In the middle of the night,

The moon is in the middle of the sky.

Katsuko Sakai tiptoed open the door to the hotel suite.

When she opened the door, the room was quiet, the lights were turned off, it was dark, and there was no mother in sight on the sofa bed in the living room.

Katsuko Sakai's heart lifted slightly.

"Won't be discovered?"

She slipped quietly back to her room before daring to turn on the light.

Katsuko Sakai looked around and found that the Xiaoice box still had post-it notes on it, and the bedroom was exactly the same as when she left.

Looking at her phone again, Katsuko Sakai made sure that her mother hadn't sent her any messages, and there was no prompt for an unanswered call on the screen.

"Hmm...... OK. ”

Only then did she gently fan the wind in front of her face with the palm of her hand and settle down.

The girl kicked off her shoes and shrunk into the king-sized palm-colored bed in the bedroom, breathing a sigh of relief.

It seems that my mother only slept on the sofa for the middle of the day, and then went back to her room.

It is estimated that I didn't realize that my daughter had just slipped out when I was half-asleep and half-awake.

That's for the best.

Katsuko Sakai stared at the crystal lampstand in the room with her big bright eyes open, thinking about her thoughts.

"What should I say tomorrow morning?"

She thinks she's not afraid to tell anyone in the world that she's in love with Gu Weijing, and she's ready for it.

When Miss Sakai posted INS, she knew that her mother would definitely see it.

However, when I thought of Mrs. Sakai's serious face, and the tone of the past that she had privately raised her nose and eyes at Gu Weijing in front of her.

The little girl was actually a little stunned in her heart.

"Mom must be angry. Whatever, scold me and let her scold, just keep me silent. Can't you call your dad first? He had a better impression of Gu Weijing. Alas, I hope the dawn is slower......"

Katsuko Sakai buried her head deep in the pillow, a little ostrich mentality, waiting for the storm tomorrow morning.

"Whatever you say...... She can't pack me up and send it back to Japan, right? ”

Katsuko Sakai thought crankily.

She casually took off the post-it note from the refrigerator and was about to throw it into the trash when she was suddenly stunned.

The post-it notes are not in your own handwriting.

When Katsuko left, she was worried that her mother would find out that she was missing, so she left a note telling Mrs. Sakai that she and Gu Weijing had gone to paint together.

Right now

The words on that sheet became Mrs. Sakai's handwriting...... It's not the scolding she thought -

[I know, I have to tell the adults in advance when I leave home in the future.] PS: Go to YouTube to watch a makeup tutorial by yourself, your eyeliner is really stupid, I see that you are in a hurry to make up. 】

Katsuko Sakai blinked, she thought she was wrong.

Mom found herself slipping out, and her reply was...... Let yourself learn to paint and makeup?

She sat up from the bed, holding the note in her hand, she didn't know whether she wanted to cry or laugh, and her eyes suddenly turned a little red.

"What's the matter, Katsuko, I can't believe my mother is so easy to talk to, right?"

The bedroom door was gently pushed open.

Mrs. Sakai appeared at the door of the room like a ghost, squinting at her daughter.

"Mom, thank you."

Katsuko Sakai sniffled slightly.

As if she secretly went home with a sixty-point exam paper to sign, but found that her parents were unexpectedly good at talking today, the whole person let out a relieved moan, and said in a somewhat wet nasal voice, "I...... I thought you'd be. ”

"Thought I'd be angry? Hmph, of course I'm angry. ”

Mrs. Sakai sat on the edge of the bed, took her daughter into her arms, touched Katsuko's smooth hair, and gently wiped the tears from her daughter's face with her fingertips.

She shook her head helplessly.

"I'm still crying, I'm so unreasonable as a mother?"

"What do you think your mother is in your heart - the old witch who locked her daughter in a tower in a fairy tale, or the snob who counted on selling her daughter for a good price? Katsuko, you are my biological daughter, and our family is not short of money, and the happiness of you and Gangchang is more important than everything I do. ”

"Mom, I love you."

Katsuko was very moved, gently rubbed her head on her mother's chest, and said in a greasy voice.

"Well, if you look at that Gu Weijing, you love me, and if you don't look down on that bastard, you won't love me. Your sweetheart is much more important than your mother. Right? Mrs. Sakai sputtered as usual.

