Chapter 350: The end of the Extravaganza for Favour

While Xue Meng was thinking this, Chu Wanning sneezed at Nanping Mountain.

Eleventh hour.

There is one last hour before his birth day.

But Chu Wanning didn't realise this. It was only two years since he and Mo Ran had retired to Nanping Mountain, but the two lifetimes before that, the millions of years he had lived, had been too difficult. It's not so easy for someone who is used to suffering to suddenly taste sweetness, and it's not so easy to get used to it.

He is the kind of person who, in Xue Meng's eyes, has never been pampered.

At least it used to be.

It was late at night and soon it would be the turn of midnight, but Mo Ran had not yet returned.

Chu Wanning stands in front of the bamboo woodshed, clad in a single coat, holding the dog's head for a while, but Mo Ran is nowhere to be seen. He rolls his hands, coughs lowly and frowns as the dog tilts his head up to lick the side of his face, making a pleasing "whimpering" sound.

Chu Wanning lowered his eyes and asked, "Are you sleepy?"

"Woof."

He then put it down and said, "Go back to bed, I'll wait a little longer."

"Oooooooooo woof."

The bamboo lanterns, woven with silk paper, swayed under the eaves of the courtyard gate, and the bright yellow candlelight fell on Chu Wanning's elegant face, casting a crystalline glow on his brow and eyes and shoulders, making him look gentler than usual. The dog's head tilted against the corner of his robe and barked around him again.

"Don't want to go back."

"Woof."

Chu Wanning then lifted him up again and nudged the tip of his nose against his wet, slightly cool little black nose: "Okay, then you'll keep waiting with me."

"Oooh woof."

Chu Wanning is not as comfortable communicating with him, and for some reason Mo Ran is always quick to understand him and he is much slower to do so.

He mulled it over for a moment before realising, "You want me to go to bed and not stand here"

"Ow ow ow woof."

The dog's head, happy that his master had finally understood him, jumped in place, wagging his tail.

"Just wait a little longer."

"Woof woof woof has been waiting for a long time

"Don't you want to go back to bed alone?"

"Woof woof."

When Chu Wanning saw the way he was wagging his tail, he thought of what Mo Ran had told him during the day before he left to rest early and leave him alone.

"Staying out at night, you're really getting your wings." Chu Wanning sighed, looking more than a little displeased. Seeing the dog's pleading earnestness, he took one last look back at the path up the hill, closed the courtyard door with his hand, picked up the dog and went back inside.

Who knows that sleep is not so easy to fall asleep, even if you feel sleepy?

Chu Wanning left a light on for Mo Ran, and in the shadows of the light, he curled up on the bed with his eyes closed, and began to dream in a blur.

In his first few months on Nanping Mountain, he woke up almost every night.

One day I dreamt of Fairy Tramper's pale face in the Wushan Palace after being stabbed by Xue Meng, looking ghostly and gloomy in the light of the thunderstorm outside.

A little later, I dreamt of Mo Ran outside the Tianyin Pavilion, kneeling long on the ground, blood pouring out of his chest, choking and asking him, "Master, have I been repaid, am I clean?

He dreamed of the defeat at the summit of death and life and of the passing of Huai Zui.

In his dream, Fairy Tramper said to him, "Chu Wanning, I hate you so much.

In my dream, it was also Nanping Mountain, where Mo Ran said, "Wangning, I will always love you.

But after Mo Ran said that, he slowly lost his heartbeat, leaving him with nothing but a night of misery and despair. He could never forget the unspeakable feeling he felt at that moment, and every time he dreamed about it, he would wake up with a pain so severe that he would not be able to recognize the years.

But the rest of the night was no longer peaceful, and every now and then I wanted to open my eyes and look again at Mo Ran's face, at the young man's now peaceful sleeping face.

Later on, Mo Ran noticed this difference in his behaviour.

That day was the day that Fairy Tramper, a man who had wandered alone in the empty Wushan Palace for many years, took one look and understood what Chu Wanning was suffering for and why he was having sleepless nights. So Fairy Tramper said nothing, opened her arms and held him tightly in her embrace.

