Chapter 64 Happy Birthday
The next morning, Jiang Jinyue woke up earlier than Lu Qingmian. He subconsciously wanted to shake his tail, but found that his tail was actually folded up!
Jiang Jinyue immediately touched the top of his head, but it was empty and the two cat ears were gone.
He had a strange feeling in his heart, so he closed his eyes. In just a few seconds, cat ears and a cat tail grew out together.
Jiang Jinyue found it a bit amusing, so he kept growing ears and a tail and then folding them back.
Before Lu Qingmian opened his eyes, he subconsciously touched his side. The quilt was cold and Jiang Jinyue was not there. He opened his eyes immediately and saw Jiang Jinyue with his back to him, playing with his cat's tail and ears freely, having a lot of fun.
"Can you control it freely now?" Lu Qingmian asked as he sat up.
Hearing Lu Qingmian's voice, Jiang Jinyue's newly grown cat ears twitched. Lu Qingmian had just woken up, and his voice was a little hoarse, which sounded particularly pleasant.
He couldn't help but turn around and crawled to Lu Qingmian's side using his hands and feet like a cat. He lowered his head and rubbed Lu Qingmian's cheek with his soft and warm ears, "You're awake! I can control my ears and tail!"
Lu Qingmian curled his lips, embraced Jiang Jinyue, and rubbed Jiang Jinyue's ear affectionately.
Neither of them was in a hurry to get up. Jiang Jinyue snuggled into Lu Qingmian's arms again and lay there for a while, with the cat's tail swaying slowly behind him. After hugging each other for almost half an hour, the two of them reluctantly got up.
It takes a certain amount of courage to leave the bed in winter. After getting up, they went downstairs together and returned to 1203. Wang Xiaoya was stirring the noodles in the pot with chopsticks.
There's nothing happier than eating a bowl of noodles cooked by mom on a winter morning! Jiang Jinyue took a sip of soup from the bowl. Because the cat's ears and tail were folded up, he happily wiggled his toes and accidentally kicked Lu Qingmian, who was sitting next to him. Lu Qingmian gave Jiang Jinyue a rather amused look, his expression doting.
Wang Xiaoya was sitting opposite the two people and eating noodles. Seeing their little movements, she showed a look of relief on her face.
She looked at the long hair tied up behind the backs of Jiang Jinyue and Lu Qingmian with some curiosity. Although she did not ask much, she couldn't help thinking that these were probably wigs, couple wigs like the ones they wore in couple outfits.
Wang Xiaoya, a mother who came from a small mountain village, was very afraid of embarrassing her child because of her ignorance, so she was particularly good at being logical.
After breakfast, Wang Xiaoya went to work, and Jiang Jinyue and Lu Qingmian went to the barber shop together.
The barbershops near the university town open very early, and many students come here early in the morning to wash their hair and style their hair.
Jiang Jinyue and Lu Qingmian's waist-length hair attracted a lot of attention. They went to a barber shop far away from H University and asked the barber to cut their hair neatly first, and then they discussed what hairstyle to get.
Sitting in front of a large, bright mirror, Jiang Jinyue felt everything was new and fresh. He flipped through the hairstyle album handed to him by the barber, and really saw the afro that Lu Qingmian had always talked about.
The barber was a fashionable young man in his early 20s. Seeing Jiang Jinyue staring at his afro, he asked him if he wanted to get a perm. Jiang Jinyue quickly shook his head, and finally discussed with Lu Qingmian and decided to get a very fashionable perm with small curls, and also to dye his hair light chestnut.
Lu Qingmian and Jiang Jinyue decided to dye their hair the same color, and kept their hair in a relatively neat and messy style.
Jiang Jinyue braided the long hair cut from both of them into a big braid, wrapped it up carefully and put it into her backpack, and rejected the barber's offer to buy the hair.
The feeling of having his hair cut was fresh at first, and Jiang Jinyue still thought it was fun until he applied the hair dye. But after Lu Qingmian finished cutting and dyeing his hair, Jiang Jinyue had to continue sitting and perming it, and he became a little restless.
Lu Qingmian stood up, stood beside Jiang Jinyue, and looked at Jiang Jinyue in the mirror.
