EXTRA III - A cold New Year's Eve dinner

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"Happy New Year, I wish you good health and all the best."

"Shi De, come here. Here's a red envelope for you, listen to what your father and mother say."

"Yes, thank you uncle and aunt."

"Oh, Shou Yi has grown taller! He is getting more and more beautiful. Will he go to college this year? Surely, after being admitted to medical school, you will be the future heir to the hospital!"

"Thank you aunt."

New Years was a family reunion day. Pei Shou Yi was in front of the open door with his parents, he was greeting the relatives and guests they had invited home for the New Year's dinner. The specially hired catering team were constantly busy in the kitchen. Whenever the chef prepared a dish, the service personnel immediately served the hot food. While the price to hire a team of professionals wasn't exactly cheap, it was better than booking room at a hotel. Celebrating New Years at home created a more festive atmosphere.

In a dining room large enough to seat twenty, the elders sat at one table and the younger ones at another. Everyone was talking lively, going from wishing each other good health and careers, to talking about school and the children's academic performance. Whenever this happened, it was inevitable to mention among the young people, the child with the best grades, Pei Shou Yi.

"The principal will feel very lucky, Shou Yi will definitely be admitted to the medical school. He is fantastic, unlike my son, I will have to go to the temple to express the desire to get him admitted to at least one national university. "

An important guest, who was a professor at T University of Medicine, raised his glass of wine and praised his mother Pei Shou Yi, who was the director of the hospital. The middle school boy who had come with his father stared at the boy who was sitting at his table. The one he had always felt inferior to since he was a child.

Mother Pei Shou Yi covered her mouth with her hand, unable to hide her pride, and said, "I don't know whether she will pass the exam, but if he does, in the next few years Professor Zhang I will have to trouble you for advice."

"A good student like Pei Shou Yi was what I was looking for."

The woman raised her glass and made a toast to her son's future professor: "Then thanks in advance, professor."

"Directress is very kind."

The seventeen-year-old boy, who was the protagonist of the conversation, didn't say a word from beginning to end; but he ate the food he had on his plate in silence. Although the guys at the same table were also chatting with each other, no one dared to talk to that expressionless guy.

"Pei Shou Yi, it's been over half an hour and you're still eating?"

His father, who was sitting at the head table, suddenly slammed his chopsticks on the table, regardless of whether there were other guests next to him, and spoke seriously to his son who was still eating.

The named person put down his chopsticks and got up from his chair with a cold expression. Like a robot receiving instructions, she stood up and bowed to her guests saying in a neutral voice: "Happy New Year, I'm going back to my room when I'm full."

"How do you stand here eating like a pig when your grades go down?"

Ignoring his father's contemptuous and ironic insults, the boy turned his back on the guests and silently returned to his room under the embarrassed gazes of the diners. He pulled back his chair and sat down at the desk, opened the book with the exam content that he had already reviewed before and kept repeating all the hard-to-remember concepts.

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