She watched her mother's face change color and felt like she was truly about to faint. Beside her, Mo Qingcheng remained remarkably calm, giving her a gentle push from behind to signal that she should lead him over to greet her mother.
I... am completely unprepared for this...
Tears welled up silently in her heart as she stepped forward, lowering her voice to say, "Mom... um... this is my boyfriend..."
She didn't dare look at her mother's face—absolutely not, no way...
"Auntie, hello," his voice instantly transformed into something entirely different, devoid of the earlier doting and teasing, now only exuding elegance and steadiness, instantly calming the heart, "My name is Mo Qingcheng."
"Mmm... hello." A voice as cold as minus thirty degrees...
"Please don't misunderstand, I'm a doctor at this hospital," Mo Qingcheng smiled slightly, directly breaking through the awkwardness, "I just brought Sheng Sheng to see my cousin. She's going abroad for further studies tomorrow."
"Ah... a doctor," well, the temperature had already risen to plus thirty degrees... "Xiao Mo, are you also in obstetrics and gynecology?"
How did it become Xiao Mo already T.T... Gu Sheng finally dared to look directly at her mother and the aunt beside her who had come for a prenatal checkup. The aunt was staring at Mo Qingcheng with intense curiosity...
"No, I'm in cardiology," Mo Qingcheng's eyes were dark and bright, radiant beyond compare, "On the seventh floor."
"Cardiology... cardiology is good." Her mother's voice temperature soared straight up, her face beaming with joy as she pointed to the pregnant woman beside her, "This is your auntie. I came to accompany her for the prenatal checkup. You don't need to be polite, just call her Auntie."
"Yes, yes, no need to be polite," the aunt smiled, looking completely satisfied, "Just call me Auntie."
How did it become just call me Auntie T.T...
Was he truly devastatingly handsome? It seemed like he could effortlessly charm two older aunts without any trouble...
Just then, Linglong Titou finished her work and, seeing the scene, immediately understood. She quickly walked over, "You must be Sheng Sheng's mother, right? Hello, Auntie. I'm his cousin, also a doctor here in obstetrics and gynecology," she said while glancing at the aunt with her large belly, "Should I call you sister? Or..."
Immediately demoted a generation.
The aunt was grinning from ear to ear—wasn't this clearly complimenting her on looking young? This future nephew-in-law's family sure knew how to talk: "Just call me Auntie, like Sheng Sheng does. Although I'm over a decade younger than my sister."
"Then I'll call you Auntie," Linglong Titou immediately took the aunt's hand, "I'm really sorry, Auntie. I'm going abroad for further studies tomorrow, so I won't be able to take care of you. Let me introduce you to another doctor, one with a lot of experience."
"Oh, that's really too much trouble for you."
"It's no trouble at all. We're family."
...
...
How did it become family T.T...
The Top talent and Linglong Titou, this brother-sister duo, were completely in sync, playing off each other perfectly. In the end, they charmed her mother so much that she reached out and wouldn't let go of Mo Qingcheng's hand. Gu Sheng awkwardly savored her first-ever meeting with the parents, feeling that all the novel scenarios she had read in the past were utterly weak in comparison. Was there ever a story where the parents met at the entrance of the obstetrics and gynecology department, only to end up feeling like long-lost relatives after just a few words...Finally, he escorted her, her mother, and her aunt to the hospital entrance, hailed a taxi, and at the same time took a hundred yuan from his wallet, pressing it into her hand: "I have to go to the branch hospital right away. Please take good care of your mom and aunt for me and make sure they get home safely." She hummed in agreement, clutching the money...
"Auntie," Mo Qingcheng's voice reached past her, speaking directly to her mother, "this meeting was really too rushed, but I am very serious about Sheng Sheng. We are getting to know each other with the intention of marriage. So, next time I will definitely visit formally."
...
...
With the intention of marriage or something... she and he had just started.
Wasn't that the case...
This feeling of being gradually consumed step by step, was it really not an illusion...
