Translator: HuaEditor: Bamboozled?

Chapter 74: Happy Birthday, Jing Xun.

The movie was about to begin, Jing Xun and Shen Yijin entered the theater.

As a hot summer movie, ‘Hello, Happy’ had a very high attendance rate. Jing Xun and Shen Yijin came late, so they could only buy a corner position.

But the corner was also pretty good.

Compared to the front row, the corner was cleaner. What you want to do… Of course you can’t do whatever you want to do. It was said that the surveillance equipment in the cinema was installed with night cameras…

Jing Xun took Shen Yijin to their seat.

The popcorn was really sweet, and very crispy.

The round popcorn pellets were still warm, the outer caramel-wrapped hard shell was crispy, and the inside was also crispy after biting in. You could bite the popcorn into two with your teeth, then enjoy the sweetness of the outer layer, and also taste the original flavor of corn kernels at the same time.

Jing stuffed two popcorn into his mouth like a little squirrel, then brought the popcorn bucket to Shen Yijin’s face, and signaled him to eat as well.

Shen Yijin usually ate very simple and regular things, and he hardly ever ate sweets.

But he would not refuse most of the food brought by Jing Xun.

The slender fingers scooped up a caramel-colored popcorn, and put it in his mouth, then chewed slowly for a while.

After swallowing it, Shen Yijin said, “It’s delicious.”

“Hehe, right?” Jing Xun smiled at him, with a sense of sharing success, and a little bit of satisfaction and complacency.

After a while, the lights inside the theater turned off, the last commercial was broadcast on the big screen before the film began.

Nowadays, melodramatic comedy movies are very popular, and “Hello Happy” was exactly this genre.

The first 80 minutes had a variety of funny lines, plus the excellent performances of the actors to make the audience laugh.

In the later stage, the level was suddenly raised, and the theme gradually surfaced. While still being funny, it hit people’s hearts and earned a few waves of tears.

‘Hello, Happy’ told the story of a male protagonist who grew up without parents since he was a child, and went to the big city alone to work. He had gained a group of funny colleagues, learned to love and be loved, while also reaping the rewards of love.

The whole film deeply portrayed four typical images of migrant workers in modern society through the ironic and funny stories. Everyone had their own problems to face, but they learnt to be kind, optimistic and supportive of each other.

To be honest, the first 80 minutes was quite funny. He originally watched this kind of movie for fun, so Jing Xun didn’t get too distracted.

But when the male protagonist’s identity as the adopted child gradually surfaced and began to strike the audience’s hearts with emotion, Jing Xun was still bombarded with emotion.

Especially the male protagonist who had never had a birthday party since he was young bought a small cake for himself this year. When he planned to continue celebrating his birthday by himself, he was called back to the company by the boss to work overtime.

It was called overtime, but in fact, it was a surprise party for him.

When he saw the big white cake on the table, the male lead cried, and Jing Xun also followed along with tears running down his face.

When he cried, he was very silent, even Shen Yijin didn’t notice it.

So when the movie was over, and the overhead lights were on, Shen Yijin suddenly paused when he saw the young man with red eyes and tears hanging at the end of his eyes.

“Xiao Xun?”

“Wuwuwu.” When the movie was over, and he could finally make a sound, Jing Xun simply plunged into Shen Yijin’s arms.

Although after thinking about it carefully later, the plot was cliché, and there was nothing to cry about at all, perhaps the movie was too detailed and the contrast of the foreshadowing from the beginning to end was too good; or perhaps the male protagonist’s expression could easily move people’s hearts and aroused sympathy. In short, at the thought of the male protagonist’s bitter and unconsciously smiling face, Jing Xun inexplicably wanted to weep.

Unable to stabilize his emotions, and didn’t want to be seen crying, he had to bury his head in Shen Yijin’s embrace for a while.

Just then, he heard Shen Yijian asking: “The movie made Xiao Xun feel upset?”

Jing Xun: !

“I just feel a little touched.”

Jing Xun explained quickly.

He thought that sir who had few emotions and desires might find it difficult to understand this kind of feeling. Suddenly he felt a little distressed for Shen Yijin: “That plot when he used to celebrate his birthday alone, but suddenly someone remembered his birthday, and specially planned it for a long time… It’s easy to evoke tears.”

Shen Yijin: “En.”

Knowing that Jing Xun was not upset, he seemed relieved.

After explaining, Jing Xun continued to lay on him for a while.

The faint scent coming from sir smelled very good.

The other party’s broad chest was good to lay on, and most importantly his comforting voice was also very nice.

The other party patted him while whispering: “Okay, it’s okay. It’s okay, good boy.”

