When Jiang Qi opened the box, the blessings on the chocolate background board were very eye-catching.

"Happy twentieth birthday."

The tide actually felt a sadness for him. "So succinct? You don't add your name or anything? She pulled out the candle and knife and fork from the box, and began to stick them one by one on the cake covered with various fruits. Twenty may not be too inserted, or simply insert a few to represent? ”

"No way!" Jiang Qi decisively rejected her idea. "If you can't plug it in, squeeze it a little, you have to plug it in!" He seemed to be facing a great enemy, and suddenly he was as angry as a child when he spoke. The tide was confused by him, thinking about how the person who was cold just now suddenly became a little naïve, and reluctantly agreed, while pulling out the candle that had just been planted. "Asking for help to repay this tone is a loss to my good temper."

Jiang Qi was cleaning up the table, and looked up at it when he heard this. The tide was still immersed in the difficult predicament of setting up the candles, and suddenly heard his faint voice coming from the opposite side. "Thank you."

The tide didn't speak. The last candle had been planted, and she glanced at Jiang Qi, who happened to be looking at it too. "I'll light a candle." He stood up and took the lighter out of his pants pocket and began to light it one by one. Tide sat silently on the sidelines, eyes drifting to his face. When doing such small things, he is really serious. She saw his face, illuminated by the faint light of the fire, as he approached the candle, profoundly portraying clear facial features in the light and darkness, psychedelic and moving.

Suddenly all the lights went out, and everything fell into darkness, and the candles lit up the whole room at the right time. The tide remembered the dim light that came out of the windows of the tall buildings today, and it was as quiet and warm as it was now. "Power outage at this time?"

On the opposite side, the tide saw the corners of Jiang Qi's lips slightly curled. She had seen him smile like this many times, but each time the emotion was completely different, she guessed his mood at the moment, and she wanted to see through his thoughts.

“Joyeux anniversaire à toi , Joyeux anniversaire à toi ，Joyeux anniversaire à toi ，Joyeux anniversaire à toi！”

She sang the birthday song. Bless others, but recall that when grandma used to sing birthday songs to herself, in fact, the old man didn't know how to sing, or the tide taught her word by word, since then she often listened to grandma humming this song when she was idle, in order to be able to sing it completely on her next birthday, but before she was eighteen years old, she was gone.

As soon as the tune ended, she applauded herself. Jiang Qi sat quietly opposite, he looked over with his chin in one hand, his gaze passed over the light, burning with colors that the tide could not understand.

"You made a wish? Blow out the candles! She looked a little unnatural at the way he looked straight at her. How do you blow a power outage? How can I eat cake after blowing black paint? He smiled faintly, his tone mocking. French? ”

Tide nodded. "I've sung it in Chinese too many times, and there's nothing new." She handed him the knife and fork, "Cut, happy birthday." ”

Jiang Qi stretched out his hand to take it and cut it neatly along the central axis of the cake. "One and a half."

The operation is as fierce as a tiger. Tide watched him push more than half of it, "I can't finish eating, you're teasing me?" She reached for the cake knife on Jiang Qi's side and wanted to cut off half more, Jiang Qi reached out and held the knife on the opposite side, and her eyes drifted over. Eat as much as you can, and throw it away if you can't finish it. ”

Tidal glared at him angrily. Withdraw your hand and silently bow your head and eat the cake. The atmosphere quieted down, and the sweetness of fruit and cream filled the air, mixed with the smell of mint wafting from Jiang Qi's body, and blended into her nostrils. The candle was thin and soft, and it had burned to the end, but the circuit showed no signs of getting better.

"Don't have spare candles at home? The candle is running out. The tide raised its eyes to the river. His features darkened in the fainter and weaker light, as if he were about to be submerged in the darkness.

"No, let it be." Jiang Qi had already settled that half of the cake.

The tide couldn't eat it anymore, so she put down her knife and fork to look for paper towels, and after fumbling for a long time, she couldn't see where the toilet paper was. "Jiang Qi? Is there toilet paper? ”

Jiang Qi raised his chin slightly and nodded at the table, "On my side, come and get it yourself." The whole table wasn't very long, so he didn't bother to hand it over. Tidetide got up and walked over speechlessly, his eyes falling on the paper in front of him.

"Before coming here, did anyone tell you that it would be dangerous to be in an adult man's room in the middle of the night?"

As soon as the tide's fingertips touched the paper, he heard Jiang Qi's voice spread in the darkness. She was startled and subconsciously took a step back, but behind her was the corner of the table, and she almost fell down by stumbling unexpectedly. At this time, the candle had completely burned out, she took out her mobile phone from her pocket and turned on the flashlight, and then put it on the table, the pillar of light was limited, and it could only illuminate the area behind Jiang Qi. "Nobody has ever said that, you're the first. Today you are the birthday star, whatever you say is what, I will take it as your ecstatic nonsense for the time being. ”

Jiang Qi laughed, stood up and pulled out a piece of paper. The tide was so close to him that he didn't need to take a step, he was only a few centimeters away from her. The tide was a head shorter than him, his eyes fell on his collar, but he did not dare to move a step. She was about to speak, Jiang Qi suddenly put his two hands on the table behind her, bent down slightly, and really imprisoned her in a small space between him and the table, and the tide felt that his breath suddenly spread out, and his gaze sank like water in the black, and like a bottomless whirlpool, as if to roll her in.

The room was dark. Tidal five fingers clenched the corner of the table, only to feel the heat behind her ears spread to her jaw and cheeks, a hot burning sensation. "Jiang Qi, you are a person who has a girlfriend, I am here, I am ignorant to celebrate your birthday out of my overflowing sympathy, I have self-knowledge and self-respect, please don't be too rude."

She heard her voice tremble a little. It's not her, she used to be, and she's never been scared of anything like this.

"Are you scared?" Jiang Qi was interested, "What are you afraid of?" ”

His voice was soft, but every word was powerful. Tide felt that if he imprisoned her like this, he might suffocate himself. "Jiang Qi, can you step back and speak?" She raised her eyes and bumped into his, only to feel that she couldn't breathe. Why hasn't this damn electricity come yet?

"I'm afraid you don't know what you're doing right now." She stared at him, word by word.

In an instant, the shadows in front of him suddenly dispersed. Fresh air enters the nose and mind of the tide from all directions. She saw Jiang Qi take a step back with a smile on the corner of her lips, and her right hand reached over the tissue that she had just pulled out. "What do you think I'm going to do to you? Corners of the mouth, cream. ”

Tide took the tissue, slightly annoyed by his banter. Jiang Qi saw in the dim that her beautiful eyebrows were furrowed tightly, her lips were pursed, and she wiped the cream off the corners of her mouth with a little anger.

The night of eleven o'clock is the tide that has never been seen. There are a lot of stars and the wind is quiet. Jiang Qi insisted on sending her, but she flatly refused. He had to help her get a car to take her back, the owner of which was his uncle, who happened to be running a sports car nearby. The man looks very similar to Jiang Qi, but his personality is very different from him. Along the way, she laughed and talked with the tide, and she didn't ask for her fare when she got off the bus. Tide thanked him and watched him drive away for a while before slowly walking up the stairs to the door. Surprisingly, today's doors are not locked, which is not common in the past.

After going up the second floor, the tide suddenly stopped.

When he came out of the place where Jiang Qi lived alone, except for the window of his house, the other windows around him were all lit.