Through the years, through the flesh and blood, that heartbeat was transmitted majestically and powerfully to the person in the arms.

Dispel the shadows of nightmares.

Fairy Tramper kissed the top of his hair and coaxed him in a low voice, "It's all right. Wangning, it's over."

Chu Wanning did not say anything, perhaps because he wanted to save face and not be embarrassed.

But Fairy Tramper could feel the lapels of his profane garment moisten and a warm tear soak into his heart. It was obviously not something hot, but it made his whole heart hot and tremble.

It made him ache and love, but he didn't know what to do.

He used to just be rough and possessive and so hard to coax.

He just pats the back of Chu Wanning's shoulder awkwardly, his lips rubbing against the top of his hair, the crook of his ear and finally lowering to take in the slightly cool lips.

" Wangning, I will always love you."

Between kisses, he murmured this to him in a blur, and he felt the obvious trembling of the never stubborn man in his palm, so he could not resist, and with the remnants of his previous tenderness, he fell with him once more.

And every day after that, no matter what kind of consciousness he had, Mo Ran fell asleep with Chu Wanning in his arms, and every time before he went to sleep, he would say once again, "I will always love you.

The sweetness of today will always slowly wash away the bitterness of the past.

This phrase, which Mo Ran repeats endlessly, has become a promise to keep, from the ravings of a dead body.

For two years, no matter what reason Mo Ran went out alone, he always returned before dark because he knew that Chu Wanning, though he did not say so, did not love the coldness of the Nanping Mountain nights and that his benefactor brother needed his company. It was the first time that this had happened like tonight.

Mo Ran didn't make it home before sunset for the first time.

Chu Wanning is too calm and dignified to cross-examine this and that, but just because he doesn't ask questions and has a strong face doesn't mean he'll feel good about it.

So after such a long time, he fell asleep on his side and was once again in a nightmare.

He went back to Nanping Mountain that year, the day Mo Ran passed away.

He dreamed that Mo Ran would not wake up, no matter how much he called him, and that the scars left by Tianyin Pavilion on his lover's chest were so hideous and shocking that he watched over him, choking on his sobs.

He couldn't stop repeating his lover's name: " Mo Ran "

Mo Ran.

And in this cold dream, it was as if someone had suddenly taken his hand and brought it to his lips for a tender kiss.

The man said to him lovingly, "Master, it's all right, it's all over."

It's all over

Chu Wanning felt his eyelashes moisten and, between dreams, he sighed lowly and settled down to sleep again, when he suddenly found himself in a familiar, warm embrace.

With a start, the vague bit of sleepiness was gone, and his wet, ciliary curtains lifted unexpectedly as his phoenix eyes met a pair of purple-black eyes.

"Mo, Mo Ran"

Mo Ran had come back some time ago and was lying beside him with the coolness of the night. So as not to disturb him, Mo Ran did not sleep close to him, but held his hand carefully, close to him.

When Chu Wanning woke up, he raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Well this seat still woke you up."

Chu Wanning thought he was going to apologise, but Fairy Tramper gave him a firm hug: "Good thing you woke up, why don't you just let me give you a good hug?"

"Get out."

Fairy Tramper knew he didn't have much time left today, and normally he would have had to have a verbal battle with Chu Wanning for a scolding, but this time, once he had embraced him, he went straight for it, leaned down and pressed himself against Chu Wanning's ear and laughed lowly, "Get lost, I've got a surprise for you. I can't wait."

""

The man's cheek is really growing with each passing day.

Chu Wanning, who was already awake from a nightmare and had a heavy wake-up call, was now being pressed by his hot and heavy body.

"No sleep."

Chu Wanning was even more furious: "No sleep for what?"

Fairy Tramper lifted his chin and rubbed it delicately, her gaze wandering from his brow to his slightly opened and closed lips.

