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Chapter 203 IF Path - New Year's Gift

Irresponsible IF Side Story - 07

A few days after Chi Yuan's birthday came the final exams, followed by the end of the year.

As the year draws to a close, Jiang Haochen gets busier and busier, filming, dealing with dramas, and receiving invitations to various TV stations' New Year's Eve galas. Jiang Haochen is so busy that he barely has time to sleep.

Chi Yuan didn't get to see Jiang Haochen until Lunar New Year's Eve. Even when he sent messages, it would take several hours for Jiang Haochen to reply.

However, on New Year's Eve, Jiang Haochen still took the time to call him.

Jiang Haochen: "Have you had your New Year's Eve dinner?"

Chi Yuan: "Eating now?"

Jiang Haochen: "What did you eat?"

Chi Yuan: "We had everything. The company booked a private room at the hotel, and everyone was there. The food was very good."

While the artists are busy, their teams are equally busy, so even during the Chinese New Year, people from all departments of Tianyu are still working. To prevent everyone from spending the New Year alone, Tianyu booked New Year's Eve dinners well in advance, allowing colleagues who were working overtime during the holiday to get together and celebrate the New Year together.

Chi Yuan is nominally a trainee of Tianyu, so naturally he can also come to eat the New Year's Eve dinner.

Actually, at first, Jiang Haochen wanted Chi Yuan to go back to his hometown for the Spring Festival, but the child had a very unhappy year there, so Jiang Haochen stopped letting him go back.

Jiang Haochen: "Any plans after dinner?"

Chi Yuan: "They were planning to go to karaoke, but I went back to my dorm after I finished eating."

Chi Yuan lives in Tianyu's employee dormitory in City B. This was arranged by Xu Mo. Initially, Xu Mo didn't quite trust Chi Yuan, fearing that if Chi Yuan lived at Jiang Haochen's house, he might leak Jiang Haochen's privacy. Later, he found that living in the dormitory was more convenient, as the employee dormitory had a canteen and cleaning ladies. If he lived at Jiang Haochen's house, this guy was so busy that he rarely came home for more than a few days a year, which would be inconvenient.

Jiang Haochen: "Okay."

"Brother Jiang, it's time to board."

On the other end of the phone, I could hear Xiao Cui urging me on.

Chi Yuan asked in surprise, "Brother, you're still at the airport?"

Jiang Haochen nodded: "I'm in S City, and I'll be flying back to B City soon. You can see your brother on the Spring Festival Gala stage around 10 o'clock. He'll be playing the piano tonight, and he'll be super cool."

Chi Won: "Brother is handsome even when he's not playing the piano."

Jiang Haochen boasted, "That's why I look even more handsome when I play the piano. You have to look closely."

Chi Yuan smiled and nodded: "Mm."

Jiang Haochen: "That's all for now, time to board."

Chi Yuan: "Okay."

After hanging up the phone, Chi Yuan felt a little regretful. His brother was concerned about him having New Year's Eve dinner, but he forgot to ask his brother if he had eaten New Year's Eve dinner.

Before eight o'clock, Chi Yuan returned to his dormitory.

He turned on the TV and then took out the Lego set, which was a New Year's gift from Xu Mo.

He sat alone on the carpet in his room, using the Spring Festival Gala as background music, slowly assembling Lego, until the Gala host called out his brother's name.

Chi Yuan then stopped what he was doing, turned up the volume on the TV, and focused on watching it.

On the television, Jiang Haochen was dressed in a pure white suit. He sat upright in front of the piano. The camera swept across his delicate eyebrows and eyes, and then landed on his slender fingers. His fingers then danced, easily playing a series of beautiful pieces of music.

Chi Yuan knew his brother could play the piano; his brother's mother was a pianist, and his brother had been learning the piano since he was a child. However, this was the first time Chi Yuan had ever heard his brother play the piano.

According to his brother, his piano playing was mediocre, and his mother was ashamed of him and wouldn't let him play in public.

However, Chi Yuan thought his brother played the instrument very well, and not only did he play it well, but he also sang it very well. After the song ended, his brother's solo performance became a trending topic on Weibo.

I never knew Jiang Yingdi could sing and play instruments; he's amazing!

