Chapter 10: Birthday Party Confession (Part 2)

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  Xiao Yunyun's birthday party became lively, the lights were turned off, candles were blown out, and cake was cut. Xiao Yunyun's small face was red with excitement, it could be seen that she was in an exceptionally good mood as a new year of her life began, full of longing and expectation for the future.

  On this side, the girls were eagerly disassembling the gifts under Xiao Yunyun's guidance. When Wang Andong and several others saw the opened gifts, their expressions became somewhat awkward. The gifts they gave were all ordinary and inexpensive, which made them feel a bit embarrassed compared to the expensive high-end hand chain. On the other hand, the girls' gifts were diverse and peculiar, with all sorts of things.

  Chen Lingshan picked up Su Can's box, she had been very curious about what Su Can had given to Xiao Yunyun from the beginning, so she had been thinking about it until now. At this moment, her seat was in a very subtle position, just at the closest place to Su Can's rectangular gift box, so when she suddenly picked up the box, it was naturally this one.

  Xiao Yunyun had originally wanted to open it herself, but was beaten to it by Chen Lingshan. She couldn't say anything, or else others would notice her emphasis on it, which wouldn't be good.

  "What is this...?" A group of girls had already gathered around, and under the peeling outer packaging paper, a beautiful rectangular purple starry night sky picture on a luxurious hard paper box appeared before everyone's eyes. The middle of the paper box was hollowed out, with transparent glass paper revealing the gift inside the packaging box - Disney's Winnie the Pooh.

  "Wow, so cute!" Some girls couldn't help but exclaim.

  The girl who was just boasting that she received a set of facial masks from her friend in Beijing for her birthday, suddenly shut up.

  Xiao Yunyun's eyes flashed with surprise. As a girl who often loved to go shopping, she naturally understood the value of the box of cloth dolls in Su Can's hands.

  Looking at Su Can again, she couldn't help but feel surprised. To think that even a girl from a relatively well-off family like hers would spend 300 or 400 yuan on gifts for others was almost impossible. This was especially true for Su Can, who had been rumored in school to be unable to afford even a bottle of water.

  "What is this, a doll?" Gao Fan couldn't help but laugh speechlessly as he felt his thunder being stolen.

  Chen Lingshan's eyes, which were fixed on Su Can at this moment, had a dark edge and a slightly bright pupil, which actually had a few degrees of heat. She smiled faintly, "Yunyun is really lucky, if it were my birthday and I could receive the same gift, I would definitely not be able to sleep."

  Everyone burst out laughing, and Chen Ling's words had a few flavors in them.

  "What's wrong with that? When Ling Shan's birthday comes, I'll buy you ten or eight, and fill your bed!"

  "This is Disney's plush toy, it's said to be very hard to buy! And it's expensive, one of them costs around 300-400 yuan, and even in Xia Hai city, you can't find many stores that sell them! Where can we buy so many?" A girl interrupted.

  His face turned red and white, he was about to say something about Disney plush toys, but when he heard the price, he secretly looked at Su Can in surprise. This kid often buys such expensive things for others, could it be that he has ulterior motives towards Xiao Yunyun?

  He himself said that he couldn't take back his words, and it only made everyone laugh at him. This made Gao Fan's heart even more uncomfortable. From the moment Su Can appeared, he clearly felt that Chen Ling Shan's attitude towards him had become colder, not as enthusiastic as before. He didn't feel threatened by Su Can in any way, thinking that he was superior to Su Can in every aspect, who was half a head shorter than him. But unexpectedly, this little guy had won the favor of both beautiful women present, how could he not be complicated?

  Walking onto the balcony, Xiao Yunyun's home had a sliding door design. Once the door was closed behind her, the liveliness inside the room was isolated, leaving only the soft and serene moonlight, the dense dark blue starry sky, and the swaying tree shadows and creamy road lamps in the large courtyard below.

  Su Can took a sip of red wine, his hand resting on the balcony railing, as the warm breeze caressed his cheeks, tousling some of his disheveled hair, reminding him that in the past he could only play with the kids from the construction bureau's residential area in the big courtyard downstairs, and when did he become the honored guest of Xiao Yunyun's family, standing on this balcony, with the faint scent of Xiao Yunyun's pink ribbon still lingering in his nostrils, along with the fragrance of her personal belongings swaying gently in the breeze.

  Sudden happiness may not be the beauty of a woman, nor the rapid progress of studies and career. Sometimes it's just doing things that were previously impossible, bit by bit, which is also a kind of solid and accumulated happiness.

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  The sliding door behind her opened with a whoosh, and a warm, slender figure appeared beside her.

  Chen Lingshan's beautiful eyes first saw Xiao Yunyun's bra hanging on the balcony, a series of items including butterfly knot underwear, and Su Can standing shoulder to shoulder with her, also holding a wine glass. Her gaze was level, and after a while, her face turned red as she said, "You came here...to satisfy your voyeuristic desires?...Pervert?"

  Su Can almost spat out a mouthful of wine, actually he was standing here, originally there was nothing, but Chen Ling's appearance suddenly made the atmosphere awkward.

  Boy, girl, and then a young girl's underwear, brassiere, and panties, dancing in the wind.

