Chapter 11

◎The Worst Birthday Party in History◎

As soon as he got off the taxi, he saw Zhu He standing at the door of the hot pot restaurant to greet him.

"Zhu He, happy birthday!" Du Ningyang shouted from a distance, and Xu Zhaolin and Zhu Yao followed suit and shouted "Happy Birthday".

"Oh, what are you happy about? You're a 20-year-old man!" The little brats were so loud and unrestrained, as if they wanted the whole world to hear them. They were attracting attention on the street. Zhu He scratched his head, feeling embarrassed.

Yes, they were all in their teens.

Zhu He introduced in detail: "It's in the Liwan private room. Turn left after entering the door and walk to the end. I've ordered some dishes first. You can see if it's enough. If not, you can add more. Just order what you like. Anyway, I'm treating you, so don't worry and be generous."

"Aren't you going in? Who are you waiting for?" Zhu Yao couldn't help feeling scared when he thought that there would be many strange strangers in the private room.

Zhu He waved his hand to reassure Zhu Yao, "Don't worry, there will be only a few people at noon, and there will be more people at night. You are very familiar with Brother Shaohui, you have been to his house for dinner; the other brother is called Aliang, he is a new friend I met in the Dreamwalking Universe, he is very good at operation - and he is very handsome, very much like your favorite Zhou Yimin. You go in first, there is another friend who hasn't come yet, I will wait for her."

Zhu Yao was relieved and called Du Ningyang and Xu Zhaolin to go in together. Xu Zhaolin said as he walked, "Looks like Zhou Yimin? How is it possible? Zhu He always adds filters to his friends. You should persuade him to change this bad habit of talking nonsense."

Zhu Yao agreed and nodded desperately like a chicken pecking at rice, while Du Ningyang followed behind to hold back her laughter. In her crossbody bag was the small Bluetooth speaker she saved money to buy for Zhu He. She carefully selected it for a long time and spent a small amount of money, secretly hoping to please him.

After pushing open the door and entering the private room, Shaohui and Aliang were chatting happily about the fantasy universe, dancing with joy; as expected, Aliang did not look like Zhou Yimin, but just an extremely ordinary four-eyed chicken.

"Hi." "Hi." "Hi." "Hi." "Hi." "Hi."

After the hi-hi, the private room fell into an awkward silence.

Shaohui was Zhuge's junior high school classmate, and they had established a stable overnight relationship for many years. He had also met Zhu Yao several times, so he greeted: "Sister Zhu Yao, you are here too."

"Yes," Zhu Yao was stunned, and mechanically called: "Brother Shaohui."

"Yeah." "Yeah."

The atmosphere fell into awkwardness again.

——When they looked at each other in bewilderment, Aliang found a topic, "I heard that Youshen is coming today, I wonder if she will come at noon or in the evening."

"At noon, Zhuhe is waiting for her," Shaohui said, "Uh, your brother Gabe."

Thanks to Zhuhe's day and night fighting monsters to level up, and also krypton gold, almost all of his time and money have been spent on this game. He has a high level in the Dreamwalking Universe and has established a gang. He can be regarded as a "prominent and top-notch" figure. He

is called Brother Gabe in the world.

"Youshen's operation is really amazing, and few girls can play so well," Aliang praised Youshen repeatedly when talking about Youshen, "I have seen her post technical posts in the forum, and the strategies for several big bosses she has released are particularly wonderful. Gabe is really amazing, to be able to get along so well with her."

Shaohui: "That's right, they level up together every day, sometimes all night."

Leveling up together every day means that there is a lot of time to discuss and chat together every day.

Zhu Yao and Xu Zhaolin were busy playing with their phones, not paying attention to the conversation between the two, because Zhu He had made many friends in the game, and it was not surprising that there were girls among them.

Du Ningyang, on the other hand, was listening with his ears pricked up, and suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. He became afraid for some reason, afraid of seeing You Shen, afraid that she was very beautiful, and afraid that she would have a conversation with Zhu He.

"Then after lunch, shall we go to the Internet cafe in the afternoon?" Aliang was very excited. "I'll play with Youshen and take screenshots as a souvenir!"

"Of course, he has already left the computer with the owner of the Internet cafe," Shaohui patted Aliang on the shoulder. "Jiabei is a very good friend."

Shaohui suddenly asked: "Zhu Yao, have you seen Youshen? Is she pretty in real life?"

"Where can I see her?" Zhu Yao raised her head with a puzzled expression. "I haven't even heard my brother talk about this person."

Shaohui was a little disappointed. "Oh, he sometimes video chats with Youshen. I thought you would know since you live with him."

Zhu Yao was speechless and said, "How can I see him video chatting? You don't know what my parents' attitude is towards online games. He doesn't even dare to turn on the computer at home. He is a complete coward!"

What? Video!

Du Ningyang's alarm bells immediately rang. He straightened his back and stared at the door, ready for battle.

She was lucky. What if Youshen was ugly? After all, Zhu He has a friend filter - after all, he also said that Aliang looks like Zhou Yimin.

The appearance of Youshen shattered her fantasy.

Cold and beautiful, this is the first time she has seen such a person in her life, a cool big sister, dressed in black, black hair, black eyes, black lace necklace, black windbreaker, cool from the inside out, with cold eyes, as if she can justifiably look down on anyone.

What a beautiful mature woman! Zhu Yao and Xu Zhaolin fell silent and cast sympathetic glances at Du Ningyang.

