Almighty painter

Chapter 803 The Beginning of Love (Part )
"The end of a relationship is also the beginning of love."

——Katsuko Sakai.
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How should little girl Jasmine go to school and receive medical treatment? How should little Budao go to school and receive medical treatment? How should children in orphanages go to school and receive medical treatment?

Can these things be maintained in the long term and can there be long-term planning for many years?

Because of her good relationship with Gu Weijing, Jasmine went to one of the best local primary schools. How will she get along with other children in the orphanage?

People do not suffer from scarcity but from inequality.

Will other children feel jealous or resentful when faced with someone who is right next to them but lives a life completely different from their own?
Will they isolate and bully Jasmine because of this?

Think about this matter in reverse.

Everyone lives in an orphanage, but Jasmine is chosen by Gu Weijing and Miss Sakai to be the model for their painting.

Will she feel superior because of this?
Will she look down on other children?
Will this turn her from being isolated into someone who isolates and bullies others?

These are things that could happen, or even are happening.

There is no fairy-tale-like happiness, but it is filled with the pale and mediocre helplessness of reality.

Paleness and mediocrity may very well be the true nature of life.

Gu Weijing didn't know whether there was such an ideal place of harmony and joy as described in fairy tales in the world. If there really was one, it would definitely not be an orphanage in the slums of a chaotic and turbulent area.

Gu Weijing once thought that donating to an orphanage was a simple thing.

As long as you generously transfer some money from your account, all the children will smile innocently, and everyone will live a happier and more fulfilling life.

When he actually walked into the orphanage, the young man realized how ridiculous his naivety was.

That’s not the case at all!
Good deeds should be like the gentle and warm sun that rises every day, rather than occasionally putting leftover cake crumbs into the plates of pet cats and dogs in exchange for a few barks to please you.

Its essence is love and resonance.

We share the same joy and sorrow.

He casually pushed the cake crumbs onto the plate. Even King Awang was too lazy to eat it, let alone those living children?
"very nice."

Katsuko Sakai stared at Gu Weijing and then she spoke softly.

"Wei Jing, you have always been a very loving person. You like something and love someone forever. You don't care about any difficulties or what you have to pay for it."

Gu Weijing also looked into Sakai Katsuko's eyes.

a long time.

He smiled softly.

"It's not your fault, Shengzi. From the beginning to the end, this should not have anything to do with you." Gu Weijing lowered his head, leaned back in his chair, and stared at the glass of water in his hand.

"And helping Jasmine is no longer pure charity for me. She is Uncle Alai's sister--"

From the first day Gu Weijing entered the Good Luck Orphanage, Uncle Alai has always called Jasmine his sister.

Given the age difference between the two, the lame janitor certainly wouldn't have a sister as old as Jasmine.

One is a drug enforcement police officer who was framed and imprisoned.

One is a little girl suffering from congenital AIDS.

There might be some painful past that made people feel heartbroken, but Uncle Alai didn't say anything and Gu Weijing didn't ask.

"She is like my own sister to me," said Gu Weijing.

"——Maybe the cuter one."

Katsuko Sakai interface.

Gu Weijing raised his eyes and stared at Shengzi. He knew that Shengzi was talking about his cousin Gu Lin.

The girl shrugged expressionlessly and stirred the drink in the porcelain cup with a spoon, as if the words just now did not come out of her mouth.

The young man felt that Shengzi's aura was stronger than before.

A bit like her mother.

The gentle and quiet girl in the past probably wouldn't say such harsh words.

"How can helping your own sister be considered an act of charity?"

Gu Weijing smiled and continued in English, "It is part of the family responsibilities that need to be faced in life."

"Then tell me what happened after I left that day."

Katsuko Sakai lifted her bangs and sighed softly, "No need to hide. I know you have something to tell me. I also want to know everything that happened after that day—"

"I heard that Brother Hao was actually Chen Shenglin, and he turned himself in. When I saw the news, I knew it must be related to you."

Gu Weijing took a sip from his water cup.

"Yes."

