The narrator tells us that he's going to celebrate his friend's birthday. He's not going to cry, though, because it's the birthday of his friend, xiang yang. He tells us about how he and xiang used to be friends in junior high school. They used to get together and play cards and stuff. One day xiang was one of the kids who was left alone, so he and the other kids would go out to play cards. The narrator says that he doesn't want xiang to eat strawberries without seeds, because that's a bad idea. He also says that jiu-tao used to stay in xiang's body when he was a kid, trying to get him to do something he wanted to do. Aww, suck it up. .