Extra 4
Jiang Yuanshi has always celebrated his birthday according to the lunar calendar, the first day of the first lunar month, a very good day.
On New Year's Eve, while everyone is counting down to the New Year, Jiang Yuanshi's birthday is also about to begin.
When he was a child, after midnight, he would stay up all night to celebrate his birthday with his grandmother and his parents who came back from other places. His parents would only come back to stay longer during the Spring Festival every year. Perhaps because of the influence of the New Year atmosphere, Xiao Jiang still had a very good birthday at that time. Although his annual wish of "I hope my parents can spend more time with him" was never fulfilled, at least his family was safe and healthy.
However, after he left his grandmother and lived with his parents and finally realized his wish, Jiang Yuanshi rarely celebrated his birthday anymore.
His birthday became a time for greetings with relatives and strangers he had never met during the Spring Festival, and a day for his parents to receive red envelopes. At first, his parents would watch the Spring Festival Gala with him, countdown together, and wish him happy birthday. However, as he grew older, he found that the Spring Festival Gala was not as interesting as when he was a child. Gradually, his parents stopped watching the show in front of the TV and waiting for the countdown, and gradually they even stopped turning on the TV. After dinner, everyone went back to their rooms and rested early.
Jiang Yuanshi also went from looking forward to his birthday and feeling sad and disappointed about being forgotten to becoming numb and accustomed to it.
Actually, it doesn't matter, but his parents still have to find an excuse. It is an absurd reason. It was when Jiang Yuanshi was very young and still looked forward to his birthday. He couldn't help but ask carefully. He really wanted to know why his parents didn't celebrate his birthday. Was it because he didn't do well?
However, his parents at that time said that he was not actually born on the first day of the first lunar month, but was registered one day late on his ID card. They said that Jiang Yuanshi’s birthday should have been around 11:00 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, and because it was only one second away from the first day of the new year, the registration was wrong.
If it is New Year's Eve, according to the calendar, unfortunately, there is no New Year's Eve today.
At that time, his parents showed the calendar to Jiang Yuanshi. Jiang Yuanshi looked at the calendar with a bewildered look on his face. Then his parents sighed regretfully and said, "There's nothing we can do, child. You were born at the wrong time. It's just bad luck. You can wait until New Year's Eve."
The adults stood there and watched the children shed tears from confusion and loss, and then smiled and comforted them. They drew happiness from the children's pain.
That was a kind of slow slicing.
It was like this every year. Jiang Yuanshi actually knew the pain his parents were expecting him to feel, but he still couldn't help feeling sad. Maybe no one knew that he actually had a tear incontinence physique. When he was a child and just lived with his grandmother, he couldn't help but shed tears, and then he saw his grandmother frowning, so he held back his tears. It was not until his grandmother's indulgence in him later that he became a little willful as a child, but that time passed in a flash.
As Jiang Yuanshi grew up, he rarely cried, or even never cried. He seemed calm but was actually numb because he couldn't cry. He even lost the ability to vent secretly.
However, he keeps saying that he no longer has any expectations and has long been accustomed to it, but perhaps this is just an excuse to escape and numb himself. When he finds out that there is a possibility that he is cared about or even realized, he thinks he will still not be able to hold back his tears.
Just like now.
Looking at the person opposite holding a cake, after seeing himself crying, he held the cake in one hand and reached out with the other to carefully catch his tears. He explained seriously but with some helplessness, apologized for the poor quality of the finished cake, and promised to make a new one later.
The human crossed his legs and dropped the small fish expressionlessly, saying, "You made this yourself? Didn't you do it when you were a cook?"
Z01 nodded. "Yes, I could have used divine power to create it directly, but sincerity is valued in the human world. So I exchanged the materials and made one in the cafeteria sometime. My craftsmanship isn't very good, though. I apologize."
Jiang Yuanshi: "How did you know today is my birthday?"
Z01 said honestly, "It's in the host's file, and since I became an Order, I can see a lot of things, so I know."
