Chapter 145

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☆, (9 Fresh Coins) Chapter 132: Like a Dream, Like an Illusion

Many beautiful sights can only be viewed from afar, such as the seemingly lush long embankment slopes; once you walk close, you discover they are merely sparse, thin, and short patches of grass on dark brown soil. Yet, some beautiful sights look like masterpieces beautified by artists from a distance, and the closer you get, the more you doubt your own eyes, wondering if you have accidentally walked into a dream or into another country called "Beauty."

Wearing only the most ordinary hoodie and jeans, he lay on the slope in a relaxed manner, but just by lying there, he created a perfectly composed painting. It's just that…

He Lele walked over slowly, stopped at a distance of five steps from Qin Zhixiu, and sat down.

She had chased him for over an hour by taxi before seeing Qin Zhixiu's heavy motorcycle in front of a ramen shop. She asked many people, but no one had seen where the owner went. She ate a bowl of noodles at the ramen shop as lunch, but even after finishing, she didn't see a shadow of Qin Zhixiu. She had no choice but to follow her intuition and wander around, finally seeing the idol singer on the slope from afar.

Mu Wei said this was Qin Zhixiu's habit.

When he didn't have work, Qin Zhixiu would either hole up in his apartment for days on end or ride his Harley and disappear. After he went missing a few times, Ji Jie got scared and installed a satellite tracker on Qin Zhixiu's motorcycle. Celebrities always live under the public eye, and every word or action might be watched by countless people, so it is very easy to understand why they would find a place where no one knows them to live a relaxed, ordinary life during their time off. He Lele had originally thought Qin Zhixiu was the same, but… looking at the flower-boy-like man before her, eyes closed and bathing in the sunlight, she didn't feel he was relaxing at all.

Qin Zhixiu slowly opened his eyes and glanced at He Lele, "Weiwei…"

"…"

He Lele turned her head to look at the distant farmland. Falling in love with someone who doesn't love you back—no matter who it is, they wouldn't feel relaxed. Even a man as gifted as Qin Zhixiu would encounter the torment of unrequited love, so, all in all, Heaven is still—quite fair. Although saying it this way sounds a bit like schadenfreude. *Cough cough*…

After seeing clearly that it was He Lele, Qin Zhixiu didn't show any surprise. He just sat up, took two cans of beer out of the backpack he had been using as a pillow, and tossed one to her.

Looking at the beer in her hand, He Lele stood up, walked to Qin Zhixiu's side, opened the beer, held it up toward him, clinked it lightly against his, and then tilted her head back to drink it all in one go. Then, with a flick of her hand, she threw the empty can far away, smiling as she watched the long arc the beer can traced!

Eight or nine out of ten things in life are unsatisfactory; every family has its own difficult scriptures to recite. No one needs to pity or comfort anyone, and no one needs to lecture or blame anyone.

*Uh*… He Lele looked at the lonely soda can lying in the distance, then suddenly ran back down the slope to pick it up, glancing at Qin Zhixiu with some shame.

"…*Cough! *" Qin Zhixiu was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.

He knew why she had thrown it and then went to pick it back up—because good children shouldn't litter! *Hahahaha*… This girl is… very different from Weiwei.

"Can you climb trees?" Qin Zhixiu suddenly asked.

"…I could when I was a kid." Because she had to retrieve her schoolbag that others had thrown up into the trees.

Qin Zhixiu smiled brilliantly, "Do you like eating starfruit?"

A few minutes later, He Lele looked at the exceptionally tall starfruit tree before her and was a bit dumbfounded. He didn't mean for her to pick the only two large starfruits at the very top, did he?

She looked at Qin Zhixiu for confirmation, and he smiled and nodded. Looking at the flower-boy's brilliant, little-devil-like smile, He Lele made a bitter face, looked up at the two huge yellow starfruits—*Screw it! * Who's afraid of whom!

The two ripe, sweet, and crisp starfruits kicked off He Lele's true holiday.

Qin Zhixiu took her to crash people's wedding and funeral banquets, sneak into people's fields to steal vegetables at night, sleep in sleeping bags in the wild, and when they had nowhere to get a meal, he actually went to an arcade, found a game token, won a huge pile, and sold them to kids in exchange for meal money!

After hanging out with him for three days, they hadn't spent a single cent! And what left He Lele most speechless was… every time she thought about telling Qin Zhixiu to go back, he would suddenly find something to interrupt her, and then she would… foolishly forget everything!

…Perhaps it was also because she subconsciously wanted to forget, otherwise she wouldn't have deliberately ignored her phone, which had run out of battery. Except for the few years in college with Ren Lingyu, she had never played so wildly with anyone. After shedding the burden of rumors, for the first time in her life, she ran and laughed in front of others, fearless and unconstrained! Even though her sight phobia was still there, even though her body was uncomfortable, her heart was incredibly happy!

Three days later, Ji Jie personally caught them and brought them back.

"Are you two itching for a beating?" Ji Jie said through gritted teeth, veins popping on his face.

Returning to the apartment and looking at everything she had become familiar with, He Lele felt as if a lifetime had passed. She couldn't quite tell if life outside the apartment was her dream, or if she was currently in a dream. However—

"Thank you, Mr. Qin, I was really happy these past three days." When delivering coffee to Qin Zhixiu and Ji Jie at night, He Lele smiled.

"…Me too." Weiwei would never accompany him to do those things…

Watching the scene of the two smiling at each other, Ji Jie lowered his head and took a sip of coffee.

"But I have a question. Since your posters are everywhere, why didn't anyone recognize you?" He Lele asked. Although they avoided people most of the time, they did appear in public occasionally, but for over three days, not a single person recognized him, which in itself was too strange.

"Because I have a common face!"

He Lele had a face full of black lines.

"Because what people focus on is the glamorous singer Qin Zhixiu, not a little hoodlum who looks like Qin Zhixiu." Ji Jie put down his coffee. "Get some sleep early. We're heading back to the set tomorrow morning. Once filming is done, we have to rush the album. You won't have much time to rest after this."

"Mm."

After giving instructions, Ji Jie stood up, walked in front of He Lele, leaned down, and sniffed her neck, "…Go upstairs."

Author's Note:

The traffic jam today was pitch black~ Because I had an appointment with my bestie to go out tomorrow~ I took a car to her place tonight~ As a result, my computer wasn't with me~ I only started typing when my laptop arrived at night~ So it's this late again~~ I don't know if the editor is asleep yet~~

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It's 132 now~~ It's actually been three and a half months in a flash!!! I'm really grateful for the ladies' company~~ These past few months, *Jiangshan* has been so fulfilling and happy~~~ Thank you all!! Love you all!!