Chapter 636: Chapter 636

After releasing a not-so-successful Kongming Lantern, finally, Huo Feng’s entire day of planned dating also approached its end.

They both took a taxi back to the hospital. Along the way, Huo Feng’s heart continued to secretly sigh.

He had arranged so many stages...

Each stage had the opportunity for a French kiss!

But this stage just got completely skipped over.

The Kongming Lantern strategy had failed as well...

Now, there remained only one step to get that kiss— the hospital!

So, on the way back, Huo Feng kept thinking: He must seize this last opportunity!

Otherwise, if he waited until tomorrow or later, he dared not believe what Pu Sangzhi could come up with...

About tomorrow, Huo Feng had already prepared to spend the day with her at the library for their date...

Around 1:00 A.M., the two of them returned to Rui’an People’s Hospital.

Walking hand in hand, Pu Sangzhi stared at the flowers she was holding; there was no doubt that her mood was good, and the atmosphere was still nice, rippling with a hint of pink and ambiguous charm.

When they arrived at the ward, they passed by the nurse station, and Huo Feng said to Pu Sangzhi, "You go ahead and wait for me in the ward. I need to report back to the sister nurses that I took the day off."

Pu Sangzhi didn’t think much about it and nodded in agreement.

Then, holding the flowers, she walked ahead to the ward.

After being busy the whole day, Pu Sangzhi was also tired and indeed wanted to find a bed to lie down and rest properly.

Pushing open the door to the ward, Pu Sangzhi paused at the entrance for a moment, involuntarily whispering, "Wow..."

She was startled by the flickering candlelight in the ward.

Pu Sangzhi took a deep breath as her heartbeat thudded erratically, its rhythm fast.

Stepping forward, she tiptoed carefully into the ward.

At that moment, the lights in the ward were off, and the thing illuminating the entire room was a row of small candles on the floor.

The warm yellow light was weak, but due to the large quantity, it still lit up this dark space.

Pu Sangzhi walked carefully step by step, looking down at the two rows of candles, walking between the pathways created by them.

She couldn’t help but laugh, "There are even petals..."

The path was also sprinkled with red rose petals, filling the room with an amorous atmosphere, even though she was alone.

It wasn’t until she ventured further into the ward that Pu Sangzhi noticed the floor beside the hospital bed where the candles were arranged in the shape of a heart, and in the middle of the heart was the date 11.3.

It was precisely November 3rd, Huo Feng’s birthday.

It was as if reminding her that today was Huo Feng’s birthday.

Pu Sangzhi squatted down, looking at the small candles covering the floor, and upon closer inspection, she realized they were not candles but battery-powered decorations shaped like candles.

Pu Sangzhi randomly picked one up and looked at it, her lips curving into a smile, "Odd, there’s actually such a thing..."

She had just been wondering whether the hospital would allow Huo Feng to place candles on the floor and burn them.

So it was this kind of thing...

Just as Pu Sangzhi was deeply shocked, the music for "Happy Birthday" suddenly started playing behind her, accompanied by footsteps.

Turning around, Pu Sangzhi saw someone carefully holding a cake as they walked into the room, with real candles on top flickering and swaying in the room.

Also illuminated by this candlelight were the person’s striking features, which looked so handsome that they stirred her heart.

"Why aren’t you singing?"

Huo Feng walked up to her before stopping, "I’ve put on the background music, so you have to sing, right? It’s my birthday, and you’re not expecting me to sing for myself, are you?"

His words made Pu Sangzhi burst into laughter.

Then she said, "Today is your birthday, and you’ve prepared all this. Who prepares a surprise for their own birthday?"

"It’s all because you didn’t prepare anything."

Huo Feng knitted his brows, "According to reason, you should be the one making great efforts to prepare for me. But you didn’t, so had I not make my own preparations? And you still have the nerve to say anything?"

Pu Sangzhi huffed, "I don’t feel embarrassed at all."

Huo Feng then said, "Hey, no more idle chat. The candles are about to burn down. Hurry up and sing! Wish me a happy birthday!"

Clearing her throat and feeling quite shy, but under Huo Feng’s insistence, Pu Sangzhi tried to sing along with the background music, "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."

"Speak up." Huo Feng urged her.

Pu Sangzhi frowned, "Alright, I’ve finished singing."

Huo Feng clicked his tongue, "You’re just going through the motions! Was that even singing? How could it sound so awful? With a boyfriend who’s so good at singing and dancing, how can you have so little talent?"

