Raising You This Small Stuff

Chapter 41.1 Birthday gift!

Today was Mo Yi Cheng’s birthday.

Yuan Suo came back from the park early, and stored the little wooden horses Grandpa Abel had given to him carefully on the bottom of the cabinet of the bookcase. The little wooden horses were exquisitely carved and lively, arranged in different shapes.

After putting them away, Yuan Suo wrapped the picture frame he had made with colorful wrapping paper and put a small note inside. Then, while Mo Yi Cheng hadn’t entered the game yet, he took out the piece of cake he had made at school and put it on the table, the candles on it given to him by Anie.

Moreover, he took the first place in class in the art quiz test today and received a credit point for it, which meant that the system opened up the permission for him to enter and exit the game, but he deleted the notification quietly… however he wasn’t sure if this should be a surprise or not!

Ten minutes later, after getting everything ready, Yuan Suo rubbed his hands as he sat on the sofa, waiting for Mo Yi Cheng to return anxiously and expectantly.

Would Mo Yi Cheng like his gift? The picture frame he made himself and the cake that he had worked so hard on for so long, he didn’t know if it would be to Mo Yi Cheng’s taste.

After sitting and waiting for only ten minutes with Marshmallow, Yuan Suo began to feel anxious. Mo Yi Cheng was going home for dinner with his family first, but he had promised to come back early. Thinking about something, he got up from the sofa, walked to the front of the screen, looked around it, then ran to the window to look outside and found that there was nothing unusual. It couldn’t be a system failure again right?

Just as he was about to sit back on the sofa and wait for Mo Yi Cheng to log into the game, the faint sound of a running engine suddenly came from behind him.

He turned around subconsciously and saw a remote-controlled indoor aircraft hanging in the air, more than a meter away from his position, a blue colored silk on top of it and a small box tied below.

Yuan Suo was stunned for a moment, then realized that the beautifully wrapped small box must be a gift from Mo Yi Cheng! “Bark, bark, bark!” Marshmallow jumped up to bite the gift box. Yuan Suo ran over in surprise, reached out to take it, but stopped suddenly when he was about to touch the box, looking around.

“Mo….. Mo Yi Cheng, are you there?” He suddenly realized that Mo Yi Cheng wasn’t displayed on his side of the screen, so who was controlling the machine?

Suddenly, the standby screen glowed and Mo Yi Cheng, with a doting and gentle smile on his face appeared on it and as expected, the remote control for the aircraft was in his hand.

Mo Yi Cheng used the remote control to bring the aircraft closer to Yuan Suo and said: “This is the game’s stealth mode.”

“Stealth… stealth mode?” Yuan Suo was shocked!

“It’s been there since a long time ago.”

“Hmm…” Then didn’t this mean that Mo Yi Cheng appeared sometimes, but he didn’t know? Yuan Suo became nervous immediately, quickly recalling in his mind whether he had done anything embarrassing before.

Mo Yi Cheng smiled lightly, “You don’t have to think about it, there are a lot.” For example, squatting in front of the refrigerator and drooling as he watched the ice cream, then finally digging a small spoon into it secretly and smoothing the surface after, like the first time he mistakenly thought there was a mouse in the house when he saw a sweeping robot…

Yuan Suo flushed at Mo Yi Cheng’s words, before finally stammering in retort, “Peep… peeping is wrong!”

Mo Yi Cheng looked at him for a moment, then nodded, “Yes, so today is the last time I would be using this function. I will respect your privacy and choices in the future. This is your first gift today.”

“….Thank you.” Yuan Suo’s eyes were slightly hot. This was his first time hearing Mo Yi Cheng say that he would respect his privacy and choices.

“Next, it’s time to look at the second gift for today.” Mo Yi Cheng motioned for Yuan Suo to open the small box.

Yuan Suo untied the box nervously. Mo Yi Cheng landed the aircraft to the side as he watched Yuan Suo intently, waiting for him to open the gift.