"After we separated that night, I called Brother Hao..."

The young man's voice brought the two people's memories back to when they separated from each other on the banks of the Yangon River half a month ago.

At a small table in a cafe.

Katsuko Sakai looked closely at the boy's face, eyebrows, thin face, curved eyebrows, distinct eyelashes, and the quiet and deep eyes under the eyelashes.

She felt like she was walking into a quiet and deep lake.
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"——This is what happened. I took the first flight to Singapore yesterday morning and missed the opening ceremony of the art exhibition."

Gu Weijing leaned back in his chair and drank the last bit of the drink in the glass. The sweetness and sourness of the unsweetened lemonade mixed together and lingered on his tongue.

"Koko went to France. I heard she was going to continue studying dancing."

Apart from the part related to Detective Cat, which Koko asked him to keep as "her own secret" that he could not tell anyone else, Gu Weijing told Katsuko Sakai everything that had happened in the past half month, without hiding anything.

During this period, Koko hugged him in the lake, and also included the morning in Xihe Guild Hall, when Koko kissed his lips and asked him whether he loved her, and Gu Weijing answered with "he loved her".

It even includes the notebook in his hand that is filled with 100 reasons why he loves Koko.

Gu Weijing poured out everything without any embellishment.

No smearing.

No modification required.

This is his true, perhaps ugly self, and his betrayal of their mutual feelings.

No matter what his purpose was in sending a breakup text message to Katsuko Sakai that night, it was a fact that he hugged another girl the next day.

Betrayal is betrayal.

Infidelity is infidelity.

Any excuses and justifications are an evasion of his own behavior.

Katsuko Sakai is certainly qualified to think that this is something that cannot be tolerated and cannot be accepted.

Of course, Katsuko Sakai is also qualified to know the truth of the matter.

The girl across the table had a very good personality, and she was as smart as a mirror, but that didn't mean she could be considered by Gu Weijing as someone who "deceived her for her own good." She was as innocent as a mirror, as pure as a mirror, and she also reflected the face of the man across the table as clearly as a mirror.

Gu Weijing was the one who hurt Miss Shengzi.

Deception cannot hide the pain.

Mr. Sloth said that letting your partner see your true self might be braver than being clingy and giving your partner false and unrealistic impressions.

Deception only allows pain to fester in a gloomy atmosphere, turning fresh wounds into old sores that gradually grow in the mattress.

"I'm not going to pretend that I don't care that this is going on."

Katsuko Sakai scraped the side of the porcelain teacup with her fingertips.

People who don't care don't care.

She cares.

"But I have to say that Koko has always been a very brave person, braver than me."

Katsuko Sakai added with her eyes...at least better than I used to be.

There is no contradiction between the girl wishing that none of this had happened and her admiration for the other person's courage.

Katsuko looked into the eyes reflected in the teacup.

“Love makes one feel like one can do anything.”

Gu Weijing silently picked up a piece of cauliflower from the disposable lunch box with his fingertips and put it next to Awang's mouth.

The tabby cat, which was busy gnawing on a chicken breast, raised its chin proudly and ignored him.

The young man stubbornly held the cauliflower in his palm and put it in front of Awang's fat face.

Awang hesitated for a moment, then ate it in one gulp.

What does this scene look like from a cat’s perspective?

Vegetables are not generally on the diet of many cats.

Maybe in the eyes of a cat, this thing is no different from a piece of chewy bark.

In Awang's eyes, what exactly did he feed it? A cruciferous vegetable? Or some candy with a weird taste... or a suspicious solidified substance?

When Awang swallowed a ball of plant fiber that was not on his diet and smelled like grass, did he know that although it didn't taste good, it was good for his health?

Isn't it worried that this is some kind of poison?
When Awang snatched the vegetable leaf from the young man's palm in one bite, what prompted him to swallow it was the fearless spirit of the cat king, or his fearless trust and love for himself?

“It’s such a mystery.”

The young man thought to himself.

