Chapter 6: Practicing Alone Xiang Qianlan03
"Why don't you pursue it?" Qi Beichen's tone was obviously agitated, perhaps because he was irritated by my nonchalant attitude. "Your face was almost ruined, did you know that?"
I turned around, looked back at him, and said to him: "Qi Beichen, I suddenly thought of my mother. If I made a mistake, she would save me at all costs."
"But your mother can't save you forever. Only you can save you. Similarly, that child already has the ability to distinguish right from wrong. If you let him go today, he may kill people or burn things tomorrow." Qi Beichen's words were like a loud slap in the face to me.
In the darkness, his eyes were like lake water under the moonlight, sparkling and glittering. In the night, a moth was circling under a street lamp, and finally crashed into the light and was shattered to pieces.
"I hope I can be irrational for once." I looked at Qi Beichen who was shaking with anger, lowered my head, and whispered, "I have been sensible for too long... I was wrong about this..."
After I finished speaking, a force pulled me over and I was embraced in a warm embrace.
The world is extremely quiet.
Qi Beichen held me quietly and asked softly, "Does your face still hurt?" "Yeah."
"What do you mean? If it hurts, it hurts. If it doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt." "It hurts."
It was quiet all around. In the darkness I could see our reflection in the window glass hugging each other. He said, say whatever you feel. You are not Superman, you don't need to be strong enough to save the world.
My eyes were hot, and hot tears filled my eyes. I tried hard not to let them fall. I understood why Qi Beichen said these words to me. Perhaps he knew as well as I did that we were the same creatures.
I have stepped into the entertainment industry. The road ahead is difficult and dangerous. Kindness used in the wrong place will kill me. If I want to go further, I must be more ruthless than others.
"Don't do this again in the future." Qi Beichen said.
"Okay," I replied.
He said: "If you are protecting yourself, it doesn't matter if you hurt others."
"I remember that."
"That's good." He let me go and sent me home. I felt relieved.
It was eight o'clock in the evening when I got home. I first called Hongdou to ask for leave for me, and then explained to Sun Nuofan that my face was injured and I could not go to the training recently.
I took a shower carefully and was sitting in the living room reading a book when Sun Nuofan called me. He asked me to look downstairs. I walked to the window and saw a man leaning against the car. He raised his head and started looking at me.
My face was bandaged like a pirate, so it was not suitable for me to go out at night. I called him and said, "Mr. Sun, can we talk tomorrow if you have anything to say?"
"Won't you invite me upstairs for a cup of tea?" he said with a smile on the phone, but his eyes were looking upstairs.
"Then I'll come down." I hung up the phone embarrassedly. I didn't want to have anything to do with this man outside of work. I quickly changed into a blue skirt and went downstairs.
He walked towards me with his long legs, looked at me with a smile, his bangs slightly drooping, and his figure in the light and shadow was full of the charm of a mature man.
Sun Nuofan is a charming man, I have never denied this. But precisely because he is so charming and there are so many women coveting him, I don’t want to get too close to him.
He raised his eyebrows and stared at me with interest. My eyes darkened, and I looked up at him and said, "Mr. Sun, don't you think it's rude to stare at a patient like this?"
He adjusted his bow tie, bent down and took out a bouquet of flowers from the car, and said in a lazy tone full of playfulness: "Miss Xiang's 'half-face makeup' is also stunning."
"Sun Nuofan, you have nothing to do so late at night that you come here to make fun of me?" I looked at him speechlessly and refused to accept the flowers he sent me.
He threw the flowers casually on the ground and said to me, "Get in the car."
I stared at him blankly, and he opened the car door: "Get in, I'll take you to see a doctor."
"I've seen a doctor...Sun Nuofan, what are you doing? Hey!" He forcibly pulled me into the car. I looked outside nervously, afraid that he would do something to me.
He seemed to have guessed what I was thinking, and said to me while driving : "Don't worry, I have no 'appetite' for you in this state, so don't let your imagination run wild."
Sun Nuofan was driving the car while I closed my eyes and rested. About half an hour later, Sun Nuofan woke me up and said with a bit of pride, "We're here."
I sneered and warned him: "Be careful or I will sue you for trafficking young girls."
"So you are still a girl? Now I'm considering whether I should pursue you." Sun Nuofan laughed, quickly pulled me out of the car, and walked into a residential area.
He took me to the door of an old Chinese medicine clinic and walked inside.
When I pushed the door open, someone saw Sun Nuofan and immediately came up to greet me. Sun Nuofan smiled politely and pulled me into a room.