The person in his arms obviously looked a little mean and imperfect in one way or another, but after two lifetimes, every time he looked at him, he felt his heart burn and secretly rejoiced. He had never admitted it before, but deep down he had always known that this was the only person who could instantly make him feel love like a fire, and his heart like a tender finger.

Wanting to hold him, wanting to kiss him, wanting him. Wanted to bully him until it hurt, but wanted to hurt him so much.

Now I feel that although there are many beauties in the world like clouds, when all the clouds are put together, they are not half as beautiful as his Wangning. He looks good even when he is fierce, he looks good when he is angry, he looks good all the time.

Fairy Tramper then laughed and said, "There's still plenty to do in the middle of the night, as I've taught you."

Chu Wanning :""

Seeing his sleepy, angry and helpless face, Fairy Tramper was so moved that she couldn't resist giving him a kiss.

"" Mo Ran--""

""Just kidding."" After a kiss, Fairy Tramper rubbed the tip of his nose affectionately, ""My time is almost up, you owe me today, I'll ask you for it in three days.""

""""

""The only thing I want to say tonight is"" Fairy Tramper paused for a moment and smiled, the dimples on the side of her cheeks deep, three parts evil and seven parts compassion.

"" Wangning , happy birth day.""

Chu Wanning was stunned for a moment.

And at that moment, the bells of the distant Pure Mercy Zen Temple rang out at a leisurely pace, at the turn of the zodiacal hour, with the bamboo leaves swaying.

Late in the day.

Early in the zipper.

The pride of Fairy Tramper was still in Mo Ran's pupils, but before he could say anything, it had changed to the gentleness of Mo. Mo Ran took a moment to adjust to the memories of yesterday shared with him, but he felt so confused that he didn't know what he had done in his Fairy Tramper state.

But when she saw that the person in front of her was her sweetheart, Mo Ran was overwhelmed with joy, so she pressed her forehead against Chu Wanning's and whispered, ""Wangning.""

""Hmm.""

""Happy birth day.""

After thinking about it, he added, ""I have a present for you.""

He had intended to do some more tinkering during the day tomorrow and then lead Chu Wanning into the Heart's Desire box. But he didn't expect Chu Wanning to be awake when he switched back, nor did he think he would naturally be compelled to say that.

He was so sweet to Chu Wanning that he couldn't seem to hold back for a moment, couldn't stay up at all.

He had lived two lives, had been married twice, and had spent eight years in his previous life and two years in this one, but at this time he was like a young man who had taken the plunge and offered his heart to his beloved for the first time.

""I I haven't done it all yet, but I'll show you around first, okay?""

It was only then that Chu Wanning came to his senses and realised that today was his birth day.

And Mo Ran was actually busy during the day for the congratulatory gift and did not go home.

As his confusion cleared, his heart was filled with amusement and guilt, and he couldn't help but lift his hand to Mo Ran's face, his heart filled with softness.

""That's what you've been working on for so long.""

Mo Ran just laughs.

""Does the Master want to see it now?""

Chu Wanning sat up, gathered her long hair and said, ""All right, what have you prepared?""

""A transcendent surprise.""

Mo Ran said, leading Chu Wanning to their yard, where the dog's head was sound asleep, his face buried under his paws and not awakened. Mo Ran dived into the grass, intending to dig out the box of his own thoughts that he had hidden here earlier.

However

A scream cuts through the Nanping silence: ""Where's my box?""

The dog's head continues to sleep peacefully and soundly.

Nothing happens, said the dog's head, you can never wake a dog that pretends to be asleep, baahahahahaha

Mo Ran spent a good part of the day with her eyes closed trying to remember what had happened to her when she was a Fairy Tramper. After thinking for a while, some fragments of memory finally came back

Sacking Jiang Xi.

Sack for Xue Meng.

Sacking Mei Hanxue

It's over, it's all fucking over

Chu Wanning frowned slightly and asked, ""What's wrong with you?""

Mo Ran hugged his head: ""I seem to have done something really ridiculous yesterday"", he said as he rummaged around the house and finally found the box from his own pouch.

