“You…” Jiang Fuyue looked into the man’s clear eyes. “You were pretending?”
“Otherwise your uncles would keep forcing me to drink.”
“Tsk, pretty smart.”
Xie Dingyuan smiled and subconsciously reached out to wrap an arm around her waist.
Just then Han Shen and the others came out of the dining room. Xie Dingyuan withdrew his wolf paw at lightning speed as if he’d been electrocuted.
He stopped leaning his head as well, straightened up, sat upright, like a model young man.
Jiang Fuyue: “…”
After the meal, the whole family sat together… to admire the six trophies Jiang Fuyue had received during the day.
Five individual gold awards, plus a Yau Mathematical Sciences Award gold medal, lined up in a straight row.
Little Brother Jiang swallowed, his eyes already filled with little stars, sparkling and flashing.
Han Ting was no less excited.
Some time ago he had won a city-level award in the Olympiad math competition and had been ridiculously proud of it, walking with a swagger.
Now looking at his sister’s… pile, heart stabbed.
Six national awards. A city-level award wasn’t even worthy of carrying their shoes, sob…
Han Heng moved closer to the coffee table. He touched this one, put it down, picked up that one and touched it, then put it down again before picking up the next.
“Did the IQ of our family across three generations all concentrate on Yueyue alone?”
Han Shen: Your IQ is overdue on payment; don’t drag us down with you.
Han Ke: Do you have any manners?
After touching them, Han Heng took out his phone to take photos. He shifted around trying a few angles but wasn’t satisfied. Finally he squatted down opposite Jiang Fuyue and Xie Dingyuan, focused the camera on the trophies, and snapped a picture.
“I’ll post on Weibo…”
His previous post had been not long ago, when he showed off the watch Xie Dingyuan gave him.
The official Audemars Piguet account claimed it immediately and pointed out it was a limited custom piece.
Fan comments: Brother Heng, please keep me as your sugar baby!
Haters mocked: Showing off wealth invites divine punishment.
Han Heng replied to the haters: [Sorry, what I’m showing off isn’t wealth, it’s seniority]
Now everyone was confused.
Seniority?
What the h*ll?
What could a watch possibly have to do with seniority?
Han Heng didn’t explain further.
Now, with itchy hands, he posted again. The picture was the trophies he had just taken.
Caption: Riding my niece’s popularity [cool]
【Brother Heng’s posting frequency today is ridiculously high】
【If you’ve been kidnapped, blink your eyes, we still won’t save you】
【Wow! Sister Yue’s trophies! Hua Luogeng Award, Chern Award, Zhou Weiliang Award, Xu Baolu Award, Lin Jiaqiao Award, Yau Award… my eyes are spinning】
【I suspect you secretly went into Sister Yue’s room and took out all the trophies from every competition she’s ever won to photograph them [dog head]】
【Correction: not all trophies~ These are only from the Yau College Student Mathematics Competition, which Sister Yue received all at once today】
【What the, six awards at once? What kind of thing is that?】
【Those who don’t know, please go Baidu the Yau Awards before commenting, thanks!】
【Holy, are they all gold medals?!】
【When has the Goddess Yue ever gotten second place? Doesn’t exist】
【Look what I found!!! [image]】
A sharp-eyed netizen noticed that in the background of the photo there were two hands holding each other. Although extremely, extremely, extremely blurry, they were still circled out.
Judging from the legs and pants in the photo, it appeared to be a man and a woman sitting on the sofa. The trophies were placed on the coffee table in front of them, and when Han Heng squatted down to photograph the trophies, he had also captured their legs and their clasped hands.
However, because the focus was on the trophies, the background had been automatically blurred, so everything looked very fuzzy.
Han Heng hadn’t expected that netizens’ eyes could be so sharp.
His first reaction was to delete it, but after thinking again, wouldn’t that be like denying something that didn’t exist?
Instead it would make him look guilty.
He might as well let everyone guess. After all, nothing could really be seen from the photo.
He put down his phone and ignored it.
What he didn’t know was that nowadays you could randomly pick any netizen and they’d be a “modern-day Leeuwenhoek” (the scientist who invented the microscope).
Even with the background this blurry and so little useful information, they could still pick things apart thread by thread.
First, today was Sister Yue’s birthday, and she had received awards during the day. Wouldn’t they celebrate at home at night?
This photo was clearly taken inside a home, so Sister Yue must be present.
Someone in the know jumped out and analyzed the Han family’s relationships, concluding that the one wearing jeans with legs so long and thin had to be Sister Yue.
Then the person sitting beside Sister Yue and holding hands with her so intimately could only be one person, Professor Xie!
【So the professor went to meet the parents on Sister Yue’s birthday?!】
【Just checked Audemars Piguet’s official website. In the past six months there were only two completed orders for private customized limited pieces, one from the U.S., one from China. I asked a friend internally to check the website’s order list. Among Chinese orders that were customized limited pieces, there is only one customer with the surname Xie. Screenshot as proof [image]】
【Combining that with Brother Heng’s previous Weibo reply saying he was “showing off seniority,” can we boldly guess that the person who gave Brother Heng the watch is Professor Xie? Usually when the man formally meets the woman’s parents he gives gifts. Everyone, savor that】
【But shouldn’t the gifts be for Sister Yue’s parents? Why give one to Brother Heng?】
【He definitely gave gifts to the parents too. It’s just that my Heng is more high-profile and showed his off】
【Netizen from Linhuai sending congratulations. I just did on-site reconnaissance. Today Jiang Ji Private Kitchen was run by the second chef, Uncle Sanpang. Sister Yue’s parents weren’t in the restaurant】
If they weren’t at the restaurant, where else could they be?
Of course they had come to the capital to celebrate their daughter’s birthday, and meet their future son-in-law!
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