HELLOOO PEOPLE COME FEAST ON THE LIVE 2D FIRST. TURN ON THE VOLUME. MAN UNWITTINGLY STOPS TIME WHILE KISSING HER. ZOOM FOR THE WATCH AND WINE GLASS MOVEMENTS. ENGRAVING THE LOVE INTO SILENT ETERNITY SKFKSJZPWK——
IF YOU GUYS DON’T HEAR FROM ME AFTER THIS SP RELEASE KNOW THAT I HAVE LIVED A RATHER SHORT BUT CONTENTED LIFE AND IF YOU GOTTA FIND SOMEONE FOR THE CAUSE OF MY ASCEND FIND TWO PEOPLE NAMED 李泽言 AND HIS AMOUR (悠然)————
This story is from an outline given to me by @caesurables this morning. I hope I did your idea justice!
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The girl took a deep breath and slowly released it as she attempted to breathe through yet another wave of nausea. Her eyes squinted closed and her hands clenched until the feeling abated. It had been a week now of constant bouts of sickness, but the girl did her best not to let it show until she figured out what was going on. Probably a food intolerance she had developed or a particularly lingering bug…
No sooner had the feeling passed than there was a knock at the door. She turned to find Anna lingering in the doorway, leaning against the frame with her hands clasped behind her back. “Hey boss, how are you feeling today?”
“I’m fine,” the girl replied, though the suspicious look on Anna’s face informed her that the ever-intuitive Anna was not convinced by her lies. The pair silently stared at each other until the girl’s shoulders slumped in defeat. “Fine, you’ve caught me. I’ve been feeling a little bit poorly lately. Might have developed a food allergy or something, but I’ll be alright.”
Anna stepped into the office properly and closed the door, pulling a small box from behind her back. “I don’t think it’s a food allergy. I think you should take this.” She handed the girl the box and she paled when she examined it.
“A pregnancy test?! No, no, absolutely not. There’s no way!” She shook her head and tried to give the box back. Anna stared at her with a face that said ‘no way, huh? I don’t believe that, the way you two cling to each other.’ Again the girl sighed and her arms drooped to her sides. “Okay, maybe there’s not no way, but we’re careful!”
A soft chuckle escaped Anna’s lips and she took the girl’s hand, wrapping her fingers around the test. “Then there’s no harm finding out, right? If it’s negative, no harm no foul. Just rules out one thing that it could be.” The girl pouted, but without further argument she headed for the work restroom.
Anna remained in the office scrolling through internet comments regarding their latest show. After nearly fifteen minutes had passed, she began to grow a little worried and went to check on her boss. Inside the restroom Anna found the girl leaning on the counter, pale as a ghost and staring at herself in the mirror. Beside her sat the pregnancy test…with the word PREGNANT illuminated on the screen.
A strangled screech of excitement slipped from Anna’s throat and she flung her arms around her boss, pulling her into a tight hug. “Congratulations!! I’m so excited for you! You’re going to have the cutest baby ever!”
The girl remained in a state of shellshock for a few moments before seemingly coming to and clamping her hand over Anna’s mouth. “Shhhh!! You’re going to alert the entire building! I am swearing you to secrecy, Anna! You are forbidden to tell anyone, especially Victor!” Anna laughed and nodded, pulling her fingers across her lips in a sign of promise.
“I won’t. But you should definitely go home and get some rest. This is a big revelation! You need some time for it to sink in.” Anna began shooing the girl toward the door, but she shook her head and scooped the test into her pocket.
“I can’t miss the shoot today. We’re already on a tight schedule. But when we’re done I’ll take a nap, okay?” This seemed to appease Anna and she nodded before wrapping the girl in another hug. She didn’t take her eyes off the girl until she had gathered her things and hurried out the door to the shoot.
