"Are you waiting for me?"
Ceres quickly shook her head hard. "No, I'm not."
He knew she was lying.
He did show up because he just did not let her see him. He knew that she came to the balcony at the same time every day as if she's waiting for him. He did not want to show up, but he could not bear to keep her waiting, so he came to her anyway.
"Hey, guess. If you guess it right, I will give you the gift I owed you the last time. If you guess wrong, there will be no gift!"
Ceres tried to break the embarrassment between them.
The masked man just looked at her quietly.
"Who has longer eyelashes, Johny or I?"
"You." The masked man blurted out.
Ceres felt quite boring. "You guessed it right at once. Okay then, I'll give you a unique gift in the world."
Ceres took out an egg-like thing from her pocket and handed it to the masked man.
The masked man looked at the egg in his hand and was puzzled. "Egg!"
"That's not an ordinary egg. It is a smart egg. Because of limited conditions and limited time, and it can only be made into such a simple appearance. You should hold it gently."
The masked man gently shook the smart egg according to Ceres's instructions. "So, what happens now?"
When the voice just fell, the smart egg emitted a faint light. "Automatic recognition is successful, master. I have remembered your voice, body temperature, fingerprints, and the micro-current in your palm. From now on, you will be my master."
The masked man looked at Ceres.
Ceres seemed to be proud. "Because of the limited time, I can only set a few functions, but I will not introduce it to you. Just ask it yourself. I'll go back to sleep now. Good night!"
Ceres went back to the room.
The masked man returned to the room with the smart egg, and he wanted to see what functions the smart egg had. Before he started, the smart egg started the program automatically.
"Mr. Johny, my creator has given me some words to convey to you."
This is Ceres's particular programming. The masked man quietly looked at the glowing smart egg.
"Go ahead."
"The truth is, I truly like you, but I have married Johny. Although he is in a vegetative state, I cannot do anything to wrong him, so let us get along like ordinary friends."
The masked man smiled. It turned out that Ceres still knew what to do and what not to do…
When the alarm clock rang in the morning, Ceres reached out to turn it off and opened her eyes to see the date displayed on the mobile phone.
Time passed quickly.
Today was a special day for her.
It was her birthday.
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