Chapter 38 He is still so optimistic. I seem to have fallen in love with someone...
"How was it? Did the audition go well?" Li Aomei rolled down the car window.
Amid the explosive sound of electric guitar, little Gu Zhi took off his coat and sat silently in the back seat.
The role that Gu Zhi was assigned to was very close to reality in terms of appearance and family background. Plus, as he had connections, he should have been a sure thing.
"Oh, it's okay. I just flipped through the script of "Neighbors" and it's quite boring. I borrowed a kettle from your house and you came to my house for a meal. Such trivial things can be filmed for twenty episodes," Li Aomei turned down the volume of the car stereo. "If you really want to satisfy your acting addiction, next time there is a movie about flying rockets, robbing tombs, and stealing dinosaur eggs, I will recommend you..."
"I passed the audition," Gu Zhi fastened his seat belt, "The contract is in my schoolbag."
"You're playing me, aren't you?" Li Aomei angrily started the engine. "I just texted your dad and asked him to scratch off the words on the celebration cake!"
"I just feel that acting is much more difficult than I imagined," Gu Zhi looked out the window, "I know too little about this industry."
"It's like this," Li Aomei had long been accustomed to his little adult way of speaking, "Being an actor requires both talent and training. If you're worried, I can go back and rehearse the lines with you and do some preparation in advance."
"I met a very young girl on the set today," Gu Zhi was still immersed in his own thoughts, "She seemed to become a different person when she was acting, and she also treated me as another person."
"She made me feel that merely observing and imitating others superficially is actually a form of potential arrogance." Gu Zhi carefully chose his words, "If it weren't for her, I wouldn't have been able to pass the audition at all."
"Is that the little sister in your drama?" Li Aomei's mind emerged with the cute scene of her son standing upright being scolded by the little girl with a stern face.
"Well, her name is Jiang Ziyi, and she has been in the industry for six years." Gu Zhi is proud of his intelligence gathering ability.
"Still such a young child..." Li Aomei's heart tightened slightly.
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"I feel like I'm hated." Little Gu Zhi said to Li Aomei dejectedly on the second night after joining the group.
"Every time I talk to Jiang Ziyi, she ignores me." He pinched his fingers in distress.
"I gave her some snacks, but she refused several times before accepting them... But when I looked through my school bag on the way home, I found that she had wrapped the biscuits in toilet paper and returned them to me in a neat order."
Compared with his peers, Gu Zhi has high emotional intelligence and good manners, and is very popular wherever he goes.
It was the first time for him to suffer such a tragic social setback.
"Oh, then what is Shi Yi's attitude towards others?" Li Aomei filled both people's cups.
"She doesn't really pay any attention to me, and sometimes she even hides far away," Gu Zhi thought for a moment, "If I go find her, at least she won't act like she's ready to run away at any time."
"Compared this way, you are still a little different in her eyes, right?" Li Aomei asked enlighteningly.
"So she actually likes me, but she just doesn't show it obviously enough." Gu Zhi's eyes brightened, "I understand, I know what to do!" He put the box of chocolates that Li Aomei brought back from the business trip, which she was reluctant to eat, into his arms, and ran upstairs.
"Are you sure that girl likes Gu Zhi too?" Gu Weizhen, who was eavesdropping on the side, poked his head out from behind the newspaper, "She's been disturbed too many times and she's too lazy to hide anymore, so it's entirely possible, right?
"I was just hinting casually. Who would have known that he would be so optimistic?" Li Aomei said irresponsibly. "But maybe it will be a good thing..."
"No matter what the outcome is, it's a blessing to meet someone you care about."
Especially for a guy like his son who has little affection for him.
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One night during Gu Zhi’s senior year of high school, Li Aomei discovered that the light in his room was still on.
She knocked on the door and walked over to him after getting permission.
Several sheets of draft paper were scattered on the table. Gu Zhi held the pencil in one hand and stared into the void for a long time, as if he was stumped by an invisible question.
"I seem to have fallen in love with someone." After a long silence, Gu Zhi regained his voice awkwardly.
"I like it very much." He was careful not to use the word 'love', but to Li Aomei it sounded almost the same.
"But if I admit this, my whole life will probably be disrupted." Gu Zhi said with difficulty.
Gu Zhi is a man who is good at planning, and every step he has taken so far has been moving in a clear direction.
In fact, the goal itself is not important. He just prefers to choose a controllable route as an anchor for self-stability and a source of security.
If he were to withdraw his target now and replace it with the object he had been thinking about but was not sure whether he could reach, Gu Zhi would not be able to measure the distance or determine the direction, and he would not be able to estimate how much fog and abyss he would encounter along the way.
"So do you want to admit it?" Li Aomei folded up the incomprehensible manuscripts and asked him simply.
“…I think.” The pencil that was sharpened to a suitable length fell from Gu Zhi’s fingers and slid uncontrollably to the edge of the desk.
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On the cable car, Li Aomei and Gu Weizhen were discussing parenting experiences with Yu Du and his wife.
"We basically let Gu Zhi do whatever he wants," said Gu Weizhen in the simple tone of a village breeder who unexpectedly won first prize at an agricultural product exhibition. "We only supervise him during mealtimes."
"Gu Zhi was a child with a strong sense of rules. He started making his own schedule in the first grade and followed it strictly," Li Aomei recalled. "One time, he woke up late on Saturday and I confiscated his Lego toys for two days."
"Pfft." Jiang Ziyi couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Mom, can you start from junior high school?" Gu Zhi, who was almost 30 years old, felt very uncomfortable.
"It seems that Huahua is a little more naughty," Du Xiaofang tied the hairband behind her daughter's head tighter. "She has dared to question objective standards since she was young. When the teacher asked her to empty the trash can that was not full after school, Huahua would ask, 'Shouldn't trash be placed in the trash can?'"
"I think Huahua is right," Yu Huating said. "The trash cans must be spotless. This is formalism."
"I'm worried that she is not sensitive enough to order and will be excluded in collective life." Du Xiaofang sighed.
"What does Huahua think?" Li Aomei asked.
"I think both are fine. What my parents say makes sense. I don't know why we have to argue to determine the winner." Huahua sighed solemnly.
"It seems that your two educational philosophies are not completely irreconcilable," Gu Weizhen pushed his glasses, "selectively obeying collective rules while retaining the ability to think independently, isn't this a better choice?"
"..." Yu Huating and Du Xiaofang looked at each other for a few seconds, speechless.
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