It was a long shoot. By the time the final scene had been filmed, the girl was completely exhausted. She had not eaten since breakfast (which hadn’t stayed in her stomach anyway) and her mind was still racing from the morning’s events. As the crew packed up, she made sure to check in with each one of them before turning to head out. Food was priority number one, and second…she needed a creative way to inform Victor of the news. Just telling him straight out wasn’t any fun, so she needed ideas.
With this in mind, the girl hopped on the bus to the shopping center in the middle of Loveland City. A bowl of soup and some bread filled her stomach as gently as possible; as soon as she was finished it was time to search the shops. In and out of various establishments she wandered, her bright eyes scanning the shelves for anything that might give her a bit of inspiration.
She was so involved in her mission that time completely lost all meaning. By the time she came back to reality and realized how late it was, the girl pulled her phone out to call Victor only to discover it was completely dead. “I better hurry home,” she murmured, clutching a small pile of boxes. “Victor is going to be freaking out…I should have been back hours ago.”
And she was absolutely correct. Victor again checked his watch, the frown on his face growing deeper with every passing second. The shoot definitely should have been over by now, but there was no sign of his wife. He grumbled and called her phone, only for the call to go directly to voicemail. “How many times have I told her to make sure her phone is charged before leaving the office..” he grumbled, pulling on his coat and shoes. “I guess I’ll have to go find her.”
Victor may or may not have exceeded the speed limit as he drove toward the shooting location, muttering under his breath. How many times was this going to happen? She seemed to have absolutely no regard for his feelings when she disappeared like this! His stomach knotted as he pulled up to a completely dark and empty building. Okay, obviously the shoot had ended…perhaps she got wrapped up in editing, then. Victor threw the car in reverse and backed back onto the main road, turning toward her office building.
Again he was met with a dark and quiet building. The curses beneath his breath jumped over his breath and began to fill the car as he pulled his phone out and began dialing her coworkers. One by one they gave the same answer: she had planned to go home and take a nap after the shoot. At a loss, Victor began driving up and down the streets of the city hoping that their tendency to run across each other randomly would somehow magnetically draw him to her. Every moment made him angrier and more nervous until he ran out of streets and turned toward home.
Back toward home, where the girl was hiding the packages around the house where Victor was unlikely to locate them and figure out what they had to do with each other. She was caught a little off guard that he wasn’t home, but figured he must have stayed late at the office. All the better for me. If he had noticed me disappearing again, I’d never hear the end of it after last time. A smile crossed her lips and she wandered into the kitchen to prepare herself and Victor a cup of tea. If he didn’t return home by the time it was done, she would call him and demand that he get his butt home. She had news for him, after all.
There was no need to call, however. Just as the kettle began to whistle, the front door opened and closed with force. A smile spread across the girl’s face and she hurried into the living room to greet her husband. The frosty demeanor and stony face of Victor stopped her short of flinging herself into his arms; instead, she reached for his hand with a look of concern. “Welcome home, Victor. Rough day at work? I made some tea. You’re just in time for it!”
Victor pulled his hand away and glared at the girl. “No, work was fine. But some senseless girl didn’t bother to charge her phone, didn’t bother to tell anyone where she was going, and forced me to go out searching for her. Again.” If words could freeze in the air, these would have been permanently etched in frost on the windows and walls of the home they shared. They settled in the girl’s soul and froze it solid, stealing away her breath and pulling her head down in shame. “Do you have no regard for anyone’s feelings aside from your own? Do you not understand how worried I get when you disappear like this?! Why didn’t it cross your mind to at least call me and tell me you would be late? Or send me a text? It takes five seconds!”
A sudden surge of annoyance filled the girl’s heart and she scowled, raising her voice. “Do you think you’re my father or something?! I’m a grown adult who can make my own decisions. I was hungry after not eating all day, so I forgot to call. I’m sorry!”
“So that’s it. I lost out to food yet again. Why am I not surprised? It seems like food is your real husband and I’m just the second string. You know what? I’m going to bed.” Victor flew past her and into the bedroom, slamming the door closed behind him. The girl stared at the back of the door, her fists shaking with rage. His words echoed around and around in her mind, growing in intensity and fanning the flames until she punched one of the couch pillows and stomped off to the guest bedroom. They could talk about this in the morning when they had both calmed down…he hadn’t even given her a chance to give him the good news!
