Chapter 33: I'm still too sentimental. I've been doing this since I was a kid...
Gu Zhi thought of a type of novel that Liu Feilu loved to read some time ago, which seemed to be called something like ABC.
According to the setting, people are attracted to each other through smell.
Then maybe he was destined to be addicted to Jiang Ziyi.
"What...what's the problem?" Gu Zhi was confused by her.
"Didn't we already celebrate Valentine's Day in August?" Jiang Ziyi pointed out seriously.
“…That was the Chinese Valentine’s Day.” Gu Zhi let out a breath slowly.
This is indeed the question that Jiang Ziyi would ask.
"What festival is celebrated in May?" Jiang Ziyi was still confused.
"It's 520, which sounds like 'I love you', so it can be considered a holiday as well." Gu Zhi took a step forward.
He needed some rain to cool down.
"Why are there so many lovers' festivals? It's so troublesome." Jiang Ziyi said coldly and ruthlessly.
"Speaking of Valentine's Day...do you have a partner now?" Gu Zhi's turn of events was very abrupt.
"No." Jiang Ziyi answered simply.
"There was a boy in my class who insisted that I was his girlfriend, and I beat him up." This short sentence contains a huge amount of information.
"That was a good beating." Gu Zhi nodded with satisfaction.
Just then, a tall boy with a dark face and wearing a sports jersey, holding the arm of a heroic-looking girl with short hair, came towards this side happily.
In desperation, Gu Zhi grabbed Jiang Ziyi's hand and hid among the shelves in the fruit shop.
A fresh orange rolled to the feet of the short-haired girl.
"Teacher Gu???" she screamed, causing her boyfriend to stagger.
"Is she calling you?" Jiang Ziyi asked with his eyes clearly open.
Gu Zhi resigned himself to his fate and came out from behind the fruit stand.
The two were still holding hands.
Zheng Haonan, who witnessed this sudden transformation, opened his mouth in surprise.
"Master, master, master...Master's wife?" He pointed at Jiang Ziyi and said stutteringly.
The little boy Jiang Ziyi, who was of a higher generation, looked at Gu Zhi blankly.
Zheng Haonan and Liu Feilu started calling Gu Zhi "teacher" a long time ago.
The reason is that parents always nag their children to "learn more from Gu Zhi."
“No, no, no, we just…” Before Gu Zhi finished his words, Jiang Ziyi’s palm quickly slipped out of his fingertips.
"It's a colleague." Jiang Ziyi clarified.
"Tsk tsk, you are having so much fun." Liu Feilu winked at the side.
"You criticize us for falling in love too early every day, but then you start dating yourself, right?" Zheng Haonan and his girlfriend sang the same tune.
"We're not in a premature love relationship." Jiang Ziyi glanced at Gu Zhi anxiously and continued to refute.
"Then let me test you." Liu Feilu put Zheng Haonan's cap on her head and asked like a police officer, "What did you do today?"
"Gu Zhi came to my house to pick me up, and then we went to the cinema to watch a movie together." Jiang Ziyi confessed honestly.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, what movie are you watching?"
"Midnight Returns."
"Pick up a pretty girl to watch a horror movie on Valentine's Day, right? Gu Zhi, your fox tail is finally exposed!" Liu Feilu said proudly.
"No, no, I didn't know today was Valentine's Day. Gu Zhi just told me." Jiang Ziyi made things worse.
"Guilty! Guilty!" Judge Zheng Haonan slapped his thigh three times. "He tricked you into going on a date first, and then revealed his true colors when it was almost dark. Everyone knows what he was thinking!"
Gu Zhi had a dull expression on his face as he watched his strange, half-English judgment come to pass.
"Besides, there's a restaurant just two steps down the street with chairs and an eaves. Why does he have to squeeze in front of such a small fruit stall with you? He just wants to get close to you!"
Gu Zhi had no reaction to Liu Feilu's close attack.
What Jiang Ziyi said a few minutes ago was still replaying in his ears:
"Just a colleague... a colleague... a colleague..."
Really? So they are just colleagues? He thought he could at least be her friend or brother.
...Sure enough, I was just being too sentimental. A bitter smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
If this was a storyboard from a comic book, Gu Zhi would have been petrified into a gray sculpture, then disappeared into the wind with no desire to live.
"You're overthinking it. There's no way I'm dating Gu Zhi," Jiang Ziyi said, getting more and more heartbroken, "... I'm not worthy of his love."
This light, habitual self-deprecation made Gu Zhi's mind clear in an instant.
"Jiang Ziyi, you are worthy of my love," he said without hesitation, and quickly explained, "You... you are very good, worthy of everyone's love, I should like you too... but the most important thing at this stage is to study... but it doesn't matter, sooner or later I will be... I mean sooner or later I will... anyway, it is natural to like you, but we should at least be more than colleagues!"
This is definitely the most logically confusing statement Gu Zhi has ever made.
Jiang Ziyi obviously didn't understand, but Zheng Haonan and Liu Feilu both stopped joking.
They both heard his seriousness.
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Mao Yuanzhan was complaining to Jiang Ziyi and Chen Yuan about the weird male model she met.
"He can't tell left from right, and he can only rub his hands like a fly when posing. If I ask him to look sexier, he will start spitting at me..."
"Ugh." Jiang Ziyi frowned because of the oil.
"A male star I worked with was like this too," Chen Yuan nodded empathetically, "Every time he filmed a kissing scene, he had to show his left face, and in order to force a strong jawline, he would bite his cheek and swallow his saliva..."
The barrage of comments and gossip were listened to with great interest.
