After rebirth, they always want to do something bad to me

Tang Li stared blankly at the photo on the screen of Tang Keke standing on the stage with a smile on her face and full of energy, and suddenly made up her mind.

She gently stroked Tang Keke on the screen, her eyes full of firm tenderness.

"Coco, I will definitely protect you this time."

073. Is there anything so easy in the world?

[Are you free tomorrow? I want to talk to you.]

Just a few words touched Tang Keke's heart.

She had been feeling a little overwhelmed these past few days, mainly because after the announcement that she would stop performing and take a break, all kinds of troubles had come one after another.

First there were various contract disputes, pressure from the outside world and the company, and overwhelming ridicule from netizens.

But amidst all the trouble, the slander from netizens made her feel relieved.

After all, she had experienced those unscrupulous verbal abuses before, and now she was just experiencing it again.

Normally, she can tolerate insults from haters, so how could she find these rumors hurtful?

Not only did she not feel angry, she even felt a strange sense of pleasure.

What a familiar feeling, it reminded her of the days when she could still be with Lao Tang. She missed it so much.

After reading another insulting and slanderous comment about her, Tang Keke squinted her eyes comfortably and then turned to look at her phone.

The busty girl took the initiative to ask her out for a talk. Why?

Are they sad because she announced that she would stop performing? Are they really her fans?

Ha, that's impossible. That busty girl even resisted being kissed by her as if it cost her her life. There's no way she could be her fan.

Then why did she ask me out? Should I refuse?

Tang Keke lazily lay on the sofa, picked up a can of beer and drank it in one gulp.

Why not just refuse... After all, there are at least tens of thousands of people who have sent her private messages wanting to meet her, and she has become numb.

Then just reject the busty girl like you reject your fans.

……

On October 7, the National Day Golden Week was coming to an end. Most office workers had returned to work, and the streets were obviously much quieter than during the National Day.

Tang Li sat nervously in the private room of the tea restaurant, waiting for Tang Keke to arrive.

She sent the message just on impulse and had no hope that Tang Keke would accept her invitation.

It’s just that Tang Keke’s speed of replying to messages was surprisingly fast. Not long after she sent the message, she received her reply, and she even took the initiative to provide the meeting place.

She didn't have to wait too long, and soon Tang Keke pushed open the door of the box wearing a mask and sunglasses.

Tang Keke is still radiant and charming today. She wears an off-white high-waisted sweater with high-waisted jeans and high heels, which makes her tall figure look even more oppressive.

Tang Li, who is only about 1.6 meters tall, looks like a petite girl in front of her.

"Hey, isn't this the busty girl? She pushed me pretty hard the other day, why did you take the initiative to find me today? Could it be that Tang You You couldn't satisfy you, so you missed me?"

As soon as she entered the door, Tang Keke's frivolous voice was heard, making Tang Li frown.

No parent wants to hear their child say such obscene words. If it were in the past, she would probably have put her finger into Tang Keke's ears.

However, now she had only met Tang Keke a few times, and they were even strangers with whom she had some conflicts. She could only suppress the impulse in her heart.

"I just want to ask you something."

"Hmph, I'm a big star, you can ask whatever you want? You want to see me without even making an appointment. Should I say you are naive, or have big breasts and no brains?" Tang Keke threw her purse aside and sat lazily on the chair, not looking like a star at all.

Tang Li frowned and clenched her little fists hidden under the table.

Tang Keke's condition today is really infuriating, he looks like a gangster.

But she still didn't lose her temper and forced herself to suppress the irritability in her heart.

If you look closely, you will find that Tang Keke looks very tired today, with thick foundation on her face - Tang Keke herself has a very delicate appearance and does not need any makeup to embellish her appearance. The foundation is probably just to cover up her tiredness.

Tang Li felt a little pain in her heart, and said as gently as possible: "But you still came, didn't you? And... you don't need to make an appointment now, right? A big star who announced that he would stop performing and take a break."

