Ye Jiaqi placed the cake on the table.

The decoration here is all in pure American style, simple and elegant. The lights are turned on in the small private room, and the orange light shines down, adding countless tranquil warmth.

There are decorative paintings on the walls and beautiful stars in the room.

When you close the door, it's quiet inside and you can't hear any noise.

Ye Jiaqi glanced at the time, it was a quarter past five.

They made an appointment at six o'clock, which was still forty-five minutes away, so it was still early.

Ye Jiaqi didn't know why he came so early. He was cautious and always afraid of making mistakes.

It's like she made this cake with great care.

There were dishes, candlesticks, and flowers on the long table, and the private room was filled with the fragrance of ylang-ylang essential oil.

The ground and her body were covered with a faint halo, which was the brilliance emitted by the crystal lamp.

Ye Jiaqi sat at the table with his chin in his hands, silently watching the time go by.

I don't know why, but my heart is beating faster and harder.

It felt like we were meeting each other for the first time, rather than having known each other for sixteen years.

All in all, they have known each other for sixteen years.

She remembered that on her twentieth birthday, she was like this, sitting at home and waiting for him, and kept waiting.

Later, friends and classmates all came, but he was not there.

He had never allowed her to smoke or drink, but that night, for the first time, she didn't listen to him, drank a lot of wine, and got herself drunk.

Although she knew he didn't like her, she didn't ask for anything, she just wanted him to spend her birthday with her.

At the age of twenty, the most beautiful years, she didn't ask for anything else, she just wanted him to be by her side.

However, she waited and waited until it was almost twelve o'clock. All her friends left and he did not come back.

She was drunk and unconscious for a long time. She was lying alone in the living room talking nonsense and making a lot of noise.

Sobering up tea didn't work either, she just waited for him so stubbornly.

Don't have to wait.

She wanted to know, after living together for so many years, could he not even remember her birthday?

But the fact is that he really can't remember, which is very disappointing to her.

On that birthday, it was very late, almost past twelve o'clock, before he came back.

She was waiting on the sofa as always, but he just said "Happy Birthday" and walked to the bedroom.

Perhaps it was the strong stimulation of alcohol or her extremely sensitive nerves, so she followed him into the bedroom.

At the same time, he also made a mistake that he still cannot forgive himself for.

He never explained to her why he didn't come to celebrate her birthday, and she didn't ask again, because he disappeared from her world after that night.

There is no reason.

He would never give her any reason for anything he did, whether he was authoritarian or overbearing, in short... he would not give her any reason.

If you want to do it, do it; if you don’t want to do it, don’t do it.

Ye Jiaqi didn't think about it anymore. Four years had passed.

There's nothing to think about either.

In the past four years, she has celebrated only one birthday this year. As she is getting older, she does not have much expectations for birthdays.

Ye Jiaqi glanced at the clock on the wall, it read half past five.

Since the last lecture we attended, he disappeared in Chicago. I don’t know whether he returned to China or went on a business trip.

But he had promised her back then that he might not be able to remember her birthday, but he would definitely remember that today is his own birthday.

She said she would meet at the time-themed restaurant at six o'clock.

He said yes.

I don't know why, but my heart skipped a beat, and a strong feeling filled my heart.

That is... he may not come.
Chapter completed!