『Shen Ye, Cheng Ye』
BL, can be BE or HE. I wrote two routes: one where Gu Shen is married, and one where he isn't. The year Cheng Ye left, Gu Shen didn't see him off. Not because he didn't want to, but because he was afraid that if he spoke, he'd ask Cheng Ye to stay. Cheng Ye said, let's break up, long distance is too exhausting. Gu Shen said okay. After that, Cheng Ye deleted all contact information, changed cities, changed jobs, changed his circle of friends. He thought that if enough time passed and the distance was far enough, he'd forget. He started seeing someone new—dates, dinners, movies. But every time the person beside him fell asleep, he would lie awake, wondering what Gu Shen was doing. He never went looking for Gu Shen. Three years. More than a thousand days and nights. He held out. Until he went back to that city. It wasn't on purpose—his mother was sick. Not knowing what he was waiting for, he opened the Weibo alt account he hadn't used in three years. Gu Shen was still posting. The latest post was from yesterday. It was a photo of the bridge—the bridge they used to visit in college. Cheng Ye stared at the photo, his finger pausing over the screen for a long time. He dialed that number—the number he hadn't dialed in three years. The call connected, and no one spoke on the other end. Cheng Ye said, "It's me." There was a long silence. So long that Cheng Ye thought Gu Shen would hang up. Then he heard a voice, low and slightly hoarse: "Where are you."
Waiting for someone