To Lu Huan, a birthday was just one of the countless lonely days. There was nothing special about it.

No one in Prince Ning's Mansion would remember it. Even Fourth Concubine had never taken it to heart.

Today, when Lu Huan went to deliver medicine, Fourth Madame held her concubine-born daughter's hand and thanked him profusely. However, she didn't remember that today was Lu Huan's birthday.

It was normal that she didn't remember. Prince Ning had long ago forbidden the mention of Lu Huan's birth characters. Even if she remembered, she couldn't do anything for Lu Huan.

Thus, Lu Huan pretended that this day didn't exist.

In any case, if it weren't for the fact that the capital would be decorated with lanterns and streamers to celebrate the Eastern Palace's birthday, he probably wouldn't have remembered it himself.

Birth date, birth date.

Lu Huan only knew these two characters from reading scrolls, as well as from the Crown Prince's birthday celebration and Lu Yu-an's birthday banquet.

Every year, during Lu Yu-an's birthday banquet, the fu would be very lively and the kitchen would be very busy.

Lady Ning would specially prepare two things for the eldest di son, Lu Yu-an. The first was longevity noodles. A whole noodle would be stacked into a bowl. After eating it, the soup would be drunk. It symbolized longevity.

The other was longevity peaches. The top of the peaches would be dyed red with red paper. It symbolized avoiding misfortune.

At this time, Lu Huan could only wait with the servants under the darkened courtyard wall, waiting to receive his reward.

No one had ever remembered his birth date, so he had long been used to it. Thus, he never thought that one day, when he returned from the snowstorm, he would see a bowl of longevity noodles sitting quietly on the stove.

In the remaining light of the stove, the noodles in the bowl were slender and moist. The soup was thick, and there was a soft egg on top. The red and white color was about to overflow. It was decorated with some chopped green onions. It was steaming hot.

… It was somewhat illusory and unreal.

Lu Huan's throat tightened. He subconsciously walked over and slowly lifted the bowl of longevity noodles. Warmth immediately spread from his palms, causing his eyebrows to twitch. It wasn't a dream!

But, were these longevity noodles really made for him …?

… How could anyone remember his birthday …?

… Why would someone specially celebrate for him … Why would someone specially bestow such good things upon him?

What was his purpose … What did he want from him …?

Lu Huan's heart was in a mess. He forced himself to calm down.

However, as he held the bowl of longevity noodles tightly in his hands, he couldn't help but hold it tighter and tighter. As he felt the warmth in his cold palms, he couldn't put it down for a long time …

A moment later, he took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

He looked around the kitchen and was slightly stunned.

When he saw the rabbit lantern and the bowl of longevity noodles under the eaves, he was too shocked, so he only noticed now —

The messy pile of firewood that he had thrown in the corner of the kitchen a few days ago had been neatly stacked and placed in the corner without him noticing.

Also, because of his typhoid fever a few days ago, he didn't have time to clean up some of the dirt on the stove. It had all been cleaned up, and even the pots and pans looked brand new, stacked together.

The whole kitchen had been cleaned by someone. The food was strung up and hung on the wall. It didn't look much worse than Prince Ning Fu's kitchen.

Lu Huan seemed to have a premonition. With the longevity noodles in his palms, he turned around and walked out. He took down the shaky rabbit lantern under the eaves, held it in his hands, and walked towards the entire firewood courtyard.

Only then did he realize that some of the protruding branches in the periphery of the bamboo forest that could have tripped him had been cleaned up.

There was a cold shelter near the chicken shed. He left in a hurry this morning and didn't go there, so he didn't notice.

Apart from that.

Lu Huan carried the lantern and returned to the house with the noodles. He tried to find more traces of that person. As expected, he found them. When he opened the closet, he found that his robe had been sewn.

The stitches were fine and dense, and the animal skin was sewn onto the original robe. It looked extremely warm. It seemed that that person had noticed that he had tried to sew it but failed, so that person had specially helped him.

Lu Huan's pitch-black eyelashes trembled slightly.

One by one, one by one, what was it for?

Making a bowl of noodles wasn't easy. Hanging up the rabbit lantern seemed to be an ingenious way of treating him well.

In addition, that person was actually so meticulous. From the kitchen to the bamboo forest to the robe, he had done so much for him.

It was the first time in his life that someone had treated him like this …

He sat at the table, his heart filled with complex emotions.

He used his sleeve to carefully wipe the rabbit lantern. After looking at the lifelike rabbit eating grass on it for a moment, he carefully placed it on the table.

He placed the longevity noodles in front of him, picked up his chopsticks, and stared at the noodles for a long time.

The hot air fell on his face. It was a real and gentle touch.

He had never received such good things before.

He had never encountered such luck in his life.