""You're giving this to me.""

""Originally, originally, yes.""

""Now then.""

Now I'm afraid I don't know what horrible things have become inside.

Mo Ran wanted to leave Chu Wanning outside and go in to see for himself. But the words had already been spoken, and it was not right to leave his master alone to enter the box now, so he prayed in his heart that he had not turned the box upside down yesterday. He said stiffly.

""I can't explain it now for a moment anyway first, let's go in together first.""

When Mo Ran and Chu Wanning entered the box, they were both shocked by what they saw. Mo Ran, in particular, had left the box the day before in a fairly normal place, but now his house had been rebuilt and renovated with many shiny and expensive ornaments.

In addition, the sky is filled with flowers, the clouds are misty, the wheat is rolling, and the nebulae are filling the sky with colour.

Where are the pillow homes that still float away from the world.

You look like a landlord!

To make matters worse, five wooden stands were erected in the flower fields of the small courtyard, tied with Jiang Xi, Mei Hanxue, Xue Meng, Greedy Wolf and Xuan Ji, rooted in the fields like five scarecrows.

Chu Wanning looked at the five sacrificial figures and stiffened a little: ""This is the gift you want to give me.""

Mo Ran was shocked and turned his head to peek at Chu Wanning's face, and when he did, his heart beat like a drum as he said, ""Master, no, it's not what you saw.

Before the words were out of his mouth, a soft rice cake spirit jumped down from the roof with a bang.

Rice Cake Chief, wagging his little bright blue light wagging tail, came clattering out, head tilted, starry-eyed, running towards Chu Wanning with two little paws outstretched: ""God, God Wood Your Mightiness Jun Jun Jun""

Before he could reach Chu Wanning, however, he was lifted up by Mo Ran with his hands wrapped around his crevice. Mo Ran was on the verge of collapse and shook him hard: ""Rice Cake Chief, what the hell is going on here"".

""Huh"" Rice Cake Chief didn't react to the fact that Mo Ran's personality had switched once again and said in a daze, ""Then, then not four of the SSR level humanoids you caught yourself to exchange for the Field of Mountain Drops""

""""

Mo Ran's forehead jumps up and down, and after a long moment of silence he finally understands.

He closed his eyes suddenly, hating the fact that he could not raise his hand to strangle himself.

What the hell did he do all day yesterday?

Fairy Tramper is fighting with herself again

While he was speechless, Xue Meng, tied to the wooden frame, was already furious and shouted, "" Mo Ran, you dog, what are you doing?

Rice Cake Chief winked and looked at Xue Meng and the others for a moment before explaining to Mo Ran, ""This is what you did an hour ago, you caught five SSRs in total and you were afraid they would mess up inside so you simply tied them all up after the catch.""

Mo Ran :""""

Xue Meng is still shouting, ""Master, Master, help me!""

Chu Wanning flicked his sleeve: ""Look what you've done""

Immediately, they came forward and untied the Fairy Tramper for Xue Meng and the others.

After everyone had been released, Xue Meng rubbed her red wrists, aggrieved and baffled: ""Mo Ran, you, you, you, what the hell are you up to?""

""Exactly."" Elder Greedy Wolf wasn't having a good time either, ""Why did you catch us in this box"" said the elder, glancing at the rice cake spirit, ""and what the hell is this piece of tofu""

Rice Cake Chief crossed his arms and said angrily, ""Sa, Sa Zi Lao Zi four years, the annual rice cake is not four tofu""

Mei Hanxue and Xuan Ji did not say anything, but their eyes were also questioning the intentions of Chu and Mo.

Jiang Xi's face was gloomy as he straightened the sleeves of his expensive and delicate robe, smoothing out the folds one by one before raising his eyes and saying morosely, ""You two had better give Jiang an explanation.""

Mo Ran tried to muddle through by raising his hand and smiling, ""Uh, this is just a misunderstanding, sorry.""

""Sorry."" Jiang Xi sneered, ""That's worth a lot of sorry.""

