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Shi Luo is frozen. He’s in a trance. His spine is stiff. His eyes are strangely unfocused on everything except the man before him. He wondered if he heard him wrong. Is he dreaming? Did he ever leave IAC?
“Won’t you let me be a good soulmate?”
The words repeat in his head like a broken record player stuck on the same lyrics. Had he misheard?
Yu Sui stared at Shi Luo with a complicated look in his eyes. He had previously cleared away all the misunderstandings between them. Everything had been cleared up in their timeline. Especially the matter of how he treated his soulmate with a friendship like closeness in their two months together. Surely his actions hadn’t been that scum that his soulmate was questioning his genuine feelings and thoughts right now right?
He stretched out a hand to hold Shi Luo’s chin. He noticed how Shi Luo had dodged his eyes away. Luckily, he hadn’t flinched away from his touch. So he still had a chance. In a low voice he asked him once more, Luo Luo, won’t you let me be a proper soulmate?”
Shi Luo couldn’t help it. He didn’t care if he sounded bratty or childish. He just needed reassurance. “You won’t leave me again will you?”
“I won’t.”
“You’ve liked me after all this time?”
“I’ve liked you all this time.”
“You like me now?”
Yu Sui smiled at that question. Unlike before where he answered immediately, here he paused for a few seconds causing Shi Luo to look up at him with suspicion. “I loved you now, then and always will.”
Even in the dim light of the courtyard. Yu Sui could see red appear on the tips of his soulmate’s ears. He gently brought his other hand up from his side and onto Shi Luo’s back. “Shi Luo, can you let me make you happy?”
“Yes.”