Applaud for Happiness

Jiang Changshen when he first met him, less youthful, more mature, more handsome, with his own unique temperament.

Jiang Changshen has also maintained his handsomeness very well and has been insisting on exercising, especially in these years, in order to look compatible with Shen Qi.
He paid great attention to health.
When the two stand together, at best, they look like brothers, with no difference in generations.
A handsome face with the accumulation of time looked more mature and more charming, still making Shen Qi obsessed.

“Mom and I have discussed it.
I will try on the attire the day after tomorrow.”

He broke a piece of apple and handed it to Shen Qi’s mouth, he was referring to Mother Shen and not Mother Jiang.
Over the years, Jiang Changshen and the Shen family are getting closer, especially with Mother Shen.
He was more like her son than Shen Qi.

“Sounds good.” Shen Qi said vaguely, eyes rolling, “Do not forget the bet you owe me, there must also be a wedding dress.”

After the proposal, naturally, was the wedding, Sister Shen didn’t believe in marriage.
After so many years, Mother Shen was finally able to use her skills.
Their wedding was given to her to plan. 

As for the wedding dress, this was a bet between them.
Whoever loses would have to wear a wedding dress.
Shen Qi won the bet, although by cheating a little.
However, the thought of Jiang Changshen wearing a wedding dress was very interesting.

Jiang Changshen raised his eyebrows, looking more and more introverted and elegant, and smiled: “Don’t worry, I remember.”

Then…Shen Qi became silent.

The wedding dress that was supposed to be worn by Jiang Changshen somehow got to him, and then there was no more.
The wedding dress that was too embarrassing to look at was decisively hidden in the bottom of the box by him.

In the second 10th year, Shen Qi and Jiang Changshen traveled around the world together.
Although they were both retired, they still updated their social media from time to time to interact with fans and netizens.
Two middle-aged men were showing their love to the fans, that even they could not tolerate it.

At the same time, they sent father and mother Shen off to Heaven.
Grandma Shen passed away in the third year of their relationship. 

 There was also Mother Jiang.

Mother Jiang was angered to death by her favorite son, Jiang Nianjin.

Jiang Nianjin got married at the age of thirty-three, and with the title of Piano King, which Jiang Changshen got him, he attracted a real rich woman.
Mother Jiang was overjoyed with the news.

However, after only three years of marriage, Jiang Nianjin cheated on his wife, saying that he had finally met his true love, and insisted on divorce despite the fact that she was still pregnant, almost exactly like what Mother Jiang did back then.

When Mother Jiang went to persuade him, he accused Mother Jiang of not understanding him, like “Mom, you also experienced true love, how can you not understand me?”, “You also divorced that man for my father, why won’t you help me?”, angering Mother Jiang to the point of fainting, and suffering from a stroke.

Jiang Nianjin and Mother Jiang were all famous people.
When this matter went public, the woman hated him, making him divorce her without gaining anything, and did not avoid publicizing this, before aborting the child and leaving the country to start anew.

Jiang Nianjin grew up being taught by Mother Jiang about true love supremacy.
He doesn’t need anything but true love.
As a result, after 3 months, he took his true love to the hospital to meet Mother Jiang.

In the beginning, Mother Jiang still loved her son.
Seeing that the situation had become like this, she took out her own savings to help the two, but with Jiang Nianjin’s reputation, no source of income, piano teacher type of work that he is ashamed to do, he depended on his mother’s savings to live.

But with his and true love’s concept of consumption, they soon squandered all of Mother Jiang’s savings.

In fact, there was not a lot of money in the account.
It was what Jiang Changshen’s father left her.
She gave almost all of it to Jiang Shujin.
After the death of Jiang Shujin, the money was divided amongst his relatives.
She did not ask for any of it because of guilt.

After that, her source of income came from Jiang Changshen, who gave her a sum of money every year to cover her expenses out of his obligation to support her, but she was so used to the luxury that she didn’t save much of it.

Once again, she was so angry with her beloved son that she had to go to Jiang Changshen.
But unfortunately, Jiang Changshen did not pay her any attention, no matter how much she threatened him.
Jiang Changshen has long since quit the entertainment industry and does not care about his reputation, so Mother Jiang had no choice but to stop.

Mother Jiang stopped, but Jiang Nianjin did not.
With no name, or money, how was he able to support his true love? Gradually, the two kept arguing until it got out of hand.
Until the last time, Mother Jiang fainted, and never woke up again.

It is also very ironic.

When Shen Qi and Jiang Changshu received the news, they hurried back to attend the funeral.

As for Jiang Nianjin, his true love finally couldn’t endure it and ran away.
He fell seriously ill, then woke up and borrowed a sum of money from Jiang Changshen.
He opened a small musical instrument shop and remained unmarried for the rest of his life.

In the last ten years, Shen Qi and Jiang Changshen entered retirement life.
They did not have children, because of Jiang Changshen’s childhood experience.
He did not have the confidence to be responsible for the child’s entire life.

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Shen Qi had a brother and sister.
Although Sister Shen was unmarried, she had two children by surrogate.
There were also other family members who had children, so they simply lived without having any.

The two of them lived life leisurely.
They also helped take care of the grandchildren of sister and brother Shen, living a comfortable life, and of course, not forgetting to show their love online.

A netizen can’t help but spit out: “When I was in elementary school they were showing love, I was in middle school they were showing love, Fuck! I have graduated and worked, yet they are still showing love.
Are you guys letting people live?!”

This made Shen Qi happy.

Then it seemed like overnight, Jiang Chang Shen aged.
When he was sixty years old, he was still able to carry Shen Qi from the first floor to the second floor.
Once he passed seventy-one, he instantly aged.
In one early morning, he collapsed without any warning.

He woke up once in the middle of the day while holding Shen Qi’s hand, the original cloudy eyes were bright.
He could not say anything, but Shen Qi understood what he wanted to say.

I love you.

“I love you too.” Shen Qi’s tears gushed out.
He knew that Jiang Changshen would never wake up.

They have been together for more than 30 years.
How could he have no feelings for him? Not to mention that he was in love with him from the beginning.

Jiang Changshen closed his eyes with a smile.

“Happiness value +1.”

“Happiness value complete.”

Seven days after Jiang Changshen’s funeral, Shen Qi died as well.

The fans who followed the two to old age edited a short documentary for the two, recounting their acquaintance to love to companionship, and adding the “Great Wei Dynasty”, their first movie together, editing out the past life and present life.

In my past life, I was a king and you were a minister.
We were childhood sweethearts, yet you died to save me.
I regret it with my life.
In this life, I will protect you and love you, and accompany you until death.

A short film, in exchange for a basket of tears.

Footnotes

Pan Jinlian is a fictional character in the novel Jin Ping Mei.
She was married to Wu Dalang, the elder brother of Wu Song.
However, Wu Dalang is short and ugly, while Pan Jinlian was a renowned beauty.
She, who was dissatisfied with her marriage, has an affair with Ximen Qing.
Wu Dalang eventually discovers the affair, but the two murder him by adding poison to his food. Not the same surname, Jiang Changshen is 江.
Her surname is 蒋.  A couple pairing that are being supported to be in a romantic relationship by people.