Chapter 388 — Wishes of Old
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"I don't know. Let's each open one, since we wrote them so long ago. It's a good chance to see what we wished for back then," Shen Yushu said.
"All right, then..." Gu Mengyao hesitated a moment, then nodded. Though she was reluctant to let Shen Yushu learn her secret — this girl was hardly reliable. Who knew if she'd have it spread to Wei Zhao's ears the moment she learned it? That would be mortifying.
But then she thought: it had all happened so long ago, and she herself had forgotten what she'd wished for back then. Even if Wei Zhao found out, it was nothing but a childhood fancy. It didn't matter.
So Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu each took a pouch and began to open it. The pouches had been sewn shut with fine thread — the two of them must have been quite meticulous back then. Now, though, neither had the patience to unpick the stitching thread by thread. Shen Yushu, long since unable to wait, simply grabbed a pair of scissors, snipped through the fine thread, and opened her pouch.
"Hehe, I opened it first — let's see whose wish this is!" Shen Yushu said with a smile as she unfolded the wish slip inside. The paper had yellowed somewhat, and the handwriting on it was quite faded, yet it remained perfectly legible: "My wish is to live together with Xiaoshu my whole life, happy and joyful forever..."
This wish slip had clearly been written by Gu Mengyao. Gu Mengyao listened in astonishment as Shen Yushu read the contents aloud — she never would have imagined that when she was little, she and Xiaoshu had already been this close.
"Yao-Yao, I'm so touched..." Though Shen Yushu was usually brash and carefree, seeing the words on this slip now, she could not help but be moved. Her eyes reddened and tears threatened to fall.
"Hmph, only now do you realize how good I've been to you?" Gu Mengyao took the scissors and opened the brocade pouch in her hand. Needless to say, this pouch had to be Shen Yushu's: "My wish is to marry Yao-Yao and be with her my whole life... Huh?!"
After reading the words on the slip, Gu Mengyao could not help but stare wide-eyed. Shen Yushu wanted to marry her? Could something be wrong with her head — did she have lesbian tendencies?
"Uh?" Shen Yushu was likewise stunned, never expecting her own wish to be so full of punch: "Yao-Yao, could it be that we were a couple of lesbians back then? Otherwise, why are our wishes so similar?"
"Lesbian my foot!" Gu Mengyao said, speechless. "What do you mean, similar? They're worlds apart! If anyone's the lesbian, it's you — not me! What I wrote was that I wanted to live with you — sisters can live together too! But look at what you wrote — you wanted to marry me. You're the one with the problem!"
"Uh? No way, right?" Shen Yushu thought it over carefully, and indeed that was how it seemed. Could she really have had some abnormal tendency in the past? But she did not remember any of it... Did she not like men? It seemed she did like them... When Arrow-Brand Brother kissed her and touched her boobs, she had felt her heart flutter...