A delicate and beautiful cake with roses painted on it was born with the cooperation of Lin Yan and Sheng Jiaoyang.
"It's so beautiful!" Sheng Jiaoyang said he was very satisfied with the results of his hard work.
"This is the easiest cake I have ever made. The most important and difficult part is completed by you." Lin Yan looked at her with a smile.
"It was not done by me, it was done by the two of us. Wait a minute while I get my phone. I must take a good photo of such a memorable cake."
Sheng Jiaoyang ran out in a hurry, got the phone and ran back.
I took a photo from various angles.
"Jiaoyang, let's take a photo with the cake." Lin Yan also took out his mobile phone.
"Okay." Sheng Jiaoyang didn't think too much, picked up the cake and stood with Lin Yan waiting for a photo.
Lin Yan naturally put one hand on her shoulder and took pictures with his mobile phone in the other hand.
After the group photo was taken, Sheng Jiaoyang raised the cake and asked him, "Can we eat it now?"
"Wait a minute, bring the cake to the table first."
"Oh." Sheng Jiaoyang licked his lips and walked out with the cake.
Then Lin Yan brought a knife, fork, plate, and candles. He inserted a circle of eighteen candles around the edge of the cake and lit them.
"Scorching sun, make a wish before blowing out the candles!"
Only the cake was bright in the whole room, and the candles emitted a small candlelight. The two people looked at each other through the candlelight.
"Okay." She lowered her eyes at the cake, closed her eyes and clasped her hands together.
After a while she opened her eyes, lowered her head and blew out the candle in one breath.
Lin Yan did not turn on the light immediately. In the darkness, he asked, "What wish did you make?"
"I hope that my family and friends will always be healthy, especially my grandfather. I hope that he will live to be a hundred years old and be free from illness."
"Very good, do you have any more?"
Sheng Jiaoyang paused and looked in the direction of Lin Yan, but it was completely dark. She couldn't see Lin Yan's figure clearly. She said softly: "I hope Lin Yan is happy."
The person on the other side didn't respond for a long time.
"You... didn't make a wish for yourself?" Lin Yan asked her in a hoarse voice after a while.
"Yes, what I just said is my wish."
The darkness gave people too much reverie and uncertainty. Sheng Jiaoyang looked around and took two tentative steps, "Where is the light switch? I'll turn on the light."
"I come."
"Ouch" Sheng Jiaoyang bumped into the chair.
light is on.
"Are you injured?" Lin Yan looked at her with concern. Seeing her bending slightly and rubbing her knees, he looked a little nervous, "Is your knee injured?"
"No, no, it just hurts a bit from the bump." Sheng Jiaoyang said quickly.
Seeing that he still wanted to check, Sheng Jiaoyang straightened up and said quickly: "Then let's start eating. I'm hungry."
Lin Yan looked at her steadily for a few seconds, smiled slightly, pulled out the candles on the cake, turned around to get the knife to cut the cake, and handed it to her.
"Tomorrow is your new birthday, and it's up to you to make the first cut."
"A new birthday..." Sheng Jiaoyang repeated these four words and smiled, "It is indeed my new birthday." She took the cutter and slowly cut out the beautiful cake, making two cuts horizontally and vertically, and thinly. Finely cut into small pieces, almost every piece has a whole rose on it.
After cutting the cake, she each took another piece. She handed one piece to Lin Yan first, then she picked up her own piece and couldn't wait to take a bite. As expected, the sweetness was very suitable for her taste, and because they were together. After making the cake, subjectively I already think this cake is delicious.
"Is it delicious?" Lin Yan asked her.
"It's delicious." She spoke a little unclearly.
Seeing her cheeks bulging from eating, Lin Yan had a gentle smile on his face and continued to ask her, "Would you like to watch TV and eat at the same time?"
"OK."
So the cake was moved to the living room.
"Brother Lin Yan, I find that you can do everything well." Sheng Jiaoyang followed him with his plate in hand and sat down on the sofa.
"You too," Lin Yan turned on the TV, and the first thing displayed was the TV series "Rescuing an Internet Addict Boyfriend." "You did a good job."
Sheng Jiaoyang also looked at the TV screen, "Brother Lin Yan, are you watching this too?"
"Because of your appearance." He looked at her with piercing eyes.
Sheng Jiaoyang lowered his head and pretended to concentrate on eating the cake.
"When it comes to devotion, Jiaoyang, I can't compare to you. You are dedicated to everything you do, whether it's about things or people."
Hearing him say such words in a complicated tone, Sheng Jiaoyang pursed his lips and whispered: "I can do anything wholeheartedly, but I will be extra focused when facing the one I like."
"So you can accept others because you no longer like me?" Lin Yan looked at her deeply.
Don't like Lin Yan anymore? Sheng Jiaoyang was not sure. The only thing she was sure of was that she loved herself more now. She would no longer put herself in a passive situation like before, and she would no longer let herself revolve around only one person.
