“I♥U”, it’s not a lie! [boyxboy]✔️ - 13 Shocking!

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~this chapter will be entirely written from Yibo’s POV~

I was just about to question my grandmother about her weird outburst, when we have both gotten startled with the angry voice, thundering a few steps away from us.

“What the hell?
But…wait…isn’t he?”, lao lao mumbled, pointing her walking stick towards the man yelling at his phone.

“Yes, he is!
I told you that we will work together, and before you ask, no, we didn’t get back together.
Actually he didn’t even want to give me the chance to apologize or explain myself.”, I spoke in a cracked voice, trying to hide away from her, my eyes blurred by tears.

She cupped my cheek in her warm hand:
“Bo-Bo, please, listen to your old lao lao, you know that I love you and want what is the best for you!
Forget about this love, believe me that it’s toxic for you!
Also, you should give up at this job and resign, right away, from this moment!
I will give you double the money you would earn from this contract, please Bo-Bo, and…”

Lao lao was interrupted by Zhan, who bowed before her, remembering her from that doomed day.

“I apologize for bothering you with my rude behavior, screaming like that, but I assumed that there was no one here in the lobby, except me, I’m sorry.”, Zhan mumbled, after greeting her politely, keep bowing to my grandmother and totally ignoring my existence of course.

“Don’t worry young man, not as you were yelling at me or at my grandson.
Anyway that person who provoked you to scream like that, probably gives you some hard time, as you don’t seem to me to be the angry kind of personality, I hope you can solve the issue, ha, ha.”

I know my lao lao, she would never act so nicely towards someone she would hate…so why was she so against my love for Zhan Zhan, if she wasn’t hating him?

“Yes, that person keeps provoking me indeed and gives me a very hard time, and…sometimes I reach my limits and start screaming at her…yet she doesn’t give up!”, Xiao Zhan replied, while rejecting another phone call.

“She?”, my grandma whispered, mostly to herself, while glancing curiously in my direction.

But Zhan caught her whisper and replied:
“Yes, she, the woman calling herself as my mother.
I know you will not approve for what I’m going to say, but… I don’t want her in my life, I hate her with passion!”

I got shocked when lao lao didn’t scold Xiao Zhan for stating such an outrageous thing like hating his mother, but instead she whispered almost inaudibly:”No wonder…”, but she changed quickly the topic, before me or Zhan to ask any questions:
“Anyways, we shouldn’t waste anymore time, we really need to go now.
Bo-Bo, probably that the contract you signed doesn’t allow you to resign right away, as we were planning, because of some lawful reasons, but you will take care about this issue starting with tomorrow. I assume your working day is not over yet, but go find your boss and tell him that I want to talk to him.
I’m willing to pay a fee if it’s necessary, for your absence for the rest of the today working hours, but now we are urgently needed at the hospital!
The policeman and the lawyer are waiting for us, too!”

“Hospital?
Policeman, lawyer?!”, me and Zhan shouted in the same voice.

“Jiějiě ?
Mom?
Dad?”, I kept shouting at lao lao, while dragging her by her arm, towards the hotel exit door, followed by Zhan, who was as disturbed as I was.

“Zhan Zhan, Wang Yibo, what’s the matter, what’s going on, where are you darting?”, Xia Zhiguang came in running, detached from the group of people heading back to the studio room, as the lunch break got to an end.

“Stop!
Don’t rush me like that, I’m not anymore young like you lads are, my goodness!
Everyone stop, calm down, and let me take a breath!”,lao lao shouted, kicking my leg with her walking stick to stop me from running.
“Bo-Bo, no, it’s not about any of our family’s members, but about that neighbour kid of yours, A Yuan.
He needs us, he needs you better saying, but I will explain to you everything, in the car, on our way to the hospital!”

“Oh, my god, I know A Yuan, the kid who lost his crow pet.
Why is he in the hospital, did he get sick, is he injured?
I apologize for intruding, but I really got fond of that child, I hope nothing’s too serious.”, Zhan kept bowing to my grandmother, blocking her way to the door.

After giving us a few details, to me and also to the overly worried Xiao Zhan, lao lao waited in the car, while I would be talking to the director, who was very understanding and gave me the rest of the day off.

“We’re coming too, we’ll follow your car with mine!”, Zhan and Xia popped up out of nowhere, at the last moment.

