Chapter 196: Bo Ke’s Birthday Party
In the dim living room, Bai Qiuwu lifted her hair behind her ears, her face shrouded in the warm candlelight.

She thought about it and made a silent wish in her heart: "I hope everyone can be safe and sound."

After making a wish, she leaned over slightly and blew out the candles on the birthday cake.

The candlelight flickered and then quietly dissipated in the evening breeze.

Ke Mingye was subconsciously stunned for two seconds. When he saw the candlelight reflected in Bai Qiuwu's eyes, he thought he saw a fiery eye and was secretly surprised.

Only when the candle was blown out and he could see Bai Qiuwu's eyes clearly in the darkness with the help of moonlight did Ke Mingye breathe a sigh of relief.

He shrugged and thought that he was really too nervous recently because of Gastro's incident.

"what happened?"

In the darkness, Bai Qiuwu turned her head to look at him and asked.

"Nothing," Ke Mingye took a sip of Coke and explained, "I was just thinking about what wish you made."

As he was talking, Ke Yinzhi, who was leaning against the wall drinking a drink, raised his hand and turned on the light in the living room with a "click".

Bai Ziling tiptoed over and said expressionlessly, "Ding, ding, ding." Then, she took out the wreath hidden behind her and gently placed it on Bai Qiuwu's head.

Bai Qiuwu lowered her head slightly and touched a flower above her head, feeling a light and cool touch on her fingertips.

She raised her lips and said, "It's actually a real flower?"

"Yes, I knitted it myself." Bai Ziling said, "I went to the flower shop with my third brother to buy flowers yesterday."

"Why didn't you call me?" asked Bai Zini.

"Because my sister can't keep secrets." Bai Ziling put her hands behind her back and said calmly, "If my sister knew, it would be exposed in the next second."

Really? I think your sister's secret identity is the least known in the family except for dad. Ke Mingye thought, but it's mostly luck.

"What a flower! Unlike our classmate Xiao Mo's birthday, the wreath on his head was made of paper. It was so pitiful."

Ke Yinzhi took a sip of orange juice, curled up the corners of his mouth, and patted Ke Xiaomo's shoulder teasingly and with sympathy.

"That's because we didn't have time." Bai Ziling paused and turned away, "Because I just remembered that it was my second brother's birthday, so the wreath can only be folded with paper from my homework book."

Hearing this, Ke Xiaomo lowered his head and took a deep breath, "Can you please stop lashing out at me? And Xiaoling, you don't have to explain."

"You guys are so critical of me." Ke Yongzhu pouted, "Can we start eating now?"

While they were talking, he had already silently cut the cake into seven equal parts with a plastic knife. Now he just waited to finish his own piece and then go upstairs to sleep.

"Oh oh. Let's eat."

Ke Mingye said this expressionlessly, walked to the table, picked up a piece of cake, and quickly smeared it on the elementary school student's face.

"Is it delicious?" he asked.

The elementary school student wiped off the cream on his eyes with a blank expression.

The next moment, he picked up another piece of cake from the table with an absurdly fast movement and smeared it on Ke Mingye's face.

Then he asked, "Won't you know if it tastes good after you try it?"

Seeing this, Ke Xiaomo quickly picked up two pieces of cake and said calmly, "You guys can have fun, but as older brothers, we will be more mature and not participate."

Bai Ziling also held a piece of cake in each hand and said in the tone of her second brother, "You guys can have fun, but Sister Ni and I will be more mature and not participate."

"That makes sense. As expected of our mature classmate Xiao Mo, so my share can be..."

Ke Yinzhi was playing with his phone with his head down and joking casually, but Ke Xiaomo had already smeared the cake on his face.

"Ah, you are worthy of being my little spiritual sister..."

Bai Zini clapped her hands and was talking proudly when Bai Ziling had already smeared the cake on her face.

The two of them stopped talking abruptly.

The next second, Ke Yinzhi and Bai Zini silently wiped off the cream and cake on their faces.

Ke Yinzhi had a terrifying smile on his face;
Baizini's expression had turned cold.

Then, the six people started a chase around the sofa.

Seeing this, Bai Qiuwu quietly protected her piece of cake and stood in the corner. She ate the cake quietly with a plastic spoon and looked at them with a smile on her face.

A moment later, figures with cream on their faces sat on the sofa in the living room to hold a meeting.

Bai Zini took a small notebook and counted, "First, the elementary school students didn't finish singing the birthday song at the last party. We must make up for it this time!"

"Seconded."

Bai Ziling said lightly and licked the cream on her lips.

