The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 468 The Ultimate New Year's Eve Operation Plan (Part 1)
February 2011, Lunar New Year's Eve.

Lonely Corner Bar.

With the New Year approaching, this bar, known for its warm and elegant atmosphere, had already decorated itself with New Year elements a few days ago. Large red lanterns hung from the ceiling, and the characters for "fortune" and Chinese knots were visible everywhere on the windows and bar counter.

Red decorations filled the bar, and the nearby Shanghai youths did not make it deserted despite the upcoming Chinese New Year.

Perhaps because it's not yet New Year's Eve, young people who aren't going home are already feeling the New Year's atmosphere once again.

It could also be to take advantage of the warmth of the heating.

Wow! This is mind reading!

"Master Yifei, you have special abilities? That's amazing!"

In the sofa area, Hu Yifei was demonstrating her mind-reading abilities to Guan Gu Shenqi, Zeng Xiaoxian, and Zhang Wei with a deck of cards. Although everyone knew she had peeked at the cards, no one wanted to expose her and cause trouble on this festive day.

Just as Hu Yifei was feeling smug, Lu Ziqiao and Wen Sheng walked over.

"Wensheng, Ziqiao, come and see God."

"Yifei can read the numbers we're thinking about."

Upon hearing this, Lu Ziqiao and Wen Sheng exchanged a glance and then asked directly, "Really? Did she peek again?"

"..."

Seeing that everyone was trying not to laugh, Hu Yifei said angrily, "Don't you know what close-up magic is? I learned this from Brother Qian's blog!"

"Hey? Do you guys think Brother Qian will be on the Spring Festival Gala today?"

At this moment, Tang Youyou led Qin Yumo over and asked.

"I'm really looking forward to Uncle Benshan's skit this year," Qin Yumo said.

Upon hearing this, Wen Sheng raised an eyebrow. If he remembered correctly, this year should have been the last time this king of sketches performed on the Spring Festival Gala stage.

Hearing their words, Lü Ziqiao asked in a strange tone, "Really? You're all planning to watch the Spring Festival Gala today?"

"What do you want if we don't watch the Spring Festival Gala on New Year's Eve?"

"Anyway, I'm not planning to watch the Spring Festival Gala anymore. It's not worth it. You get tired of it after a while, and then you just keep watching it after you're tired of it," Zeng Xiaoxian stated.

But Zhang Wei, who was standing next to him, said, "But... watching the Spring Festival Gala is a tradition that has been going on in our country for thousands of years!"

"..."

Everyone turned to look at him with eyes full of concern for someone with intellectual disabilities.

Lu Ziqiao shook his head and said, "Think about the essence of the Spring Festival Gala. A group of handsome men and beautiful women party all night in CCTV Headquarters, while the seven of us lovelorn men and women sit in front of the TV, only able to stare blankly?"

"Hiss, now that you mention it, I feel a chill run down my spine, even though it's the New Year."

"Hey, Teacher Wen, are you planning to spend the New Year at your apartment tonight or go back to Nuolan's place?"

Tang Youyou suddenly asked.

Upon hearing this, Wen Sheng glanced at Qin Yumo before saying, "I'll be spending the New Year in my apartment, but Nuolan will come over to keep me company."

"Haha, I invited Nuolan over," Qin Yumo said with a grin.

"..."

The others didn't react much to this, because this wasn't the first time they'd seen Yu Mo and Nuolan getting so close in the past few months.

Although they couldn't understand why Yu Mo and Nuo Lan had suddenly become so close, Wen Sheng was speechless.

A while ago, when he was talking to Nuolan about where he wanted to spend the Chinese New Year, he didn't expect that Nuolan would say that Yu Mo had already sent an invitation.

Ever since Yu Mo spent one night at Nuolan's place, the two girls have gotten out of control.

I don’t know if their relationship is really getting better, but the two of them have been meeting up for meals, shopping and beauty treatments frequently in the past few months, and Yu Mo has also stayed at Nuolan’s place a few times.