By morning, the girl’s temper had cooled considerably. However, his accusation of food being her real husband still weighed hot on her heart. She rose from the bed still dressed in her (now wrinkled) work clothes from the day before and crept across the house toward the bedroom. As hurt as she was, she knew that the only way to resolve it was to talk things out with Victor.
But the bedroom was empty. The ember of annoyance fanned back into a flame as she realized that Victor had left without even saying goodbye. Was this some sort of revenge for yesterday? The thought angered her further, but her anger was cut short by a sudden wave of nausea that sent her scampering to the bathroom.
As she wiped her face and looked in the mirror, the girl had the sinking realization that Victor hadn’t just left for work without saying goodbye. He had left for a week-long business trip without so much as a kiss. And after giving her such a hard time yesterday, too! She stomped her foot and resolved that she was not going to speak to him until he contacted her first. Surely he was keeping his phone close by, waiting for her to call him upon discovering their empty bed. But she had no plans to give him the satisfaction.
It seemed that he had the same idea. Day after day passed with no messages to or from their partner, leaving both Victor and the girl lower and lower each day. By the fourth day, anger had turned to despair. The girl had realized that she had definitely overreacted and pulled the first little box from its hiding place. If she mailed it to the hotel today, it should arrive just in time…
And so she did. The unassuming package arrived at Victor's hotel room door as he was packing his suitcase. His heart was heavy with guilt for the way he had stormed out on his wife, coupled with his inability to bring himself to call and apologize the entire week. He wasn't even angry that she hadn't called him, either; the level of guilt he felt convinced him that he didn't deserve for her to call him first anyway. The little package was a pleasant surprise and he scooped it up immediately, the corners of his lips trending upward for the first time in a week. He recognized his wife’s handwriting immediately and pulled open the box, expecting chocolates or some small knick knack.
But he found himself clutching only a square of light blue fabric and a note. “The first time I yelled at you” was all it said, leaving Victor slightly puzzled. What was the wife playing at? He couldn’t help but chuckle at her obvious attempt at some sort of game. Typical dummy…After the last week of fighting, however, he felt like he was obligated to play along as penance. He knew exactly where she meant…And so he boarded his plane, directed Goldman to take him to the office, and assured himself that the dummy was most likely waiting in his office with some sort of surprise.
“Are you sure that you want to go directly to work, boss? You’ve been away for a full week, and your wife has been out of sorts the entire time. If you want to avoid a fight, you might want to go home before you lose yourself in work again.” Goldman glanced away from the road just long enough to look at Victor’s face, which had pulled into a frown. “Or…perhaps you’ve already been fighting and want to avoid the house? Which is an even worse idea.”
“You’re feeling bold today, Goldman. Besides, it’s the middle of the day. She’ll be at work anyway,” was Victor’s only reply. He continued fidgeting with the small scrap of fabric, trying to figure out what it could possibly mean. The men fell silent for the rest of the drive, parting when Goldman dropped Victor off at the door and headed home to Vivian. Victor hurried up to his office and pushed the door open, fully expecting the girl to launch herself at him or present him with an assortment of unnecessary new belongings. However, he was only met with another small white box sitting on his desk. “You’re not making it that easy, huh?” he murmured, opening the box to find a scrap of pink fabric and another note.
This one read “where we changed our minds.” Victor leaned back against the wall, staring at the paper as he considered what she might be going on about. Changed our minds about what? He scrunched up his eyebrows and allowed his thoughts to wander until they came to a conclusion. Did she mean Souvenir? It was worth a try. He slipped the piece of fabric into his pocket with the first and headed down to his car, pulled out of the parking lot, and drove the familiar road to the unassuming little restaurant.
