Wei Chiyan was depressed, really.

Since waking up, he lay on the bed with his face buried in the pillow.

Others couldn't see his face or his expression, they could only see his messy silver hair.

Wei Chiyan didn't talk to anyone.

The doctor has said that he is not seriously ill, he was just frightened by the sudden stimulation, and he just needs to rest for a while.

Wei Chiyan became even more depressed after hearing this.

He felt so ashamed.

Who, on his 18th birthday, took it upon himself to take his friends to play an escape room game, only to end up getting scared to death?

What's even more outrageous is that he wasn't even scared by the NPC, but by his two good friends.

The embarrassment was doubled again.

Why did everything turn out like this?

The last time it was so embarrassing was the last time.

I can’t remember the exact time, but none of them were as embarrassing as today.

Wei Chiyan thought so and buried his face deeper into the pillow.

Everyone looked at him, and finally they all helplessly decided to go out and discuss it later.

Xie's words always sum up the situation in a very precise way: "Wei Chi's self-esteem has been hurt and he feels too ashamed to face others."

Xu Yaoyao nodded seriously to show that she understood, and then asked: "So do we need to help Wei Chi regain his self-esteem now?"

This question silenced everyone.

It seems simple to say, but it is quite difficult to do.

After all, Wei Chiyan's self-esteem was shattered so suddenly. Who knows how to get it back for him?

But we have to find a way to complete the difficult task. Today is Wei Chiyan's birthday, such an important day of adulthood at the age of 18. We can't let him just lie on the bed and spend the whole day there, right? He will regret it when he thinks about it later.

So everyone is using their wisdom.

Lu Yue said: "How about you tell him that I also fainted and haven't woken up yet, and then you can get him to laugh at me."

Song Zhili pushed up his glasses and calmly pointed out the flaw in Lu Yue's proposal: "Wei Chi just didn't raise his head, but that doesn't mean he couldn't hear what you said just now."

Lu Yue had a headache and he forgot about it.

Jiang Yushi suggested again: "Wei Chi loves firecrackers the most. Why don't we just pull him out of bed and take him outside to set off some firecrackers for fun?"

Xia Wanze agreed with Jiang Yushi's idea: "What would you do if Wei Chi was crying when you pulled him up?"

Jiang Yushi: "..."

It’s scary to think about it, and he doesn’t know what to do in that situation.

Fortunately, Xu Yaoyao was the most attentive person here. She immediately thought of the monthly exam and asked, "I got it. Can we check Wei Chi's monthly exam results first? If he has made great progress, we can tell him in advance. This should make him happier."

This is a very good suggestion, so we handed it over to Song Zhili for implementation.

Given Song Zhili's familiarity with the teachers in the school, it was easy for him to ask for a small favor and get their approval.

However, Wei Chiyan's results were beyond everyone's expectations, because his overall ranking even dropped by several hundred places compared to the last time, and even returned to the same last level as before.

Fortunately, Xia Wan had sharp eyes and spotted the problem at once: "Other things are fine, but why is Wei Chiyan's English score only a few points? This is obviously his best subject. This is absolutely impossible."

Jiang Yushi immediately followed suit and expressed his doubts: "Yes, not to mention recently, Wei Chi's English has always been very good."

Then Song Zhili made a second call and found out the truth.

Wei Chiyan must have bought a pirated 2B pencil, as all the multiple-choice questions on the answer sheet he filled out were not recognized successfully.

Xu Yaoyao was very surprised: "Wait a minute, the pencil Wei Chiyan used was actually a pirated one?"

For a top wealthy family like Wei Chiyan, whose only son is a young master, would his subordinates be so bold as to buy pirated pencils for him?

"...I may know the reason for this." Jiang Yushi spoke weakly and explained to everyone: "Last week, Wei Chi and I went to buy a new game console. On the way to the mall, we saw a college student who asked us to support his business. Then Wei Chi bought a box of pencils and wanted to share them with me, but I refused. Now it seems that he was deceived."

Everyone: "..."

Although it sounds outrageous, but when I think about the fact that this happened to Wei Chiyan, I feel that there is no problem.

Xia Wan said with some emotion: "Fortunately you didn't ask for it, otherwise you would be counting down with him now."

Jiang Yushi: "..."

The plan to comfort Wei Chiyan with the monthly exam results obviously failed, and they had to keep it a secret for the time being. They couldn't let Wei Chiyan, who was in such grief, find out that he had returned to the bottom of the monthly exam because he used a pirated pencil.

Everyone couldn't help but think in their hearts at this moment -

Is today Wei Chiyan’s birthday or his Good Friday?

At this moment, the sound of high heels hitting the ground was heard, and the footsteps were very hurried, which instantly attracted everyone's attention in the quiet corridor of the hospital at this point.

