“Brother Yuanyuan, this is the second birthday gift I’m giving you! The moon in the sky is eternal, and I hope that you, Brother Yuanyuan, can be like the moon, shining brightly even with its phases! I hope that your happiness can be like the moon in the sky, always present despite its phases. And most of all, I hope that you, Brother Yuanyuan, will always be a full moon.” Gu Xin looked into Lu Zheng’s eyes and said, word by word.

As Lu Zheng looked at the person in front of him who was gradually becoming the same as the one in his memory, the same words echoed in his ears.

"Lu Lang, Xin'er hopes that you will be like the bright moon in the sky, forever radiant and always bringing light and brightness to Xin'er. Xin'er hopes that you will be like the moon in the sky, pure and flawless, not blinded by hatred, and not tormenting yourself. Xin'er hopes that every time you have a birthday in the future, you will be as full and round as the full moon in the sky, without any worries in your heart!"

On his twenty-third birthday, eighteen-year-old Xin'er took a golden basin and went to a garden full of flowers to pick a full moon for him as a birthday gift.

On his sixteenth birthday, eleven-year-old Xin Xin took a wooden basin and went to the well at the inn to retrieve a full moon for him as a birthday gift.

Tears welled up in Lu Zheng's eyes: "Xin..."

“Brother Yuanyuan, don’t cry, don’t be so touched!” Gu Xin said. “Uncle said that adults eat meat on their birthdays, while children get beaten on their birthdays! Brother Yuanyuan, you’re sixteen now, you’re an adult, don’t cry like you’ve been beaten.”

Lu Zheng: "..."

At this moment, he shared the same question as the three transmigrators who had just arrived: what exactly did Uncle Gu say to Xin Xin?

"Brother Yuanyuan, do you like this gift?" Gu Xin asked again.

"I love it, I really love it. Thank you, Xinxin." Lu Zheng nodded.

“Then look at it for a little while longer, then close your eyes and memorize it. Every time the moon is full, look up at the sky, and you will see the gift I gave you!” Gu Xin said.

“Okay!” Lu Zheng nodded.

"To show my sincerity, I've already spent money to buy this basin from the kitchen uncle. Yuan Yuan, do you want it? Fill it with water when the moon is full, and the water will be my gift to you," Gu Xin said with a sly smile.

“Okay!” Lu Zheng nodded.

"Brother Yuanyuan, thank you too for the gift. I really like it. My favorite is the little tiger because I was born in the Year of the Tiger, hehe~" Gu Xin said with a silly smile.

She just dreamt in the car that when she grows up, someone will buy her a lantern with the twelve zodiac animals, and one of them is a little tiger.

“I know you were born in the Year of the Tiger,” Lu Zheng said with a smile.

He thought of their past life when they strolled through the Lantern Festival together. That was the first birthday they celebrated after they met, and it was also the first time they learned each other's birthdays.

He held Gu Xin's hand and didn't ask anyone to clear a path. Like an ordinary couple, they walked through the crowd, buying from stall to stall, until he had bought all the lanterns related to the twelve zodiac animals on that street for Gu Xin.

That time, the two of them were covered in lanterns, which they carried back to the courtyard and hung there for a whole year.

He remembered that the first thing to break was the little tiger lantern, because Gu Xin was born in the Year of the Tiger. Although she wasn't tigerish in personality, she loved the little tiger lantern terribly. When he wasn't around, she would take her maid and carry the little tiger lantern around the courtyard every day, so it broke the fastest.