66 Happy Birthday Baby
◎If I behave well, will there be a reward?◎
"Actually... I haven't been here."
Walking to the entrance of the arcade, Song Qiu suddenly stopped and said, "I don't know what to play either. How about I start from the beginning?"
After a pause, he added very seriously, "I spend money."
He has an obvious obsession with who will be the consumer, and it has been like this since he left the house today. Lu Yancheng can probably understand his logic. Since he is the one bringing him out to play, then he must be the one to spend money.
"It's okay, let's play together. I've never been here before, so I don't know what you're saying to me."
Lu Yancheng didn't ask him why he had never been here before. He was so enthusiastic about coming here to play, but he had never been here before. The answer was already obvious.
People are always trapped throughout their lives by the unfulfilled desires of their youth. The biggest regret of little Mu Tou is that no one grew up with him. Even if he had money to play later, he probably wouldn't want to play anymore.
Because there is no one close to me, I feel as lonely as when I was a child.
Some words would ruin the atmosphere and make everyone awkward. Lu Yancheng chose not to say anything and was dragged by him to find a machine for scanning codes to buy game coins, and then he stood by and watched him operate it.
"After entering, I can't use cash or scan the code to pay? Can I only use chips?"
Song Qiu had at least seen and understood this, but he had no idea. He just called the game coins chips. Song Qiu was so scared that he quickly covered his mouth and warned him in a low voice, "Don't call these chips. This is not a casino. These are game coins. Sex, gambling and drugs are all illegal. Be careful not to get caught!"
Going out with a legendary outlaw, Song Qiu almost had the word "cautious" engraved on his forehead, for fear that something unexpected might happen and he would be unable to return after coming here safely.
His paranoia made Lu Yancheng laugh, and he took his hand away and said, "Okay, game coins."
Song Qiu nodded with satisfaction and continued to pay. After paying two hundred yuan, he hesitated for a few seconds and took control again, this time buying five hundred yuan worth of game coins.
There were a total of seven hundred pieces in a heavy box. A bodyguard behind him wanted to help carry it as usual, but Lu Yancheng stopped him with his eyes. After the bodyguard stepped back, he took the box from Song Qiu himself.
"Can you use up all the money you buy?"
Seven hundred yuan was nothing to him, but seeing that Song Qiu only bought two hundred yuan at the beginning, it was clear that the remaining five hundred yuan was far beyond the level that could be invested in this project.
"It's enough anyway. If you can't use it up, just play hard." Song Qiu stared at the box in his hand while speaking. He felt very sad, but he said generously, "Since it's my treat, I can't be stingy. Let's go, I'll take you out to play."
Then he reached out and held Lu Yancheng's hand, walked two steps, and turned back to warn him seriously, "Don't dislike this place, there may be children running around everywhere, you... I take you out to play and you have to be obedient, just... be good."
Be a good boy?
Lu Yancheng was surprised by the word "good" he used. He was stunned for a moment and was about to nod, but then he heard his voice slowly soften and continued speaking.
"Give me some face, please..."
What a good combination of soft and hard tactics.
Lu Yancheng was already grinning from ear to ear before he even started playing, so he leaned over to his ear and whispered, "If you're very good, will there be a reward?"
Song Qiu's body stiffened.
If he still had a filter for Lu Yancheng as an honest man, then of course he would think that this reward was just a reward, but the two of them had just come clean and it was a vague and ambiguous moment, and he was not stupid, and even as an adult he knew what this meant.
The reward will not be something, but...
He wanted to escape and didn't want to answer, but it seemed unfair to Lu Yancheng. Song Qiu's conscience was tormented. After hesitating for a long time, he stood on tiptoe and kissed the man on the chin who lowered his eyes to look at him.
It was like a dragonfly touching the water, so fast and light that Lu Yancheng almost didn't feel it. If he hadn't seen him kiss him with his own eyes, he would have suspected that the warm touch just now was an illusion.
Little Wood... kissed me on his own initiative?
I just wanted to try out how Xiao Mu would react to my flirting, whether he could accept it, and then determine the scale of our future interactions based on his reaction. I never expected such an unexpected surprise, and Lu Yancheng was unusually stunned.
But no one saw his reaction. After the kiss, Song Qiu didn't dare to look at him. He felt a little embarrassed, but he couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart. It was not so easy to break such a deeply ingrained thought.
He could accept Lu Yancheng insisting on kissing him, forcing him to kiss him, or the two of them pretending to kiss each other, but he couldn't think about it at all if he took the initiative to kiss him and took it as a reward.
The more I think about it, the more I regret it.
I felt like I lost my mind just now, how could I kiss her?
So annoying!
“Bang!”
Lu Yancheng was still in a daze, but was brought back to his senses by a loud slap he gave himself on the head.
The sound was too loud. He had never seen anyone hit him so cruelly. When he looked over, he saw a small piece of wood with a distorted expression due to pain.
Nothing could be seen in his head, but his palms were all red. Lu Yancheng pulled his hands over and rubbed them, then laughed and said, "Are you regretting this?"
Song Qiu frowned and said nothing. The awkwardness and confusion in his heart were all written on his face. Lu Yancheng lowered his head and kissed him directly between the eyebrows. "I received the reward. I will be good."
