Confession Part 2

"Oh!!"

Inside were the farm's signature handmade bamboo cups, and double happiness was even engraved on them.

The guesses of Yu Zhenzhen, Tan Xiao and Kong Xuan were all not wrong. Yu Zhenzhen's guess was a bit of a stretch, but still related.

"I was just a little off!" Lin Yang shouted in dissatisfaction, "I should have also guessed wood, at least it would be related, shouldn't have said matches."

Now everyone deeply felt the fun of the game. It was quite interesting, alternating between rounds of truth or dare and She Fu. The losers basically all chose truth.

Lin Yang was always just a little off each time, directly exclaiming that his thinking had issues, and was about to say the color of his underpants.

As a result of playing like this, gradually some people discovered that while the others including Yu Zhenzhen had some wins and losses, Tan Xiao and Kong Xuan never lost. The two of them made ambiguous guesses like everyone else, and even if it wasn't correct they could always relate it somehow.

"So this is a shaman? Even tarot is so accurate, you must be from Ravenclaw." Yu Zhenzhen sighed, still fixated on the two never losing. "You're the birthday star so forget it, but Kong Xuan, tsk tsk, this won't do you know? Always winning is losing, understand?"

Kong Xuan snorted, he had never heard this saying before. There are actually people who like losing? "I don't understand."

"You're really dumb. What if among those present there was someone you liked but never dared confess to. At this time, if I happened to pick you and made you confess to that person..." Yu Zhenzhen looked at him with disdain, Kong Xuan you need to understanding such scheming better.

Kong Xuan: "..."

Yu Zhenzhen continued: "Or for example if it's a truth, and I make you talk about your first impression when you met them?"

Kong Xuan: "............"

Why didn't you say so earlier?! Kong Xuan was secretly annoyed, "...Let's keep playing."

"Go play by yourself!" Yu Zhenzhen stood up. The adults had already gone to rest early, letting the young people play by themselves. "It's almost twelve o'clock, I'll go get the cake."

Yu Zhenzhen ran off.

Tan Xiao saw that Kong Xuan didn't say anything, but his hands were already pulling out grass, angrily tugging downwards.

......

Yu Zhenzhen went to the refrigerator to take out Tan Xiao's birthday cake. This was ordered by Tan Chunying, with a little shaman wearing a peacock exorcist mask on top.

Everyone presented the gifts they had prepared one by one. Tan Xiao didn't open them immediately, "Thank you."

He saw Kong Xuan also stuff in a small box, not knowing what Kong Xuan had prepared this time.

"It's twelve o'clock, it's twelve o'clock, blow out the candles!" Lin Yang lit the candles and then started singing Happy Birthday to Tan Xiao. "Make a wish!"

Tan Xiao closed his eyes. The candlelight flickered on his face, melting into a warm tone, and the shadows of his eyelashes were also magnified. Beside him were his singing classmates, and Kong Xuan was also looking down at him intently. He asked the others, "Why isn't he saying his wish?"

"If you say it out loud, it won't come true."

"Nonsense, how can it come true if you don't say it?" Kong Xuan snorted.

Yu Zhenzhen held up the camera to capture this moment, and her eyes couldn't help but curve up as well.

"Happy birthday!"

"Happy 18th birthday, Xiao bro!"

Then, as Tan Xiao blew out the candles, cheers and blessings rang out again.

Tan Xiao cut the cake, giving everyone a small piece. They couldn't eat too much at night, or else they would get indigestion.

Tan Xiao cut the piece with the little shaman figurine and gave it to Kong Xuan. Kong Xuan wanted to eat it but didn't want to cut the little shaman. He looked at it hesitantly for a long time and found that Tan Xiao was still staring at him, as if waiting to see how he would eat it.

Oh, what should he do...

Lin Yang encouraged him from the side, "Swallow it in one bite!"

Everyone chimed in, "One bite! One bite!"

"..." Kong Xuan really did open his mouth wide and stuffed the entire cream shaman into his mouth. His cheeks were puffed out, and there was a bit of cream on the corner of his mouth.

Tan Xiao looked up at him and applauded, "That's amazing."

"Hahaha, awesome!"

Kong Xuan's cheeks turned slightly red as he waved his hand to indicate it was nothing.

