Chapter 214: Bridge of Sighs

After going downstairs with a strange and complicated mind, Zhang Querong smiled at Su Yun and said, "Let's go."

"What's wrong with you?" Su Yun frowned slightly and squinted at the unnatural expression on his face.

Zhang Querong was stunned for a moment, then he subconsciously explained: "Because, because this is my first time to attend such a scene, so... I am a little nervous."

"Don't worry, you will get used to it slowly in the future." Su Yun smiled with relief: It turns out that no matter how powerful a boss is, he still has the same nervousness as an ordinary person when he is a rookie.

Hearing Su Yun's hidden meaning, Zhang Querong nodded confidently: "Yes, I will slowly get used to it in the future."

If Su Yun is gradually moving towards being a creative person behind the scenes, as long as she can maintain the quality of her works and is willing to promote her own people as the protagonists, then as a good friend and "one of us", he will sooner or later come to major film festivals again.

After following Su Yun and the team to the cinema where "Song of Youth" was showing, a group of people sat down as arranged and quietly waited for the movie to begin.

In the dim environment, Zhang Querong secretly glanced at the empty seat on Su Yun's left. Sitting on her right, he lowered his eyes slightly, feeling inexplicably irritated that he was being extremely immoral.

Especially when the movie played the part where Lang Xing and A Yue ignored their past brotherhood and instead blamed and resented each other for something - the feeling of being a bad person with a bad heart, which became more and more intense.

It seemed that at this moment, two voices with completely different opinions began to argue in his heart: one accused him of being immoral for tonight's behavior, accusing him of being sorry for his good brother for his own selfish desires, and that he shouldn't do this, and should immediately admit his mistakes and correct them; while the other said that Su Yun was now a free man, and the pursuit of his good brother was nothing, and if you like someone, you should bravely pursue it instead of worrying about this and that. As the saying goes, if you don't work for yourself, heaven and earth will punish you...

These two completely opposite arguments were arguing in his mind, making him feel indescribably depressed.

Fortunately, Su Yun really believed what he said before, and thought that he was not able to adapt to such a situation for a while, so she did not make too many demands on him. Instead, she vaguely wanted to take him along - after all, Su Yun originally asked Chen Boyan to be her male companion tonight, and she also wanted to take someone new.

Su Yun made such an arrangement because she thought that Chen Boyang's personality was not well suited to such lively occasions, while Zhang Querong was older and had experienced many things at the grassroots level so he could handle it on his own.

Unexpectedly, she also overestimated the other one.

In fact, Su Yun was not the only one who thought she had overestimated him: it was only until today that Zhang Querong felt the same inferiority complex that Chen Boyang felt when facing Su Yun.

And he still didn't want to give in, and wanted to have enough strength to stand by her side, but right now he had no choice but to accept her help in order to stand up.

The inevitable sense of frustration can greatly undermine a young person's courage to pursue true love.

It turns out that those who always say that their good brothers don't have the courage to pursue true love, always feel disappointed with their good brothers for not being able to make it, or even think that if it were me, I would have done it a long time ago, are so naive and ignorant.

If he really took over, the effect he could produce would be about the same as that of his good brother.

It might even be worse - at least Danny was showing his affection openly, while he still had to resort to tricks, think ahead and behind, and struggle with his conscience before he could get a chance to get close to Su Yun.

Thinking of this, Zhang Querong couldn't help but let out a bitter smile: He didn't know what Danny's reaction would be when he returned to the room and found that his ID card and the note notifying him were missing.

He shouldn't have done this...

But just, I can't help it.

It was probably from the time he arrived in Venice. Seeing that his good brother seemed to have become more generous because he no longer had to worry about the paparazzi, and seeing that Su Yun had a vague preference for him that was different from that for others, it was as if a devil had taken up residence in his heart.

On that day, the team members probably just noticed the scene of the two people smiling at each other and walking hand in hand?

But they didn't realize that the person watching their backs by the water looked particularly dark even when standing in the sunlight.

The simultaneous arrival of relief and jealousy could actually make a person so terrifying. When he saw his reflection in the water out of the corner of his eye, he could hardly believe that this was the terrifying and distorted expression he could show.

But the devil that caused him to behave in such an ugly way did not let him go, but lay lurking quietly, knowing that this rare opportunity would arise tonight, then he reappeared and dealt him a heavy blow.

At the same time... together with him, he gave his good brother a heavy blow of betrayal when his good brother was least prepared.

"Are you really okay? You seem absent-minded tonight. Are you like Danny, having trouble acclimatizing or are you tired?" After perfectly handling the question-and-answer session after the movie screening, Su Yun looked at him with concern.

Seeing those jade-like hands about to stroke his forehead as their owner wished, Zhang Querong was startled. His body moved faster than his brain and he leaned back all of a sudden.

"I'm sorry, I'm not in a very good mood tonight..." After realizing that his subconscious avoidance was still impolite, Zhang Querong first apologized, and then he could only hurry to think of an explanation, "Maybe, I'm a little hungry, so I don't have much energy..."

"You should have said it earlier. It's already this late, you must be hungry!" Su Yun looked at her watch and couldn't help but sighed, "In order to look good in our dresses, the three of us didn't have dinner tonight."

It’s not that they need to diet to maintain their figure, but because the human body will show a little belly for a period of time after eating, so many people will fast for one or several meals before attending occasions where they need to maintain the best image, in order to achieve the effect of making their body look better.

Looking at all the members of the logistics team who had already eaten a lot at dinner time because they didn't need to maintain their image, Su Yun couldn't help but sigh again.

"It doesn't matter. We're done with work tonight. Let's find a special restaurant and have a good meal, shall we?" Su Yun suggested. "You'll probably feel more energetic after dinner."

