Chapter 22 I miss you so much I'm going crazy. Don't come near me, the smell of cigarettes is too strong...
"It's true that he pursued me, but I should be the one who confirmed the relationship first, right?" Jiang Ziyi was a little unsure.
"Sister Ziyi, I really envy you." Luo Pan sighed.
"I know it's annoying when I call Gu Zhi 'brother', but I did it because I wanted to make Zi He jealous," she confessed.
"...Gu Zhi really loves you very much. When he was filming, he would video chat with you whenever he had time."
In the end, this incident became a meme. The director posted a photo with the cast and crew on the Big Eyes forum, with the caption: "The male protagonist is on the phone again"
Fans asked below: Where is Gu Zhiren? Why isn’t it in the photo?
The director replied: Gu Zhi is on the phone.
The year when Jiang Ziyi and Gu Zhi were the busiest, the two of them seemed to be having an online romance on the set, and every time they turned on the camera it was like opening a blind box:
Today, the cold and elegant immortal is connecting with the vicious daughter, and tomorrow, a rich young man from the Republic of China is connecting with the white-haired witch.
Gu Zhi's handsome face was still readable despite the distortion of the camera. Jiang Ziyi reached out and lightly touched the teardrop mole he had just drawn.
"Do you like it?" Gu Zhi lowered his voice.
"I don't like it." Jiang Ziyi retracted his hand as if he had been electrocuted, and said stubbornly.
"When can you come back this month?" She couldn't help but look at his eyes again and again.
"I'll try for number eight." A male actor passing by came over and teased him, and Gu Zhi smiled and covered the screen of his phone.
Don’t look at my partner.
"That's it. I'm leaving on the 7th," Jiang Ziyi sighed, "We missed the deadline again."
"I've seen Lin Shuyao in court more times this year than I have seen you." She told the joke from hell.
"I'll post a few announcements next month." Gu Zhi frowned.
"No, no," Jiang Ziyi waved his hand, "Didn't we agree not to interfere with each other's careers?"
"Jiang Ziyi, I miss you so much that I'm going crazy." Gu Zhi murmured her name between his lips, his eyes were frighteningly hot.
"If I can't hug you anymore, I'm going on strike." He didn't know who he was threatening.
"..." Jiang Ziyi suddenly disappeared from the video screen.
She covered her face with both hands
You didn’t put on blush just now? A passing makeup artist gave her a strange look.
"Jiang Ziyi?" Gu Zhi's voice came through the headphones and sounded very close to her.
It was as if the two of them were lying on the sofa, she leaning on his chest, and he gently resting his chin on the back of her head.
"Don't call me that." Jiang Ziyi felt as if his heart was scratched by a feather.
"That's called...wife?" Gu Zhi asked her humbly.
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"Why do you want to get a divorce?" Du Xiaofang couldn't help asking, "The more I look at you these past few days, the more I think you two are a good match."
"I'm sick," Jiang Ziyi pulled the edge of the quilt up to his chin, "It's mental. It's hereditary."
"Teacher Xu Yanhui said that I also have psychological problems, something like...learned helplessness?" Luo Pan held her cold hand.
"It's more serious than that," Jiang Ziyi took a deep breath, "and more difficult to treat."
"My mother also had this disease, and I still haven't fully recovered from the trauma she caused me... I don't want Gu Zhi to go through what I went through again."
"What does Gu Zhi think?" Du Xiaofang put her arm around Jiang Ziyi's shoulders. "You haven't told him yet?"
"I already know what he will choose," Jiang Ziyi curled his lips, "...Gu Zhi will never give up on me no matter what."
Gu Zhi would do the same thing as she did every time she pushed him away:
Find her, solve the problem between the two of you, and then hold her hand as if nothing happened.
But not all problems have solutions.
Gu Zhi deserves a healthy, optimistic partner who doesn't need him to rescue her again and again.
"So, you didn't even tell him the reason for the divorce, just hoping that he would feel powerless and tired of this relationship and eventually give up on saving it?" Du Xiaofang understood.
"Then you may have to wait for a long time. Gu Zhi is a very persistent person."
This was not the first time Jiang Ziyi had heard this sentence.
"I'm considering doing something that will touch his bottom line, such as betrayal, deception, or completely disappearing from the face of the earth..." It's better to suffer a short pain than a long one, Jiang Ziyi thought.
"No!"/"Don't!" Du Xiaofang and Luo Pan interrupted anxiously at the same time.
"Then both of you are so pitiful." Luo Pan said with tears in his eyes after he finally calmed down.
"Ziyi, I think you're overthinking things," Du Xiaofang frowned, "You and your mother are not the same person, why do you think you're hopeless?"
"How can you be sure that the harm caused by your illness to Gu Zhi will be greater than the pain he will suffer after losing you?"
"That's right! Sister Ziyi, please talk it out with Gu Zhi first." Luo Pan clasped his hands together, "If you two really break up like this, I will never believe in love again!"
Jiang Ziyi: ...You should believe less in love! Love brain is in the late stage!
"There is no time to lose. You'd better go find him now." Du Xiaofang glanced at the clock and made the decision.
"Isn't our mission tonight to keep Luo Pan away from domestic violence men?" Jiang Ziyi asked puzzledly.
"I'll just persuade you, it won't delay anything." Du Xiaofang acted decisively.
