In the Next Life, He Doesn't Want to Be My Brother - Chapter 18

Ji Yuxuan held me.

I inhaled the familiar scent from him.

Gradually, I felt at ease.

And fell into a deep sleep.

When I woke up again, I was in the hospital.

The warmth from my palm spread throughout my body.

Ji Yuxuan was holding my hand, leaning on the bedside.

A nurse came in to chase him away.

“Hey, the wound on your arm just got bandaged, you can’t press it like that.

“Since you’re a patient, can’t you rest in your own ward?”

Though she said that.

The nurse didn’t actually chase him away.

After coming to the hospital three times, his face was familiar.

I secretly glanced at Ji Yuxuan.

Our eyes met.

He was secretly looking at me too.

I was so afraid he would look away.

But he didn’t.

“Brother.”

“Yutong.”

We both spoke at the same time.

“You go first.”

Again, we spoke simultaneously.

Then we both fell silent.

Bullet screens flashed by.

[Previously, the sister already took the initiative, this time she can’t be the one to do it again!]

[Weren’t you planning to confess at your last birthday party? What are you waiting for!]

Me?

Confess at the birthday party?

“Ji Yutong, I don’t just want to be your brother, I want to be by your side forever.

“I’ve liked you for a long, long time.”

Suddenly.

Ji Yuxuan confessed.

I blinked, staring at him in a daze.

The bullet screens were moving too fast.

I couldn’t help but look at them.

Ji Yuxuan stood up.

He cupped my face with both hands.

“Stop looking at the bullet screens, look at me.”

Then I saw Ji Yuxuan’s face magnified in front of me.

Blocking all the bullet screens.

“What’s your answer?”

“You can see the bullet screens?”

“Answer me first.”

“I… I do.”

A bullet screen stubbornly squeezed between our faces, just centimeters apart.

[Silly girl, he’s confessing, not proposing, why say ‘I do’!]

Ji Yuxuan glanced at that bullet screen with a hint of reproach.

Waved his hand.

The bullet screen dispersed.

Then he kissed me.

I widened my eyes.

His lips were so soft.

His eyelashes so long.

His eyes so bright.

He freed one hand, gently covering my eyes.

And in my world.

All I could feel was his presence.

After Ji Yuxuan raised his hand.

His diary fell onto the bed sheet.

The open page read:

[In the next life, I don’t want to be Ji Yutong’s brother.]

Then all the bullet screens seemed to be drawn back into the diary by some mysterious force.

The last bullet screen read:

[No need to wait for the next life, just cherish this one.]

Ji Yuxuan picked up the diary.

His long fingers gently caressed the leather cover.

The traces of time, held dearly in his hands.

“Thank you for coming back to find me. Thank you for living with me again.

“The future me indeed loves you more every day than before.

“I’ve liked you, from the past to now, from now to the future.”

Extra

Ji Yuxuan’s ability to see bullet screens.

Was discovered by chance after his second hospital stay, when he opened his diary.

I asked him,

“Since you can see them, why did you turn and run when you saw me with Qin Siyuan in the parking lot?”

“I… I had just seen it then. I couldn’t believe you were married.

“I couldn’t believe I actually let you marry him.

“I clearly wrote in my diary, I won’t let you leave me…”

Ji Yuxuan raised his hand to cover his face.

The other hand frustratedly hit his own head.

I stopped his hand.

“If I had known, I would never have let you marry him. If it meant going to jail, I’d rather take him down with me.”

“Ji Yuxuan!” I shouted sternly.

There was indeed some decisiveness in Ji Yuxuan.

But towards me, he seemed unable to be harsh.

After being discharged, I insisted on staying at Ji Yuxuan’s apartment outside the school.

Since I was young, I liked walking barefoot on the floor.

He still chased after me like when we were kids, trying to put slippers on my feet.

“Ji Yutong! Come here and put on your shoes properly.”

I made a face at him like when we were kids.

Ji Yuxuan got annoyed.

Oh.

I just said he couldn’t be harsh with me.

He wasn’t as patient as before.

He grabbed my wrist, gently pulling.

I fell into the soft sofa behind me.

To prevent me from escaping.

He held my delicate butterfly bones with one hand.

And put slippers on me with the other.

I mischievously kicked off the slippers again.

Ji Yuxuan leaned over.

His large hand grasped my ankle.

“If you don’t wear your shoes properly, I’ll make you stay in bed and not get up.”

Thinking of something.

My face suddenly turned red.

Ji Yuxuan seemed very pleased with my expression.

He leaned against me.

Squinting like a lazy cat.

I picked up the slippers, making a gesture of surrender: “I’ll wear them, I’ll wear them now.”

Ji Yuxuan threw the slippers away.

Lifted me horizontally from the sofa.

“Too late, no need to wear them. I won’t let you have the chance to touch the ground.”

…

I had a dream.

Sweet and bitter.

Beside me, Ji Yuxuan murmured:

“I won’t let you leave me…”

I woke him up, telling him about my dream.

Ji Yuxuan pondered for a moment.

“I just had a dream too, dreaming about things happening in another world.”

He looked at me, emotions swirling in his eyes.

“I dreamed we were always brother and sister, I dreamed you married someone else.”

I laughed.

“But I dreamed we were together.”

Then I dared not laugh anymore.

Because Ji Yuxuan was staring at me intently.

I cupped his face, leaned in, and left a very light kiss on his lips.

“We’ve always been together, no need to worry.

“By the way, when did you start liking me? Were you an adult?”

Ji Yuxuan tightly embraced me, “I’ve liked you for a long, long time.”

“So long that from the first moment I saw you, I had this impression in my mind.”

“I like you.”