Reborn: Changing Fate
The Birthday Surprise

Li Qingcang glanced at the clock on the wall. After thinking for a while, he immediately took a shower and changed into clean clothes. Then, he went to the city of Jiameng.

About an hour later, Li Qingcang's car pulled over at Ye Tianxin's apartment.

He glanced at the time. There's only about 20 minutes left until midnight.

Li Qingcang took out his phone and called Ye Tianxin.

Upstairs, Ye Tianxin was still not sleeping. He heard his phone ring and checked it. However, he did not dare to answer the call.

He pinched his face with all his might and screamed in pain. That hurts!

That's not a dream!

"Sister Li ..."

Li Qingcang heard Ye Tianxin's voice. He was surprised that he answered his call.

“It's late at night,” Li Qingcang spoke. “Why haven't you slept?”

"I'm sleeping" Ye Tianxin replied. "I heard my phone ring, so I picked it up ..."

Ye Tianxin did not sound like she had just woken up. However, Li Qingcang let it pass. "I'm downstairs," he told Ye Tianxin. "Can you come down?"

"Yes. Yep. Yes, ” Ye Tianxin replied excitedly.

Ye Tianxin was afraid that Li Qingcang would not hear him clearly, so she said the word three times.

Important things should be said three times.

“I'll be waiting for you then.”

Ye Tianxin hung up the phone and was very excited. He took one look from the mirror and used his hand to fix his hair. Then, she saw her nightgown. Seems a little see-through.

She hurriedly wore a knitted cardigan over her nightgown. Then, he opened his room door quietly before leaping down excitedly.

He saw Li Qingcang leaning on his car from afar. He was wearing a T-shirt and camouflage pants. Her hair was short, and it made her look very active.

"Sister Li ..."

Ye Tianxin was wearing a pair of pink sandals. When she ran, her white skirt and long hair swayed.

Ye Tianxin ran towards Li Qingcang and hugged him tightly.

"Happy 18th birthday, Tianxin," Li Qingcang whispered to Ye Tianxin.

Li Qingcang hugged Ye Tianxin back with a slightly strange expression on her face. He gently released himself from their embrace.

"Sister Li, I'm so happy to see you!"

Li Qingcang helped calm Ye Tianxin down. “I came here before midnight to personally wish you a happy birthday.”

Ye Tianxin's ears were slightly red. He is so blessed.

He was so blessed that he felt as if beautiful fireworks were adorning the sky.

"Sister Li ..."

Ye Tianxin did not know what he had to say to Li Qingcang. She just looked at him and felt that all her love for him would flow out of her heart.

“Be good. Go upstairs and go to bed.”

Li Qingcang thought that it was already very late for Ye Tianxin. Ye Tianxin had to go to school tomorrow and she needed all the sleep she could get.

Ye Tianxin could not bear to part with Li Qingcang. He wants to stay with her. He appreciated every second that he was with her.

"Sister Li, are you hungry?"

Li Qingcang had just completed the mission and he did not even have time to drink a single glass of water before he came to visit Ye Tianxin.

He wasn't hungry before. However, he was hungry now since Ye Tianxin asked. He remembered he had not taken anything since returning from the mission.

“Wait for me.”

Ye Tianxin said before she returned home.

Li Qingcang stared at the slender and innocent figure who was fleeing from him. He suddenly realized something; ye Tianxin had grown up.

Li Qingcang had not noticed this before.

Li Qingcang could definitely sense that Ye Tianxin had grown up when he hugged her earlier.

From now on, he and Ye Tianxin had to keep a certain distance.

Less than five minutes later, Ye Tianxin returned. He wore a pair of white canvas shoes and carried several bags in his hands.

"Let's go, Brother Li!" Ye Tianxin told Li Qingcang as she walked towards her car.

Li Qingcang frowned. He pointed at the items Ye Tianxin had brought and asked, "What is that?"

"You will know when we get there," Ye Tianxin replied with a wide smile on his face.

Ye Tianxin smiled. Then, he opened the passenger seat door and put on his seatbelt.

