Chapter 58: Wishing Day Chen Song doesn’t celebrate his birthday, saying…
Chen Song doesn't celebrate his birthday, saying that he doesn't have the habit of doing so. In fact, no one has ever celebrated his birthday for him.
He knew the word "birthday" from his primary school textbooks. He had spelled "birthday" many times in English. The birthday parties of the characters in the book on multimedia gave him a vague concept of birthdays.
It was not until he was in high school and living on campus that he had a classmate’s birthday. His parents bought a double-layer cake and sent it to school to share with the whole class. Only then did Chen Song have a deep understanding of the concept of “celebrating birthdays”.
It turns out that the birthday person receives so many surprises and gifts, which is a happiness he can't imagine.
It turns out that being born into this world can also be happiness for many people.
On his nineteenth birthday, Chen Song also received his first piece of cake, which was brought to him by Gu Mo.
That night, Gu Mo came back drunk as usual. He stood at the door, holding a piece of black cake in his hand. He leaned against the door, his slightly red face overflowing with a lazy smile. He said, "Surprise~"
"My friend said this is delicious, so I saved a piece for you." Gu Mo raised his hand and shook the cake. "Want to try it?"
Afterwards that night, Chen Song remembered that it was his birthday.
The first cake I had at the age of nineteen was also the most delicious cake I have ever eaten in my life.
Occasionally, when he was in a good mood and Gu Mo came, he would buy a piece of Black Forest cake to eat together.
Later, the opportunities to eat cake together became fewer and fewer, and I don’t know when it started but we never ate cake together again.
The short rain dragged Chen Song into a long memory. The two walked into the corridor and took the elevator. When the elevator door opened, hurried footsteps sounded from above the corridor.
Chen Song looked up the stairs as they went up one step at a time. All he saw were raindrops splashing onto the ground from the window in the dark night.
Lu Yuan coughed dryly and pulled Chen Song out of the elevator: "Come in quickly, I haven't eaten yet today, and I'm waiting to eat cake with you."
Chen Song glanced at him, and Lu Yuan smiled at him happily.
Lu Yuan's smile froze a little, and soon faded. Chen Song had obviously noticed something.
Lu Yuan looked away guiltily, walked quickly to the door, squatted down and picked up a square gift box: "Your favorite cake. Come on, let's make a wish before twelve o'clock."
Chen Song looked at the cake without saying anything. In the silence, the sensor light went out. The black cake blended into the night. The sound of rain outside was noisy, quiet and mysterious.
"Chen Song," Lu Yuan called him softly. He lowered his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
Chen Song took out his room card and walked to the door. There were a bunch of gift boxes, large and small, at the door. Chen Song opened the door and walked in as if he hadn't noticed.
Lu Yuan glanced upstairs from the stairs, turned around and went into the house. After putting the cake on the table, he went to the door and carried a pile of gift boxes into the house, then closed the door with his calves hooked.
Lu Yuan untied the ribbon from the cake box, took out the cake, put candles in it and lit it.
"Come here and make a wish." Lu Yuan stood up and turned off the lights.
Chen Song looked at the only fire in the darkness, a warm feeling welling up in his heart, and walked over. Lu Yuan put his arm around his shoulders and asked him to sit down: "Close your eyes and make a wish."
Chen Song watched the flames sway gently from side to side, remaining silent.
"What's wrong?" Lu Yuan asked him.
"I have no wishes."
Lu Yuan took out his phone and recorded him: "Think about it. Well, you're not really that averse to birthdays. In high school, we wanted to celebrate your birthday, but you refused. You didn't even want a gift. I was wondering how you could be so stupid. Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, and you finally got a day where you could get a free gift, but you refused it."
"No one will give it to me." Chen Song said lightly.
"Am I not a human being?" Lu Yuan resisted the urge to scold him, "I find that you always treat me as something other than a human being. Are we brothers anymore?"
Chen Song looked up at him, his eyes gleaming with fire: "Just you."
Lu Yuan's discontented words were immediately forgotten. After a moment's silence, he said, "What's wrong with one? One is also one. Besides, I can give you tons of gifts by myself! I'll be with you on your birthdays from now on!"
Chen Song's brows relaxed and he smiled faintly: "Okay."
"Have you thought of any wish?"
Chen Song thought for a moment and closed his eyes. Just as he was about to make a wish, Lu Yuan lifted his hands and clasped them together: "You really have never celebrated your birthday before. You can't even make a wish."
