Chapter 56 The Biggest Lie She Has No Obligation to Wait for Him

Chapter 56 The Biggest Lie She Has No Obligation to Wait for Him

"What's the biggest lie you've ever told?" Jiang Yanhuan continued to ask.

"It's hard to pick out a 'best'," Gu Zhi's eyes were still on Jiang Ziyi, "I can only say a few small lies."

"For example, Robert is not smart enough to understand what people say." He selectively confessed one thing.

"Then why don't you let me mention the word 'divorce' in front of it...?" Jiang Ziyi reacted.

"Because I don't want to hear this word." Gu Zhi admitted.

"Is it not necessary for us to deliberately create a 'harmonious family atmosphere' in front of the dog?" Jiang Ziyi recalled more loopholes.

"There really is no theoretical basis for this." Gu Zhi touched his nose.

"But you sent me a picture of Robert lying in the doghouse with his ears drooping!"

Gu Zhi: "...It just ate a lot and felt a little bloated."

"I thought Border Collies all had very high IQs!" Jiang Ziyi held his head in his hands, looking as if he was doubting his life.

Static electricity crackled through her hair.

"That's true," Gu Zhi explained, "but Robert is considered the dumbest among Border Collies."

"Hush," Jiang Ziyi lowered his voice, "You can't just say bad things about the child just because he can't understand!"

"Robert, I'm sorry." Gu Zhi apologized immediately.

[So cute, stupid parents]

[So when the two of you were at the height of your divorce, you still had to be careful to keep the puppy a secret, right? ]

[And Gu Zhi mentioned in his solo live broadcast that Jiang Ziyi goes home to look after his dog every week]

[They quarrel outside, but when they get home they have to pretend to be reconciled reluctantly]

[This lie is brilliant]

[But from Gu Zhi’s perspective, it’s also quite sharp. He’s looking for an opportunity to deceive himself…]

"What else did you lie to me about?" Jiang Ziyi continued to bring up the past.

"The nightgown you always wore was not lost. I secretly hid it." Gu Zhi raised his eyes pitifully.

"...Oh." This happened on the day she packed her luggage and left home, and Jiang Ziyi found it difficult to care about it anymore.

Besides, she also took one of his shirts, so it was even.

Having successfully dealt with the topic, Gu Zhi calmly withdrew his gaze.

He's lied much bigger than this.

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"What a horrible weather! I just took a shower, but after walking a few steps I'm sweating all over again." Zheng Haonan pulled the sports vest under his nose and sniffed it.

"Hey, I don't smell particularly bad, do I?" He poked his childhood friend with his elbow.

Gu Zhi lowered his head with a heavy heart and did not dodge away.

"I'm asking you a question. Lulu's class is about to end." Zheng Haonan was worried that his girlfriend would dislike him.

"How did you find out that you fell in love with Liu Feilu?" Gu Zhi was several levels away from him.

"Oh, why are you asking this suddenly? I'm so embarrassed." Zheng Haonan scratched his head shyly.

"I thought I had a fever, but my temperature was normal; I felt like vomiting, but I didn't have an upset stomach; I wanted to laugh for no reason, and even a little bit wanted to cry." He used up all his life's literary qualities.

"...It has no reference value at all." Gu Zhi felt that he was really desperate and was trying every possible means.

When they reached the school gate, Zheng Haonan suddenly grabbed Gu Zhi's sleeve.

"I have a cold and can't smell what you smell like." Gu Zhi said anxiously.

"Look quickly, isn't that Jiang Ziyi?" Zheng Haonan stretched his neck as far as he could.

Gu Zhi looked in the direction of his finger and saw a group of tall and strong athletes gathered under the shade of a tree not far away.

The girl's pale profile flashed between them.

She was holding a long-sleeved school uniform, with a confused look in her eyes.

Gu Zhi pulled out the baseball bat from the side of Zheng Haonan's schoolbag and quickly stood in front of Jiang Ziyi.

"What do you want to do?" The air pressure around him dropped very low.

"Well, let's make friends." The boy with the darkest skin said embarrassedly.

Only then did Gu Zhi notice that several people, including Jiang Ziyi, were holding a hawthorn popsicle in their hands.

"Li Dachuan, why are you here?" Zheng Haonan greeted him while holding Gu Zhi's shoulder.

"They are from the dormitory upstairs. They have made appointments to play basketball with me several times. They look a bit fierce, but they are actually not bad people." Zheng Haonan whispered.

"This girl said she was Gu Zhi's sister and had been waiting for him there for a long time, so we..." Li Dachuan, the tallest one, didn't finish his words before he dragged his friend away awkwardly.

"I'm here to return my coat." Jiang Ziyi stuffed the school uniform into Gu Zhi's arms and freed his hands to tear the packaging of the popsicle.

"Don't eat this." Gu Zhi stopped her without thinking.

"It's melting soon. I'll buy you another one." He said to Zheng Haonan in response to his strange look.

"No, it's a waste." Jiang Ziyi refused decisively.

"The basketball star cards in those boys' dormitory were taken away by the student union. They wanted to bribe you through me to get them back." She spoke a long paragraph in one breath and leaned against the tree trunk because she was tired.

As the current president of the Student Union, it is Gu Zhi's duty to confiscate contraband, but he also enjoys being associated with Jiang Ziyi.