His low voice, and the slight vibration in his chest, sounded very gentle at close range, making people want to tear up.

So Jing Xun couldn’t hold back even more.

This time it was mainly because of the heartache for Shen Yijin.

——Before watching the movie, he hadn’t considered the situation that sir might not understand the film. In that case… sir just idly sat with him for two hours?

Then they might as well go home and watch animal world!

The inexplicable emotional Jing Xun couldn’t help but hug Shen Yijin tighter, but instead it made the other party laugh.

Shen Yijin said, “I couldn’t feel that.”

He whispered in his ear: “But I can feel what Xiao Xun feels.”

Jing Xun said in a muffled voice: “…… that, that won’t work either.”

Shen Yijin patted him gently: “Well, it will get better.”

Jing Xun: “Hmm.”

It took a while for his emotion to calm down, when it passed, Jing Xun raised his head and found that all the people in the cinema were gone, leaving only the two of them.

…The benefits of sitting in the corner were finally realized. It was estimated that no one would notice them except the people next to them when they left…

Jing Xun wiped his face, and suddenly he didn’t understand what had happened to him just now.

He looked at Shen Yijin with some embarrassment. As soon as he wanted to explain something, he saw sir took over the unfinished popcorn bucket in his hand and asked him: “Shall we go for a midnight snack?”

Jing Xun: “……”

Although popcorn was delicious, it felt a bit cloying and greasy when you ate too much.

At this time, it’s best to eat something salty to neutralize it!

Jing Xun nodded, and soon stopped worrying about the embarrassment just now. In the end, he went to eat a bowl of dumpling soup with Shen Yijin.

It’s getting late after eating, Jing Xun felt a little full.

Somehow he didn’t want to go home like this. This seemed to be the first time he went shopping and watched a movie with Shen Yijin like ordinary couples. Jing Xun felt pretty good, so he wanted to do more things.

Therefore he proposed: “Shall we take a stroll?”

“Okay.” Shen Yijin had no objection, but suggested: “I’ll take you to a place?”

Jing Xun certainly had no objection.

So the two went back to the underground parking lot of the mall and took the car out.

The sports car with a low-key but luxurious exterior drove out of the parking lot, merged into the sea of vehicles, and then drove all the way to the outskirts of the city.

The car driving on flat roads was neither fast nor slow.

Jing Xun, sitting in the co-pilot seat, felt that summer could be so comfortable for the first time.

The temperature at night began to drop. Gradually separating from the bustling city, the air also became much fresher.

Shen Yijin opened the roof of the sports car, and the natural breeze poured in, carrying a hint of cool and grassy scent.

Jing Xun took a deep breath, and suddenly realized that he could see the sky full of stars as long as he raised his head.

The city was bustling with lights and it was not easy to see the stars with the naked eye. He hadn’t seen a starry night sky like this for many years. Or perhaps he hadn’t taken the time to look at it for many years.

As a child, he would constantly look up at the sky because he was bored and couldn’t do anything. When he grew up and was busy with things he liked to do, in the rapid passage of time, he forgot to look at these stars.

He did not even remember that they were so beautiful.

Because of amazement, Jing Xun kept his neck tilted up for a long time.

He seems to have entered a magnificent world. In the curtain formed by the starry sky, the more the car moved forward, the closer it was to the sky.

It was as if he could touch the universe just by raising his hand.

Then the car stopped on a shallow slope, facing the starry sky full of stars. Jing Xun was led by Shen Yijin to a very clean grassland on the hillside.

The wind on the mountain was strong, but it brought more coolness.

The most amazing thing was that when you look down the mountain from here, you could also see a glimpse of the city lights, much like a place you would only see in anime.

Sitting on the grass with Shen Yijin, Jing Xun couldn’t help but stretch his back comfortably. He lamented, “Sir knows a lot of places, how did you find this place?”

Shen Yijin pointed to a direction: “Xiao Xun, does it look familiar over there? That’s the Nie family racecourse.”

Jing Xun: “……”

So that’s what it is.

It turned out they actually drove to the back mountain of Mr. Nie’s house.

No, to be precise, it should be the plot of land next door to Mr. Nie’s house, which was contracted by Shen to build the Chengdong Resort.

……

Anyway.

“It’s so beautiful here.” Jing Xun couldn’t help but sigh with emotions.

“Yeah.” Shen Yijin said, “We can come here often if Xiao Xun likes it.”

“I like it, and I like the time spent with sir!” Jing Xun said casually.

He remembered that the last time he experienced this quiet night in the suburbs was in the mountain resort in S City.

The atmosphere at that time was similar to this moment.