"That's not what it meant."

Miss Katsuko shook her little head coquettishly.

"Actually, I didn't mean to blame you...... Who hasn't been young. ”

"My mother also did the stupid thing of secretly taking raw lasagna from the kitchen at home, baking it in the oven, and sneaking it out to feed your dad as a supper." Mrs. Sakai whispered, "I told you that your grandmother made an exclusive recipe for lasagna, which is famous in the local community, but it is troublesome to make and she doesn't do it often. ”

"Later, I learned that your grandfather had a very important business partner coming to the house, and the lasagna was prepared by your grandmother for the family dinner the next evening."

"And then?"

Katsuko Sakai was intrigued.

"I freaked out when I realized I had gotten into trouble."

"Your grandfather didn't like the Oriental classmate I was dating, and he once said to my face that you want my grandson to look like a yellow-skinned Tatar...... Something like that has happened to him has messed up his perfect family reception even more. ”

(Note: Tatars, Mongolian steppe peoples, here there is no clear distinction between Asian races.) ）

"In the end, your grandmother quietly asked the maid to go to the supermarket to buy a quick lasagna and came back, and in the face of my grandfather's somewhat angry inquiry, she kicked me under the table, and then said that the family cat had knocked over the tin foil plate that originally contained lasagna."

Mrs. Sakai recalled her youth and smiled: "That big orange cat hasn't gotten a good look from your grandfather for six months, and I've been feeling sorry for the old cat at home for a long time." ”

"You and Dad still have such a thing."

Katsuko Sakai rarely heard about her parents' past of falling in love.

She just knows that her mother's family conditions are much better than her father's.

However, every winter when I go to the seaside villa in Barcelona, my grandfather's little old man is very kind to their family.

He was constantly excited to show off his "great artist son-in-law" to all the neighbors to see them, and he wanted to be closer to Professor Sakai than to his mother's brothers.

"Katsuko, by telling you this story, I am telling you that your mother understands your feelings and how happy you feel when you first find out that you like a certain boy. Your mom is not your enemy. On the contrary, your little boyfriend may abandon you, but your parents will never abandon you and will always be there for you. ”

Mrs. Sakai stroked the side of her daughter's face.

"What really me off today is that you didn't think to discuss it with me before you sneaked out by yourself. Have you ever wondered how worried I would be if I suddenly found out that you weren't there? ”

"I thought ......"

Katsuko Sakai opened her mouth to explain.

"I know what you're trying to say. I really don't think much of Gu Weijing all the time, and of course I don't want my daughter to run out with boys so late, all of which are right, because I'm your mother. ”

"I want your life to be smoother, richer, and more successful. If you think of life as a game, marrying Komatsu Taro is Easy mode. But if you're going to play Hard, then I'd love to wish my daughter a lot of fun. ”

Mrs. Sakai whispered, "It's just that you may suffer more." ”

"I'm not afraid."

Katsuko Sakai looked up from her mother's arms and repeated firmly, "I don't care. ”

"Whether you care or not, it's all your own path. We will grow old one day, and after all, the person who will be with you for the rest of your life is your husband, not me, my mother. ”

"If your husband is competitive, then it's great, and you'll receive countless envious glances. Your grandfather looked down on my husband so much back then, and now he is not a baby? Hmph, all the neighbors and friends when I was a child were saying that the girl in the Cruz family caught a good man worth billions. ”

Mrs. Sakai craned her neck, arrogantly like a forty-year-old princess.

"What if...... I mean, what if Gu Jun didn't succeed? Will you always look down on him? ”

Katsuko Sakai asked cautiously and slowly.

There are too many uncertain variables on the road of art, and all the agents who pat their chests and swear that they will be successful are most likely liars.

There are too many geniuses to hurt Zhongyong, and they can't be counted,

It is also common for good painters to not be popular.

Even Katsuko Sakai herself, she can't guarantee that she will be as successful as her father.

It can only be said that maybe, probably the chance of success is greater than that of others.

She believes in Gu Weijing's ability, but whether she succeeds or not, Sakai Katsuko understands that it still depends on luck.

Take the things in front of you,

Wasn't the artist's big sister senior, who had almost perfect sketching skills and a deep aesthetic understanding like a detective cat, still drawing ten-dollar illustrations before she was noticed by Mr. Hyperion on YouTube.

