"No, it looks great," Yu Ting replied, her eyes slightly widened. She took slow steps forward, first glancing at Lu Nanchen with a smile in her eyes and then surveying the placed gifts. Large, small, tall, short, all exquisitely and luxuriously wrapped, it was clear these gifts were not cheap.
Yu Ting asked curiously, "When you bought these, why didn’t I get a consumption notification on my phone?"
"I didn’t want you to know ahead of time, so I used my own savings to buy them."
Lu Nanchen responded quickly, heart pounding in his chest, his palms a little warm. From time to time, he glanced at the gifts by his feet, uncertain if she would be satisfied with them.
"Where did you get so much money? Weren’t you with me all the time lately?" Yu Ting leaned forward to ask, picking up a gift box that had fallen near her leg, then proceeded to count each gift box one by one.
"And besides, when you were teaching at Chang Ming University before, your salary card was with me."
Doing some mental math, it seemed like Lu Nanchen worked his ass off for himself ever since starting school in September last year.
But he didn’t have any money.
"I made a little through stock trading," Lu Nanchen answered truthfully.
After thinking for a while, he felt it necessary to add, "I’ll give you the card for trading stocks in the future."
By the time he finished, Yu Ting had also finished counting, exactly 21 gift boxes, perfectly calibrated for a 21st birthday. After counting, she straightened up and raised an eyebrow in curiosity, "Because I’m turning 21, you prepared 21 gifts?"
"Yes... I wanted to start making up for the gifts since you turned one."
"Don’t you like it? I learned this from the internet."
Lu Nanchen dragged out the last syllable before speaking hesitantly.
He had started preparing for Yu Ting’s birthday a month before. He asked many people for advice since he had no experience, but sadly, the only two reliable friends, Zuo Fugui and Song Yue, were single and inexperienced, so their advice was of no help.
So, he browsed the web and listed many ideas, finally selecting this one among many flashy plans.
Even though he felt it was somewhat extravagant and wasteful, Lu Nanchen thought it was rather meaningful.
"I like it, I really, really like it." Yu Ting responded instantly, her heart moved again and again as she observed the scene in front of her.
Seeing this, Lu Nanchen’s face relaxed a little, "That’s good as long as you like them."
"But why are there two cakes?" Yu Ting asked. Was there some special reason for this?
Yu Ting said this while sitting on the sofa, looking at the objects on the coffee table.
The well-packaged one had obviously just been picked up from the store, so what about the other cake?
Yu Ting wondered, eyes staring more intently at the traditional cake.
Did he make it himself?
"I took a baking class half a month ago," Lu Nanchen truthfully replied, not hiding anything.
After finalizing things on Yu Ting’s end, and confirming that Zhou Chengyan had returned to the company in Nanshan City, Lu Nanchen had enrolled in a baking class.
Despite Lu Nanchen’s strong learning ability, due to the short time, the cake he made sat on the table for a while and started to sag, lacking the ability to retain its shape.
"So, I ordered another one, and that’s why there are two."
Yu Ting was astonished, "Why did you decide to learn to bake?"
"I wanted to feel more involved on your birthday."
"Even though I don’t know many things, I can learn."
Enunciating his words in a clear and firm manner, his sincere proclamation landed in Yu Ting’s heart like a barrage of words, making her feel a thousand different things that could be boiled down to one sentence.
"I love you."
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