He Once Was Young (他曾是少年) by Callanthe
He Once Was Young (他曾是少年)
by Callanthe
G, 3k, xuexiao
Summary: If we had met each other much earlier. (If child Xue Yang had met Xiao Xingchen at his most helpless time.)
Author’s Note: *** THIS IS NOT MY ORIGINAL WORK, JUST A TRANSLATION OF 他曾是少年 by Knowbox. Please give some love to the original author there! ***
My comments: Oh, wouldn't this have been nice :(
Excerpt: This was the boy’s first time knowing the taste of being cherished and loved. It turned out that loving and being loved both tasted this sweet, perhaps better than all the pastries under the sun. At that moment, the child knew for the first time that he could be loved, that he was not just a fleck of dust that no one cared about. He was alone, dirty, bullied and humiliated; he was so bad and terrible, but the person in front of him still smiled and reached a hand to him like always, leading him hand-in-hand to walk under the warm sunshine.
fluff, canon divergence, translation, child xue yang, child xiao xingchen, (well he’s an adolescent), fluff with tiny knives, plot twist, @callanthea
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