Circle of Friends

520 Apartment.

"Ted, Marshall, come join the fun."

"Lily, can you come along? Of course!"

"Caroline, are you busy tonight? If not, let's go out and have some fun."

Adam received 500,000 yuan and was in a great mood. He decided to gather his friends on social media and have a good time. His first thought was to treat them to a big meal.

This is a deeply ingrained belief from a past life.

If it were Ross and his team, they would definitely throw a party to save money!

Even when dining out, everyone pays their own way. If Adam has booked a fancy restaurant, there's even a chance that someone with limited funds might decline to eat and only order lemonade, which is quite bizarre.

When Adam made the phone call, he learned that Adam had invited them to a fancy restaurant. Monica and the others started dressing up, and Ross, Chandler, Joey, the three big men, were no exception.

When going to a fine restaurant for a meal, one naturally has to dress up carefully, without finding it troublesome at all.

This delay lasted for more than an hour.

When Adam and his six friends split into two groups and arrived at the upscale restaurant by taxi, they found that Ted, Marshall, and Lily were already there.

Ted and his friends were still college students and didn't have many fuss oversights. When they heard there was a big meal, they rushed over immediately.

"Let me introduce you..."

Adam introduced the two groups. Although both groups greeted each other with smiles, there was still a bit of a distance between them, after all, there was an age gap, one group was still students, and the other group was already working adults.

Even though Ted and his friends were alumni of Ross and Chandler, it didn't help. After all, not everyone is like Adam, whose physical age is close to Ted and his friends, but whose soul age is close to Ross and his friends.

Fortunately, they were all kind people, and with Adam's humor, the atmosphere wasn't too stiff. Everyone was chatting and laughing, waiting for Caroline.

"Marshall, didn't someone say that your relationship with the black-haired Ono-chan wasn't serious, and that it was just for fun?"

Adam quipped in a low voice.

"Shh!"

Marshall immediately glanced warily at Lily beside him, then leaned close to Adam and raised a finger. "Keep your voice down! Who spread this rumor! Lily and I are truly in love!"

"Hehe."

Adam almost burst out laughing.

However, he didn't continue teasing Marshall. Adam fully approved of Matthew and Lily's love and naturally didn't want anything to happen to this beautiful relationship.

"Adam, what's going on between you and this Lily?"

Monica leaned closer and asked suspiciously, "Why is she looking at you like that?"

"Nothing."

Adam glanced at Lily and saw that she was looking at him with a dreamy gaze, slightly lost in thought. He couldn't help but shake his head and laugh, "That's just how Lily is, she loves to daydream. Just wait and see, once you two get to know each other, she'll probably look at you the same way."

"What?"

Monica was stunned. She couldn't help but look at Ross and whispered, "She's like Carol?"

"No!"

Adam thought for a moment and said, "Lily just likes to daydream, she's not like Carol."

"Who can guarantee that?"

Monica pouted and muttered, "Carol even swore she'd Ross forever. I think Lily's even more outrageous than that!"

It's no exaggeration, Lily's eyes are just too mesmerizing...

"I'm sorry I'm late."

Just as everyone was chatting, Caroline arrived late.

All eyes immediately fell on her.

Monica and Phoebe subtly straightened their backs, pulled in their stomachs, and raised their heads.

"This is Caroline, my colleague at the hospital."

Adam introduced her to everyone, "Caroline, this is my friend..."

"Hey, big guy."

Caroline greeted her gracefully.

Once everyone had arrived, the waiter came over to let them order.

After everyone had ordered their food, they continued chatting while waiting.

However, the boundaries between friends in the circle of friends were still very clear, making Adam somewhat regretful that he had invited everyone together.

Zhou Shuren once said, "I have only one best friend, and no more than four good friends!"

Human energy is limited. Friendship, like all relationships, requires investment to yield returns. Compatible personalities and sufficient time spent together are needed to become good friends, and best friends, in addition to these factors, also depend on fate.

Friends is a group of six, How I Met Your Mother is a group of five, and the Big Bang Theory, which has the largest number of members, is a group of seven. However, the true core of the Big Bang Theory is Sheldon, Leonard, and four others, with Penny at most.

Sheldon was very sensitive to this, and when they all started dating and Bernadette and Amy joined in, Sheldon complained that his circle of friends was too crowded and he was thinking of kicking out one of them.

Well, according to Sheldon, they weren't friends, but just nodding acquaintances.

Of course, Sheldon was just saying it, even though Leonard, Penny, and the others were overjoyed and demanded that Sheldon remove them from the group.

Howard, the only one who didn't think that way, was a 'nodding acquaintance' Sheldon was planning to kick out of the group, so naturally, nothing came of it in the end.

"It seems best to attend each group individually in the future, and never organize such large cross-group gatherings again."

Adam silently complained to himself.

"... You don't know, the people in the hospital are so indifferent. As soon as a patient dies, they can't wait to get rid of him. Everything is about business. We should care about those patients, but they don't care at all."

Caroline was talking, and while the others were fine, Phoebe had already moved closer.

"They went too far."

Phoebe nodded in agreement, and, as if her tone wasn't strong enough, waved her arms. "Don't just talk about people in hospitals, most people are this indifferent. They eat meat, they wear fur clothes, how can they be like this, ah!"

Towards the end, he seemed unable to bear it any longer and was about to shout it out.

"Ahem, Phoebe, don't get agitated."

Monica couldn't help but remind her.

Adam was speechless. Phoebe was a vegetarian, an animal rights activist, and an environmentalist, to the point of being a bit neurotic. She even kept mice as pets, and not only in her own apartment, but she also brought them into other people's apartments.

The key issue is that her attitude wasn't firm enough. Later, when she saw that the mink coat was very beautiful, she subtly got others to pressure her to wear it.

Seriously: Bunnies are so cute, how could you eat them... Mmm, they smell so good!

"Sorry."

Phoebe quickly realized what was happening, shook her head, and smiled.

"There's nothing we can do about it. Even the government can't handle it, let alone an individual."

Adam explained, "With so many patients and insufficient medical resources, how can doctors and nurses have the time and energy to care for every single patient?"

"But if everyone thinks like you, things will only get worse."

Caroline retorted, "If I have the ability in the future, I will definitely build a nursing home and truly care for those elderly patients who have no family to take care of them."

As she spoke, her eyes hardened, and she seemed to radiate light.

P. S.: Thank you to ~~Shi Dou Fakeng~~ and Little Girl's Toy for the donations!