Of course, Qin Yumo always went there when Wen Sheng wasn't there.

Even if Wen Sheng knew about this, he wouldn't make a fool of himself by suddenly wanting to go back there for one night.

It's not time for them to steal each other's affections yet, after all, Yu Mo and I are still "calming down".

"The more people there are, the better. Tonight, I'll show everyone my ultimate New Year's Eve operation plan!"

At this moment, Lu Ziqiao lowered his voice and said mysteriously.

Zhang Wei's expression shifted slightly: "Why does this name sound so familiar?"

"OK, I'll go back and work out the battle plan now. We'll have a meeting at the apartment in a bit. Keep your spirits up, the traditional festival of the Chinese people is coming soon!"

……

"I said, it's just going to the apartment for the New Year, you don't need so many bags and packages, do you?"

At Nuolan's house, Wensheng, who came to pick her up, saw that she had packed a lot of things and even took out a suitcase, and couldn't help but complain.

Nolan glanced at him and snorted, "It's not like we're just coming back for a meal, so of course we need to be more prepared."

After a pause, she added, "If your room can't hold it, I can put it in Yu Mo's room."

"..."

Wen Sheng felt a headache coming on whenever she brought this up.

He understands these two women less and less now.

After Nuolan finished packing, she happily took Wensheng's arm and said, "Let's go."

But just as she was about to leave, she thought for a moment and said, "Have you bought any groceries for the New Year's Eve dinner? If not, we can go buy groceries on the way."

"Buying groceries?"

Wen Sheng's eyes were strange. He knew that according to the original plot, not many of the people in the apartment would be able to have a smooth meal in the apartment tonight during the New Year.

As for the New Year's Eve dinner... they were only focused on ordering chicken wings during the meeting in the study just now.

Of course, during the meeting, Lu Ziqiao also announced the core principle of this ultimate New Year's Eve battle plan - not to watch the Spring Festival Gala!
However, although Wen Sheng verbally agreed to join, he didn't really take it seriously.

Anyway, nobody's going to follow the plan!

"Okay, let's go buy groceries first."

Since he knew that no one would follow the plan tonight, Wen Sheng didn't tell Nuolan what everyone had said in the previous meeting.

After packing their things, the two went to buy groceries hand in hand.

Although the two had another argument a few months ago over the perfume incident, as the old saying goes, couples who quarrel in bed make up before they get out of bed.

How could there possibly be couples in this world who never argue? Well... except for those who are overly devoted to their partners.

Just like the time at the foot massage parlor, the two had another argument, but it didn't have much of an impact.

After all, the two of them didn't start arguing with the intention of breaking up.

……

Love Apartment 3601.

As soon as Wensheng and Nuolan stepped out of the elevator, they saw a delivery guy with blond hair rush into the elevator as if his life depended on it, and then frantically press the close button.

After the elevator doors closed, Nolan asked curiously, "What's going on?"

Wen Sheng shook his head, feeling that the other person looked somewhat familiar.

Nuolan didn't pay much attention to these things. Carrying only some groceries, she walked to the door of 3601 and rang the doorbell.

Less than two seconds later, the door opened.

"You dare to come back?! Do you believe I, the lawyer, will...?"

Zhang Wei, his face contorted with anger, glared at her and then immediately shut his mouth after saying only half a sentence.

Nuolan's smile froze: "Zhang Wei, aren't you welcoming me?"

"No! How could that be! Welcome, sister-in-law, to celebrate the New Year with us!"

Zhang Wei's expression quickly changed, and he explained, "What I said just now wasn't to you, sister-in-law, but to the delivery guy. I thought it was him coming back again?" Hearing this, Nuolan's expression softened slightly.

"A food delivery guy? What's going on?"

"Just now, our lawyer Zhang used his professional skills to spend an extra 150 yuan to buy a box of crayfish from that food stall deliveryman—oh wait, I mean, a reward for justice!"

