Almighty painter

Chapter 881: The Second Meeting of the Two Has a Lion-like Ending (Part )

"No one can escape from that shadow, whether you call it a shadow, depression, misfortune, a ghost, or anything else, it is a part of reality, and it is also a part of our self."

Anna stared at Gu Weijing with her chestnut eyes.

Staring at a soft man.

Her expression was filled with pain from the loss of fantasy, and the pain also carried an implicit pleasure, the psychological pleasure brought by contempt.

It's like tearing apart a painting that you once thought was well-painted and resonated with your heart.

You will feel pain at first.

Immediately.

At the moment the paper was torn in two, at the moment she sneered, a sense of revengeful pleasure occupied the woman's heart.

It was the revenge and disdain of a powerful and wild bad lion on a powerless good lion who buried his head in the sand dunes and dreamed of a sunny spring and autumn.

No.

All lions eat people. There is no lion in the world that eats pasta and drinks cocktails.

therefore.

There is no difference between good lions and bad lions in the world.

There is only true and false.

Only the real one has a wild heart and keeps the inextinguishable angry lion in his heart.

That wild, wild heart is the source of strength that keeps you fighting against life.

An angry roaring lion showing its fangs.

He is the king of beasts.

In Anna's worldview, lions can be soft.

But the only ones who will remain soft forever, the lion without even teeth, always crawling on the rockery to sunbathe its belly, will either be the performers in the zoo that people buy tickets to visit, or the clowns in the circus who step on a rubber ball and go through a ring of fire.

They only have the appearance of lions.

But it is just an animal as docile as a cat.

They no longer have the ability to... make life daunting.

"I really can't believe it, Mr. Gu, that I have to say this to you! I have spent half of my life in Vienna, and it is me who has to tell you such a story. It is so ironic. I thought someone like you would know more about the power of life than I do."

"People can't just live in an imaginary world, and they can't abandon the ghost chasing them!"

“No matter how far you run, that ghost will always follow you, because it is your shadow, a part of your life, your destiny, and a part of your desire. You stand there, close your eyes, indulge in fictional imagination, and then say to yourself——”

"What a nice day."

“Spring is here and the sun is shining.”

"You don't want them to feel trapped, or to feel the misfortune of their fate? That's naive, childish, and even deadly."

Miss Elena had a flame of anger surging in her heart, and her tone was cold.

"They were born in orphanages, abandoned by their parents, abandoned by their families, and may even be abandoned by society. Their parents died, broke up, and no longer wanted them! If this is not misfortune destined by fate, then what is misfortune?"

"What else do the hungry little lions who are thrown away from their tribe have except teeth? What else do the children in the shadows have except anger? Anger is their only power to overcome this lonely world. How can you let them forget their anger? Can they live by sitting in the bar, drinking gin cocktails and eating spaghetti?"

"No." Gu Weijing replied.

"That's right. They must understand what this world is like. They must treat life like a real lion. They must grit their teeth and work hard. They must crawl cautiously in the grass, in the mud, and by the water until they can roar and pounce, biting the throat of life and tearing the throat of fate tightly."

"Life is a hunter with a gun. You taught the little lions to forget the virtue of cannibalism and the power of anger. So, what should they do when the hunter approaches with a gun? What should they do when the cold rain hits their bodies? If they don't even have the courage to look directly at the muzzle of the gun and show their fangs, how can they hide their heads in the bushes and sing loudly that the weather is really fine?"

"In order to survive, they have to face hunters and have to have the virtue of cannibalism. You have a good grandfather, but they don't."

“The heroism of life is based on recognizing the true face of life. If you want to talk about love and understanding, the prerequisite is to have a burning fire and burning anger in your heart. Some truths are very good truths, and some paintings are also very good paintings. But after all, they are just the bright sunshine on the picture.”

"The sun burning on paper won't bring real warmth. Is that what you mean?" Gu Weijing thought for a moment. "It's a good metaphor. It really sounds like your style."

Gu Weijing once again accurately grasped the meaning of Anna's words.

Regrettably.

This time, Anna didn't reward him with another involuntary smile.

Only when you have a tiger in your heart and sniff the roses carefully can you have a moving and delicate charm. If you don’t have a tiger in your heart, you will be a mediocre playboy if you sniff the roses quickly.

There has never been a lack of people in Miss Elena's life who are willing to say some witty remarks and try their best to flatter her.

Anna originally thought that Gu Weijing understood her.

Think about it now.

Those were all illusory self-touching feelings, for Gu Weijing and her, for both of them.

Just like Gu Weijing’s painting “Good Luck Orphanage in the Sunshine”.

He thought he was empathizing with the children in the orphanage.

In fact.

He was just indulging in sunny imaginations, empathizing with his imaginary self.

It's also like the paper about Carol, the conversation between Miss Elena and Gu Weijing about Carol. A big part of the reason why Gu Weijing could make Anna feel look forward to it and make women feel good and gentle was that Gu Weijing said a lot of very reasonable things.

Those warm words seemed to reflect Kara's life.

This made Anna think wrongly.

Gu Weijing understood Kara's courage.

It was a wonderful double dream.

The docile big cat can look like a lion from certain angles.

A person who is not brave may appear to be very brave under certain circumstances.

A brave person can turn into lightning to illuminate the world; a not-so-brave person, living under an imaginary clear sky, can also appear sunny and fearless.

This fooled a lot of people.

He fooled her too.

What's the point of having such a person in front of her telling her that the other person thinks she is a warm and enthusiastic person?

After all, it is just the sunlight on the drawing paper, a parrot imitating the fake lion.