Although he couldn't understand that person's goal, why he had given him these things, why he hadn't shown himself, and why he hadn't shown any intention of asking for them until now.

Was it because of a prank, or did he have other intentions?

Was he waiting for him to fall into the net bit by bit before that person would reveal his true intentions?

… But this bowl of noodles still meant a lot to him in these fourteen years of loneliness.

Therefore, this time, he couldn't just dump the longevity noodles into the stable like he did last time.

He stared at the bowl of longevity noodles. As usual, he took out a silver needle from his arms and tested it again to see if it was poisonous.

It wasn't poisonous.

Seeing that there were no changes on the silver needle, although he didn't have any expression on his face, his pitch-black eyes shone with a little light that was almost imperceptible.

He held the bowl of noodles in the palm of his hand, slowly lowered his head, and drank a mouthful of soup. Then, he picked up the noodles with his chopsticks and finally ate a mouthful.

The warmth entered his stomach, and the light in his eyes flowed a little more brilliantly.

Su Xi, who was outside the screen, didn't know how complicated and chaotic the mood of the game character was. From her point of view, it was just that Zaizai was stunned in the kitchen!

Then, when he went out, he was stunned by the changes in the bamboo forest and the chicken shed!

When he returned to the house, he was stunned by the animal skin robe again!

When he was stunned, the whole scene froze. The little figure clenched his fist and didn't move!

He was completely at a loss!

Su Xi: Pfft, hahahaha, I'm dying of cuteness.

Then, Su Xi saw Zaizai sitting at the table again. This time, although he was still cautious and used the silver needle to test if there was any poison, unlike the braised pork with preserved vegetables last time, he finally ate it this time.

She saw the little person on the screen holding a bowl as big as his head and sucking the noodles in small mouthfuls. His bun face was bloated.

He was eating very happily!

Su Xi screamed in her heart. Ahhh, this game character design is too cute!

At this time, it was snowing outside the woodshed. There was a yellow rabbit lamp in the woodshed, and the door was not closed. The little person sat alone at the table, holding a bowl of longevity noodles.

Su Xi cupped her face outside the screen and watched quietly. She couldn't help but take a screenshot.

She suddenly felt very satisfied in her heart.

This satisfaction didn't come from watching Zaizai being bullied by the servants in the beginning, but now he finally had a yard and could wear warm clothes and eat to his heart's content.

Of course, this feeling of gaining something from nothing also made Su Xi very satisfied.

But what made her even more addicted was seeing Zaizai, who was like a very vigilant hedgehog with thorns all over his body at the beginning, finally unfolding himself a little and developing a little bit of trust in her …

This made her feel sour.

Of course, the hedgehog cub still had many concerns and defenses. His soft belly couldn't be touched by her at once, but Su Xi wasn't anxious. There was still a long way to go, and she could keep playing this game!

She felt that because of this unique little person in the game, she was addicted to this game.

After Lu Huan finished eating the longevity noodles, she went to check on the modified chicken shed. She had to admit that after the modification, the chicken shed was indeed much warmer, and the chicken was visibly more lively.

As for Lu Huan, he returned to his room and made a mental note of the date.

He always felt that the time of that person's appearance seemed to be traceable. Every time, he seemed to appear once every two days and one night, and every time he appeared, it was when he was asleep or when he was out.

In other words, the other party didn't seem to want to see him face to face?

Lu Huan stared at the empty bowl of noodles. He brought it back to the house and put it on the bedside — he knew that he was being too passive.

The other party appeared very casually, but he knew nothing about him.

He didn't know the identity of the other party, and he couldn't even clearly determine the time of the other party's appearance. What was more, he couldn't understand how the other party could come and go freely in Prince Ning's Mansion without touching the traces he had set.

The other party was really mysterious.

But no matter what, he had to find a way to find out who that person was.

Not only because he didn't know the other party's identity and purpose, but this feeling made Lu Huan feel a sense of crisis.

It was also because tonight, he received a bowl of longevity noodles from the other party that he would never forget.

In his empty life, this was the first time he received such a gift.

He wanted to know who that person was. He wanted to see that person, no matter what that person's purpose was or what their identity was.

If they used and played with him, he would …

Lu Huan's eyebrows twitched slightly.

In the silent night, he clenched the warm sewn robe in his hands.

He suddenly turned over and got out of bed. Wearing a thin undergarment, he walked to the side of the table, spread out the brush, ink, paper, and inkstone, and wrote a few words on the paper.

— "Who the hell are you?"

Who the hell was it that suddenly barged into his stagnant life?

After he finished writing, he dried the handwriting and pressed it with ink so that it wouldn't be blown away by the wind.

He looked up at the endless night and snow outside the window, the expression on his face dark and unclear under the candlelight.

He wasn't sure if that person would see him when he came again, or if he would answer.