Tang Keke couldn't help but raise her eyebrows when she heard that. She glanced at Tang Li from head to toe, and raised a teasing smile at the corner of her mouth: "I just issued a statement yesterday. You don't look like someone who pays attention to the entertainment industry. How come you knew about it so quickly? You're not really thinking about me, are you?"

"Sure, what's so good about following Tang Youyou? Follow me, Tang Keke, and I guarantee you'll have delicious food and drinks..."

"I'm not thinking about you, I'm just concerned about you..."

"Ha, you care? I thought since you care about me, you might as well let me have some fun."

boom--

Tang Li suddenly stood up, and the sound of a chair falling on the floor interrupted Tang Keke's casual speech.

"Tang Keke! Could you please stop talking like that!"

She stared at Tang Keke, who was stunned by her sudden outburst, and said angrily.

As early as a few days ago, the irritability in her heart had been accumulating and almost reached the critical point of explosion.

Tang Keke's bad attitude became the fuse that ignited the powder keg buried in her heart.

Obviously, the purpose of this conversation was just to get to know Coco better. It didn't matter if the relationship didn't make any progress. She just wanted to talk to the other party.

But Tang Keke had never said a nice word since she entered the door. Even if she took the initiative to show goodwill, she couldn't get any kindness from her.

She was like a frightened hedgehog, curling herself up into a ball, with only the thorny side exposed, leaving no softness to outsiders.

It's been like this from the beginning to the end.

She could no longer suppress her emotions and angrily questioned, "Why are you always like this! Someone is clearly caring about you, why are you so resistant? They clearly care about you, but you always want to stay away? The stage you've always dreamed of is right in front of you, but you want to give up? Why? Why are you always unwilling to say it? Obviously, as long as you say it..."

Obviously, if you just tell me, I will face it with you no matter what.

I am the person closest to you, why do you treat me as a stranger?

"Why?" Tang Keke came back to her senses from the shock and suddenly raised her voice: "You ask me why?"

"I'm just a naughty kid who lost his favorite toy - isn't that right?"

She suddenly sat up, propped herself up on the table and leaned in front of Tang Li, staring straight into her eyes until she couldn't stand it anymore and looked away slightly. Then she sneered, "Isn't it normal for me to be hated by everyone? Since I'm a naughty child, it's okay for me to be a little willful, right?"

"Or do you mean that you, who can easily define others as naughty children, want to easily persuade a naughty child like me to mend my ways?"

"Nothing is so simple in this world!"

074. This face of mine is insured!

Tang Li opened her lips slightly, wanting to refute Tang Keke's words, but in the end she couldn't say anything.

She said dryly: "I'm just an outsider, why should you give up your ideals because of me?"

“Ideal?” Tang Keke sneered. “What a bullshit ideal! It’s just clothes that a naughty kid made for his beloved Barbie doll. Now that the Barbie doll is gone, those clothes can just be thrown away.”

"Why, not only do you want to easily define me as a naughty kid, but you also want to easily be my father?"

As she spoke, she stretched out her finger and tapped her pretty face, and asked jokingly, "Do you want another slap..."

Snapped--

Tang Keke's voice was suddenly interrupted. She covered her face in shock, looking blankly at the girl in front of her who was trembling with anger, and murmured in disbelief.

"You...you hit me?"

"You actually dare to hit me?"

"Even Tang Li has never beaten me!"

"My face is insured!"

"Tang Keke!" Tang Li clenched her fists tightly, and her voice was almost squeezed out from between her teeth.

"Why can you say such cruel words?"

"Your ideals, your aspirations, your persistence in practicing all night to catch up with your classmates, your high spirits when you received the admission letter from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, all the efforts you made for this, are they nothing more than a piece of clothing made for a Barbie doll?"

"Doesn't your heart hurt when you say these words?"

"Who have you been living for all these years?!"

Perhaps the question was too sharp.