But that day, he fell and injured his tailbone. He lost all the opportunity to appreciate the night view. Instead, he was…cough cough, he was bitten by sir.

It was also under this quiet and clear moonlight.

And this time, he was held by Shen Yijin, leaning on him. The two of them were tightly attached to each other amidst the mountain breeze. The feeling of warmth and reliability rushed straight to his heart. Jing Xun suddenly felt that he seemed to know what happiness was.

So he changed what he had said a moment ago, and stated quite formally this time: “It’s good to be together with you sir.”

“Xiao Xun.” Under the bright starry sky, Shen Yijin touched his temple with his thin lips.

Jing Xun heard the other party’s voice like a nice cello saying to him: “I will always be here.”

“……”

Jing Xun knew that this was not any sweet talk. But Shen Yijin would definitely do what he said.

This was how he realized that——he already had a home.

Just like in the movie, the male lead finally won the love of the female lead, and the two formed a new family. Since then, it became an unconditional love between the two.

He also had a family with Shen Yijin. From now on, he was no longer an orphan.

“Sir, thank you…”

Jing Xun knew that Shen Yijin didn’t like it when he said thank you, but he still wanted to say that.

So without waiting for the other party to react, he had already recovered his senses and hugged him tightly. After kissing the villain’s stern face twice, he laughed implicitly and acted first: “Thank you really.”

Shen Yijin obviously couldn’t do anything about him. He held the young man’s waist and kissed back forcefully. Under the sky full of stars, they hugged and kissed on the grassland.

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If they hadn’t already been absent from work this afternoon, they would probably have…

In the end, Jing Xun returned home with Shen Yijin, and his almost torn shirt.

Tomorrow they still had work to do, so the two of them fell asleep very early. There was no talk all night.

Time flies quickly. A few days later, after a busy day, Shen Yijin suddenly said that there was a dinner party in the evening, and asked Jing Xun if he wanted to go there together.

Jing Xun thought it was that kind of social banquet. Once in a while, sir was invited to participate in that kind of dinner party full of business tycoons. It was said that all the table talk was hundreds of millions big business. He couldn’t understand, and it was useless to understand, so he didn’t want to go.

But Shen Yijin said, “It’s different this time.”

Jing Xun: “?”

Shen Yijin said, “They are all people Xiao Xun knows.”

With that being said, Jing Xun was pulled out of the office by Shen Yijin.

After leaving the office, he didn’t wait for the elevator, but walked into the stairwell instead.

They didn’t go down, but went all the way up, and finally came to the door leading to the rooftop.

Jing Xun was full of question marks all the way, but when he stood by the iron door, he suddenly thought of a possibility and couldn’t help raising his eyes to look at Shen Yijin.

Shen Yijin just glanced at him with a smile in his eyes, and then pushed open the iron door in front of them.

The sound of the champagne bottle opening and cheer sounded at the same time. Jing Xun glanced over. Gathered at the door was a team of assistant secretaries including Assistant Xiao Tang. In the distance, there were several colleagues who worked closely with Jing Xun, and many researchers in work clothes…

These people looked at him all together and said to him, “Happy birthday!”

The rooftop was not an open-air rooftop. It was surrounded by glass, which was more like a large glass house.

But since Shen Yijin chose this site to establish the company, this place had always been in a state of being abandoned and had not been taken care of.

But now, all kinds of balloons and ribbons were floating on the entire roof, and somehow many green plants and decorations had been placed here.

On the table facing the door, the birthday cake with candles were also placed on the pure white tablecloth.

Outlined with red wine, surrounded by champagne…

It was exactly the same as the plot of the movie they watched two days ago.

Subconsciously grasping Shen Yijin’s hand, Jing Xun blinked his eyes, in fact, he had already figured out what was going on.

Two days ago, when he was inadvertently recalling that movie, sir suddenly asked him a very strange question: “Xiao Xun, If you can choose, on which day would you like to celebrate your birthday?”

Jing Xun didn’t think much at the time. He didn’t know when his true birthday was, and he didn’t think any day was particularly special, so he casually said whatever he felt.

Then he didn’t expect today…

“Happy birthday Xun Xun!” As soon as he entered the door, assistant Xiao Tang who was close to the door jumped out and said, “Xun Xun even has such a perfect date of birth. At a glance, you must have good fortune. Today is really a special day. We can see the Aquarius meteor shower in a moment!”

His colleagues responded one after another, Jing Xun couldn’t tell how he felt right now.

It’s one thing to understand what’s going on.

But the mixed feeling of surprise and joy still shocked him, unable to recover.

He looked at his colleagues in a daze. At the same time, Shen Yijin held his hand and said in his ear: “Happy birthday, Jing Xun.”

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