"If your husband is a wretched and has been just a little painter without a name for the rest of his life, in fact...... It's nothing. ”

Mrs. Sakai smiled and said, "Even if I can't get used to him anymore, can I still help him?" Even if Gu Weijing achieves nothing, he will be ridiculed when he is ridiculed, who makes him incompetent? It's great that you live your little life behind closed doors, and as long as he's nice to you, you'll be happy. I would like to bless you too. ”

"I only have a few hard and fast requirements for my daughter's significant other that are absolutely not allowed to be changed. First of all, he can't gamble indiscriminately, and secondly, he can't take drugs and cough medicine. You know, because it's so easy to get money, we're tired of playing women and men, racing, surfing, and so on, and there are not a lot of people in our circle who get both. ”

Mrs. Sakai moved Katsuko's white porcelain-like cheeks, looked at her daughter, and said seriously.

"Bet, it's too fast. For a family like ours, when we go on a vacation and buy some consumer goods such as bags and shoes, the money will not be spent for a lifetime. And gambling on the fortune may only take one night. As for drugs, people who are addicted to lust don't care about family at all. If you get poisoned, the whole person will be ruined, and if you kill yourself, you will also be killed by poisoning, and the probability of an addict beating his wife is also extremely high, I can never allow your pillow person to be such a person. ”

"Last but not least, don't get involved in the money laundering business."

Mrs. Sakai thought for a moment and added, "Not to mention social gangs, even if the group of underground artists related to gangster culture is chaotic, I don't need to tell you about it." ”

The most successful street artist who started by doing underground art or spray painting on the street is KWAS.

The godfather of global trend toys, with mixed reputations.

His street art has exploded on INS, and all kinds of co-branded artwork clothing, handicrafts and trendy toys have become popular all over the world.

Uniqlo and KWAS co-branded products, from Asia to Europe, from the Pacific to the Mediterranean, are all out of stock, and clothing stores can queue up for hundreds of meters.

Every year, the turnover of KWAS's various co-branded products is close to Kanye's coconut, and the stickiness of fans is higher, and there have been many works with a single piece exceeding 100 million US dollars in the past two years.

The success story of KWAS has led to a large number of semi-gangster-like street spray painting gang members entering the art field, similar to rap culture.

Investigative journalists have published special news reports that a large amount of gang-related funds have poured into the art industry, hoping to launder money by hyping up trendy art.

However, art investment is a high-incidence area of traditional money laundering, and it is not bad.

It's just that this kind of street spray painting is more chaotic, and several gang members go to the territory of other bosses to paint on the territory of other bosses, just like hyenas pee on the territory of other ethnic groups, and it becomes a shootout at every turn.

What is quite dark humor is that although KWAS is popular on the streets, it is not mixed in the streets at all. KWAS is a graduate of the Illustration Department of the School of Visual Arts in New York and a Disney illustrator.

"This kind of money is not made steadily. Hit your account before the morning, and you may get a headshot in the evening. Besides, your father Sakai Issei is serious and down-to-earth and became famous by his own efforts, this kind of thing, our family can't touch it. Mrs. Sakai instructed.

"All that's left is to get by. Whether a man fights or not, whether he has the ability or not, it depends on his own life. Mrs. Sakai pinched her daughter's face and laughed, "It also depends on your husband's ability." I think your dad was trained by me very well and well-behaved. ”

"Hmm."

Katsuko Sakai let out a nasal sound, her cheeks flushed.

She thought for a moment and suddenly asked, "Mom, did you see that picture on my INS!" I think that to be able to paint such a picture, Gu Weijing is still quite competitive. ”

"That picture...... It's average, the pen is green, and there are a lot of frizzy places. ”

Mrs. Sakai made a straight face and glanced at her daughter,

Looking at the little expression that my daughter can't wait to show her sweetheart's talent to herself, hoping to get a positive expectation.

She eventually smiled.

"Considering the age of this kid, I can barely give a good review."

Mrs. Sakai patted her daughter on the head.

"Gu Jun wants to participate in this year's Singapore Art Exhibition, Mom, I want to participate too." Katsuko Sakai said suddenly.

(End of chapter)