"Qiao Sang has really made something of herself. She's only in Grade One and already has three Advanced Pet Beasts. Unlike your cousin—by the time he was in Grade Three, his only pet beast had just evolved into an intermediate level."
"Isn't that so? I even held you when you were little. Who would've thought you'd grow up so much in the blink of an eye?"
"When I saw you on TV, I said this kid looked so much like Qiao Sang. I never expected you to actually be the same person. If your mother hadn't decided to throw this banquet, I wouldn't have known."
"The champion of the National Campus Pet Beast League, and in the Grade Three Section too. Doesn't that mean you're the best high school student in the country?"
"I heard you're going to Superstar Planet as an Interstellar Exchange Student. What's that school called? Is it as good as Saint Water High School?"
"I knew from the time you were little that you'd make something of yourself when you grew up. And look, you really did."
The people around her chimed in one after another.
Qiao Sang accepted the red envelopes, maintaining a polite smile.
In truth, aside from third aunt and her third uncle, she had to search her mind for quite a while to figure out who the other relatives were.
Family ties were a strange thing. They might not see each other once all year, yet whenever they met, they could always act as though they were very familiar.
As long as one family among the relatives produced someone successful, even if they were distant relatives of the most distant kind, they could still go around telling others, "So-and-so from my family is related to that person," and bask in a little