Alan lifted Gu Qingchi's wrist slightly, and he looked at the scar critically, as if he was looking at a black flaw on white porcelain.
He spoke with a British accent, sounding a bit elegant, like an old gentleman, using somewhat classical words, speaking a little fast but with very clear enunciation, his voice was like a cello, his tone was arrogant with aristocratic posturing and sarcasm.
"I have prepared nearly a hundred sets of clothes. You will wear them in the next few days. The photographer will take nearly ten thousand photos and select a very small number of them to be published in magazines or product brochures in the second half of the year for VIP customers to browse. Most of those clothes are sleeveless or short-sleeved."
"And our contract also stipulates that you have an obligation to wear some of the clothes on the runway. The media on the scene will not help you retouch the photos. I also can't guarantee that the clothes you wear on the runway will all have long sleeves and be long enough to cover your wrists under the show lights. This is stupid."
He changed the subject, still looking down on others.
"How are your parents doing? Do you love them?"
Gu Qingchi had no idea what he wanted to do, and he answered the first question almost immediately.
"very good."
As for the latter question, he hesitated for a moment, but finally answered firmly.
"Yes, I love them."
Alan didn't mind Gu Qingchi's hesitation, he continued to ask.
"Do you have any brothers or sisters? How are they?"
"I have an elder brother, and we have a very good relationship."
Alan looked up.
"Where's your lover?"
This time, Gu Qingchi paused for a little longer. His ears began to turn red, and he hesitated and seemed a little shy.
"It should be considered as such."
Allen didn't dwell on this point, he let go of Gu Qingchi's wrist and clapped his hands twice loudly. His tone sounded very sarcastic.
He turned his head and stared at Gu Qingchi.
"Ha, very good. After your parents, brother, and lover have paid for your stupid behavior, now everyone present will have to pay for your mistake."
"I hope you won't do such a stupid thing a second time, understand?"
"I thought it was a question."
He seemed determined to get an answer from Gu Qingchi.
"Yes, sir."
After getting a satisfactory answer, Alan turned to the makeup artist and said to him.
“Can you cover it?”
The makeup artist said honestly.
"It's a bit difficult, and the skin tone on that part definitely won't look that natural."
Alan made a gesture to show that he understood, and without even turning his head, he gave orders directly to the assistant beside him.
"Bring scarves and wristbands and bracelets. Anything that can cover the scars on his hands. Bring everything."
Then he began to urge the staff on the scene.
"Move quickly, don't just stand there."
Then Alan straightened his suit, walked over to the person in charge, and lowered his voice.
"Reduce today's workload by half and move it to the back. If it doesn't work, extend the time a little and pay attention to the model's mood."
After he gave the order, he began to complain incessantly.
"That's enough. Why do I always have to deal with this kind of problem? Am I their father? I'm not even married yet, why do I start to worry about this?"
No matter how many times he was reminded online, Xie Luyu ignored it and even did not answer calls from Pan Xiaocheng and his friends.
He was not at home. He went to the so-called "wedding room" that he and Gu Qingchi had at that time.
Gu Qingchi lived there for those two years.
Xie Luyu had become financially independent two years ago. He could choose where to live according to his own wishes, and he had never gone there if he didn't like it.
But Gu Qingchi couldn't do that. If he followed the normal trajectory of life, he would still be in school, still half a child, living happily under the protection of his parents, not to mention financial independence. He had no choice.
This is the first time that Xie Luyu has come here in such a long time. The environment around the house is very good, but the price is that it is far away from the city. It is lonely in a place far away from the city center. There are other villas around it, but they are basically uninhabited. Only a few of them are occupied by a few retired elderly people. Most of them are bought by rich people for recuperation.
It's hard to get a taxi in this place.
Xie Luyu knew that Gu Qingchi still couldn't drive, which meant that most of the time, Gu Qingchi was forced to stay in that house.
The house is very big, so big that it would make people feel uneasy. The house is also very tidy, so tidy that you can't tell that someone has lived here alone for two years.
He also went to see the garden. Gu Qingchi had cleared a small piece of the garden and planted roses. Now the roses there had been dry and overgrown with weeds for a long time.
The garden seemed too big for the small patch of roses.
He walked through every room, trying to find traces of where Gu Qingchi had lived.
In the end, all he found was a rose that had long withered, an open book lying on the table in the study, and a marriage certificate on the coffee table in the living room.
Gu Qingchi did not take it away. A bar stamp had already been stamped inside the marriage certificate - the two parties were divorced and the certificate was invalid.
Xie Luyu was sitting in the living room with the little red book on the coffee table in front of him.
He was lying on the sofa, with his head resting on the back, staring at the ceiling. He looked listless, with bloodshot eyes, and he looked extremely gloomy and depressed.
