Chapter 52: Sunset

"Are you crying?" Shangguan Xue said, he took a pack of tissues from behind him and handed it to An Zhi.

"It's so beautiful outside, it's the first time I've seen a sunset like this!" An Zhi said embarrassedly.

"When I was very young, my father took me to watch the sunset for the first time, and I cried just like you." Shangguan Xue said, a very sad expression appeared on her face.

Shangguan Xue looked into the distance, and said with a trembling voice: "This is the first time I have come to see the sunset since my father passed away, it is very warm and steady, just like my father's embrace!" ”

An Zhi wiped his tears, looked at him sadly and said, "Your father died?" ”

"Well, it's been six years, and my dad likes black and white the most, and my clothes, items, everything, are also black and white. That's how I feel like my dad is still there, even if others think I'm a monster! Shangguan Xue said coldly, it turned out that he knew all those other people's surprises, puzzlements and doubts about him.

When An Zhi heard him say these words, he couldn't help but be moved, and said, "I really envy you for having a good father." In fact, my parents have a very bad relationship, and their death only makes me feel very relieved, without a little sadness, and I have always felt that I am a monster. ”

"Don't be sad, then we found the same kind!" Shangguan Xue said as she stretched out a hand, patted An Zhi's back gently, and then continued to tell his stories, those that had never been told to others. The love of Shangguan Xue's parents is not a good match in the eyes of the world.

His mother's family was a creditor in his father's family, and his grandfather's business failed and he died of illness after owing a lot of money, and his father began to pay his grandfather's debts. Although my father worked day and night, he owed too much money to pay it off for a long time.

His mother, along with other creditors, threatened to force him to pay his debts, and when his father's words and efforts impressed her, she decided to marry him. They went through too many difficulties before they came together, and their father's career became bigger and bigger with the help of his mother's family.

Who knew that six years ago, my father became ill from overwork, unfortunately contracted after surgery, and finally passed away. This incident dealt a fatal blow to Shangguan Xue's family, but fortunately, his family was already low-key, so he didn't give other competitors a chance.

When Shangguan Xue said this, her voice trembled and said: "I have depression, I was afraid to go to school when I was a child, and then my father died, and the whole person collapsed at once. I couldn't sleep for a long time, and I could only watch movies all night, and it took me a few years to get better. ”

An Zhi said: "It's painful, isn't it? I can't remember what happened before, and occasionally I still have nightmares, dreaming of some fragments of the past, and my heart will be sad for a long time. ”

Suddenly, between these two people, there is a kind of resonance that they are both fallen people at the end of the world, maybe they are really the same kind. The two of them chatted late that day, they talked about a lot of things, Anzhi many years later, sometimes when she saw the sunset, she still remembered that night, and remembered Shangguan Xue's smiling face like a fairy, her heart still hurt faintly.

Goodbye Vina, it's been three days later, and Yasuyuki has been sent to deliver her a document. Standing outside the door of the large conference room, An Zhi looked at her who was talking, and she was still the same as before, bright and moving, smart and capable, pointing out various tasks in the conference room. There was no trace of sadness or fragility on her face, and Vena was always so perfect in everyone's eyes.

Do people really get loved because they are good?

An Zhi suddenly remembered what Shangguan Xue had said in the tree house that night, in this black and white world, never believe your eyes. An Dasheng is the pride of the sky, and their existence seems to be declaring to the world: how much love, appreciation and recognition a person can get depends on how good he is. If you are a good person, I will be close to you, otherwise, I will snub you.

If you are excellent, I will recognize you, otherwise, I will belittle you.

It's as if the degree of excellence of a person defines the value of that person and also determines the way we treat each other. But this kind of utilitarian aesthetics rooted in the heart always makes An Zhi feel inexplicably sad, she always feels that excellence should not be the reason why a person is loved, but the result of this person being loved.

People should feel their own special and precious in being loved and appreciated, and then work hard from the heart, not from the bottom of their hearts to humble and please. Compared with the unfazed elite like Vina, An Zhi prefers those students on campus, because love will like men and women.

They are crying or sad or laughing, although they are childish and ridiculous, but they are also real and enviable. If the price of success is to be a masked man who doesn't show emotion, who is always suspicious and defensive of others, who never dreams and is no longer willful, then is it worth it?

An Zhi didn't know, she just felt sad, would she be like this in the future? She didn't want to be like Vina, what kind of person she wanted to be, in fact, she didn't know. Just when An Zhi was thinking wildly, the meeting ended, and Vena came out of the conference room, took the document she handed over, and said coldly: "Thank you!" ”

"Are you alright?" Seeing that everyone else was gone, thinking of her sadness that day, An Zhi still couldn't help but ask.