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Extra 1: Welcome Home

On the way back, Yue Zhishi felt increasingly guiltier, worried Lin Rong and Song Jin would yell at him as soon as he got home.

"Now you're afraid?" Song Yu couldn't help but tease. He'd watched as Yue Zhishi had stared at the doorbell, struggling, for over a minute. "You ran off without a single second thought."

Yue Zhishi turned around and glared at him before very straightforwardly whispering, "But that's because I like you."

Song Yu was stunned by such an unexpected confession — and the door abruptly opened by itself.

Lin Rong pulled open the door to their home, a hand on her waist. "What were you two whispering to each other about! I waited at the monitor screen for so long."

She had just finished speaking when there was a sudden bang, random streamers spraying onto Song Yu and Yue Zhishi.

"Welcome home!!!"

Yue Zhishi dumbly removed the streamers on his face and body and then went to help Song Yu, except his eyes weren't on Song Yu at all — the streamers on his hand ended up wiping all over Song Yu's face.

"Why are there so many people..."

A large group of people stood in the entrance hallway, and other than Lin Rong and Song Jin, Jiang Yufan, Qin Yan, Shen Mi, Nan Jia, and even Xu Lin and Qu Zhi had also come.

Song Jin was holding a rose coloured party popper in his hand, quite ill matched with his outfit, and explained with a smile on his face, "Everyone's here to give you guys a surprise."

It really was a surprise, and Yue Zhishi inwardly rejoiced — luckily, he didn't get yelled at.

"That's right, the two of you are now the big hero and the little hero." Nan Jia tugged the two silly looking she was holding over them, and she even gave Qin Yan a meaningful look.

"Oh, right right." Qin Yan immediately followed behind her and grabbed out a tightly curled up from his sports bag. Walking up to Song Yu and Yue Zhishi, he then snapped it open, grinning so widely his eyes all but disappeared.

The two of them stared at the two rows of yellow characters on the banner, and they couldn't help but read the words out loud.

Yue Zhishi: "Ingenious and divine needles can cure all diseases..."

Song Yu: "...May your virtue and skill both spread far and wide."

"What the fuck?" Qin Yan rapidly flipped the banner over to look at it.

"Senior Qin Yan, what did you do?!"

"Oh no?"

Qin Yan clutched his head. "Shit, the owner of that banner store must've mixed up my order with the old Chinese medicine doctor next door!"

"Hahahahaha!"

Yue Zhishi couldn't stand up straight from how hard he was laughing; his entire body was trembling as he leaned against Song Yu's shoulder.

"All right, all right. Hurry up and come in, you managed to get back just in time for dinner." Lin Rong gave both Song Yu and Yue Zhishi a hug. "My two babies have lost weight. You definitely wouldn't have eaten well every day."

"We were okay." Yue Zhishi said, "Song Yu wasn't even picky about his food."

Qin Yan smirked. "Probably because he wouldn't have been able to eat otherwise."

"People who grabbed the wrong banner have no right to say anything," Song Yu mildly said.

For this surprise gathering, Lin Rong and Song Jin specifically brought out the long table they'd never really used at home and cooked up enough food to fill the table. Everyone had rushed over at noon to decorate the house, blowing up balloons of various shapes and letting them float at the ceiling.