After Crossing Over to the Republic of China, I've Become a Heartthrob Chapter 43B

Song Liao

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I was lying on the hospital bed, looking at the snow-white ceiling, when I turned my head and saw someone lying on the next bed.

This person, was no other than Song Liao.

It turned out that everything I experienced was not a dream, not a fantasy.

My insides surged into a burst of great joy, the original owner's feelings and my own feelings for Song Liao mixed together, forming an unstoppable palpitating force.

When I travelled to the Republic of China, the first thing I saw was him.

When I travelled back to modern times, the first thing I saw was him.

Fate is such a cruel thing, arranging all the ups and downs of coincidences.

My heart can not help but have a trace of fear, he has not yet awakened.

If he wakes up and no longer recognises me, what should I do?

Before I had time to start worrying, Song Liao suddenly opened his eyes and stared straight at me.

I was so scared that I gulped, and I didn't know how to open my mouth to exchange pleasantries.

Song Liao asked me: "Who are you?"

It was over.

My stomach dropped.

This person is not the Song Liao I know!

My eyebrows were all knitted together, my expression extremely twisted.

I remembered the first time I travelled to the past, Song Liao said he was my fiancé, and I was shattered to pieces.

A man is not a true gentleman if he doesn't take his revenge.

So I said to him, "I am your fiancé." 

Song Liao smiled: "You are still so vindictive."

"You fucking tricked me!" I was so angry that I jumped down from the bed and pinched Song Liao's face: "This is not the Republic of China, this is my turf, Mr. Liao, be careful what you say in the future."

Song Liao didn't think it was a big deal, but held my hand and hugged me tightly, "Shi Yao, let me hug you."

I've always been a softie, so I warmed up in my heart and stroked his back.

I was back in modern times.

We came back together.

The plot of the story is very cliche.

On my first day of school as an English teacher, I was hit by a car in front of my alma mater, A City Foreign Language School, due to a thunderstorm.

The person who hit me was none other than Song Liao.

The original Song Liao has gone to the West, and the current Song Liao is the Song Liao who has travelled back from the Republic of China, the Song Liao that I am familiar with.

Song Liao's identity here is the president of Song Group.

Song Group is in the high-tech industry, I don't know much about it, but it's very rich.

It's a family business. There are two brothers in the Song family, Song Liao and Song Yuan.

But Song Yuan here doesn't know me, and there is almost no interaction between us.

Every time I go to look for Song Liao, I occasionally see Song Yuan, and even with only a brief moment of eye contact, that guy will be secretly jealous for a long time.

The two brothers will still fight, but I've learned my lesson from the Republic of China, and I'm trying to stay out of the way. Anyway, modern society is a civilised society, so they can do whatever they want.

Song Liao is very obsessed with the idea of marrying me.

Every time he mentioned it to me, I would say, marriage is the grave of love, I'm still so young, let's talk about it later.

And every time, he has a very hurt expression, like a giant dog that's lost its way after not getting love-filled pets.

In fact, I don't have to reject him, I sometimes just want to see this kind of cute expression.

Although after that look, it will always be followed by a vengeful love affair, but that's just what I'm looking for. 

I love Song Liao's behaviour in bed.

One rainy day, Song Liao drove me to school and passed by a KFC, and it happened to be on a Thursday.

I had to go for the fried chicken burger and Coke set, Song Liao looked troubled and said, "It's not healthy."

"Fried chicken is chicken. Why is chicken unhealthy?"

"Are you hungry?" Song Liao changed the topic, "I'll take you to eat something better."

"No, I want fried chicken!"

"This place is too crowded and messy for that."

He's worthy of being a pampered young master in the Republic of China. He liked to pretend to be a bully, but he is still acting aggressive in modern times. No, I must educate him well, so that he can undergo socialist reforms.

I said to him seriously, "Young Master Liao, it's the year 2023, we are all equal, a large number of people means liveliness, you can't say bad things about KFC!"

Song Liao seemed to struggle for a few moments, but finally compromised.

"In the future, you can't drive, you have to take public transportation, understand? "

"I've never taken it." Song Liao justified: "There are too many people, I don't want to."

"You have to."

"Okay," Song Liao said, "I'll take it if you do."

"Good boy." I stroked Song Liao's head with satisfaction, and suddenly this idea popped into my head, so I said, "Song Liao, let's get married."

Suddenly, Song Liao seemed to be frozen in time, looking at me dumbly.

The floor-to-ceiling glass window reflected the figure of us sitting side by side.

I don’t know why I suddenly had such a thought.

In the five-star hotel, in the starry ballroom, in the high-end customised dinner party, I never said yes to his proposal.

But in the KFC fast food restaurant, on such an ordinary rainy day, I suddenly had such a thought.

Seemingly afraid that I would back out, Song Liao immediately said yes.

Although he was determined not to eat junk food, he excitedly accompanied me to eat the whole KFC family bucket.

In fact, I didn't have to ask him to get married now, I just wanted to trick the young master into eating fried chicken.

Although after eating this meal, going back for the night, this guy must have been excited all night, but this is exactly what I want.

I'm very happy with Song Liao's performance in bed.

Although I had anticipated Song Liao's wastefulness, poverty has once again limited my imagination.

My original intention was to just go through the motions, I didn't care about all the fancy formalities.

But Song Liao had to hold one wedding abroad and one at home, wishing to announce it to the world immediately

He told me that he had been negligent towards me, so he wanted to give me a most respectable wedding, to compensate me.

I emphasise again, there is no who let who down between us, there is no who should compensate who, everything is natural. I don't need an apology, I just need the truth of the moment.

This guy was actually moved to tears, and I had to comfort him.

I said: "Young Master Duheng, I didn't expect you to be so fragile."

Song Liao said: "I'm only vulnerable because of you."

"Don't cry when we get married, your image of being a tough guy in front of everyone will be shattered."

"I won't!"

"Really?"

"Shut up!"

Song Liao is really, as always, childish, arrogant and cute.

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The mountain, or the sea, the day, or night,

The crow, or dove, it shapes them to your feature.

Incapable of more, replete with you,

My most true mind thus makes mine untrue.

(Sonnet 113, William Shakespeare)

‿︵‿︵ʚ˚̣̣̣͙ɞ・❉・ ʚ˚̣̣̣͙ɞ‿︵‿︵

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Translator Notes

Please feel free to comment any mistakes I made so I can improve and do better as I go through the book.

Translated: July 15, 2023