Chapter 21

Xu Can was stunned.

Xu Qianwen opened the candle box to find a lighter, “I’m eighteen years old,” with a teasing smile, “How do you feel when you grow up, you can get your ID card when you open a hotel room, isn’t it cool?”

Light the cotton wick with a lighter.

The candlelight made her brows and eyes soft, and Xu Can smiled and said, “I don’t know, you can say it’s cool.”

Xu Qianwen: “Are you implying something in your words?”

Xu Can smiled without saying a word.

After a few people finished making trouble in the teahouse, they divided the cake, and Xu Qianwen dragged her to sing again. I played until more than nine o’clock, afraid that it would not be safe any longer, so I took her to the station near the school with my boyfriend.

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On the way back to the dormitory, Xu Can saw that he had received a text message from a courier. I thought that the clothes to be photographed were sent by the merchant in advance, and I went to the coffee shop on the campus to collect them, only to find that they were not large bags of clothes.

She weighed the rectangular express box in her hand, it was quite light. The sender is blank.

After pondering for a long time, I couldn’t guess what was in it, and it was not an internet celebrity. There should be no manufacturers who would send her a New Year’s gift.

When I got back to the dormitory, I just threw it on the ground.

After Xu Can took a shower, dried his hair, and when he had nothing to do, he noticed the express box at the door before thinking of opening it to take a look.

Take it apart, revealing a corner of the black gift box.

Is it a gift sent to models in bulk by the big brother of the soft girl shop who has cooperated many times?

Really conscientious.

The box was quickly opened, and it turned out to be a large beige and light gray plaid scarf, which was a bit soft in the hand. The smooth and soft touch is more delicate than wool, neither thin nor thick, and the tassel is small and soft.

Xu Can was stunned, his heart beat faster.

She subconsciously turned on her phone and clicked into her circle of friends to see it. There are only a few updates, the latest one was posted two days ago: I want to buy a scarf!

The accompanying picture is a rare selfie photo.

Wearing a pink corduroy jacket and hat, the fur collar is a circle of soft fluffy white, showing a little smirk of front teeth at the camera. The tip of the nose was red from the cold, but it was actually blush.

A low-neck sweater showed an empty neck.

The background shot by the window looks like the outdoors, but it was actually in the studio at that time. The makeup artist put on a pair of round black-framed flat mirrors for her. Xu Can has good eyesight. She had never worn glasses before, so she took a picture because she felt a little fresh.

She said she lacked a scarf, who gave her the scarf?

There was only one answer in Xu Can’s mind.

It’s not all about feeling.

Because… Others see her Moments as always without content, not because they are blocked, but because she doesn’t post updates at all. It’s rare to post one, it could only be for Tong Mingyue to see.

In this case, of course, it will only be visible to one person.

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Guess who sent it. Xu Can touched the fringe of the scarf, smirked for a long time, and then carefully folded the scarf back into the original box. Open the closet and make a special place to put this scarf.

If it hadn’t been torn apart with bare hands just now, Xu Can would have liked to collect it together with the express box outside.

The incandescent lamp is very bright, the whole dormitory is like day, the glass window reflects the little lights outside and the reflection of Xu Can sitting. Sitting quietly, no one will break the silence.

Xu Can hesitated for a long time, but decided to call Tong Mingyue.

Before she got connected, in just ten seconds, she overturned what she was going to say and rethought it several times.

Since she didn’t tell her, what did she have to thank?

Xu Can: “Hello…”

Tong Mingyue whispered, “Wait a minute.”

Xu Can hesitantly said “um”. He heard the high-pitched laughing voices of children and conversations that day. It is estimated that there are many relatives in her family.

She should have walked into the room, and after the door closed, the noise subsided, “What’s wrong?”

“I got the scarf you bought me.”

“…”

“…”

After the last second of silence, Xu Can was still nervous.

After a few seconds, she couldn’t help laughing silently, her eyes bright. Quietly waiting for her to speak.

What is she thinking?

Doubt she is bombing herself?

On the other end of the phone, Tong Mingyue seemed to chuckle.

