RCFN: Chapter 126

T/N Hi there, Zam here; while rereading Rebirth of a Cannon Fodder from a Novel, I noticed the chapter 126 is still missing. I'm only sharing it here for anyone else interested in not wanting to miss out ^^

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Chapter 126

 

The first afternoon after arriving in Country M was 'squandered' just like that.

 

Mo Di half-reclined on the bed, looking at the sky outside that was gradually darkening, and sighed with both sweetness and helplessness.

 

Ah, he really had no self-control!

 

He had clearly planned to go out with his brother* this afternoon to stroll around and eat.

 

*Gege (哥哥) - older brother (not necessarily blood related, affectionate or even polite way to call someone slightly older than you) although I prefer titles in pinyin, the translation from 11th chapter onward uses the direct translation

 

Mo Di climbed out of bed, adjusted the curtains a bit more, then got out of bed and shuffled in his slippers to find Mu Tianheng.

 

Although his brother had forcibly pressed him onto the bed to rest, he really had nothing wrong with him now. After all, his movements were so gentle—he would rather endure his own discomfort than impatiently do anything to hurt him. He had even looked up lots of medical information and was countless times more attentive to his body than Mo Di was himself, who never got sick or injured.

 

And even if he wasn't hurt, his brother still insisted on applying medicine after every time.

 

Mo Di couldn't help but recall certain scenes, his face reddening even more as he coughed to himself.

 

Speaking of which, he had already rested for over half an hour now. Even if he 'disobediently' got out of bed by himself, his brother probably wouldn't punish him, right?

 

Mo Di nodded to himself encouragingly, pretending to be calm and composed as he continued walking, reaching the living room downstairs and calling out softly, "Brother?"

 

No one answered.

 

Mo Di was a bit surprised. When his brother left the bedroom earlier, hadn't he said he was going to cook porridge? Why wasn't he here?

 

Mo Di walked to the kitchen to look, then checked the bathroom, and finally searched every room on the first floor, but still couldn't find Mu Tianheng.

 

Mo Di frowned slightly and decided to go up to the third floor to look.

 

As soon as he climbed to the third floor stairway entrance, he saw Mu Tianheng walking over from the left corridor of the third floor. When Mu Tianheng saw Mo Di, his eyes darkened.

 

He had clearly come to find him, yet in that instant, Mo Di actually had the illusion of being caught red-handed.

 

"Ahem, bro- brother, I went downstairs to find you, why weren't you there? Didn't you say you were going to cook porridge for me?"

 

Mo Di decided to lodge a complaint first! That way Mu Tianheng wouldn't scold him, right?

 

Unexpectedly, Mo Di neither heard Mu Tianheng lecture him nor heard him answer. Instead, he heard a gentle, soft laugh.

 

"You, ah."

 

Then Mu Tianheng walked over and grasped Mo Di's wrist. He didn't pursue the matter of Mo Di disobediently getting out of bed early, only saying, "Come with me, brother has something to show you."

 

"Ah?" Mo Di hadn't expected to escape so easily this time without being lectured even once! He was immediately somewhat surprised, and also a bit elated and smug.

 

Mo Di's mood was soaring, so naturally he didn't notice that Mu Tianheng's voice just now carried an imperceptible layer of tension. He followed Mu Tianheng toward the end of the corridor without any awareness, still asking, "Brother, what are you going to show me?"

 

"You can try to guess." Mu Tianheng didn't say explicitly.

 

"That's way too difficult." Mo Di furrowed his brows, thinking very carefully. "Is it something to eat, drink, wear, use... or play with?"

 

Mu Tianheng laughed and squeezed Mo Di's hand, interlacing their fingers. "I can help you eliminate some options—it's not something to eat, and not something to drink either."

 

"Then..." Mo Di thought about it but still couldn't guess. "That's still a very broad range. Brother, don't just help me eliminate options, help me narrow down the scope."

 

"This scope... can't really be narrowed down." Mu Tianheng said as he pushed open the door of the room at the end of the corridor. With a 'click', a patch of dim yellow light spilled in from the window directly facing the door.

 

"So, brother will just directly bring this little dummy inside."

 

Mo Di was about to retort that he wasn't a dummy at all when he suddenly froze.

 

In the room before his eyes were box after box... large and small boxes, and these boxes were almost all identical to the one Mu Tianheng had given him when he confessed—that box filled with photo albums, certificates, trophies, and other memories from the past.

 

Mo Di suddenly guessed something. He turned his head, looking at Mu Tianheng with some disbelief.

 

"Brother, are all of these... are they what I think they are?"

 

"Yes." The smile in Mu Tianheng's eyes was tender and deep. Holding Mo Di's hand, he led him to stand in front of the largest box. On top of this box, there was also an exquisite key.

 

"Good boy, open it and see."

 

Mo Di was stunned for two seconds, looked up at Mu Tianheng, then reached out to pick up the key and opened this largest box.

 

"Click—"

 

The box lid lifted, raising a faint cloud of dust.

 

Inside were piled all sorts of things—photo albums Mo Di had never seen before, trophies and certificates, some small toys that clearly had a sense of age to them, and even a set of blue basketball uniforms, as well as a bamboo rod.

 

"The things I gave you when I confessed before weren't complete. After all, I couldn't move everything from my entire past to Huaxia and lock it all in that one box. But now... I've already moved everything I've accumulated in my past life here." Mu Tianheng looked at Mo Di, his eyes seeming to be immersed in an endless tender, deep space.

