Ground Sugar and Victor.

The weak sunlight shines through the blue glass wall, reflecting on the floor next to the bed.

After Tang Mo said this, there was a short period of silence between the two. Tang Mo looked up at Fu Wenduo, who looked at him and slowly narrowed his eyes.

"...... doesn't matter?"

Tang Mo understood the other party's meaning, curled up the corner of his lips and asked, "Compared to Eve's reward, is it important?"

Bang!

Fu Wenduo suddenly pressed one hand against the wall and encircled the young man sitting cross-legged on the bed underneath him.

Seven days ago, Fu Wenduo found a random office building to settle the unconscious Tang Mo. The place where they are now is a small bedroom inside an office, a narrow and hidden space. The bed is only a meter and a half, and it's close to the wall, making it easy for Fu Wenduo to make a sudden wallop.

The distance between the two shrunk dramatically.

Silently staring at each other for a moment, Fu Wenduo suddenly said, "When did you know about my birthday?"

Tang Mo: "......"

Fu Wenduo raised an eyebrow, "Last December, Grandmother Wolf's Monster Valley, your secret is that you have a longtime crush whose birthday is September 9th. So you would know that your lucky number is 9. But I never give out personal information on the internet, including birthdays."

Tang Mo looked calm as he maintained his position between the wall and his chest, simply leaning back against the wall and saying, "Who said it was you?"

Fu Wenduo rarely showed a surprised expression, "Not me?"

Tang Mo curled her mouth, "Didn't say it wasn't you, either."

Fu Wenduo: "......"

Tang Mo: "You're nervous, Fu Wenduo. in normal times, you would have seen that I was joking and wouldn't have asked that question. But anyway, it was you who had a crush on me first, wasn't it ...... well, last February?"

Last February, before the Black Tower came down, Tang Mo and Victor had known each other for six months, and they often played poker as a team on the Internet.

Tang Mo doesn't like to meet online friends or divulge his information on the Internet, and never participates in offline bridge tournaments. Victor is even more secretive than he is, never even revealing his age.

Instead of going to the offline bridge tournaments where the best of the best play, someone in the community organized an online bridge tournament in February. Victor was online a lot during that time, so they signed up. But they didn't make it to the finals. The night before the semi-finals, Victor suddenly messaged Tang Mo on Q|Q, telling him that he couldn't make it the next day.

Tang Mo didn't think too much of it, knowing that Victor was always busy at work. In hindsight, Fu Wenduo may have had a sudden assignment.

But that time Tang Mo came home from work and was more surprised than disappointed to see the message when she opened her cell phone.

[Victor: I can't make it tomorrow. Sorry.]

Five minutes later.

[Victor: I'm going to Suzhou next week on business. Shall we meet?]

Tang Mo didn't say yes right away.

At that time, he was a bit fond of Victor, but not so much that he liked him. Victor was like a cup of cold coffee, the flavor wasn't strong enough, he wanted to taste it and really feel the richness hidden under the cold temperature, but he didn't want to break his habit of never seeing his online friends.

Not to mention ...... what if it just sees the light of day?

After a few days of hesitation and seeing Victor on the line again, Tang Mo reconsidered and replied, "If it's convenient for you, it's OK.

Victor, however, was silent for a long time and answered him: [Sorry, I can't go because of a temporary change of schedule.]

Tang Mo froze before returning, [Good.]

The feeling was suddenly odd.

He was prepared to meet Victor, but he refused to do so. Tang Mo doesn't know when he really felt like Victor, but this was definitely a turning point. Before that, his feelings for Victor were more about the kind of tacit understanding that fits without words. The powerful and decision-making Victor attracted him, with a strong gravitational pull, but not a black hole.

Since then, he cared more about the other person, and that good feeling gradually turned into the fact that as long as the other person offered to meet, he would never hesitate again.

Tang Mo leaned against the wall and analyzed with a smile, "With your character and status, if you didn't really want to meet, you definitely wouldn't go to meet an online friend. So ...... last February?"

This youth is smart to the point of being overly clever.

But this kind of intelligence and acumen was exactly what Fu Wenduo liked most. He avoided Tang Mo's question, closed his eyes for a long time in thought, and spoke, "...... October of the year before last?"

Tang Mo's body lurched.

Fu Wenduo hooked up the corner of his lips, and he knew he had guessed correctly.

In October '16, Sugar Mill and Victor had just met three months earlier. They met at an online bridge game. At that time, they were not teammates, but opponents, with Fu Wenduo in Tang Mo's upper house. Obviously they were opponents, but Tang Mo realized that the man in the seat next to him was in the exact same pace as he was, and that every thought and set of cards he played had a kind of mysterious match with him.

Tang Mo lost that game, his teammates were so bad that even the gods couldn't take him on, so he lost the game. After the game, Tang Mo added Fu Wenduo as a friend. On the bridge platform they play on, the system automatically sends a greeting to each other when you add a friend. Before Tang Mo could send his greeting, his message board lit up.

[Victor: You play your cards too well. Make friends.]

[Grinding Candy: You're too good at cards, make a friend.]

The two spoke just a second apart.

Tang Mo froze slightly and subconsciously pronounced the name: "Victor ......"

After a few casual conversations, we added Q|Q friends, followed by six months of teaming up to play poker together.

