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Chapter 402 Special Gift

"Speaking of which, tomorrow is your birthday, right?"

It was late at night, and everyone else in the Wangsheng Hall had returned to their rooms to sleep. When Ruojin was about to go home, Hutao, who was sipping her milk tea, suddenly asked Ruojin a question as if she remembered something.

"My birthday seems to be tomorrow."

Ruo Jin, who didn't care much about these things, took a look at the calendar hanging on the wall of the Hall of Rebirth and unexpectedly discovered that tomorrow was indeed his birthday.

"Hehe, that's good, Ah Jin, you will never imagine the gift I prepare for you tomorrow, so go home and sleep now, and remember to get up early tomorrow~"

This aroused Ruojin's interest, and Hu Tao pushed Ruojin out of the Hall of Rebirth without waiting for Ruojin to ask for clarification. When closing the door of the Hall of Rebirth, Hu Tao also reminded Ruojin to remember to get up early. Ruojin, who was a little confused by Hu Tao's words, had no choice but to nod.

Just like that, under Ruo Jin's doubts, a night passed quickly. When the first ray of morning light pierced through the mist, the street ushered in a warm morning. While the day was still dim and the people of Liyue Harbor had not yet woken up from their sleep, the door of the Hall of Rebirth was opened a crack, and Hu Tao crawled out from the gap in the door.

"Xiangling, have you prepared any gift for Ah Jin today?"

In the kitchen of Wanmin Hall, looking at Xiangling who was still studying the cooking, Hutao, who ran to Wanmin Hall early in the morning, made a shrimp dumpling and stuffed it into his mouth while asking Xiangling what kind of birthday gift she had prepared for Ruojin.

Xiangling, who was cutting vegetables, heard Hu Tao suddenly ask this question. She stopped cutting vegetables and looked at Hu Tao with a confused look, as if asking, "Gift? What gift? Is today a special day?"
Being stared at by Xiangling with an extremely confused look, Hu Tao paused in her action of stuffing the shrimp dumplings into her mouth, and a question popped up in her mind, did she remember Ah Jin's birthday wrong? It shouldn't be, today is June 24th, she checked the calendar before going out and came to see Xiangling.

Just seeing Xiangling like this, Hu Tao was a little unsure whether she had read the time wrong. With the mentality of confirming it again, Hu Tao blinked and pointed to the calendar hanging in Wanmin Hall and said.

"Isn't today June 24th Ah Jin's birthday? Xiangling, have you forgotten?"

"Today is June 24th??? That's not right, I clearly remember today is June 17th."

When Xiangling heard Hu Tao say that today was Ruojin's birthday, the 24th, she hurried to the calendar and took a look. She saw that the page clearly said seventeen.

Following Xiangling, Hu Tao looked at the date on the calendar in Wanmin Hall clearly. Now it was Hu Tao's turn to be confused. No, why did the calendar of Wangsheng Hall show the 24th while the calendar of Wanmin Hall was actually the 17th?

Could it be that the calendar in her hall of rebirth is inaccurate? That's not right. The first thing the ferryman does every day when she goes to work is to tear off a page of the calendar. It has been so many years, she shouldn't make such a low-level mistake.

"Xiangling, are you sure your family's calendar is accurate?"

After thinking about it, she still felt that there would be no problem with her own calendar. Hu Tao blinked her plum blossom eyes and asked Xiang Ling a question. After Xiang Ling thought for a while, she seemed to suddenly remember something and her face showed obvious panic.

"Hutao, maybe my family's calendar is inaccurate."

A few days ago, when Ruojin and Hutao were still in Xumi, after receiving the news that a cooking competition would be held during this year's Zhuyue Festival, Xiangling went out for a week to look for various ingredients. Based on Xiangling's understanding of her father, her father might not have torn the calendar during the week she was away.

And if we add in the week she was out, wouldn't today be her brother Jin's birthday? !
Thinking that today is Ruojin's birthday, the panic on Xiangling's face became more obvious. You know, in the past, when it was Ruojin's birthday, she would prepare gifts for Ruojin several days in advance. Because Xiangling knew that Ruojin would not lack Mora, the gifts she prepared in the past were all made by herself. Although some of those gifts were more abstract, Xiangling knew that Ruojin could feel her intentions.