""""

He narrowed his almond eyes and said nonchalantly, ""Master Mo, do you know that I have a business deal to discuss with Fire Phoenix Pavilion today""

""I'll, I'll pay for it.""

""Ninety million gold leaves, you pay""

Mo Ran :""""

Xue Meng was also annoyed: ""Didn't you say you wanted to give me a surprise? I thought it was ""a birthday gift for me"".

Xue Meng finally said indignantly, ""What the hell are you doing?""

Mo Ran was surrounded by a group of people who were asking for an explanation, and gradually he could not stand up to them and had to apologise one after another. But these people were not on bad terms with them, they just wanted to make a statement, and if they couldn't, they would never stop. Mo Ran was at a loss as to what to do when he heard Chu Wanning beside him say.

""I'm sorry that I didn't manage to control him with another temperament.""

There was a sudden silence in the landscape field.

Only Rice Cake Chief is excitedly baring his little feet and circling around Chu Wanning.

Mo Ran turned back and said, ""Master.""

""I will find a way to compensate for the delay to remedy it, and I hope you will forgive me.""

Xue Meng was busy waving her hands, ""Master, Master, I didn't mean that I just thought it was strange""

He said and turned his head to Jiang Xi: ""Hey you, you can't blame my master for the 90 million gold leaves, I, my master doesn't have any money""

Jiang Xi :""""

The world's richest man seemed to be ignoring Xue Meng's words, staring at Mo Ran for a moment before his sharp eyes turned back to Chu Wanning.

He was just about to say something when he saw Mo Ran stop in front of Chu Wanning and said urgently, "" Master Jiang, I will find a way to make amends. Please don't make things difficult for my master today. Because because""

Mo Ran hesitated, her voice gradually softening before she finally whispered, ""Because today is actually my master's birthday today""

Jiang Xi :""""

""He never had a proper birth day even once, so Master Jiang's loss, I will definitely try to make up for it, by going to the Fire Phoenix Pavilion in person to apologise or whatever.""

The young man stepped between him and Jiang Xi, almost pitifully, ""Just for tonight, please Master Jiang, can you bear with me?""

Today is Chu Wanning's birth day

This reason stunned all the people in the room. Xue Meng, in particular, was so shocked that her face was like gold paper, and her lips opened and closed for a few days, but she could not say a word. Chu Wanning, too, had not expected Mo Ran to reveal this, and was at a loss as to what to do.

The silence was finally broken by Greedy Wolf, who did not see eye to eye with Chu Wanning, who smiled and said with his hands on his chest, "" Yu Heng, no, it's your birthday, why did you send your pupil to capture us all""

""No, it's not like that,"" Rice Cake Chief explained, gesturing to Mo Ran, ""He's got you, four, four, four, because you're four SSR level humans, and you can trade for good, good magic weapons to decorate the idyllic mountain home in Zeri. ""

Xue Meng said in astonishment, ""Trade us for a magic weapon.""

Mei Hanxue rubbed her chin in reaction, ""No wonder the effect here adds an extra weight for every person who comes in. It turns out it's actually because of this.""

Jiang Xi was the only one who found it unbelievable and flicked his sleeve in anger: ""Talking about love is really a disease"" and then stared at Mo Ran and gave his diagnosis without any hesitation: ""Master Mo, you are terminally ill and there is no cure for you.""

Mo Ran laughed and went to take Chu Wanning's hand: ""It's been hopeless for a long time.""

Jiang Xi couldn't stand it and turned his head and hands away for a moment in sullen silence, then glanced at Xue Meng looking at Chu Wanning, as if he was embarrassed that he, as a disciple, had almost missed his master's birthday and was kicking himself for not being able to prepare a gift for Chu Wanning.

Jiang Xi was very impatient and felt that Xue Meng was really embarrassed, but he could not take it out on Xue Meng and could not do anything about it. It's only 90 million gold leaves.""

Mo Ran :""""

Xue Meng :""""

""No need to pay for it, it's not enough to polish your shoes.""