Jiang Jinyue looked at Lu Qingmian pitifully and suggested, "Why don't you just not perm your hair?" He was really tired after sitting for so long.
The barber immediately advised, "The clip is already halfway up, can you hold on a little longer?"
Lu Qingmian raised his hand and placed it on Jiang Jinyue's shoulder, and asked seriously, "Do you want more heat?"
Jiang Jinyue looked at his very different self in the mirror. He was actually looking forward to seeing what he would look like after the perm. Finally, he gritted his teeth and decided to get the perm.
He sat there for a whole day, and after his hair was permed, Jiang Jinyue almost couldn't stand up.
He and Lu Qingmian looked in the mirror together. They had the same hair color and looked particularly well-matched.
Jiang Jinyue's curly hair makes a "DuangDuang" sound when she walks, which is quite cute.
The next day they went to class together, attracting the attention of many classmates, and soon there were photos of them on the school forum and BBS.
Jiang Jinyue saw it, but he didn't care as much as before. He even pointed at himself in the photo and said to Lu Qingmian, "Lu Qingmian, look, my curly hair looks good from the back, too."
Lu Qingmian raised his hand to touch Jiang Jinyue's curly hair, smiled and kissed the top of his head, "It looks very nice."
The days passed peacefully. For a period of time afterwards, Jiang Jinyue no longer asked Lu Qingmian to accompany him to class. In addition to attending classes, Lu Qingmian seemed to be busy with other things. Jiang Jinyue asked him several times, but Lu Qingmian remained mysterious and didn't say anything.
Wang Xiaoya is also very busy. In addition to working during the day, she also has to go to various night markets to observe the snack stalls that are doing good business. She is not in a hurry to buy her own snack stall, but first goes to apply for some necessary documents.
Jiang Jinyue became the most idle person in the family.
November 20th soon arrived, and Jiang Jinyue had been counting the days. Today was the last day of the Mary Sue incident "The Little Kitten Everyone Loves".
It has been a while since Mary Sue's golden finger was silenced by Lu Qingmian's super long endurance. It may have been scared by Lu Qingmian.
Jiang Jinyue was happy and at ease even though the golden finger did not appear.
Today, like every other day, he went out with Lu Qingmian in the morning, then they separated at the fork in the road at school and went to class separately.
Just halfway through the class, Lu Qingmian sent him a text message, telling him that she couldn't have lunch with him at noon, and her mother was busy and couldn't go home, so she asked him to have lunch with Chen Keai.
Although Jiang Jinyue felt a little strange, he didn't think much about it. Wang Xiaoya and Lu Qingmian were very busy recently. He just thought they had something urgent to do.
At noon, Jiang Jinyue and Chen Keai went to the cafeteria together. Chen Keai also looked a little strange, as if she had something to say to him but couldn't say much, and she felt very uncomfortable.
Jiang Jinyue couldn't help but ask, but Chen Keai just dodged and said it was nothing.
After dinner and afternoon classes, Chen Keai came to find Jiang Jinyue again and dragged Jiang Jinyue for a few laps outside before going home.
During this period, Jiang Jinyue and Lu Qingmian had been eating with Wang Xiaoya. He returned to the door of 1203 and knocked first. Although he had the key with him, he was already used to the feeling of Wang Xiaoya opening the door for him at home.
It was quiet inside and no one came to open the door.
Jiang Jinyue dug out the key and opened the door, "Are mom and Lu Qingmian not home?"
The key was inserted into the lock and turned, the door opened, it was pitch black inside, but the aroma of food was floating in the air.
"I'm really not at home." Jiang Jinyue was a little confused. He took a step inside and raised his hand to touch the switch on the wall.
Suddenly, a cat ran past Jiang Jinyue's feet, scaring him.
"Cat?" The cats are all in the cat room next to 1303, how could they appear in 1203?
"Click." Jiang Jinyue pressed the light switch, the light came on, and two consecutive "click" sounds were heard.
Latte art exploded above his head, and countless tiny sequins fell down. Through the sequins, Jiang Jinyue saw Lu Qingmian and Wang Xiaoya holding the latte tubes.
"What's going on..."
Before Jiang Jinyue could ask, Wang Xiaoya and Lu Qingmian spoke at the same time.
"Happy birthday!!!"
