Chapter 42: Exchange "sincerity" for sincerity
The streets of the metropolis in the early morning are a rare calm moment of the day. There is no noise during the day or noisy at midnight, only the occasional passing vehicles and the sound of police sirens in the distance.
A faint fish belly white appeared in the eastern sky. Cleaners in fluorescent vests began their day's work. The breakfast shop also welcomed its first customer in the dim light. Xu Jiayu bought the earliest train leaving H City.
She had to pack her things and leave before Lin Mochen came home.
Compared to cities that have not yet awakened, train stations are much busier.
All kinds of people, either in groups or alone.
It's nice to have so many people, so she won't look lonely alone, Xu Jiayu thought.
She flicked her phone quickly, switching apps back and forth, but her heart still couldn't calm down.
At this moment, I seemed to understand Jay Chou’s lyrics.
"Love comes too fast, like a tornado. It cannot escape the storm circle." She couldn't help but start to judge whether the relationship with Lin Mochen was considered love?
Xu Jiayu has been in love, her first love was in her fifth year after graduation.
At that time, she gradually replaced the resigned senior sister and became the master's right-hand man. Master admired her very much. In addition to serving tea and water and picking up and dropping off the children for Master, she gradually began to be responsible for exhibition planning.
It was under this circumstance that she met Zhou Liang.
At that time, Zhou Liang had just graduated and returned to China, and he came to the art museum to see an exhibition with his friends.
When they met for the first time, he leaned against the window sill with his hands in his pockets, and the boy's goose-yellow sweatshirt was bathed in the spring light. The moment he saw her, he suddenly curled up the corners of his lips and called her "sister" familiarly.
Zhou Liang has a pair of deep eyebrows without losing the childishness of a boy. He has dimples when he smiles, cunning and shy.
She was stunned, "Who did you call sister?"
Zhou Liang said, "You."
"Who is your sister!" She turned around and left, but the boy grabbed her sleeves, his eyes clean without any impurity, "My sister is so fierce!"
Later, Zhou Liang became a frequent visitor to the art museum, and there was a chirping bird beside her, calling her "sister", "sister" non-stop, and pestering her to explain everything about the art museum.
Zhou Liang was her younger brother. He graduated with a master's degree in oil painting from a well-known foreign art school. At that time, she thought Zhou Liang was just a big boy obsessed with art.
Until one day, Zhou Liang held her hand and said to her pitifully, "Sister, I like you, can you not reject me?"
Xu Jiayu thought it was ridiculous and was a child's immature behavior.
The less serious she was, the more serious Zhou Liang became. Until later, all her colleagues knew that Zhou Liang liked her, and they would even call her Zhou Liang during team building in the library.
"Zhou Liang, have you caught up with Sister Xu?"
Whenever a colleague asked about this sentence, he always looked at her with his overly deep eyebrows and said, "It's coming soon, it's coming soon. I have confidence. What my sister wants is sincerity, so I will exchange my sincerity for my sincerity. I believe I will catch up with my sister one day.”
"Oh! It's always harder to chase beautiful girls, yes, yes! As long as you give your sincerity, you will surely win the beauty."
The teacher occasionally jokes, saying, "What's wrong with my brother?" Her husband is in his junior year, and his life is much happier than that of a man in his senior year.
"Master, you have forgotten, I am an unmarried person." She hates love. To be precise, she doesn't believe in love at all.
The master also laughed, "I said the same thing when I was young. Jiayu, you don't need to get married, but you don't have to keep your virginity. Live like a nun in pure cultivation. Enjoying love and squandering your youth wantonly is what you young people should do. No A woman who loves is like a flower that is not nourished by rain and dew, it will wither.”
Xu Jiayu always smiled.
Four months after knowing Zhou Liang, she received the important task and began to prepare for the first independent curation of her life. It took two months to personally design the drawings, design the installation, control the lighting and select the authentic paintings. She was very cautious in every step for fear of making mistakes, and Zhou Liang was always by her side, caring and hard-working.
On November 18, her independent exhibition officially opened, and many people came to see the exhibition. On its third day, the exhibition became famous online.
While praising her for her great potential, the master added his own name in front of her name.
In her five years of work, she has experienced that after discussing the plan for more than a month, the organizer said there was no curatorial fee; she has also experienced that the exhibition budget has exceeded the budget and she has to advance money; she has also experienced that the exhibition was not completed in the early morning of the day before the opening, and the next day However, he had to do four media and public tours; he even experienced various embarrassing situations when he found out that the layout master's salary was higher than his own, and he was asked by the layout master whether he wanted to resign and work with him.
She knew this line of work was difficult, but she never expected to experience such a dark moment.
Master asked her if she was angry, but she didn't know how to answer at that time.
The master smiled and told her that if she felt really unbalanced, she could choose to resign. She was stunned.
"I know you feel bad, Jiayu, but when it comes to fame, wealth, and money, no one will be unmoved. Master's approach is indeed undesirable, but how can you prove that you independently planned this exhibition? You are an unknown person Will anyone believe it if I say it? Even if someone believes that the trend will change if I just say something, you know, those people on the Internet are just fools.”
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"I have photos." Xu Jiayu said.
Master smiled again, "Why are you still so innocent? Have you grown older in the past few years? Those photos can only prove that you participated in the planning, but they cannot prove that you independently planned the exhibition. Master has not erased your Name, isn’t it?”
It snowed for the first time in S City that day, and Xu Jiayu suddenly felt very tired.
The snow fell heavier and heavier, gradually covering up the original gorgeous appearance of the city. At that moment, she saw Zhou Liang walking towards her step by step.
The boy's warm body suddenly came close to her, and his unique light mint smell surrounded her.
Zhou Liang said, "It doesn't matter. You will gain wisdom after every hardship. All hardships are training for you. My sister will become better in the future."
Zhou Liang said, "Don't worry, sister, I will always be by your side, forever.
Zhou Liang said, "Sister, please don't push me away. I know you are sad, and I just want to stay with you quietly."
He held her hand that day, and the young man's palm was so warm. She thought that she had long been accustomed to sealing the door of her heart and refusing anyone to break into her heart.
She knew very well that she didn't like Zhou Liang, but she was greedy for the warmth Zhou Liang brought to her.
She thought that maybe Zhou Liang was the angel sent by God to save her. She had been alone for too long, maybe she could give it a try?
At that moment Xu Jiayu was shaken.
But then the boy who stood in the sun and called her sister with a smile, the boy who vowed to exchange "sincerity" for "sincerity", not only brought her warmth, but also brought her despair, leaving her struggling in the darkness. Suffocating...
(End of chapter)