He was less surprised this time to see no sign of the girl and only another small, white box on one of the tables. This one contained a small figure of a kitten and another of a puppy along with another note. “You’ll figure it out if you think hard enough.” Victor sighed and assembled the ‘clues’ his wife had left, mind completely blank as to what in the world she was getting at. He dropped into one of the chairs and stared at the objects. Pink and blue fabric, a kitten and a puppy…was she wanting another pet? Absolutely not. Pudding was more than enough of a handful. They didn’t need another pet, much less a baby one.
A baby one? Victor took a sharp breath and looked at the items again. Baby animals, baby colors…an impossible answer popped into his head and he jumped up so hard his knee smacked the table. Within seconds he was in the car and speeding toward the girl’s office building, heart pounding in his chest. It couldn’t be! It couldn’t be.
The elevator had never seemed so slow, nor had her door seemed so far away as it did that day. Victor fairly sprinted down the empty hallway, only bothering to compose himself as he arrived at the office door. Willow and Minor greeted him with a smile and a wave, gesturing toward their boss’s office to indicate she was in. Victor walked past them at the top speed of a normal gait, only stopping at the door long enough to turn the handle so he wouldn’t smack into it.
Anna and the girl looked up with surprise at the door suddenly opening without a knock. Victor’s wild eyes fell on his wife and both women began to grin. “I’ll just see myself out,” Anna said, slipping past Victor and closing the door behind her. “Good luck, you two!”
As soon as they were in relative private, Victor pulled the items from his pocket and placed them on the girl’s desk. She looked at him proudly, expectantly, and in her eyes Victor saw the confirmation of his wildest solution. The girl didn’t even have to say a word; Victor collapsed to his knees and placed a hand on the girl’s belly. “You’re pregnant? How long have you known? Why didn’t you tell me?”
She nodded and grabbed his hand, bringing it up to her lips. “Yes, Victor. I am. I was going to tell you the day before you left, but…” Her voice trailed off, and Victor knew what she was silently saying.
“But I didn’t give you a chance.” Victor stood and wrapped the girl in a tender embrace, feeling the corners of his eyes beginning to prickle and his nose tingle. “I’m sorry, my beloved. My reaction was completely out of line. And this entire week has been another blunder every moment my pride didn’t allow me to call you. I am the luckiest man alive that you didn’t pack up and leave while I was gone. I am so sorry.”
The girl shook her head and wrapped her arms around Victor’s neck. “I’m sorry too. I know better than to scare you like that. I’m just such a dummy…a dummy who can’t check her phone battery or a clock, who couldn’t get over her pride either. But I love you more than anyone or anything in the world, including food. You are my first and only husband.”
Victor could sense the pain in her voice as she brought his words back to his ears. Upon hearing them from another mouth, he realized exactly how harsh they had really been. “It was uncalled for for me to say that,” he murmured, his lips right next to her ear. “You’re my first and only wife as well. And the only one that I could love even half as much as you is the child that we have made together.” His hand again slid to his wife’s stomach, resting warmly against her. “I thought that I was as happy as I could ever be the day I married you, but today you’ve made me even happier. We have to go celebrate! I’ll take you out to eat anywhere you like. Anything you want. Just tell me.”
“I want…to go home. I want to eat your food in our kitchen. We need to make up for an entire week of loneliness.” The girl looked up at Victor with those wide eyes and he couldn’t help sweeping her up in a passionate kiss.
Between sessions of pulling the breath from her lungs, Victor nodded. “We can do that. We will stop at the market and you can pick anything you want. Because my wife deserves even her wildest dreams to come true.”
What made you love Victor? Were you a Victor stan from the start or did you stan for other characters on MLQC before fully devoted to Victor? (btw i love your translation works and your rants, keep it up!)
HAHAHA thank you! (・∀・)ﾉ♡
What made me love Victor? That’s a really tough question to sum up the answer in just a few sentences LOL but in all honesty and seriousness, I could really sum it up like this~ :>
Because he is Victor, 盛大的奇迹~ ಡ ͜ ಡ
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Was I a Victor stan from the start?