  It's always the movies that weave out some romantic scenes of men and women meeting on balconies, but reality has proven to be far from the artistic exaggeration, and often makes people feel disappointed.

  Su Can almost sprained his waist and hurriedly explained, "It's not what you think... just simply to get some fresh air..."

  Chen Lingshan couldn't help but burst out laughing and said with a red face, "Really good."

  "What's so good?" Su Can was stunned.

  "I thought you were just a block of wood that wouldn't panic no matter what happened, but I didn't expect you to get nervous too. You don't need to explain it to me...". Chen Lingxuan blinked her eyes, and as Su Can's heart calmed down, she came up with another sentence that made his blood pressure fluctuate again: "Go explain it to Xiao Yunyun instead."

  Then she turned around and made a gesture towards the door as if she wanted to leave, her hand was subconsciously grasped by Su Can.

  Su Can's sweat, sometimes girls' thoughts are really complicated. If Xiao Yunyun and her family thought that coming to the balcony would have such a dirty idea, it wouldn't be surprising if they didn't go crazy.

  But the soft and boneless feeling in hand, through the palm's tactile sensation, is transmitted to the heart.

  It's a historic moment, going back eleven years ago, holding the hand of the girl he had secretly loved but missed, that instant was as quiet as a starry night, yet in Su Can's eyes, it was no less than a burst of fireworks.

  Chen Lingshan was slightly stunned, but she didn't turn her head around.

  What's the most embarrassing thing? It's not the sudden skin contact between men and women, nor is it the awkward action that brings a quiet atmosphere. But after accidentally holding hands with Chen Lingshan, who has made countless men infatuated, the sound coming from inside the room through the non-soundproof sliding door to the balcony.

  "Huh, where's Su Chan?" a girl asked mysteriously.

  "I don't know, it seems like he went downstairs to buy something..."

  "Haven't you guys heard about what's been circulating recently?"

  "It's about Soo Chan having a crush on Chen Ling Shan, right? Hehe, I've heard it before... Just now when I saw him, I even pretended not to know who he was, it was so hard to hold it in..."

  The sound came from inside the room, although it was uneven and accompanied by some girls' laughter and men's curious inquiries, but all of them were clearly transmitted through the gaps in the sliding doors to the balcony of the two people.

  Su Can didn't think that he, with his past life experience, would also be able to feel a kind of inexplicable suffocating feeling in his heart at this moment. His scalp felt numb as he listened to all of this, and he actually forgot to let go of Chen Lingshan's hand, instead gripping it even tighter due to tension and embarrassment.

  Chen Lingshan's pointed ears stood up imperceptibly, her heart beating fast. The autumn evening breeze blew against her, making her face burn red with embarrassment, almost not daring to turn around and face Su Can directly.

  "What they said... is it true?" Chen Lingxuan's back was facing Su Can, but the pleasant voice still carried over quietly.

  It's recklessness in youth, this is recklessness in youth. Su Can didn't think that he would be facing his first love of life with the girl he had admired for a long time.

  "I heard that Soo-chan's mom is an employee of the Ling Shan enterprise, and he had a crush on her from back then..." The sound of murmurs could be faintly heard coming from inside.

  "Uh-huh! Yeah!" Su Can nodded in agreement, acknowledging Chen Lingshan's inquiry. His eleven-year-old self was paying the bill for his current self, a strange cycle.

  Chen Lingshan grasped Su Can's hand, and suddenly also slowly curled up tightly.

  If this hand just keeps grasping itself like this, then what will happen in the future, and in the future beyond that?

  A sense of security in a tight grasp, a future that is bewildering and unimaginable, the entwined hands of two people, will it lead to forever?

  Chen Lingshan's mind flashed back to the first time she saw Su Can, a dusty little boy climbing up in the twilight, an excited and jumping little dog, a very dirty scene in her memory. If that was a fateful encounter, then wasn't this the biggest joke God had ever played on herself?

  She had fantasized countless times about meeting a dark horse prince in a romantic scene, so she was even more obsessed with the Su Can in her memory.

  Honestly speaking, Su Can is not someone she dislikes. He doesn't have good grades, but he's always optimistic. He's not tall, but he always has a warm and sunny smile. He faces life's difficulties with composure and calmness, often turning crises into opportunities, but in reality, he's just an ordinary boy from a humble family background.

  He has a prince-like smile, but can't bring her the heart-pounding excitement of a prince. His thin and weak shoulders also cannot promise his own future.

  Chen Lingshan yearned to set sail with her Jack, like in Titanic, on a windy and sunny day, crossing the vast ocean, towards the direction where the sky meets the sea.

  But Su Can, you are not Jack, and we can't go to the vast ocean either.

  "Sorry!"

  Chen Lingshan heard her own voice say that, then she let go, withdrew back, pulled open the sliding door and silently walked in.

  Su Can only saw the discussion in the living room come to an abrupt halt, and through the gap of the sliding door, a group of men and women appeared under the interwoven lights, staring at the two people who had suddenly appeared, looking bewildered and unsure of what to do.

  Many times in the future, Chen Lingshan, who had turned her back and left, would occasionally think that if time could give her another chance, on that starry night, she didn't let go but grasped that hand tightly, then how would her life be from now on?

  Will you still shed tears for no reason?