That Chibi Little Wolf

The last stop was the seaside.

I often see videos of people riding trams along the coast on a sunny day by the sea, enjoying the scenery. This time, Hua Xin finally got to witness firsthand what it's like to experience this place as seen through other people's eyes.

Early on, Xia Yan and I moved to Kamakura by the sea, where there were many more people climbing Mount Fuji.

You can see crowds of tourists at the usual tourist spots along the tram tracks, but it gets much quieter once you get on the tram.

It's like most people only care about what most people like to pursue, while ignoring what they actually like.

For once, Hua Xin didn't raise her camera to take pictures from left to right. Instead, she raised her phone to record the slowly passing seaside scenery on video. Her eyes were filled with nostalgia as she looked at the rippling sea.

The first real progress in my relationship with Xia Yan was during the beach trip suggested by Sister Li Xue. I faced my own heart, stopped thinking about those random things, and stopped being afraid of those imagined scenarios. I told Xia Yan my true feelings.

Now, returning to the seaside, my feelings and thoughts are completely different from before.

She moved the phone to Xia Yan beside her and asked in a serious tone, as if she were a reporter conducting an interview:

"Excuse me, sir, how are you feeling right now? Is there anything you'd like to say?"

Xia Yan smiled brightly, made a "V" sign with one hand towards the phone camera, then thought for a moment before slowly saying:

"How do I feel right now?... Hmm... Super happy!"

"As for what I wanted to say, I guess it's that I'm happier having my wife by my side."

Then Xia Yan lifted Hua Xin's other hand, and the camera in the girl's hand was moved from Xia Yan.

He gently kissed the back of Hua Xin's hand, as solemnly as a knight confessing his love to a princess in a fairy tale.

"So, Miss Hua Xin, would you be willing to spend your whole life with me?"

Xia Yan's words startled Hua Xin, who had been trying to tease him. Although her tone was somewhat arrogant, the upturned corners of her mouth couldn't hide her joy.

"Well... I'll just have to make do and live with you like this."

"Who told me to fall for you in this lifetime?"

Hua Xin said softly, then slowly turned off the camera recording on her phone and gently leaned on Xia Yan's shoulder.

"Did Miss Hua Xin regret falling into my hands?"

Xia Yan continued speaking, but he held Hua Xin's hand tightly without letting go.

Even today, the scene before me seems like a dream, so unreal.

The people I love are right beside me, and landscapes and countries I've never seen before are right before my eyes.

Every minute and every second was incredibly relaxing and blissful, free from any shackles or anxieties.

It's as if nothing matters.

As long as the person he likes is by his side, as long as Hua Xin is by his side, all the difficulties and things are not so important, and he doesn't need to pay any price or play any role for them.

He is just Xia Yan.

Xia Yan, who was with Hua Xin, no longer needed to wear a mask.

"Do you regret it...?"

"I definitely don't regret it now, but as for the future..."

Hua Xin deliberately dragged out the last syllable of her words, seemingly intending to inflict a mental blow on Xia Yan.

But it didn't last long, nor did it continue its mischievousness; instead, it said softly:

"It will definitely be like this in the future."

Some people say that the number of people you meet in your life is actually predetermined.

I only saw him or her by chance on the street, without even remembering what he or she looked like or what their clothing was like. I just glanced at them briefly as they came into view.

It is very likely that this chance encounter and coincidence will not happen again for the next few decades.

Even if you've studied together for three or four years and become classmates and friends who have left a lasting impression on each other's lives, you may never see each other again after graduation when you go your separate ways.

Because during this time, they have already used up all the people they would need to meet in the rest of their lives.

But Hua Xin felt that she and Xia Yan could definitely grow old together and stay together forever.

We will stay together until we enter society, get married, have children, and grow old.

Playing games for too long can make you feel electronically overwhelmed, eating too much meat can make you feel greasy, reading too many novels and comics can hurt your eyes, and facing the same person for too long can also make many people feel annoyed.

Just like parents who have lived together for decades, young children also have a rebellious phase.

I've also imagined what it would be like to live alone in the future, without anyone to control me, carefree and free.

But they are different.

This emotion has penetrated to the soul. Even if one makes a deal with death and sells their soul, there will probably still be some indelible mark left on it.

For example, their souls are engraved with each other's names.

Hua Xin couldn't help but chuckle softly.

That feels so cheesy.

Suddenly, the topic of "meeting" came up...

Hua Xin remembered some things she had discovered long before she confessed to Xia Yan that they were together.

"I said..." Hua Xin sat up from Xia Yan's shoulder, then looked at him with some curiosity, her blinking eyes filled with anticipation. She asked in a somewhat ambiguous tone:

Did you ever encounter a rather strange child when you were a child?

"About your age."

Upon hearing this, Xia Yan fell into deep thought, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes, and the happy smile he had just worn gradually faded away.

"When I was a child..."

"The peers I meet are probably just my classmates from school, right?"

"Besides that, there doesn't seem to be anyone else I recognize in my memory..."

Before he could finish speaking, Xia Yan suddenly remembered the scene that had appeared in his mind in a half-dreaming state when he was enjoying a young girl's lap pillow in the hotel that day.

Then he turned to look at Hua Xin with some hesitation, as if he had crossed time and space and was looking at "Hua Xin" the way he did when he was a child.

"A Chibi Little Wolf keychain."

"You still have it, right? I saw it before."

Hua Xin's smile was radiant, as if she had exchanged a secret for something extraordinary.

At this moment, the tram also arrived at its final stop.

In Xia Yan's memory, he and she, as children, appeared together in that bustling yet incredibly lonely park.

Perhaps it was their shared suffering that drew them together, which led them to gradually notice each other. In the end, Hua Xin shared her apple, leaving behind a "token" between them.

Xia Yan looked at the girl with some surprise, then composed himself and chuckled again:

"It's still there."

"So... does that mean we're childhood sweethearts too?"

"Really? Exactly!"

The train arrived at the station, but they did not.

"I'm home."

Hua Xin looked at the sea in front of her, turned around and hugged Xia Yan, gently snuggling against him.

"Yes, it's time to go home."

Xia Yan embraced the girl, his eyes full of smiles.