"I...I'm telling you because if I didn't I would feel like I was lying, I'm telling you because you deserve to know," he says softly, as calmly as he can manage when he wants to cry, wants to beg and plead for Jin Ling to be okay with it, to let him stay.
"I want to be with you more than anything, I meant that, I mean that, but I didn't know if you'd still want me, if you knew the truth..."
He wonders if he should be more hesitant about it himself, if Jin Ling's family history should mean something to him, knowing that they were, in many ways, the reason he was an orphan, the reason his life had been the way it was - but whatever the Jin clan did or didn't do, none of it was the fault of the boy who'd stolen Yuan's heart. As long as Jin Ling still wanted him, it didn't matter who his family were. Yuan hadn't fallen for him because he was rich or influential or a Jin, Yuan had fallen for him because he was perfect, sweet, kind A-Ling, none of the rest of it mattered.
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"I...I'm telling you because if I didn't I would feel like I was lying, I'm telling you because you deserve to know," he says softly, as calmly as he can manage when he wants to cry, wants to beg and plead for Jin Ling to be okay with it, to let him stay.
"I want to be with you more than anything, I meant that, I mean that, but I didn't know if you'd still want me, if you knew the truth..."
He wonders if he should be more hesitant about it himself, if Jin Ling's family history should mean something to him, knowing that they were, in many ways, the reason he was an orphan, the reason his life had been the way it was - but whatever the Jin clan did or didn't do, none of it was the fault of the boy who'd stolen Yuan's heart. As long as Jin Ling still wanted him, it didn't matter who his family were. Yuan hadn't fallen for him because he was rich or influential or a Jin, Yuan had fallen for him because he was perfect, sweet, kind A-Ling, none of the rest of it mattered.