A CERTAIN SOMEONE ( THE ON1Y ONE )

Chapter 088 - Gift

“Is That a Son You’re Giving to Me?”

He thought Sheng Wang must have snuck over to the rented apartment, only to be met with thin air when he opened the door. Still, there were more items in the house now, there was a carpet on the windowsill, along with two cushions. There was an additional beanbag couch that allowed for complete paralysis in a corner of the living room. A basketball rack was pasted on the wall, and there were still a few unopened packages by the entrance hall.

Jiang Tian opened up the package — they consisted of pairs of mugs, slippers, toothbrushes, towels and stuff. Regardless if they owned these items already, all of them were newly purchased nonetheless, completely demonstrating the generous wealth and excitement of a young master.
He placed the items neatly, one by one, and then stuffed the drinks inside the fridge. He also tossed the empty cardboard boxes in the dustbin downstairs, and made a phone call to Sheng Wang.

“Where are you?” Jiang Tian asked.
Sheng Wang likely heard the honks coming from the passing by electric scooters, and there was a trace of mirth that suggested he got his way in his voice. “You’re at the north gate?”
Jiang Tian did not want to admit that he had failed in his capture plan, and only grunted unwillingly after a while.
“I left after collecting a few packages.”
“I could tell.” Jiang Tian walked out of the residential area, and as he looked at the on-going traffic, he switched his phone from speaker mode to earpiece. “Where are you now?”

There seemed to be someone around Sheng Wang. He asked someone something in a low voice, and sent Jiang Tian his location. “It’s a little far, you wanna come?”
“Mn, wait for me,” Jiang Tian said.

Someone would usually be obnoxious about showing off anything and everything right before him. With this abnormal state of his, the way getting anything more than ambiguous words out of him was harder than squeezing out the last bit of toothpaste, his methods like laying out a trap for him, it was clear that he wanted to lure him towards that direction. If he still couldn’t tell by now, then he should be kicked out from being his boyfriend.

Sheng Wang’s location was indeed slightly far, all the way at the university town at the outskirts of the suburbs. He had to transfer twice on the train, and it took an hour to go all the way there. Jiang Tian could not figure what exactly was the gift that had to be prepared there.

After midnight today would be January 27th, his birthday. Even an idiot would know what exactly was the young master being all busy over. However, in order to cooperate with the intended effect of surprise the other person was going for, he could only deign himself to temporarily lower his intelligence, and pretend that he was an idiot.
A little stupid, sure, but he’s happy to.

Jiang Tian initially thought that it would be some store or a restaurant, but he arrived to discover that the place was a small building next to the university dormitories. Sheng Wang guided him via voice messages. “Come up to the second floor, third room on the left. The one that says activity room on it.”

Jiang Tian went up the stairs, and saw a wooden sign hanging on the door. The words “Please knock before entering, thank you for your cooperation.” were written on it.
He was slightly mystified, and raised his hand to knock twice nonetheless.

The door opened from the inside. The person he had been searching for an entire afternoon was standing right there, holding up a tiny little thing as though he was presenting a treasure. His eyes were curved as he said to him, “Ge, lemme show you a precious thing.”
The tiny thing in his hands was extremely cooperative, and let out a sharp little cry.

It was a kitten.
The moment he saw it, Jiang Tian was suddenly a little lost in thought — it looked too similar to the one who was at Wu Tong Wai years ago, it even had the exact same extra stripes by its left ear.