Jiang Ziyi turned his head and was about to say something when he was pushed off the bed.
"Don't even think about coming back until you explain clearly!" The door closed behind her with a bang.
Jiang Ziyi: "I just want to take a coat! My coat is still inside!!"
Jiang Ziyi, wrapped in a sofa, walked up and down the stairs but did not find Gu Zhi.
Yu Huating and the director team talked with Wang Zihe at the dining table.
"I didn't really hit her! She was the one who insisted on stopping me from smashing things! Don't look at her always acting like a victim. Is there no one who can understand me?" Wang Zihe was very emotional.
"Hey, what are you looking at?" He yelled at Jiang Ziyi who was just passing by.
Director Yu gave her a look that said “save me”.
"Take care," Jiang Ziyi bowed to him, "Did you see where Gu Zhi went?"
"He was in the yard just now." Yu Huating pointed outside the window.
Gu Zhi leaned against the wall, his legs crossed, a half-burned cigarette butt flickering in his mouth.
Most of his face was shrouded in the shadow of the house, and he looked a little lonely.
"Why are you here?" He put out the cigarette in a panic, and the ash almost burned a hole in his coat.
"Why are you wearing so little?" Gu Zhi focused all his attention on her. "What are you wearing... a curtain?"
"Very close." Jiang Ziyi pulled his scarf and wrapped it around his neck twice.
"Don't come near me, the smell of smoke is too strong." Gu Zhi consciously walked towards the air vent.
"I quite like the smell." Jiang Ziyi deliberately buried his head in his collar and took a deep breath.
"How about giving me one too?" She pulled out a lighter from his pocket like a magician and played with it in her hand for a few times.
“…I’m wrong, I’m wrong. I will quit tomorrow.” Gu Zhi was completely controlled by her.
This is actually giving someone a taste of their own medicine.
When Jiang Ziyi was trying to quit drinking, every time Gu Zhi found a bottle of wine she had hidden at home, he would drink it in front of her.
"You're stuffing such a big bottle in the doghouse. Aren't you afraid that Robert's feet will hurt when he sleeps at night?" The amber wine flowed along his rolling Adam's apple and into his collar.
"Whiskey, right? Let me taste what it tastes like." Gu Zhi arranged the remaining empty glasses on the bar neatly.
The corners of his eyes were as red as if he had put on rouge.
"This was given to me by Chen Yuan... I didn't plan to drink it, but I just thought it would be a pity to throw it away." Jiang Ziyi sat restlessly on the side.
"Then how do you explain this half jar?" Gu Zhi put down a jar of wine with a clang.
"I was wrong, I was wrong," Jiang Ziyi raised his hands in surrender, "This is very strong, you must not drink it——"
"You also know that the alcohol content is high?" Gu Zhi specially took out a large bowl with a wide mouth from the cupboard.
"Want to imitate Wu Erlang and fight a tiger after drinking late at night?" He tilted his head back and drank it all in one gulp.
Jiang Ziyi grabbed Gu Zhi's hand, and his tears soon soaked his cuffs.
"I'm sorry... I... I won't drink it again... I'll just drink boiled water when I feel hungry in the future..." She cried breathlessly.
Gu Zhi held her in his arms without saying a word.
“Wow… wait… why does this Erguotou have no smell?” Jiang Ziyi sniffed his wrinkled collar.
"Mr. Gu, you drank boiled water, right?" Jiang Ziyi blew his nose hard, raised his tear-stained face and asked.
"It's true that the exchange is a bit too much... I have to send you to the crew tomorrow morning." Gu Zhi's voice became smaller.
"You're crazy! I told you to act recklessly! You scared me to death!" Jiang Ziyi punched him in the chest wildly.
"It hurts, it hurts." Gu Zhi said with a grin.
"Another performance, huh?" Jiang Ziyi sneered, "I don't trust you!"
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"How many do you smoke a day now?" Jiang Ziyi took a step back, her throat itchy from choking.
"One." Even though it was a bad habit, Gu Zhi would not indulge himself too much.
"Wait until I fall asleep?"
“…I’ll smoke it after you fall asleep.”
"When did it start?"
“…I can’t remember.” After she filed for divorce for the first time.
"I'm sorry." Jiang Ziyi knew that his rare loss of control must have something to do with him.
"When I lit the cigarette before, I was wondering whether you would suddenly rush out from somewhere and scold me." Gu Zhi smiled bitterly.
"Isn't it coming out?" Jiang Ziyi put his hands on his hips. "Do you still want the lungs? Didn't you say you'll live to be 90 and play an old man swimming in winter?"
"Wrong, wrong." Gu Zhi said softly.
"Why did you come to see me?" He waited until the smell of smoke on his body had almost dissipated, then wrapped Jiang Ziyi in his coat.
"How is Luo Pan now?"
"She loves him so much," Jiang Ziyi felt bad just thinking about it, "Every word she said was to make excuses for Wang Zihe, and she insisted that I was the one who made him angry first. Even if that was true, I couldn't do anything, right?"
"Take your time," Gu Zhi kissed the top of her head, "People's ideas can't be changed overnight."
His arms slowly grew warmer.
"Gu Zhi, do you know why I suddenly felt so depressed last night?" Jiang Ziyi finally mustered up the courage.
"I know." Gu Zhi said calmly.
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