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Ming Yu 22,  Xihan 18

College and confessions

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"Ah. f*ck. I burned it." Bea Yu cursed under her breath and hurriedly turned off the heated stove.

Ming Yu swiftly grabbed her hand and let it cool under tap water. The food couldn't be left alone or it won't taste right so the first thing that came to mind was to pull on Fan Han letting him take care of her as he busied himself with cooking.

Every detail must be closely controlled and perfected and Ming Yu badly yearned to pass this test.

He spent lifetimes sharpening his knife, it's understandable to be a bit more prideful right?

Presenting the food on his teachers table, every single twitch in their expression was noted down in his heart but again, the judges were playful not letting out a single grin.

"That is all. Results will be given out next week. You all can leave now." They cold-heartedly announced pretending to not notice the nervousness in our faces.

"I'm gonna fail. gonna fail. gonna fail. gonna fail.gonna fail.gonna fail. MY LIFE IS RUINED!" Bea Yu chanted, head hung low and both hands hiding her face. Her grades had not been looking good and because of the damn burn she lost a good 5 minutes leaving her plating process rushed. This pretty much crushed the last bit of self confidence she had left.

Condolences to college students like her. _(:3 」∠)_

At the corner of his eye, he saw Fan Han smirking amused at her outburst.

"Ming Yu. Your lover is here and-ugh, you might want to hurry and see his face." Zhang Muye called him over but easily shrank back after glancing at whoever was behind him.

Hey! What the hell did I even do to you?! Did I kill your family or what? stop glaring like you're out to murder me it's disturbing! ლ(¯ロ¯"ლ)

Ming Yu didn't hurry and carefully cleaned everything up. When he came out, Xihan was already talking to some girl who's eyes pretty much flickered with stars while looking at him. Noticing him, he lowered his head to the girl and easily bypassed her approach. Standing before Ming Yu, his eyes grew wide from the distinct wound on his lip and cheek.

Surprised, he grabbed Xihan's jaw and the other hissed from the abrupt pain. This made Ming Yu frown and the frown grew darker when the clearly wounded husband grinned and even stole a kiss.

"What happened?"

"Oh. You're not bothered that I just kissed you?" He wanted to tease him a bit more however he was forcefully grabbed away from the crowd. Ming Yu was openly gay so it didn't bother him one bit and was more concerned about what or who would dare ruin his husband's precious face!

Damn it! Show yourself! (°ㅂ°╬)

There was a pharmacy nearby and they sat outside on a bench to treat it. Ming Yu habitually blew on the wound and all Xihan could think was how cute his little wifey was as he puckered his lips.

"Who did this?"

"Hmn?" His eyes settled on those luscious pair of pinkish plump flesh.

"Focus."

"Ah, this? Wan Ke Er hit me. Will you avenge me?" 

"Oh." The concern on his face disappeared in a blink of an eye. He didn't even try to be careful anymore and pretty much slapped the band aid over his cheek and muttered. "All good."

If Wan Ke Er roughed Xihan this badly, there was surely a pretty good explainable reasonable reason why.

She's innately rough with people but only to a certain friendly extent.

"I told her that i'm gay and that i'm in love with you."

"Oh ... so she ... didn't agree?" This was news to him. Maybe it's because of Yue and Huang's influence that he immediately concluded that everyone in this world were accepting of gay couples.

"She did. She even said that I don't deserve you. I got this when I was talking how much I love you and that we're already together." Hearing this was confusing but suddenly, Ming Yu's brain which pretty much contained a huge Data Bank of the person named Xihan easily understood where the problem lies.

"What did you say?"

"You won't get mad?" Ming Yu replied with a smile. Xihan could already feel what was about to come and resolved himself to say it out.

"She still had doubts so I expressed as best as I can in words how much I love you. How my mind had always been filled with you, how I can imagine a future with you, the fact that you also felt the same and the fact that ever since childhood, I have always cared about you-"

A smile was escaping Ming Yu's lips but the next following words made him grip the plastic bag tight, slowly raising it as a weapon to beat a certain someone.

"-how I every night I would think about you, how *cough* alluring you are in my dreams, how my right hand has been working overtime because of you and the blissful fact that I've already taken you in my arms and- wait! wait! calm down! Ah Yu!"

Xihan was forced to lie down on the bench, shielding himself in a half fetal position whilst enduring the constant force on the side of his head. 

