Almighty painter

Chapter 804 The Beginning of Love (Part )
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“I’ll jump, too.”

Sakai Katsuko said.

"What."

Gu Weijing didn't understand.

"Lake, I mean the lake. Jump into the lake like Koko."

The girl said to herself, "In the botanical garden that day, if necessary, I would jump into the lake for you. I have the courage to do so—"

Katsuko Sakai touched the scalp of the cat on the table.

"A more accurate description."

"I have such passion, ambition or desire. I have such ability to act, and I am willing to do something for love. I am also willing to do something to prove my love. If it were that day, when we kissed for the first time, my heart would be full of passion. I wouldn't even feel too much hesitation and fear."

"I am delighted by this. Jumping into the lake does not make me feel scared, but like a swimmer who has been preparing for the Olympics for four years, preparing to perform a perfect performance about love."

Katsuko Sakai is no longer the same as before.

She dominated the conversation, her demeanor more graceful, her tone more composed, pulling him tightly like a silk thread.

In the past, Katsuko Sakai was Mizuha.

When talking to her, he was always like a baby lying in a heated pool, melted by the warmth.

Today, Katsuko Sakai is still a water wave, but she is no longer a small heated fish tank or bathtub.

She was a stream and a river. She still enveloped and immersed Gu Weijing, pulling him with a strong hand, leading him to the depths of Shengzi's heart.

"It is the grand performance about love that I have been looking forward to. In the preparation and anticipation of this performance, I spent my innocent infancy and confused girlhood. Life is about jumping into the lake, and life is about being fearless and omnipotent for love."

"But is that really love?"

Shengzi looked at Gu Weijing and a name came out of her red lips.

"Daisy."

“Gatsby?” the young man replied, laughing.

"No, you're not Daisy, you're Shengzi."

He shook his head instead, "I'm not the Great Gatsby who acquired his immense wealth through illegal means. I'm Gu Weijing."

Gu Weijing is no longer a crybaby or a fish trapped in a pond.

He is a black-sailed boat drifting on the waves.

After being slightly surprised, Gu Weijing quickly caught up with Sakai Katsuko's rhythm.

He understood the implicit meaning of Katsuko Sakai's words.

At Fitz International School, The Great Gatsby is a must-read for understanding American literature in the early 20th century, and its importance is no less than that of Mark Twain.

The rich girl Daisy in the novel fell in love with Gatsby at lightning speed.

She was determined to abandon her good life, her mansion in Long Island, all the parties, dances and salons to elope for love with Gatsby who suddenly appeared, but she was stopped by her parents who arranged for her to marry a society star from New Orleans.

This story is repeated twice in the plot.

The story ends with Gatsby's death.

But Miss Daisy lived a happy life, or at least she looked happy.

She found that she was just dazzled by the fantasy of love. She didn't love Gatsby, and neither the poor boy Gatsby nor the bootlegger Gatsby was a necessity in Daisy's life.

Parties, jewelry and money are the necessities in Daisy's life.

All love experiences based on false imagination will be destroyed by social reality.

"My imagination of love is completely based on my admiration for my parents. My mother left everything behind and went to Japan with my father without even looking back. Many artists change partners more frequently than they change cars. But they have been married for 20 years and are still as happy and cheerful as they were back then. The only thing that has become bloated and greasy is my father's belly, not their love. Their love is as bright as new and indestructible."

Katsuko Sakai's eyes were filled with admiration and respect.

The love between Aunt Blonde and Uncle Sakai is so special, among the group of artists who are particularly accustomed to making love and hate into a mess.

Uncle Sakai's love is more eye-catching than Uncle Sakai's belly.

"So, in my heart, love is supposed to be like this. It's supposed to leave everything behind, it's supposed to jump into the water, it's supposed to stand on the rooftop. Love that can go through this test is the real love that will not dissolve with time."

