mian and Pei Huaiji sat together. Both of them sat very straight and didn’t deliberately make any intimate gestures. They didn’t even look at each other.
But the sense of tacit understanding and fit from being embedded in each other’s lives still came across.
What’s more, the live stream camera zoomed in for several seconds on the pair of gold rings that the two people openly wore on their fingers, casually posing as an engaged couple.
[One white and one black… the colors and matching of these suits reminds me of a wedding scene!]
[Director Hong chose a great location!]
[Wedding scene? I’m going to give some money!!!]
[F*k, have the cotton workers finally waited for the day to receive their share of the money? My CP is really awesome!]
The deserted island was uninhabited but the surrounding scenery was truly beautiful. There were crisp and tender green grass growing wildly, seagulls flying over the wide sea in front, and waves beating on the beach. Everything was comfortable and beautiful.
Hong Sheng saw the right time to speak. “Welcome to our You Mian and Chairman Pei for taking the trouble to come to the advance live recording of Lonely Island Adventure!”
You Mian smiled softly, and this caused the barrage to go crazy.
Hong Sheng nodded at the barrage and said with a smile, “It might be a live stream, but it isn’t particularly formal. Everyone can relax and treat it as a long-lost chat and tea party.”
[Woo woo woo, thank you to Brother Mian and Chairman Pei for taking the time to bring us a CP carnival feast!]
[I am shipping it, I am shipping it!]
Hong Sheng flipped his hand and showed the card.
“There are quite a lot of questions today. I can tell from the hundreds of questions that fans are looking forward to it. Haha,” Hong Sheng said with a laugh. “But due to the length of today’s show, we will just answer some of them.”
The moment Hong Sheng finished speaking, he turned his head unexpectedly to look at You Mian and Pei Huaiji. He laughed heartily and asked, “Excuse me, if the two of you were about to participate in our Lonely Island Adventure show together and are required to pick only one item, what would you choose?”
It wasn’t formal but after Hong Sheng asked, the countdown scene was still heard at the scene.
On the screen, You Mian leaned closer to Pei Huaiji. The two of them discussed it in a low voice.
[Ahhh, my CP shipping heart is beating again.]
[A real couple is real.]
You Mian looked at Pei Huaiji with a smile and asked in a low voice, “What to choose? A lighter?”
Heating on an isolated island should be more important.
Across the table, Pei Huaiji gently pinched You Mian’s fingers, the tenderness in his eyes obvious.
“Yes, just choose the lighter.”
Seeing this, You Mian smiled and waved his hand. “Let’s choose the lighter!”
[Ahh, it’s so cute to raise a hand and answer!]
[Baby Mian, Baby Mian!]
Hong Sheng waved his hand. “Why choose a lighter? Are you afraid that the temperature will drop suddenly at night and you won’t be able to keep warm?”
You Mian and Pei Huaiji looked at each other. They nodded amidst the screams of the barrage. “Yes, it is more important to maintain body temperature.”
Hong Sheng smiled and asked the second question. “Then for couples like you in Lonely Island Adventure…”
Hong Sheng paused for a few seconds before speaking again, “What do you think of a couple program? What do you think is the attraction?”
[Director Hong is so bad, hahaha.]
[A couple! A couple is so cool!]
You Mian still looked at Pei Huaiji before answering the question.
[This is the 25th time they looked at each other.]
[Ding! The counter appears. Haha.]
You Mian thought for a few seconds before replying, “An adventure show like this that requires everyone to be on camera 24/7 should pay more attention to the tacit understanding between a couple and their daily interactions.”
“There is no way to fake this,” You Mian said while nodding.
Pei Huaiji also looked at him with soft eyes.
[There really is no way to pretend. Chairman Pei’s eyes are glued to Mianmian.]
[Chairman Pei, can you please face the camera? Hahahaha.]
[It seems that Chairman Pei isn’t here to participate in the live stream. He is accompanying a family member on the set.]
[Chairman Pei is looking at Mianmian answering the questions like us. Please take your role as a guest seriously. Hahaha.]
As Hong Sheng was looking at the question card, he was also paying attention to the barrage.
It wasn’t known what funny content he saw, but he looked at Pei Huaiji with a smile and said, “Chairman Pei, would you like to say something too?”
You Mian looked back at him.
Pei Huaiji had changed from pinching You Mian’s fingers to rubbing You Mian’s entire palm across the table, almost holding hands.
“Hmm?” Pei Huaiji came back to his senses and looked at Hong Sheng with eyes full of doubt.
[Chairman Pei is really focused on Mianmian, hahaha!]
[Director Hong: A greasy little couple.]
[Ahhh, I’m dying.]
Seeing this, Hong Sheng immediately raised a new question. “Excuse me, were your suits matched by the stylists or did you choose them yourself?”
Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that the suits that the two men were wearing were high-end custom suits. If it was prepared by the stylists alone, it would be impossible for them to come up with such materials.
So in the next second, Pei Huaiji decisively admitted, “It was me.”
Hong Sheng guided him with a smile and asked, “Did you choose the color on purpose?”
You Mian couldn’t help smiling. It was as if he had been tricked.
Only Pei Huaiji replied with a serious face, “It was deliberately chosen.”
“Don’t you think this is more in line with the relationship between me and Mianmian?”
[Ahhhhhhh!]
[True husbands!]
[Chairman Pei, hahah. Why do I feel like this straight ball is stubborn and claiming sovereignty?]
Hong Sheng was rudely fed a mouthful of dog food. But looking at the barrage of the fanatical fans, he couldn’t help laughing. The show effect was enough.
