Chapter 285 — The Divine Doctor Kang's Birthday Banquet
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Wei Zhao nodded. Kang Xiaofeng was no fool—he wasn't blindly, stupidly in love with Xiaofen; he knew how to look at the matter between the two of them with care. "You're right. If Kang Jingming weren't there in her subconscious, she wouldn't have split personalities, nor would she have hallucinations. In fact, the root cause of Xiaofen's schizophrenia is Kang Jingming. If she can make a clean break with him, the wound in her heart will heal on its own without treatment."
"Exactly, that's just what I was thinking," Kang Xiaofeng said. "So, boss, I'd like to ask you to come with me. Would you?"
"Me? Come with you?" Wei Zhao hadn't expected such a request from Kang Xiaofeng. "What would I do there? Besides, does your second grandfather's birthday banquet really allow so many outsiders?"
Even bringing Xiaofen alone was a bit of a stretch—though if Kang Xiaofeng said she was his girlfriend, that might just pass. But what would he be there for? Kang Xiaofeng's classmate?
"Boss, you said it yourself—the root cause of Xiaofen's schizophrenia is Kang Jingming. I'm bringing her to make a clean break, but I'm also afraid she won't be able to bear the pressure of the grief for a moment and will relapse," Kang Xiaofeng said with evident worry. "Actually... boss, I was also hoping you'd give me some courage..."
"Since you call me boss, of course I have no problem accompanying you," Wei Zhao said, naturally not minding making the trip with Kang Xiaofeng. But he added, "Like I said, can you really bring that many people?"
"Don't worry about that, boss," Kang Xiaofeng said. "Actually, my second grandfather's family holds gatherings like this many times a year. The birthday banquet is just an excuse. Every time, they invite friends to bring their sons and daughters along, mainly to foster friendships among the next generation. It's called a birthday banquet, but it's really a social networking cocktail party. Anyone can bring friends—it's just that in past years I never cared much for that kind of socializing, and no one ever bothered to get to know me..."
At this, Kang Xiaofeng laughed a little at himself. As a member of the Kang family like any other, he was the one people cold-shouldered every year. Watching his cousins surrounded like stars around the moon, encircled by crowds of young men and women, Kang Xiaofeng couldn't help but feel a sense of loss.
But that was no wonder. The people who came to make connections were no fools: it was Divine Doctor Kang's direct descendants who were the ones worth cultivating. For a collateral branch like Kang Xiaofeng, so long as appearances were kept up, that was enough. No one would go out of their way to curry favor with him.
"So that's how it is. Then we may as well pay a visit." Wei Zhao nodded. It was just as well—he wanted to see for himself what sort of person this Divine Doctor Kang was. If he were to collaborate with Guan Xuewen on producing and selling finished medicine in the future, he would inevitably end up a rival of Divine Doctor Kang.
"Boss, why don't you bring Tang Zhi along?" Kang Xiaofeng suggested with a chuckle.
"Tang Zhi? She's not really suited to that sort of occasion." Wei Zhao guessed that Tang Zhi had most likely never attended a gathering like this in her life.