Xiao Tangqiu looked dazed: "I seemed to have had a... very long dream..."
"A very long dream?" Meng Xinghe asked curiously, "What dream?"
Xiao Tangqiu thought hard, but couldn't remember anything: "...I forgot."
"Forget it, since you can't remember it, it probably wasn't a wonderful dream," Meng Xinghe yawned. "Our internet fee is almost gone, let's find a park and sleep."
"Go to the park to sleep? Where to sleep?" Xiao Tangqiu didn't react for a moment.
Meng Xinghe said as if it was a matter of course: "Sleeping on a park bench."
Xiao Tangqiu: "This is too tragic..."
"We don't have any money!" Meng Xinghe pinched Xiao Tangqiu's cheek. "We left right after class and didn't have time to go home and bring money!"
Xiao Tangqiu then remembered that this was indeed the case. He felt in his pocket and found only a few dollars: "How much money do you have on you?"
Meng Xinghe casually touched it and said, "There are still a few dozen dollars left. Even if we add them up, it's still not enough for a hotel. Why don't we just stay in the internet cafe all night?"
Xiao Tangqiu shook his head and looked at Meng Xinghe seriously: "It's your birthday in a while, right? Don't you want to buy a cake to celebrate your eighteenth birthday?"
Meng Xinghe paused for a moment before scratching the back of his head. "Want to buy a cake? I don't mind, but after buying the cake, we'll be completely broke."
Xiao Tangqiu shook his head: "Celebrating your birthday is more important. Let's go buy a cake."
Meng Xinghe laughed: "I think it's you who wants to eat cake! Okay, let's go! Let's go buy some cake!"
The two teenagers left the Internet cafe and ran to the nearest cake shop, but found that it was closed. They ran to several cake shops in a row and finally succeeded in buying a small cake for one person at a 24-hour convenience store.
"It's so small! It's not enough for the two of us! We might as well go have some spicy hot pot!" Meng Xinghe muttered as he looked at the cake in his hand.
Xiao Tangqiu said with a smile: "But birthdays must be eaten with birthday cake!"
Meng Xinghe snorted: "That's the tradition of Westerners. We don't follow that."
Xiao Tangqiu smiled and said, "Okay, we've already bought everything. Let's find a place to sit down and eat. Let's go to the park you mentioned."
Meng Xinghe nodded: "Actually, sleeping on a park bench is pretty cool."
Xiao Tangqiu was speechless: "How can sleeping on a park bench be cool? Only homeless people sleep on park benches..."
He hesitated for a moment and said to Meng Xinghe, "Let's go home obediently tomorrow morning, Meng Xinghe."
Meng Xinghe suddenly stopped in his tracks: "Go home? Are you kidding me?"
Xiao Tangqiu frowned: "But we are penniless now. We don't even have money to eat. How can we run away from home?"
"Stop joking! If you agreed to run away from home, then you have to run away!" Meng Xinghe insisted, "Are you going to betray me?"
"How have I betrayed you? Haven't I already been away from home with you for a whole day?" Xiao Tangqiu bit her lip. "We don't even have a minute left now. If we don't go home, are we really going to end up on the streets?"
"I can go to work!" Meng Xinghe gritted his teeth, "No matter what, I won't go back!"
Xiao Tangqiu hesitated for a moment: "Meng Xinghe, don't be like this. Your mother is just concerned about you. After all, you are her only son..."
"She simply wants to control me!" Meng Xinghe's eyes darkened. "She wants to control me, my life, and impose her subjective will on me to complete everything she hasn't done, without regard for my personal wishes at all! I will never go back!"
He looked at Xiao Tangqiu and asked, "Are you scared already? Do you want to betray me?"
"How can this be considered betrayal? I've been wandering outside with you for a whole day! My parents must be worried to death about me now!" Xiao Tangqiu was also a little angry.
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