There's a surprise in the next picture, so get your toothache medicine ready.
# Flowering period
Chapter 58 Birthday Gift
By 5 p.m., the sweltering heat that had lasted all day had dissipated by half, and a gentle breeze was blowing from time to time. The coolness of early summer only lasted for a short while in the evening.
That's Shanghai's unpredictable weather, like a child, always hard to fathom.
Su Jinning parked his motorcycle, took off his helmet, and glanced up at Shen Moyu's apartment building. Shen Moyu should be home at this time. Thinking this, he took out his phone and sent Shen Moyu a WeChat message.
Ning: I've arrived.
This time it was a quick reply. Not a Fish: Okay, I'm coming downstairs now.
Having received a reply, Su Jinning chuckled to herself with satisfaction, suddenly realizing that her own affection was too easily satisfied.
His one-second reply can make him happy for so long.
Less than two minutes later, Shen Moyu appeared inside the building entrance.
He stood with his hands behind his back, wearing a loose light blue t-shirt and pure white wide-leg sweatpants. Although it was somewhat casual, paired with Shen Moyu's cool and aloof face, he looked very fresh and pure.
Su Jinning smiled and tilted her head to look at him: "Not bad, you dressed up for me carefully?"
Shen Moyu scoffed, "I'm not a girl. It's already giving you face by not wearing pajamas."
However, he was right. He had just bought this outfit a couple of days ago and was planning to wear it when school started, but he couldn't help but take it out again because Su Jinning's birthday was coming up.
"Oh~ okay." Su Jinning still didn't believe him, raising her eyebrows as if trying to see through his lie.
"Alright, alright." Shen Moyu rolled her eyes, then changed the subject, saying, "Let's go to your place. Chen Hang and the others should be here soon."
Su Jinning was displeased upon hearing this. Shen Moyu hadn't sent him any birthday wishes all day, which had already made him unhappy. Even now, when he came to pick him up, Shen Moyu was still thinking of someone else.
"What?" He snorted in frustration. "I came to pick you up and this is what you're telling me?"
Shen Moyu smiled, feigning ignorance, and asked, "What's wrong? Do I need to say anything more?"
Su Jinning met his nonchalant gaze and suddenly remembered what he had said yesterday: "Well, you! Who taught you to break your promise? You said you'd give me a surprise gift, but I didn't see it." After saying that, he turned his head away as if in a huff.
Seeing his sullen expression, Shen Moyu couldn't help but chuckle: "So you still want a gift?" He tilted his head, pretending to understand but not quite.
Su Jinning got even angrier when she saw that he had misunderstood her meaning: "Stop it! You haven't replied to my WeChat messages all day. At least it's my birthday, and even my classmates sent me birthday wishes. But you!" He pointed at Shen Moyu, as if he was standing up for himself: "You haven't replied to me all day. When I came to pick you up, you asked Chen Hang?"
After they finished speaking, they looked at each other.
Shen Moyu pointed to himself, a half-smile on his face: "Oh~ so many people are blessing you, you don't need me."
"Hey you!" Su Jinning's finger trembled as she pointed at him, clearly quite angry.
"Never mind, I..."
"Happy birthday."
Shen Moyu interrupted him, unconsciously moving slightly closer to him. A slightly mischievous atmosphere suddenly became subtle at that moment.
He looked into Su Jinning's somewhat dazed eyes and said softly, "Close your eyes, I'll give you the gift."
He couldn't stand Shen Moyu suddenly getting too close, so he quickly stepped back, trying to appear less flustered: "I'll give it to you when it's time to eat. You get in the car first."
"Wasn't it you who was just yelling about wanting a gift?" Shen Moyu shrugged, his hands behind his back unconsciously tightening a little.
Su Jinning noticed his secretive behavior, and after a moment of reaction, she suddenly laughed: "Even if I don't want it, you can't hide this gift after we get in the car, can you?"
Shen Moyu didn't hide anything and nodded indifferently: "If you already know, why ask?"
Su Jinning suddenly became nervous, coughed lightly, and teased, "What? Is it reliable or not?"
Shen Moyu ignored him, but suddenly reached out and grabbed his collar, forcibly pulling him to within an inch of her. Looking at his handsome face magnified tenfold, some people genuinely said, "Close your eyes first."
Perhaps it was Shen Moyu's gaze that was too gentle, and his tone too commanding. Su Jinning was speechless for a moment, and in his panic, he avoided Shen Moyu's gaze: "Shut up... Why are you so close?"
After saying that, he closed his eyes, not on Shen Moyu's orders, but because he no longer dared to look at the tenderness in his eyes.
Shen Moyu simply gazed at him with deep affection, from his soft, black hair to his slightly upturned eyelashes, down to his high, straight nose, and then... his lips, which were slightly pursed due to nervousness.
He took the flowers from behind her, but instead of giving them to her, he reached out and grabbed Su Jinning's neck.
He kissed her deeply.
Cool lips covered Su Jinning's slightly pursed lips, instantly covering the thoughts in his mind.
He opened his eyes in a panic, only to see the person who had made him fall for countless times, now with his eyes closed, kissing him deeply on the lips.
He didn't know where he was at that moment, he only knew that the boy's lips were very soft and moist, like a crystal-clear and delicious juicy pear. When he bit into it, the sweetness bloomed freely between his lips and teeth.
A cool summer breeze blew through their hair, but it couldn't dispel the warmth between them.
He was kissing him... his chest was rising and falling slightly, as if he was very nervous.
He was also panting. The ambiguous scent mingled with his flustered breaths, forming a warm, clear stream that instantly poured into his heart.
Shen Moyu had never been kissed before, and his whole body trembled. He sucked haphazardly, not even daring to stick out his tongue, only lightly brushing Su Jinning's lips, like a leaping dragonfly, carefully touching the surface of a lake, but unable to suppress the small ripples that spread across the lake for him.
After kissing for an unknown amount of time, Shen Moyu slowly pulled away from Su Jinning's lips, his arms around Su Jinning's neck.
Their lips were all red and swollen...