Those eyes were slightly upturned, carrying a smile.
"Good, good." Her mother's temperature was at a hundred degrees, completely unable to come down.
This future son-in-law, his words were too pleasing to the ear!
Completely unable to keep up with any rhythm, yet wanting to talk to him, he was still busy at the branch hospital with no time to spare. She was like a dumpling swimming in boiling water, tumbling up and down, and finally just floating on the surface of the boiling water.
Floating and drifting, floating and drifting again...
And so it went until the next evening, just five minutes before the Perfect anniversary celebration was about to begin, he was still busy.
"Is your Top talent not coming?" Geng Xiaoxing privately messaged her on YY.
"Hmm... he should come, just don't know when..."
When he was busy, he really was the type who couldn't attend to anyone.
For such a major community's anniversary celebration, there were already twenty or thirty CVs whose names could be called out. This time, it was also a collaboration with Geng Xiaoxing's website, and many external guest stars had been invited. Even if Qiang Qingci didn't come, with so many people, the event could still be fully supported. She silently watched, watched, and by past eleven o'clock, he still hadn't arrived.
"It seems our Nation-toppling Top Entertainer really isn't coming." Jue Mei Sha Yi coughed lightly.
"Tonight is his farewell performance," Feng Ya Song sighed with a hint of melancholy, "farewell, oh."
Feng Ya Song deliberately paused for a few seconds.
Tonight was the Perfect anniversary celebration, and tonight was also Qiang Qingci's official farewell.
It seemed that without a flood of messages on the screen, it wouldn't quite do justice to the Nation-toppling Top Entertainer...
In just these dozen seconds, the entire public screen had already been flooded with hundreds of messages: "No, Top talent...""Is it really farewell! Are you really leaving the circle?!""Sir, please don't leave, even if you don't release dramas, just let us know you're still here!!!!""This person's heart is shattered into pieces, this person is completely dead..."
...
...
Jue Mei and Feng Ya Song were definitely doing it on purpose, deliberately letting this flood of messages create a perfect farewell for Qiang Qingci. She looked at the screen, from wanting to laugh while reading, to finally not being able to make out any words at all, as they flew past her eyes like garbled code, over and over again.
There was a feeling of her nose tingling, and her eyes were sore too.
So touching.
Just as she was immersed in her own emotions, she suddenly heard someone play a song.
So familiar...
Ever since she and the Top talent finished their cover singing that day, she had gotten into the habit of listening to this song.
Oh my god, are they really using this as the final farewell performance...She felt as if her entire being was on fire. All the long-suppressed affection she held for the two-dimensional world and this community, along with the emotions she had accumulated over the years while listening to those songs and dramas through her headphones, surged up all at once.
Just at that moment, someone suddenly sent her a private message.
She clicked it open.
It was from Qiang Qingci, who had just come online.
"This passage is a bit too sentimental, so it’s better for me to express it in writing.
Not long after I first met you, I asked you a question: Do you love me? Your answer was, ‘I love your voice.’ That was a fascinating response. I think I can understand how you feel. There are countless beautiful voices in this world, but only one voice makes you think, ‘This is the one I like.’
A few years ago, I heard a demo at Linglong’s place. There was a voice softly humming a rhythm, without any lyrics. She played it three times in a row and told me, ‘This girl is so talented—she can compose, arrange music, and her voice is lovely too.’ I agreed, of course, but there was something else she didn’t notice: the way it made my heart skip a beat.
Back then, this voice wasn’t called ‘Sheng Sheng Man,’ nor was it even signed. It was simply labeled ‘sheng.’
Later, I found her."
She stared at these words.
She couldn’t even feel whether her heart was still beating…
She had always thought no one would understand that she had truly fallen in love with him at first listen.
Yet she never expected that the person who understood her best was Qiang Qingci.
Soon, he sent another message:
"I’ve learned a new dish—steamed pork with preserved mustard greens over rice. Next time you come, I’ll make it for you."