 

"This is our home. I want to entrust everything from my past to you for safekeeping."

 

Mu Tianheng continued, picking up one of the photo albums. "The photo albums I gave you before mostly contained photos from important moments in my life—like birth, full moon, first birthday, learning to walk, graduating from school, winning important awards, and so on. But I have many more photos from everyday life, and these are all in the albums in this box."

 

"And... these toys are toys I really liked from childhood to adulthood. I prefer to keep things, so these were all preserved. Actually, each toy carries one or two interesting stories from my childhood. In the future, I'll tell you about every single one, okay?"

 

Mo Di's eyes were already a bit red. He opened his mouth but in the end couldn't speak, and instead nodded vigorously.

 

Mu Tianheng smiled. He reached out to gently stroke Mo Di's face, looking into his eyes with a smile and saying, "And... that blue basketball uniform was what I wore when I won my first school team championship. That bamboo rod... is the evidence left behind from the first and only time I was spanked on the bottom by grandfather. Those black roller skates in the corner are even witnesses to my falling twenty-eight times... no, witness-shoes."

 

Mo Di's eyes were red, but he couldn't help showing a smile. "Brother, you actually kept evidence of your embarrassing moments."

 

"That's right, and this is just in this one big box. Look at all those boxes over there—they don't just contain glorious memories from my past, but quite a few embarrassing moments and awkward experiences too." Mu Tianheng deliberately sighed. "Some of them I saved myself, to remind myself. Some were actually saved by my parents. They deliberately kept my embarrassing moments and told them to my sister's children as jokes. Ah, brother has actually had it quite rough..."

 

"Brother, you haven't had it rough at all."

 

Mo Di sniffled and smiled as he wiped his eyes.

 

Mu Tianheng suddenly bent down slightly, his warm fingers gently brushing past the corners of Mo Di's eyes. "There are so many boxes here. You can open them one by one now to look, or you can save them to open one by one later. Either way, these things will all be yours from now on."

 

"...Brother, I want to open them now."

 

Mo Di took a breath and raised his head, his eyes containing soft, scattered light as he looked straight into Mu Tianheng's eyes.

 

"Alright, then we'll open them now." Mu Tianheng also gazed at Mo Di and gently kissed his brow.

 

Then he took Mo Di's hand and walked to another box. On top of that box, there was also an exquisite key.

 

Mo Di picked up the key and opened the box.

 

Lifted it open.

 

Then continued listening to Mu Tianheng tell the stories behind each item inside.

 

... 

  

Throughout the entire evening, Mo Di opened box after box, from large to small, scattered and varied. Although it was impossible to hear all the memories carved into every item in every box all at once, it still felt as if he had participated again in his brother's past life.

 

Mo Di couldn't help but be moved, couldn't help but be touched. His heart felt like it was filled with hot water, and he couldn't stop his eyes from reddening. Fortunately later, Mo Di's eyes stopped being red. He was gradually made to laugh by Mu Tianheng, his eyes full of radiance, the warm and sweet atmosphere filling and swelling the entire room.

 

However, although Mo Di was made to laugh later on, his heart still felt as if it was soaking in hot water, and moreover...

 

It grew softer and more tender the longer it soaked.

Mo Di had opened a total of twenty boxes, and when there was only one last particularly small box remaining, Mu Tianheng snatched it away.

 

Mo Di was stunned for a moment, then showed a smile and tried to snatch it from Mu Tianheng's hands.

 

"Brother, you said you would give me all these past memories. You can't go back on your word."

 

"Of course I won't go back on my word." Mu Tianheng dodged Mo Di's 'attack', wrapped an arm around Mo Di's waist, placed the palm-sized small box in front of Mo Di, and gently pressed it.

 

"Click."

 

Mo Di actually saw this small box suddenly pop open.

 

And—

 

Inside this small box... there was actually a ring!

 

"Not only will I not go back on my word, I also want to give you my future."

 

Mu Tianheng held Mo Di's left hand. Intense, earnest emotions surged in his deep, tender eyes, along with rare nervousness. He took out the ring and, without giving Mo Di a chance to refuse, gently slipped it on.

 

"Promise me—marry me, become my family, my lover, my closest person in the eyes of the law, okay?"

 

Only then did Mo Di fully come to his senses. His fingers moved slightly, and his eyes reddened a bit as he laughed with a 'pfft'.

 

"...Okay."

 

"But brother, you're a bandit. You didn't give me any choice at all before putting it on me."

 

Seeing that Mo Di had agreed, Mu Tianheng's tense spine finally relaxed. He kissed Mo Di tenderly yet passionately, then pulled out a ring from his pocket like a magic trick—identical to Mo Di's, clearly a matching pair.

 

"How is brother a bandit? Brother of course gave you a choice."

 

Mu Tianheng's eyes were deep, his tone particularly magnanimous and steady, yet the words he spoke were rarely roguish.

 

"You can choose which hand or which finger to put it on brother—whichever you want. However you want to choose, brother will listen to you."

This time...

Mo Di no longer had the energy to be distracted, nor the mind to 'break character' laughing.

 

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Author has something to say: The main story is complete! There are still a few more sweet extra chapters. Thanks to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated me with nutrient solution~

 

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