Almighty painter

Chapter 882: The Second Meeting of the Two Has a Lion-like Ending (Part )

(Ah, I have sadly contracted the cow-horse syndrome. I can’t sleep without updating.)
"Your not asking me is worse than your asking me. Your not showing anger is worse than your last anger."

"Much worse."

Miss Elena shifted her gaze away from Gu Weijing.

In the brief conversation that followed the interview, the woman deliberately forced herself to look away from the other person for the second time.

The first time was because of the softness.

Anna looked away from the mirror because she was afraid that her words would become softer as well because of Gu Weijing.

The second time was out of anger.

Gu Weijing was still sitting there talking to her.

But he had disappeared again.

The remains of a painting were thrown into the burning flames.

The smoke was billowing.

All that was left were dark, pale ashes.

This man was the painting. He was first torn into two pieces by the woman, and then immediately thrown into the furnace in Anna's heart.

The rising and falling lines of Miss Elena's chest are the bellows of a stove.

Ups and downs.

Her face was calm, but among the undulating mountains, Gu Weijing's existence was burned into billowing smoke and turned into ashes.

"Sorry." Gu Weijing thought about it.

"Why are you apologizing?"

"The one who just said that you don't understand what an orphan is. Indeed, I made an inappropriate statement."

"Okay." Anna replied coldly.

He said it didn't matter whether he apologized or not.

In the woman's heart, he had been burned into ruins.

People don't need a piece of nothingness to apologize to you.

He just sat there, sitting in the same place, his physical existence had not changed at all, and Miss Elena, who was close by, could reach out and splash the cup of water at hand on his face.

Until this moment, Gu Weijing still didn't understand that the worst thing was that Anna no longer wanted to splash the water in the cup on the other person's face.

this is the key of the problem.

The moment he became nothingness, he naturally lost the ability to make Miss Elena feel angry.

Even if it was burning, it was not the kind of angry burning that Anna preferred, the blazing burning of dry wood and raging fire, or gorgeous fireworks, but a wet and muffled burning.

He is so boring.

It was so stuffy that even the amazingly beautiful stove in the woman's chest was about to be extinguished.

She treated him with fire.

He responded with wet smoke.

Such quarrels made Anna extremely tired and she didn't even react at all.

When her flames hit him, it was not like sparks falling into a gasoline barrel and bursting into flames all at once. Instead, it was the opposite, gradually extinguishing the anger in her heart.

This feeling terrified Anna.

She was afraid that one day she would become like the other person, losing her natural wildness and her man-eating wildness.

They also lost the power that the strong are proud of.

A castrated lion is worse than a good lion.

Good lion, it's just hypocritical, it's just sitting in a club in Vienna, chewing its sandwich slowly.

A good lion is still a lion.

The two slices of milk bread baked soft by the electric toaster still contain the blood and flesh of the fat "Indian merchant", still following the wild laws of nature.

Even when they are pushed to the extreme, beaten with whips, and pricked with needles, they will still roar, tear off their masks, and pounce on you with fierce eyes.

The powerful force exists in their hearts.

A castrated lion is just a domesticated cat. Cats may look fearless at times, but they may even roar excitedly when they smell catnip.

But they are completely different species, and they follow completely different moral laws and rules of survival.

"Feel sorry."

She mocked the other party, and the only response she got was an apology.

He felt no guilt for not being able to roar.

Gu Weijing felt sorry for what he had just said that might have saddened and hurt her.

Too weak.

Does he understand?

A true lion will pounce on another being when it approaches its territory! Alexander should be beheaded for daring to step into the territory of the Elena family, whether it was intentional or he got lost accidentally.

"I accept your apology. Let's just leave it at that. When you came here before, I said we should have a good talk. Now, we have talked about it. We had a long talk today and we are both very tired. If there is nothing more to say, let's end it here."

"Ms. Elena..." Gu Weijing opened his mouth.

"About the Foundation."

Anna said directly, "What I promised you will always be valid, please rest assured, Mr. Gu."

"Perhaps I was a little too emotional before. But from a standpoint, the Elena family is always grateful to you for finding the work, regardless of whether you believe it was created by Kara. The Elena family's gratitude remains unchanged, and this has nothing to do with our conversation just now."

Suddenly.

The anger that was flowing in Miss Elena's words faded away, and she became polite.

Polite diplomatic language.

Diplomatic rhetoric that keeps people at a distance.

The calmness in Anna's words just now was not the real calmness. The calmness in Miss Elena's words at this moment was the real calmness.

"Secretary Elliot will contact you about what happens next. If you have any questions, you can also send them to my work email. If there is nothing else, that's it. We still had a good interview. Later, the deputy editor-in-chief of Newzland may give you another private interview."

She arranged the follow-up matters in a methodical and orderly manner.

It was as if the previous argument had never happened.

Anna closed her mouth.

She did not directly and rudely order him to leave, but simply used the silence in the room to tell the other party - now it's time for you to leave.

The woman looked out the window. Gu Weijing stared at Anna's back.

The muffled silence in the dressing room lasted less than half a minute.

Although the window was open, the wind was still flowing, but the air was already solidified.

The dog August seemed unable to bear such an atmosphere. It slowly stood up from the corner, walked over carefully, and quietly rubbed Miss Elena's calf with its head.

Anna sat there like a statue.

She didn't say a word.

Gu Weijing stood up from his seat, turned around and walked towards the door of the dressing room.