She couldn’t help but laugh. Food again…
From the very beginning, he had tempted her with recipes, but no matter how enticing the food was, it couldn’t compare to the allure of his voice.
Do you believe it? In this world, there is always a voice that will make your heart skip a beat the moment you hear it.
In that instant, she just stood there, frozen, unable to hear her own heartbeat.
Only her breathing, soft and shallow, as if afraid of disturbing that voice, wanting to keep listening, to listen forever…
The voice in her headphones gradually reached its conclusion.
She distinctly heard his voice delivering the final spoken parts:
"Only when the ten directions cease to exist and the four seas vanish shall I dare part from you."
This line was a spoken part he had added himself. Apart from those present that day, no one else had ever heard it. Not only did the fans in the public chat go wild, but even the invited guests joined the flood of messages: "Better never to have met such a captivating voice!!!! Master, if you leave, my world will turn into a silent movie!!!!" "Please, Master, don’t retire!!!!"
Yellow IDs kept popping up in the public chat.
Even Feng Ya Song couldn’t resist joining in: "Top Talent, it was because of you that I entered this circle in the first place… Please look into my sincere eyes… You are my dream…"
Gu Sheng let out a soft laugh.
Qiang Qingci’s microphone finally lit up, as if he had just arrived: "Sorry, everyone. I’ve been busy since last night." His voice remained as calm and gentle as ever.
If you didn’t listen carefully, you wouldn’t notice the rare hint of emotion in his voice.
To steady himself, he cleared his throat and paused for a moment. "Actually… there’s no such thing as retiring or not retiring from this circle. In this community, some leave because they’re tired, some because of drama, and others because of real-life work… They all gradually drift away…"
He always spoke at a measured, unhurried pace.Gentle yet coolly distant, he is someone to love, yet difficult to approach. Perhaps this is why he has come this far.
He has always understood the principle that "the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water," and he has always been able to uphold it, regardless of the praise or the slander...
Qiang Qingci.
It is a very subtle, slightly warm color, much like him.
Author's Note: T.T... I've been chased all day, but I'll keep writing anyway. It's not like there's any rush to publish.
I can't handle all this resentment. All the moderators seem ready to take me down...
P.S. Why is it like this every time I finish a story...
Has no one said, "Enough already, it's time to wrap it up"?
Whew, bowing, curtain call.
I originally planned for it to be 140,000 words, but the emotions built up to the climax here = .= so it's finished.
As usual, here are some ramblings about this story:
From the start, I said this was a story for Voice Fetishists, with some song and food recommendations along the way. Of course, I'm also happy if someone becomes a Voice Fetishist because of it and can share my love for those songs. How should I put it? The obsession with voices = .= is something only Voice Fetishists can truly understand. It’s probably that indescribable dedication unique to the Two-dimensional world... The reason there are so many circles in the Two-dimensional world, big and small, is that everyone is earnestly, obsessively, and passionately devoted to something. Sharing that obsession with like-minded people is a truly wonderful thing~
Of course, don’t take it too seriously. It’s like the online romances that were popular years ago—there are successes (I won’t give examples, there are quite a few 0.0), but there are also failures. The probability isn’t much different from game romances or online romances...
As for the publishing plan: The online version of this book is 120,000 words, while the print version will likely be between 140,000 and 160,000 words. I’ll write some side stories about the supporting characters I like. Of course, the focus will still be on the main characters... = .= For example, some very chaste intimate scenes or something like that. I haven’t thought it through yet... Because I have too many publishing plans this year, I’m planning to release it next year. I’ll announce it on Weibo and in the story (with a fake update). If you want to buy the book, keep an eye out from time to time~
Finally, bowing, thank you all for your unwavering support.
In the future, I’ll continue writing stories of all kinds. ( ⊙ o ⊙) I love trying all sorts of things, so don’t stop me...
Author's Note: Jinjiang is driving me crazy!!!! It’s mixing the author’s notes into the main text T.T...
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