“How do you know it’s me?”

“I won’t use my real name to buy things myself,” Xu Can said half-truth, in a soft cotton candy-like tone, “…So, only you will send me a scarf.”

I heard her smile genuinely.

“Can you guess that?”

Tong Mingyue didn’t seem to believe it, and didn’t ask any further, just asked softly, “It’s not too late to receive it.”

Xu Can knew if the circle of friends she was referring to was missing a scarf, whether it was delivered late.

But he deliberately said: “It’s not too late, just in time, how do you know it’s my birthday today?”

“Um?”

Tong Mingyue didn’t know that today was Xu Can’s birthday.

She paused for a few seconds, denied it was a birthday present, and honestly said that she didn’t know it was her birthday.

“…I’ll remember it later.”

Xu Can curled his lips silently, his dimples deep.

Hearing her unhurried and soft voice, she seemed a little surprised, but she said seriously that she would remember it in the future. Heart beating so fast.

I really want to see what she looks like at the moment.

Fortunately, she wasn’t face to face, otherwise she would never be able to say these words.

“I’m eighteen years old today, but no one has ever sang a good night song for me since I was a child. Well, I really want to feel it once. I wonder if it’s useful to make a birthday wish?” The tone was soft and logical.

Said a lot of words, just to pave the way:

“Will you sing me a song?”

Grand-sounding coquettish.

Speaking out, I didn’t really think about how to smooth things out after being rejected. Maybe it was nighttime, she had a kind of self-confidence that her own request would not be rejected, and she longed for. Although it is true, Tong Mingyue has never refused any request from Xu Can.

“…”

After a while, she asked softly, “Why, are you going to sleep so early?”

So does this mean that you have already agreed? Xu Can’s heart beat faster, he snorted, nodded affirmatively and said, “I’m tired today, so I have to go to bed earlier.”

“Is that so…”

Tong Mingyue laughed again, with a short breath.

Through the phone, Xu Can seemed to be laughing beside Xu Can’s ear in the silent environment.

He spoke again, and his tone returned to a serious tone: “Turn off the lights first, and then cover your little quilt.”

“Um.”

Xu Can raised his hand and pressed his eyebrows, trying to calm down, but his face was still hot, and the high curvature of the corners of his lips seemed to be fixed.

“All right.”

She stood up too hastily, staggered down, and quickly turned off the lights in the dormitory.

“The lights are off.”

“Um.”

She heard a slight “click” in Tong Mingyue’s place.

Should have locked the door.

After Xu Can turned off the lights, he climbed into bed and lay down very talkatively. Facing the ceiling, he raised his lips with a smirk again, and he couldn’t help but turn to his side and pull the Khmer quilt to cover his face, only showing his eyes, preventing himself from making any silly sounds.

“Have you wrapped the quilt?”

“Um.”

Hold your breath for a few seconds.

Xu Can lay on his side and covered his face in the bed, his head gently rubbing against the pillow, his face almost frozen with laughter.

On the other end of the phone, Tong Mingyue smiled slightly embarrassedly.

“I can’t remember how many years I haven’t sang…”

Another pause.

“…Justthinkofthingslike daffodils, and peacefulsheeponcloverhills, and morningsunofwhippoorwills.”

She opened her voice slowly.

“Andyou’llseethefacethatIlove…”

When you sing, talk to her more loosely and softly than usual.

The articulation is clear, and the intonation is a mess.

Xu Can had never heard the original song, but he could feel it.

Xu Can’s eyes were bent into a gap, still sparkling in the dark, his hands quietly wrinkled the sheets, and when the whole heart was submerged in her song, only the subconscious remained: How can I still sleep tonight…

That kind of recognizable gentle and gentle voice, like a sparkling clear lake, is really tempting to indulge.

“EverylovelyviewintroducesyoutothefacethatIlove.”

Tong Mingyue didn’t sing just a short paragraph, but sang the whole song seriously and with an unbelievably gentle tone. The next few sentences are deliberately low and low.

He said softly, “Are you asleep…?”

“…”

“…”

“Chan Can, happy birthday.”