"She wouldn't believe me! ahaha!"

"You can-!still-!laugh!-" (°ㅂ°╬)

"Ahahaha!" (^▽^)

The series of outburst finally calmed him down and Xihan hugged Ming Yu's waist while gazing at the ever moving crowd.

Ming Yu looked up to stare at his husband's face. The midget wasn't a midget all along and experienced a harsh growth spurt that made him sick for three days. Looking up has been straining his neck so decided to close his eyes and lean on his shoulder.

"Ah Yu, let's live long."

"Mmn."

Unlike the busy crowd surrounding them, the time spent on the warm bench was still.

~

Ming Yu 24, Xihan 20

Wifey is working

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Arriving home. Xihan opened his arms letting his boy and soul sink into the couch. 

∠( ᐛ 」∠)_ College is tiring.

Studying business again was simple, what's exhusting was the awful number of projects that was tied down with it. And this was still not the end of it.

Aiming as  teacher in Business, he still needed to apply for a teacher preparation program, a student teaching internship in a business classroom, pass the required tests for business educators then apply for a teaching license.

He never imagined that the process to becoming a teacher would be this tedious. Xihan made it sound so easy saying "Since I do business, I can teach business." Wat crap, at the moment he felt like he could just throw all his materials away.

Tired, he rummaged through his pocket and grabbed his phone to call Ming Yu up.

/Xihan, i'm busy I can't talk right now./

Soon as his wifey picked up, he was harshly kicked to the side.

"When are you coming back? I miss you ..."

/The restaurant is busy tonight ... i'll come home soon when i'm done./

"Should I pick you up?" It has been two months ever since the last time they were able to spend quality time together. Xihan really just wanted to see his face as soon as he could.

/Mmn.  Will that be okay?/

"Good. Call me when you're almost done and i'll drive. Go back to work."

/... How are you?/

"Tired ... but i'm good." Xihan yawned soon after he said this.

"I can hear them calling you. Go."

/Mmn./

The call ended with a dull beep filling the room with silence. The apartment was too lifeless without Ming Yu ... Xihan didn't wanted to move and lied still, drowning in the empty atmosphere.

Exhaustion sneaked in deeper in his system and he fell asleep.

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"Xihan ... wake up. Let's move to the room ..." Xihan was still half dazed even after the warm hand shook him up.

"You're ... home?"

"I rode the train back .. let's sleep. In the room not here in the couch." Soon as he heard train, it dawned to him that he fell asleep and didn't pick Ming Yu up. He grabbed his phone and saw 6 missed calls in his record so he cursed under his breath, annoyed.

"Sorry ..." He should've drink coffee to keep himself awake.

"Go change your clothes and head to bed. I'll be coming after drinking some water."

Xihan was too tired to be disobedient and lied down soon after. He waited for Ming Yu to come and when he did, he held out his hands to cuddle while resting his head on top of the other.

"How was work?"

"Good ... the boss was in a good mood. There were too may customers for the night so we were busy ..." There were people coming in without reservations a few, who called in to cancel theirs. A few things got mixed up making it harder for the cooks to control the quantity of the dish needed to be served.

To conclude, it was a catastrophe.

"And you? how was ..." Ming Yu didn't continue after seeing the man's chest evenly breathing in and out hinting that he had fallen asleep.

Without a word, he reached for the lamp light this time and raised the blanket to warm themselves up from the cool night.

Good work for today.  (a/n: and to all who are reading)

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Ming Yu 27, Xihan 23

Business

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The opening of the restaurant was successful. Actually, it's too successful that they lacked personnel.

"You underestimated your cooking too much." Xihan smiled since Ming Yu in his eyes was really funny. A lot of people would aim to always have  good good business and pray for it to constantly continue that way but Ming Yu ... he feared more about the work asked than the income. Ming Yu was never uninteresting.

"Let's just think about finishing today and think about this tomorrow."

Restaurant Xiyu. It wasn't hard to guess where the name was derived from.

Ming Yu's desire was to simply manage a restaurant as a hobby. His family helped him buy off a three-floored building and renovated the first floor into a restaurant while the second and third floor would be their living space.

He noted the borrowed money as debts and would gradually pay them back despite their refusal. Ming Yu didn't feel like owning them too much and he also wished to stay filial in ways that he can.

