Chapter 630: Chapter 364: Liuli’s Vision, Zeus Takes Action (Double Chapter)

Xia Pingzhou and Ayase Origami spent a whole day aimlessly wandering around Li Jing, visiting places like the Ferris wheel, cinema, and aquarium.

According to the internet, these are the legendary "three sacred places for dates."

However, they are not that sacred. Nearly any family with a decent economic condition would take their children to these places during vacations.

For a child growing up normally in a big city, this isn’t new, or even seems quite ordinary. But strangely, before knowing Xia Pingzhou, Ayase Origami had never visited any of them, not even the most common cinema.

It was then that Xia Pingzhou realized how monotonous and uninteresting Ayase Origami’s previous life had been.

She truly could spend day after day at home, repeatedly fiddling with the haiku collection her mother left her, or just drinking tea and watching television.

At first, he didn’t understand what was so interesting about the haiku collection; wouldn’t you get tired of flipping through it for so long?

He later realized it was one of the few things her mother left her.

For a child, her world was only so big, so she naturally would repeatedly seek her mother’s love from those monotonous, uninteresting things, clumsily proving she was loved.

Xia Pingzhou lowered his eyes, as if he could imagine her childhood. This doll-like girl wearing a kimono, sitting in a Japanese-style room, day after day, lowering her eyes, flipping through the haiku she was long tired of.

In that huge mansion, no one paid any attention to her. Her father left her isolated there, and every time she opened that paper door, what awaited her was an empty room. Glancing around, there was nothing, and over time even her gaze became empty.

Perhaps she thought that no one would ever love her as much as her deceased mother did, so she never grew tired of it. Every time she lowered her eyes to the haiku book, she could forget the world.

Eventually, she even developed a superpower related to "paper pages", after all... everyone’s superpower is closely related to their upbringing. Thinking of this, Xia Pingzhou found it a bit funny, yet somewhat melancholic.

But for some reason, recently Ayase Origami had been flipping through the haiku collection less frequently. She often went outside, even dragging Xia Pingzhou along to wander around, seemingly becoming more like a normal girl.

After leaving the aquarium, Xia Pingzhou and she ate a sukiyaki buffet on a nearby food street. It was a customer’s birthday, and the staff gathered around him, clapping and singing the birthday song.

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you~" The joyful song filled the shop. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

Ayase Origami looked at that person, then suddenly turned her head and asked, "When is the kitten’s birthday?"

Xia Pingzhou was taken aback, and several birthdays instantly popped into his mind; for a moment, he couldn’t figure out which one Ayase Origami meant.

He hesitated for a moment with his head down, thinking whether to tell Ayase Origami Xia Pingzhou’s birthday, or his actual birthday, ultimately deciding to give "August 15" — Ji Minghuan’s birthday.

After Ayase Origami heard this, she opened her phone, looked down at the calendar, and only after a while did she look up from her phone and murmur, "...It’s passed."

"Yes, it’s been three days." Xia Pingzhou accepted the glass of ice from the waiter.

"Why didn’t you tell me?"

Ayase Origami tilted her pale cheek, looking at him motionlessly.

Xia Pingzhou picked up his chopsticks, took a slice of wagyu, and dipped it in raw egg, seriously bluffing, "Birthdays aren’t important. Only kids get excited about celebrating birthdays; adults avoid the topic. Because having a birthday means they’re a year older."

"You’re a cat, not an adult." Ayase Origami thought for a moment with downcast eyes, and said softly.

"As you wish, I’ll remind you next time on my birthday." Xia Pingzhou nodded with the chopsticks in his mouth, "Come to think of it, I don’t know your birthday either."

Ayase Origami nodded.

"When is your birthday?" Xia Pingzhou asked while receiving tempura shrimp from the waiter.

Ayase Origami was stunned for a bit, then shook her head and was silent for a while.

"I don’t know." she said.

"I mean..." Xia Pingzhou picked up his cup, took a sip of soda, then sighed, "You don’t even know your own birthday, and then blame me for not telling you mine?"

"No one ever told me."

"What about your dad?"

The girl in the kimono silently shook her head.

"What about Uncle Takayama? Surely, he told you your birthday?"

"Takayama doesn’t celebrate birthdays."

"Then why blame me? Am I that easy to pick on?"

"Kitty...yawned."

Ayase Origami murmured softly, slightly furrowing her brows, like she always tried to look annoyed, but after a while, those delicate brows relaxed just as they always did. In the end, only a trace of confusion lingered in her snow-like light brows and eyes.

Xia Pingzhou looked up at her twice, thought for a while, and helplessly said, "Maybe you can try asking a hacker; he might be able to find out your birthday."

He took a couple of bites of the tempura shrimp, "But the underworld might have already destroyed your records, as being born into the underworld is a great disgrace to them, so they would try every means possible to dissociate themselves from you."