In October, they were matched with a couple with very interesting IDs. One's name was "Come Day" and the other was "My name is Fang Chang". These two people have funny names, but their skills in playing cards are not bad. After five minutes of fighting, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo were about to win, and Fang Chang urgently said: "Today is my girlfriend's birthday, please give me some face, bbu".

Tang Mo's first encounter with this, he hit six points.

Victor, on the other hand, asks, "What does bbu mean?

The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and you'll be able to do it in a few minutes. My girlfriend said she won't sleep until she wins a game.

Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo were not interested in winning or not, but only in the process of playing, and they simply pressed quit.

In a private conversation, Tang Mo suddenly said, "What's the biggest thing in the world, the birthday?

When's your birthday?

Tang Mo didn't expect him to say this: [No, it's still early]. After thinking about it, he asked: "What about you?

[Victor: It's kind of early.]

It was the only time they ever talked about their birthdays, and they hadn't known each other long enough to reveal theirs. But since then, Tang Mo has subconsciously memorized it. He carefully noted Fu Wenduo's phrase, "It's not too early".

It also counts, and that's a very specific word.

Later, Tang Mo speculated on Fu Wenduo's birthday and realized what he meant by "also counts": his birthday had just passed, so he said "also counts as early".

It's hard to tell who had a crush on whom first. Tang Mo knows that his heart was moved early, perhaps at the first meeting, he had a feeling for Victor that "this person is special". However, he can't say when he liked him. The same could be said for Fu Wenduo.

But ......

Tang Mo doesn't change her face, "You had a crush on me first."

There's time to prove it. February '17, for Fu Wenduo's character and his status, if he didn't like himself, could he have come to meet the netizen?

Fu Wenduo said, "You had a crush on me first."

There's also time to prove it. in October '16, if not for a good feeling, why would Tang Mo pay attention to an online friend's birthday and go to great lengths to guess the exact time and not say so?

Tang Mo hadn't eaten steamed bread for a long time, but he wanted to fight for it. Just like that night after Fu Wenduo said those words, Tang Mo quickly realized that this man in front of him liked him, but he was a little surprised when this man liked him. Was it Tang Mo that he liked, or was it the grinding sugar? Or both.

Fu Wenduo lowered his eyes and gazed firmly at Tang Mo's face. Tang Mo did not show any weakness and looked at him calmly.

After a long time, when footsteps were heard near the stairs, Tang Mo laughed, "Are you young or not."

Fu Wenduo withdrew his hand propped up on the wall and did not answer this statement, but responded with a look: you are not as childish?

Tang Mo admits that in some ways, Sugar Grinder and Victor have always been very naive.

The sound of footsteps getting closer and closer, Fu Wen voice pushed open the door and exclaimed, "Eh, Brother Tang you're awake?"

Chen Shanshan walked into the room, "Brother Tang Mo has woken up, how is he, is there anything wrong with his body?"

Tang Mo got up from the bed and walked around the house twice to move her body. "There's nothing wrong, just a little hungry from not eating for a few days. Fu Wenduo said that I fainted for seven days, what happened in those seven days?"

Chen Shanshan took out a bag of compressed cookies from his bag, "A lot of things. Major Fu didn't tell you?" The little girl helped Tang Mo find a reason: "You just woke up?"

Tang Mo pauses for a split second as he tears open the bag of cookies, and he nods in acquiescence.

Fu Wen voice: "Brother Tang, what exactly is Eve's reward, tell us!"

Tang Mo ate two cookies, and after the hunger in his belly was relieved he put them back in his bag. He looked at Chen Shanshan seriously with a solemn expression, "This matter needs to be analyzed by you, Shanshan. First of all ...... I didn't get any substantial reward."

The crowd froze.

Chen Shanshan quickly responded, "Well, there's definitely no such reward as props. You were knocked out by a red apple, Major Fu took this apple over at that time, but after we examined it, we found that it was the same as Ning Zheng's one. It's called 'Eve's Reward' and it doesn't serve any special purpose, it simply represents Eve's reward." The short-haired girl pulled out a red apple from her bag and handed it to Tang Mo, "You could say that this apple is like a symbol, it represents Eve's Reward but has nothing to do with Eve's Reward."

Tang Mo nodded, "Ning Zheng and Xu Yunsheng both have this apple, and all the returnees around the world, also have the red apple. But as long as it's not opened, it's just an apple."

Chen Shanshan : "Well, that's what it means. So the substantial reward is not there. I discussed it with Major Fu , Whisper when you were unconscious, and we agreed that ...... Eve's reward might have something to do with the truth of the Black Tower's descent."

As the words fell out of her mouth, the little girl looked at Tang Mo with an expectant gaze.

However she was destined to be disappointed.

Tang Mo sighed, "That's my second point. I was unconscious for seven days, but in my perception, it was only an instant. I had a dream that seemed both long and short, and I woke up forgetting all about it; I don't have the slightest memory of what happened in the dream. I know what you discussed, I could hear your voices while I was unconscious, and the sense of sound and touch remained."

Fu Wenduo was standing with his arms wrapped around him, listening indifferently, when he suddenly heard this, his eyebrows twitched and he glanced at Tang Mo and his fingers.

Fu Wenduo : "......"