The knowledge card "Pet Mind Reading" gave him the ability to vaguely understand the moods of cats and dogs, but when Gu Weijing lowered his head and stared at the ginger-colored pupils of the tabby cat who was eating happily, he found that he still could not guess what Awang was thinking when he swallowed the cauliflower.

Gu Weijing's study and understanding of muscle lines enables him to accurately depict a person's expression of joy and sadness on paper.

Looking up at the pair of lilac-colored pupils opposite him, Gu Weijing realized that he still didn't know what he saw.

The ripples of the almond tea were reflected in Katsuko Sakai's eyes, like light black pontoon boats floating on the water in a botanical garden.

"We have all grown up. Gu Jun."

Katsuko Sakai suddenly said sadly.

"When passion comes, people feel like they own the world. You easily feel that you have found the destined person, everything is perfect, and everything is fate. There are eight billion people in this world. You meet someone, hold his hand, and coincidentally think that he is the only one in the world."

"Many times, what you fall in love with is not a person, but just a desire to love, an empty phantom in your mind."

Katsuko Sakai breathed out gently.

"I was born in an artist's family. Since I was a child, I have seen many elders whose relationships and marriages were particularly unhappy. He or she fell in love with someone and thought that the other person was perfect and an angel in the dream. They fell in love at lightning speed, got married at lightning speed, and then..."

The girl smiled bitterly.

"Divorce at lightning speed."

Gu Weijing guessed the answer.

Shengzi nodded. "Yes, a marriage can even last less than half a year. Two people who once loved each other so much become enemies who fight in court or never see each other again. I once had an uncle who complained to my father about his ex-wife's poor taste in art, calling her a rustic country girl with no appreciation of art."

"Do you know something interesting?" Katsuko Sakai raised her eyes and looked at Gu Weijing.

"In fact, his ex-wife is not a country bumpkin?" Gu Weijing said.

"Yes, his ex-wife is a model from Milan. She once appeared on the cover of Shueisha's Seventeen fashion magazine."

Katsuko Sakai nodded and shook her head. "But that's not the point I want to make."

"The point is, just a year ago, I heard the same uncle mention to my dad that he was going to the Maldives for his honeymoon with his fiancée. He said he had met the 'right' person, and that woman was to him like my mom was to my dad. She was his muse, and he couldn't live without her, and they would be happily together forever."

"In just one year, the uncle is still the uncle, and the woman is still the woman. Only their identities have changed from fiancée to ex-wife. The perfect muse who inspired him has turned into a rustic country girl with tastes that make him want to vomit and no artistic appreciation ability."

"Mr. Gu, can you understand? They really didn't get married for money or property. The moment they got married in a flash, they really thought they had met Mr. Right, their destined Mr. Right. But after the spark of passion faded, the true face of life was revealed, and they realized that they really never liked each other."

Katsuko Sakai paused for a moment.

She renders the verdict.

"In the final analysis, they just like the illusion of 'falling in love with someone', just like the Greek beautiful boy Wu Yizhi who fell in love with his own reflection in the water in the myth."

"Their mutual affection is of course false, a drunken dream."

Gu Weijing was infected by the sadness in Sakai Katsuko's words.

The joy in her mouth was the long ash left by the burning passion, which turned into illusory clouds when the wind blew.

"Ms. Sakai, I am actually never what you think I am—"

Gu Weijing had just opened his mouth when he interrupted Sakai Katsuko.

The woman extended her index finger.

"Quiet."

"First, call me Shengzi. Second, stop being sad and misinterpreting my meaning." Sakai Shengzi looked at Gu Weijing with dissatisfaction.

"I said that the love between them was fake. I didn't say that the love between us was also fake. Before you put yourself in their shoes, Mr. Gu, please listen to me first."

King Awang felt the atmosphere on the coffee table.

It raised its head from the food box, rubbed it on Katsuko Sakai's arm, and meowed in agreement.

Gu Weijing looked at Sakai Katsuko in surprise.

He was sure he saw a different girl.

She is stronger and more graceful.

And more graceful.

(End of this chapter)