Xia Wan suddenly felt relieved and said directly: "We don't have to worry about it. Someone who can solve the problem is here."

Sure enough, a man and a woman appeared in their sight.

The woman was well-maintained, wearing a sexy red dress. Her long curly hair fell casually on her shoulders, revealing her beautiful collarbone. She had a black suit draped loosely over her shoulders, and her face was full of irritability.

The man was the same, wearing a white shirt and standing half a step behind the woman, his silver hair also eye-catching.

Wei Chiyan was so good at picking out the best features of his parents' facial features that one could tell at a glance that these two people must be his parents.

Xia Wan: "..."

So silver hair is hereditary? That doesn't make sense.

Also, Wei Chiyan’s mother... is so beautiful!

Great beauty! This is the Hong Kong style bright beauty!

Xia Wan quickly shifted her gaze away from Wei Chiyan's mother. She was afraid that if she continued looking at him, she would be arrested by the police because of her scorching gaze.

For Wei Chiyan's parents, the most trustworthy person in this group is naturally Song Zhili.

So Wei Chiyan's mother looked at Song Zhili and asked directly: "Xiaoli, what happened?"

Song Zhili did not lie, he simply repeated the incident.

Wei Chiyan's mother frowned upon hearing this. Although the beauty still looked good with frowns, her words were a little harsh: "Is he so useless?"

The atmosphere suddenly became awkward.

Wei Chiyan's father immediately stopped him and said, "Ayan, don't talk about the child like that. There are so many of the child's friends here."

"I'm telling the truth." Ye Yan's face was still full of impatience. After confirming that Wei Chiyan was fine, she raised her wrist to check the time and said, "If I go back now, will it be too late to participate in the investment?"

She didn't seem to care about Wei Chiyan's current situation, and even felt a little angry because she felt that such a shameful little thing made them rush back and delay the cooperation project.

Wei Chiyan's father looked completely different from Wei Chiyan. He was a gentle person and instinctively answered his wife's question first: "Mr. William will leave on the breakfast flight tomorrow."

Ye Yan said directly: "Let's go, we still have time to go back."

Fortunately, Wei Chiyan's father, Wei Chiyao, still remembered his son, so he advised his wife, "Since you are here, let's go see Xiaoyan first."

"What's so good about it? A boy can be scared by such a thing when there is a girl around. I feel ashamed even if he doesn't feel ashamed. Can't he read more books with this time? I don't know how long the little progress he made in the last monthly exam can be maintained. He has been like this since he was a child. He is a real worry. If he were half as sensible as Xiaoli, I would feel like I could be five years younger." Ye Yan said these words with some complaint, and then felt that there was no point and wanted to leave directly. However, the moment his eyes met Xia Wan's, he felt something strange.

She looked at Xia Wan and asked, "You are the child of the Xia family who is studying abroad, right? Do you have anything to say to me?"

Ye Yan said that this kid was really strange. When he saw her just now, he was still peeking at her, but now, for some reason, he suddenly had an unhappy expression, as if she had offended him in some way.

Xia Wan had a good first impression of Ye Yan. After all, who doesn’t like beautiful women?

However, what Ye Yan just said, not to mention Wei Chiyan, even Xia Wan felt a little sad. How could a parent deny his own son in front of so many outsiders?

But Xia Wan originally thought that these were Wei Chiyan's parents after all, and some of the things she said were not appropriate, so she had been trying hard to hold back. But when Ye Yan asked her directly, she couldn't help it anymore.

She looked at Ye Yan and asked, "You and your uncle are usually very busy. If you were absent on such an important day, you would also often miss other times in Wei Chi's life."

Ye Yan didn't seem to understand what Xia Wan meant.

Wei Chiyao kindly replied to Xia Wan: "That's true. We are usually very busy with work, and Xiaoyan does spend more time with my father."

"That's enough to understand." Xia Wan nodded and said with a smile: "No wonder you can only see the things he didn't do well, but can't see all the shining points in him."

Ye Yan's bright face turned colder and she asked, "What do you mean?"

Xia Wan looked at her and said, "I just want to tell you that Wei Chi has been working hard. He wants to be a child that you are proud of. And in the eyes of us friends, Wei Chi is a very good person, kind, brave, and always sincere to his friends. We all like him very much. None of us would think that his behavior today is embarrassing or shameful, and we will never think so."

Song Zhili walked to Xia Wan's side and said the same thing on her side: "We have all seen Wei Chi's efforts and progress during this period. Even Grandpa Wei Chi is very happy. If possible, I hope you can praise him more."

Ye Yan showed some hesitation on her face, but she still said stubbornly: "That's just the progress he has made? He is still the worst among all of you. What's there to praise?"