Young men are also like statues.

The body is moving, but the temperament seems to be frozen.

Quietly.

"I just interviewed Chen Shenglin before."

Gu Weijing had just taken two steps.
Anna behind him whispered.

She stared at the half-open screen window, unsure whether she was talking to an invisible ghost.

"We talked about a lot of things, about his underground art counterfeiting group, about Elena's family, and about... Mr. G."

That was all Miss Elena said.

Anna originally had a lot to say about this topic...but at this moment, the woman felt that there was no need to say anything more.

Is Gu Weijing the real Mr. G or the fake Mr. G?

Whatever.

It doesn't make sense.

Anyway, to her, that was a "fake" Gu Weijing, fake love, fake courage.

In people's lives, they will encounter many illusory shadows, a long dream.

Can't tell what is true and what is false.

Looking for reality in a dream is as meaningless as looking for sunshine in a painting.

Gu Weijing might be able to use a moment of false courage and false strength to scare Chen Shenglin, who had little time left, but he couldn't scare Anna.

"do you know."

"About the orphan, I was actually expecting you to finish your sentence. In my mind, Mr. G would finish what he wanted to say even if I splashed the water in the cup on his face, and he would stick to his principles."

"It is a strength to be able to refuse 3 million euros with a laugh. But it is even more powerful to be able to eat people bravely in the face of a shotgun. You have the former but lack the latter. It may be unfair for me to say that you are a castrated lion, but you are different from what I imagined."

"Mr.Gu"

"You have the former but lack the latter, but it's not your fault. I'm sorry for my attitude just now. I lost my temper a little today."

Gu Weijing never did anything wrong.

He has done a great job.

His only mistake was to give Miss Elena very wrong expectations.

At that moment just now, Gu Weijing dared to raise his chin and finish his sentence in a firm voice.

Miss Elena would literally throw water in his face.

Anna always keeps her word.

Compared to this situation, that was a "better" possibility. At least it proved that he would roar, that he would be possessed by those powerful and wild forces and roar involuntarily.

This is a simple apology.

This really made Anna lose all interest in continuing the conversation.

"The bravest thing Carla did was not to jump on the train and leave Paris. The bravest thing she did was to jump on the train back to Paris. She did not solve the problem with an imaginary jump. She rushed into her own cage and fought to the end with the mess of her life."

“No compromise.”

"Mr. G said to Chen Shenglin that good and evil are very important in this world. He never compromises. I agree with this view and I admire him. But I want to say that truth and falsehood are also important, just as important as good and evil, or even more important."

“True kindness requires facing the anger of blood. False kindness only requires closing your eyes, saying “life is so beautiful”, and then thinking you have the courage.”

"Ask yourself, Mr. Gu or Mr. G, at this moment, is there still a fire of anger burning in your heart?"

"Ms. Elena."

Gu Weijing turned around on the spot.

He looked at the woman.

"It's like this. I'm not angry today because I think you said a lot of correct things. People should be like lions. My grandfather likes lions the most. When I go back and tell him, he will definitely like many of your metaphors."

“Why should I be angry about what is right?”

"But this is how the world works. They are children from orphanages living in slums." Gu Weijing said softly, "They are orphans, and you are also an orphan. In a sense, I have also lacked people who can fully play the role of parents in my life since I was a child."

“But we are all different.”

"Many people need to do their best just to survive. I think you still don't fully understand the meaning of this sentence. You said that they must learn to be angry, they must understand their misfortune, they must learn to endure hunger, grit their teeth, and work hard to fight with life."

"Everything you said is true, but in my mind, it's not what they need."

This was throughout the conversation.

This was the first time that Gu Weijing refuted Miss Elena's words.

"I believe you know a lot about art, and I believe you are a good art critic. Just like I believe you may not understand life in an orphanage."

“Only the little lions in the zoo need to bravely force themselves to bare their fangs to life. A wild little lion born in the wilderness will not need to learn to endure hunger.”

“For them, hunger is the reality of life.”

Gu Weijing stood where he was and spoke slowly.

"Do you know Jasmine? She's a very interesting little girl. She has AIDS. In the orphanage, she was the one most excluded by the ordinary children. No one played with her since she was a child. She looked at everyone pitifully every day. I don't need to teach her how to endure loneliness."

"I know that even now, there may be people who exclude her in school. I know this, but she didn't tell me, so I didn't tell her. Even on the other hand, I know what those children who exclude her in school, or those parents who don't let their children contact her, think. I am angry about this, but at the same time, I can understand it."

"Jasmine is a good child. She is brave, strong and kind. After getting to know her for a long time, I found that many older adults, those who don't care about HIV, or children who can let themselves try to accept her, actually like her very much."

"In fact, there are many, many children in the orphanage who are not so likable. I can even say that they are very annoying."

"They are not strong, brave or kind. You may not see them at all in the orphanage, but they are real. I saw an older child who ran over and touched Ms. Katsuko Sakai's skirt and tried to molest her. Of course, he didn't succeed."

"But you ask me if I'm angry? How could I not be angry? I'm extremely angry. I want to slap him in the face. I want him to get out. I want him to disappear from the orphanage. I've worked so hard to make life in the orphanage better, not to provide for people like this."

"At that time, I had just donated a considerable amount of money to the orphanage. If I wanted to do this, I believe I could do it. The director of the orphanage would give me face, or he might be afraid of offending me and try to transfer him to another place."

(End of this chapter)