“Sizhui! Lan Sizhui! Wake up!” Hands shaking on said boy’s shoulders, his eyes open wide. Sizhui sits up immediately and looks at the person in front of him. “Jingyi, what are you doing? You surprised me.” It is early in the morning and Jingyi was already dressed up and ready for the day. “Come on! It's time to get dressed, we have a lot to do today!” happily as ever, he pulls the covers off of Sizhui’s bed and starts pulling on his arm, “I'm coming, calm down.” he sighs and slowly gets off of bed, rubbing his eyes, “we only have class until afternoon, then it's self-study and in the evening I planned to meditate.” This time, Jingyi sighs and turns to look at him, “boring as ever! After class, we'll have different plans.” he grins as he looks at his fellow student. Sizhui can only question him as he leaves to get dressed.
“And that's all there is for today. You are dismissed.” Lan Qiren says before the gong sounds, meaning class is finally over and students are free to leave. Sizhui stands up, ready to go to the library when suddenly Jingyi pulls him out of their classroom, towards the opposite direction of the library. “What are you doing?” Sizhui reacts bewildered, “I told you that we were having different plans.” Jingyi continues smiling as he pulls Sizhui to the location he wants him to. Sizhui looks around as they walk, it is a beautiful day and the small bunnies that belonged to Hanguang-jun are jumping around, some of them eating grass. “So, you mind telling me where we are going?” Sizhui asks as he looks towards Jingyi, “I'm not telling you. You'll see when we get there.” Sizhui started to get annoyed by his friend’s behaviour. “Okay, I get it. It's a secret but could you at least give me a hint?” Jingyi turns around to look at him and instantly grins, “the only hint I can give you, is this!” he pulls Sizhui’s headband off and blindfolds him. “There you go! That's the hint!” Sizhui is startled by Jingyi’s actions, even more when the boy holds his hands and continues walking. “Watch your step, I'll help you if you stumble.” Sizhui exhales, “I can't really ‘watch’ my step, you know.” this only made Jingyi laugh as they walk to their destination. “Don't worry Sizhui, when we get there you'll be so happy, I promise.” Jingyi whispers as he looks at a quiet Sizhui. They both keep walking when suddenly Jingyi lets go of Sizhui’s hand, “Jingyi? Why are you letting go? Are we there yet?” Sizhui tried to reach out towards where Jingyi normally would stand. “No~ I just had something to do. I'll give you my hand in a second, just wait for a moment.” Sizhui obeys him and waits. Suddenly, his hand is hold again and is pulled to start walking. Sizhui remains quiet but is very confused. What is the point to all of this? The question keeps spinning in his mind and he had to ask them, “Jingyi, could you please tell me why this is all happening? I am a bit worried.” His question is answered with silence. Sizhui realised that it is useless to ask, his friend would not speak, even if he would try to beg. He feels the wind through his hair and notices that they are going upwards. Were they going to the library? It would be strange since Jingyi took him the other direction unless, he tried to trick him. Maybe, all of this was planned. Sizhui then is aware of how observant he became after the blindfold -or rather his headband- was put on. He immediately stops and tries facing at the direction where Jingyi would supposedly be, “that's it. I'm not going further unless you tell me what's going on.” This way, he'll definitely get an answer, or at least he hopes. Instead, Sizhui is pinned against a wall, both hands firmly in place, unable to move. Before he could say anything, he feels soft lips touch his own. Now, he's completely freaked out, yet he couldn't stop it even if he tries to fight back. The pair of lips let go to breathe and the hand that held Sizhui’s hand before pulls his blindfold off. It takes him a while to adjust to the light of the sun until he sees Jin Ling in front of him instead of Jingyi, “Jin Ling? Wh..what are you...doing here? Wh..where is Jingyi?” he gets nothing but another kiss on the lips. Sizhui is completely speechless and questions the whole walk from the classroom to where they were now. When did Jingyi switched with Jin Ling? Instantly a bell rings in his head, it was when Jingyi suddenly had let go of him to do ‘something’. Sizhui just wants to fall on the ground when Jin Ling holds his hand and continues walking. It's then that the boy sees that they are indeed in the library, but they are walking towards the big hall. Before he could say anything more, the doors are opened and he sees everyone in there, Lan Jingyi, Lan Qiren, Master Wei, Hanguang-jun and others. “Happy birthday Lan Sizhui!” yells Wei Ying as he jumps on said boy, hugging him until he can't breathe. “Master Wei.. I can't.. breathe.” Wei Ying lets go of him and apologises. Sizhui looks around and smiles. Now it comes all in one place. How could he forget his own birthday? He feels a bit embarrassed, to think that he was earlier worrying to death about what was happening. A bit further he notices Jingyi on the side, holding a hand to his mouth, trying not to laugh at him to much. He walks towards him and gives a small punch to his arm, “ow, what was that for?” Sizhui sighs and looks at him, “that's for making me worried!” “Well, I wasn't allowed to say anything! Do you know how difficult it was to get everything and especially you ready for your birthday party? It was all planned by Master Wei and he wanted everything to be a secret.” Sizhui didn't know what to say, his face is red and turns around to see Jin Ling standing behind him. His face becomes instantly redder, remembering what happened just a few minutes ago. They were a couple but they didn't go that far yet since they barely got time for each other. Jin Ling hugs him and whispers in his ear, “what happened outside the hall was just the first part of my present to you. The second part will be for later when we are alone.” Sizhui sharply inhales and blushes at Jin Ling words. He didn't know what to say. “Now! Let's all party!” Wei Ying yells as he holds a bottle of emperor's smile in his hand. Everyone here, celebrating his birthday, truly made him happy.
