Forcing Me to Be Reborn?!
Chapter 630 - 457: The [Headphone Model] on the Coffee Table

Chapter 630: Chapter 457: The [Headphone Model] on the Coffee Table

In the living room, Cheng Zhu held his phone, answering a call from Lin Lu, as they looked at each other across the distance.

Little Lu’s words were always so irresistible.

Even Cheng Zhu felt a tiny flutter in his heart.

There was that saying again:

"Think Tank, how should one fend off a girl like Lin Lu?"

Sorry, but Think Tank had fallen too.

These straightforward and passionate words hit right in the feels, "I’m just angry, not that I don’t like you anymore."

At this moment, Cheng Zhu’s phone was actually continuously receiving WeChat messages.

It was likely that many people had been sending him birthday wishes since midnight.

The scene now was quite reminiscent of New Year’s Eve, when Cheng Zhu came to the bottom of Lin Lu’s building and wished her Happy New Year.

The roles were just switched now.

"Don’t stand there grinning like a fool, it’s cold at night, hurry up and come in," Cheng Zhu said over the phone.

Don’t forget, Lin Lu was sensitive to the cold, she hated the cold the most.

Now, although it was already the early hours of April 1st, the nights in Hang City were still slightly chilly.

"Coming, coming, count to fifty and I’ll be right in front of you!" the spirited girl cheerfully said.

Another smile appeared on Cheng Zhu’s face, and his mood lifted even more.

In life, there are actually many people who are innately capable of dampening others’ spirits.

Such people can be a bit tiring to deal with after a while.

And those who dampen spirits are particularly numerous.

Lin Lu, on the other hand, was the complete opposite.

Today was Cheng Zhu’s birthday, but she seemed even happier than Cheng Zhu!

Seeing such an adorable girl brimming with energy, he naturally became happy too.

He himself was not the type to be greatly affected emotionally just because it was his birthday; he didn’t regard it as anything special.

But Lin Lu’s presence made everything different.

It’s like when two people go out to eat together, the dishes may be mediocre, but if the person across from you is eating with relish and giving all sorts of awesome comments, you might find your own appetite improving.

Cheng Zhu was actually being quite childish in his head, silently counting; wasn’t it said to count to fifty for her to appear? He really did start to count.

As it turned out, Lin Lu was late.

When the knocking at the door sounded, Cheng Zhu opened the door of his apartment to see his girlfriend holding a cake and said, "You’re late, you know."

"Ah? You actually counted? Such a child!"

"Ho! The person who said they’d appear in front of you after fifty seconds is the more childish one, right?"

"Okay, fine, I know you can’t wait to see me, I get it, I get it, hehe," Lin Lu tilted her head up and smiled at him, two adorable dimples appearing on her cheeks.

Then, she quickly entered the room and placed the cake on the table.

Cheng Zhu walked over to look at the birthday cake and said grumpily, "Why is it a pig? I wasn’t born in the Year of the Pig."

"Doesn’t matter, isn’t it cute?"

"Cute... it is still cute..."

"Right? I also think it’s super cute!" Lin Lu immediately got excited.

She pointed at the piglet cake and said, "Guess who made it?"

"It couldn’t be you, could it?"

"Right! But I didn’t do it alone, I was with a master," Lin Lu replied.

Cheng Zhu glanced at the remarkably lifelike little pig, doubting it was solely her own work.

But if someone is willing to spend time and effort to make a cake specifically for you, then even if they made a Cheng Zhu-pig, you’ve got to accept it, right?

"Eat now?" Cheng Zhu asked.

"Of course! I still have to sing you the birthday song!" Lin Lu was eager.

The piglet cake was shaped like a lying down piglet with a slightly perky bottom, and had a heart pattern on its back.

Lin Lu picked up a candle and stuck it right at the piglet’s tail.

"Lighter, lighter!" she stretched out her left hand.

While Cheng Zhu was getting the lighter, she leaned in and sniffed him, "Eh, you don’t smell like smoke today."

"You don’t like it, so I’m cutting back," Cheng Zhu said.

He wasn’t much of a smoker in the first place.

But sometimes the world is quite strange; drinking culture is a social tactic, and sometimes smoking is too.

Lin Lu went to turn off the lights in the living room, then started lighting the candle.

After the candle was lit, she clapped her hands openly and sang the birthday song for Cheng Zhu.

She was never coy or timid.

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."

Her singing echoed in the living room, her face always wearing a smile under the candlelight, and her eyes curving into crescent moons.

Cheng Zhu deliberately kept looking at her, not closing his eyes to make a wish.

This caused Little Lu to even pause in her singing, "Stop looking at me, come on, close your eyes and make a birthday wish!"

Only then did he close his eyes, secretly making a seemingly simple birthday wish, "I wish for good health for myself and the people I care about."

To him, good health was truly very important, more than most things.

After making his wish, Cheng Zhu blew out the candle with one strong puff.

Lin Lu then stood up to turn the lights back on.

She sat down next to Cheng Zhu, still a bit curious, "Cheng Zhu, what wish did you make?"

"How can I tell? If I say it, it won’t come true!"

"Then give me a little hint, does it have to do with me?" Lin Lu’s eyes were twinkling with anticipation.

