Shock! I became the protagonist of a female-oriented novel.

A passionate and tender night, a night of unbridled love.

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The next day.

Feeling sore all over, Yu Ci got up by touching the bedside table and went to the bathroom.

She stopped as she passed a half-length mirror on her way out.

There was a very clear human figure in the mercury mirror, and there were many very clear marks on the figure's body.

"!!!"

Were they that ruthless yesterday?

Just as she paused there contemplating life, a soft body suddenly pressed against her from behind. Her voice, husky with a hint of satisfaction after passion, asked, "Senior, what are you looking at here?"

Yu Ci didn't speak, and Lin Xiaoai reached out again and started playing with Yu Ci's long hair. "Senior, what are you looking at?"

Yu Ci smiled.

"I didn't see anything."

"I'm looking at myself and you in the mirror."

Before we knew it, ten years had passed, and we will continue to walk together through this lifetime.

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(Lin Xiaoai - The Final Chapter)

Chapter Thirty-Eight: Looking Back Through the Years, This Life is Without Worries (Bonus Chapter)

As people get a little older, they seem to enjoy reminiscing about the past.

Just like Lin Xiaoai.

As before.

2040 years.

We've known each other for 21 years and are celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary.

Lin Xiaoai and Yu Ci revisited the places they had visited before, following in the footsteps of ten and twenty years ago. They took a hot air balloon ride in Hokkaido, saw the magnificent LS Waterfall, and strolled through the streets of their homeland, chasing each other back and forth.

I also went to H University again.

"As people get older, their memory really does get worse." Yu Ci pressed the delete key twice. "I made a mistake with this data last time, and I made a mistake again this time."

Lin Xiaoai, who was having a video conference, glanced at the sofa.

During dinner, Yu Ci brought up the fact that his memory seemed to be getting worse. "Although I wasn't very smart before, I never made a mistake when recording these data files. But lately, I seem to be making mistakes all the time."

"Senior, you're overthinking it." Lin Xiaoai put a piece of carrot on Yu Ci's plate. "You look just like a little girl right now, not old at all."

"You're being sweet-talking again." Yu Ci couldn't help but laugh every time this happened. "You're two years younger than me, you're not a little girl anymore, how could I still be..."

"I say so, so it is." Lin Xiaoai waved her hand, interrupting Yu Ci's rambling, her eyes so sincere that one could believe every word she said. "No matter what, senior will always be my little princess."

Yu Ci responded with an "oh," his expression remaining calm, but his eyes were already brimming with smiles.

"Actually, I don't think I look older," Yu Ci said, then sighed. "It's just that after so many years, I feel like some things in my mind are getting blurry."

"What is it?"

"that is……"

This is something that's a little difficult to talk about. "Um, it's nothing special, it's just..."

When you think about it carefully, it's still hard to talk about this kind of thing.

"Maybe I shouldn't tell you, I'll show you the thing instead." Yu Ci said, then stood up and ran to his study to get his notebook.

"Yes, it's in the first document in the third column. You'll see when you take a look."

She was acting mysteriously, which made Lin Xiaoai curious.

With a simple tap on the touchscreen, the little yellow folder opens instantly.

In a second, countless documents, PPTs, and video files popped up.

In that instant, a myriad of flowers bloomed, a dazzling array. Lin Xiaoai paused for a moment and began to look at the notes on these items.

Summer 2009, first encounter with the document.

……

A confession in 2010, at the movie theater/document.

Summer 2010, Bonfire Video.

Summer 2010, a video of a foreign street.

Group photo taken in [year].

A group photo taken in [location] in [year].

There are nearly 100 documents, with time numbers at the beginning and the rest slightly disorganized, only indicating where the events occurred.

"Senior, what's this?"

Hmm.

I always feel that showing this kind of thing to my partner is like a weird way of confessing my feelings.

We've been together for so long, dating for so many years, suddenly doing these things seems a bit pretentious, doesn't it?

"Well, it's nothing much." Yu Ci organized his thoughts. "It's just that after I came back from H University, I wanted to reminisce about my younger days, but I found that a lot of things were blurry."

"I'm afraid that the more I forget, the more blurred my memories become, so I want to take advantage of the fact that I still remember now to organize our old videos, photos, and write some... memoirs?" Yes, that's it.

At that moment, Lin Xiaoai felt as if Yu Ci had thrown her heart into a honey pot, completely soaking it in sweetness. "So, senior, have you been busy with this all this time?"

"I guess so..." Yu Ci said, then coughed twice. "But I didn't organize it very well. I looked at some of the photos and couldn't figure out the dates, so the documents are still a mess."

Which photos don't match?

The topic at the dinner table was veered off course, but so be it, and neither of them cared.

“This one.” Yu Ci pointed to a photo of her and Lin Xiaoai standing under the moonlight watching the aurora. “I remember we didn’t see the aurora when we were in the Arctic.”

But strangely enough, there's something above the heads of these two people in this photo?

"I've been thinking about it for a long time."

This is a scenario that doesn't even exist!

"Where did this photo come from?" This photo had been bothering her for a long time.

"Xiao Ai, do you know?"

Lin Xiaoai didn't know this at first.

But after looking at the photo for a few seconds, she remembered something and then burst out laughing.

"why are you laughing?"

"I, senior, remember where this photo came from."

"What?" Yu Ci's eyes widened. "Where did it come from?"

"From Photoshop".

"what?"

Seeing Yu Ci's surprised expression, Lin Xiaoai began to tell the story about the photo.

Many, many years ago, when the two of them went on a trip after graduating from high school, they went to the polar regions to see the aurora borealis.

However, you can't just see the aurora borealis whenever you want.

That time, Yu Ci and Lin Xiaoai stayed in the polar region for three days, but they didn't see a single aurora.

Then one time, I was chatting with some locals, and they said that couples who have witnessed the aurora together will have a love as dazzling and infinitely bright as the aurora.

So the two of them waited in the polar region.

There was enough time, so waiting wouldn't have been a problem, but—

On the fifth day, Yu Ci caught a cold.

Her frail body simply couldn't withstand staying in the polar region any longer, so Lin Xiaoai wanted to leave, but with the legends in mind, Yu Ci still wanted to persevere.

Ultimately, you can't fight city hall, and despite his illness, Yu Ci still left the Arctic with Lin Xiao Ai and went to the warmer Hokkaido.

After returning, Lin Xiaoai noticed that Yu Ci would be sullen every time he saw photos of the two of them waiting for the aurora together, so she asked a Photoshop expert at the time to manually add aurora backgrounds to all the photos of the two of them waiting for the aurora.

"..."

"Me? Was I really this willful before?"

“No way,” Lin Xiaoai retorted immediately. “Senior used to be so cute.”

"Okay, how about this one?"

This time, Yu Ci was referring to a photo of her forcefully pushing Lin Xiaoai onto the bed and then bending over to kiss Xiaoai.

"I……"

"I don't quite remember kissing you like this!" But ironically, she found this photo in her memory-dedicated cloud photo album, "and I have absolutely no recollection of it."

"This..." Lin Xiaoai looked at the photo, unsure of what to say. After thinking for a moment, she said, "Actually, it's normal that you don't know this photo, senior."

It's quite normal that she didn't know about this since she's in the photo.

"Actually, I took this photo."

"Did you take this picture?"

"Mmm." Although a long time has passed, the sweetness has never faded. "When I took this photo, you were drunk, senior."

That day was their first wedding anniversary.

They came out as gay.

I thought there would be a storm of criticism, but to my surprise, most people around me sent their blessings to this relationship.