Yu Zhenzhen recorded all of this so that she could look back on the evening breeze of their youth many years later.

"Look, look, a shooting star! It's a shooting star!"

Suddenly, someone exclaimed excitedly.

Everyone looked up and clearly saw a shooting star at the edge of the sky, like a fireball with a long tail streaking across the horizon.

"A fireball meteor!" Yu Zhenzhen sometimes took pictures of stars, but unfortunately, she didn't bring more professional equipment today. Otherwise, she could have taken a clearer picture.

"Don't talk, hurry up and make a wish!"

"Today's a big giveaway. Not only the birthday boy can make a wish, haha."

"The view here isn't good enough. It's blocked by trees. Why don't we go to the rooftop to look? Maybe there will be more shooting stars?"

The sky was very clear today. Even if they didn't see shooting stars, there were still countless stars to admire.

"Let's go!"

Everyone grabbed their chairs and ran upstairs.

Tan Xiao took another sip of orange juice and slowly gathered all the gifts. He teased Kong Xuan, who stayed by his side, "What antique did you give this time, great god?"

Kong Xuan had no private property in the mortal world, but he still had other good things, such as the ancient jade he had given to Tan Xiao before.

Normally, Kong Xuan would have immediately shouted out what good things he had given, but now he was unusually silent.

"Can I look at it now?" Tan Xiao tore open the packaging. Inside was a silk pouch. When he opened it, there were several dazzlingly colorful feathers lying inside, eye-catching even in the dark.

"This is..." Tan Xiao was breathless for a moment, dazzled by the colors.

"Mm." Kong Xuan finally put down the fork he was eating cake with, looking quite troubled. "I don't know what you wished for, but I wanted to give you this."

He didn't know how the current popular custom had become eating cake and silently making wishes without saying them out loud or explicitly informing the gods. How was he supposed to know what to give Tan Xiao?

"Kong Xuan, do you want to know my wish?" Tan Xiao suddenly said.

Kong Xuan immediately replied, "Sure."

Tan Xiao smiled at Kong Xuan.

Kong Xuan's heart started pounding. He still remembered that Tan Xiao used to hide his smile from him, which made him extremely puzzled as to what was so good about hiding a smile.

But at this moment, Tan Xiao's eyes were brimming with a smile, like flowing water, coolly running over his heart and filling it up.

It turned out that some things were silent but left traces, and they were so obvious.

"I want to give this birthday wish to you. Now, it's your turn to make a wish."

Tan Xiao said softly, with a smile that was not quite a smile.

The long insect chirps, the laughter of his classmates, the dazzling reflections of moonlight on metal, the decorative string lights hanging like a starry river - all of this was fading away and blurring.

Kong Xuan could hear his own heartbeat pounding in his ears, getting faster and faster. Blood was surging and rushing into his ventricles, squeezing his heart, contracting and expanding. There was also courage rising from that smile, infinitely expanding.

His mind went blank for a few seconds before Kong Xuan realized he could speak again. He didn't make a wish right away.

When he opened his mouth, he found that his mouth was dry and his tongue was parched. He completed the heartfelt words he hadn't been able to say out loud. "...My first impression was, I thought, I must have left an indelible impression on him.

"But in fact, it was I who was left with a deep impression.

"The spirit curls and lingers, shining brightly and endlessly."

The spirit master bent down and danced, and the god was reluctant to leave. The divine light was shining, and the brilliance was flashing on their bodies. How wonderful!

From the shape of the characters, "spirit" is the image of a shaman praying and dancing. The Chu people's word "spirit" has many meanings. It refers to both the shaman and the god.

It is said that the shaman is called a spirit, and the god is also called a spirit.

This is because the shaman is the one to whom the gods are attached, so they are also called spirits.

Kong Xuan's Adam's apple moved slightly. He wrapped one arm around Tan Xiao's waist, lifted him up, and made him sit on the table that was as high as an altar, slightly higher than his own line of sight. This was a completely different perspective from usual.

Tan Xiao looked at him.

Kong Xuan looked up slightly, his eyelashes fluttering. He closed his eyes and made a wish to his believer: "Relying on the blessings of the spirit, may my wish be fulfilled."