"Do you want me to go back?" Gu Zhi tested the edge of violating school rules.

"It doesn't matter. I'm not really your sister and I can't control you." Jiang Ziyi's tongue was dyed red by the cheap perfume.

For some reason, her words of distancing herself from the matter sounded more harsh than usual.

"You can take care of it." Gu Zhi said, holding the school uniform that smelled of soap in his hand.

"Then you should return the most expensive card to him first," Jiang Ziyi stared at the shadow on the ground and thought for a while, "Brother Li kept muttering something like 'super rare' and 'real gold'. He's about to cry."

Brother Li? What an intimate name, Gu Zhi thought darkly.

"Cough cough cough." Zheng Haonan covered his mouth and coughed artificially.

The two of them were too conspicuous, and whispers could be heard all around.

"It's too stuffy standing here. There's a milk tea shop nearby. Shall we go in and sit down?" Gu Zhi suggested.

Jiang Ziyi nodded lightly.

"Then I'll go pick up Liu Feilu after class!" Zheng Haonan winked at him exaggeratedly.

Gu Zhi and Jiang Ziyi chose a seat in a corner and sat down.

International high schools do not strictly prohibit premature love, and this milk tea shop with candy-colored decorations has become a dating destination.

The girl at the next table secretly pointed her cell phone camera at them, and Gu Zhi let the "click" sound happen.

If this photo really appeared on the campus forum, the comments below would probably all say that the two people are a good match.

Thinking of this, he even felt somewhat benefited.

"We are not a couple, so please don't take photos casually." Jiang Ziyi said with a stern face to the girl wearing a star-shaped hairpin.

"Oh, sorry..." The girl hurriedly opened the album and deleted it.

Gu Zhi looked away with regret.

"Why did you come to the school to see me?" He and Jiang Ziyi ordered the same lemon tea, which tasted sourer than expected.

"If it's to return the clothes, you can wait until I visit the set and give it to me." Thinking of this, Gu Zhi felt a little hope in his heart.

After the second semester of his senior year, Gu Zhi did not renew his contract with Neighbors, but he would insist on meeting with Jiang Ziyi every week.

The time they spent together suddenly decreased, and Gu Zhi began to suffer from withdrawal symptoms uncontrollably.

He always wanted to leave something with Jiang Ziyi: an eraser that had lost its edges due to being used, a transparent ruler with its edges stained by the refill of a signature pen, the sticky notes he used to write down long and difficult words, and the water cup that he often placed on his desk...

Gu Zhi left all his belongings with her, pretended to be careless and asked her to keep them, and then took them back a few weeks later, as if drawing an endless string of commas between the two of them.

Last week, the air conditioning in the studio was set to a very low temperature, so Gu Zhi simply "left" his school uniform at Jiang Ziyi's place.

The way she walked around with her long sleeves dragging was so cute that it made people's heart flutter.

………There’s a feeling of being trapped in his aura and marked.

Even though he caught a cold that day, Gu Zhi didn't want her to come back at all.

"I do have something else I want to say." Jiang Ziyi looked at the water droplets condensed on the cup.

"You don't have to come to the crew to find me in the future." She spoke slowly, as if she was afraid that she didn't explain it clearly enough.

"Why?" Gu Zhi's tongue tasted bitter.

"You are preparing to go abroad. You have tight academic schedule and are under a lot of pressure. It takes four or five hours to drive to and from the set, and you always lose important school supplies." Jiang Ziyi's voice was flat.

"No matter how you think about it, there's no need to make this trip." She stirred the ice at the bottom of the glass with a straw.

"I don't think meeting you is a burden," Gu Zhuo defended anxiously, "The happiest thing for me every week is to be with you--"

"No matter how close our relationship is now, you want to study abroad and I have to continue filming... We are two different people." Jiang Ziyi interrupted him.

"I will come back," Gu Zhi said stubbornly, "Just wait three or four years..."

"But why should I wait for you?" Jiang Ziyi asked calmly.

Gu Zhi, who had a lot to say, was suddenly nailed to the spot.

His boiling emotions gradually cooled down.

From the beginning to the end, he was the one who deliberately approached her, thinking that he was attracted to her, and planned his future on his own, even changing the school he applied to in order to be able to study for a bachelor's and master's degree simultaneously...

Feelings can be one-sided, but is he really ready to not be reciprocated?

Jiang Ziyi still has his own way to go. No matter how hard he tries to shorten the distance between them, she is still not obligated to wait for him.

He hadn't even thought of this yet.

In Gu Zhi's life so far, there have only been two moments when he was completely out of control:

Half a year ago, he and Jiang Ziyi stood side by side in the cold rain, their heartbeats exploding in their ears;

And now, even though it is scorching hot outside the window, he is staring at his reflection on the glass table, and he feels as if he is in winter.

Gu Zhi didn’t know whether his struggles during this period could be considered as “love” or how much he “liked” it, but his feelings at this moment were infinitely close to a broken heart.

Perhaps it was his self-esteem that was at work, or perhaps he was unwilling to accept the fact that he was easily rejected, the seventeen-year-old Gu Zhi decided to lie to himself.

He lied to him and said he had never liked Jiang Ziyi.

"I understand," Gu Zhi silently put on his school uniform, "I won't bother you again, sorry."

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