Chapter 65: American-style Birthday Ba Zi
The bar.
"Is that appropriate?"
Hearing that familiar line and tone, Adam instinctively leaned back tactically. Only then did he remember that the Monica before him was not the legendary Hu Yifei, merely Hu Yifei's prototype.
They shared the same explosive competitive streak. Monica's manifested as a fighting spirit, while Hu Yifei's had become the Bullet Flick ultimate art of "reasoning with people."
Meanwhile, Monica's skills as a head chef had degraded into Hu Yifei's one-trick specialty: "Egg fried rice—the three essential elements are rice, egg, and salt."
"It's perfect."
Monica clasped her hands together and cried out in delight, "Welcome, roommate!"
"Okay."
Adam considered it, then nodded with a smile.
It was not because he had any designs on Monica. Rather, this would greatly help him join the circle of Friends.
Who had always been the center of the six Friends?
From beginning to end, it had been Monica!
Monica was Ross's sister, Rachel's high school best friend, and Phoebe's former roommate. Like a hostess, she had firmly gathered the six young people together.
If not for Monica's kindness, Rachel, with her spoiled-princess attitude when she first appeared, would never have had the chance to transform later on. She would most likely have become like Rachel's sister—universally hated.
Phoebe, unable to stand Monica's obsessive need for control, had secretly blacklisted Monica. Yet Monica's overwhelming competitiveness had forcibly dragged Phoebe back into her life, and in the future, Phoebe would be deeply grateful to the Monica who knew nothing about it.
And then there was Ross!
If Monica had not been his inseparable biological sister, the six Friends would have fallen apart long ago when Rachel and Ross repeatedly broke up and got back together.
Under those circumstances, the best way for Adam to