After saying that, he took a step back and asked him half-jokingly, "Do you regret it less now? I accepted the reward because I was really doing something for you. You didn't lose much, and..."
"I kissed you too, and I didn't want anything. I feel like I lost, and you gained."
Song Qiu: “…” You are worthy of being a black-hearted capitalist!
Although the ambiguity was completely destroyed, the awkwardness was also gone. Lu Yancheng's joke worked quite well and he successfully gained a piece of wood who looked natural but rolled his eyes at him.
In the past, if someone dared to roll their eyes in front of him like this, Lu Yancheng would definitely think it was rude, but now he is quite used to it and even thinks it is a little cute.
It's really cute when Xiaomu curses people with his expression and eyes. He doesn't say any swear words, but his curses are quite dirty.
There were too many games to play in the arcade, but there were almost none that Lu Yancheng could play. After all, it was too inconvenient to shoot hoops or play dance machines in a suit. Song Qiu was not interested in those either. He played a few games with little interest and finally went back to the first claw machine.
"I thought this place was fun, but it turns out to be just like this."
When he was a child, he thought it must be fun for children to be brought here by their parents to play, because he had seen classmates gather together to discuss these things more than once. He didn’t understand many of the words they said, and he had never seen those things, but he only remembered three words: video game arcade.
Later, when I grew up, I didn't have the chance to come and play because I had to study hard and work part-time to earn a living. When I started working, I had some money and some time, but unfortunately, he didn't have the courage to come in to such a place alone.
He just couldn't keep calm when he saw a family of three talking and laughing alone.
"Do you want to try this?" Lu Yancheng pointed at the row of claw machines in front of him, "I see those people just now didn't catch any."
"What's so fun about this? Isn't it just the doll inside? It's so much easier to just buy it. It should be cheaper than catching it like this."
Song Qiu grumbled that he was not very interested, but after failing to catch it three times in a row, he immediately became determined and said, "How can I not catch it? I don't believe it. I must catch it today!"
Then there was endless disbelief, and finally after dozens of tries I caught a unicorn.
Seeing him holding the unicorn and doubting his life in front of the claw machine, Lu Yancheng tried hard to hold back his laughter and said, "I'll try."
"Okay, come on." Song Qiu made room for him and stood beside him, waiting to see how many times he could catch it.
It took nearly dozens of tries to finally catch a heart-shaped plush toy. That was the moment when Song Qiu burst into laughter for the first time since entering the video game arcade.
“Hahahaha, you’re like that too, hahaha… So there are things you’re not good at too, hahahaha…”
He laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his back. Lu Yancheng just let him hold him and laugh, then he mechanically inserted the coin and continued to grab the next one.
Out of the seven hundred game coins, the two men spent six hundred of them here, and in the end the only spoils were the dozen or so stuffed toys in the arms of the bodyguard next to them. The result was incredibly poor.
A top student with excellent grades since childhood and a president who was always successful in the business world, both failed at the claw machine. The two looked at each other in silence for a long time, and finally laughed out loud.
When walking out of the video game arcade, Song Qiu couldn't stop laughing.
He seemed to understand why those classmates were so happy. It was not necessarily because the projects themselves were so fun, but because the people around them could also make them happy.
"Will you come again next time?"
The two of them walked down the steps at the door, and Lu Yancheng suddenly asked this question.
It sounded like a casual question, but his eyes clearly didn't mean that.
Song Qiu paused for a moment, realizing that the next time he was talking about was the next time when the two of them were together. She stared at him for a few seconds before she smiled brightly again, "Come on, I'll bring you along next time, and I'll definitely catch more than you!"
"good."
Lu Yancheng tightened their hands and walked aimlessly but happily on the street with him.
He was sure that Xiao Mu understood what he meant. It was not just next time, they would have many more times. What he asked was if he could be given a chance.
Xiaomu responded and said that there would be a next time.
If you say it too bluntly, it will be easy for him to evade the attack. This is just right. Xiao Mu said that he could not give him a promise, but was willing to give him a chance, which was already a big step forward.
The two of them walked slowly to a dessert shop. Song Qiu took a look and pulled him in. Without further explanation, he pointed to a birthday cake in the display cabinet and said to him, "Lu Yancheng, I want to eat this."
Although she was smiling and about to eat the cake, Lu Yancheng's heart trembled when he saw it.
Because he suddenly realized one thing: Xiaomu was an orphan and didn’t even know his own birthday. He had probably never eaten a birthday cake...
Maybe I have bought it, but definitely not on my birthday.
Lu Yancheng helped him choose the cake, and then paid with a credit card. When they were sitting aside waiting for the cake, he asked him, "Baby, what day is today?"
Song Qiu was staring at the birthday cakes in the window in a daze. It took him a moment to realize what he was asking. "October 10th."
"Yes." Lu Yancheng took off the watch on his hand, took his hand and put it on him, "Birthday present, happy birthday, baby."
Song Qiu looked at the watch and then at him, then turned his gaze to look at the birthday cake he had just chosen. When he looked back at him, his eyes were slightly red, and his voice was much softer than before, "I don't... I don't have a birthday."
"It will come later."
Lu Yancheng softened his voice and repeated, "Happy birthday, baby."
【Author’s words】
I'm late. I'll kneel down and apologize to you guys. I'll drink three cups of wine as punishment.
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