After Chen Song got into position, Lu Yuan immediately took out a birthday hat and put it on Chen Song. Chen Song wanted to reach out and touch it.
"Don't move. Just make your wish."
Chen Song heard this and put his hands together again, and after a moment he said, "I hope..."
"Oh, don't say it out loud, just say it in your heart." Lu Yuan was recording him, and when he heard Chen Song talking, he couldn't help but stretch his neck to look at this fool in reality.
Chen Song's lips, illuminated by the firelight, slowly closed, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth when he made the wish.
At the same time, Lu Yuan hummed a birthday song: "Happy birthday to you~Happy birthday to you~Happy birthday to you~Happy~birthday~..."
"You're 24! Congratulations."
When Chen Song opened his eyes again, his eyebrows were filled with a gentle smile.
"Okay, blow out the candles."
After Chen Song blew out the candle, Lu Yuan went to turn on the light.
The cake was not big, only four inches in size, but it was very exquisite. Chen Song cut it in half and gave it to Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan returned the cake: "The first piece should be for yourself, idiot. I'll just eat the other one."
Chen Song said, "How about I cook two dishes?"
"No, no, just eat it like this. You've been busy all day, I'll eat some more when I get home. Let's leave after you finish eating the cake. Take your time to open those gifts." He spoke faster than his brain, and only after he finished speaking did he realize that the cake in his mouth was choked for a moment, and he swallowed it several times before he could swallow it.
Chen Song didn't look at him and said calmly, "You've been telling him about me."
Lu Yuan pursed his lips, his heart leaping into his throat. He finally calmed down and said, "I'm sorry, Chen Song. I... I was bewitched. He tempted me with a Porsche 911, saying he just wanted to know if you were doing well and that he wouldn't appear around to disturb you again, so I agreed... I was wrong. I'm returning the car to him today. I don't want it anymore."
Chen Song lowered his eyes. The hazelnuts made a soft sound as they were crushed by his teeth. The sweetness of the cream mixed with the bitterness of the chocolate swirled between his lips and tongue.
"Take the gift he brought you."
"Can I keep mine?"
"Um."
After they finished eating the cake, Lu Yuan asked Chen Song to go wash up first and he would clean the room. Chen Song was too sleepy to refuse.
Chen Song came out of the bathroom groggily and collapsed on the bed. Lu Yuan glanced at him, packed his things and prepared to leave. He looked around and remembered something and asked, "Didn't you say you had that commendation meeting tonight? Where's your banner? Why didn't I see you bring it back?"
Chen Song rubbed his quilt and said in a muffled voice, "Well... I gave it to someone else."
"Huh?" Lu Yuan didn't understand. "What do you mean by giving it to someone else? Can you give your silk banner to someone else?"
Chen Song's breathing became heavier, and after a while he replied, "Someone took it away..."
Lu Yuan was furious and wanted to ask for clarification, but when he walked to the bedside and saw Chen Song's even breathing, he closed his mouth. He swallowed the anger that was burning at his lips.
Who the hell did this?! Wasn't it Jing who introduced him to this job? How dare someone else get on top of him?! Can someone just snatch this thing away?
Lu Yuan's intuition told him that Chen Song must have been treated inhumanely in the hospital!
Lu Yuan was furious, but he still tiptoed out the door carrying all the gifts that Gu Xingjue had sent him. After closing the door, he whispered upstairs, "Hey, let's go."
There was a sound of footsteps above his head. Gu Xingjue first leaned his head out to look down. When he saw Lu Yuan holding a bunch of things in his arms, his eyes darkened. He glanced at the closed door behind him and walked down.
Lu Yuan threw all the things on him, took out the key from his pocket, touched it a few times reluctantly, and then threw it into the gift bag with a hard heart: "He knows everything. Don't come to me for information in the future."
Lu Yuan finished speaking and walked downstairs: "I advise you not to come here again. Go back to Beicheng and be your Jingye. A sentimental man is not suitable for you."
Gu Xingjue stared at the tightly closed door, unable to move. His heart, dangling on a cliff, seemed to be shaky and unable to fall. Yet, the feeling of weightlessness persisted, spreading like a virus throughout his body, slowly gnawing at his flesh and blood, leaving him feeling worse than death.
"Why are you still standing there? Go away. Even if you stand there for the rest of your life, he won't feel sorry for you at all." Lu Yuan stopped on the steps and turned around to look at him. "You know deep down that Chen Song will never forgive you. He's just that kind of person. Once he makes up his mind, he won't change it. You know it better than anyone else, but you just don't want to face it and can't bear the consequences."