"Okay." Zhang Querong responded softly.

After turning around and speaking to the assistant in the team, asking her to go back and tell Chen Boyang, who was unable to come here, that he and Zhang Querong went to a nearby specialty restaurant for dinner, Su Yun actually took Zhang Querong to find a boat.

Looking at the tourist guide, they took a water bus for a while. On the way to transfer, they found a very strange but distinctive pointed-horned boat called "Gondola" by the water. After soliciting customers, Su Yun became interested and gave up the faster water bus. Instead, she found a gondola driver, a characteristic Venetian boat, and got on it with Zhang Querong.

"We've been hungry for so long, do you mind waiting a little longer?" Su Yun asked tentatively.

"I don't mind." The stolen time together was an inestimable luxury, so how could he possibly mind?

As more and more foreign tourists come to visit, many gondola boatmen speak fluent English. Seeing the two people's attire, the boatman with a friendly smile teased, "Are you a couple? Then I recommend you take the route to the Bridge of Sighs."

Looking at her dress, which was indeed a bit more formal than the casual style of most people, Su Yun held up her gauze jacket and explained with a smile: "No, we are just good friends."

"Oh, that's a pity, you two look a perfect match!" said the boatman as he pushed the boat. "This is the first time I've met such beautiful and charming Orientals like you!"

Having traveled by water for so many years, it is common to meet good-looking customers from time to time because of film festivals, but the boatman uncle asked himself whether this was the first time he had seen a customer with an oriental face.

Moreover, they did not speak with a strong Japanese or Korean accent, but rather a very typical British or American accent. Perhaps this beautiful couple had studied in the UK or the US for many years.

"I guess so. He went to high school in England, and I went to college in California." Normally, Zhang Querong was the talkative one who livened up the atmosphere, but tonight he seemed to be in a bad mood and was quite taciturn. So Su Yun chatted with the boatman in a disjointed manner, and then looked at the boat she was riding with interest.

It is curved on both sides, with a sharp corner raised, and it floats in the water like a dark moon.

Under the dark blue and cold moonlight, as the light and shadows of the rippling water sway, there is a vague feeling of trying to catch the moon in the water.

"The Bridge of Sighs is just ahead!" The boatman suddenly called out, pulling Su Yun back from her wandering thoughts. "Here, there is a legend that if lovers kiss while riding a gondola under the Bridge of Sighs, their love will last forever."

"Really?" Su Yun smiled and looked at the Baroque-style stone bridge in front of her. "What a beautiful legend, isn't it, Lesley?"

Zhang Querong smiled faintly but did not reply: Because he studied in England when he was young, he could get more information than Su Yun.

For example, the legend of the Bridge of Sighs - originally, this bridge, whose name carries a sense of sorrow, did not have a legend about blessing lovers with long-lasting love.

The two ends of the Bridge of Sighs are the Doge's Palace and the Venetian Prison respectively. Therefore, in ancient times, this bridge was the only way for the court to escort death row prisoners to the prison.

In the story, the condemned man stopped to reminisce about his beloved woman when passing by the bridge. Then he saw the woman he loved and another man riding a gondola passing under the bridge.

Seeing the two people kissing each other, the prisoner felt betrayed and was extremely angry and sad. He roared and rushed to the window of the stone bridge.

Blood gushed out, the condemned returned in a hurry, but time passed like water, and a hundred years passed in the blink of an eye.

Later, this tragic story was adapted into a beautiful legend; and the high and low, the unforgettable love, the separation between life and death, the conspiracy and love in the story, all became the topic of conversation for people in later generations to laugh at after dinner.

Not far past the Bridge of Sighs, in front of them was the specialty restaurant they were targeting.

Probably because they came directly by water bus, Chen Boyang, who got to know the news later, arrived here before them.

Seeing that the gondola carrying his good brother and sweetheart was about to reach the shore, Chen Boyang smiled brightly and raised one hand to wave at them.

"How are you? Is your headache better?" After landing, Su Yun asked Chen Boyang who came forward to greet her with concern.

"I feel much better after taking the medicine. Unfortunately, I didn't pay attention before. The window of the room was open, and the ID card and your message were taken away by a stray cat that sneaked in. The store staff and I took a long time to get them back. Fortunately, both of them were intact..." Chen Boyang explained with a smile, "Maybe because your message paper was fragrant, the stray cat thought it was food, but after biting it a few times, it found it tasted bad, so it threw it into the nest as a collection. When we went to get it, it held on to it, and finally we got it back with a piece of bacon, hahaha!"

"Is it so fun?" Su Yun couldn't help laughing, "No wonder you didn't go there all night, it turns out you went to make a deal with Mr. Cat."

Seeing the two of them talking happily, Zhang Querong found an opportunity to approach them and said, "I'm sorry, Danny. You're not here tonight, so I'm temporarily Mary's male companion. Do you mind?"

"Why would I mind? I really have to thank you!" Chen Boyang laughed even more happily, and then took the opportunity when Su Yun turned his head to look at the restaurant sign to quietly pat the back of his hand, "Thanks to you being by my side, if it was someone else, I would really be worried..."

"Only you - I believe you will never betray me, right, good brother?"

It was obvious that his expression and words were sincere...Therefore, facing this good brother who was completely unaware but trusted him extremely, Zhang Querong felt even more guilty in his heart.

I'm sorry, I was possessed for a moment and stole some time that originally belonged to you.

But please rest assured, from now on, this will never happen again...

Looking back at the Bridge of Sighs, which looked even lonelier under the cold moonlight, Zhang Querong, who did not want to see that tragic story repeat itself, made up his mind secretly.