No and Yes LOL
Funnily enough, my first encounter with the game was through Victor via a video I randomly stumbled upon and yes, I dug that video out again >.<
as far as I can remember, it was around mid (ish) 2019 when I saw a video of his birthday celebration.
Out of curiosity, I started digging who’s this 李泽言 person whose birthday is being so grandly celebrated. I honestly had no idea back then how popular this game or 老李 are in China LOL.
Then, I found myself walking into the rabbit angst hole of Love and Producer, and casually sped through first 10-11(ish) chapters? Although I wasn’t planning on playing the game, at the time I thought I liked Gavin the best.
So, if you consider that.... then.... I wasn’t a Victor stan from the beginning HAHA. :>
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Also, upon seeing who 李泽言 is, I do remember thinking to myself, you’re incredibly handsome and hot. But probably that will be it for me and what a clown I turned out to be LOL.
Anyway, later I found out that there’s a global server for this game. During my inattentive speed-run, I did feel the story was interesting (yes the CH 10 HNNGNNN¡¡¡) and wanted to try it out for myself.
And this time, I PAID ATTENTION.
....the game practically starts with this man LOL (somehow I missed the prologue while reading in CN :>). So, this got me interested again, and I wanted to start on a clean slate.
And as my summer vacation was about to end, IT’S THE BEST THING THAT HAPPENED TO ME IN THAT SUMMER, in ways I hadn’t even realized yet~ 🥺
At that point, I was a toddler to the otome genre of games. But I knew that I’d end up choosing my bias based on with whom I personally find the MC having the most chemistry with~ :>
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I honestly can’t pin down the fixed point in time when or how or why I fell in love with Victor. Right after I started playing MLQC, I went through all his released dates so far (including the CN ones, of course).
For me, it was a gradual process, much like his relationship with MC. But if I had to pin down a time, I think it’d be “Lantern Date”~
no it wasn’t the proposal foreshadowing that PG gave Victor stans 4+ years ago, well maybe a teensy bit LOL
it was what he wrote on the lantern.
The wish Victor wrote in the lantern is from a poem: “The Night of The Lantern Festival – To The Tune of Green Jade Table” – by Xin Qiji, a Song Dynasty poet.
The line Victor wrote is featured in the last stanza:
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众里寻她千百度，蓦然回首, 那人却在灯火阑珊处。
And all at once, as I turned my head,
I was startled to find her
Among the lanterns where the candles were growing dim.
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The writer of the poem was a military general. This poem reflects his unfortunate political circumstances by contrasting the splendor and liveliness of the Lantern Festival and the single-minded search of the narrator for that one, special, woman. And, ultimately finding her in the darkness with the dimming lights.
There are other romantic interpretations of this poem, such as the woman deciding to stop and wait when she realized this man was looking for her, willing to be with him.
Another interpretation is that, the two of them are already lovers, and when he turns his head and sees her it reflects how your happiness was right beside you all along and all you needed to do was turning your head.
This is why even though we’ve seen Victor saying he’ll always find MC no matter what, and vice-versa. Neither of them ever say, “After I found you/After you found me” – when they reminisce, the both of them ALWAYS say – “After I met you.”
“It seems to me that even if I were to travel back a hundred years, the first that’d happen to me would also be meeting you.” – Victor
“....after I met you, everything has changed.” – Victor
“Heheh, isn’t my greatest blessing that I met you?” – MC
“Ever since the day I met you, my whole world has changed....” – MC
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You see, MC is aware of the 17 year long search Victor did to find her. But when they first met (again), it was because Victor decided to stop time and save a random passer-by. The timing could have been off, he could have not noticed her at all or they could just brush past each other – but all Victor had to do was turning his head!