[Mao Photography, you should start a blog… I really like listening to your jokes hahaha]
[It was obvious that Chen Yuan had been holding back for a long time. I have never heard her speak so fast before]
[Someone on the forum tried to identify the greasy man that Chen Yuan mentioned, and found that every one of her partners looked very similar...]
[Jiang Ziyi: This is the benefit of always playing villains]
[Just came from another live broadcast room, the atmosphere of Jiang Ziyi’s family and friends is so different]
[Luo Pan’s sisters have been trying to get them back together…the reason is that Luo Pan is divorced and has a child and can’t find anyone better]
[Wang Zihe’s obscure brothers are sincerely advising him to break up, saying that he should find a girl who understands him…]
[No one is willing to understand, get out of here! ]
[Will say more]
[Du Xiaofang’s best friend is so sharp-tongued that every word she says hits the nail on the head for Yu Huating]
[As expected of a reporter from CCTV, she has good eloquence and clear logic. When she talked about Director Yu using a foot basin to wash Du Xiaofang’s hands in her hometown, the visual effect was so strong hahahahaha][I’m curious about what Gu Zhi is doing at that table]
[Report! While everyone was chatting, the handsome motorcycle sister was busy showing affection with her muscular boyfriend. Gu Zhi mentioned his wife three times in every sentence, but no one cared.]
Just then, the wind chimes at the door of the cafe rang.
Jiang Ziyi poked his head out, and his eyes met Gu Zhi's.
How come this always happens?
"Zheng Haonan and Liu Feilu were too noisy, so they were kicked out by the owner of the teahouse next door." Gu Zhi explained to her helplessly.
"Since we're here, why don't the six of us share a table?" Mao Yuanzhan suggested leisurely.
The woken-up tabby cat shook its fur, jumped onto the sofa next to it, and meowed angrily at Gu Zhi.
"Stuck by small animals again?" Gu Zhiyu was proud of it.
My wife is indeed a Disney princess.
"He is Zheng Haonan, Gu Zhi's childhood friend, and now works as a programmer in a large company; she is Liu Feilu, also Gu Zhi's childhood friend, an internet blogger and a professional motorcyclist." Jiang Ziyi introduced them naturally.
"This is Mao Yuanzhan, the photographer; and Chen Yuan, the famous actress, the senior sister in "Penglai." Gu Zhi continued fluently.
The four family and friends looked at each other.
"Is it your hobby to introduce each other's friends?" Mao Yuanzhan asked.
"Why do I feel like you're more familiar with Liu Feilu?" Chen Yuan pulled Jiang Ziyi's sleeve sourly.
"Now that you're married, isn't it normal for your social circles to overlap?" Jiang Ziyi said as a matter of course.
[Not really…]
[Anyway, Yu Huating doesn’t know any of Du Xiaofang’s best friends]
[Anyway, Wang Zihe and his brothers never bring Luo Pan with them when they drink]
[Then sharing friends is like... no secrets...]
[After a quarrel, it is difficult to find someone to pick on each other]
[What a candid couple...]
[Just like that, giving out sweets unexpectedly]
Chen Yuan clapped quite unexpectedly.
Several people focused their attention on her.
"They are really good at hyping up couples," Chen Yuan said in a flat tone, "I am touched by it."
"Well, who wouldn't kowtow to someone holding your hand?" Mao Yuanzhan said with a smile, "I'm already half a fangirl."
"I've been doing this since I was a kid," Liu Feilu raised her hand, "How tasteless is it if you don't understand this?"
"When they first started getting divorced, I was really scared," Zheng Haonan said, "I couldn't imagine what the world would be like without them together."
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Zheng Haonan hurriedly opened the car door.
During working hours, Gu Zhi usually wouldn't take the initiative to send him messages.
On the way here, Zheng Haonan had already gone through all the bad situations that might happen.
But when he saw Gu Zhi's bloodshot eyes, his heart still tightened.
"Let me drive." Zheng Haonan subconsciously pulled the seat belt.
"No need," Gu Zhi's voice was terribly hoarse, "I didn't drink."
Like Li Aomei, Gu Zhi is a person who will calm down more when the situation becomes more serious.
This is his self-protection mechanism: invoking rationality, blocking pain that is enough to destroy his sanity, letting actions precede feelings, and responding in a timely manner.
Gu Zhi was driving very fast but steadily. He would redial four numbers on the car's display screen every integer minutes.
Amid the harsh busy tones, Gu Zhi pursed his lips tightly and said nothing.
"Hello?" A young female voice came from the other end of the line that was first answered.
"Hello, is Jiang Ziyi at your home now?" Gu Zhi's breathing became a little rapid.
"Oh, Mr. Gu, could you please stop contacting me for now? It's hard to be caught between you two." Mao Yuanzhan sounded quite distressed.
"Zi Yi left in a hurry last night. I just want to know if she is safe now." Gu Zhi pressed his temple while waiting for the red light.
"Don't worry, Chen Yuan and I are watching... No, Chen Yuan is not here." Mao Yuanzhan accidentally leaked the news again.
"At Chen Yuan's house, right? I understand. I won't go to find her for the time being." Gu Zhi quickly hung up the phone after obtaining useful information.
"You want to divorce me." He turned his head and spoke stiffly to Zheng Haonan with an expression as if he was out of the matter.
"Then...then..." Zheng Haonan's words were incoherent.
"It doesn't matter. I won't let this happen." Gu Zhi's tone was so firm that it made people scared.
"Now, come with me to find Lin Shuyao." He turned at the end of the road.
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