"Follow this path and just go straight," Ye Tianxin ordered.

Ye Tianxin guided Li Qingcang, and she escorted them to the riverbank.

"Sister Li, don't turn the lights off."

Ye Tianxin got out of the car and found a pile of firewood.

He leaned over and lit a fire. He placed a metal shelf on the fire and then set up a small but deep round pot.

Li Qingcang looked at Ye Tianxin and asked, "Are we having a picnic?"

"Yes." Yeah." Ye Tianxin looked very happy. He continued, "I'll make you noodles."

Ye Tianxin poured water into the pot. Then, he went to the riverbank to dig out the wet mud with his hands.

He put some wet mud into the egg and then threw it into the fire.

“Sister Li, have you seen eggs cooked this way? I loved eating eggs cooked like this when I was a kid. They are delicious when you prepare them this way.”

Water's boiling.

Ye Tianxin took out some noodles and put them in a pot. Then he added some vegetables.

The eggs are ripe when the noodles are ripe.

Ye Tianxin used a small stick to take out the egg. He took the mud from the eggs and then peeled the eggs cleanly.

“Kakak Li, try this. Are the noodles I cook good?”

A bowl of hot noodles was placed in front of Li Qingcang.

Li Qingcang took out a bowl of noodles and smelled the fragrant aroma of noodles. “It smells good!”

Ye Tianxin's eyes were slightly teary as she smiled. “Eat the noodles slowly,” she pushed Li Qingcang. "I'll cook you some more eggs."

Li Qingcang sat in the driver's seat and ate the noodles. This might be the best noodle she's ever eaten.

The headlights of the car illuminated Ye Tianxin. He was like a busy bee, bending over near the fire as he cooked the eggs. He focused on what he was doing.

He looked like an angel in the star-filled sky.

Li Qingcang did not know why, but, at that moment, he could hear her heartbeat. It reads 'Buk, Buk, Buk'.

Li Qingcang cleaned a bowl of noodles. Ye Tianxin gave him a bottle.

“Kakak Li, there is honey water in it. Have some.”

Ye Tianxin's eyes looked at Li Qingcang with anticipation.

Li Qingcang took a flask and drank it. It tastes sweet and the temperature is right. It felt as if this bowl of noodles and a bottle of honey water had wiped away all the fatigue he had felt over the past few days.

"Tianxin, let's clean up, and I'll take you home."

Ye Tianxin wanted to say that she did not want to go home, but she could not force herself to do so.

"Sister Li, will we return once the eggs have matured?" Ye Tianxin suggested. "My eggs aren't ripe yet."

Ye Tianxin remembered the eggs that were still in the campfire. It would be a waste to leave them there.

“Then get in the car. There are mosquitoes out there.”

Ye Tianxin headed to the car and sat in the passenger seat obediently. He then leaned over to touch her calf. He had been busy cooking noodles before and was unaware that there were mosquitoes. He only realized that his calf had been bitten when he got into the car. Her calf has a rash. They're so annoying.

“Sister Li, are you tired? If you are tired, close your eyes and rest for a while,” Ye Tianxin advised. "You still have to drive later, and it's not good to drive when you're tired ..."

Li Qingcang nodded and closed his eyes.

The training Li Qingcang had undergone for several days in a row was simply too intense. He fell asleep in less than a minute and even snored slowly.

Ye Tianxin knew that Li Qingcang was extremely sensitive. He turned his head to look at Li Qingcang's face without making much noise.

Her eyelashes are really long. It is rare to see a man with such long eyelashes.

Her skin is really smooth. Although the skin is somewhat brown, it still looks clean and refreshing.

Lips, nose—everything—looks very good.

He looked so good that Ye Tianxin could not bear to turn away.

Gu Yancheng's name suddenly appeared in Ye Tianxin's mind. He threw away his face silently and focused on the dark night in the distance.

How silly and foolish had he been in his previous life to fall in love with Gu Yancheng?

Gu Yancheng did not like him at all and even hated him so much.

Why would he be so naive to think that he would pay attention to his good qualities and enough?

He's really stupid!

He was so stupid that he had no hope.