"The last time my second brother celebrated his birthday, my eldest brother wasn't there either." Bai Zini coughed twice and said seriously, "In order to punish my eldest brother, I have to make him sing it alone!"

"I second the motion."

Ke Xiaomo hugged his shoulders and said lightly.

"Is it necessary?"

As he spoke, Ke Yinzhi raised his hand to support his chin, yawned and said, "Although I hadn't come back at that time, I had heard from him that you helped him celebrate his birthday in front of the toilet. I laughed at him severely that night. This can also be regarded as a sense of participation, right?"

"You are still being stubborn and your values ​​are not right." The captain of the dragonfly team, Bai Zini, made a decision, "Sing two songs!"

"Okay, okay, then two songs." Ke Yinzhi spread his hands, "But let me make it clear in advance that I am tone-deaf. To make fun of me, tormenting everyone's ears, and ruining the atmosphere of the birthday, isn't that putting the cart before the horse?"

Ke Xiaomo exposed it on the spot.

"Tone-deaf, does that mean you recorded a scary nursery rhyme in a fake female voice in elementary school, and placed the recorder at the door of Mingye's room in the middle of the night, scaring him so much that he didn't dare to go to the bathroom by himself in the middle of the night for two months afterwards?"

Ke Mingye was stunned at first, then he was stunned: "Oh my god, it turned out that it was Big Brother who was messing with me at that time?!"

Veins bulged on his forehead and he almost burst the Coke in his hand.

Hearing this, Ke Yinzhi began to play dumb: "Is that true?" He pondered and pretended to be thoughtful, staring at the ceiling, "Although I don't remember it clearly, but since it's all in the past, I think Mingye-san must think that this is just an interesting and happy memory when he thinks back on it now, right?"

"Happy your sister, I almost peed myself at that time, okay? Next time on your birthday, I will wear black clothes and sing a funeral song for you, to see if you are happy or not. Isn't it interesting?!"

Ke Mingye cursed.

Ke Yongzhu snorted coldly and said, "This is what a person who steals pandas looks like. What kind of quality do you expect from him?"

"Bad taste." Bai Ziling said.

"That's too much." Bai Qiuwu said.

"Keep up the good work." Only Baizini said this.

She covered her mouth with her hands, with a sly expression as if she had just remembered something funny, and said gloatingly, "I still remember that my brother knocked on my door in the middle of the night and said he didn't dare to go to the toilet alone, so he asked me to wait outside."

She paused and said, "When I was in there, I kept asking 'did you leave?' It was so lame, wasn't it?!"

Hearing this, Ke Yongzhu lifted his chin and sighed, "You have such a good temper. If it were me, I would never have accompanied him to the toilet. I would have gone straight back to my room and gone to sleep."

"I was only a few years old at that time, it's normal to be a little timid, right?" Ke Mingye gritted his teeth, "The abnormal one is the elder brother who played hellish songs outside his younger brother's room in the middle of the night. Is this something a human can do?!"

Ke Yinzhi imitated his tone and said innocently, "I was only a few years old at that time. It was normal to be a little naughty, right?"

"Get lost, you're not acting like a human being anymore. You're already at the level of 'perverted' instead of 'naughty', okay?!"

Ke Yongzhu finished drinking Wang Laoji and threw it into the trash can, saying contemptuously: "I think you are not human, do you know that?"

He paused and said, "This is the first time I've seen a genius celebrate someone's birthday right outside the toilet door."

Ke Mingye said: "Bai Zini ordered it."

"But my brother did it too." Bai Zini raised her right hand and pointed at Ke Mingye angrily.

"Yeah." Bai Ziling nodded, his tone indifferent but serious, "It's all Third Brother's fault."

"Okay, okay, now it's my problem." Ke Mingye sighed, "By the way, can we not mention the last birthday incident? Do we really have to lash out at our poor second brother's corpse?"

"Didn't you bring it up yourself?"

As Ke Xiaomo spoke, he rubbed the Tianming acupoint and wondered how he could make the birthday celebration in the toilet be erased from the long river of history.

Ever since he mentioned this to Ke Yinzhi, he has been teased by Ke Yinzhi every day, and it has almost become a joke in the family chat group.

He secretly made up his mind.

On Ke Yinzhi's birthday, he would also present him with a birthday cake the moment Ke Yinzhi flushed the toilet and walked out of the bathroom. It would be best if the cream on the cake was dark chocolate flavored and the shape was similar to excrement.

Thinking of this, he decided to let Ke Yinzhi go for the time being and temporarily transfer the target of revenge to Ke Mingye.