Jiang Yuanshi let the other person touch his face: "Oh, I thought you would organize everyone to celebrate your birthday together."
Z01 wiped her tears, condensing them into individual drops. "That was the original plan, but you didn't seem to want to bother anyone else. I don't want you to feel stressed because of other people's behavior, so please forgive me for taking the initiative and celebrating your birthday alone."
"..." Jiang Yuanshi lowered his eyes and looked at the cake. The cream was spread evenly, although it was thick on one side and thin on the other. The little figures on it were not made of chocolate or fondant, but also of cream. It looked like a lot of thought was put into it.
Jiang Yuanshi grabbed the other person's hand to stop someone from smearing his tears on his face and then stealing the water droplets. He said shamelessly, "Is this the only one? What about the previous one?"
Z01 was stunned for a moment before replying, "The old one was too ugly and didn't meet the standards, so it was destroyed."
Jiang Yuanshi: "Give me the ugly ones in the future too."
It sounded like the other party accepted it, so Z01 nodded and said, "Okay, then you can make a wish."
Jiang Yuanshi looked at the candle and said, "I make a wish for the gods, but should I make it for myself?"
Z01: "If you don't mind, you can tell me."
Jiang Yuanshi snorted softly with a nasal sound, but said nothing. Under Z01's gaze, he closed his eyes, clasped his hands together, and made a wish. After waiting for 10 seconds, he opened his eyes and blew out the candle that would never go out or burn out by itself.
The space darkened again, and stardust emerged. Amber eyes shone with starlight as they gazed calmly at Z01: "Did you hear my wish?"
Z01: "...Yes."
Jiang Yuanshi smiled, and Z01 saw himself in those eyes. He heard his human say, "Then it's time to make my wish come true, right, God?"
Z01 looked at him and said, "Is this what you wish for? But I shouldn't be on the same day as you."
"But don't you know the day you were born? If that's the case, then stay with me. You promised to help me achieve it, so you can't go back on your word."
Z01 looked at Jiang Yuanshi for a long time. As he watched, Jiang Yuanshi took the cake from his hands, held it in front of him, and said to him, "It's my turn now. Happy birthday, Z01. Thank you for coming. I hope all your wishes come true and that you are happy every day."
Z01 imitated human behavior, closed his eyes, silently made a wish, and blew out the candle.
This time the god said in the darkness, "How can your wish be greedier than mine? But I agree."
They cut the cake under the starlight. Logically, the two birthday celebrants should each take a knife, but Z01 had to cut together, despite having learned something from the human world. Jiang Yuanshi let this inhuman creature do what he wanted, and then he watched it move towards him. He inexplicably sat in the crook of its legs, curled up in it. The two of them held hands together, holding a knife, and cut the cake.
Jiang Yuanshi couldn't help laughing and casually joked, "What a familiar posture. The last time I saw it was at someone else's wedding. The newlyweds cut the cake like this too..."
wrong.
Jiang Yuanshi turned sideways and looked up at the other person: "There's something wrong with you."
Z01: "Well, yes, this is also one of my wishes. I hope you can make it come true."
Jiang Yuanshi: "? You want to marry me? But we seem to have only been together for a short time, isn't it too soon?"
"So this is what you care about?" Z01 said honestly, "If I just wanted to do this, would you believe it? After all, proposing to you requires more careful planning and preparation."
Jiang Yuanshi choked, but don’t you still have it?
Z01 seemed to hear his inner voice and said, "But I just wanted to do this right now. After all, I only had ten hours of contact with you today, and the physical contact was only 2 hours, 13 minutes and 6 seconds."
"You're a timer turned spirit." Jiang Yuanshi poked Z01's chin. "What kind of weird things do you do with your abilities behind my back every day?"
Z01 remained silent, indicating silence. Jiang Yuanshi didn't pursue the matter. He childishly used his divine power to separate the little people from the cake, pretending to preserve them. Z01 said, "Yuanyuan, these are for eating."