Cheng Zhu instantly responded, "Of course!"

He was indeed telling the truth, as Lin Lu was his girlfriend and certainly on the list of "people I care about."

But Little Lu’s imagination probably wasn’t quite the same.

Upon hearing Cheng Zhu’s affirmative words, Lin Lu cheered up a bit.

Seeing him preparing to cut the cake, she eagerly volunteered, "Let me do it!"

Then, she purposefully positioned herself in front of Cheng Zhu, wielding the knife and finding the right angle.

"Chop your little pig head!" The voice-acting girl made an arrogant gesture and brought the knife down with a swift motion.

For some reason, Cheng Zhu felt a tingling in his neck.

So it goes with men who have a guilty conscience.

The piglet cake Lin Lu made was not large, just a small cake. After cutting off the pig’s head, she handed it to Cheng Zhu, "Here, pig’s head for the birthday boy!"

"Listen to what you’re saying," Cheng Zhu said with a wry smile, taking the pig’s head cake and having a taste.

"How is it? Tasty, right?" Lin Lu bragged with confidence.

"Indeed, it’s not bad," Cheng Zhu nodded slightly, "You should have a piece too."

"Ah! I was starting to cut down on sugar," Lin Lu pretended, then sighed deeply, "Ah! But how can I not eat my boyfriend’s birthday cake!"

Following that, she cut herself a large piece, severing the body of the piglet cake, leaving only a perky pig butt.

"I’ll give you this butt later too, am I not nice to you?" The energetic girl’s eyes turned into crescents again.

Cheng Zhu slapped her small head irritably.

While eating the cake, Lin Lu asked, "Cheng Zhu, are you avoiding treating Ningning to a meal to avoid suspicion?"

"A little bit, I guess," said Cheng Zhu.

"Mm... But your thought is correct," Little Lu agreed with self-mockery, "Let’s wait for some time then."

She then turned to look at Cheng Zhu, a mischievous smile appearing on her face, "I saw a lot of people writing about you and Ningning online, very elaborate, like they’d seen it with their own eyes, which cracked me up. Will you feel awkward meeting her in the future?"

"You read that?" Cheng Zhu asked.

"Yeah, I saw several posts!"

"I’m fine, as long as she doesn’t feel awkward," the philandering man said.

Lin Lu’s legs stretched out under the table, heels on the floor, toe tips lifted, and feet gently bumping against each other as she said,

"They even made up a story about you two kissing by the school’s artificial lake. Pfft! I, as your girlfriend, haven’t even kissed you by the artificial lake, they really dare to make things up!"

"Upset, are you?"

"Yes!"

"Then come here and let me kiss you."

"Eh!?"

"Isn’t all this talk just because you want to kiss?" Cheng Zhu smirked.

"I most certainly do not... Mmm!" Lin Lu’s mouth was silenced, and she obediently opened her lips to leave a gap for Cheng Zhu’s tongue to advance.

Their tongues intertwined, and Cheng Zhu thought of it as helping her burn off some calories from the sweets.

And he knew very well Lin Lu loved kissing.

After more than a minute of kissing, their lips parted, and he looked down at her without speaking, their gazes meeting in the air.

They stared at each other for a while, Little Lu slightly tilted her chin up, her lips parted.

Cheng Zhu immediately kissed her again.

The kissing continued until Lin Lu almost slid off the chair, and that was when he was willing to stop.

Thus, the couple sat at the dining table flirting for a while.

Lin Lu’s cute face was slightly flushed, her eyes glittering and extremely bright.

Cheng Zhu teased her, saying, "What else did the netizens make up? Did they say I did anything with Shen Qingning?"

As if he intended to reenact every rumor with her.

Just now, the netizens claimed to have seen them kissing by the lake, so Cheng Zhu kissed her.

Lin Lu recalled browsing, as some netizens claimed to be students from Technology University, saying they saw them checking into a hotel near the campus.

She almost died laughing, "Cheng Zhu and Ningning, with their personalities, would never stay in a hotel near the school, they’d definitely go for a nicer hotel. Really, making things up as they please."

She looked at Cheng Zhu and replied, "I’m not telling you!"

Right now, she was in his rented room, danger, danger, danger!

"My boyfriend is so lecherous!" Lin Lu, like thousands of other girls, echoed this sentiment in her heart.

Perhaps that’s the inner voice of many girls in love.

"Alright, I’ll get you something to drink," Cheng Zhu said, standing up.

Just then, Lin Lu looked around from her seat at the dining table and quickly, her gaze settled on the coffee table.

On the living room coffee table lay a pale pink pair of headphones, the best-selling color in the macaroon series, second only to pale blue.

A man’s home, with pale pink Bluetooth earphones, whether his own or someone else’s, was odd.

Thus, Little Lu walked over, picked up the Persistent Visit’s headphones, and opened them.

Cheng Zhu took out a bottle of sparkling water from the cabinet and turned to see such a scene.

Lin Lu held the headphone case in one hand, and the other hand fiddling with the fancy little things inside, her entire face turning tomato-red!

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(ps: This is the first update; at the beginning of the month, I’m asking for support to stabilize our first place with monthly tickets, more updates will follow today.)