Ye Tianxin placed her hands over his heart. His heart ached with regret.

He knows what it feels like to like someone.

It was not the affection that a younger sister had for an older brother. That is the affection a woman has for a man.

But how could he be worthy of Li Qingcang with his current situation?

Li Qingcang was rich and accomplished. He deserves someone better and not someone like him.

Before Ye Tianxin was deep in thought, she remembered that she had yet to take revenge.

In the meantime, he would only love her secretly.

He would keep it in his heart and try not to talk about his feelings for her.

Ye Tianxin covered her face with her hands. Tears were dripping down his face. He wipes them with a tissue. He had just celebrated his 18th birthday, and now he was angry.

If he doesn't have a polluted past life, will he have the courage to confess his love to her?

His past life was very bad.

However, he was able to meet her because of that unbearable past.

Ye Tianxin put a hand on her chest. He felt as if his heart was really hurting.

The pain was so intense that it felt as if someone had stabbed his heart several times. His wound was bleeding, and he was in so much pain that even breathing was painful.

Ye Tianxin did not dare to shout out loud.

He was afraid that he would wake Li Qingcang up with his sobs.

She cries silently for herself and for the person she loves but will never be able to have.

"Tianxin, what's wrong?"

Ye Tianxin heard Li Qingcang's voice and wiped her face with another tissue. He smiled calmly and replied, "I don't know why I didn't feel guilty when Wu Cailan hit me, but when I saw you and thought about how he slapped me, I felt annoyed ..."

Ye Tianxin continued, tears still dripping down her face, "I feel annoyed, then I cry ..."

Li Qingcang reached out and pulled Ye Tianxin into his embrace. "You're a fool" he said slowly. "Why didn't you tell me you were angry?"

Li Qingcang hugged Ye Tianxin. Ye Tianxin could smell Li Qingcang's perfume. He smells like fresh pine.

That fragrance enveloped Ye Tianxin. He doesn't want to let go. He doesn't know what to do next.

“I... I don't want you to worry about me, but now that I see you..”.

Li Qingcang stretched out his hand to pat Ye Tianxin's soft hair.

"Stupid girl. Tell me if anything happens to you in the future. I am your big brother. I will protect you and will not let anything hurt you,” Li Qingcang promised.

Ye Tianxin smiled sweetly. Regardless of the happiness he felt, he had worries that would not go away.

Deep down, he wanted to stay like this, in his arms, for as long as possible.

He wants to last forever.

However, he was afraid.

She was afraid that if she fell in love with Li Qingcang, she would never be able to swim to the beach again. He might drown.

“Sister Li, it's okay. I also hit him back!”

Ye Tianxin memerankan kembali bagaimana dia menampar Wu Cailan. Dia bangga bahwa dia melawan.

“Actually, I don't understand. What does Di Shanshi's running from home have to do with me? Not that I pushed him to leave.”.

Li Qingcang sat up straight and placed his hands on the wheel. His tone was serious as he spoke in the car.

“Maybe because Di Shanshi likes you.”.

“Even if he likes me, he shouldn't blame me. I didn't do anything. And why did he hit me?”

Ye Tianxin realized that she was not angry anymore.

He thought that being angry at someone like Wu Cailan was a waste of energy.

However, when he was with Li Qingcang, he couldn't help but complain about the woman.

"Yes, he hit you wrong, but don't hit anyone again in the future."

There was a hint of coldness in Li Qingcang's eyes. He thought that if he arranged for Guan Chenxi to stay by Ye Tianxin's side, he could at least guarantee Ye Tianxin's safety.

The plan seems too simple.

“I'm just too angry. He hit me in front of so many people. I... I was humiliated.”

Ye Tianxin looked extremely adorable when she was angry.

The corner of Li Qingcang's mouth twitched as he explained, “I mean that if something happens in the future, you don't need to do it yourself. Tianxin, your hand will hurt if you hit it. Use your brain to solve this problem in the future.”

Ye Tianxin thought that Li Qingcang was reasonable.

Those who truly have brains will not use such simple and crude methods to solve their problems.

