Xiao Chong's lips curved slightly. "You're welcome."
"How come you can do everything? You're amazing. How many years of drawing does it take to be able to draw like this?"
"A lifetime," Xiao Chong said.
"Alright then." Lin Wanwan smiled, taking it as a joke.
Lin Wanwan admired it for quite a while longer before reluctantly putting it away in the tube.
Xiao Chong pushed the sliced cake in front of her and said, "Have some cake."
"Thanks." Lin Wanwan took it. "I made you spend money. You gave me a present, I should be the one treating you to cake."
Xiao Chong smiled, his eyes crinkling. "Then treat me on my birthday."
Lin Wanwan agreed without hesitation. "Okay. When's your birthday? Tell me first so I can remember."
She'd eat White Elephant hot and sour vermicelli for another two months, save up the money for cake and a birthday present.
"The twentieth of the first lunar month."
