Quick Wear: Driving Gods in a Dark Fairy Tale

Calculating the time, Bai Jun took Nanna for a few laps in the flower garden outside the hall, and then sat down in a small pavilion in the corridor.

The champagne-colored satin curtain with butterfly patterns was tied diagonally to the pillars and half-hung down, and the joints at the ends were decorated with fine and delicate crystal tassels. The setting sun shone in, reflecting mottled and fragmented light in the pavilion, which was colorful and magnificent.

In the center of the table is an exquisite flower arrangement in a glass vase.

Perhaps because it has been placed for a long time, the flowers in the glass vase look beautiful at first glance, but upon closer inspection, the flowers and leaves are drooping and appear to be dying.

Nanna also apparently noticed the conspicuous flower arrangement on the table and exclaimed, "Ah, the flowers in this vase seem to have wilted."

Baijun took the wilted branches out of the bottle. The branches below were already dry and almost withered, and the bottom of the glass bottle was empty.

"Yeah, it's wilted."

Bai Jun looked at the shrunken part at the end of the flower branch due to loss of water and said, "Water needs to be put in the flower vase so that the flowers can stay in bloom longer. Without water, they will wither quickly."

Nana was surprised and asked, "But there is no water in this vase of flowers."

Bai Jun groaned softly, "The person who placed the flower arrangement must have been careless and forgot to add water to the bottle. Otherwise, the flower arrangement would have lasted for at least two days."

Nana nodded as if she understood, and said regretfully, "Oh, so that's how it is? It's such a pity to waste these flower arrangements."

"It's a pity."

Bai Jun stood up and threw the handful of half-withered flowers and leaves next to a bunch of cosmos at the edge of the flower bed.

"A picked flower is like a person who has refused to drink or eat. It has reached the end of its life. Putting it in water may only make it look like it has regained its vitality, but in fact, it is just a last glimmer of life."

“Flowers are just like people. Without the things they rely on for survival, they will eventually die.”

Nanna pondered for a moment and said, "It seems that flower arrangement is also a very cruel thing. The life of a flower is frozen at the moment it is picked, and it will quickly decay after that. It is better not to pick it, let it stay on the branch, continue to bloom, and maintain its fresh beauty during the flowering period."

Baijun: "What if you love those flowers so much that you want to keep them by your side, and put them somewhere within easy reach?"

Nanna was silent for a moment, then smiled and said, "If you like them very much, then come and see them every day."

"The flowering period is not long to begin with, and if you pick them it will only be shorter."

“Rather than possessing fleeting beauty for a short time, I would rather it live longer, so that I can appreciate and love it longer.”

"It's a very gentle method." Bai Jun squatted beside the flower bed, his eyes swept across the blooming flowers: "But I have a different idea from you."

“If the things I love and care about cannot be owned by me and used by me, then I would rather it be destroyed.”

He used the flower shears placed beside the flower bed to cut off a branch of blooming cornflowers: "I would rather it be destroyed in my hands than appear in the hands of others and become a sharp knife stabbing me. I don't want my cherishment and love to be rewarded with nothing but being ignored, easily snatched away, ravaged, trampled, and finally thrown in front of me like garbage."

Bai Jun chuckled: "That's too pitiful."

Nanna gasped, "Is that what you think? That seems a bit extreme."

Bai Jun did not deny it. He picked out several other types of branches and cut them off. Then he arranged them in a vase and suddenly asked, "Do you like flower arrangement?"

Nana didn't understand, but nodded politely: "I like it."

Bai Jun smiled and said, "I like it too."

He picked up the florist scissors and slowly trimmed the branches arranged in the vase, and cut off the messy and crowded flower buds with a bold stroke. The table was full of pruned branches and fallen flowers.

When he put down the scissors, there were only two or three flowers left on the branches of the tree in the vase.

"So what do you think, would the full bouquet look better in the vase, or would it look better after being cut and rearranged?"

"Don't worry about me, just tell the truth."

Nana looked at the majority of the branches she had cut off, and then at the scattered flowers in the vase: "I'm sorry, although your flower arrangement is also very beautiful, I still think that the original bouquet is beautiful enough."

"Really?" Bai Jun picked up a flower that he had cut off and was about to bloom on the table: "Indeed, a cluster of naturally grown dense flowers is beautiful enough."

"But in flower arrangement, putting a whole branch of flowers directly in a vase is a waste of natural resources."

"It's a mess, with no order of importance. At first glance, the flower buds of the same color are crowded together, and the leaves are dense and eye-catching... It's okay except for the first glance, but it has no aesthetic value and appreciation value."

"The significance of flower arrangement is to select the real 'main flower' from among them. Everything else serves the 'main flower'. Determine the main flower that needs to be kept, trim off those unnecessary and eye-catching branches and leaves, and then match and perfect it according to the remaining flowers and branches, so that the surrounding flowers and branches echo each other around the main flower, which not only highlights the main flower but also has a sense of balance."

"The final result is a perfect flower arrangement."

“Is it a pity to cut off the flowers and branches? It’s a pity. But in order to make it look ornamental in people’s eyes, it is inevitable to discard them.”

"Even if my life is cut off and I lose my original appearance."

"Even the beauty gained with so much sacrifice can only last for three days at most."

"Sometimes, one's own likes and dislikes are nothing compared to the high-end aesthetics in the eyes of the nobility."

"If you want to gain something, you have to lose something in return."

"Do you understand?"