Morning Star

Chapter 372 Happy Birthday, Xingxing

"My legs hurt! Oh, it hurts so much! It's twitching, it's cramping!" Chujiu screamed in pain, his little face turned so pale that it almost turned green.

"Leg cramp?" He held her legs and circulated his spiritual energy to massage her gently.

After a moment, he lowered his eyes: "Are you feeling better?"

Chujiu buried his head in his chest, holding his collar tightly with his hands, and nodded sullenly.

It's so depressing. I'm not sleeping well late at night and I'm just trying to get myself killed.

After a while, Chujiu's legs no longer hurt, and the two of them calmed down and stopped making noise.

At the beginning, Chujiu was still curled up beside Mo Xinglan, thinking about many things to prevent himself from falling asleep. However, every time he calmed down and smelled the sweet fragrance of Mo Xinglan, he would fall asleep easily, and he fell asleep again this time.

At midnight, a cold and ethereal voice suddenly rang in my mind: "Chujiu, wake up! Midnight has arrived."

Chujiu suddenly opened his eyes, was in a daze for a while, and blinked twice.

Oh, yes, she was going to deliver something, so why did she fall asleep?

Fortunately, Piaomiao is here.

She looked at Mo Xinglan who was sleeping beside her, thought for a moment, took out a white jade box from her personal space and gently placed it next to his pillow.

She leaned over and gently placed a kiss on his cheek, whispering, "Happy birthday, Xingxing."

After saying that, he lay down and continued to sleep.

But just as he lay down facing Mo Xinglan, he saw a pair of shiny black eyes staring at him in the dark night through the light outside the window.

After a moment of hesitation, he felt a little guilty: "You, why did you wake up?"

The man was silent for a long time, and his tone was a little complicated: "How do you know when my birthday is?"

"Ah?" She was slightly stunned and thought to herself, I'm in trouble.

My mind raced: "Um... this... I have my own way of finding out."

"..." His eyes flickered and dimmed slightly.

She wouldn't say.

"I haven't asked you yet." Chujiu was afraid that he would see something, so he quickly pointed the finger at him.

He frowned: "Ask me what?"

"You..." Although she wanted to take the initiative, she was really angry now, "You didn't even tell me when your birthday is, and you asked me to find out from somewhere else."

After saying that, she turned her back to him.

"..."

Looking at the girl's back in front of him, he opened his mouth but said nothing. His long eyelashes trembled and slowly drooped.

Birthday? Did he deserve a birthday?

I don't know how much time passed before I murmured softly: "I'm sorry, I..."

He stopped talking before he finished speaking and kept silent.

Chujiu's curled eyelashes trembled slightly, her heart ached and she turned around and hugged him silently.

After a while, he spoke in a muffled voice: "I know, I know everything, but this is not your fault."

"You... know everything?" His body trembled slightly, and he suddenly remembered that she was also present when Fang Hao said those words on the day he arrived in the Demon Realm.

His lips trembled slightly, "I..."

"Stars..." She interrupted him, reached out to hold his face but didn't know what to say.

She had never experienced his pain, so she couldn't empathize with him. Even though she knew he must be in pain now, she didn't know how to comfort him.

There is no way to comfort him, because no matter how I comfort him, it will only make him more sad.

That's not comforting.

She placed a kiss on his lips, not letting go or leaving, wanting to tell him that he still had her.

Mo Xinglan was stunned for a moment, then slowly closed his eyes, holding her in his arms and immersed in the kiss.

After a while, Chujiu sat up, waved his hand and lit the lights in the house.

He looked down at Mo Xinglan who was still lying there: "Xingxing, how about you take a look at the gift I gave you?"

Mo Xinglan hesitated for a moment, then sat up and picked up the white jade box beside the pillow.

She looked at it, then looked at the box again and hesitated before opening it.

A neatly folded black headband lay quietly inside.

"Take it out and let us see it." Chujiu was a little excited and expectant.

He listened to her and took out the hairband.

The headband was very long, about three-quarters the length of his hair when folded in half, with two tassels connected at the end.

There are totems embroidered with gold thread at both ends. It is a fairy-like rabbit flying through the clouds. The rabbit seems to be chasing something. Looking in the direction the rabbit is looking, it is a star.

You can tell what she is thinking at a glance.

He curled his lips lightly and stroked the rabbit softly with his fingertips.

Suddenly he felt something and touched the cloud pattern and the star again.

His hand suddenly paused, he looked up in astonishment: "You..."

"Hmm?" Chujiu was still looking forward to how he would praise her after she told him about it. But seeing him looking at her in shock, she was a little confused for a moment, "What's wrong?"

"These golden threads..." He paused and glanced at her long dark brown hair, a little unsure, "Is it hair?"

Chujiu was slightly stunned and a little excited: "You can actually find it!"

"yours?"

"Hey, that's right."

“……”It’s true.

Does she... know what it means in this world to give a man a headband with a pattern embroidered on his hair?

"you……"

He had just opened his mouth when he was interrupted by the excited Chujiu.

"I told you, I thought of many ways to dye my hair this color. Don't worry, it won't fade or change color."