So he turned his head and said seriously to Ke Mingye who was drinking a drink: "Next time it's your birthday, I will give you a blue owl figurine."

"Cough...cough..."

Ke Mingye coughed twice and almost spit out all the Coke he had just drunk.

The corner of his eye twitched slightly, and he said sarcastically: "Haha, second brother, you are too good at joking. With the strength of that small-time hero, if he can become famous enough to have a figure, I will eat him directly, okay?"

Bai Qiuwu took a sip of her drink and asked in confusion, "Well... do you look down on him so much?" Bai Zini puffed up her cheeks and covered her mouth with her hands to stifle her laughter.

Finally, he couldn't stand it anymore, closed his eyes, coughed twice, and said disdainfully: "I agree with what you said, brother, is that blue owl worthy of a figurine?"

"Hehe." Ke Mingye rolled his eyes at her.

Hearing this, Ke Xiaomo nodded with satisfaction and agreed seriously, "That's true. This Blue Owl is too lame. It doesn't look like any company would launch a figurine for him."

He paused, then asked, "So what kind of action figure do you want?"

"A figure of Magical Girl Ashes," Ke Mingye said calmly, "Oh, preferably a swimsuit model, thank you."

Baizini suddenly stopped laughing and the tips of her ears turned slightly red.

She was stunned for a moment, then blushed and said in a low voice: "No, absolutely not!"

"No... my second brother gave me some model figurines or something like that as a birthday present. What does that have to do with you?"

After a pause, Ke Mingye said sarcastically, "I understand. You also want a figure of Magical Girl Ashes. Don't worry. Big brother never favors any of his brothers or sisters. He will definitely buy you a figure of Miss Ashes: mine is a bikini model, and yours is a bathing suit model. They will be invincible when put together."

"You, you, you, you...you are seriously ill."

Baizini stammered, unable to speak in anger, her shoulders trembling with anger.

"Xiao Ni, that means you want one." Ke Xiaomo said, putting on an attitude of 'I'm your brother and I understand best', "Then I'll buy you one on your birthday. Don't worry, everyone has one."

Bai Zini gritted her teeth and was about to jump up from the sofa.

"Brother, when I said no, I meant no. Can you please stop misinterpreting my meaning?!"

Bai Qiuwu was stunned for a while, then turned his head to look at Ke Mingye, wondering if Mingye also knew that Xiaoni was the magical girl Ashes?
Listening to the conversation between the few people, Ke Yinzhi interrupted casually, "Really? Why do I remember that Xiao Ni seemed to like Magical Girl Ashes very much?"

He raised his eyebrows and recalled: "Last month, she often sent us her photos and asked us every day, 'Is she very beautiful? She is much prettier in real life than in the photos' and so on..."

“No way! Why do you normally have such a bad memory, but you remember trivial things like this so clearly—!”

Baizini screamed loudly, her face and ears turned red, and it seemed as if steam was coming out of her head.

"I'm not asking you. She only tortured me. She's obsessed with idols. She's lost all her dignity by asking me every day if her idol is pretty or not."

Ke Mingye took advantage of the victory and pursued the enemy.

Bai Zini's face flushed red. She took a deep breath, glared at him angrily, then turned to speak to Ke Yinzhi.

"Everyone has an idol! You're talking as if you didn't like any magical girls or superheroes when you were in school!"

After that, she blushed, turned her head and whispered to Ke Xiaomo, "Even if you want to buy it, it can't be a swimsuit... That's too pornographic."

Hearing this, Ke Xiao silently opened his phone, searched for "Magical Girl Ashes Doll" on Taobao, and then showed the pop-up results to Bai Zini.

"Which one do you like?" he asked.

Bai Zini raised her head very reluctantly, quickly scanned the search results on the Taobao page, opened her mouth wide, first with a look of disbelief, and then gritted her teeth in anger.

Finally speechless.

It's like bowing to this world.

She held her forehead with her hand and sighed deeply. While accusing these unscrupulous merchants of money-making methods in her heart, she said: "Then I'd better buy a swimsuit for my brother. It's considered normal among them."

"Actually, I was joking. Who likes things like figures?" Ke Mingye said.

After hearing what Ke Mingye said, Ke Xiaomo asked Bai Zini, "What about Xiao Ni?"

"do not want!"

Baizini raised her hand and refused decisively.

She frowned, thinking, "Isn't it better for me to look in the mirror more often after I transform myself? Why buy a figurine? Brother, if you are sick, just tell me!"

"Forget it then." Ke Xiaomo said calmly.