Tang Keke completely forgot the pain on her face and just stared at Tang Li blankly. She couldn't help but take a few steps back, leaning against the wall and slowly sliding down until she sat on the ground. She then wrapped her arms around her knees and buried her face in them.

Her heart really doesn't hurt anymore.

She had already lost her heart when she heard about Tang Li's death, so how could she be heartbroken?

She certainly didn't want to regard the ideal she had been longing for since childhood as a piece of clothing, and compared the sweat and tears she had put into pursuing her ideal over the years to making a simple new piece of clothing as a toy.

But when she learned that Tang Li had passed away, she suddenly realized that her dream had never been to sing or to stand at the highest point on the stage - it was a very simple dream, she just wanted herself and Tang Li to be able to hold their heads up in front of everyone, nothing more.

However, the simpler the ideal, the more fragile it is. Tang Li's death shattered her ideal, as if all her previous efforts were in vain.

Who is she living for?

Perhaps the answer to this question has already been given.

She lay in her armband and said in a muffled voice: "Can you understand? I grew up in an orphanage and was later adopted by Tang Li."

"He was very nice to me, really very nice..."

"When I was a kid, I was very naughty and always got him into trouble. I would even bring Tang Qianqian with me to get him into trouble."

"But he never blamed me. He only comforted me gently and forgave me."

"If it weren't for him, I would have left the orphanage as a teenager and wandered around in society, either becoming someone's lover at a young age or becoming a sex worker." Tang Keke smiled bitterly, "An orphan has a face comparable to that of a celebrity. Don't you think this is the biggest joke God has played?"

"Later, I became an art student for my music dream. At that time, I just rushed into it without thinking that studying art would cost a lot of money."

"All my classmates were from wealthy families and dressed well. I, an ordinary person, was like an outlier among them. Even my relatively good looks became my flaw."

"I was having a hard time studying during that time. The gap between my ideal and reality constantly dampened my enthusiasm, and the inferiority complex caused by comparing myself with my classmates tortured me. So I told Tang Li that I didn't want to study art anymore."

"You know what he told me?"

"Why should you care about what those people think? Only you can grasp your dream. If they laugh at you, you should work harder to step on them. No matter how hard you try, no matter if you succeed or fail, it's better than complaining about yourself now, isn't it?"

Tang Keke couldn't help laughing as she spoke: "Listen, what a greasy chicken soup! If you tell me about it now, people will laugh."

"But he is like my light, allowing me to keep going."

Tang Li listened silently. Everything Tang Keke said was her experience with the other party. How could she not know?

But she never thought that her influence on Tang Keke would be so great, so great that even after so many years, Tang Keke could still repeat every word she said.

"After I said I didn't want to study art, he bought me a lot of brand-name clothes to prevent me from feeling inferior in front of my classmates, and took me to beg teachers for training and tutoring. Seeing him bending over and trying to please others for my sake, I suddenly realized that I might never be able to repay his kindness in this lifetime."

"I suddenly felt very scared, because I couldn't study as well as Tang Youyou, and I couldn't please people as well as Tang Qianqian. I was afraid that one day I would lose the value of standing by his side."

"I could only make up my mind that I must stand at the top of the entertainment industry and tell everyone that my life was saved by him."

"But I can't do it... I just can't do it."

"I am still that loser who can only be saved by him. Until he died, I was just a small singer. How dare I go to see him? What right do I have to go to see him?"

"I……"

"enough!"

Tang Li suddenly interrupted Tang Keke's words. She clenched her fists tightly, her eyes full of pain.

"Tang Keke, I adopted you three not because you were of any value to me."

"I have given so much to you, but I don't expect you to bring me anything."

"I bent over to please you, not to make you remember my kindness."

"I just hope you can live an easier life in the future, that's all."

"Why do you always have to live such a tiring life?"

"If you like someone, chase him. If you like singing, sing. Why do you care so much?"