According to Xiangling's plan, she was going to give Ruojin the champion trophy of the cooking competition on her birthday this year. Even if she didn't win first place, she would give Ruojin the second or third place trophies. Xiangling had planned well and was waiting to win a place in the cooking competition, but she never expected that her family's calendar was inaccurate! If she prepared a gift now, it would be too late. She couldn't just give her brother Jin a bunch of creative dishes, right?

Thinking of this, Xiangling's originally panicked face became a little distressed. Looking at Hu Tao beside her, Xiangling asked Hu Tao a question with the intention of getting some advice on the gift that Hu Tao was going to give.

"Kumi, what gift have you prepared?"

"Me? This hall master intends to give himself to Ajin."

Since Xiangling didn't have much time during the cooking competition and Master Mao's waist was injured, Xiangling and Master Mao decided to simply close Wanmin Hall for the next few days, so Hu Tao didn't worry about her words being heard by others.

"Give yourself to Brother Jin?"

Xiangling blinked in confusion. She didn't quite understand what Hu Tao meant. Seeing Xiangling's confusion, Hu Tao leaned close to Xiangling's ear and spoke in a low voice.

"Xiangling, you and this hall master are both sixteen years old. In our Liyue, you can get married at this age."

When Hu Tao mentioned the word "marriage", no matter how naive Xiang Ling was, she understood what Hu Tao meant by giving herself to A Jin, which made Xiang Ling's face turn red.

"Hu, Hu Tao, is this really okay for us?"

"Xiangling, since you haven't prepared any gifts, why don't you follow me and give it to Ajin yourself? You're going to marry him anyway, so this is bound to happen sooner or later."

After saying that, Hu Tao put her arm around Xiang Ling's shoulders, and her unique plum blossom eyes sparkled with a charm that belonged only to Hu Tao, because Hu Tao had already started planning this matter in her mind when Inazuma came.

Ever since Inazuma bought a few light novels from some vendors that were banned from sale because of their color content, Kurumi had this idea in mind. However, because she was in a foreign country at the time, and for such an important thing, Kurumi felt that it would be better for it to happen in Liyue. That way, when she recalled it in the future, it would not be less sweet because it happened outside of Liyue, so she kept putting it off.

Xiangling, whose shoulders were hugged by Hu Tao, was already blushing under Hu Tao's burning gaze. Now her face was even redder, almost the same as Jueyun Jiaojiao's. Even in this state, Xiangling nodded slightly.

Noticing Xiangling nodded, Hu Tao smiled and took Xiangling's hand and walked towards the Ke Mansion. As they walked, Hu Tao felt that she had the foresight to hand over Klee to Qiqi instead of Xiangling. Otherwise, Xiangling would be unable to take care of Qiqi.

As for why Hu Tao wanted to bring Xiang Ling along, in addition to giving her courage, the more important reason was that Xiang Ling and Ruo Jin had been friends since childhood. Hu Tao knew that Xiang Ling had feelings for Ruo Jin and didn't want to hide it from Xiang Ling. After thinking about it for a whole night, she really couldn't figure out how to secretly eat Ruo Jin without Xiang Ling's knowledge, so Hu Tao simply took Xiang Ling along.

Besides shyness, Xiangling felt an indescribable joy and excitement at this moment. You know, when Master Mao said that he wanted to marry her to Ruojin, Xiangling was actually prepared. But later, Ruojin was taken to Inazuma by Ying, so Xiangling kept this matter in her heart.

And now Hu Tao suddenly brought up this matter. Although Xiang Ling felt a little shy to do that kind of thing with Hu Tao, knowing Hu Tao's feelings for Ruo Jin, Xiang Ling agreed after thinking about it.

But what worries Xiangling is whether this incident will affect her participation in the cooking competition. After all, she is still thinking of giving the championship trophy of the cooking competition to Ruojin.

(End of this chapter)