"But I overlooked one thing. Their love was not perfect. They went through a lot together during their student days in Spain. They had ups and downs, conflicts, and quarrels. My dad even secretly ate the cooking homework that my mom had put in the refrigerator. Don't laugh—"

"This is a serious matter. My mom put a lot of thought into it and was ready to bring it to class to kill everyone. But my dad got up in the middle of the night and just grabbed it and ate it in one bite. My mom was very angry! Not only about the cooking class homework, she felt that my dad didn't respect her."

Katsuko Sakai scratched the soft top of the cat's head that was sucked in by the storm between the lunch boxes.

"She hasn't spoken to my dad for a week. She's seriously considering breaking up with him because of this—"

Gu Weijing sat between the chairs, listening to Shengzi telling him the love story of his father and mother.

One by one, those ordinary and trivial troubles.

The relationship between Uncle Sakai and the blonde aunt once affected him.

Gu Weijing's father and mother were the kind of people who made their love life a mess, and finally abandoned their children and started their own families.

Children who lack a sense of security in love are always full of longing for love that is as strong as gold.

It turns out that the strong feelings that are so pure, so gorgeous, and so sacred, without any impurities in the hearts of young people, have once been troubled by trivial matters.

“It feels like a fairy tale coming closer to the mundane world.”

Gu Weijing was lost in thought.

These things should have deepened Gu Weijing's disillusionment with love. When gold was mixed with pathetic, cheap and sad iron, it was no longer so precious. This made him firmly believe that perfect love would never exist.

No.

Such a sad feeling never appeared in the young man's heart for a moment.

He felt real.

Being too sacred and too polite will make people feel alienated. Male and female actors sang Shakespeare's sonnets on the stage in high notes like arias and tears.

Now, listening to their daughter stirring almond tea in a porcelain cup with a small silver spoon while telling her parents about their bickering, arguments and fights, they have become stories that happen right next to them, with the flavor of life.

They ascended from heaven to earth.

Not falling, not falling, not falling to the sky. But rising!

An handsome warrior with a halo on his head, a gloomy and solemn face that reads "Ah, let me die as proudly as a cherry blossom and become the ashes of spring" and a blonde woman with a halo on her head, a noble and cold face, humming "I am such a queen", are holding hands and slowly climbing up the ladder extending from the clouds.

They rose to the clouds, but walked into the mud of the human world.

When the Japanese actor who played the male angel and the Spanish blonde girl who played the female angel stepped on solid ground.

He has become a meatball-shaped fat uncle who holds up "I love donuts, I love teriyaki!", and... the blonde aunt who still hums "I am such a queen".

But she is the blonde aunt who gets furious when the food in the refrigerator is stolen.

The golden angel ring behind his head disappeared.

Transformed into the hustle and bustle of human fireworks.

The religious architecture of the Sistine Chapel was transformed into vibrant colors full of humanity in the Impressionist style.

The disappearance of divinity also means the sublimation of humanity.

"so good."

Gu Weijing said in a low voice.

Katsuko Sakai was talking about the most unpleasant part of her father and mother's lives, but Gu Weijing said it was great.

"Yeah, that's great."

The girl understood what he meant and nodded.

"I used to think that standing bravely on the rooftop was the true face of love. Suddenly, I realized -" Shengzi adjusted her bangs, "that was just the dazzling light of love burning in the bright moment. Getting angry over a slice of pizza, arguing over who should drive to the movies... these things are the true face of love. Love accumulates and settles over and over again in the process of constantly getting to know each other and yourself."

Ms. Sakai used her fingertips to pick apart a tuft of soft hair that was stuck together on the tabby cat's neck.

"Illusions are punctured again and again, and the truest appearance of each other is revealed in the process. Many people will lose the ability to love more and more as the passion fades, and even hate each other. The transformation from an artistic muse to a vulgar country girl happens in this process."

"On the contrary—"

Gu Weijing interrupted and said.

"Some people find themselves liking each other more and more after the passion fades. They find that the other person is not the person they imagined at the beginning. They completely understand each other, but still like each other. The transformation from passion to love also happens in this process."

