“This…” Mrs. Liu was stunned.

Gu Zhisang asked: “How is your best friend’s son doing? Is he also a very smart kid?”

After being asked this question, information about that boy came to her mind.

Her best friend’s son, Xiao Hong, was indeed the smartest child she had ever seen.

Although Niuniu was not bad, she went to the best elementary school in the city, her grades were among the best in the school, and she was also studying for the Mathematical Olympiad, but she was still far behind Xiao Hong.

That boy can be said to be a child prodigy, smart enough to participate in “The Strongest Brain”.

Like Niuniu, he was only nine years old, but he already learned the knowledge of the first and second grades of junior high school. In addition, he has also been exposed to programming, mental arithmetic, memory skills… and other art learning under the cultivation of his family.

And this child was not only smart but also very good-looking. When he and Niuniu were together when they were young, they were like a pair of New Year dolls.

Since they were very small, her best friend favored Niu Niu in everything, but Xiao Hong rarely got angry. Instead, he was like a little adult and would say: ‘Niuniu is a girl and my sister, and I will protect her when she grows up. ’

When Mrs. Liu chatted with her husband in private, she also said that although her best friend had a hard life in the first half of her life, she finally got over it.

As for Xiao Hong’s body, it was true that he was weaker than Niuniu. He always catches a cold during the change of seasons.

Mrs. Liu vaguely remembered that a long time ago, when the two children were about two or three years old, she heard from her best friend that Xiao Hong was seriously ill.

But since then, he hadn’t been seriously ill.

After listening to Mrs. Liu’s brief talk, Gu Zhisang raised an eyebrow and said: “Don’t you think these situations sound familiar to you?”

The audience in the live broadcast room also said:

[A precocious young man, has an outstanding appearance and is also frail and sick. Isn’t this the standard configuration of the ‘Maiden Boy’Girl” just mentioned earlier? This boy is a proper example of a ‘Maiden Boy’, right?]

[Two children were born on the same day, one was healthy, and the other was seriously ill and dying, but the boy’s mother always let her child give way to the girl… I may be selfish, but if two children collide and quarrel, I will be biased towards my children. Can’t I be selfless as a mother? Maybe it’s my conspiracy theory, but I think this best friend is strange.]

[Upstairs thought it was strange? She is simply a living Bodhisattva! Moreover, Sangsang said that she was a ‘villain’ and she must have done some bad things.]

Seeing that Mrs. Liu still didn’t want to believe it, Gu Zhisang said:

“Do you have any photos of your best friend and her son? I need to look at them to deduce their information. If that boy is a ‘Maiden Boy’, there will be disasters in the future.”

Mrs. Liu nodded and said, “Yes.”

As she said that, she took out her phone and looked through it.

But after searching for a long time, she only found photos of her best friend.

It was only then that Mrs. Liu realized that she didn’t have any frontal photos of Xiao Hong even after such a long time. The two of them have to get together once or twice a week.

Then she remembered what her best friend said: ‘Children’s privacy is very important. It’s best not to post photos on the Moments. Who knows if there are people with malicious intentions.’

Although she felt that her best friend was too cautious, she agreed with her point of view and usually protected Niuniu’s privacy.

For example, in the circle of friends of her best friend, there were only photos of Xiao Hong’s hand holding the trophy, his back when standing on the podium, etc. There was indeed no frontal photo.

Even when the two families get together, her best friend acts as a photographer.

Only Niuniu was in the photo, while Xiao Hong only showed his body.

Mrs. Liu had never noticed this before, but now she felt strange in her heart.

She handed the phone to Gu Zhisang. On it were photos that her best friend had posted on Moments.

The woman in the photo was well-maintained, wearing expensive clothes, carrying a famous brand bag with a red manicure, and smiling proudly in the driver’s seat of a luxury car, showing the affluence and happiness of today’s life.

Although the camera’s beautification function changed her face, Gu Zhisang was able to piece together this woman’s life from several photos from different angles.

She raised her head and said to Mes. Liu:

“Your friend’s family was in a difficult situation when she was young, and the relationship between her parents and relatives was not good. I won’t say much about it. But you and she met in high school. After graduation, you were admitted to the same university. The relationship has always been good.”

“At that time, there were no accidents in your family, the family conditions were well-off, and the living expenses were much higher than ordinary students. You knew that she was in a difficult situation, so you wanted to take care of her. Most of the time when you went out to play, you paid for the bills.”

Mrs. Liu was a little surprised when she heard this because Gu Zhisang described their childhood accurately.

her best friend’s family was indeed very poor. When she was in college, her family was only willing to give her 600 yuan a month.

This resulted in her being embarrassed to ask her best friend to spend money every time she went out, fearing that her living expenses would be exhausted, and she would not be able to afford food.

They have been friends since high school. So later, when her best friend lent her money and asked her to pay for Niuniu’s medical expenses, she said: ‘You have been helping me. Now I have money to help you. What’s unacceptable?’

Mrs. Liu continued to listen:

“Your friend’s current husband is in a real estate business. He has a big business and is very rich. She is now a full-time housewife. But they are not a perfect match. When your friend married him, it didn’t go well, and it also caused some small troubles.”

Gu Zhisang’s tone was cold, and Mrs. Liu felt a little embarrassed.

Only she knew in her heart that her best friend’s love story was indeed not glorious.

When she was in her third year of college, something happened to her family. Both her parents passed away, and the family conditions plummeted, so she was busy working part-time to earn tuition and living expenses. The time she went out and played was greatly reduced.

At about that time, she discovered that her best friend had become rich, and she dressed, ate, and drank differently.

When she asked, her best friend told her that she had a rich boyfriend. Although she didn’t like her best friend spending too much money on her boyfriend at the time, she was so busy with herself that she didn’t have so much time to take care of her best friend.

She didn’t know until she was about to graduate that her best friend’s rich boyfriend was a real estate owner who was more than ten years older than her.

This man has been married once and even has a daughter. That daughter was particularly repulsive to her, so the real estate boss didn’t make any promises to her.

Mrs. Liu felt that this relationship was unreliable and tried to persuade her best friend to break up many times, but she didn’t listen.

When Mrs. Liu got married and became pregnant, she found out that her best friend was also pregnant at the same time as her, but the real estate boss didn’t marry her.

It was only after the B-ultrasound showed that it was a boy that the boss got a marriage certificate with her.

To put it harshly, it means that one rises to the top based on one’s own merits.

While in the hospital, Mrs. Liu met the real estate boss many times.

The other party kept talking about real estate projects but didn’t pay much attention to her husband who was a lawyer and herself a white-collar worker. They also heard that this man owed construction migrant workers hard-earned money, so her husband, as a lawyer, doesn’t like him either.

Later, after the birth of the two children, Mrs. Liu felt that her best friend was alienating herself.

Only half a year ago, the two of them had contact and it stopped again.

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