Jiang Yuanshi: "I know, but it would be a shame to eat it. Can't I use my divine power to protect it and keep it? This is the first gift I've received in recent years."
Z01 felt his heart skip a beat when he said this. He then helped Jiang Yuanshi reinforce and preserve the items. He then conjured up a few more items and said, "These are the ones I left behind. Eat them if you don't mind. I can't keep this one. I hope you can try it."
These are two little men, with unclear facial features and abstract body shapes, but from the two colored dots on their faces, we can tell that the one with yellow eyes is Jiang Yuanshi and the one with red eyes is Z01. They are two war gods with crooked mouths, hair of different lengths and widths, and their standing postures are extremely arrogant.
For some reason, Z01's eyes lit up when he saw Jiang Yuan. It looked like he wouldn't be able to eat again.
As expected, Z01's failed product became Jiang Yuanshi's favorite. It was so abstract that it touched his heart. He laughed every time he looked at it. It was so ugly and cute. He placed it on Jiang Yuanshi's bedside, but it did not disappoint Z01's wish. They shared the grass and trees beside the little man, ate the scene, and then ate the cake.
The cake is not too big, just enough for two people to eat, and not too greasy.
Jiang Yuanshi was enjoying the meal and said that Z01 could open a store in the future.
Z01 didn't really want to, because he only wanted to do it for Jiang Yuanshi and had no interest in other humans.
Jiang Yuanshi didn't say anything after listening to it, but just said vaguely: "Okay then."
It's clearly a word of regret, but it sounds like it carries a hint of secret joy. Is this how humans secretly rejoice?
Although he didn't know why Jiang Yuanshi was happy, as long as he was happy, that was enough.
After eating the cake, the two of them should go to bed according to their biological clock or sense of ritual, but Jiang Yuanshi couldn't sleep. He lay in Z01's arms and stared at someone in a daze. Z01 didn't understand, but looked back at him.
No one knew why, but what was originally just a quiet and childish eye contact turned into kissing. Jiang Yuanshi's clothes were probed, and he put his arms around the other's neck, letting the other person do what he wanted. At the same time, his hands were also playing Z01's earrings dishonestly, making a sound when they collided with his own earrings. His fingertips brushed Z01's earlobe intentionally or unintentionally, causing it to turn slightly red.
The human was clearly no longer human, but he was still kissed to the point of being breathless. Z01 wiped the moisture from the corner of his mouth and kissed him again, not giving the human any chance to calm down. The human was not to be outdone, and the warm and ambiguous scene became intense.
A black and red mist wrapped around Jiang Yuanshi's body, exploring inside bit by bit, causing him to make a short sound, which he quickly held back, and then bit the other's body unwillingly, leaving teeth marks.
What exactly does a non-human creature look like? Jiang Yuanshi didn't know, but this time he understood. It turned out that the other party had emotions, even out of control. Countless hands caressed his body, and he had no time to care how many hands were wrapped around his waist. The heat kept coming back, and the human was burned to tears, like a bowstring that could break at any moment, but he never wanted to make a sound, just silently weeping. Then the tears were licked away, flowing down his cheeks, and finally the salty taste mixed with his taste buds.
Once wishes and resentments come into contact, they will blend into each other. They coexist and erode each other at the same time, but after becoming "order", the original automatic erosion behavior will be transformed into pain upon contact.
The larger the area of contact, the more painful it is.
The non-human creature licked the human's wetness with satisfaction, listened to the human's satisfied sounds, stared at the human's sobbing and unconscious appearance, felt the other's trembling and wrapping. It was a long time before they called a truce. The non-human creature was so clingy that its caring words sounded like a provocation.
In the end, the angry and humiliated humans turned the tables and took the lead.
They are caught in the beginning of a new cycle.
Space has no time limit and no rest.
Jiang Yuanshi seemed to hear someone whispering in his ear, telling him once again Happy New Year and Happy Birthday, and that they would make a better cake for him next year.
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