In the room, there was a grandfather who looked like an immortal who was treating a patient. Sun Nuofan rushed in rashly, and all the attention of the crowd was focused on him.
Sun Nuofan pulled me to the grandfather. The grandfather's face turned red with anger and he shouted in full force: "You are making trouble again! Can't you see there is a patient here?"
The old man suddenly turned around and stared at me seriously. I subconsciously tried to avoid his gaze. The old man suddenly stood up, which startled me. The old man said to Sun Nuofan: "It's not that one? Someone else has changed?"
"Old man, please help me take a look." Sun Nuofan said casually with his hands in his trouser pockets on both sides.
"You little rascal, how do you talk to your elders like that?" The old man glared at him.
"Old man, she is my heroine and her face is precious. We can't leave any scars on her." Sun Nuofan said.
"Call me grandpa and I'll show her." The old man threatened him.
Sun Nuofan couldn't help rubbing his brows: "You got all the medicine I took away last time, right? If you don't treat her today, I won't leave here."
I looked at Sun Nuofan strangely, who was completely different from usual. Are they grandfather and grandson?
The old man removed the bandage on my face, examined me again, and applied a layer of grass-green medicine on my face. The pain was obviously relieved a lot.
Sun Nuofan's fingers were holding the red wine glass, the transparent liquid was slightly agitated, and the aroma of wine was overflowing. His eyes were dark and he frowned as he looked at me.
After seeing the patient, Sun Nuofan asked the old man for a big bag of medicine before he took me away contentedly. Sitting in the car, I didn't take my eyes off him, and Sun Nuofan was in no hurry to drive. A gentle smile flashed across his lips, and he suddenly leaned in front of me and looked at me carefully. I felt my ears getting hot and my whole face was burning. I should have scolded him, but for some reason, I couldn't say a word.
Sun Nuofan chuckled: "Haha, I thought you were a fairy who didn't care about worldly things and didn't show your emotions at all."
"Is this how Mr. Sun always compliments girls?" I said in a low voice in retaliation for his teasing.
When I looked at Sun Nuofan again, he had returned to his usual lazy and carefree demeanor. He said, "When I met you, I suddenly wanted to fall in love."
"Mr. Sun, do you think cheating on your partner is so justifiable?" I asked sarcastically.
"Cheating? With whom, you?" He crossed his hands behind his head, looked ahead, smiled and whispered, "Zhong Yuer is quite good. The whole world knows that she and I are a couple. But, guess whose bed she is in now?"
"Sun Nuofan." I was annoyed by his shameless tone.
Sun Nuofan smiled and said, "News is all hyped up. You may not believe it, but I am still single."
My heart suddenly became silent.
Sun Nuofan stretched out his fingers to touch my cheek, but I turned my head away. He clenched his fingers, with no expression on his handsome face. He said, "Some things should not be seen with your eyes, but thought about here--" He pointed his finger at my head.
"Qianlan, I've changed my mind. You don't want to join this circle." Sun Nuofan looked at me steadily, blinked at me, and his gentle words sounded like the whispers between lovers.
I froze, looked at his affectionate eyes, and said, "Does Mr. Sun always like to play with people's feelings like this?"
He was in a trance.
"…Do you really think that kid pushing you was an accident?"
I clenched my fists, avoiding his scrutiny and ignoring the subtle pain in my heart. He whispered, “From what I understand, if that kid destroys your face, he’ll get a sum of money.”
I suppressed the anger in my chest and asked, "What do you mean? Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"Will it be useful for me to tell you?" Sun Nuofan looked at me with a look that said "You are too naive". He said, "This kind of thing is just the beginning. You can prevent it once, but can you prevent it a million times? This circle is dirtier than you think."
“I knew that a long time ago,” I said.
Sun Nuofan started the car, drove through the night, and took me back downstairs. The bouquet of flowers he threw on the ground was gone, perhaps picked up by someone.
"I don't lack the money for that drama. At worst, I can just not shoot it. Even if I don't shoot it, I won't give it to Zhong Yuer for nothing." Sun Nuofan said meaningfully as he watched me go upstairs.
I smiled and said to him, "Mr. Sun, thank you for today."
"You're welcome. I prefer you to call me Nuofan." He waved his hand, stepped on the accelerator, and the car drove away.
Nofan? Haha.
I went home, sat down on the sofa feeling a little exhausted, closed my eyes, and had a splitting headache.
How can I keep going?
