Chapter Forty-Three: The Outdated Star and the Cat

"Well, before it got anywhere, my position on the team had plummeted......"

Following Black Boy and Uncle Xiong Baituan, Li Gan hung his head and muttered in frustration. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

"Where's the facethief now?" Uncle Xiong asked.

"It's on the edge of the row of shops we just saw." Black Box replied.

"Why did you go back again?" Li Qian was puzzled, and then immediately remembered the girl who stayed there. "Oh no, Xiao Ke!"

Several people hurriedly ran in that direction, and before they got close, they saw a group of kittens and dogs surrounding Lin Xiaoke who was squatting on the ground, and a human face mask flew in the air next to him.

"Hey! You don't want to hurt me! Li Qian shouted from afar.

"Li Gan?" Xiao Ke heard his voice and stood up, "You guys are coming back so slowly." ”

"Huh? Do you know each other? The face-stealer asked the girl.

"We're in this together." Xiao Ke said.

When he got closer, Li Qian saw that next to Xiao Ke was the supermarket bag that the face-stealing thief had just taken away, and the bag turned out to be a barrel of mineral water and a large bag of cat and dog food.

"I've just fed the kitten and fed it some water, but it's still very unrefreshed." Xiao Ke said, "So just now I discussed with Xiao Yu whether to take it to the pet hospital." ”

"Xiao Yu?" Li Qian didn't know who Xiao Ke was talking about.

"It's me." The face-thief said beside him.

"Why do you call Xiao Yu? Were you a ghost with a master before? Li Qian asked.

"No, I've always been wild." The face-stealer said, "I can't remember my full name when I first became a ghost, but I only know that there is a feather character in it, so the ghosts that wander around here call me Xiao Yu." ”

"Xiao Yu, these cats and dogs are very hungry, will I start feeding them now?" Xiao Ke suddenly asked.

"Yes, but don't feed too much." The facestealer instructed, "Feeding too much is not good for their health." ”

"yes, I see."

Xiao Ke opened the dog food bag, looked down and found a puppy lying at his feet, and took a closer look at its right front paw was cut.

"It's so pitiful, this dog is injured, Uncle Xiong, come and take a look!" Xiao Ke called for the bear mirror.

"It's okay, I just bought the medicine for pets." Uncle Xiong went over to help.

"You just bought those things at the supermarket, right?" Li Qian gestured to the face thief for the bag of cat and dog food.

"Hmm." The face-stealer nodded.

"It turns out that you stole money to save these stray cats and dogs." Li Qian said, "I thought you were here for your own use. ”

"I'm already a dead man, and Softgirl Coins are just paper-like things to me." "It might as well buy some food for the kittens and puppies so they can live." ”

"That's what you used to steal faces for?" "That's right."

"Oh, I don't think you're the same as I've heard." Li Gandao.

"What version of me have you heard?" The face-stealer asked.

"Say that you are a human who died on the operating table after plastic surgery failure, staying in the sun and not leaving, and stealing the face you like when you see it, and gradually becoming a troublesome ghost." Li Qian said.

"That's what I said, hahahaha." The face-stealer couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, "Whatever they want, let's talk as much as you like." ”

"After meeting your deity, I realized that this story completely distorts your true colors, and it is not you at all." Li Qian said unevenly.

"It's like those entertainment journalists who like to exaggerate the facts, always creating some groundless rumors to attract people's attention." The face-stealing thief smiled, "In order to obtain more benefits for yourself, you don't care about other people's lives at all." ”

"I hate that kind of person." Li Qian said.

"There are such mercenary guys everywhere like this, just get used to it." The facethief smiled and looked up at the stars.

"What did you do before?" Li Qian asked it.

"Me, guess?" The face-stealing thief said mysteriously.

"Veterinarian?" "It's not." "The director of the pet hospital?" "That's not right." "Zookeeper." "Why do you feel like you can't get out of this cycle all the time?"

"What the hell do you do? I can't guess. Li Qian asked for an answer.

"I used to sing." The face-stealer said.

"Singing? Star?! Li Qian was surprised.

"Haha, almost." The face-stealer laughed.

"I was an orphan when I was a human being, and I was left without parents when I was very young." "The earliest memory of myself sitting alone in a cardboard box when I was only three or four years old, was overcast and raining. Little me crouched in the box like a cat, hoping that someone would bring me home. ”

"Then a family adopted me, but it didn't take long for me to send me to an orphanage because they had children. Then I was adopted by a childless family, and when I had children, I was sent back to an orphanage. I think I went back and forth three or four times, and it was like being stuck in a cycle of misfortune. "It wasn't until I was twelve years old that I met a couple of musicians. The couple didn't have time to have children because they were on the rise in their careers before, so the wife would kill them as soon as they had children. By the time they wanted children, the musician who was the wife couldn't have children. But they couldn't wait until they were old enough to have no one to support, so they had no choice but to go to an orphanage to adopt a child, which was me. ”

"But because I have been abandoned by several families before, psychologically I don't have any confidence in my family, no matter where I go, I will not feel safe, even if they can't have children, there is such a crisis, so I have been keeping a distance from them, and the relationship between my family is tepid. It wasn't until I realized that I had a talent for music that I started to move closer to them. ”

"They taught me how to read staves, taught me to play the piano, and enrolled me in a violin class, hoping to stimulate my interest in music in an all-round way." "Unfortunately, I ended up with a guitar and a synthesizer." ”

"It's changed from classical to pop." Li Qian smiled.