{Indeed, men who play the piano are the most charming.}

Handsome, a great actor, and a pianist—can such a perfect person really exist?

I really want to know who Jiang Yingdi will be spending New Year's Eve with tonight.

Chi Yuan stared at the comments on Weibo, then glanced at Jiang Haochen interacting with the host on TV, and couldn't help but send a message: {Brother, can you go straight home now that your performance is over?}

He remembered Xu Mo saying that after the Spring Festival Gala performance, if the production team did not specifically request it, they could leave early.

After sending the message, there was no reply for a long time. Chi Yuan guessed that his brother might not be able to leave early, so he continued to build Lego and occasionally looked up at the TV screen, hoping to find Jiang Haochen in the audience.

Around 11:30, Chi Yuan's phone suddenly rang.

It was Jiang Haochen's call.

Chi Yuan quickly answered the phone: "Brother."

Jiang Haochen: "Let's go downstairs."

Chi Yuan was startled. He ran to the balcony and looked down, just in time to meet his brother's gaze. His brother, wearing a black down jacket and a red scarf, was leaning against the car, smiling and waving at him amidst the falling snow.

"Come down, there's a New Year's gift for you."

Chi Yuan put on his coat, grabbed the New Year's gift he had prepared in advance, and ran down from the third floor in one breath.

"Brother." The boy's clear voice still carried the panting from running.

Jiang Haochen, who was downstairs, had already heard the boy's running footsteps: "Why are you running so fast? I'm not going to take the gift back."

Chi Yuan smiled and shook his head. He wasn't afraid that his brother would take the gift back. His brother's appearance was already the best New Year's gift for him.

When Jiang Haochen left the backstage of the gala, he gave Xiao Cui a day off. He originally planned to go straight back to his apartment, but after seeing the WeChat message from the child, he thought that the child was also spending the New Year alone, so he came here first.

Jiang Haochen noticed what the child was holding: "A New Year's present for me?"

Chi Yuan nodded and handed the gift to Jiang Haochen with both hands: "I made this myself."

Jiang Haochen asked curiously, "You made this yourself? What is it?"

Chi Yuan enthusiastically introduced, "It's a solar charger, which I designed and made myself. It's a bit better than the solar chargers on the market. The solar panel can be folded up. When you're not using it, you can fold it up to about the size of your palm. When you need to use it, unfold it and put it in the sun to dry. It can store electricity, and the capacity is enough to power a laptop for eight hours. Brother, if you go out to film in the future and go to a place where it's inconvenient to charge your phone, just take it with you."

Jiang Haochen knew immediately that the boy had put his heart into it. He had complained about the inconvenience of charging when he was filming in the desert before, and the solar charger he bought was not working well. He didn't expect the boy to remember it and even design this himself.

Jiang Haochen was touched: "I really like it, thank you."

Chi Yuan smiled shyly: "I'm glad you like it, brother. I'll make you something even better in the future."

"Then I'll wait." Jiang Haochen smiled as he put away the gift. "But compared to your gift, mine seems less thoughtful."

Chi Yuan shook his head and quickly said, "I like anything that my brother gives me."

Jiang Haochen laughed: "Then guess what my gift to you is?"

Chi Yuan shook his head, indicating that he couldn't guess.

Jiang Haochen reached out and took off the red scarf from his neck, then casually wrapped it around the boy's neck.

Chi Yuan was stunned for a moment, because the scarf still carried his brother's body temperature when it was wrapped around him. As soon as this thought came to mind, the boy's breathing became disordered.

Jiang Haochen: "Look, what's this?"

Jiang Haochen grabbed a corner of the scarf and showed it to Chi Yuan.

Chi Yuan glanced over and caught sight of a somewhat familiar badge: "The Tsinghua and Peking University school badges?"

Jiang Haochen nodded: "I met the presidents of Tsinghua and Peking Universities backstage at the Spring Festival Gala. His granddaughter is a fan of mine and asked me for an autograph. I said, 'What a coincidence! I have a younger brother who will take the college entrance exam next year and wants to get into Tsinghua or Peking University. Does the president have anything that can bring me good luck?' So he gave me this scarf."

Jiang Haochen carefully helped the boy wrap the scarf tightly: "Wishing my brother success in the new year."