Day: December 4, 2022

       When Suo Yang first saw Shen Huiming’s name, he thought he had read it wrong, or maybe it was just someone else with the same name.

       But soon he realized that this was Shen Huiming’s strategy, and the guy was discharged from the hospital without telling him at all.

       Suo Yang was not the least bit upset. Instead, he looked at the passenger list and smiled. A colleague next to him asked, “What’s wrong?”

       “Nothing.” Suo Yang politely responded with a smile.

       Suo Yang wondered if Shen Huiming had ever thought that his whereabouts had been revealed before he even boarded the plane. This so-called surprise made him at a loss whether to cry or to laugh

       For the first time in his career, Suo Yang was a little distracted as he went to get ready after the meeting.

       Suo Yang suddenly remembered the first time he met Shen Huiming on the plane. On that occasion, just like now, he was given the list of first-class passengers during the meeting. However, at that time, he did not feel any strange emotions when he saw the name Shen Huiming, and at that time, he did not know that he would later become so involved with this person.

       At this moment, Shen Huiming, who had completed the check-in procedure and was walking to the VIP lounge, took his mobile phone and wanted to send a message to Suo Yang, but he was afraid that he would affect the other party’s work, so he could only force himself to suppress such thoughts.

       He went to the waiting room and received a cup of coffee. When he sat down and was about to drink, he remembered that he had been told by Suo Yang on the plane not to drink coffee on an empty stomach.

       Shen Huiming got up with a smile and went to pick up a small cake that was individually wrapped.

       He didn’t expect he would be so obedient. After Shen Huiming sat down, he took a photo of the coffee and cake in front of him, ready to find a chance to ask for praise from Suo Yang.

       This was the first time Shen Huiming went to Berlin. He was not sure if Suo Yang would stay there and how much free time he would have if he did. However, he took the time to prepare himself properly so that if Suo Yang said he had enough time by then, they could just walk around Berlin.

       Just a casual walk, not really a date.

       Shen Huiming was very cunning. He believed that there should be a complete setup for dating. Meeting, eating, walking, and even watching movies were not considered real dates.

       He anxiously waited for the boarding announcement. He, who has always been calm, even got up from time to time to check the news at the boarding gate.

       This was what it felt like to want to meet someone so badly as if he had smelled the aroma of the other person from a long distance and couldn’t wait to follow this faint fragrance all the way.

       Shen Huiming was holding the half-read copy of ‘On Love’ in his hand, which almost became his ‘love bible’.

       Because Suo Yang had spoiled the ending in advance, Shen Huiming actually started to read the first 120 pages and kept rereading the previous parts again and again.

       He felt that, at least at this moment, his relationship with Suo Yang was more suitable for the first eleven chapters. He refused the entertain the idea of the so-called ‘Romantic Terrorism¹it was actually the 18th chapter’, and he only needed to discuss ‘Romantic Fatalism²and Romantic Fatalism is the 1st chapter in the book’ with Suo Yang.

       During his stay in the hospital, Shen Huiming gave serious thought to the relationship between them and what attracted him to Suo Yang.

       Although everyone says that love has no reason and that any love that has reasons would collapse on the first blow.

       But in fact, Shen Huiming felt that everything that happened in the world had its reasonable reasons, including love.

       The emergence and development of love follow the same principle—to touch the soft part of your heart.

       Love was not without reason at all. The first time Shen Huiming saw Suo Yang, he saw the rare calmness and tenderness in the people around him. Although Suo Yang always maintained a ‘professional’ attitude, the just right sense of distance attracted him.

       As they spent time together afterwards, Shen Huiming felt more and more that Suo Yang’s life was like a beautifully wrapped gift box that everyone wanted to take for themselves, but the price was so high that many people had to turn away.

       But he wanted to go out of his way to get it back at a high price, not to get a glimpse of what was inside, but to untie the packaging that was binding him and give him freedom.