"Jiaoyang, I'm single now."
"Julianne..."
"I have broken off my engagement with her."
Sheng Jiaoyang looked at Lin Yan, and Lin Yan was also looking at her.
At this moment, Sheng Jiaoyang's mood was extremely complicated. Lin Yan actually gave up Julianne, who could help him enter the center of power of the Bruno family, for himself.
Terminating the engagement was easy to say. Given Julianne's family background, it was not possible to terminate the engagement just because she wanted to. Furthermore, Julianne had great feelings for Lin Yan, so it should be impossible for her to take the initiative to terminate the engagement.
"Then what price did you pay?" She didn't believe he could escape unscathed.
Lin Yan missed her gaze. He turned to look at the TV screen. After a while, he said softly: "Maybe it's my conscience."
Pay your conscience? Sheng Jiaoyang was puzzled.
"Stop talking about this," Lin Yan turned to look back at her, "Jiaoyang, now in front of you, I have truly made it a point not to let other factors affect my feelings, so every word I say is my sincere words. .”
He paused and continued: "Before I met you, I felt that my life's trajectory was to work hard to increase my strength and devote myself to the family's power struggle. But then... you appeared, and I finally felt that every day I have some other hope.”
These words were something Lin Yan had never said to him before. She could tell that they were indeed his true words. Sheng Jiaoyang felt a little distressed for no reason. In the past, she felt most distressed for Lin Na, because Lin Na had a father and a mother but had not received anything since she was a child. He was sent to boarding school early, but Lin Yan was completely different. Not only did he receive all the love from Aunt Lin, he was also taken back to Bruno's family by his romantic father to recognize his ancestors, and became the first person recognized by Bruno's family. One of the third generation heirs. In the eyes of outsiders, Lin Yan is living a good life, at least much better than Lin Na, who has been ignored since she was a child and whose fever reached nearly 40 degrees. But behind the scenes, Lin Yan is also living the same life. Loneliness.
If you think about it carefully, Sheng Jiaoyang can understand it. Lin Yan's mother, Aunt Lin, failed to give him a justifiable identity, and Aunt Lin put all her attention on him, hoping that her son would become a success, and longed for him to quickly grow into a towering tree and protect Lin Na from the wind and rain for her, so it was enough. You can imagine how much pressure he has been under since he was a child.
"I began to expect that the girl who was lying on the window sill to greet me would appear again. I began to expect that she would use what excuse to approach me next time." Lin Yan seemed to be recalling something, with a smile on his face. gave a faint smile.
He looked at Sheng Jiaoyang with gentle emotions in his eyes, "I know she likes me. Her expression is so obvious. Every time she sees me, her expression is exactly the same as that of a greedy cat when she sees her favorite food. She is excited and happy. At that time I didn’t know what I liked, I just knew I wanted to see her again.”
Sheng Jiaoyang looked at him blankly. It turned out that he knew she liked him very early.
"My mother always reminds me that the heavy burden I carry is still on my shoulders, and I can't be bothered by some feelings that will only become obstacles. Yes, my goal has not been achieved yet, and everything I talk about is just fantasy. So even if I feel It feels so much like I want to be alone with her, want to spend the rest of my life peacefully with her in a world where there are only two of us, and I can’t do anything about it.”
Having said this, Lin Yan sighed, the smile on his face disappeared, and there was a gloomy look on his eyebrows that seemed to be irreversible.
Sheng Jiaoyang raised her hand, wanting to touch his eyebrows and rub away the melancholy between his eyebrows. As soon as she raised her hand, she was startled and put her hand down again.
Lin Yan's eyes slid over the hand she had just put back to her side and fell on her face, not missing the slight movement of her lips and the wavering in her eyes. There was a dark light in his eyes, and he said: "Originally, according to the plan, Julianne and I should have been engaged long ago, but I have never been able to get over the hurdle in my heart. I never thought that there would be a more miserable and unbearable childhood than mine. After you had an accident, I lost interest in playing even when I was sitting in front of my beloved piano, and all I could think about was you."
"It is painful for people who have been in darkness, but compared to this, it is the most painful for those who have gained light and then lost it. I am the latter. But what can I do? If you lose it, you will lose it. Life will always go on. I I have to re-enter the planned path and become the Yan Bruno who only strives for power and profit."
As he spoke, he suddenly laughed helplessly, "God always likes to joke. When I decided to let go of myself, you appeared in front of me again."
After hearing what he said, Sheng Jiaoyang was deeply shocked. Compared to her consciously deep feelings because of her appearance, Lin Yan's love for her was even deeper, because this love survived so many psychological burdens and environmental pressures.
Lin Yan didn't finish what he said. He looked at her and slowly said the last words of his true confession: "Probably because he was dissatisfied with my indecisiveness, God made a bigger joke on me. I thought When I want to give up everything just to find the person I want, she doesn’t like me anymore.”
"Zhiyang, what should I do?"