At this moment, Hu Yifei walked over and said sarcastically, then looked at Nuolan and said, "Nuolan, you're here. Come in quickly and I'll slowly tell you what just happened."

Wen Sheng, who was following behind, suddenly realized who the blond-haired deliveryman was.

The deliveryman stole five of the chicken wings Zhang Wei ordered, but Zhang Wei assumed the food stall was shortchanging him. To demonstrate his lawyer's wisdom, he decided to bribe the deliveryman.

So Zhang Wei ordered another serving of chicken wings and tried the red envelope strategy, offering red envelopes ranging from ten yuan to fifty yuan, then to one hundred yuan, but the deliveryman wouldn't budge.

Seeing that he had lost both his wife and his money, Zhang Wei wanted to get the red envelope money back, but he was too embarrassed to ask directly. So he could only hint to the other party to send back a red envelope. As a result, the deliveryman returned ten yuan to him... plus a box of crayfish.

After this back and forth, Zhang Wei directly lost 150 yuan.

Unexpectedly, on the last day of this transition between the old and new years, he lost the largest sum of money he had made that year.

No, it's not just 150...

“Oh, Attorney Zhang, I almost forgot, you’re allergic to lobsters. It seems you’re not fortunate enough to receive this reward for your justice.”

At that moment, Zhang Wei felt that his emotional loss far exceeded the 150 yuan.

After listening to Hu Yifei's story, Nuolan covered her mouth and chuckled. After interacting with the people in the apartment for some time, she had a fairly deep impression of them.

Just as Wen Sheng said before, these guys are really funny.

She's good-looking and has a pleasant voice...

However, for some reason, Zhang Wei seems to have a lot of bad luck.

Last month, she heard that Zhang Wei picked up an expensive lighter and pretended to smoke in bars every day. However, because he didn't know how to use a lighter, he ended up burning off a lot of his eyebrow.

In addition, his fiancée ran away from the wedding, he was dumped before he even held hands with Moran, and instead of picking up girls, he got engaged to Lu Ziqiao, and so on.

Nuolan, who overheard these gossips from Wensheng and Yumo, couldn't help but sigh, wondering how such unlucky kids could exist these days.

He's the epitome of A-Shuai (a character from a popular Chinese TV show).

"By the way, Nuolan, aren't you doing a live stream tonight?"

After Nuolan packed her things into Wensheng's room, Hu Yifei asked curiously.

"No need. Tonight is the Spring Festival Gala. All the listeners will be watching the Gala. Who will listen to the radio? I've already taken a break."

"Then why did Zeng Xiaoxian say he's going to do a live broadcast tonight? He's already at the radio station recording it."

"Well..." Director Nuo thought for a moment and said, "It's probably because Zeng Xiaoxian took too many days off this year, and his attendance rate didn't meet the standard."

She paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "After all, this will affect the year-end bonus."

Given the frequent unforeseen events at the apartment, Zeng Xiaoxian's ability to guarantee almost 100% participation rate must require some adjustments to the schedule.

Actually, there were quite a few episodes of "Your Moon, My Heart" this year that were special episodes featuring Nolan.

As a leading lady and pillar of the station, Nuolan is not only an excellent host, but also has a very high attendance rate.

After hearing Nuolan's words, Hu Yifei nodded, but at the same time felt speechless at Zeng Xiaoxian. She had thought he was so dedicated that he would stay at his post even on New Year's Eve.

At this moment, Zhang Wei, who was staring at the box of spoils on the table, swallowed hard and then turned to vent his anger on another box of chicken wings.

However, when he saw Wen Sheng start washing vegetables, he asked in surprise, "Brother Sheng, are you planning to cook?"

“Of course we have to eat New Year’s Eve dinner on New Year’s Eve,” Wen Sheng said without looking up.

“That makes sense,” Zhang Wei affirmed first, then added, “It’s a pity we can’t watch the Spring Festival Gala, otherwise it would be even more perfect.”