This time, even Wei Chiyao couldn't stand it anymore. He looked at his wife and said, "Even Xiaoyan's friends said so. Don't you think you've gone too far? Why do you always belittle Ayan?"

"How did I go too far? I was telling the truth. No matter how hard he works, he can't compare to what others have accumulated over the past decade. If we don't do our best to help him pave the way for the future, what will he do in the future?" At this point, Ye Yan felt even more angry. She looked at her husband and said, "Okay, it's my fault, okay? Then you stay here, I'll leave first."

After Ye Yan finished speaking, she completely didn't want to stay here anymore, so she turned around and walked out.

Wei Chiyao looked at them, smiled gratefully, and said, "I feel relieved that Xiaoyan has friends like you. His mother is just like that. She is always unforgiving. The gifts have already been sent to the family, and the cake is on the way. I'm sorry to bother you."

It was not until Wei Chi and his wife left that Xu Yaoyao walked up and quietly pulled Xia Wan's sleeve.

Xia Wan looked at her.

Xu Yaoyao glanced at the door of the ward and tried hard to hint to her.

Xia Wan opened her eyes wide, realizing that the door had been opened without her knowing when, and was obviously ajar.

In other words...

Wei Chiyan heard everything they just said.

He would have been even sadder if he knew that his parents came on his birthday but didn't see him.

Just when Xia Wan didn't know what to do, the door was suddenly opened from the inside.

Wei Chiyan was still wearing his hospital gown, but he looked up at them as if nothing had happened and said with a smile: "What are you all doing standing outside like idiots? Come in."

It's like nothing happened.

It's like I didn't hear anything.

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A three-layer cake was delivered to the ward.

Everyone surrounded Wei Chiyan and sang Happy Birthday to him five times.

Because Wei Chiyan wanted to record a video, he always complained that some of them did not perform well. Finally, after seeing Xia Wan raising her fist, he finally chose to remain silent and blew out the candles obediently.

He closed his eyes and made a wish.

A wish that is similar to the one made under the peach tree, but not exactly the same.

When the candles were blown out, Jiang Yushi cheered enthusiastically, "Happy birthday, Wei Chiyan!"

Then they were warned by the nurse on rounds for being too noisy, and they all bowed and apologized.

The ward became quiet again.

Wei Chiyan sat cross-legged on the bed and arranged them, saying, "Each of you line up and take turns to come to me and say a blessing or compliment of varying degrees to me."

Lu Yue rolled his eyes and said, "Shame on you."

But he was still the first to walk up to Wei Chiyan and said, "I wish you can get satisfactory results in the next monthly exam."

Wei Chiyan smiled with satisfaction and didn't even think about why Lu Yue said "next time" instead of "this time".

Everyone was relatively polite and really followed Wei Chiyan's instructions and walked up to him one by one to give him praise or blessings.

The last one was Xia Wan's turn.

Xia Wan walked up to Wei Chiyan, sat down beside his bed, looked him in the eyes seriously, and said, "Wei Chi, you are a very good person."

Wei Chiyan was stunned for a moment, then looked at her helplessly: "I asked you to compliment me, and you gave me a nice guy card?"

Xia Wan waved at Wei Chiyan and said, "Come closer."

Wei Chiyan looked at Xia Wan without quite understanding, but still sat forward a little as she asked.

Xie looked at them with disgust and asked, "Is there anything else we can't listen to?"

Xia Wan did not answer, but leaned over and whispered in Wei Chiyan's ear: "Wei Chiyan, in my heart you are smarter than Song Zhili!"

Abbreviated as Great Smart!

Because it was an obvious lie, told to please Wei Chiyan, so it couldn't be heard by anyone else.

Wei Chiyan was slightly stunned.

He naturally knew that what Xia Wan said was false, but the previous sentence was not, and neither were the words she said when she argued with his mother. He could still tell the difference between such sincerity and true heart.

He thought again of that warm and sunny afternoon at the stadium, when she handed him water with a smile after he finished football practice.

There is one sentence that is wrong.

He wanted to be worthy of her trust, and hoped that when she still stood by his side in the future, he would be able to say what he said today with more pride and confidence.

Because he didn't want to make his mother proud, he wanted to make her proud.

This feeling is really getting weirder and weirder.

This is knowledge that is not found in books, emotions that the elders have never taught, answers that cannot be obtained, or a future that cannot be seen.

The author has something to say:

In the end, she should have used him.

But I can’t quite accept it. It’s almost over, so let’s just keep mixing it up. Even if Wei Chi doesn’t understand, it’s OK as long as you guys understand (keep going)

This invisible future means that Wei Chi has vaguely realized that he cannot leave Wan Wan, and that it is a very awkward relationship that goes beyond brotherhood. Don't think too much, idiots must live happily.

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