school text books and he sat next to Gu Jing on the bed.
‘I’m letting you know from today onwards, you and I won’t walk on the same path. I’ll never forgive you, I won’t go to school or go tutoring with you anymore. I don’t care what my parents think. I won’t let you live a peaceful life,’ Gu Jing said.
After Gu Jing returned to school a rumour spread around the school that the childhood sweethearts Gu Jing and Zhen Lang became childhood enemies.
Gu Jing turned into a diligent student and she trained vigorously for the next national team trial because she didn’t want to give Zhen Lang another opportunity to mock her.
Many school girls asked Gu Jing to pass love letters to Zhen Lang. Gu Jing didn’t hesitate to rip the love letters to pieces then she gave it to Zhen Lang. But Zhen Lang had perceptive eyes so she couldn’t do anything more excessive than ripping his love letters.
Gu Jing’s rivalry with Zhen Lang lasted throughout their high school years. School girls were afraid to go near Zhen Lang and Zhen Lang persuaded Gu Jing’s parents not to let Gu Jing go to the next national team trial.
Many years later Gu Jing sat on the floor of her childhood room. She packed her belongings to hers and Zhen Lang’s home in their hometown. But it was more accurate to say their home in their hometown was an extension of their parents’ homes. If they visited their parents they would eat downstairs and sleep upstairs.
It was because the Zhen household was rich, Mr Zhen didn’t want his son and daughter-in-law’s home in their hometown to be far away from their childhood home. So Mr Zhen paid for an extension floor to their childhood home and he planned to convert his son and daughter-in-law’s childhood rooms into nursery rooms for his future grandchildren.
Gu Jing loved her childhood home and she knew no matter how many children she and Zhen Lang had in the future, there would always be enough rooms for their children.
Gu Jing took out an old dusty wrapped box from under her childhood bed, and she carefully unwrapped the box.
Gu Jing opened the box and inside were no valuable items. Most of it were her old tournament awards, old toys and childhood memorabilia. It made her reminisce about her foolish childhood years.
Under old books and pens her eyes were attracted to a little box she didn’t recognise. She opened the little box, it was a blue snow globe. Finally she remembered it was the snow globe Zhen Lang got her for her birthday that year she missed her first national team trial. Because at that time she was angry at Zhen Lang, she only glanced once at the snow globe and put it back in its little box.
Gu Jing thanked the heavens she didn’t throw Zhen Lang’s snow globe in the bin. She didn’t expect the person she hated for many years would become her husband, the closest person to her and also her… she bit her lips and she smiled.
Gu Jing held the snow globe. Inside the snow globe was a boy and girl figurines who faced each other and held hands. She shook the snow globe and a snow storm slowly fell on the beautiful boy and girl figurines.
No matter how Gu Jing looked at the boy and girl figurines, she thought they looked like Zhen Lang and herself. She saw words engraved on top of the snow globe – ‘I only need your smile, Zhen Lang.’
After the snow storm stopped Gu Jing propped her chin on her knees and she shook the snow globe again. She stared at it in a daze. She thought it was true, as long as she smiled Zhen Lang would easily agree with her. Her foot accidently knocked the little box and she heard there was something else inside the little box. She put the snow globe on the floor and she picked up the little box.
Gu Jing took out a faded yellow note. The words scribbled on the yellow note looked rushed, but the letters were still elegant and she was certain it was Zhen Lang’s handwriting – ‘After today, Zhen Lang is willing to protect Gu Jing forever, I’ll be by her side and trust her.’
Gu Jing thought Zhen Lang had always been by her side and protected her. It was always what he wanted and he never wavered.
Zhen Lang walked into his wife’s childhood room. ‘Done packing? Let me hold the packed boxes.’
Gu Jing looked up at Zhen Lang and from the floor she felt he looked taller and more handsome.
Gu Jing remembered Zhen Lang’s words on the note and she puckered her lips. ‘Mr Vet.’
Zhen Lang sat behind his wife and he wrapped his arms around her waist. ‘What is it? Why are you suddenly meek?’
Zhen Lang’s wife laid her head on his shoulder and she laughed happily. He kissed her lips for a while.
Gu Jing picked up the snow globe, she shook it and she smiled. ‘Confess, how long have you secretly loved me?’
‘Secretly loved you?’ Zhen Lang asked. He saw the note in his wife’s hand and he took the note from her. ‘Whose handwriting is this? It’s really ugly.’
‘I want to know too. It seems like this person loves me deeply. I’ve decided I’m going to marry this person, but I don’t know who this person is,’