However, he also realized that he was not strong enough.

He could only do such a thing when he was strong enough.

"Alright, I'll do as you say, Brother Li."

Li Qingcang looked at the time on the dashboard. It was almost two in the morning. “It's completely dissolved. I have to drive you home.”

Ye Tianxin agreed and rushed out of the car to pick up the boiled egg. Then, he packed up the items he was carrying and took water from the river to put out the fire.

The weather is very humid. If he does not put out the fire and the wind blows faster than usual, a fire can occur.

"Lake in!"

Li Qingcang called Ye Tianxin from the car. Ye Tianxin entered quickly. He then asked Li Qingcang, "Sister Li, when will we meet again?"

“I will visit you as often as possible.”

Li Qingcang did not give Ye Tianxin a definite day.

He was able to visit Ye Tianxin just because his camp was very close to Jiameng city where Ye Tianxin was located.

“I'm so happy that I can see you on my birthday, Brother Li. Be careful when driving back. Rest well. I'm gonna miss you."

Under the apartment…

Li Qingcang waved at Ye Tianxin.

He only left when he saw Ye Tianxin walking through the iron gate.

What Li Qingcang did not know was, as his car drove away, Ye Tianxin bowed beside the wall with a face full of tears.

He huddled in the darkness alone and sobbed in silence.

He couldn't let her go.

He couldn't let her go at all.

He wanted her so badly that he could stay by her side and that he would never have to leave her again.

Ye Tianxin wiped away her tears. He tried to calm himself. He knew they would meet again.

However, he hoped he would stay longer, that he would not rush, that they would be able to speak ...

Li Qingcang drove back to his dorm. He lay on his bed and rolled around but could not fall asleep. The image of Ye Tianxin standing in front of the car lights was bothering him.

She's very pretty.

He's so innocent and gentle.

He thought that Ye Tianxin had grown up and he would fall in love in the future.

But his Tianxin was adorable. Is there a man who is good enough for her?

No. gabe. Li Qingcang felt that he had to remind Jing Zhichen to keep an eye on Ye Tianxin after she finished with the college entrance exam. He must not let any of those lunatics get close to Tianxin.

Then, Li Qingcang thought about Ye Tianxin's future girlfriend.

He should be taller than Ye Tianxin.

He should be able to be like Li Qingcang.

Otherwise, he might not be able to support Ye Tianxin in the future.

Li Qingcang thought about random things. When he woke up, it was too late. He hurriedly got dressed and went to the training ground. When he reached the training ground, Yan Zheng had already done training for the team.

"Captain, the team's gathered."

Li Qingcang looked at Yan Ge. Yan Ge was part of the Yan family, and he had a bright future in front of him. But he won't do it. He was almost seven years older than Tianxin!

“Yan Ge, I remember you had a younger brother. He's Yan Jun, right?”

Yan Ge did not know why Li Qingcang asked him about his brother. "Don't call that brat" he replied, upset that his brother's name was mentioned.

“We want him to join the army, but he doesn't want to. He went to join the entertainment industry instead! Worse, he even referred to himself as 'Yan Jun', written in a different Chinese character! My grandfather said that we should sever all ties with him.”

"How old is Yan Jun?" Li Qingcang continued to ask.

“22.” Yan Ge was very honest.

Li Qingcang asked again, "Do you have a photo of her?"

Her Tianxin was extremely beautiful and adorable. He must find him a handsome man. After all, Tianxin was only 18 years old. They're not in a hurry. They can take the time to get to know each other.

"Boss, what's on your mind?" Yan Ge asked curiously.

Li Qingcang replied gently, “Nothing. Continue the training.”

Li Qingcang walked on the training ground. A gentle summer breeze blew on his face, and the shadow of Ye Tianxin from last night appeared in his mind once again…

This is not a good sign.

“Yan Ge, lead the team. We will run as far as 30 kilometers by carrying the load.”

Everyone turned pale when they heard Li Qingcang's orders. They had just returned from training last night, and now, they were going to run 30 kilometers carrying weights. They hoped to still be able to walk after that grueling task.