July 17th was a special day. Eighteen years ago today, a baby boy came crying into the world.
Eighteen years later, that same boy was still fast asleep in bed, right up until the knocking started.
Lu Mingfei scrambled out of bed in a flash, threw on his shirt and pants, and ran to answer the door. Today was his birthday, and Erii had said she would keep him company to celebrate. He had clearly set an alarm, but it hadn't seemed to wake him; his biological clock had slipped right back into its thoroughly decadent default state.
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