Once she sent the message, Mo Qiang covered her face and moaned piteously. "Should I have my will written? Gosh, I can't believe I read his messages and even signed it."
"Mhmm..don't—don't leave me," she heard an aggrieved cry behind her and turned to look at Xie Jie who was still sleeping but seemed to be having a nightmare. "Please, I will be good to you...no..I don't—no.."
Mo Qiang had no idea what he was crying about. She thought about it and then lay down on the bed next to Xie Jie. With her arms stretched out, she hugged the mer who was crying in his dreams.
"Shh, it is alright," she comforted him in a soft voice. "I am right here, and I am not going to let you go. So you don't have to cry alone, alright?"
Xie Jie was still crying and Mo Qiang didn't think it was right of her to leave him alone to eat lunch. So she continued to stay with him, while rocking him back and forth, she hummed a soft song that she used to listen to whenever she was upset in her world.
"For it will be alright, it will be okay. Pick your shot, dress up your best— for it is your world and everyone's just livin' it, livin' it," she sang while hugging Xie Jie and she continued to do so until he stopped crying.
'What if I am left behind?' A five-year-old Xie Jie asked Mo Qiang who sat next to him while dressed in a light red dress. 'I am not really good with words and I don't know what to say to make you like me more.'
'There is no need for me to like you —isn't it good enough if you like yourself more? Why does it matter if I like you or not?' She said to him with a smile on her face. 'Live for yourself and not me.'
Then the scene changed and Xie Jie was eleven years old. He was sitting on a swing which moved on its own and Mo Qiang was sitting on the one beside him.
'I am really scared you know,' Xie Jie told her. 'I am afraid that I will let you down. Once you find out how flawed I am, you will not see me in the same way as you do. Right now—I am something to you but if you were to know that I can't give birth..I will be nothing right?'
Mo Qiang chuckled beside him before turning her head and saying to him, 'Will I? Why does it matter to me if you cannot give birth? I have never shown a keen desire to have children, have I?'
'But you like children, don't you?' Xie Jie asked with an agitated voice, 'I saw how happy you were when Brother Fu told you that he was carrying your child.'
'Of course, I was happy because who won't be? I always wanted to have a family—'
'Then..'
'But that doesn't mean that I see you just as a machine to give birth you know? Whether or not you can get pregnant will not change anything.'
Once again the mist intensified before falling and now the two of them were lying next to one another in a clear white sand.
'Everyone expects so much from me.. it is scary,' he said to her. 'I really want to think about myself a bit more but I am really scared that I will make you and everyone else worry. I don't want people to look at me with sympathy.'
'If they were to know the truth then they would treat me like I am different and fragile.'
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