On our way to the hospital, lao lao recounted to me how she intended to go in the morning to the bank, but had to stop by my apartment, as she realized that she forgot her purse on my living room table, when she visited me last evening. As she had a spare key, she didn’t want to bother me by giving me a call beforehand.
Anyway, when she was about to lock the front door and leave, she was startled by two policemen who were looking for Wang Yibo whose presence was required to go to the hospital.
And that’s how my grandma was informed that mister Lan, my neighbor and A-Yuan’s father, has lost his life in a major car accident with dozens of cars involved, while his mother was in a coma state, with low chances to make it through.
Thank god that A-Yuan suffered only a few light scratches and bruises, but that was only the physical damage. It’s painful to imagine how scared and lost the poor kid must feel.

“We did everything that we could, but sadly, we are not optimistic at all with Mrs Lan’s chances, it’s not even a matter of hours, she could be pronounced dead by any minute. We can’t even call it life this last struggle of her organs, but rather a machine’s effect, so sorry.
She is practically dead, but at least she was conscious for a few moments, before going into the irreversible comatose state, enough to take good bye from her son, poor kid.”, the doctor sighed, while leading us towards the office where we were being expected.

“Where is A-Yuan now? I want to see him, he has nobody to take care of him, he has no relatives.
His father, rest in peace his soul, told me once that he fell in love with his wife when they were small kids. They were both abandoned babies, raised in an orphanage, and now if Mrs Lan will die too, their son will be an orphan, alone in this world… “, I couldn’t refrain myself from bursting into tears.

Tears that poured even harder when I felt Zhan’s hand grabbing mine in a comforting squeeze.

“He is asleep, under sedatives right now, but he will probably wake up at the time you will finish talking with the law people waiting for you in that office over there.”, the doctor explained.

“Law people, what law people?”, I asked, but it was no time for an answer, as the doctor opened the office door and I along with my grandmother were introduced inside.

“He is with me.”, I refused to let go on Zhan’s hand, ignoring the questioning eyes plastered onto our linked hands, and also ignoring Lao lao’s protests.

“And I’m his assistant, I am needed here with them!”, Xia slipped inside, too.

After the doctor excused himself and promised me that someone would take me to A-Yuan’s ward, we were introduced to the people from the office: a policeman, a child protection agent, a juristconsult or something like that and a few others that I didn’t quite take into account.

One of them started to explain:
“Mister Wang, as you might already know, A-Yuan’s father died and his mother will probably die, too, sadly.
During those few moments of consciousness, Mrs Lan was too weak for giving us a signature, but at least we had recorded her voice, when making her wish known. She expressed the desire for her child to be taken in custody by their neighbor or by the neighbor’s family, naming you, Wang Yibo.
Anyway, you have no obligation to take any responsibilities on the kid…”

“I want to adopt A-Yuan!”, I cut him curtly.

“Wait, wait, let’s not get hasty and emotional!
Things are not that simple.
You can’t just adopt a child just like that, especially that you are not blood related to him.
Actually an adoption could take between a year and three years.
The law says that the orphan should be put in an orphanage, or eventually, allocated to a foster family for the time being.
But we did some research on you, and you don’t have a job as you are still a student, you have not a stable income, so needed for raising a child, also you are not married, a proper family would be chosen anytime over you, it would be in the kid’s interest, even if his mother requested for your person.”, another law person explained.

I wanted to reply, but grandma beat me to it:
“Agree with everything that was said, but my grandson Wang Yibo’s family can be the foster family, please do your research properly!
Not only that we are a rich family, but we can offer A-Yuan a healthy and proper environment and a happy life.
And when the time will come and my grandson will get married, he will have his own family and will be able to adopt A-Yuan.
Until then you will never find a better foster family for this child, than Wang Yibo with his family.”

“It will be no need to lose time with documents for the foster family.
Actually you can already start working on the adoptions papers.
Because even though he will be a student for a few more months, Wang Yibo will not be single anymore, he will be soon married and able to offer A-Yuan two parents and a perfect, loving family.
About the income, I’m ready to explain everything, he will be a successful singer, and I am…”, Zhan chimed in, leaving Lao lao, Xia Zhiguang and especially me, open-mouthed in shock.

“I’m sorry, but who are you?”, the law man asked, slightly irritated.

