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After school, as soon as Qi Ao walked to the school gate, he received a call.

"What flavor do you want the cake to be?" Burr's voice came from the other end of the phone without any ups and downs.

Hey——Qi Ao secretly sighed—do you not know that the most important thing about this kind of thing is surprise. "A strawberry one. A...peppermint chocolate." Qiao finished speaking in a steady voice, and then began to hold his breath waiting for Bell's answer.

Strawberries are his favorite.And the orientation of mint chocolate, which is difficult for ordinary people to control... belongs to Berr.

Yes, he did it on purpose.Chiao's birthday is not the actual date of birth, but the day Bell took him home.He wanted to spend it with him--he wanted to make Burr remember the day they met in this way.

Qi Ao is betting on himself.A gamble with no odds.

Because he knew that Burr didn't like the behavior of "celebration", just like he didn't like the excitement, and he didn't like Qiao's occasional warm eyes.Moreover, he had faintly heard Burr's impatient exhalation.

"Click", the phone was hung up.

Sure enough, Bell's style of acting.

Qi Ao, who was used to it, expected that Boer would have to wait for a long time for the cake, so he took steps in the opposite direction of going home.

Go two blocks and turn right.The closing time of the City Experimental Middle School almost caught up with Qi Ao's high school, a group of teenagers who were a head lower than Qi Ao walked out of the school gate, and when the crowd was almost gone, he saw the girl riding a bicycle with a hanger on the handlebar. female teacher with a beige handbag.

"Teacher Zheng." He stopped the other party with a low voice.

The female teacher seemed not expecting to be known by a stranger, she squeezed the brake in surprise, and looked at Qi Ao with doubtful eyes.

"Berr, do you know him?" Qiao's tone was still flat, as if he met a friend on the way and said hello by the way.

"Yes..." The female teacher was still confused, but when she heard the name "Berr", her eyes moved down significantly.is shy.

"Then do you know...he is gay?" Qi Ao smiled without warning.Without any hostility, it seemed that he was just showing an innocent smile like a big boy.

"...Wh, what?" The female teacher's expression kept jumping between the words "surprised", "embarrassed", and "doubtful".

"As for me, I am his 'nominal' son." Before the other party could digest this "fact", Qi Ao continued, deliberately biting the word 'nominal' very strongly.

"So you should understand the purpose of my coming to you." Qiao showed the kind of pretense that Bell disliked the most, and finally smiled sweetly at the female teacher: "I hope you don't bother him again— — and my life."

Then, he left the female teacher who hadn't had time to react, turned around and left with an attitude of a winner.

Things went very smoothly.

After Qi Ao entered the door, he found that Boer had already arrived home.Looking again, there was only a lone cake box on the table.

He rejected all his offers.Qi Ao repeated this truth that has been practiced countless times in his mind slightly tired.

Put down your schoolbag and nestle into the sofa.At this moment, Berr just came out of the kitchen, holding a pot of pork rib soup in his hand.

"Insert the candles yourself." Without even looking at Qi Ao, he turned back to serve the meal.

Chiao stood up and took out the candle from under the ribbon tied into a cross, and then opened the lid of the box.

The imaginary cake covered with strawberry jam was divided into two, one half was filled with fresh strawberries, and the other half was covered with a thick layer of chocolate. Qiao even sniffed it closely, and it smelled of fresh mint.

The heart throbbed inexplicably.

He couldn't help raising the corners of his mouth, and fixed his eyes on the man who was serving the meal, and he didn't care how severely he had been punished for such dangerous actions in the past.

Today's Berr is extraordinarily gentle.Qi Ao finally realized the significance of ordinary people's birthday - on this day, you can dream as much as you want.And the chances of the dream coming true are probably unbelievably high.It seems that even God will take care of you extraordinarily.

Qi Ao lit the candle very contentedly, and then ran to turn off the light.

Seventeen tiny candles were burning quietly, Chiao closed his eyes and made a wish, and then blew them all out in one breath.The living room fell into darkness for a moment, and Qiao liked this atmosphere very much—especially because there were only him and Bell here, and he could even hear the man's slight breathing.

He sank for two seconds, then turned to turn on the light.Boer didn't even want to sing a birthday song for him, or even say "Happy Birthday", and Chiao didn't ask for anything ignorantly. He just smoked a candle and started cutting the cake.

He cut two kinds of flavors for both of them. Bell didn't say anything, and put it down after only two bites, and then urged Qiao to eat.

He tasted every taste.Qi Ao thought very easily and contentedly.After three times, five times and two times, he finished his own piece, and then took a big mouthful of rib soup.The taste is as good as ever.

Burr picked up the remote and turned on the TV.He likes to watch documentaries, which are not too noisy and can find a lot of interesting things.More importantly, it fills the awkward silence with Chiao well.

At this time, "Pulse of the Earth" was being broadcast on TV, and the voice of the narration was deep and just right, adding a distant and mysterious atmosphere to the picture. "Imagine a world without the sun, and male emperor penguins are challenging the harshest environment on earth. In the winter of Antarctica, the night is endless, the temperature drops to minus 70 degrees Celsius, other animals have long since fled, and only penguins stay. Because every day Every penguin guards a treasure, an egg lying on the back of their foot."

I am like those huddled penguins that look extremely cold——Qiao thought.He withstood the ultra-low temperature from Berr, and he wanted to protect the egg on his instep - his obsession with Berr.Even if the whole body is about to be covered by frost, even if the sun never sees.

"Go to school by yourself tomorrow." Burr said suddenly.

"En." Qi Ao responded.

"Is the living expenses enough?"

"There are a lot more."

"Yeah. Clean up the dining table when you're done eating." Boer put down his chopsticks as he spoke.

"it is good."

After Boer returned to the room, Qiao picked up Boer's unfinished cake and tasted it carefully.

Chiao ate very happily.Although he still can't quite get over mint chocolate.

But, is there anything closer to that person's taste than it?

He closed his eyes and let out a deep sigh.