       Shen Huiming felt that Suo Yang was yet another kind of himself, a person who was raised high by life and forced to tighten his nerves.

       Therefore, he wanted to be Suo Yang’s hero, or at least allow the other person to be unrestrained when he was by his side.

       The most clichéd metaphor to describe the relationship between the two he imagined was that Suo Yang was a swimming fish, and he wanted to be the everlasting lake for this fish³in a sense Shen Huiming wanted Suo Yang to be able to keep swimming on and on because he would be the lake that has no end.

       It was challenging and fun.

       Shen Huiming waited for a long time and finally got the boarding notice.

       He took his book and walked towards the boarding gate with his ticket and passport in his hand.

       Here we are again.

       Finally, we meet again.

       He won the bet anyway, albeit with a little less than honourable tricks.

       Shen Huiming smiled and walked towards the shuttle bus, which was going to take him to Suo Yang’s side, and he was looking forward to his reaction when he met him.

       Suo Yang stood there to greet the first-class passengers, dressed in a neat uniform, with a decent smile and standardised conversation.

       When Shen Huiming walked up, he looked at Suo Yang from afar, and the two of them looked at each other without any unusual reaction from Suo Yang.

       When Shen Huiming arrived in front of Suo Yang, Suo Yang smiled and said, “Hello Mr. Shen, welcome to this flight.”

       Shen Huiming smiled at him and nodded, responding, “Hello.”

       After he said that, he went inside and found his place.

       Thirteen hours. The journey was divided into two parts.

       For the first time, Shen Huiming felt that the long flight time was a good thing.

       Suo Yang greeted the passengers and returned to the cabin to continue the service in order. He helped the passengers to place their carry-on luggage and asked them what their needs were.

       Shen Huiming sat there peacefully the whole time, but his attention was focused on Suo Yang.

       His voice.

       His smile.

       The way he lifted his arms as he helped people set up their luggage.

       And that waistline.

       The uniform shirt was tucked neatly into his trousers, and even the belt uniformly distributed by the airline seemed to be a limited edition of a luxury brand on Suo Yang.

       The only one of its kind in the world.

       Everything seemed like yesterday once more⁴a reference to The Carpenter-Yesterday Once More song. Shen Huiming seemed to have returned to the day he left for New York when a flight attendant called Suo Yang caught his attention and made his long and tiring journey full of mystical tales.

       Ultimately, Suo Yang was very professional and held himself to a very high standard of professionalism.

       He would not let the presence of Shen Hui Ming interfere with his working routine. He treated the other party as ordinary passengers during the whole process, following all the procedures and regulations, without even any unnecessary pleasantries.

       Safety demonstrations routine, after that broadcast tasks routine.

       Shen Huiming listened to Suo Yang’s voice on the speaker and tapped his fingers on the cover of the book with pleasure.

       His fingers landed on the word ‘love’, as if he was tapping on the door of the heart one after the other as if notes were popping out of it.

       The plane took off, and once again, Shen Huiming and Suo Yang flew together into the blue sky and into the clouds, and Shen Huiming felt as if he understood why Suo Yang liked this job.

       It was so romantic.

       Leaving the footprints of his life at an altitude of 30,000 feet, the footprints were the notes, and each route was the lines of the music scores⁵stave, and not everyone could write such a tune.

       Now, it was not only Suo Yang who had left footprints in his life, but also love who stepped in and forced himself into this life.

       Their relationship sprouted in the blue sky, and it would also sprout and bloom here.

       Shen Huiming looked out the window and watched as they moved further and further away from the familiar city, as they were wrapped in clouds and their love was as sweet and soft as a cloud-shaped cotton candy.

       Does Suo Yang like to eat cotton candy?

       He vaguely remembered that Suo Yang seemed to say that he didn’t like sweets very much.

       But it didn’t matter. He just had to eat this one. Keep this one and put it in his mouth, and let it melt little by little for a lifetime.