As he pulled his hair and looked at it, he said with some regret: "If this wasn't the only color, I would have dyed my hair."

She raised her hands and put them in her hair: "I want to dye this thing green...ah, no...dye it into haze blue, hehe."

He smiled softly, and asked in confusion, "The original color suits you very well, why do you want to dye it another color?"

"It's fun. And it looks good." She smiled at him.

Mo Xinglan smiled helplessly and gently picked up a strand of hair beside her ear: "It looks good even like this, very beautiful and cute."

Chujiu was flattered and took a deep breath, her cheeks slightly red, her eyes sparkling. She pointed at the hairband in his hand and said, "Then, do you like my gift?"

"I like it." He answered without hesitation, "I like it very much."

Immediately, his eyes fell on the embroidery and he stroked it: "This... could it be that you also embroidered it?"

He felt that the possibility was not very high because he had seen her needlework.

Chujiu raised her neck proudly when she said this: "Of course, I personally selected the fabric for the headband, sewed it myself, embroidered the pattern, and made the tassels. Hehe, am I awesome, right?"

It looked like "Praise me now" was written all over his face.

Mo Xinglan was shocked for a moment after hearing this, but when he saw her expression, he smiled knowingly and patted her head: "My Jiuer is really amazing. And...thank you."

This was the first birthday gift he had ever received since he grew up.

Hearing the word "thank you", Chujiu was slightly stunned.

It's rare to hear him say thank you.

After reacting, he smiled a little embarrassedly: "What is there to thank me for? Compared to what you gave me, the gift I gave you is nothing."

"No."

He shook his head in denial, his brows softening, "This is the first time I've received a birthday gift since I grew up, and it's also the best gift I've ever received."

"Then..." Chujiu thought for a moment, smiled at him slightly, and hooked a strand of hair on his chest with his index finger: "Then I will give you a birthday present every time from now on?"

His eyes light up slightly, his dark pupils seem to be covered with a layer of mist and moist, his red lips slightly curled: "Yeah."

At this moment, Chujiu seemed to see something in his eyes, and subconsciously moved closer to him, saying in surprise: "Xingxing, your eyes just glowed!"

"Glow...?" He leaned back.

"Yeah, it just lit up for a moment." She nodded, "It was like suddenly there were stars in my eyes. It was very beautiful."

"..."

After hearing this, he looked at her blankly, as if he understood what she was saying, but also didn't understand.

After a moment, he smiled helplessly and didn't reply to her.

He folded the hairband and put it back into the white jade box. When he looked up at her, she was playing with his hair. He lowered his eyes and stared at the two white and tender hands playing with his hair.

He was very confused. She seemed to like playing with his hair. Didn't she have hair of her own? Why did she always like playing with his?

"You...seem to really like playing with my hair?"

Chujiu raised his eyes, blinked, and smiled: "Yes."

"Hair...what's so fun about that?"

"Hmm..." She lowered her head and rubbed her lips with her teeth. She twirled her hair with both hands, thinking for a moment and looking up with confusion, "If you ask me that, I really can't answer it for a while."

Then she grinned at him and said, "But, I just happen to like you."

"..."

He was stunned for a moment, pursed his lips and chuckled, then raised his hand and rubbed her head: "If you want to play, then play."

After a pause, he said, "It's still early, go back to sleep."

"Ah."

……

When Chujiu woke up, it was already bright, and Mo Xinglan had already gotten up.

After being in a daze for a while, he got up.

After a while, he walked out of the room and asked Shi Yuan where Mo Xinglan was. Shi Yuan didn't know either, and said that Mo Xinglan asked her to have breakfast first and not to wait for him, and not to look for him if there was nothing else, because he would be back in the evening.

After hearing this, I felt a little annoyed. I had just given him a birthday gift and he disappeared. He didn't even tell me where he went and didn't let anyone look for him.

He said he would not look for it, so what? She insisted on looking for it, but before that, she had to eat first.

As the saying goes, man is iron and rice is steel. If you don’t eat for a meal, you will feel hungry. So she went to eat.

After dinner, I guessed that he was in the study room talking to Fang Hao, so I went to the study room. But no one was in the study room, and when I came out, I met Fang Hao.

Upon further questioning, Fang Hao found out that he didn't know where Mo Xinglan had gone.

Afterwards, I asked Elder Qi and the others, and they also said that they had not seen him.

Hey, this guy is going to play hide-and-seek with her today, right? Did she provoke him?

She spent the whole morning just looking for someone, and continued looking after lunch.

At this moment, she stood on the snow with her hands on her hips, her face dark, and she yelled, "Mo, Xing, Lan! Where have you been?"

no respond……

She put down her hands and lowered her head as if she was disappointed, pouting and looking unhappy.

He muttered, "Humph, you evil black-hearted monster. You accepted a gift from someone at night, but disappeared during the day and didn't let anyone find you."

I was thinking of celebrating my birthday with him, but the birthday boy wasn't even there to be seen.

Where did he go? He didn't want to celebrate his birthday with her, so he had to celebrate it with someone else?

Humph, if he really dares, she will never talk to him again.