The Romance of a Young Painter

Within a few days, the rumors about Zhou Nianjiu disappeared without a trace. At the same time, several students in the third grade of the tenth middle school were demerited, and two dropped out. One of them was curly hair as cute as a doll Girls, these things happened during the midterm exam.

When Zhou Nianjiu and Wen Juan mentioned this on the phone, Wen Juan said: "The impact of rumors can be large or small, and it is a good thing to be resolved in time, but next time, discuss it with me earlier. I am your brother. You can do more. Rely on me."

Zhou Nianjiu let out a "huh".

"The classmate you mentioned, try to keep a distance from him." Wen Ju'an told Zhou Nianjiu again. In his opinion, Meng Xing has a self-styled style and means. He is definitely not a good match. He is afraid that Zhou Nianjiu will suffer.

"I'll figure it out." Zhou Nianjiu also saw from this incident that Meng Xing was resolute and ruthless, but he didn't think it was necessary to avoid Meng Xing.

Wen Ju'an heard that Zhou Nianjiu held a different opinion, and he didn't intend to impose his opinion on his younger brother, so he didn't insist.

"How is your study? Are the midterm exams over?" Wen Ju'an asked.

"This exam dropped one place, 1 points behind No.[-]." Zhou Nianjiu said.

Wen Juan said: "Don't worry too much about the rankings, just see where you lost points."

Zhou Nianjiu said: "Tick out the mistakes and re-consolidate the answers. The more troublesome thing is the composition. This time the score is very low. I don't know where the problem is."

Wen Ju'an said: "Take pictures of the questions and your answer sheet and send them to me. Tomorrow, I will ask your teacher for advice, and we will analyze it later."

Zhou Nianjiu said, "Okay, I'll go tomorrow during Chinese self-study."

Wenjuan Company had just started, and there were many things to do, so the two brothers hung up the phone before chatting for too long.Zhou Nianjiu saw that there was still a short time before the lights were turned off, so he took out the sketchbook from the bedside. Because of the rumors, he recently received much less disturbance during recess, so he resumed the habit of drawing a few strokes during the break. At first I chose not to care about the reasons for the rumors, but after the rumors were clarified, the girls were embarrassed to gather around like before. For Zhou Nianjiu, this result can be said to be a blessing in disguise.

Zhou Nianjiu turned to the latest page of the brochure, which showed Meng Xing. From the painter's point of view, Meng Xing was not an ideal model. His appearance was too good, but his inner beauty was difficult to capture.But because of this, Zhou Nianjiu found it very challenging to draw Meng Xing. When he was free, he would observe Meng Xing's words and deeds. In the frame he was satisfied with, Meng Xing's eyes were sharp, his lips were tightly pursed, with the ferocity and joy of a beast in the cold, and the slightly opened nose showed that he was still in the aftertaste of excitement.This expression is really good. Zhou Nianjiu made some adjustments in the details with a pen. This portrait is the one he is most satisfied with recently. He is willing to spend time to make it show a better side.

Zhou Nianjiu worked until the lights in the dormitory were turned off. He turned on his phone and put away his notebook and brushes. When he lay down on the bed, he still felt sorry for not being able to continue.Although Shen Guangji said that painters don't have to like the models they paint, Zhou Nianjiu still feels the influence of personal preferences on his mood when he paints.

He couldn't help thinking that it would be great if Meng Xing could present his completely true self in front of him.

And in an apartment not far from Tenth Middle School, Meng Xing received a call from his father, Meng Shen.

"Meng Xing, it will be your 19th birthday in a few days, so go home and have a meal then."

"I have to go to class, I don't have time." Meng Xing refused without thinking.

"I will greet your teacher at that time. You have good grades. The teachers won't mind if you miss a class or two. Besides, Dad plans to send you abroad to study next year. The school doesn't need to be so serious." Meng Shen has long planned for the future, and Tenth Middle School, as a key high school in the famous city S, is nothing to him at all.

"No, it's better for me to stay at school." Meng Xing said with little interest. Who doesn't know that the person next to Meng Shen is in favor, and it is said that it has reached the point where they are talking about marriage. It was an opportunity for him to meet formally, which Li Miao, who had been a concubine for more than ten years, could not even want.

"Don't be willful." Meng Shen's patience with the eldest son is very limited. "The driver will pick you up when the time comes. Don't make me wait too long."

After speaking, the other end of the phone hung up.

It seems that the old man has been coaxed well recently, and even his temper has become more and more violent.Meng Xing put down his phone without changing his face. In a file bag in front of him were photos of Meng Shen and a young woman on various occasions. The middle-aged Meng Shen had a complacent expression on his face. The woman beside him Beautiful and dignified, her eyes were full of admiration and affection when she looked at Meng Shen. There was also a drug analysis report with the photo, which stated that the items submitted for inspection contained an addictive drug. This was the content of the cigarette at that time. Drug experiment report.

Who will write it this time, the future Mrs. Meng who can't wait for the baby to be born, or the gentle and caring Li Miao who was kept outside by the old man, or the old man's rival in the business field?No matter who it is, I hope to come up with clever means to make him have a better time. After all, as the old man said, his time in the country is running out.