“I apologize for not introducing myself.
I am Xiao Zhan, the heir of ” Xiao Company”, an American Company that I can assure you that it has the most solid background from many points of views, including the income issue, to climb on the top of your list of the most suitable families, no matter if in fostering or adopting A-Yuan.
My assistent here can provide you with all the proving documents.
What I’m telling you is that Wang Yibo is my fiance and soon to be my husband, so as I was explaining to you, he will be a family, a stable family, rich and based on a love family.”

“But you are a man!
You are both men!
It’s illegal to get married!”, two or three persons from the office shouted.
Actually I was not even sure anymore about what I was hearing.
Was it for real or was I just imagining things?

“Yes, we are men!
Yes I am a man, and besides that, I am an American, I have double citizenships actually, Chinese and US.
As you might know, same gender marriage is legal in the US.
Also, it’s legal for the US married couples to adopt Chinese kids.
Until then, my fiance, helped by his lovely family can be A-Yuan’s foster family.”, Zhan Zhan bowed before lao lao, who was pale and trembling like she was seeing a ghost.

“Could you excuse us for a few seconds?
Boys, you two out, we must have a word!”, grandma poked me and Zhan with her walking stick.

After shutting closed the door from outside, she didn’t wait any other moment, but she shocked us both with words uttered through gritted teeth:
“You can’t get married!”

She didn’t let us to ask why, but spoke in the same way, just that more emphatic:
“Because there are ninety nine percent chances that you two are blood related!
Damn, not ninety nine percent, I am a hundred percent sure!”

I didn’t even know how to feel, puzzled, dumbfounded, incredulous or scared like hell?
That’s why I didn’t understand Zhan’s deep sigh of relief, before speaking to my grandmother:
“Oh, I might understand what you are talking about.
My roots are Chinese indeed, as my family has emigrated to the US from here.
Maybe you found out that it happened sometimes on the road for my family tree to cross with Bo’s family tree.
But having the same great great great uncle from the 18th century, or something, that doesn’t make me and Bo, blood relatives, who are forbidden to get together and married…”

“Stop it!
Not simply blood related, but you two are first-degree relatives, for God’s sake!”, lao lao screamed, before collapsing in my arms, on the verge of having a new heart attack.

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~this chapter will be entirely written from Yibo’s POV~

I was just about to question my grandmother about her weird outburst, when we have both gotten startled with the angry voice, thundering a few steps away from us.

“What the hell?
But…wait…isn’t he?”, lao lao mumbled, pointing her walking stick towards the man yelling at his phone.

“Yes, he is!
I told you that we will work together, and before you ask, no, we didn’t get back together.
Actually he didn’t even want to give me the chance to apologize or explain myself.”, I spoke in a cracked voice, trying to hide away from her, my eyes blurred by tears.

She cupped my cheek in her warm hand:
“Bo-Bo, please, listen to your old lao lao, you know that I love you and want what is the best for you!
Forget about this love, believe me that it’s toxic for you!
Also, you should give up at this job and resign, right away, from this moment!
I will give you double the money you would earn from this contract, please Bo-Bo, and…”

Lao lao was interrupted by Zhan, who bowed before her, remembering her from that doomed day.

“I apologize for bothering you with my rude behavior, screaming like that, but I assumed that there was no one here in the lobby, except me, I’m sorry.”, Zhan mumbled, after greeting her politely, keep bowing to my grandmother and totally ignoring my existence of course.

“Don’t worry young man, not as you were yelling at me or at my grandson.
Anyway that person who provoked you to scream like that, probably gives you some hard time, as you don’t seem to me to be the angry kind of personality, I hope you can solve the issue, ha, ha.”

I know my lao lao, she would never act so nicely towards someone she would hate…so why was she so against my love for Zhan Zhan, if she wasn’t hating him?

“Yes, that person keeps provoking me indeed and gives me a very hard time, and…sometimes I reach my limits and start screaming at her…yet she doesn’t give up!”, Xiao Zhan replied, while rejecting another phone call.

“She?”, my grandma whispered, mostly to herself, while glancing curiously in my direction.

But Zhan caught her whisper and replied:
“Yes, she, the woman calling herself as my mother.
I know you will not approve for what I’m going to say, but… I don’t want her in my life, I hate her with passion!”