“This is growth.”

Katsuko Sakai laughed, the water swirled and two shallow dimples formed on her cheeks.

He understands.

Gu Weijing, the man opposite, understood as much as he did.

"I think so. My mother knows my father completely. She knows exactly what kind of person he is. She saw the other side of my father's handsome face - the side that is full of life and sparkle. He is greedy, he can't walk when he sees food, he likes to be lazy sometimes, he lacks self-control, and he is sometimes overly sensitive. In a good way, he has an artistic temperament, and in a bad way, he seems a little fragile."

"It is said that my father used to be the kind of person who would burst into tears when he saw the sunset on the side of the road—"

Hey, which part of Katsuko Sakai's mouth is the shining point?

Listen to Ms. Sakai's description.

Gu Weijing always felt that the glorious and majestic image of the great artist Kazunari Sakai in the eyes of his fans was stabbed again and again.

……

“Things that are too beautiful always fade away quickly, just like cherry blossoms that eventually fall before the rain.”

A few blocks away.

The middle-aged man carrying a lot of bags couldn't help but stop and looked at a certain corner of the street with a sad and peaceful look. He sighed, "Alas, rather than witnessing such a tragedy of it dissipating in the hot wind, my dear wife! It's better--"

"I warn you not to even think about it."

The blonde woman who was choosing small bracelets in a Malaysian jewelry store trampled on her husband's little thoughts without even looking up.

"If you dare to put something the size of a fingernail into your mouth while shopping, you will not be allowed to return to the hotel today. Go spend the night on the street! You only walked a few steps and burned less than 200 calories, which is not enough for you to eat!"

Done.

The wife took out a simple silver ring and put it on her husband's fat carrot-like finger, and said softly to Kazunari Sakai, who was looking at the dessert stand selling crushed ice in the distance and couldn't move, "Kazunari, come on, I believe in you. The doctor said that as long as you lose 1.5 to 2 pounds a week, your fatty liver will be gone in a year and a half at most. Let's work hard together, okay?"

"Okay okay."

Uncle Sakai nodded to indicate that his wife was right!

He wiped the sweat off his forehead with his arm and glanced at the bowl of half-melted flower-shaped cold food on the stall with great reluctance. He felt sad that it could not maintain its most beautiful appearance and become eternal in Uncle Sakai's big belly.

"Let's go buy something for the kids?" suggested the blonde aunt.

"Yeah. Katsuko has been in a bad mood lately. Honey, honey, go to the Hermes store in the Sands Shopping Center. You should be able to buy a Kelly bag in stock with your spending. As for Tsunamasa..."

The man twitched his chin.

"Is there a Ferrari store next door? I always knew he loved the Ferrari team. He used to be a fan of Alonso."

"Are you planning on buying a car for Tsunamasa?"

The blonde aunt raised an eyebrow.

Sakai Tsunamasa is about to reach the legal age to drive. Japan has a strong car culture, and there are indeed many wealthy families who give their children a car as a gift for going to college.

However, ordering a Ferrari for a child as his or her first car sounds a bit too extravagant.

Uncle Sakai shook his belly.

"Well, what I mean is, I'm going to get him a Ferrari baseball cap so that he'll have the motivation to work hard. Tsunamasa needs to have the determination to keep working hard for his goals!"

……

"——But my mother knows that my father is a very good and rare person. She knows that he is a very talented person, and she also knows that he is someone who loves her and loves her very much. If she hugs him, she will hug the happiness of her life."

"He will love himself deeply all his life, and he will regard himself as the greatest treasure he has. No matter whether he is poor or rich, healthy or not, or what his circumstances are. No matter how many temptations he faces, he will not change his heart."

Suddenly.

After so many years of debut, in the art industry with a very pink tone, Uncle Sakai's image, which has almost maintained zero scandals, has become glorious and majestic again.

"Mom knows the good things about Dad, and Mom loves Dad. Mom knows the bad things about Dad, and Mom also loves Dad."

(End of this chapter)