Bai Zini breathed a sigh of relief, and while drinking her drink, she sat next to Ke Mingye and asked him in a low voice: "So, it turns out that Second Brother knows that you are the Owl Hero?"

Ke Mingye said: "What do you mean by an owl hero? My name is 'Blue Owl'. Are you a middle school student who doesn't know how to pronounce 'owl'? Xiao, do you understand?"

"Only the devil knows how to pronounce it. Even if they don't know how to pronounce it, they will look it up on Baidu."

"Oh, it seems I misunderstood you."

"It's just that your naming taste is terrible, brother. I don't want to miss you."

"So Ashes sounds nice?" Ke Mingye said, "It sounds like cannon fodder, magical girl cannon fodder. I'm really afraid that you'll die suddenly as your name suggests."

"Go to hell."

Bai Zini paused for a moment and asked in a low voice: "So second brother really knows?"

"if not?"

"How did he know... Could it be that you didn't tell me, but told him?"

Hearing this, Ke Mingye took a sip of his drink and secretly smacked his lips, thinking that you are so possessive of your brother, sister, if you ever get a boyfriend, he will probably be forced to commit suicide by disembowelment because of you.

Thinking of this, he sighed and explained, "It was bad luck. I forgot to hide my diary and he peeked at it. Otherwise, I would never tell you. Don't even think about it."

As soon as the words fell, Bai Zini was about to continue to refute this sentence. Suddenly, accompanied by the sound of a key opening the door from the entrance, the door was pushed open.

Ke Youqing walked into the living room, turned his head to look at a few people, then looked at today's date. Finally, his eyes swept over the children's faces and slowly stopped at the wreath on Bai Qiuwu's head.

He took out the cigarette from his mouth, opened his mouth and said in a gentle voice: "Happy birthday, go to bed early." After that, Ke Youqing moved up to the second floor, leaving only a tired figure.

"Does Dad know you're a blue owl?"

Bai Zini glanced at her father's back, then looked at Ke Mingye and asked.

"I don't know yet, why tell him?" Ke Mingye said, "He's already working overtime every day and is exhausted, and he still has to worry about a superhero son, not to mention a magical girl daughter."

"Hehe, he only needs to worry about you, okay? His daughter is so strong, how could she be in danger?"

"Oh oh." Ke Mingye didn't care. "That's what being a parent is like. No matter how strong you are, I will still worry about you, no matter if you are a superhero or a magical girl, do you understand?"

Hearing this, Baizini silently added in her heart, there is also a big stupid dragon!

As she thought about it, she glared at Ke Yongzhu.

Ke Yongzhu sneezed, looked back at Bai Zini in confusion, and continued playing with his phone.

"So my second brother and I are the only ones in the family who know about this?" she asked again.

"Ah."

Ke Mingye nodded.

Bai Zini pondered for a while and seemed to feel that this result was acceptable.

So he said, "Brother, you are the only one in the family who knows my identity, remember to keep it a secret from them."

Ke Mingye sighed and thought to himself, your sister also knows your identity, why are you pretending?

"Okay, okay, I understand."

As he spoke, he glanced at Bai Qiuwu out of the corner of his eye.

Bai Qiuwu took out his cell phone from his coat pocket, glanced at the screen, then silently stood up from the sofa and walked to the corner of the living room.

In the shadow of the living room, Bai Qiuwu stood against the wall, taking a sip of Coke while looking down at the information on the screen.

[Mr. Weird Thing: Are you having fun? ]

[Bai Qiuwu: You lied to me, you said it was a 'serious matter', but it turned out to be a birthday party? ]

[Mr. Weird Thing: This is called a surprise, not that I lied to you. ]

【Bai Qiuwu: So what did you say before about what happened to my sister and brother? 】

[Mr. Weird Thing: A group of people who call themselves "blood hunters" are targeting them. As for the rest, I'm not in a position to tell you.]

[Mr. Weird Thing: Anyway, you'd better keep a close eye on them recently and don't let them sneak out, otherwise you will bear the consequences.]

"What on earth could it be?"

As Bai Qiuwu thought about it, he hugged his shoulders, looked up from his phone, tilted his head slightly, and stared anxiously at Ke Mingye and Bai Ziling who were sitting on the sofa.

Then, as if she remembered something, she picked up her phone again, turned it on, and typed a message.

【Bai Qiuwu: By the way, thank you for celebrating my birthday. The fireworks... were actually pretty beautiful.】

【Mr. Weird Thing: Oh, that's not necessary. We are friends, aren't we?】

【Bai Qiuwu: Yes, we are friends.】

　Asking for a monthly ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)