Yuan Suo opened the box and found a very delicate key lying inside. He took it out and was examining it carefully when suddenly, another box, half a man’s height appeared behind him with a lock on it.

“Open it and see.” Mo Yi Cheng instructed.

Yuan Suo walked over curiously, inserted the key into the keyhole carefully, turned it, then looked back at Mo Yi Cheng. Mo Yi Cheng nodded, signalling for him to open the lid. Yuan Suo had to use a little force to open the lid and suddenly his mouth couldn’t close from the surprise, little stars in his eyes.

Mo Yi Cheng actually gave him… a box full of comic books! A lot of them were rare and extremely precious collector’s editions that were on the market. Such a large pile in the box here was enough to show his intentions.

Yuan Suo stretched his arm into the box, and stroked the books gently with his fingertips, his love for the books showing. He loved to draw, but no one in the interstellar world supported him. Even if his mother loved him so much, she only considered it as a pastime entertainment.

“Thank you, Mo Yi Cheng.”

“You’re welcome. There’s one last gift waiting for you.” Mo Yi Cheng pointed to the box with his chin.

It was only then that Yuan Suo discovered that the box was not only filled with comic books, but there was also a coffee-colored envelope in the upper right corner, on which was written “Du Du, happy birthday.” It was Mo Yi Cheng’s signature, the handwriting resplendent and magnificent.

There were so many surprises today. Yuan Suo’s hands shook a little as he took the envelope and opened it, and found that it was only a paper shell the size of a name tag.

Written on the paper shell was the name of a person Yuan Suo didn’t recognize: Ming Zhao. There were two numbers of different lengths below.

Seeing the confusion on his face, Mo Yi Cheng explained: “Ming Zhao is the editor of Feng Yun magazine, responsible for the illustration of articles. This is her contact information. If you want, you can contact her through this number.”

Yuan Suo froze. I can work part-time? No… won’t he cause trouble again?

Mo Yi Cheng saw worry on Yuan Suo’s face, “This is the third gift today, you can pursue it if you want and even if you really get into trouble, you still have me.”

Chapter 41.2 Birthday gift!

Emotions accumulated in Yuan Suo’s heart so much that tears rolled in his eyes, “Thank….. thank you Mo Yi Cheng.”

“It’s good if you like it.” Mo Yi Cheng said.

After seeing Mo Yi Cheng’s gift, apart from being excited and happy, Yuan Suo was suddenly a little nervous. Compared with Mo Yi Cheng’s intentions, weren’t his gifts too ordinary?

Unexpectedly, after the small picture frame was taken out and transmitted, Mo Yi Cheng couldn’t put it down as he kept on praising Yuan Suo.

“It can be placed by the bedside, there is a stand behind the frame.” Yuan Suo clutched the corner of his clothes out of habit nervously as he explained in a low voice.

“Really?” Mo Yi Cheng looked at the small stand that folded up delicately behind it, loving it even more. He hesitated suddenly, not knowing whether to put it on the bedside or put it in the safe.

“There’s… there’s cake too.” Seeing that Mo Yi Cheng liked the picture frame, Yuan Suo’s confidence increased greatly as he took his second gift out and lifted the lid on top of the cake.

The cake wasn’t big. It was only the size of a plate, with three layers of chocolate buttercream, stacked with creamy white mousse and authentic Belgian dark chocolate on the surface. Mo Yi Cheng could taste the rich flavor from across the screen.

“Du Du did you make it yourself?” This was the first time that Yuan Suo had brought back his work from school.

“Hmm.” The school cooking ingredients were usually not allowed to be brought back by the elves without authorization, but because it was a birthday gift for his player, Yuan Suo applied for permission in advance and brought back the ingredients only after approval.

“Thank you, Du Du.”

“You’re… you’re welcome.”

“Now, should we eat the cake and make a wish?” Mo Yi Cheng decided not to take out the cake he had prepared.

“Hmm, ok!” Then Yuan Suo realized that the birthday candles Anie had given to him were still in his school bag, so he turned around to go and bring them. When he returned, he still had a third gift to give to Mo Yi Cheng. That was, he had upgraded again and could now enter and exit the phone freely, although he hadn’t mastered it yet!