And the things in the thicker bag in front of him are related to Zhou Nianjiu.

These years, Meng Xing has been paying attention to Zhou Nianjiu's movements. After high school, he directly placed a pair of eyes next to her. Unfortunately, as time passed, the eyes were not reconciled to just being eyes. This made Meng Xing once again confirm that a naturally emotional woman is very It is difficult to become a qualified dark chess player, they always show compassion when you don't know it.

He Xinxin is such a dark chess player. Meng Xing packaged her as the least attractive kind. She also managed to stay around Zhou Nianjiu for two full years without attracting the slightest attention from him. But this semester, Meng Xing discovered that Zhou Nianjiu's gaze would occasionally fall on He Xinxin, the kind with doubts and inquiries, and He Xinxin even showed up to help Zhou Nianjiu in this rumor incident. This development was beyond Meng Xing's expectation , Could it be that before this they had an intersection that he didn't know about?

No, it's impossible, as far as he knows, Zhou Nianjiu is as dull as a piece of wood in some aspects.

Meng Xing lightly tossed the dice in his hand and caught it, the sapphire inlaid on the obsidian faintly reflected light.

It was not only He Xinxin who was interested in Zhou Nianjiu, but also another person, Zheng Jing.

Meng Xing got the news from the private detective agency he had been working with for a long time that someone was asking them to investigate Zhou Nianjiu, and he soon knew that the other party was the newly appointed general manager of YS Capital China. Afterwards, Meng Xing told the detective agency to select some innocuous parts from the investigation materials for him over the years and send them to Zheng Jing. He believed that Zheng Jing, who claimed to be a love sage, could not get along with Zhou Nianjiu, who lacked romantic factors. To the slightest benefit.

By the way, maybe there is another one to count, and that is Shen Guangji.

So what is the attraction of Zhou Nianjiu that can make He Xinxin, who once swore to be loyal only to him, and Zheng Jing, who has seen countless people, fall in love with him, and even make Shen Guangji look at him differently?

Is it looks?

Meng Xing picked up a recent photo of Zhou Nianjiu. In this photo, Zhou Nianjiu was rarely wearing glasses, and his hair was combed back, highlighting his slightly darker features. Those dark blue to almost black eyes were staring at something intently. .Meng Xing has to admit that Zhou Nianjiu has a good face, although most of the time the master deliberately hides this face to less than one-tenth of the original.But the attractiveness of appearance alone can't shake the He Xinxin he knows.

Is it because of his ridiculous simplicity?Simple enough to offend others without knowing it?

Meng Xing, who was destined to be the heir of the Meng family from birth, has never considered innocence to be a valuable quality. In his eyes, innocence and stupidity are synonymous. If Zhou Nianjiu was in his position, he would have been calculated to the bone. There are none left.At this point, he has to thank Shen Guangqing and Meng Shen—thanks to Shen Guangqing who resolutely abandoned him and chose his younger sister Meng Meng when he was mentally weakest, and thanks to Meng Shen who once wanted to replace him with an illegitimate child as the heir of the Meng family .

In order not to become an outcast of the Meng family, in order not to become a cripple who was tortured to the point of madness by his dreams, he could be said to have climbed out of the hellish dreams and the reality of being rejected by his parents step by step by himself.That terrible dream accompanied Meng Xing throughout his childhood. In the dream, he lost his family, his career, and finally his life. Everything that happened in the dream was related to a person named Zhou Nianjiu.Meng Xing didn't know what this dream represented, and he didn't know whether this dream foreshadowed what happened in the future, but when he was 14 years old, he knew that Zhou Nianjiu really existed, so he started to investigate. , Zhou Nianjiu's information was gradually enriched in his hand.

Facing these materials, Meng Xing saw a life completely different from his own.

Meng Xing never admits that he is jealous of Zhou Nianjiu.

He was jealous of Zhou Nianjiu's biological mother who did not abandon him although life was hard, his stepfather who loved him even though he was not his own, and his elder brother who was not a blood relative but cared for him wholeheartedly. If he had lived in such a strong fortress since childhood, it was really unnecessary Grow a hard shell on the body.But Meng Xing has nothing. The principle he learned from childhood is that nothing in this world can be trusted, and the only one he can trust is himself, so he doesn't like people like Zhou Nianjiu, and he doesn't understand why some people like him.

When Meng Xing saw Zhou Nianjiu being beaten, he felt an indescribable joy at first, because he didn't want Zhou Nianjiu to have a good life from the bottom of his heart. ridiculous.But when Meng Xing saw Zhou Nianjiu curled up on the ground motionless, he found that he was not as happy as he imagined.

The person who is clearly identified as a weak person proves that he is indeed a weak person, doesn't he?

Unable to explain his true thoughts, Meng Xing came out of the darkness. For the first time, he stood in front of the person he had observed for four years, and then extended his hand to him.

And this shot is the second time.

Just to see how far that ridiculous innocence can last, Meng Xing thought.