Jiang Jinyue always remembered that November 20th was the last day of the "loved little cat", but he forgot that today was his birthday.
The table in the living room was filled with steaming dishes, with an exquisite cake in the middle, and a group of cats gathered around Jiang Jinyue's feet.
There was a sudden knock on the door. Jiang Jinyue, who was still a little dazed, opened the door subconsciously. Chen Keai, who had returned, stood at the door and opened the latte art, and colorful fragments exploded again.
"Happy birthday!!!"
Jiang Jinyue finally understood, and his eyes instantly became hot.
"I...I..." He was incoherent, his chest burning. He wanted to say a lot, but in the end he just kept repeating: "Thank you, thank you..."
Lu Qingmian held Jiang Jinyue's hand and sat at the table. Wang Xiaoya and Chen Keai handed over their gifts one after another. Jiang Jinyue opened them on the spot. There were hats and gloves knitted by Wang Xiaoya herself, a crystal chandelier custom-made by Chen Keai, and some small odds and ends that the kittens had picked out from their own toys.
Jiang Jinyue held the gifts lovingly in her arms. Lu Qingmian leaned over to Jiang Jinyue and whispered, "My gifts. I'll show them to you when we get back to 1303."
Jiang Jinyue looked at Lu Qingmian with some curiosity, but Lu Qingmian refused to say more.
The lights were turned off again. Wang Xiaoya lit the candles on the cake. Jiang Jinyue closed his eyes, clasped his hands together, and made a silent wish in his heart.
The few months after arriving in H City were like a dream. He found a lover, made friends, and his mother came to live with him. Everything was going in the best direction.
He hopes that everyone will get better and better, that life will become happier and happier, and that the whole world will be happy.
Jiang Jinyue opened her eyes with a smile and blew out the candles on the cake.
"Happy birthday!!!" Several people cheered again. Jiang Jinyue put on a small round-cornered hat for celebration and cheered along.
To celebrate, Chen Keai brought fruit wine, and Wang Xiaoya did not stop him. Everyone drank a few glasses happily together.
After dinner, when they were dividing the cake, Chen Keai first smeared cream on Jiang Jinyue's face. Jiang Jinyue then smeared a piece of cream on Lu Qingmian's face. The three young people started playing around, and in the end, even Wang Xiaoya's face was covered with cream.
Everyone happily finished their cake and chatted for a while, then Chen Keai left first.
Jiang Jinyue and Lu Qingmian helped pack up everything, took the cats away, said goodbye to Wang Xiaoya, sent the cats back to the cat room, and returned to 1303.
There are still two hours until midnight, and these two hours are exclusively for Jiang Jinyue and Lu Qingmian.
Jiang Jinyue has a low alcohol tolerance and a few glasses of fruit wine made him a little drunk.
Room 1303 had also been decorated by Lu Qingmian. The simulated human specimens were all wearing celebratory suits and holding flowers in their hands. Bouquets of flowers were placed everywhere in the room.
There were no lights in the room, only a few candlesticks lit in the corners.
The candlelight flickered, and the shadows of two people were reflected on the wall.
Jiang Jinyue was still thinking about Lu Qingmian's gift. He took a step forward, staggered into Lu Qingmian's arms, stood on tiptoe to hug Lu Qingmian's neck, pressed his soft and warm lips against Lu Qingmian's chin, and asked vaguely for the gift.
"Lu Qingmian, where is my gift?"
Lu Qingmian couldn't help but lower his head and kiss Jiang Jinyue's hot lips. He grabbed Jiang Jinyue's hand with one hand and used his hand to unbutton his clothes.
As the buttons were unbuttoned one by one, most of Lu Qingmian's chest was exposed. He pulled Jiang Jinyue's hand and pressed it up.
Jiang Jinyue felt dizzy from the kiss, and her fingertips felt something stuck on Lu Qingmian's skin, like an oversized Band-Aid.
Lu Qingmian was injured?
Jiang Jinyue sobered up a little in an instant. He turned his head away, avoiding Lu Qingmian's kiss, and looked at Lu Qingmian's chest in the candlelight.
There was a piece of skin-colored tape on Lu Qingmian's chest. Jiang Jinyue's heart instantly tightened, "Are you hurt?"