Of course the contents I quoted are from much later time period, but Victor writing that line as his wish on the lantern back then shows just how deeply he cherishes the fact that destiny was on his side that day and how much he cherishes this girl. And we see MC growing to cherish that just as equally. On another note, if we stretch a little backward, when they both say their lives changed after meeting the other, it does lead back to their first meeting in the playground as kids and everything that happened after~
Anyway, that was the date I knew I was gonna be DOWN SO BAD for this man, and I could honestly not be grateful enough for exactly that happening LOL~ 🥺
– it’s the way EVERYTHING about them screams “You’re my home. Your heart is my home.”
– it’s the way his one gaze tells you the feelings a thousand words never could.
– it’s the way you can tell by one look at her, this girl knows just how loved she is.
– it’s the way she knows exactly what she wants and how to let her man know he’s loved and cherished just as equally, if not more.
– it’s the way he’s SO certain of his decisions and choices. Yes, his most important decision in life was choosing you as his “the one” [His words not mine].
– it’s the way he wastes no time in honoring every single one of his decisions and choices.
– it’s the way her hand fits in his. It’s the way they are ALWAYS holding onto each other’s hands.
– it’s the way he silently brings her into his arms, sheltering you from the wind and rain as your harbor, quietly.
– it’s the way he is her anchor, her heaven [MC’s words not mine]. Needless to say, it’s vice-versa.
– it’s the way he tells you AND proves to you “You are already good enough as you’re now. You don’t need to force yourself to change”.
– it’s the way he tells you AND proves to you, “As long as you don’t stop, I’ll always be chasing you. And when you can’t find your direction, just walk towards me”.
– it’s the way he tells you AND proves to you, “In front of me, you can be not strong and not do well. I hope you can learn to rely on me. You always have the right to be vulnerable when you’re with me.”
– it’s the way he’s mindful about every little details, and how he knows to brighten up your day without even letting you get a clue about what he’s planning on.
– it’s the way he is the first glimmer of dawn who recognizes he is blessed to be born into this world and he has to give back as much as he can.
– it’s the way he knows what needs to be done, and he’ll make it happen no matter how much struggle it costs him.
– it’s the way just how selfless his love and services can be, without ever expecting anything in return.
– it’s the way even his biggest self-proclaimed competitor can become his admirer.
– it’s the way he gives all of himself to her and embraces all of herself as his own AND vice-versa.
– it’s the way they can just chat for days without running out of topics. And if they do run out of topics, they can just sit in silence with each other for days without feeling the need to force themselves.
– it’s the way being together comes SO naturally for them.
– it’s the way they trust each other. It’s the way they fight by each other’s side – with each other, for each other. It’s the way they are willing to travel to the end of time for each other AND THEY BOTH DO.
– it’s the way he ticks all the boxes ✨
– it’s the way you can ALWAYS complete the circles in their journey together, from childhood to adulthood ✨✨
– it’s the way MC i.e. PG’s writing team recognizes he is too good even for the 2D world....
“Victor, do you know.... what a grand miracle it is to have you in this world.”
– it’s the way this man truly holds the power to transcend time and space, and be my comfort in my worst of days.
– It’s the way I’m about to walk into the 4th summer with this man. And yet, with every single content, his character keeps getting better and better. And somehow, I fall in love with him even more than before, even though I thought it would be impossible love him any more than I already did.
– it’s the way, somehow along the way I knew what the “Victor black-hole” I willingly devoured myself into was, and yet I let myself sink in even more knowing EXACTLY what it is HAHA~ 💘
“This seems like overkill,” you said, wrapping yourself tighter in your jacket as you and Jaehyun wandered down the refrigerator aisle.
He looked down at you with an exaggerated look of offense, his eyes wide and his mouth parted in shock while his hand flew up to clutch dramatically at his chest. “It is not overkill! It is underkill!”
You strategically hid your smile under your hand and rolled your eyes. “I said I’d never had eggnog as a casual comment, not a call to action.”
“Ah, that’s where we agree to disagree, my dear. Because what you consider a cute little fun fact, I consider a crime,” he said, giving you his signature blinding grin, complete with dimples. “Now hold this.”
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