I got shocked when lao lao didn’t scold Xiao Zhan for stating such an outrageous thing like hating his mother, but instead she whispered almost inaudibly:”No wonder…”, but she changed quickly the topic, before me or Zhan to ask any questions:
“Anyways, we shouldn’t waste anymore time, we really need to go now.
Bo-Bo, probably that the contract you signed doesn’t allow you to resign right away, as we were planning, because of some lawful reasons, but you will take care about this issue starting with tomorrow. I assume your working day is not over yet, but go find your boss and tell him that I want to talk to him.
I’m willing to pay a fee if it’s necessary, for your absence for the rest of the today working hours, but now we are urgently needed at the hospital!
The policeman and the lawyer are waiting for us, too!”

“Hospital?
Policeman, lawyer?!”, me and Zhan shouted in the same voice.

“Jiějiě ?
Mom?
Dad?”, I kept shouting at lao lao, while dragging her by her arm, towards the hotel exit door, followed by Zhan, who was as disturbed as I was.

“Zhan Zhan, Wang Yibo, what’s the matter, what’s going on, where are you darting?”, Xia Zhiguang came in running, detached from the group of people heading back to the studio room, as the lunch break got to an end.

“Stop!
Don’t rush me like that, I’m not anymore young like you lads are, my goodness!
Everyone stop, calm down, and let me take a breath!”,lao lao shouted, kicking my leg with her walking stick to stop me from running.
“Bo-Bo, no, it’s not about any of our family’s members, but about that neighbour kid of yours, A Yuan.
He needs us, he needs you better saying, but I will explain to you everything, in the car, on our way to the hospital!”

“Oh, my god, I know A Yuan, the kid who lost his crow pet.
Why is he in the hospital, did he get sick, is he injured?
I apologize for intruding, but I really got fond of that child, I hope nothing’s too serious.”, Zhan kept bowing to my grandmother, blocking her way to the door.

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After giving us a few details, to me and also to the overly worried Xiao Zhan, lao lao waited in the car, while I would be talking to the director, who was very understanding and gave me the rest of the day off.

“We’re coming too, we’ll follow your car with mine!”, Zhan and Xia popped up out of nowhere, at the last moment.

On our way to the hospital, lao lao recounted to me how she intended to go in the morning to the bank, but had to stop by my apartment, as she realized that she forgot her purse on my living room table, when she visited me last evening. As she had a spare key, she didn’t want to bother me by giving me a call beforehand.
Anyway, when she was about to lock the front door and leave, she was startled by two policemen who were looking for Wang Yibo whose presence was required to go to the hospital.
And that’s how my grandma was informed that mister Lan, my neighbor and A-Yuan’s father, has lost his life in a major car accident with dozens of cars involved, while his mother was in a coma state, with low chances to make it through.
Thank god that A-Yuan suffered only a few light scratches and bruises, but that was only the physical damage. It’s painful to imagine how scared and lost the poor kid must feel.

“We did everything that we could, but sadly, we are not optimistic at all with Mrs Lan’s chances, it’s not even a matter of hours, she could be pronounced dead by any minute. We can’t even call it life this last struggle of her organs, but rather a machine’s effect, so sorry.
She is practically dead, but at least she was conscious for a few moments, before going into the irreversible comatose state, enough to take good bye from her son, poor kid.”, the doctor sighed, while leading us towards the office where we were being expected.

“Where is A-Yuan now? I want to see him, he has nobody to take care of him, he has no relatives.
His father, rest in peace his soul, told me once that he fell in love with his wife when they were small kids. They were both abandoned babies, raised in an orphanage, and now if Mrs Lan will die too, their son will be an orphan, alone in this world… “, I couldn’t refrain myself from bursting into tears.

Tears that poured even harder when I felt Zhan’s hand grabbing mine in a comforting squeeze.

“He is asleep, under sedatives right now, but he will probably wake up at the time you will finish talking with the law people waiting for you in that office over there.”, the doctor explained.

“Law people, what law people?”, I asked, but it was no time for an answer, as the doctor opened the office door and I along with my grandmother were introduced inside.

“He is with me.”, I refused to let go on Zhan’s hand, ignoring the questioning eyes plastered onto our linked hands, and also ignoring Lao lao’s protests.

“And I’m his assistant, I am needed here with them!”, Xia slipped inside, too.