"Tear it open and see." Lu Qingmian just shook his head slightly.
Jiang Jinyue pursed her lips, picked up a corner of the tape with her fingertips, and gently tore it open.
As the angle of the tear became larger and larger, a word was revealed.
"Yue..." Jiang Jinyue's heartbeat was getting faster and faster. He had some guesses in his mind and stared closely at Lu Qingmian's skin under the tape.
The entire piece of tape was quickly torn off, and Jiang Jinyue saw three words appear on Lu Qingmian's chest.
"Jiang Jinyue..." Jiang Jinyue's fingertips trembled slightly. He gently stroked the three words and found that they were not written with a pen.
"Lu Qingmian, this is..." Jiang Jinyue immediately looked at Lu Qingmian's face.
Lu Qingmian lowered his brows, his expression extremely gentle. He gently put his arm around Jiang Jinyue's waist, leaned close to Jiang Jinyue's ear and whispered, "I have your name tattooed on my chest."
"Jiang Jinyue." Lu Qingmian called Jiang Jinyue's full name with great respect.
"I belong only to you."
Jiang Jinyue traced his name on Lu Qingmian's chest over and over again with his fingers, "Is this your birthday present for me?"
“It must be very painful when getting a tattoo.”
Jiang Jinyue couldn't help but lower his head and kissed her.
He felt Lu Qingmian's muscles tense, and the arm around his waist tightened more and more.
"It's not just this." Lu Qingmian said suddenly.
He took Jiang Jinyue to the lowered curtain and sat down, opened a game, and then handed the game controller to Jiang Jinyue.
"Let's try it?"
Jiang Jinyue took the controller curiously and looked at the game start interface that appeared on the screen.
The graphics of this game are extremely cute. On the starting interface, there is a little boy wearing thick glasses and a mask walking in a colorful jungle with his head down. The little boy's face cannot be seen clearly, and there is a very obvious heart-shaped space in his heart.
"This is..." Jiang Jinyue looked at the familiar little boy in disbelief.
"This is a new game I made, inspired by your diary." Lu Qingmian sat behind Jiang Jinyue, holding Jiang Jinyue close to him with his arms and legs. "It's just that we were short on time, so it's just a prototype."
Lu Qingmian held Jiang Jinyue's hand and pressed the start button with him.
At the beginning of the game, the little boy with an empty heart was searching alone in the forest. He struggled to hit the small monsters blocking his way with a small branch, picking up map fragments, blood recovery bottles and other props. Finally, after defeating a big monster with great difficulty, he came to a new map, opened the treasure chest, and the screen flashed with brilliant light. A pair of beautiful wings grew behind the little boy.
Looking at the familiar pair of wings, Jiang Jinyue immediately went to see Lu Qingmian.
Lu Qingmian didn't say anything, but just continued to play with Jiang Jinyue.
After that, the little boy encountered various monsters, humans and small animals along the way. He also turned into an angel, a mermaid and a vampire successively. He took off his glasses and mask, fought off the monsters, rescued many people and small animals, and gained more and more partners and abilities.
The little boy became more and more dazzling, but Jiang Jinyue gradually frowned. After opening the treasure chest that could transform him into a calico cat, this game, which was just a prototype, was over.
Jiang Jinyue put the phone on the handle and asked Lu Qingmian seriously, "What about you? Where are you?"
Lu Qingmian smiled. He took the game controller and kept lowering the brightness of the game. When the screen became dark enough that almost nothing could be seen, a blurry black shadow much taller than the little boy appeared behind the little boy. The shadow could only be barely seen as a human figure, but like the little boy, the shadow's heart was empty.
"I haven't figured out how to play the next game yet." Lu Qingmian put down the controller and hugged Jiang Jinyue again.
Jiang Jinyue stared blankly at the dark figure in the game screen, feeling a little sad.
Lu Qingmian suddenly covered Jiang Jinyue's eyes and asked seriously in Jiang Jinyue's ear:
"This game's inspiration comes from you, and the plot also comes from your diary. I asked you before what you wanted to do in the future, but you never thought of an answer... Yueyue, do you want to come and make a game with me?"
Jiang Jinyue's heart skipped a beat.
He looked at the brilliant colors and vivid game characters on the screen, feeling excited but more confused.
