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Being with Song Ye for so long, I almost forgot that I'm quite popular myself.

Apart from Zhuang Qin, there are one or two other men at the company who asked me out for dinner, but I turned them down.

My thirtieth birthday is coming up soon.

For a woman, turning thirty is indeed a special time with special significance.

After this age, some things appear unchanged, yet they are vastly different.

My birthday falls on a weekday.

After work, Zhuang Qin suddenly appeared in my office waiting for me, and I looked up at him: "What's up?"

Zhuang Qin somehow produced a cake and placed it in front of me: "Happy Birthday."

"Can I treat you to dinner tonight?"

I wasn't planning to celebrate my birthday, nor did I buy myself a cake.

On the night I hoped for an engagement ring from Song Ye, I pushed myself to finish a whole cake, leaving a shadow in my heart.

But looking at the cake in Zhuang Qin's hands, I suddenly didn't find it so off-putting.