Mei Hanxue :""""

Chu Wanning :""""

Xue Meng : ""How dirty your shoes must be""

Jiang Xi turned back, his eyes like lightning, and said coldly and sarcastically, ""If Master Xue doesn't speak, no one will take you for a mute.""

""You.""

In the end, the whole story of this absurd drama was explained, and Chu Wanning's birthday was finally revealed to them. Although they all said that they would not tell anyone about it, nor would they tell anyone when Beidou's birthday would be, they stayed to celebrate it now that they were together.

In Xuan Ji's words, this is fate.

The Rice Cake Chief, seeing the atmosphere in the crowd, felt that he had fulfilled his mandate in the village of rice cakes and happily moved over to join in the fun. But Xue Meng turned around and stared at him.

"" Mo Ran, this is the little demon you said you caught in the back of the mountain earlier""

Mo Ran laughed, ""Yeah.""

Xue Meng rubbed his chin and said, ""It's really made of cinnamon sugar rice cake.""

Rice Cake Chief waved his blue tail light: ""I, I I four the prettiest cub in our village""

""Coincidentally, I'm the prettiest pup in Lower Fairy World.""

Rice Cake Chief : ""Let's make friends then.""

Xue Meng : ""Then I'll cook you up and eat you.""

A man and a demon at the same time the words out, Rice Cake Chief a stiff, small feet quickly back two steps, a moment's pause, turn around and run: "" Xue Meng not four people ah help ah monks sub demon la ow ow ow ah ah ah""

Xue Meng laughed out loud, finally getting his revenge for being caught and tied up as a scarecrow.

In the silence of the night, the box was filled with a few old friends, not all of them close to Chu Wanning, but as Xuan Ji said, it was a kind of destiny.

So, as they were all here, they didn't feel tired, so they simply cooked up a snack and lit a fire in the mountain house, sitting around a table and having a drink under the moon.

The golden pond is filled with fresh fish, the rice breeze disperses the evening smoke, the corn is washed like a pearl and put into a pot to simmer. The sweet aroma of rice wafts across the ridge as Mo Ran enters the kitchen.

He turns around and sees Wangning outside chatting with Xue Meng, Xuan Ji and Greedy Wolf helping to pick the demon fruit, Jiang Xi walking in the field waiting for his meal, and Mei Hanxue teasing the little demons playing the piano among the flowers, teaching them the tunes of Kunlun.

Mo Ran is in a good mood.

Although he desperately wanted to have Chu Wanning all to himself, his master was so good that he wanted to make him receive a few more wishes and three or two more companions. Yesterday's self was a misfortune to have fulfilled this wish of his.

Mo Ran's slender fingers are resting the white and plump bamboo shoots on the table, finely shredding them and cooking them in hot soup with the ferns.

""Wait a little longer, Master, it will be ready soon.""

""There's no hurry, I'll get them some melons and fruit for the yard.""

Mo Ran laughed and said, ""Good.""

Chu Wanning went to the corner of the kitchen to retrieve a pile of fresh, sweet fruit in a small bamboo basket. When he got there, he suddenly noticed that there was also a porcelain jar with a seal on it, with the words ""Happy Birthday"" written in an uncomfortable and small way.

He blocked it off, and the brushwork is clearly that of the Fairy Tramper character.

Chu Wanning opened the sealed porcelain jar and, unable to distinguish the contents, wondered, ""What is this?""

Mo Ran came over to take a look and let out a laugh: ""A goose with pear blossoms and rouge, it's a success.""

""What's that?""

""It's a dish I've worked out under another personality, and it takes a bit of work to make. The goose is first salted, then wrapped in lotus leaves and steamed in a kettle, and the spring water is cold enough to chill it in the well. After it is chilled, it is sealed in an altar and drunken with pear blossom white."" As he said this, he took the goose meat out of the altar, and the wine smelled delicious, cool and intoxicating.

""It looks like it was ready to go on as soon as it went into the Heart's Desire box."" Mo Ran weighed the marinade of the goose and laughed, ""It's not all done badly.""