       In the midst of Shen Huiming’s wild thoughts, the plane reached the stratosphere, Suo Yang came over, stood beside him, leaned slightly and said, “Mr. Shen, can I get you something to eat?”

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Notes:
Here’s another update 🙂
I originally already prepared this two chapters to be released last month, but well 🙂
If you guys realise, Suo Yang said the exact same thing when he met Shen Huiming for the first time, just that in the past, he addressed Shen Huiming as Sir but now, he is calling his name

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       The opportunity was definitely there, and Shen Huiming had been waiting for this opportunity.

       However, the fact that he was hospitalized seriously affected his progress with Suo Yang and once again proved that ‘Your health is your most precious asset’.

       When one’s health was poor, one’s efficiency in pursuing others was forced to decrease.

       After Suo Yang met Shen Huiming in the hospital, he never saw him again until Shen Huiming was discharged from the hospital.

       In fact, Suo Yang was worried about him. However, on the one hand, he had to fly all over the place, and on the other hand, he did not want to show too much concern for the other party. It was not his style to be too attentive.

       However, the two of them kept in touch with each other, and before Suo Yang left the hospital, Shen Huiming successfully added his WeChat.

       WeChat was much more convenient than texting.

       Several times, when Suo Yang landed, he subconsciously wanted to report his position to Shen Huiming, but most of the time he held back. The only time he didn’t was when he flew to New York again, and that night he stayed at the same hotel as his colleagues on the same shift.

       This time he declined the invitation to go to the bar and stayed at the hotel alone under the excuse that he had a ‘headache’.

       At night, just after it rained in New York, he stood by the hotel window and smoked a cigarette.

       The cool air refreshed his mind and made him not sleepy. He hadn’t smoked for a long time, and he almost choked when he took a puff.

       It was on this night that Suo Yang suddenly began to admit that he had some concerns. He used to think that he would not care too much about anyone because he was taught to love himself more since he was a child.

       His parents had their own education method, which always regulated and constrained Suo Yang’s life. Even though he had lived alone for many years without his parents, the rules he strictly followed since childhood had been engraved in his bones and could not be changed.

       Don’t like others easily, and don’t be kind to others easily because everyone is selfish, except for parents; no one would love you without limits, and it was not worth your selfless love.

       These were the principles that his parents taught him.

       Suo Yang always felt that what his parents said was right, that perfect, unreserved love could only be found in literature or artworks that had not been embellished; Romeo and Juliet, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai¹The Butterfly Lovers(梁山伯与祝英台) is a Chinese legend of a tragic love story of a pair of lovers, Liang Shanbo (梁山伯) and Zhu Yingtai (祝英臺), whose names form the title of the story., none of them were real.

       If they did exist, they were few and far between.

       It was said that people would meet 29.2 million people in their lifetime, and the probability of two people falling in love was only 0.000049%.

       Influenced by his parents’ ideas, Suo Yang had also become a ‘love pessimist’ and thought that such things could never be found.

       He thought he would never meet such a person in his life who could hit his nerves, but accidentally, this person seemed to really appear.

       Suo Yang was on guard while dealing with it. He thanked Shen Huiming for not rushing in and knocked on his door calmly.

       He casually took a picture of New York late at night after the rain and sent it to Shen Huiming.

       He didn’t say where he was, but he believed Shen Huiming would recognize the nearby landmarks.

       Shen Huiming was a bit flattered to receive the message. Although in this relationship, it was not that he was the one who always took the initiative while the other party stayed indifferent. At times, Suo Yang would respond to him, but after all, there were very few times he would take the initiative to send messages.

       It was noon in China, but the picture sent by the other party was midnight.

       This feeling of two worlds crossing and overlapping made Shen Huiming Ming feel somewhat fascinated.

       On one side was the warm light of an autumn day, and on the other was the cool rain of an autumn night. One was warm, and one was cold. After he had given some thought to it, Shen Huiming raised his hand and took a picture of the view outside the ward and sent it to Suo Yang.

