Night Fire Lingering

Chapter 232 Husband, Husband!

The next day.

Wen Yan got up early, planning to take a look at the birthday gifts sent by each family before going to school, so that she could give return gifts later.

The servants had already registered all the gifts in advance and categorized them according to different types such as jewelry, tonics, and antiques.

Wen Yan's gaze fell on a name in the gift book: Jiang Huaixu.

"My senior gave me a birthday present? When did he give it to me? How come I didn't know?" Wen Yan ran to the living room with the gift book in her hand.

Gu Yanci was holding a short morning meeting in the living room when he heard the noise and looked over. He saw Wen Yan barefoot on the floor again, her face beaming with delight.

"Wen Zhizhi, you're not wearing shoes again." His voice was somewhat cold. "Couldn't you at least try to act a little happier?"

“It’s summer already…” Wen Yan subconsciously wiggled her toes. “I saw in the booklet that Senior Jiang gave a gift?”

"Is there a problem?" Gu Yanci asked expressionlessly.

That expression carried a 'you better think carefully about what you're going to say' threat.

Wen Yan knew he minded Jiang Huaixu, so she walked over and hugged the man's neck, tilting her head and smiling: "Did you agree to him giving it to you? Mr. Gu, you are so magnanimous!"

Gu Yanci pulled her down onto his lap with a slight force, and wrapped one arm around her waist: "Wen Zhizhi, you're playing tricks on me."

"I don't!"

"I threw away that lousy necklace he gave me. He really loves giving you jewelry!"

Gu Yanci said he was going to stand up.

Wen Yan quickly hugged his waist: "Husband, husband!"

The title seemed to tighten around Gu Yanci's neck, causing him to stop instantly. However, when the man looked over, his face was still full of displeasure.

"I thought you didn't like your senior and didn't want me to accept his gift," Wen Yan said with a smile. "Thank you, Gu Yanci!"

Gu Yanci did not deny it: "Wen Zhizhi, I do hate him."

"Then why did you make him give the gift to me?"

Gu Yanci paused for two seconds before saying, "I feel sorry for the patient."

—Who can tell whether that gift contained Gu Jingzhou's last wish?

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Jiang Xing waited for Wen Yan at the south gate to enter the school together.

As soon as Wen Yan arrived, I shared several links from WeChat with her.

The campus clubs' posts were flooded with news about Nan Zhiyi's birthday party, and Wen Yan only then remembered that Nan Zhiyi had held a birthday party.

In the short ten-minute walk from the South Gate to the classroom, Wen Yan heard several students from other colleges expressing their envy of Nan Zhiyi.

"Why are you showing me this?" Wen Yan didn't think Jiang Xing was trying to upset her.

Jiang Xing kept everyone in suspense, then smiled mysteriously: "You'll find out soon enough!"

Today's meeting is a large group meeting, mainly for discussion, so the atmosphere in the classroom is relaxed.

When Wen Yan and Jiang Xing arrived at the classroom, the students were gathered together talking, and Nan Zhiyi was in the middle of the group.

"Zhiyi, to be honest, I envy you so much. Being born into a different family brings you different resources!"

"I'm sorry, Zhiyi. I used to doubt whether you really plagiarized Wen Yan's work. I was so narrow-minded! Your family can afford to throw you such a lavish birthday party. They could easily hand you a C-magazine. You don't need to get your hands dirty for this second-hand opportunity."

"Yes, even if you can't do it yourself, you can always hire a ghostwriter, which is safer than copying Wen Yan's work—I'm just saying this is a hypothetical situation, a hypothetical situation!"

……

As Nan Zhiyi listened to everyone's comments, she wore a polite smile and her eyes revealed satisfaction.

After everyone had finished speaking, Nan Zhiyi finally spoke up: "Actually, as you've all noticed, my relationship with Yan is... rather complicated. I have no opportunity to access her personal belongings, let alone sensitive content like data analysis."

The surrounding classmates nodded in agreement.

"Sh-!"

Suddenly, someone noticed Wen Yan standing at the classroom door.

The atmosphere in the classroom suddenly became awkward, and everyone looked at Wen Yan, unsure of what to say.

"Did I come at the wrong time?" Wen Yan broke the silence.

"No, no!" everyone laughed.

The atmosphere remained awkward, and everyone looked at Wen Yan with somewhat strange expressions.

Suddenly, someone said, "We're just wondering, if Zhiyi couldn't be the plagiarist, then who could it be?"

"Song Yudie, you're not a student in our college, are you? What are you doing here?" Wen Yan said with a smile. "Oh, you're not even a graduate student. Do you even know what a group meeting is for?"

The person who spoke was Song Yudie.

She was wearing a bright red puff-sleeved short dress, standing closest to Nan Zhiyi—at Nan Zhiyi's birthday party the day before yesterday, Song Yudie was the only student from the Foreign Languages ​​Department.

"you--"

Just as Song Yudie was about to speak angrily, Nan Zhiyi spoke first: "Yan, Yudie just came to talk to me and will leave after class. We haven't started class yet, so it should be okay for her to go into the classroom, right?"

Of course it doesn't matter, Song Yudie said that on purpose!

Jiang Xing placed his laptop in the first row below the podium and asked curiously, "Then the fireworks I saw the night before last, were they set off by Miss Nan's family?"

Jiang Xing has always stood out at school. She is a well-known academic star and talented girl. She is aloof and intelligent. She doesn't have any particularly close classmates, but she gets along well with almost all of them. She is a popular person who is invited to everyone's birthday party.

Therefore, when Jiang Xing and Wen Yan appeared together, no one thought that Jiang Xing and Wen Yan had a special relationship.

Wen Yan paused briefly: Didn't Jiang Xing know that Gu Yanci set off the fireworks for her?

However, the next second, Nan Zhiyi nodded with a smile: "Yes, senior, how did you know? If you hadn't had something to do the day before yesterday and couldn't come, you would have been able to see the fireworks live!"

"Wow! I was just about to say that the fireworks were so beautiful! I haven't seen fireworks since the smoking ban!"

"No wonder I seemed to be looking at a string of tiny 'happy birthday' messages that day; I thought I was seeing things!"

"Zhiyi, why didn't you say this before! So many people are talking about these fireworks, and everyone who saw them feels so lucky!"

……

Seeing that everyone was even more excited because of the fireworks, Nan Zhiyi quickly smiled and said, "This was all arranged by my mother. I didn't know at first."

Jiang Xing glanced at Wen Yan, a sly smile flashing in his eyes.

Wen Yan blinked.

She roughly knew what Jiang Xing was planning to do.

There is no dispute about who set off the fireworks for whom, because the observation deck of the private mansion where Wen Yan's birthday party was held was the best spot to watch the fireworks, without exception. That string of 'happy birthday' was directly facing her!

Song Yudie gave Wen Yan a provocative look: "Zhiyi's family can get approval to set off fireworks, why would they care about a second chance? Some people are really laughable!"