Chapter 1 Happy Death Day

June 10th, the second day after the college entrance examination.

This day is Lin Yi's birthday.

The family sat around the dining table, and after singing a birthday song, Lin Yi made a birthday wish for his 18th birthday.

"I hope my parents are healthy, and I hope our family is safe and happy forever!"

Lin Yi opened his eyes and blew out the candles on the cake.

"It's so fast, in the blink of an eye, our raised Yi Yi is 18 years old." The mother sitting opposite the table stood up with a smile and picked up the knife on the table.

"Mom, let me cut the cake." Lin Yi wanted to take the knife from her mother, but her mother shook her head and walked slowly to Lin Yi.

"Yes, the meat is the most delicious on the day when the animal becomes an adult." The father on the other side swallowed his saliva and looked straight over.

"Dad, what are you talking about?" Lin Yi was confused.

"Hurry up, I can't wait to taste him." Dad ignored Lin Yi.

He opened his mouth slightly, and saliva flowed down the corners of his mouth.

"Dad, I know the cake is delicious, but you are exaggerating."

"I'm not talking about the cake." Dad shook his head, "I'm talking about you."

"Me?"

"Yi Yi." His mother's soft call came to his ears.

Before Lin Yi turned around, he felt a pain in his chest, and the knife that was originally used to cut the cake pierced into Lin Yi's chest.

"Happy birthday." His mother's voice came to his ears, and Lin Yi gradually lost consciousness.

......

"Happy birthday to you, I wish you happiness every day, I wish you happiness forever!"

The familiar birthday song sounded in his ears, and Lin Yi opened his eyes suddenly.

He saw the cake on the table, saw his parents sitting opposite the table, and saw the knife on the table.

Memories kept flashing in his mind. If Lin Yi remembered correctly, the knife should be stuck in his chest.

Lin Yi was startled, he stood up suddenly, and the chair behind him was overturned to the ground.

He looked down at his chest, raised his hand and touched it, and it was intact.

What happened? Why did the knife that stabbed into his chest return to the table?

No, this is not the point of the question.

The point is why did his mother kill him on his birthday?

If he had been killed by his mother, why was he standing here unharmed now?

Could it be that everything before was just a picture he imagined?

However, the picture in his memory was so real that Lin Yi even remembered the pain of the knife stabbing into his chest clearly.

"Yiyi, what's wrong with you?" Mom raised her head and looked at Lin Yi, smiling and asked, "Why are you sweating? Are you feeling unwell?"

"No...no." Lin Yi was speechless for a moment.

"It's so fast, in the blink of an eye, our Yiyi is 18 years old."

The moment the same words came out of his mother's mouth, Lin Yi felt his scalp tingling.

Looking up, his mother stood up with a smile and stretched out her hand to pick up the knife on the table.

"Mom!" Lin Yi grabbed the knife on the table and said tremblingly, "I... I'll cut the cake."

"Gulp." Dad, who was sitting next to him, swallowed his saliva.

"On the day when the animal becomes an adult, the meat is the most delicious. I can't wait to taste it."

Dad opened his mouth, and saliva slowly flowed out from the corners of his mouth, just like the picture in Lin Yi's mind.

The same picture, the same words.

Is all this really just a coincidence?

Lin Yi froze in place, feeling creepy.

"Yi Yi." Mom slowly walked towards Lin Yi and whispered, "Happy birthday."

Mom's words instantly ignited the fear in Lin Yi's heart.

He began to retreat, raised the knife in his hand, pointed the tip of the knife at the parents in front of him and shouted: "No, you are not my parents!"

"Who... who are you?"

Although he said this, Lin Yi was still praying in his heart.

He prayed that his father would ask him what happened with concern, and that his mother would gently comfort him that everything was fine.

However, the imagined scene did not appear.

"Oh, he seems to have discovered it." The smile on his mother's face suddenly became stiff.

"Strange, he has not discovered it for so many years, why did he discover it now?" Dad also stood up.

"It's really disappointing. Fear will make the meat of the livestock sour." Mom did not stop, and even quickened her pace.

"Stop! Don't come over!" Lin Yi shouted nervously.

"Yi Yi, don't be afraid." When approaching Lin Yi, the smile on his mother's face suddenly became natural.

Knowing that the person in front of him was not his mother, but looking at that smiling face, Lin Yi couldn't do it.

"You are right, we are indeed not your parents. We are your owners."

"Nothing is more delicious than the meat of the livestock on the day of adulthood."

Dad's tone became more and more excited, and even his body began to swell.

That familiar face began to twist, and Dad's skin began to tear as his body expanded.

Blood flowed from the crack, but Dad seemed to feel no pain, and a strange laugh came out of his throat.

"Strange...monster..." The scene in front of him made Lin stunned.

It seemed that there was something else hidden in Dad's body.

The thing was pitch black, and its skin seemed to be covered with a thick shell.

Huge compound eyes emerged from under the face, and tentacles covered with barbs kept emerging from the abdomen.

What on earth... was that?

"Yiyi, don't be afraid." In astonishment, the mother had come to Lin Yi.

She raised her hand and touched Lin Yi's head: "It will be quick, and it won't hurt at all."

"Ah!" The fear in his heart turned into a scream from Lin Yi's mouth.

He clenched the knife in his hand and stabbed forward with force.

With a "clang", the knife in his hand broke.

The blade cut through the mother's skin, but under the skin was the same black shell as the father's.

"What a disobedient beast." The smile on the mother's face disappeared, replaced by a kind of indifference.

Lin Yi felt a sharp pain in his abdomen.

Looking down, something pierced his body.

The black tentacles drilled out from the mother's waist and pierced into Lin Yi's abdomen.

The tentacles kept squirming, and the barbs on them pierced into the flesh fiercely.

The pungent smell of blood spread in the room, but the faces of Dad and Mom showed excited smiles.

"It smells so good." Mom's face began to twist, and the monster inside couldn't wait to get out.

"Sure enough, the animals who just came of age are the most delicious!" Dad ran over.

He opened his mouth wide, and the serrated mouthparts bit Lin Yi's neck, greedily sucking his blood.

"Happy birthday, Yi Yi."

Hearing the same words, Lin Yi was killed again.

......

"Azhen fell in love with Aqiang, on a starry night--"

The out-of-tune singing sounded in his ears, Lin Yi suddenly opened his eyes and shouted in horror: "No! Don't!"

The sounds around him stopped abruptly, and everyone in the room looked at Lin Yi at the same time.

"I'm not dead? I'm still alive?" The terrible picture kept flashing in Lin Yi's mind.

He looked down at his body, still unharmed.

"Is this... Queen KTV?" The light bulbs in the room reflected a dazzling light. Lin Yi squinted his eyes and saw where he was.

"Lin Yi, what's wrong with you?" The person sitting next to Lin Yi was his classmate.

After noticing Lin Yi's strange reaction, he came over and asked, "What did you say you didn't want?"

"Why am I here?" Lin Yi couldn't figure it out.

He was clearly at home before, why did he appear in the KTV in the blink of an eye?

"Didn't we agree to come and sing after the dinner?" The classmate next to him said excitedly, "After singing, we will go to the Internet cafe all night!"

"Dinner? Singing? Internet cafe?" Lin Yi was stunned, "Isn't this what we did yesterday?"

"Yesterday?" The classmate next to him said puzzledly, "We went home after the exam yesterday."

"After the exam?" Lin Yi seemed to realize something. He quickly took out his mobile phone and looked down. He saw the date displayed on the screen-June 9th.

"I...I'm back to yesterday?"