Hong Sheng asked a few more questions regarding the promotion of Lonely Island Adventure. Then it was all questions from fans.
“Will You Mian go out again after returning to China this time?” Hong Sheng asked in the tone of a fan.
You Mian squinted and looked at the screen. Then he replied softly as if to say hello, “I will graduate in another year. Then I will live in Huajiang permanently.”
[Woo woo woo, that is my question!]
[Mianmian, good luck with your studies!!]
“As everyone knows, you two are engaged. So when will you get married?” Hong Sheng asked with a smile.
The barrage scrolled wildly.
You Mian and Pei Huaiji looked at each other.
The action of holding hands became more and more obvious. It was seen by the fans in the barrage.
[You are going to make me sick of you!!]
[Hand in hand has been discovered. Hahaha.]
[Little couples must stick together, they can’t be apart!]
You Mian’s ears were slightly red. The sea breeze blew from the front, ruffling his hair and revealing his bright eyes.
Pei Huaiji, who had been smiling silently, took the question and looked at You Mian with burning eyes. His brow furrowed, and the corners of his mouth curved up.
“On a sunny spring day.”
The moment these words came out, the staff at the scene became excited.
Hong Sheng stood up, raised his hand, and asked with a loud laugh, “Is it sunny enough today?”
Everyone shouted in unison, “It is enough!!”
“Completely enough!”
The barrage was also filled with the word ‘congratulations.’
[It is fine if Chairman Pei doesn’t say sweet words, but once he does so, it is so romantic!!]
[It is a bright and sunny spring day right now!]
[Isn’t the spring scenery on an island full of the sea breeze beautiful enough?]
[Chairman Pei, charge forward!]
[The cotton workers are giving away their share of the money.]
On the bright and sunny island in spring, the shadows of the tree were swaying. The sea breeze with a salty and humid scene brushed across Pei Huaiji and You Mian’s foreheads.
The two of them looked at each other and laughed as the crowd shouted and cheered.
In the magnificent and beautiful scenery where the sea and the sky merged into one, the setting sun cast a brilliant orange light. The sunset glow covered the sky, birds flew through the forest and a refreshing breeze blew.
A pair of golden rings gleamed in the orange sunset.
“Is it a beautiful spring day today?” Pei Huaiji leaned over and asked You Mian softly with a serious look in his dark eyes.
You Mian didn’t answer but kissed the corner of Pei Huaiji’s lips in the midst of the cheers.
“Woohoo!”
The people around them were whistling, screaming, and cheering.
[Ahhhhh!]
[Ahhh!!]
Once their kiss ended, their eyes met while their hearts were beating at the same frequency.
The wind and waves on the endless blue-white sea had eased. The stars were gradually rising, and the bright moonlight was spreading.
Spring was bright.
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TL: And that’s the end! Thank you everyone for joining me and Rainbow Turtle on this journey!
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thank you so much for completing this translation!! i had such a blast reading this novel
Thanks for the translation. This story was great to read.
Ahh! Congratulations on finishing the series!!! The extras really tied everything together (even if I did want one more “if” timeline chapter haha)
Thanks for all your hard work (and spoiling us with the rapid release of chapters towards the end!)
The Journey finally endeeeed….
That was such a Wonderful Journey of Love and Life. Mianmian get the happiness he deserve.
The EXTRAS truly completed their Love Story!!!
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH FOR THE HARD WORKS IN TRANSLATING THIS NOVEL TILL COMPLETED!!! 🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇 xEndlessEverlastingGratefulness ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
I LOVE IT SOOOOOO MUCH!!!
Aaaaaahhhh I reall enjoyed the progress of their relationship. Both had character development. Specially You Mian, he was a person that kept his heart close to anyone. But he found peace, honesty, trust and love with Pei Huaiji. Pei Huaiji, a stern person, became a silly person when in love. I wish them eternal happiness.
Thank you translator for your hard work 💜💙💚💜💙💚
I really enjoyed reading this, thank you. I started from the beginning again after hearing it was finished and read it to the end. Ty for the translation!!!
They’re sooo sweet, I loved them. The AU chapter felt healing, bitterweet, and lovely. The ending was just total fluff, I enjoyed every bit.
So cute! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for translating this story!!!!
I really liked these characters, from Pei Huaiji being genuinely low EQ in both good and bad ways to You Mian’s exceptional decisiveness drawing boundaries for his emotional health. They were very sweet together, and I loved that You Mian’s other relationships weren’t neglected—he went on that show with half the guests set against him and picked up two new good friends and a boyfriend, totally worth it. I liked also that the focus with the crematorium wasn’t closure or winning him back or even that they were irredeemably evil, just that You Mian didn’t need to put up with emotional abuse for the sake of any good times or feelings, before or after. They were their own people making their own mistakes, and they can learn from that or not—far away from You Mian, who was already extremely generous in giving them two years to give him some kind of explanation for outrageous cruelty. I appreciate as well that even if the relationships with the others had been good, they wouldn’t have had a chance with him: You Mian is compatible with Pei Huaiji and the others are truly nothing like him. Romantic love is not a reward for being a decent human being nor even a very good friend, it’s a matter of connection and You Mian found that connection in Pei Huaiji. Who also has an excellent family and hints at a few good friends, I love that the family relationships on both sides were explored even if most of those on You Mian’s side in (genuinely) raising him were already long gone. They’d lived in the world and affected him, which wasn’t meaningless. Great way of handling that backstory
Thank you so much for translating! <3
Thank you so much for the beautiful translation, translator samaa….❤️
Thank you!
Hermosoooo, me encantó, aunque tuve que traducir al español para poder terminarlo per me encatooooo muchas gracias 🥰