Leng Shaoze was feeling depressed. In fact, he knew about all these things, and he'd never been able to take part in any of them, which made him really uncomfortable.
Everyone understood how he felt. "Your work is different from ours. Who among us doesn't know that in your heart you're always with us? Enough, don't overthink it. The fact that we can still gather after so many years, from being a bunch of bachelors back then to now all having our own families, that's our fate. Come on, cheers, to our unchanging friendship."
"Cheers!"
The older people get, the smaller their circles become. This didn't entirely apply to the four of them, because they had to meet different people every day. But the ones who could truly become friends, become brothers who'd lay down their lives for one another, were really, really rare.
They all especially cherished this kind of friendship, cherished the bond between them.
