Time Travel: The Queen's Coronation

After breakfast, Rong Zixuan and I took a rare break and went for a walk in the nearby park. There were many people walking and jogging in the morning.

"Look, is that Li Zhanwen?" Rong Zixuan stopped.

I followed his gaze and saw it was indeed Li Zhanwen. We walked up to him. Li Zhanwen's eyes were dull, his beard was unshaven, and his cheeks were sunken, as if he hadn't eaten in a long time.

"Li Zhanwen! What are you doing here?" Rong Zixuan sat down next to him.

Li Zhanwen came back to his senses slowly, looked up at me and then at Rong Zixuan, without saying a word.

"Are you okay?" I asked tentatively.

"It's good! The whole world knows that I'm sick! I don't have to hide it anymore. Sometimes I feel relieved. I don't have to pretend anymore." His voice was low and helpless.

"Your family is very worried about you. Why don't you give them a call?" I handed the phone to him.

"No, I don't want to face them!"

"Brother, if you are a man, you should face the reality instead of avoiding it. Avoiding will not solve the problem," Rong Zixuan said, hooking his arm around Li Zhanwen's shoulders.

"Escape won't solve the problem, but at least I can be myself now and not be an obedient puppet!"

"What's going on? If you want, we can be your listeners," I whispered beside me.

“My mother is a very controlling person.”

"I see!" I said helplessly.

"She controlled everything about me since I was little, even small things like the color of my socks. She constantly eroded my life, turning me into her puppet, forcing me to do everything according to her wishes. If something didn't go her way, she would cry and make a fuss, and she would even bring up her previous difficult birth to put pressure on me, telling me how she almost lost her life giving birth to me."

"Difficult labor? Your mother gave birth to you at an advanced age?" Rong Zixuan interrupted Li Zhanwen.

"Correct!"

"No wonder you have so many brothers and sisters, and your mother is so old!" I glared at Rong Zixuan, and he said to Li Zhanwen awkwardly, "Go on, go on."

"When I was in junior high school, my father sent me abroad. I was so happy at that time, thinking that I could get rid of my mother's control. But my mother actually had to go to the UK to accompany me to study. Later, I tried to communicate with her that I had my own life and asked her not to interfere too much, but she ignored me. Since then, I have felt very helpless. My life has been completely controlled by her. I have no self! I am a walking corpse! I gradually became negative in my heart, but I still had to pretend to be very positive on the surface. The inner torment and the outward disguise made me physically and mentally exhausted. Later, I realized that I was sick, and I went to seek help from a psychologist, but it was only a temporary solution." After speaking, Li Zhanwen took a deep breath, and Rong Zixuan patted him on the shoulder to comfort him.

"I thought my life was over, until I met you." He looked at me straight, his eyes full of love, but the moment our eyes met, I looked away. His eyes were too intense, and I didn't dare to look him in the eye.

"Hey! Brother! I'm still here!" Rong Zixuan put his hands in front of his eyes.

"I'm sorry! Love is so deep and lasting, and it's beyond my control. I fell head over heels for you the first time I saw you in the restaurant. Encouraged by my friends, I approached you and asked for your contact information, but was told you already had a boyfriend. I plummeted from heaven to hell. But I eventually got your contact information, and from then on, you became a ray of light in my bleak life! Later, you had a fight and broke up. I wanted to rush over to you and confess my love, but some trivial matters involving my mom got me stuck again. By the time I could get out, you had reunited, and my hopes were dashed again! Then you got engaged, had a child, and finally got married. My hopes were shattered bit by bit! I felt like the sky was falling!"

"Brother! You are so outstanding, you can find whatever you want. I will introduce a few to you when the time comes." Rong Zixuan wanted to enlighten Li Zhanwen.

"My mom also introduced me to some of them, and we even grew up together, but I just don't like them! I can't fake feelings! Later, when the paparazzi wrote about us, I was actually very happy because what they wrote was the truth! I really like you! Very, very much!"

"I appreciate your love, but..." I didn't want to provoke him any further at this time, but I also didn't want him to get deeper into it.