After the doctor excused himself and promised me that someone would take me to A-Yuan’s ward, we were introduced to the people from the office: a policeman, a child protection agent, a juristconsult or something like that and a few others that I didn’t quite take into account.

One of them started to explain:
“Mister Wang, as you might already know, A-Yuan’s father died and his mother will probably die, too, sadly.
During those few moments of consciousness, Mrs Lan was too weak for giving us a signature, but at least we had recorded her voice, when making her wish known. She expressed the desire for her child to be taken in custody by their neighbor or by the neighbor’s family, naming you, Wang Yibo.
Anyway, you have no obligation to take any responsibilities on the kid…”

“I want to adopt A-Yuan!”, I cut him curtly.

“Wait, wait, let’s not get hasty and emotional!
Things are not that simple.
You can’t just adopt a child just like that, especially that you are not blood related to him.
Actually an adoption could take between a year and three years.
The law says that the orphan should be put in an orphanage, or eventually, allocated to a foster family for the time being.
But we did some research on you, and you don’t have a job as you are still a student, you have not a stable income, so needed for raising a child, also you are not married, a proper family would be chosen anytime over you, it would be in the kid’s interest, even if his mother requested for your person.”, another law person explained.

I wanted to reply, but grandma beat me to it:
“Agree with everything that was said, but my grandson Wang Yibo’s family can be the foster family, please do your research properly!
Not only that we are a rich family, but we can offer A-Yuan a healthy and proper environment and a happy life.
And when the time will come and my grandson will get married, he will have his own family and will be able to adopt A-Yuan.
Until then you will never find a better foster family for this child, than Wang Yibo with his family.”

“It will be no need to lose time with documents for the foster family.
Actually you can already start working on the adoptions papers.
Because even though he will be a student for a few more months, Wang Yibo will not be single anymore, he will be soon married and able to offer A-Yuan two parents and a perfect, loving family.
About the income, I’m ready to explain everything, he will be a successful singer, and I am…”, Zhan chimed in, leaving Lao lao, Xia Zhiguang and especially me, open-mouthed in shock.

“I’m sorry, but who are you?”, the law man asked, slightly irritated.

“I apologize for not introducing myself.
I am Xiao Zhan, the heir of ” Xiao Company”, an American Company that I can assure you that it has the most solid background from many points of views, including the income issue, to climb on the top of your list of the most suitable families, no matter if in fostering or adopting A-Yuan.
My assistent here can provide you with all the proving documents.
What I’m telling you is that Wang Yibo is my fiance and soon to be my husband, so as I was explaining to you, he will be a family, a stable family, rich and based on a love family.”

“But you are a man!
You are both men!
It’s illegal to get married!”, two or three persons from the office shouted.
Actually I was not even sure anymore about what I was hearing.
Was it for real or was I just imagining things?

“Yes, we are men!
Yes I am a man, and besides that, I am an American, I have double citizenships actually, Chinese and US.
As you might know, same gender marriage is legal in the US.
Also, it’s legal for the US married couples to adopt Chinese kids.
Until then, my fiance, helped by his lovely family can be A-Yuan’s foster family.”, Zhan Zhan bowed before lao lao, who was pale and trembling like she was seeing a ghost.

“Could you excuse us for a few seconds?
Boys, you two out, we must have a word!”, grandma poked me and Zhan with her walking stick.

After shutting closed the door from outside, she didn’t wait any other moment, but she shocked us both with words uttered through gritted teeth:
“You can’t get married!”

She didn’t let us to ask why, but spoke in the same way, just that more emphatic:
“Because there are ninety nine percent chances that you two are blood related!
Damn, not ninety nine percent, I am a hundred percent sure!”

I didn’t even know how to feel, puzzled, dumbfounded, incredulous or scared like hell?
That’s why I didn’t understand Zhan’s deep sigh of relief, before speaking to my grandmother:
“Oh, I might understand what you are talking about.
My roots are Chinese indeed, as my family has emigrated to the US from here.
Maybe you found out that it happened sometimes on the road for my family tree to cross with Bo’s family tree.
But having the same great great great uncle from the 18th century, or something, that doesn’t make me and Bo, blood relatives, who are forbidden to get together and married…”

“Stop it!
Not simply blood related, but you two are first-degree relatives, for God’s sake!”, lao lao screamed, before collapsing in my arms, on the verge of having a new heart attack.

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