I Became Super Rich After Resigning-Chapter 167 - New Year’s Eve

Chapter 167 -167 New Year’s Eve

Since there was dinner for Chinese New Year’s Eve, Yuan Xi took a rest with the two children in the Huo Family ancestral house in the afternoon.

When Yuan Xi woke up from her nap, Huo Shiyan was not by her side, but her mobile phone was filled with early New Year greetings.

For the past five years, she had always spent the New Year alone at Mi Chen, where it didn’t matter where she celebrated New Year’s; to her, working overtime was even preferable, as it helped her forget the loneliness of the season.

Fortunately, this year’s New Year’s wasn’t going to be spent alone; she finally had her own light among the thousands of homes reuniting.

“Did you just wake up?”

Huo Shiyan came in from outside the door.

Yuan Xi asked, “Did you just go to check on Yixian?”

Huo Shiyan replied, “Yeah, Yixian was in the hospital removing some of the equipment from his body. He can’t make any noise for the time being, and it’s uncertain when he will be able to speak again.”

Yuan Xi said, “The fact that he’s awake is already the greatest fortune.”

The New Year’s Eve dinner was particularly lavish.

But for Xiao Shihuo and Little Yingying, the full table of dishes wasn’t as interesting as setting off fireworks, and they pleaded with Gu Hanchen to set them off.

Yuan Xi said, “Isn’t setting off fireworks forbidden throughout A City?”

Jiang City was not strict about fireworks, but A City seemed very stringent.

Gu Hanchen said, “It will be alright, won’t it?”

Huo Shiyan commented, “If you don’t mind the headline ‘Mi Chen CEO Arrested for Setting Off Fireworks on New Year’s Eve’ trending tomorrow, then it’s no problem.”

Gu Hanchen replied, “There shouldn’t be an issue with setting off small fireworks, right? Come on, Huohuo, Yingying, I’ll take you to set off some small fireworks.”

As the children laughed and cheered, the Spring Festival Gala began, and after watching it for a while, the elders found it monotonous and chose to go to sleep.

Yuan Xi and Huo Shiyan took the babies back to Yunsen Court.

Although setting off fireworks was banned throughout A City, there were still fireworks lighting up the night sky within Yunsen Court, a spectacle of fiery blooms against the dark.

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window watching the fireworks outside, Yuan Xi said, “Next year at this time, we can bring our baby to watch the fireworks together.”

Huo Shiyan wrapped his arms around Yuan Xi from behind, “I can finally spend New Year’s with you.”

Although Huo Shiyan used to go to Huxi Village every summer vacation, he would return to A City the day before New Year’s Eve, and those who had known each other since childhood had never spent New Year’s Eve together.

Every time they would promise to spend the next New Year’s Eve together, yet they never managed to.

“This is our first New Year’s together.”

Yuan Xi turned around, recalling that the first time she made the promise to spend New Year’s together might have been when she was just five or six years old—a promise that spanned over twenty years…

As the midnight chimes rang out.

Huo Shiyan whispered in Yuan Xi’s ear, “Happy birthday.”

Yuan Xi replied, “Today isn’t my birthday; my birthday is on May 3rd.”

Huo Shiyan said, “Today is your real birthday.”

Yuan Xi thought for a moment, indeed, January 29th was her real birthday, but since her parents found her three months later, they took the day they met her as her birthday.

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Yuan Xi’s phone chimed with a notification, showing birthday wishes from Yang Ying and Chu Qing, followed by alerts for transferred funds coming in.

After pondering for a moment, she sent a thank you message to each of her parents.

Once Yuan Xi sent her messages, she saw a stream of New Year’s greetings and wasn’t sure whether they were sent to groups or individually; she replied to most of those she was less familiar with in bulk, and to those she knew well with individual messages.

While replying to Mi Yi’s New Year’s greeting, Yuan Xi paused. The mass message that Mi Yi sent her this year was not personalized.

Huo Shiyuan saw Yuan Xi replying to New Year’s messages again. “You don’t have to respond to mass New Year’s greetings. Go to sleep,” he suggested.

Yuan Xi said, “I’m just selectively replying. In the past, Mi Yi’s messages to me weren’t mass messages. Even last year, after Mi Yi left the company, her messages to me weren’t mass-sent. That’s why I thought I’d reply to her.”

Yuan Xi skipped over Mi Yi’s message and began responding to other people’s New Year’s greetings.

By one o’clock, Yuan Xi was overwhelmingly sleepy and drifted off to sleep.

Because Yuan Xi was in her postnatal confinement, the Huo Family elders said there was no need for Yuan Xi and Huo Shiyuan to pay New Year’s visits this year.

However, there were quite a few friends who came to Yunsen Court to visit for the New Year.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, as Yuan Xi and Huo Shiyuan were having breakfast downstairs, Xu Zhou, Wen Zhuo, and Wen Zhuo’s sister Wen Su came to visit.

Wen Su greeted Yuan Xi with ease, “Hello, Little Xi. I’m finally meeting you. I’ve wanted to see you for a long time but never had the chance. We should have visited you at the hospital when you gave birth, but we were afraid of bothering you, so we decided to come over on the first day of the New Year instead.”

Yuan Xi looked at Wen Su in front of her and chuckled lightly, “Hello.”

Huo Shiyuan said, “Little Xi is actually four or five years older than you. How can you call her ‘Little Xi’?”

Wen Su replied, “Then it should be Sister-in-law Xiao Xi. Sister-in-law, may I see the baby?”

With a light chuckle, Yuan Xi said, “You can, but the baby is still sleeping. I hope you can keep your voice down.”

Wen Su nodded enthusiastically, “Mhm mhm, I will.”

Xu Zhou addressed Huo Shiyuan, “Yixian has awakened. I visited him last night. Even though he can’t speak yet.”

Wen Zhuo added, “I found a doctor who arrived in A City early this morning. The recovery is going well. It might also be Aunt Qian’s spirit blessing Yixian from heaven.”

Huo Shiyuan nodded, “Hmm.”

In the nursery upstairs.

Looking at the two babies, Wen Su whispered, “These babies are really too adorable.”

Yuan Xi smiled lightly.

Wen Su said, “No wonder Brother Shiyan used to talk about Little Xi all the time when he was a kid. We were jealous of him always going to see you during vacations. Now I understand, you truly are gentle. No wonder Brother Shiyan liked playing with you since childhood.”

Yuan Xi chuckled and shook her head, “Actually, I’m not that gentle.”

Wen Su looked at Yuan Xi carefully and commented, “Sister-in-law, I feel like your face looks familiar. Have I seen you somewhere before?”

Yuan Xi responded, “We have met. That time when your brother was poisoned in the car, I was the one who took him to the emergency room. We met once when you came to see your brother.”

Wen Su exclaimed, “Ah? Are you ‘Star Dailu’ pendant?”

“What Star Dailu pendant?” Yuan Xi asked.

Wen Su eagerly asked, “Was it you who dropped a Star Dailu pendant when you saved my brother?”

Yuan Xi nodded and said, “Yes, it belonged to my boss who asked me to buy it. He liked collecting Star Dailu items back then.”