On the other hand, Xihan was still busy with college finishing up all needed requirements for a teaching license and finally get a job making Ming Yu the current bread winner of their family. Knowing this, Xihan smirked and suggestively said that he'll make up for it in another way.

His suggestion wasn't helpful at all so the breadwinner politely refused.

But the husband still managed to drag his wifey on the bed the night of that day.

Ming Yu's thoughts after the strenuous bed activity-

Ming Yu: I think I heard my back snap ... i'm getting old. (ー_ー ) 

The gap between a man about to enter his 30s and one in his early 20s was quite clear.

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Ming Yu 29, Xihan 25

Adoption

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The children were running around the field chasing the soccer ball that always kept under Xihan's foot. The big guy was deliberately teasing them to anger that all jumped on him in attempt to knock him out and snatch the ball but just before once could touch it, Xihan mercilessly kicked it far away opting them to run after it and search through the bushes. 

That's foul play. (ーnー )

Xihan only laughed at my direction and bond with the children as much as he could.

"They're having fun ... but why are you here?" A boy was sitting beside Ming Yu. His bangs were long hiding the pretty eyes underneath covers and was quite skinny too. The aura around this boy was a bit cold and mature which made him stick out like a sore thumb from all the tiny bodies of innocence.

"I am not really into playing." He said so but the faint glimmer on the young boy's eyes as he watched them play was easy to see.

"Lan Ying is good at singing. Chang Man is pretty strong. Hui Ling and De Ming are the smartest while Guang is a bit stupid but is really friendly.Do you want to hear more uncle?" 

The boy was surely lending his brother's and sisters a helping hand by introducing each by himself. 

"But what about you ... who are you?"

"You don't need to know uncle. There are others a lot better than me so it's better to just ignore me." His tone was calm, without  ripple.

"... but I need to know ... since I want to take you home." He decided. He wanted this boy. This boy reminded him of his past self where he would never walk up to the spotlight and would rather let his siblings grab the chance of getting adopted. 

It was his way of thanking them for ll the happy memories they made together.

The little boy really never expected that someone would take a gloomy kid like him in. He finally felt scared, afraid to let them down but the burst of excitement in his heart was true and now he was lost of what to do.

"But there's one thing that you need to know ..." Ming Yu gestured Xihan to come and the man automatically knelt beside him and tenderly kissed his forehead.

"You'll get two Dads ... no Mom. Is that okay with you?" Xihan couldn't hide the sense of fulfillment that bloomed in his chest so he hugged Ming Yu tighter and grinned at the boy. 

"In a way, you can consider Ah Yu as the mom because he's- ow!" Ming Yu elbowed Xihan's stomach. This man, every single time. 

The little boy suddenly raised the bangs that showed off  beautiful pair of green and dark brown eyes.

"M-m-my eyes are weird ... w-will you still take me?" This time he was really nervous and extremely hopeful.

"They're really pretty. We like them a lot." Xihan complimented.

Neither expected for the little boy to stand up and tackle them down for a tight hug. He silently cried within their arms and after a short while he let go, hesitant to ask them something. Xihan patted his head while Ming Yu held his hand to assure him to go ahead and talk.

"C-can we visit here often? ... i'll miss them ... a lot." It was something so little, of course it was okay.

They couldn't just take the kid and the procedure would take months. They had already planned out to make more time in spending with the child during the process and consult an adoption professional for the job. They would take any chance to help the boy adjust that Ming Yu was even willing to close the restaurant for a long while. It's been a yer and a half since Xihan started teaching in a university and had been earning well so temporary closing was no problem.

The excitement died down and the little boy was now awkwardly pressured by the two people before him who would ... probably ... be his ... parents?

"About your name. Should we name change it or would you like to keep yours?"

"C-c-change! I want to change it!" He heard from all the letters he'd received from those adopted that their parents had given them cool or beautiful sounding names so he was really excited to know what it would be.

Ming Yu harmlessly smiled and said. " Xiao Bao. Xiao for little and Bao for treasure."

"But your little name will be 'Meng Bao' ... you can't change it." (a/n: Meng Bao = cute baby)

It was at this moment where Meng Bao wanted to say something rude.

Sir, I would like to take back what I said. I want to keep my old name! ( QAQ)

My name was Yutian! I think this sounds way cooler!  (˚ ˃̣̣̥A˂̣̣̥ )

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