The meat of the goose was placed on a ginkgo cutting board, and the fingertips were pointed at the full breast of the goose, and a few thin slices were made.

Mo Ran thought for a moment and said to Chu Wanning, ""Master, go and look in the sauce cupboard again, there should be another small jar of sauce.""

Chu Wanning went and found a yellow-glazed tile jar, also with a seal on it, still with five words inscribed in an uncomfortable and awkward manner.

""There is this seat for the rest of your life.""

Chu Wanning shook his head, but his heart felt infinitely more peaceful and gentle.

He handed the jar to Mo Ran and watched as he used a small bamboo ladle to ladle out a drachm of the gazpacho sauce that Fairy Tramper had carefully prepared yesterday and carefully drizzled it over the plated rouge goose, which blossomed along the grain of the goose and collided with the wine to create a strong and exotic aroma.

Chu Wanning said, ""How did you come up with such a dish?""

""You didn't even eat a few bites of the food I made once in the heat of the day, remember?""

When he said that, Chu Wanning remembered that it was indeed not long ago that Fairy Tramper had cooked a table full of good food with his head in his hands. But he didn't eat much of it because he was tired of the heat. Fairy Tramper didn't say anything in the end, but in retrospect, he did look a bit lost that day.

""I guess I felt sad that I couldn't even take care of my favourite person's taste."" Mo Ran smiled and turned around, her sleeves pulled up at her elbows, ""So I thought about it day and night, and went out to a restaurant to learn from them, and finally came up with this dish.""

He glanced at the plate of dried goose stuffed with blushing pear blossoms and asked cautiously, with some treasure-offering apprehension and some inviting anticipation.

"" Will Wangning like it?""

Chu Wanning was quiet for a moment, then smiled.

He put away both the notes left by yesterday's Mo Ran, picked up the plate of rouge goose with its crystalline skin and fresh sauce, and headed for the kitchen foyer. Before taking the dish out, he turned back to the handsome young man standing by the stove and said, ""Thank you, Mo Ran.""

Whatever the past life, whatever the character, whichever piece of soul, thank you, thank you for still being there.

Thank you for giving me the best birth day of my life.

Once upon a time I had a Master, but then the celebrations were not genuine. Once upon a time you had Mother, but the days were so hard that you couldn't even get a full meal.

Now that all this is behind me, I will always remember the day you were born - that day of the year when I was still in the Zen monastery, not yet knowing what the red world was, and not knowing that there was already someone in the world with whom I would spend my life.

But I will be with you every year after that.

From now on, it's all with you.

The feast was not a sumptuous one, but Mo Ran's cooking was something that was rarely tasted by others. Even Jiang Xi, who was accustomed to eating the delicacies of the sea, widened his almond eyes and looked at Mo Ran in amazement from across the table.

It looks like Jiang Xi is keen to ask Mo Ran if he would like to come back to Lonely Moonlit with him as a cook, accompanied by a frighteningly high salary.

But Jiang Xi was a wise man and took one look at the way Mo Ran looked at Chu Wanning and swallowed the invitation. He was a little disgusted, thinking that he would have to make a medicine that would completely cut off the world's love in his lifetime.

It is too sick to talk about love, as is evident from Mo Ran's case, where a good spoon cook has lost his bright future to love.

Forget it, it's better to have a few more pieces of meat, you won't get the chance later.

Jiang Xi drops his eyes without moving, his chopsticks reaching out gracefully and quickly.

At the end of the feast, Xue Meng suddenly caught a glimpse of small, white shadows in the mountains and fields.

""Good years of cake essence""

The little demons run very fast, peeking through the grass and ridges and rocks, making their interesting 'human observation', but not willing to let them see their faces, only waving their little blue lights on their tails and making a slight squeaking sound. Only the prettiest cub, Rice Cake Chief, stands with his arms crossed in a tree that Xue Meng can never easily catch, translating the demon language of the grass and wilderness into human language.