       After Shen Huiming finished sending the photo, he then said: When will we meet again in New York?

       Suo Yang smiled, held his cigarette in his mouth, typed with both hands, and replied to Shen Huiming—it depends on when you will be discharged from the hospital.

       The two didn’t talk for long. Shen Huiming remembered that it was already late at night there and urged Suo Yang to get some rest.

       He was now all too aware of the importance of a good night’s rest, and staying up late was not an option.

       Suo Yang was still not sleepy when he lay down. He took the phone to look at his previous chat records with Shen Huiming. When he realized how stupid his behaviour was, he quickly turned off the phone and went to sleep.

       He had a dreamless night, but when he woke up in the morning, he received a greeting from Shen Huiming.

       —Good morning. It should be dawn on your side of the world.

       Suo Yang sat on the bed hugging the quilt and smiled. When someone inquired him about a good morning, his annoyance vanished instantly.

       Regarding that bet, both of them kept it in their minds.

       Originally, when Shen Huiming brought up this bet, he intended to follow the will of God. He always felt that there was an invisible hand between him and Suo Yang that was connecting them. Otherwise, how could he explain the previous coincidental encounters one after another?

       So, at the very beginning, he didn’t want to do anything deliberately. It would have been the most romantic thing to have a willow grow out of nothing²to hardly do anything to reap the outcome³.

       However, when he was finally discharged from the hospital and returned to the company to deal with the accumulated work for two days, he felt that to leave everything between him and Suo Yang to destiny was a little bit unfair to Fate.

       Fate was only responsible for letting them meet, not for the subsequent development.

       It was up to them to decide how far they would go.

       It was up to them to plant the ‘cause’ and taste the ‘fruit of the ‘cause’  by themselves. In the end, whether it would be good or bad, whether they would be satisfied and happy or whether they will end up with regret. The responsibility should be their own, not Fate.

       What’s more, Shen Huiming discovered that Suo Yang was actually looking forward to it as much as he did.

       Since this was the case, how could he let Suo Yang down?

       Shen Huiming got discharged from the hospital and didn’t tell Suo Yang. He was going to give him a surprise.

       It was not difficult to know where Suo Yang would fly on a certain day. Shen Huiming expedited the visa application, freed up time, and bought a plane ticket.

       The flight to Berlin took nearly thirteen hours, with a flyover in Moscow.

       When Shen Huiming set off to the airport with his simple luggage, he couldn’t help but think: It was not easy to court a flight attendant. You have to have the money and the time.

       The streetscape kept receding, and Shen Huiming was getting closer and closer to the airport.

       At this time, Suo Yang didn’t know anything about Shen Huiming’s whereabouts. He had just arrived at the airport and was about to go to a meeting.

       Before he left home, he was still sending a message to Shen Huiming. At this time, he didn’t know that Shen Huiming had been discharged from the hospital, and he was about to win their bet.

       Suo Yang stood in front of the bathroom mirror and adjusted his uniform again, making sure that he was in perfect condition.

       He walked out of the bathroom and went to the meeting with other colleagues in the team.

       He had to fly to Berlin today. The first international flight in his flight attendant career was to Berlin, but he hadn’t had the opportunity to fly this route since then.

       He liked the place quite a lot.

       When all the staff are there, the meeting begins.

       The first-class passenger list was handed over to Suo Yang. He looked through the information of each passenger as usual and then saw the familiar name—Shen Huiming.

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Notes:
Sorry for the non-existent update for a month.
I just lost my little sister at the start of this November, and honestly, translating and updating is the last thing I could think of. I gave some notifications in discord, but I’m not sure if everyone is in our discord. So I apologized to those who were waiting for the updates enthusiastically. I will try to keep regular updates, however, but with the loss of my little sister, my schedule will not be as flexible as before. So I apologize in advance because I might do sporadic updates after this.

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