"I know! That's why the order in which people appear is very important. If I had appeared in your life earlier than Rong Zixuan, maybe we could have been together!"

"Hey!" Rong Zixuan roared angrily.

"Isn't it? I'm no worse than you!" Li Zhanwen looked at Rong Zixuan with hostility.

"Stop daydreaming! Even if you appear before me, you won't be able to get past your mother! My wife is still my wife! You are still you! If there is no fate, there is no fate!" Rong Zixuan's words brought Li Zhanwen back to reality.

"Yeah! That hurdle of mine! I can't get over it!" He felt depressed when he mentioned his mother.

"Well, don't think too much about it for now. You have to look forward. Fang Hui is not bad! She is prettier than me and her family background is better than mine. You two are a perfect match. Your mother must like her too!" I comforted Li Zhanwen from the side.

"She is very good, but I don't like her. I met you, someone I really like! I am deeply fascinated by you, but I understand that it is difficult for us to have a result! But I can't give up my feelings for you, nor can I clear you from my mind, and I can't delete everything about you! Sometimes I also want to get out of your world, but I am afraid that this turn will be an eternal miss! I am in pain and suffering! I also want to give up, it seems that giving up is the best choice, but feelings are very strange. It, it, it exerts a force on me that makes me unable to break free from this relationship! I am deeply trapped in this torture of unrequited love. I want to hold you tightly, but I also want to let you go completely!" He said with tears in his eyes.

Faced with his fragility, Rong Zixuan and I were at a loss. We could only look at each other in silence.

Li Zhanwen wiped his tears with his hands. "I want to apologize to you for those reports! The paparazzi attributed my depression to my love for you, which is wrong. My depression has nothing to do with you, so you don't have to feel guilty about it! If my mother comes to bother you again, you can fight back without hesitation!"

"Why don't you give them a call?"

"I don't want to!" Li Zhanwen refused bluntly.

"Then what are you going to do next?"

"Since the whole world knows about my affairs, there is no need for me to pretend anymore!" Li Zhanwen suddenly stood up and said, "Rong Zixuan! You must love and protect Wei Qing. I will always be behind Wei Qing! If you do anything to make her unhappy or wronged, I will never let you go! If you let go of her hand, I will definitely do my best to snatch her back!"

"No, you are sick! I am trying to comfort you, but you are still thinking about my wife!" Rong Zixuan stood up and grabbed Li Zhanwen's clothes in dissatisfaction.

Li Zhanwen pushed Rong Zixuan's hand away. "I said, I won't pretend anymore! Before, for Wei Qing and because of my mother's control, I restrained my feelings and suppressed my inner feelings. Now I don't need to do that! In fact, I envy Shen Junhui for expressing his feelings directly, but I couldn't do it back then! Now I have no scruples!"

"You ungrateful bastard!" Rong Zixuan sneered in dissatisfaction.

"I don't care what you say, feelings are selfish! Remember my words! If you dare to let go of her hand, I will try my best to fight for it!" Li Zhanwen pointed at Rong Zixuan.

Rong Zixuan slapped Li Zhanwen's hand and said, "You don't stand a chance!"

"Thank you for your comfort! I feel much better now that I've spoken out! I'm hungry and want to go home for dinner! We'll talk another day!" Li Zhanwen walked forward, waved his hand, and said to us with his back to us.

"An ungrateful bastard! I should have let him suffocate to death!" Rong Zixuan stomped his feet in anger.

"Don't be angry! Let's go back too!"

"But even though I'm angry, wife, I'm still a little envious of you!" Rong Zixuan said dejectedly.

"Envy? What are you envious of?" I asked in surprise.

"I envy you that there are others who love you besides me"

"What? Are you crazy? You can envy this?"

"Why not!"

"You have fickle thoughts!" I pointed at him and questioned.

"No! I just envy someone who is liked by so many people." Rong Zixuan walked forward guiltily.

I chased after him, "You do! Don't you also want several women to like you at the same time?"

"No!" Rong Zixuan walked faster and faster, and finally ran. I chased after him, and we played and laughed all the way back home.