Just as Yuan Suo left to fetch the candles, Mo Yi Cheng’s other phone sent a video call notification. Looking at it, he saw that it was Mo Yixu who was studying in France. He hesitated, but still picked it up and tapped to connect it.

“Second brother! Happy birthday!” On the opposite side of the screen was a handsome-eyed teenager, whose eyebrows retained the handsomeness of the Mo family, but he was a bit more casual than the othet two brothers, and seemed easy to get along with. It was still noon over there in France and he had just finished playing football, so he was wearing sportswear, beads of sweat dotting his forehead.

Mo Yi Cheng smiled. He hadn’t seen Mo Yixu for some time, “Thank you.”

“Second brother, I originally set an alarm to remind me to send you a happy birthday text message at twelve o’clock according to the time at home, but my cell phone fell into the toilet a few days ago and the records were destroyed…”

“Cough, cough, cough…” When Yuan Suo, who had brought the candles back heard that his phone had fallen into the toilet, he was so shocked that he choked on his saliva, coughing several times.

“Huh?” Mo Yixu’s eyes swept to the corner of the screen suspiciously the moment his sharp ears heard the noise coming from Mo Yi Cheng’s side. He asked, “Second brother, are you in your own house?”

“Mhmm.” Mo Yi Cheng frowned slightly when he saw Yuan Suo choking, but it was difficult to show it in front of Mo Yixu.

“Mom called just now and said that you had dinner at home in the afternoon, then said that you have an important thing to do tonight so you couldn’t stay. Second brother, this is your first time in years saying that. Previously, as long as you were in S city, even if it was your birthday and you were in a crew, you would go home and stay overnight.” Mo Yixu looked carefree, but his mind was actually very quick.

Mo Yi Cheng paused, “It’s something very important.”

Mo Yixu narrowed his eyes, “Second brother, I have a sister-in-law right?”

“Cough…” Mo Yi Cheng was unable to hold back as he coughed, glancing at Mo Yixu coldly, “No.”

Mo Yixu refused to give up, “Then second brother, are you alone now?”

Mo Yi Cheng hesitated, “Yes.”

Mo Yixu was now more sure than ever that there was something fishy going on. “Not right, second brother, I think I heard someone else’s voice just now.”

Yuan Suo who was in the phone was so shocked that he covered his mouth quickly, not daring to even breathe.

“No.” Mo Yi Cheng denied it crisply.

“Second brother, you aren’t… you aren’t also taking the route of building a magnificent house for your mistress, right? And that girl couldn’t possibly be Lin Meng Xue who is spoken about widely online right?” Mo Yixu had been abroad for a long time and knew little about the things going on at home, so he started to guess wildly.

When Yuan Suo heard Lin Meng Xue’s name, his delicate eyebrows furrowed. Mo Yi Cheng wasn’t with Lin Meng Xue, that news was fake!

Naturally, Mo Yi Cheng denied it dryly, “If you don’t have anything else to do, stop guessing blindly. I’ve received the birthday wishes. Take care of yourself over there, and call home if you have nothing to do.” As he said this, he was about to hang up.

“Hey hey… Second brother, I haven’t finished speaking yet. Actually, I think Lin Meng Xue looks really good…”

Yuan Suo bit his fork. Just… no, Mo Yi Cheng said that Lin Meng Xue wasn’t a very good friend… the more Yuan Suo thought about it, the more angry he became and not knowing why, he felt that his body seemed to be out of control.

It may be because he had just reached level 20 and had never entered or exited the cell phone autonomously, so Yuan Suo couldn’t control this function well, hence after his emotions reached the peak, he followed his subconsciousness and activated the function of his body leaving the game.

He was ‘thrown’ out unpreparedly by the system and fell directly onto Mo Yi Cheng who was about to hang up the video call. Mo Yi Cheng was caught off guard, falling down to the floor together with Yuan Suo and the chair he was sitting in when he pounced into his arms.