Nuolan asked curiously, "Why can't we watch the Spring Festival Gala? We can just turn on the TV."

"Hey! That won't work!"

Hu Yifei immediately refused, and then explained, "Today, the two of us in the suite made a 'no watching the Spring Festival Gala' plan for New Year's Eve. Anyone who watches the Spring Festival Gala will be looked down upon."

"..."

Nuolan felt a little strange, but nodded and said, "I see. So, what are your plans for tonight?"

"Don't worry about that. Our ultimate New Year's Eve battle plan has plenty of activities, it will definitely be more fun than watching the Spring Festival Gala!"

Hu Yifei smiled smugly.

Upon hearing this, Nuolan turned to look at Wensheng. Why hadn't she heard him mention this on the way here?

But now is not the time to dwell on this. Nuolan smiled and said, "That's good. The Spring Festival Gala is just so-so. By the way, where are Yumo and Youyou?"

"Oh, they're setting up the room next door."

……

"Now, let's begin the show. Here are four paint jars: red, blue, green, and black. But three of them are empty, and only one has paint..."

In the evening, in the Guan Gu Painting Studio, suite 3602.

As a staunch supporter of mind-reading, Guan Gu Shenqi, in order to prevent Hu Yifei from continuing to tarnish his beliefs, invited Mouri Shinbei, whom he considered the true master of mind-reading, to perform his own mind-reading act.

Seeing the educational value of his mind-reading ability in Sekiya, Shinbei Mori decided to pass on the secrets of his mind-reading to Sekiya, and now was the time for him to demonstrate it.

However, just as Shinbei Mori asked Qin Yumo to come on stage to help with the performance, the studio door was pushed open.

"Hello! So you're here!" Nuolan peeked out from the half-open door and said with a smile.

"Oh, Nolan, you're here!"

Qin Yumo's face lit up with surprise, and she rushed over to hug Nuolan, who had just entered.

Guan Gu Shenqi and Tang Youyou exchanged a glance, their unspoken understanding unspoken.

"When did you come?"

"I've been here for a while. I was just helping Wensheng prepare the vegetables next door!" Nuolan smiled, then greeted Guangu and Youyou before looking at the man with the yellow hair and floral tie.

"By the way, what are you doing?"

Guan Gu Shenqi immediately replied, "Master Mori is a true mind-reading superpower user. I specially invited him to come and demonstrate mind-reading. He even said he would teach me the secrets of mind-reading!"

On stage, Shinbei Mori smiled modestly and said in his equally rudimentary Chinese, "Not at all, it's just a chicken eating a worm, nothing to brag about!"

"..."

Guan Gu Shenqi added, "By the way, where are Wen Sang and the others? Tell them to come and see Master Maoli's superpowers, especially Yi Fei. We must let her see what real mind-reading is like!"

“Oh, they’re probably busy right now.” Nuolan shook her head. “Yifei is on a video call with her brother, Wensheng is busy cooking, and Zhang Wei…”

At this point, Nolan paused slightly before adding, "He's memorizing legal provisions."

"What?! He's still memorizing on New Year's Eve? Zhang Wei is really pushing himself!" Tang Youyou exclaimed in surprise.

Nolan's expression turned somewhat strange; it seemed this loser was only trying to get back the 150 yuan.

……

3601 next door.

Wen Sheng looked at Zhang Wei, who was sitting on the sofa, seriously memorizing legal provisions in a small notebook, and was quite speechless.

These are all lawyers, so why is there such a big difference between the lawyers I know?

While chopping vegetables, Wen Sheng suddenly chuckled, seemingly lost in thought.

"Dingling bell~"

Just then, Wen Sheng's phone rang. He put down the kitchen knife, picked it up, and immediately raised his eyebrows.

It's like whatever comes to mind comes to pass!
"Happy New Year's Eve, Sister Saint. What are your instructions?"

(End of this chapter)