"To , you weigh about as much as my backpack. Hop on."
"..."
Lin Xi sat on Xue Yang’s backpack, and he began carrying her toward the mountain summit. She felt a little embarrassed at first, but after taking in the beautiful scenery, she forgot her shyness and would even help wipe the sweat from his brow from ti to ti.
This scene made others green with envy. So of the girls wanted to try it, too, and began acting coyly with their boyfriends.
"Honey, look at other girls’ boyfriends, and then look at you."
"Sweetheart, isn’t it enough that I love you?"
"If you loved , you’d carry to the summit."
The boyfriends had no choice but to mimic Xue Yang, but after only a few steps, they were gasping for breath and had to quickly set their girlfriends down.
"How can you be so useless?"
"Look how light she is, and then look at you! There’s no comparison. If you want to climb this mountain, then climb. If not, go back down!"
The chastised girlfriends didn’t dare say another word, rely pursing their lips and reluctantly following their boyfriends up the mountain.
Others, with more wit, had humorous cobacks for their partners’ unreasonable, copycat demands.
"Honey, look at that guy over there."
"Don’t waste your pity on him. Let’s go!"
The exchange sparked a round of laughter from the crowd.
This brought a bit of life to the otherwise tedious climb.
「...」
Elsewhere, Chen Ying and Wu Xiaoya started to struggle before they had even made it halfway up.
"Ying Ying, let’s rest here for a bit," Wu Xiaoya suggested.
Chen Ying had been distracted the entire ti. She’d spent half the climb checking her phone, but no matter how many tis she looked, the person who was supposed to ssage her hadn’t sent a thing.
If they didn’t attend the sa university, she would have truly thought that Xue Yang had vanished from her world completely.
"Ying Ying, look! From here, we can see our university!"
Chen Ying put her phone away and looked in the direction Wu Xiaoya was pointing. Sure enough, she could see Yanbei University.
Yanbei was the nation’s most prestigious university, and she had once believed that just getting in would change her fate. She’d held onto that belief right up until Xue Yang was also accepted.
He used to be at the bottom of the class; how could he possibly attend the sa renowned university as ? I worked so hard since I was a child, sacrificing so much of my childhood just to get accepted. On what grounds did he get in so easily?
As she fud, a part of her was also deeply moved.
He actually managed to get into Yanbei for . Without , Xue Yang would have been nothing. So, even if it’s just to thank for getting him into Yanbei, he should keep pursuing . For the rest of his life, he should only be allowed to like . So why won’t he contact ? Why is he ignoring just because I rejected him? Xue Yang, what are you trying to do?
"Oh, my friend told that on a nearby path, there’s a guy carrying his girlfriend up Phoenix Mountain. They say that if a guy can carry his girlfriend to the summit of Phoenix Mountain, they’ll be together forever, and no hardship will ever tear them apart. Gosh, that guy is so romantic."
"Wow, so there are really guys willing to carry their girlfriends up Phoenix Mountain? I thought that was just a legend that nobody actually believed."
"..."
Chen Ying lowered her head and glanced at her phone. It seed Xue Yang had once said sothing similar. That if she accepted his confession, he would carry her up Phoenix Mountain. Back then, she thought he was joking. According to the legend, only one couple had accomplished this feat in nearly a thousand years.
The story went that the girl was a princess and the boy a re woodcutter who t at the foot of the mountain. The princess wished to marry him, but her father, the king, would naturally never allow his daughter to marry a penniless woodcutter. He devised this task, hoping the woodcutter would back down in the face of such a difficult challenge. Instead, the woodcutter succeeded. The king honored his word and agreed to their marriage. The woodcutter eventually went on to beco a great general on his own rits.
From then on, the woodcutter and the princess lived happily ever after.
「...」
After half an hour, Xue Yang was a little breathless but still pushing on. Lin Xi started to feel bad for him.
"Xue Yang, are you tired? Why don’t you put down? I can walk by myself."
"No need, we’re almost there. Just sit tight."
"Look! That guy really carried his girlfriend all the way up Phoenix Mountain! I heard that if a guy carries his girlfriend to the summit, they’re guaranteed to be together forever."
"That guy is serious boyfriend material! They’re so romantic."
"I think that girl is really pretty. Even with a mask on, you can see the stars in her eyes. The guy is handso, too, and he’s so gentle with his girlfriend. Is this the legend coming to life? The story of the princess and the woodcutter... no, wait, the princess and the prince?"
"I’m totally shipping them."
"..."
With her cheeks flushed, Lin Xi wanted to deny that they were a couple, but it seed pointless. No one would believe her anyway.
About twenty minutes later, they finally reached the summit.
The mountaintop was a flat expanse, like a large adow, and it was nearly packed with people. So had spread out picnic blankets laden with fruit and mooncakes, clearly prepared for moon-gazing. Couples, not wanting to waste such a beautiful night, were already in each other’s arms, while others were busy setting up tents.
"We’re here. You can get down."
Xue Yang bent over slightly to help Lin Xi off his back.
The mont Lin Xi’s feet touched the ground, her legs were unsteady after being suspended for so long, and she stumbled. Fortunately, Xue Yang’s quick reflexes saved her from a fall as he caught her, causing their bodies to inevitably press together again.
"They’re so sweet together."
"..."
Lin Xi instantly pulled away from Xue Yang as if she’d been burned, her gaze darting elsewhere. In the short ti they had been there, several more tents had popped up around them.
"Are they going to sleep here tonight?"
"That’s normal."
It’s not like couples who co all the way out here late at night are planning to go back. In this day and age, who climbs such a high mountain in the middle of the night *just* to look at the moon?
"Let’s go. I’ll take you sowhere with fewer people."
Lin Xi nodded. There were too many people, and the feeling of constantly being watched made her very uncomfortable. It’s because Xue Yang and I aren’t actually a couple.
Xue Yang led Lin Xi down a small path. Although it was dark, the light from the full moon on the fifteenth made the path clearly visible and gave it a unique charm.
Originally, he had planned that if Chen Ying had been willing to co out with him tonight, he would confess to her under the witness of the moon and a teor shower. He believed that if she had co, she would have accepted. It was a pity, though. She would never want to climb a mountain with him, much less watch the stars and the moon together. It was all just his fantasy. A six-year delusion. It was ti to wake up.
「...」
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