"But you sowed the seeds of this bitter fruit with your own hands."
Gu Xingjue's upright figure remained motionless, standing firm like a cedar tree deep in the mountains. His aura was so strong that even the falling sky couldn't break his stubborn spirit.
"Why are you doing this? Even though you've been insisting on it for over a year, he's been insisting on it for over a year as well. They're really each more stubborn than the other. And when it comes to love, hard work doesn't always work."
Lu Yuan sighed deeply, and as he spoke, he went back up to pull the man away. After Lu Yuan's physical pulling, persuasion, and scolding, he finally managed to pull the man out of the staff dormitory.
The rain outside had stopped, it was just a brief thunderstorm.
"You drove here, so you can just let someone take the car away when the time comes. I don't need the configuration I filled in it. Just drop me off tonight." Lu Yuan folded the umbrella and put it away.
Gu Xingjue held a pile of gift boxes in his hands without saying a word.
Lu Yuan patted his shoulder and comforted him: "It's okay, scumbag. It's normal that you are not worthy of such an outstanding Chen Song in our family. Let it go early while you are still young and find someone else."
Lu Yuan took out the key from the gift box and unlocked the car. He lay on the car and said sadly, "Let me drive it home one last time. Woo woo woo, my beloved car, I will never see it again."
Gu Xingjue looked up at the room upstairs: "I can't let go of it, not even in this lifetime."
Lu Yuan stopped wailing upon hearing that. He immediately walked up to him, grabbed his collar, and shouted, "I don't care if you can let him go or not! You can't fucking bother him anymore! I was blinded by greed and got on board with you. If I hadn't agreed to you back then, maybe you two would have been minding your own business and living happily by now. You would have already found a new sweetheart and lived happily ever after!"
Gu Xingjue looked at him, his eyes, darker than the night, filled with a lonely and dead silence. "I won't disturb him again, but no one can deprive me of the right to see him. I can't let him go, I just can't let him go. Do you think I haven't thought about it? Chen Song is an addiction, I can't quit unless I die. Come on, kill me. Kill me, killing me will eliminate the risk of me appearing in front of him again!"
Lu Yuan pushed him away: "Crazy! You are a fucking lunatic."
Gu Xingjue's powerful body was unexpectedly pushed to the ground without any defense. The gift boxes were scattered all over the floor. He laughed coldly: "I've been crazy for a long time! I've been fucking crazy for a long time!"
Lu Yuan stepped forward and kicked him: "If you want to go crazy, go back to your North City and stop being crazy! It's okay if you go crazy yourself, but are you going to drive Chen Song crazy too?!"
Gu Xingjue's laughter stopped. He suddenly shuddered and murmured, "I don't want it. I don't want to... I don't want to... Don't do this..."
"If you don't want to, just leave." Lu Yuan felt a little scared when he saw his mentally ill appearance, but there was also some pity in the scary look.
Over the past year, he had felt Gu Xingjue's surging longing better than anyone else. Countless messages and phone calls were about Chen Song.
Chen Song is Gu Xingjue's oxygen, without him he would suffocate; Gu Xingjue is the tree and Chen Song is the water, without him the water would dry up; Gu Xingjue is the fish and Chen Song is the sea, without him he would die of thirst.
Gu Xingjue had spent a long time preparing for a birthday that no one had forgotten. Each gift was not a useless decoration, but something to improve Chen Song's life.
The luxurious aromatherapy for sleep was custom-made two months ago. The most authoritative doctors overseas prepared nutritional supplements for the body, along with the most advanced neck and shoulder massagers.
He really wanted Chen Song to live a good life, Lu Yuan knew it, but Chen Song could not forgive himself for doing everything in vain.
"You can drive the car away." Gu Xingjue knelt down and picked up the gift boxes one by one. "I won't bother you two anymore. This car is my compensation for disturbing you for this year."
"No, I can't bear it. I've been driving your car for over a year for nothing, so just don't ask me for compensation. I've taken good care of this car, and there's no damage to it. So that's it. I don't need you to send me off, I'll take a taxi. You, you should go home early too. You can drive either car, but you have to find someone to take the other one away tonight."
Gu Xingjue stood up holding the gift box: "Got it, you can go now."
Lu Yuan didn't move. After watching Gu Xingjue get into the car and drive away with the gift box in his arms, he let out a long sigh and took a taxi home.
Suddenly he remembered something and opened WeChat to send a message to Gu Xingjue.
【Yuan】: Let me tell you one last thing about Chen Song.
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