"Play games together? Can I... do it?" Jiang Jinyue slowly lowered his head.
"Why can't you?" Lu Qingmian pinched Jiang Jinyue's chin, forcing him to look up at the game screen.
"Isn't half of this game in front of me derived from you?"
"From now on, I'll be in charge of the technical aspects, and you'll provide the plot. We'll...work together as a couple, and it won't be tiring."
Jiang Jinyue was originally very nervous, but she didn't expect that the second half of Lu Qingmian's speech would suddenly become frivolous.
The serious atmosphere was swept away. Jiang Jinyue poked Lu Qingmian's waist and muttered softly, "What kind of husband and wife are you talking about? They're not!"
Lu Qingmian lowered his head and bit the crook of Jiang Jinyue's neck, "Aren't we?"
Jiang Jinyue felt a numbness on one side of his shoulder. He couldn't help but cover the place where he was bitten and stammered to explain: "We, we are not yet...we..."
"How can that be calculated?"
Lu Qingmian turned Jiang Jinyue over and let Jiang Jinyue sit in his arms face to face.
Jiang Jinyue lowered her head with a red face, her curly hair was messy, and a pair of red ears were faintly visible.
"Later...after we get married." Jiang Jinyue said in a low voice.
He took their relationship very seriously and had long thought about marrying Lu Qingmian.
Lu Qingmian raised his thin lips, "Then we are an engaged couple."
He took Jiang Jinyue's hand and placed her fingertips on the words on his chest. His voice became lower and lower, "Can an engaged couple... do this kind of thing?"
Jiang Jinyue's fingers felt Lu Qingmian's scorching body temperature, and her fingertips couldn't help but curl up, "What's the matter?"
Lu Qingmian bit Jiang Jinyue's ear and said, "Anything you love to do."
There are still more than ten minutes left before Jiang Jinyue's birthday. Lu Qingmian doesn't want to waste it. He wants Jiang Jinyue to remember this birthday thoroughly.
The unmanned game screen froze at the moment when a blurry figure appeared behind the little boy. The light in the room was dim, but the candlelight flickered.
As the candlelight flickered, the shadows cast on the wall began to shake violently.
Jiang Jinyue opened his wet eyes, looked at the shadow on the wall, and then his gaze slowly moved to the candlelight.
The candle burned quietly, and the flame reflected in the eyes.
Jiang Jinyue's fingers gripped Lu Qingmian's back, and he grumbled vaguely, "What? It turns out it's not the candlelight that's shaking, it's me."
"Tick, tick..." The clock on the wall moved slowly, and the sound was drowned out by the subtle noises in the room.
It’s past midnight, and the “lovable little cat” Mary Sue incident has come to an end.
The super invincible Mary Sue golden finger that had not been seen for a long time appeared in Jiang Jinyue's mind.
"Congratulations to the host for once again perfectly experiencing this Mary Sue event!"
"Because the host has perfectly experienced more than 3 Mary Sue events! Now we are giving the host a small function of random return of Mary Sue events! In the future, Mary Sue events that the host has perfectly experienced will return in the form of random Mary Sue small functions!"
"If the host can perfectly experience more Mary Sue events in the future, perhaps the Mary Sue event selection menu function will be unlocked! Stay tuned!"
Unlike previous situations where the Mary Sue Goldfinger appeared and said a few words before disappearing, this time the Mary Sue Goldfinger said a lot of words and gave a lot of information that had never appeared before.
Jiang Jinyue tried hard to clear his mind. He bit the corner of Lu Qingmian's mouth, wanting Lu Qingmian to pause and process the current situation.
But Lu Qingmian has never been one to take a break.
Instead, he became more and more excessive under Jiang Jinyue's pleas for mercy.
Jiang Jinyue's consciousness began to become hazy again, and with his rapid heartbeat, he had a vague bad premonition in his heart.
Sure enough, after Mary Sue Gold Finger finished speaking a string of messages, there was a sudden mechanical applause.
"The host's heartbeat has been detected to be abnormally accelerated. The source of the accelerated heartbeat has been detected. Congratulations to the host for his diligence and hard work. Once again, he seamlessly connects to the Mary Sue incident—the little devil who travels the world!"
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