Zhu He led Youshen to an empty seat, "Now that everyone is here, let's start. Thank you all for coming to my twentieth birthday. Everyone here today is my very good friend and someone who is very important to me."

As he spoke, his eyes fell on Youshen.

Well, I didn't believe it before, but this time Du Ningyang really understood what it meant to spend every second like a year - Zhu He kept circling around You Shen, as attentive as if she was the host of this birthday party, helping her wash chopsticks and heat bowls, helping her rinse tripe, helping her pour soda...

Even Shao Hui teased, "You Shen, I've never seen him like this before, you should take care of him, at least treat him equally, and give us some tripe to eat." You Shen

covered her mouth, her eyes curved, looking at Zhu He, obviously smiling.

Zhu He immediately put down his chopsticks, his tone very proud, "Ahem, don't be so self-indulgent, don't I have no face? Of course I only serve my wife."

Du Ningyang was struggling with a piece of frozen tofu, and when she heard this, the frozen tofu won, with the hot red oil, burning her upper palate, causing two disobedient tears to overflow from the corners of her eyes.

The voice in her mind tried hard to convince herself that she was just blinded by the red oil.

Xu Zhaolin and Zhu Yao immediately turned to her with horrified expressions, while the rising fragrant steam covered the faces of the three of them with different expressions.

"Fuck, you guys? You and Youshen?" Aliang's jaw almost dropped on the table, "Oh my God, oh my God, this can also be considered explosive news in the sleepwalking universe, right?"

Shaohui was also very surprised, "When did it happen? You are so disloyal!! You didn't even tell your brother in advance!!"

Zhu He looked at Youshen lovingly and said gently, "Well, I just found out about this - she originally said that she would not give me a gift since she came all the way to see me, but when we were at the door of the hot pot restaurant, she said that she was embarrassed to come empty-handed, so she gave herself to me."

So corny.

Youshen would actually say such a thing?

Zhu He, this kid, actually made Youshen say such a thing!

Youshen blushed immediately, covered her face with her hands, and said shyly: "Zhu Jiabei! You, you, you are so talkative?"

"What's the matter, these are all my best friends," Zhuhe pointed at Zhu Yao, "Look, that's my sister, you have met my family."

Youshen raised his glass in the direction of Zhu Yao, Zhu Yao also raised his glass and replied, "Um, Youshen, hello."

Youshen said: "My online name in real life is weird, let me introduce myself again. My name is Wu You, with Wu on the top and You on the bottom of the heart. I'm from Shenzhen, and I'm a sophomore at Shenzhen University, studying computer science. You can call me Wu You or Ayou."

"No wonder you are so good at playing games," Aliang said with emotion: "So you are a professional player!"

Wu You smiled lightly, "Not really, sometimes Zhuhe plays my account. He is really good. He has no weaknesses in playing any hero. He is an all-round player."

"Are you going to change your name?" Shaohui looked like a gossip, "It should be - all-round husband."

"Haha, that's right!"

"Eat your food and don't tease your sister-in-law!"

Zhu He and Wu You, even their names match each other. Du Ningyang pouted, wanting to cry but unable to.

Zhu Yao stood up and patted Du Ningyang and Xu Zhaolin on the shoulders, "Let's go back to the studio first, we have a small test in the afternoon."

"You haven't even eaten a few bites yet," Zhu He looked at the time and advised, "It's not even one o'clock yet, you can eat until one twenty and take a taxi back to the studio."

"We need to sober up before the exam, let's go buy coffee in advance," Zhu Yao insisted and pushed open the door of the box, "Du Ningyang, Xu Zhaolin, let's go."

On the way back, Du Ningyang was in a low mood, staring out the window in a daze, not saying a word. Xu Zhaolin tried desperately to wink at Zhu Yao, asking her to say something to relieve her tension.

Zhu Yao also winked back at Xu Zhaolin, meaning "nothing you say will help!"

Du Ningyang spoke first, "Zhu Yao, thank you for what happened just now."

Otherwise, she really couldn't hold it in...

Zhu Yao looked at Du Ningyang sympathetically, "It's also my fault. I didn't find out in advance about his recent situation. But, there is a poem that says it well - there are many better people in the world, why bother looking for one person? There are few people in Huaicheng, and the quality is not good besides. There are greener mountains beyond the mountains, and there are taller buildings beyond the buildings. You don't have to worry if he doesn't love you. There are so many handsome guys around you, who isn't gentler than him?"

"Yes, yes, yes, yes," Xu Zhaolin hurriedly echoed, "Good poem! Good poem! Wonderful! Wonderful!"

"Ouch," Du Ningyang touched the small square box in the canvas bag, with a bitter face, "I forgot to give him the speaker. What should I do? I can't go back."

It would be better to let her die by hitting her head against tofu than to let her see Zhu He and Wu You being so affectionate.

Zhu Yao suggested: "Why don't you find someone else to send congratulations? There's no point in sending congratulations now, it's a waste of money."

"But I picked it specially for him! No one else can use it," Du Ningyang said aggrievedly, "Why am I so miserable?"

Xu Zhaolin asked weakly: "What are your plans for the future? You can't like congratulations anymore, right?"

Du Ningyang said honestly: "I don't know. What if online dating is unstable? What if they break up right away?"

Zhu Yao punched Du Ningyang on the back, feeling very disappointed with him, "This is really the worst birthday party in history. I order you to find someone else to like!"

"Got it," Du Ningyang walked into the studio dejectedly, full of resentment.