"Under the bright fill light in the gallery, this light looks very bright, but in the shadows, in the dark night, when the lights go out, this light is gone instantly."

Anna commented sharply.

The woman stared at Gu Weijing's face, feeling bored. The young man sat there, quietly sitting on the reclining chair.

This time he did not display the angry expression, laugh and make the sarcastic remarks as he had done in the cafe of the Raffles Hotel.

He looked both proper and sophisticated.

It was precisely this kind of propriety and refinement that made Miss Elena feel unbearably bored.

The beast that she thought roared in the mountains, the beast that regarded fate as the touchstone of life, the beast that could be kept in her heart forever, finally turned into a good lion with wings on its back, speaking noble French and eating spaghetti slowly.

“Miss Elena, you are too tough and too angry. You don’t understand the hearts of orphans—” The man still spoke in that calm tone, as if he had lost the ability to be angry.

"enough."

Anna felt like vomiting after hearing this. She felt like vomiting because of the softness in her heart that had been touched by the other party.

She waved.

"Mr. Gu, please don't tell me to give up my anger. You don't understand me at all. Maybe you don't even understand what Kara is."

"Anger is the courage that allows Carla to go on. She never ignored the existence of the cage. But she did not take the checkbook and never return, she did not escape. She turned around and returned to Paris. She died in the cage, but it was still a very brave act. Using light to break through shadows and illusory self-hypnosis, ignorance is fearless, are two completely different concepts. If you use a brush to paint a picture of "Carole with an Umbrella", you will paint a sunny and charming woman. Yes, maybe there is also a sunny and charming woman living in the heart of Carla who died in the cellar."

“But her sunshine comes from courage and determination, not from a false misunderstanding of fate. You can make it look very similar, so similar that it can fool many people, and almost fooled me, but in fact, it is completely different.”

"Mr. Gu, we have a big misunderstanding of each other."

Anna said word by word.

"If you dare to finish what you just said, and dare to say that I don't understand what an orphan is, then I will pour the glass of water on the table on your head. You can try, but I promise I will do it."

"When I was a few years old, my father crashed a Cessna 172 small sport plane into the Alps with my pregnant mother in the co-pilot seat."

The room was very quiet.

The dog August lay obediently on the side, with his tail between his legs, not daring to move.

Even the sound of the wind outside the window seemed to have stopped at this moment. The force that lifted the gauze curtain and shook it constantly was not the wind that never disappeared at the seaside, but the amazing power in Miss Elena's words.

"I am more qualified than you to talk about what an orphan is. I am also more qualified than you to talk about the emotional shadows an orphan faces in her life and the sense of insecurity that always pursues her."

"same."

"I am also far more qualified than you to say that it is braver to accept all of this, bravely look directly at these shadows, and face these dark emotions and tones than to close your eyes and hypnotize yourself into forgetting all of this."

"Much braver."

Gu Weijing listened quietly.

This time.

Doesn't he interrupt me? Doesn't he retort?

No, of course not.

That's who he is.

Anna thought coldly, if he had such ability, if he had such courage, then he would not have tolerated Alexander's audacity to invade his territory, and he would not have tolerated Cui Xiaoming making trouble in front of him without making any statement.

What a dark humor.

This young man, capable of laughing, pushes aside a cheque for €300 million.

But they have lost the ability to show their fangs, the ability to truly bite others, the anger that makes enemies and life tremble with fear.

Sometimes, you will be intimidated by him and feel that he is really powerful.

finally.

She successfully saw through it all again.

"All lions eat people. Eating people is in the nature of lions. The good lion who orders an Indian businessman's sandwich at a lunch club in Vienna is more hypocritical than the other bad lions."

"You are such a good lion."

“Maybe you are not a hypocritical lion, you are just a castrated lion. You have lost your anger. You have forgotten your anger, and you no longer have the ability to roar in a way that makes people tremble. A lion that cannot face blood can only live on the stand like a sculpture.”

Anna's mouth is really poisonous.

looks.

Gu Weijing was very calm.

Anna was also very calm.

But the calmer a woman appears, the more disappointed she is inside.

The calmer Gu Weijing appeared, the more venomous Anna's words became; her words were like sharp steel needles.

And she poked the other person with the steel needle over and over again.

This kind of reckless happiness carries with it a kind of pain, hiding a deep and painful expectation.

Perhaps Miss Elena had a fantasy deep in her heart, wanting to hurt the other person, wanting to force him into a desperate situation, until the moment she finally showed her fangs in anger.

When the circus lion is whipped to the extreme.

It might also suddenly roar.

that moment.

This is a very cruel moment, but perhaps it is the moment in its life when it behaves most like a real lion.

Gu Weijing just shook his head very slowly.

Anna didn't know what this was.

at least.

It wasn't really a roar, not even a cat-like hum.

Miss Elena responded with a sneer.

"No, prove it to me."

"You know, Mr. Gu. After the interview today, I want to invite you to meet me. I have some thoughts in my heart. I have been waiting for you to speak to me and ask me to do justice for you. Ask me to punish Cui Xiaoming's slander on your behalf."

"Until just now. I have been waiting for this to happen."

"As long as you ask, I will do it. As long as you ask, as long as you say, Miss Elena, please help me, I will do it for you. And then laugh at you. When the Elena family faced possible injustice, they made excuses, but when it came to you, you couldn't stand it?"

"What a hypocritical double standard, isn't it? I even think this will become an interesting topic between the two of us in the future."

"But now, I suddenly realize that you would never ask me for this - you don't have the courage."

(End of this chapter)