Happy Birthday, Male Celebrity

"Happy seventeenth birthday to my good daughter."

In their warm home sat a cake with lit candles, along with a table full of hearty homemade dishes.

A pair of simple, unassuming parents looked at the girl before them with eyes full of tenderness.

Today was their daughter Ai Xiaoya's seventeenth birthday.

After more than a year, Ai Xiaoya was already a second-year high school student. In a few months, the second semester of her sophomore year would begin, and once that was over, she would enter the intense and thrilling third year of high school.

Time really flew by.

Looking at her daughter, Ai Xiaoya's mother smiled. "Sweetheart, make a wish."

"Okay."

Ai Xiaoya closed her eyes.

She had many wishes.

World peace.

Her parents' good health.

And for Shen Qiao... to perhaps like her too.

She hoped that when they took the college entrance exams, they could get into the same place.

During their year together in their first year of high school, Shen Qiao had always been by her side. He had improved alongside her, tutored her, and helped her become one of the top students in their class.

He was handsome, got good grades, and was exceptionally skilled at basketball. He was practically the embodiment of a girl's high school youth.

Yet such an outstanding boy treated everyone else with indifference, while treating her as someone special.

Who wouldn't be moved by that?

But...

She always felt that something was strange.

She liked Shen Qiao.

She had even felt the urge to confess to him countless times.

But for some reason, it seemed as though some unseen force had been stopping her from doing so.

As if, once she accepted Shen Qiao's confession, there would be no turning back.

Recently, she had watched an anime.

There was