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“Do you hate it?”
“What are you talking about?”
“To be the government’s new poster boy?”
“Oh, I don’t. You see, they don’t like me, the party I mean, they like the idea I can sell for them. They probably want me dead, especially if any of this comes to light. Maybe they already have a plan if something I do goes wrong. There is always someone younger and everyone is replaceable”.
-This- being them, obviously, but they can’t talk about it in the open air, it's too risky. Even while having a face-to-face conversation, every single movement is being tracked and they only have little time to see each other.
“So you really have thought about this”.
“How not to think about it, ge? I sell myself to them every day. I would like to be free? yes, obviously. Who doesn’t want that? but you know I have a plan for us, just give me time I'll buy our freedoms somehow, just watch me”.
And Xiao Zhan wants that, without certainly, more than anything, he wants to believe in a future for them, for something more. But he just can’t, because after all this is the life they have, and the place where they live, this can't be changed. So, he waits and waits and waits… as time goes by nothing changes, and their stolen moments are less and less until eventually, they grow apart.
That’s why when all is settled, he doesn’t feel like dying.
There was nothing he could have done, and even Yibo with all his power and ideas couldn’t change their destinies.
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[NEWSFLASH: Wang Yibo is getting married! our beloved it-boy is about to get married to rising star Lu Xiaoyu. The couple chose not to comment, some insiders said that the wedding is expected for next summer. Official sources said this morning…]