Xiao Chen placed the cards in front of Qin Buran.
Qin Buran thought carefully for a while, then drew a card, his gaze shifting slightly.
"What is it?" Pei Hang leaned over. "What did you get?"
A line was written on the card-name the one thing that made you happiest.
"You're so lucky." Looking at the question, Xiao Chen couldn't help remarking, "An easy question is rare, and you actually picked one."
Qin Buran stared at the words on the card for a long time before putting it back.
"Go on," Xiao Chen asked with a smile. "Tell us what made you happiest."
Qin Buran narrowed his eyes, thinking carefully. "...Let me think."
The one thing that made me happiest.
What had ever made me happy?
Anyone else could have rattled off a few answers to that question.
But Qin Buran thought for a long time, his expression growing increasingly serious.
"What's going on?" Xiao Chen couldn't help asking. "Don't tell me you can't think of a single happy thing?"
Pei Hang glanced at Xiao Chen when he heard that.
Xiao Chen rubbed his nose. "That's not what I meant..."
He gave a couple of laughs and hurried to salvage things. "Or you could tell us about something that made you happiest recently."
Something that made me happiest...
Qin Buran thought for a long time, then smiled faintly. "I don't think anything has really made me happy."
Pei Hang looked at Qin Buran, his eyes full of heartache.
Qin Buran had lived for over twenty years. Had there really not been a single thing in all those years that had made him feel happy?
A friend beside him asked, "Didn't you win an award a few days ago? Weren't you happy?"
Qin Buran thought about it.
That had actually...not made