The man was inexplicably upset when he saw that there was no cake on his birthday. It felt that something was missing. It was as if without the cake, it didn't feel like a birthday. Every time he saw the cake, he would think of Mu Qingcheng and Yun Shishi. This way, he would not feel lonely even on his own birthday. However, without the cake, he would feel that his birthday was really a lonely one.
It was also from that time that Alice realized, the man could do without all but a cake on his birthday. Otherwise, she wouldn't have tried so hard to find a cake. And indeed, she did it.
"Perhaps, taste-wise, it leaves much to be desired. However, I've seen the production environment. It's considerably clean."
Gong Jie walked up to the table and opened the box himself. The sight of an almost round cake greeted him.
There was nothing novel about it. In China, it would have looked like something from the 1960s or 1970s.