Although, it is also very miserable in its official language.

""Kamiki Your Mightiness, Mori Mori Cenjil Happiness""

Xue Meng glared at it, ""It's the day of your birth, isn't it?""

""I'm fluent in the human language and I'm very good at it.""

Mei Hanxue laughed and pulled Xue Meng, who wanted to fight with Rice Cake Chief, back: ""You don't understand, it's not easy to practise the official language, don't laugh at it. It's a cute little rice cake.""

Xue Meng glared back at him again, ""Talk to me, don't pull my hand""

In the midst of the frenzy, a New Year's cake monster lit the demon fireworks on the opposite hill, and the gorgeous flowers exploded in the night, literally scattering into colourful flowers blowing down all over the mountain amidst the stars.

Seeing this, Xuan Ji felt the mood was right and raised his wine to Chu Wanning and said with a smile, ""Yu Heng, happy birthday.""

Chu Wanning, unsure of how to respond to such a situation for the first time, stiffened and replied, ""You too.""

Xuan Ji's eyes widened as he was stunned, wanting to laugh but not daring to do so.

""Happy birthdays."" Greedy Wolf hummed back.

""Many thanks.""

Mei Hanxue wanted to follow, but Xue Meng dragged her to the back of the room and said, ""I'll go first, I'll go first. Master wishes you good fortune, peace and happiness, and to come and see me often at the top of death and life.""

""Naturally, Mo Ran has been thinking about your birthday for a long time, and he prepared it for you before January-""

Before the word ""gift"" could be uttered, Mo Ran interrupted with a cough.

Chu Wanning : ""Didn't prepare anything.""

Mo Ran held his forehead, thinking to himself that his master really couldn't tell a lie, so he might as well not.

Jiang Xi also bowed his hand and said, ""Master Chu, I congratulate you on your eternal happiness.""

Xue Meng brushed her lips and hugged her chest, ""What are you congratulating me for?

Chu Wanning was a bit embarrassed by the blessings he received, as he was uncomfortable, or rather unsure, of how to deal with them.

After all, it's never been given.

Mo Ran quietly took his hand, which was slightly sweaty from nervousness, under the table and laughed.

He clasped Chu Wanning's hand and interlocked his fingers, delivering tenderness in the grip that slowly soothed Chu Wanning's unease.

Mo Ran looked at him and said solemnly, ""Wangning,"" in the wind-blown wheat, in the starry night, in the rain of flowers and the magnificent fireworks.

""""

Mo Ran smiled, and his dark, purple eyes were filled with the depths of love and affection that had been brewed over two lifetimes.

This day, poured out in the splendour of the stars.

""I wish you joy in your birth and peace for the rest of your life.""

Thirty years of ignorance, two red earths intertwined.

In the glory of the fire, Mo Ran's eyes are bright and slightly moist. His face had the sincerity of an ink master, the paranoia of a Fairy Tramper, and the gentle goodness of the young boy who first stood in front of the Tongtian Tower.

They have travelled for two lifetimes, but have finally come to this idyllic village of Jiangnan. Nanping has a Zen sound, and the temple bells are ringing at night.

He and he finally found peace.

I regret that I knew you too late, but I will protect you for the rest of your life.

Mo Ran knew that he would tell Chu Wanning for the rest of his life, ""Be happy in your birthday and live well for the rest of your life.

Until the hair is like snow and the eyebrows are tinged with frost.

He will also keep this fire of his. He kept him, and he kept him.

They may not be the best people on earth, the most beautiful people, the richest people, the most remarkable and powerful people with the biggest hearts, but for Mo Ran, Chu Wanning is like no one else.

The same applies to Chu Wanning. Whatever the fragment of Mo Ran, whatever the character, whatever the life, there is no need to argue. It is a soul that has shared two lives with him, a lover who has been scarred and broken to protect him, and he will always love him, illuminate him, love him and spoil him.

A lifetime.

I have given all I have, I will give all I will have

To love you.

The end of the extra fight for favour

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