Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Chapter 582 Happy Birthday

On Lin Qingping's fortieth birthday, she woke up to find it was already bright outside and her daughter, Zhangzhu, had already gone to school.

Zhangzhu, this child, no longer needs her and Gu Juncheng to take her to school.

There was a group of school children in the army, big and small, who invited each other to go together and come back together.

Zhangzhu gets up very early every day, and of course, her dad gets up even earlier, having already gone to morning exercises. She takes her meal tickets, puts on her schoolbag, goes to the cafeteria for breakfast, and then goes to school with her friends.

There's absolutely no need for adults to worry about them.

So when Lin Qingping woke up, the house was already quiet.

Lin Qingping had actually told Gu Juncheng earlier this year: "Don't celebrate my birthday this year. I'm getting older every year now, and I don't want to remind myself that I'm forty!"

She admitted that her words were a bit pretentious.

But right now, there's really no sound from home. No one mentioned her birthday last night either, and for some reason, I feel a little disappointed.

This makes her seem even more pretentious...

She laughed at herself, got up, and left the room.

When she got to the living room, she froze.

What is this doing?

The living room was filled with colorful balloons, and there was a "Happy Birthday" sign on the wall.

The funniest thing was that there was a bouquet of flowers on the table—red roses.

This arrangement left Lin Qingping both amused and exasperated.

It's not really old-fashioned. If you count the time, she's been reborn for twenty years. It's 1999 now. Idol dramas and pop music are all the rage. Young people should understand these things in idol dramas, but Gu Juncheng definitely doesn't. So, without a doubt, it was Zhangzhu, that clever little devil, who came up with the idea.

However, while you might say it's not tacky, these decorations were indeed outdated when she was in her sixties, especially the bright red roses paired with the very vintage wrapping paper—it was truly an eyesore…

But, it's only 1999 now.

Old Gu, you've never sent her flowers in your entire life, you must have had a hard time.

She was about to accept the gift and put the bouquet in a vase when she discovered a CD next to it.

To be precise, it's a VCD disc. She doesn't have a computer yet, but every household has a VCD player to play discs.

Lin Qingping was wondering what this was when there was a noise at the door—Comrade Gu had returned.

Lin Qingping stood in the pile of balloons, looking at him with a half-smile.

He coughed twice, and his neck gradually turned red.

"Comrade Gu, what do you mean by this?" Lin Qingping asked him with a smile.

“Zhangzhu, she came up with a terrible idea.” He looked uncomfortably at the wall.

"Look at me when you speak!" Lin Qingping said with a smile, pressuring him.

The redness on Gu Juncheng's neck spread to his ears, but his face wasn't red yet. Of course, it was possible that it was red, but his skin was too dark to tell.

But at least I was watching her.

"You agreed just because your daughter said so?" Lin Qingping pointed to the balloons, then to the birthday stickers. "Did you do all of this? When did you do it?"

“Last night, after you fell asleep, you were with Zhangzhu.” He said, pausing between sentences, his tone quite honest.

"Did you buy those flowers too?"

"Hmm." After saying that, she immediately added, "It was Zhangzhu who said to buy this kind of flower."

That little pearl in my palm knows a lot!

"You're quite obedient to advice..." Lin Qingping said with a smile.

He became even more uncomfortable and remained silent for a long time. Finally, he managed to say, "I promised you something."

"What did you promise me? What did you promise me?" Lin Qingping couldn't even remember.

"Ahem..." He cleared his throat, "That time, the time I made you get bitten by bugs..."

Lin Qingping suddenly realized that she had asked him to promise her three things, the first of which was... to give her a romantic date...

Lin Qingping chuckled, "This is your romance? You just copied it from someone else!"

Last time I learned from Wu Tianping, this time I'll learn from my daughter...

"I don't really understand these things..." Gu Juncheng said awkwardly. "If this wasn't good enough, I'll try harder next time."

“Okay!” Lin Qingping smiled.

Gu Juncheng wanted to ask what "good" meant, but then he realized it must mean that this time it wasn't good enough and that he agreed to let him try harder next time.

He nodded. "Happy birthday, Lin Qingping. Try harder next time!"

"Then, what is this?" Lin Qingping asked, holding up the VCD disc in her hand.

Gu Juncheng glanced at it and said, "You'll see when you take a look."