He couldn't help but imagine how Gu Qingchi lived at that time.
At that time, Gu Qingchi was forced to terminate his studies and leave the campus, so he could only depend on him for living.
He chose to vent his anger on another victim, Gu Qingchi. Gu Qingchi, who had just stepped out of school and into society, could only accept it all.
Xie Luyu was his only bridge in the new environment, so Gu Qingchi instinctively held on to this bridge tightly after he was afraid and nervous.
But this bridge was closed to him from the beginning.
He called for help many times, but in vain, and day by day he began to fall into the abyss.
Later the bridge broke, they divorced, and he was once again abandoned into another environment.
So he learned how to survive in society, how to work, and how to make money, things that were never taught in school.
Xie Luyu once thought that Gu Qingchi’s depression was genetic, but when he watched the video of Gu Qingchi at the sports meeting, he saw how happy he was at that time, like a little sun, and was the center of attention among his classmates and friends.
And now, he could cut his wrist without hesitation.
There are many murderers in this incident, and he is one of them. This is what makes Xie Luyu most sad.
He has been trying to avoid becoming like his parents, who were promiscuous and had no sense of family responsibility.
He must love his lover very much and take on family responsibilities.
But the reality is that he messed everything up himself.
The cell phone suddenly rang again. It was also placed on the coffee table, next to the invalidated marriage certificate. Xie Luyu was stunned for a long time before he picked up the phone.
"Hello?"
The person on the other side was quiet for a moment, then heard something wrong in Xie Luyu's voice and asked tentatively.
"You're crying?"
Xie Luyu looked up at the ceiling, blinked back his tears, and answered quickly.
"No."
"It's like this. A Mrs. Gu wants to talk to you. I'm not sure if you know about it and whether you agree to it..."
If you agree, when will it be convenient? He hasn’t finished speaking yet.
Xie Luyu nervous for a moment, then sat up.
"Promise, promise. Please ask for the time for me."
Pan Xiaocheng was stunned for a moment, suspecting that Xie Luyu had cried himself silly. Usually, the party who first made the invitation would ask the invited party about their schedule. He came to ask when Xie Luyu would be available.
"I came to ask you the time."
Xie Luyu refused.
"No, no, no, I have time. You can ask others."
Pan Xiaocheng agreed.
Mrs. Gu developed the habit of reading Weibo because of Gu Qingchi, so she almost always knows what happens on the Internet first.
She watched the show, took screenshots of the text message interface, and watched it many times.
The more she read, the more distressed she felt. She felt depressed just by looking at those words, and these were just a small part of what her little darling wrote down.
After feeling heartbroken, I was furious. Father Gu had been scolded several times in these days.
When Gu's father was investigating, he had too little time and only focused on what happened in the hospital that year and Gu Qingchi's basic life trajectory. He only knew that Gu Qingchi did not complete his studies and had been divorced once.
This experience didn't seem to be very good. Although he cared about it, he never asked about Gu Qingchi. He had been absent for so many years and never taught Gu Qingchi. No matter whether Gu Qingchi was right or wrong, he had no right to comment.
Moreover, the marriage between Xie Luyu and Gu Qingchi was very private. He checked it at the time but found nothing. He just thought that Gu Qingchi was young and ignorant, so he divorced her soon after getting married.
He felt satisfied just seeing such a grown-up child staying by his side. After Gu Qingchi came back, he was only concerned with figuring out how to raise the child and dealing with Gu Cheng and the others. With so many things to do, he no longer held on to the past.
But he never thought about the idea of marriage.
Although Mrs. Gu was the same before, it did not prevent her from taking her anger out on Father Gu.
"How can you be a father? You don't know this or that, what else can you do?"
"Useless! They dared to destroy my child. I want them to pay the price!"
The more she spoke, the sadder she became. Her emotions were so volatile that she pulled at the front of Gu's father's clothes and buried herself in his arms.
"Gu Jiu! Gu Jiu!"
Father Gu remained quiet when she scolded him and did not refute him. He would come to comfort her at this time.
"Don't worry, no one can escape."
Xiaoguai is still a child in Mrs. Gu's heart. She didn't ask Gu Qingchi why he dropped out of school, nor did she ask about Gu Qingchi's divorce incident that was previously exposed, but that doesn't mean she doesn't care anymore. Not only does she care, she cares a lot.
She had never dared to imagine that her children would drop out of school, get married and then get divorced.
But she had the same idea as Gu's father. Since she had never taught him before, she had no right to interfere no matter how unbearable the child's life was.
But she never thought that Gu Qingchi would be ruined by someone. It turned out that he was very outstanding even in such an environment.
No one cared about him, but he grew up well. He ranked among the top students in the school and was on the school honor roll. He also liked sports and was popular among his friends. Everyone liked him.
He used to laugh happily among his friends.
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