"Hey, are you annoying or what? Make a wish and blow out the candles already!"

Pu Sangzhi couldn’t stand his teasing.

Seeing her impatience, Huo Feng had no choice but to let it go.

He closed his eyes, and made his wish sincerely, "My wish for the past two years has been to marry Pu Sangzhi, just that one wish, and it won’t change."

Blushing, Pu Sangzhi said, "Wishes won’t come true if you say them out loud."

Huo Feng countered, "It’ll still come true if I say it out loud, you’ll be mine in this lifetime, and you’ll have to marry me, Huo Feng. If you don’t marry me, you might as well become a nun!"

Pu Sangzhi was at once amused and exasperated, "Hey, aren’t you being a bit too cruel?" ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹•𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒•𝙣𝙚𝙩

Huo Feng declared, "I don’t care. If you don’t marry me in this life, you become a nun, and I’ll become a monk. We’ll meet bald-headed, eat vegetarian food for the rest of our lives, and always be accompanied by the eternal lamp and ancient Buddhas!"

Pu Sangzhi scolded him, "Blow out your candles and stop joking about gods and Buddhas."

Huo Feng laughed as he blew out the candles, and instantly, without the lighting from the candles, both of their faces seemed a lot dimmer.

Huo Feng said, "Now that the ceremony is done, you hold the cake, and I’ll go turn on the lights."

Huo Feng: "That’s not right, shouldn’t you kiss me first? The atmosphere is so nice! Come on..."

Pu Sangzhi: "You should just go turn on the lights. I want to eat the cake..."

Huo Feng quickly puckered up, "Just one kiss, come on..."

Pu Sangzhi refused, "Go turn on the lights."

...5 minutes later...

The lights in the hospital room remained off.

No, actually, the lights had been turned on and then off again.

Huo Feng had turned on a light, cut a piece of cake, and then turned off the light again because he felt the room had a better atmosphere in the dark.

Lots of little candles were placed on the floor, decorating the entire room and filling it with a soft, warm happiness.

Pu Sangzhi and Huo Feng sat on the hospital bed together, watching the candlelight and sharing the sweet, creamy, soft cake.

The cake was delicious, made with that kind of non-greasy whipped cream.

Having not eaten much all day, Pu Sangzhi quickly devoured a small piece. Huo Feng was about to cut another piece for her when she, finding it cumbersome, simply picked up the cake to eat.

Watching her enjoy it so much filled Huo Feng with a special kind of ease!

Huo Feng watched her and asked, "You said you were hungry at noon, but you didn’t come to find me. I guess you didn’t have lunch or dinner, did you?"

Pu Sangzhi nodded her head, "I didn’t eat; it was so urgent then, how could I have the appetite?"

Huo Feng asked again, "And you’re not in a rush now?"

Pu Sangzhi replied, "They’ve all left now. My mom, Aunt Xu, Brother Ye Xi, they all went to Shanghai. Brother Ye Xi told me he knows where that company is, and he’s already contacted them directly by phone. He has an appointment to meet with that company tomorrow, and I guess they’ll see my dad then. That puts my mind at ease..."

Huo Feng lifted an eyebrow while holding the cake, "That damn Ye Xi went too?"

Pu Sangzhi immediately put down her fork and glared at him with knitted brows, "Don’t talk about Brother Ye Xi like that. He came from Beijing to Shanghai especially after hearing about this and booked the fastest flight. He was the one who first contacted the company in Shanghai; he’s done a lot for my family—he’s my family."

At that moment, Huo Feng couldn’t take in a single word she was saying.

Because, his attention was entirely focused on a dab of cream at the corner of her mouth, and as she spoke, with her lips moving constantly, that dab of cream looked irresistibly delicious!

After she finished speaking, Huo Feng didn’t even remember what she said, and just casually acknowledged her.

Pu Sangzhi was deeply disappointed by his indifferent attitude!

So she continued, "Hey, I’m telling you seriously, you can’t be rude to Brother Ye Xi in the future. To me, Brother Ye Xi is just like family, only family, and you have to respect him like a brother. You can’t keep mentioning ’dog’ every other sentence... Mm..."

Before she could finish speaking, suddenly, Huo Feng’s head darted forward, and his lips directly covered the corner of hers!

And in that instant, he licked off the dab of cream from the corner of her mouth!

The unexpected contact made Pu Sangzhi’s entire body go stiff, not daring to move an inch!

At that moment, the atmosphere seemed to reach a pinnacle!

Huo Feng thought to himself: French kiss, here comes daddy!