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"Happy birthday Kiana!"

At home, five hands held up their cups, which contained different drinks, including fruit juice, beer, and bitter melon juice.

But no matter what was in the cup, everyone's face was filled with the same joy.

They sat around the table, laughing all the time.

"Hey, thank you everyone!"

Kiana was wearing a snow-white dress with a touch of fresh green on the hem, as vibrant as the grass in early spring.

She raised her head slightly, the corners of her mouth turned up, revealing a bright and warm smile, her eyes flashing with confidence and joy.

Siegfried was cutting the cake in front of her into even pieces into edible sizes.

It's just that the way he cut the cake was a bit rough, as if he was trying to tame the beast called cake.

Cecilia smiled and pulled Siegfried away, "Okay, honey, if you keep cutting like this, we won't have any cake to eat."

Siegfried scratched his head in embarrassment and couldn't help coughing a few times while looking at his masterpiece.

"I know, I know."

Theresa jumped off the table, ran behind the sofa, and hid a giant Hom doll behind her.

She came to Kiana and said to her with a smile: "Kiana, I have prepared a gift for you, guess what it is?"

"Well, it's a Hom doll!" Kiana said with shining eyes.

Theresa showed a surprised expression on her face. After she gave the Hom doll to Kiana, she said doubtfully, "Strange, why did Kiana guess it so quickly?"

"That's because you didn't block the Houmu doll behind you at all!" Xilin sat aside and complained in her heart.

She looked at the cheerful atmosphere in the room, and a sense of unreality came over her.

How beautiful it all is, but unfortunately...

"Xilin, what are you daydreaming about? Aren't you going to give your gift to Kiana?" Cecilia walked to Xilin and handed her an exquisite gift.

"Go quickly, everyone will have cake soon."

Xilin looked at the gift in her hand, then looked at Kiana who was opening a gift in the distance.

"This is Teacher Lu Ren's gift. I'm so curious about what it is." Kiana happily opened Lu Ren's gift.

She looked carefully and found a complete set of teaching materials under the gift box, with words written by Lu Ren on them.

“Success comes with hard work, and hard work pays off.”

"...Ahhhh, can I throw away this gift?" Kiana said with a bitter face.

"That won't do. You shouldn't let Teacher Lu Ren down." Cecilia said with a smile.

"This feeling is too heavy for a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl like me to bear."

"Ahem, Kiana, do you want to know what gift your dad has prepared for you?" Siegfried spoke at this time.

"what gift?"

"At the head of your bed." Siegfried blinked.

"Honey, you bought a DS4 game console for Kiana, right? Have you forgotten her test results last semester? Teacher Lu Ren suspected that his teaching was not good enough, as Kiana didn't even get points." Cecilia looked at Siegfried and said.

"Mom—" Kiana looked at Cecilia with tears in her eyes, looking pitiful.

Cecilia couldn't stand this, so she gave in helplessly: "Okay, there's really nothing you can do to Kiana. You can play the game console, but you can only play for one hour a day, and you must read those supplementary teaching materials!"

"Oh, Mom is the best!" Kiana cheered, not knowing whether she heard the second half of Cecilia's words.

"By the way, where is Sister Xilin's gift?" Kiana looked at Xilin with the smile on her face still intact.

Xilin looked at the gift in her hand hesitantly, but she still found it difficult to take this step.

At this moment, Cecilia gently pushed Xilin from behind, and she immediately lost her balance and staggered forward a few steps.

The gift landed squarely in Kiana’s hands.

Kiana smiled and opened the gift. After seeing what was inside, she said, "Sister Xilin's gift is amazing!"

She took out a pair of headphones from the gift box and said, "This is what should be in a gift box!"

That smile to her seemed to touch Xilin's heart deeply.

"Okay, now that we've opened all the presents, it's time to eat the cake." Cecilia handed the cut cake to everyone except Siegfried.

"My dear wife, where is my cake?"

Cecilia suppressed her smile and pursed her lips and said, "There, you can finish off those cakes you cut into pieces."

"Ah?" Siegfried looked at the horrible-looking cake on the plate over there, wondering if it was real, he would not really be allowed to eat this.

"Dad, I have some here. Do you want me to share some with you?" Kiana said.

"That's not necessary. Kiana, you don't know that these cakes are delicious!" Siegfried picked up the plate and said casually.

"Pfft, Dad, the cake didn't even enter your mouth, how can it be delicious!"

It was obvious that the cakes were so broken that just as Siegfried brought them to his mouth, they fell weakly back onto the plate.

(￣□￣)(￣□￣)(￣□￣)

Looking at Siegfried's embarrassing look, everyone finally couldn't help laughing. Even Xilin, who had been keeping a stern face, had her mouth twitching.

"Xilin, don't hold it back. Laugh if you want to...hahaha!" Cecilia couldn't hold it in anymore and started laughing.

For a moment, the room was filled with a happy atmosphere.

After a while, Theresa said goodbye to Siegfried and the others.

Kiana went to play her video game console, and Siegfried also wanted to play the video game console with Kiana.

But Cecilia pulled him back and said, "Honey, you forgot something very important. You have to wash the dishes today."

(ーー;)(ーー;)(ーー;)

He had no choice but to wash the dishes under Cecilia's pressure.

"Xilin, the cake just now was delicious, right?" Cecilia said as she sat next to Xilin.

Xilin nodded. The smell was exactly the same as it was back then, bringing her back to the time when her mother was still alive.

"Your father traveled across half the city to order this from a store in the suburbs.

It is hard to imagine that in the context of mechanization, there are still people who insist on making cakes by hand.

They say it smells like mom, and I think they are right.

So Xilin, no matter what happens to you, mom will always love you."

Cecilia talked a lot, but Xilin listened carefully.

She had a wonderful feeling in her heart at this moment, as if Cecilia in front of her was really her mother.

The soul that had been silent for a long time seemed to begin to have a source of energy flowing into it.

Under the gentle gaze, Xilin shed tears unconsciously.

"Okay, it's getting late. Take a bath and go to bed. Tonight, let your mother tell you a story." Cecilia rubbed Xilin's hair and said.

"Yeah!" Xilin nodded heavily. At that moment, she seemed to have grasped something.