The result of Jiang Lingxi taking the lead with her handmade gifts was that while everyone originally planned to finish the gifts within a week and send them off, someone reported in the group the next day.
[I finished!]
Then someone else, unwilling to be outdone: [I'm almost done too, the last piece will be finished before lunch.]
Soon, others began to chime in.
Wei Minmin displayed her own hand-carved gold pendant with the character for "fortune" and then looked at other people's submitted works in the group, nodding in satisfaction.
Very good, aside from not being as good as Sister Lingxi's hand-painted picture, her gift was the second-best.
Yet after counting, [How come there's still one person missing?]
[Xinyuan hasn't logged on.]
[It seems she's making a hand-stitched sachet, probably not finished yet.]
[That kind of thing does take a lot of effort. By the way, let me tell you a bit of news, last night something big happened in our circle.]