Then the years started passing by just like that, and we didn't even realise that almost five years had passed of us being together, with the togetherness of each other.
In all these five years, we had together created lots of memories, and in all those memories, Yuan Yuan, you are my favourite one, my favourite, I said to him while sitting on our living room couch on this calm weekend night in Shanghai.
He held my hand in his and said, "You know what, my silly girl," he said.
"Hm," I said.
"You think that we are not destined by our fate to be together," he said.
"Hmm," I said again while getting a little upset about this thing.
"But do you know what I feel?" he asked me.
"What?" I asked him.
"I feel that our fates were already destined to be together from the very beginning. No matter how much distance there was between us at those times, our fate only brought us to each other," he said.
I looked at him, and then he continued and said, "You were born in deep winter, January 21, when the year is about to start. I was born in late autumn, when the year is about to end. It's just like your beginning made my loneliness less," he said.
I looked at him very amusingly and asked, "Yuan, where?"
"What?" he asked me back.
"Your degree of reading and becoming an astrologer. I didn't even know about it till now," I said.
He smiled and said, "Stop being sarcastic. I know I am not that good at explaining it, but I did read about us. That's what I am saying to you," he said.
"What? Tell me," I said while taking a deep breath.
Then he continued saying his chronology about us very seriously and said, "You know what? My season is autumn and yours is winter."
"Hm," I said while listening to him.
"It means that the person who waited through autumn finally found warmth in winter."
"And the birth dates of us, which are twenty-one and twenty-nine, both have two in them, right?" he said.
"Hm," I replied to him.
"It symbolises partnership and pairs. Both birthdays start with two, which means two people are destined to become one family," he said.
"And you know what? Our birth years are connected through opposite but balancing elements," he said.
"Wait, Yuan. What kind of balancing elements are you talking about?" I asked him.
Then he said, "I was born in the year nineteen ninety-six, which is associated with fire, and you were born in the year two thousand three, which is associated with water."
Then he continued and said, "Normally, when fire and water come together, they clash. But in our Chinese symbolism, it creates strong attraction, which gives the feeling of two completely different people who still become each other's destiny," he said.
I smiled while listening to this and said, "Now I am finding it a bit interesting," I said.
"A bit interesting? It's about us, and every bit of it is way more interesting than anything else," he said.
"Okay, continue more. I'd like to hear more about us," I said.
He smiled and nodded his head and continued back again and said, "You know what? We have Yin and Yang balance with each other."
"What is Yin and Yang balance?" I asked him.
"Yang means Scorpio, which is my zodiac sign, and the Rat energy in me, which makes me Yang, which is protective, emotionally intense, calm outside but possessive inside," he said.
"Indeed you are," I said.
"Now listen to yours also," he said.
"Say it," I said to him.
Then he said, "Yin means Aquarius, which is your zodiac sign, and the Goat energy in you, which feels gentle, dreamy, and comforting," he said.
"Quite impressive. I didn't know about it before," I said.
He smiled and said, "Do you know what the main theory of it is?" he asked me.
"No," I said.
"The main theory is that the Rat energy in me represents intelligence, protectiveness, and hidden devotion, and the Goat energy in you represents gentleness, warmth, and emotional softness, which together make a pair where one protects the outside world and the other protects the emotional world inside the home."
"And you know what? There is one more thing in it from where I was able to know why I behave like that in some situations with you, and that is because it's written there that the Rat usually becomes very protective toward someone soft-hearted like the Goat," he said.
I looked at him very amusingly and said, "Yuan, I am really impressed by your deep astrologer theory. You have really touched my Mr Heart," I said.
He smiled and said, "Only I can touch your Mr Heart like that. I know no one else could ever do so. It's not something I didn't know about. Tell me something that I don't know," he said.
I looked at him and said, "Indeed, you know everything and anything about me."
"And there is one more very important thing about us that I was forgetting to tell you," he said.
"What?" I asked him.
Then he said, "We have a Yuánfèn hěn shēn connection with each other."
"What's that?" I asked.
"It means that the people having this connection have a very deep fate connection, and it's a very important concept for us, which means a destined relationship or connection between two people," he said.
"And this is really what we are," I said, getting lost in myself while listening to his theory.
"I have never been able to know that in our concepts and theories we had such a strong connection with each other from the very beginning of our story. I only cursed my fate and destiny, asking why, why it didn't make you mine and make me yours," I said.
Then he placed his hand on my head and said, "My little silly girl, you even cursed your own fate and destiny, which is so beautiful, because of me. You even cursed it. I don't know what I can say to you, but in loving me, you just forgot everything," he said.
Then I smiled while looking at him.
And then suddenly, a voice came from the room, calling us.
Then...