"yes, let them down, haha." The face-stealer couldn't help but laugh too.

"This period laid the foundation for me to become a singer in the future." The face thief said, "In a TV audition, I stood out for my unique singing voice and won the Best Newcomer award. At that time, I was very happy, thinking that I would be able to realize my dream and dominate the pop music scene, but what happened later poured cold water on me. ”

"What's going on?" Li Qian asked.

"Because I look mediocre and don't have any special hard paths, no brokerage company has signed a contract with me." The face thief said, "This is a society that mainly looks at faces, you are not handsome, and no one praises you no matter how good your singing skills are." Because you can't meet the needs of other fans, your voice is very magnetic, and when you see that I am Wu Dalang, you will turn black and black. ”

"It's not that exaggerated, is it?" Li Qian was a little unconvinced.

"Well, don't you know, the competition for seeded players who debuted in the draft is too fierce." The face-stealer said, "After a draft, it would be good if more than a dozen of hundreds of thousands of people came out." These dozen or so may disappear when the limelight passes, and there are many such things. ”

"So what? Did you get plastic surgery to become a star? Li Qian asked again.

"yes. I was originally a single-eyelid nose with high cheekbones, the kind of public face that I couldn't find in the pile, and I couldn't have been a handsome guy from the beginning. The face-stealing thief said, "My face was swollen like a pig's head during the recovery period after the surgery, and even I couldn't recognize myself after the stitches were removed." When I look in the mirror, I often think, is this thing in the mirror me? Don't be the dead soul who fell on me, right? Ha ha. ”

"How dare you think about it." Li Gan said, "But you look like a classmate of mine in the past, he just went to South Korea and became a handsome guy." ”

"Because of the change in appearance, the agency began to take the initiative to sign me up, and there were more opportunities for various announcements and entertainment programs. I became famous, and my appearance fees started to go up. "But one of the particularly bad things about plastic surgery is that you will be addicted, and as long as you look in the mirror after the surgery, you will feel that you are not handsome enough, and you want to be more perfect." ”

"It also has to do with the huge pressure I have in the entertainment industry. Being an entertainer is like this, people's favorite is the young, handsome and unmarried type, because it can satisfy their idol's fantasies. As long as the artist gets old, has an accident and becomes disabled, or has the news that he is married, his fame will gradually decrease, and fans will abandon them in large numbers, while newcomers are constantly replenishing new blood every day, monthly, and every year. Therefore, in order to ensure that they are always popular, artists must continue to make sacrifices from a young age, do their best to maintain their youthful beauty, and they can't take the initiative to confess when they see people they like, for fear that fans will be unhappy, and they will live in fear all day long. It's like a pet cat and pet dog who are afraid that they will be abandoned, and they are afraid that one day they will be alone and return to the streets. ”

"In the face of this pressure, some people use drugs to relieve stress, while I do plastic surgery, surgery, and injections. I know it's a sin to toss myself like this, but I've gone too far and there's no turning back. Then one day, I received retribution. ”

"That's the time you died on the operating table, right?" Li Qian asked.

"Hmm." The face-stealer smiled quietly, "Actually, I didn't feel any pain that time, I just saw a white light, and when I woke up, I became a ghost." God treats me well, although I was just thirty years old when I died, but it was enough. Looking back at my life, I have always imitated the path of those successful people, constantly abandoning myself according to the expectations of others. Even if I hadn't had plastic surgery, I would have been unrecognizable. ”

"I can't remember what I really looked like."

The facestealer sighed.

"How have you forgotten who you were?" Li Qian said suddenly.

"Huh?" The face-stealer looked at him.

"Haven't you always been yourself?" Li Qian said with a smile.

"Where do I have it?" The face-stealer said in frustration, "I've long forgotten what I was like at the beginning. ”

"Remembering a person is not something that is remembered by face." Li Qian said, "Just like these stray cats and dogs, no matter how many faces you change, they will gather around you as soon as possible." Because they remember your heart, not your face every few days. Isn't the reason why you help these kittens and puppies because you feel that they are very much like yourself when you were a child? You can feel their grief and help them. No matter how much the appearance changes, the original heart of the person will not be deformed. ”

"I see......" The face-stealing thief suddenly brightened.

"Actually, I was trying to get you." Li Qian confessed to it, "But I've changed my mind now." ”

"You're not a goblin who causes trouble, although you have stolen money, but you can be forgiven for it."

Li Qian stood up and said.

"So I'm going to let you choose, whether to remain a wild goblin, or stay and be our companion?"