Become a one-time character in a comic

Xu Yan appeared in Gu Mingxing's ward with his medical record. He came here every day these days, and every time he saw Gu Mingxing staring blankly out the window.

"What on earth is outside the window that you have to look at every day?"

Gu Mingxing didn't answer his question, but turned to look at him: "Isn't school about to start? What are you doing here?"

"School is about to start, and I came to see you for the last time," Xu Yan said this not as a joke, because Gu Mingxing's training might really mean that he would see him for the last time. Xu Yan also didn't understand why Gu Mingxing was so cruel to Mingyue and Gu Zong's only son.

Gu Mingxing said calmly: "If you see it, then let's go."

Xu Yan sat on the sofa and said, "I'm here to inform you that you can be discharged from the hospital. Also, your next training will start in two days. Uncle Gu didn't have time to come, so he asked me to inform you."

When Gu Mingxing heard that he could be discharged from the hospital, he immediately threw off the quilt, took out the clothes he had matched from the closet without even putting on his slippers, and started changing his clothes without caring about Xu Yan who was behind him.

As soon as Xu Yan saw the clothes he threw on the bed to change, he knew that they were carefully matched: "I heard from Huo Ting that you have someone you like?"

"Yeah," Gu Mingxing answered his question calmly while changing.

"man?"

Gu Mingxing didn't know how the rumor that he liked men came about. It was obvious that he liked women, and he had always liked the same person. But when he thought about it, Xu Yan and Huo Ting could never see Yu Xiaoan. When he thought that he was the only one who knew Yu Xiaoan's secret and only he could see her, he felt happy, and the corners of his mouth rose unconsciously.

Xu Yan saw his happy expression and felt a little uncomfortable: "you don't really like men, do you? So what do you usually think of me and Huo Ting?"

Gu Mingxing threw the hospital gown on his head: "Put away your dirty thoughts, I have no thoughts about you, don't say this to disgust me."

Xu Yan caught the hospital gown thrown at him: "Edore is just an unemployed bastard. He usually plays boring games with a few friends in the house. When he runs out of money, he robs people who look easy to bully. I didn't expect you like such a person."

Gu Mingxing didn't want to say anything. After changing his clothes, he went to the bathroom, used some water to tidy up his hair, and left happily.

He knew where Yu Xiaoan was. She had told him when she was discharged from the hospital, so Gu Mingxing walked straight towards his destination.

An American-style house with a yard. The house looked a bit dirty, and the yard was overgrown with weeds. It looked like no one had taken care of it for a long time. Before Gu Mingxing entered the yard, he heard frenzied music, crazy rhythm, and fanatical shouts in the house.

When he saw all this, he had only one question in his mind - how did Yu Xiaoan survive in such an environment?

Fortunately, even in such an environment, the person inside could hear the doorbell he pressed, and the person who opened the door was Yu Xiaoan. With a big smile on his face, Yu Xiaoan felt like he had seen a savior the moment he saw him.

Yu Xiaoan told his roommates in English that he had to go out for something, and then a voice came from inside asking him to come back and bring pizza.

Gu Mingxing looked at her who said nothing and asked, "Are you doing well?"

“It’s not very good,” Yu Xiaoan said like a frightened bird: “Every day here refreshes my understanding of this place. I didn’t know that one day I would live in such a crazy environment.”

A group of men were partying in the house almost every day. It was the first time for her to see a man hugging two women into the room, and the first time to see such a crazy party. The men said words and sentences that made her uncomfortable, made gestures with their hands that made her frown, and demonstrated with their bodies the movements they made when they had pleasure with the opposite sex. They could even share experiences with each other.

When they see beautiful women on the street, they whistle at them. When women roll their eyes at them or ignore them, they become even more excited and start laughing and making jokes with sexual connotations. Perhaps those are not jokes...

Although she often saw on the news that this free country had many "free" things, her exercise volume increased dramatically after coming here.

She didn't want to do those things, but this body seemed to be accustomed to it all. She complained more than once why she had to be in this identity this time. This country is not without good places, but she had to be in this identity.

Thinking of this, Yu Xiaoan couldn't help but frown. Seeing her expression, Gu Mingxing asked, "What did you go through?"

"I don't want to talk about it," Yu Xiaoan pursed her lips when she thought of those scenes, "They are all things I personally cannot accept."

"Then I'll take you out to play."

"Where?"

"follow me."

Even though Yu Xiaoan was just playing, she didn't think it was good. She had been eating pizza, pasta, and bread for many days, and she had to say that she really didn't like the food here. She didn't want to use the word "unpalatable" to describe any food, but this time she had to use the word "unpalatable".

“Why are there dishes on the menus in Chinese restaurants here that I’ve never seen before…”

Gu Mingxing seemed to know this place very well and explained, "Because this is a free-style Chinese restaurant."

"Can't we go to Chinatown?"

"Sorry," Gu Mingxing lowered his head slightly: "It's not convenient for me to go there."

"Order this," Yu Xiaoan pointed to the "General Tso's Chicken" on the menu and said, "I don't know this, but if it's chicken, it shouldn't be bad."

"You really never ask me these things."

Yu Xiaoan looked at the menu carefully: "Do you want me to ask?"

"I want to tell you, but I'm afraid of hurting you."

Yu Xiaoan smiled and said, "Then don't do things that scare yourself, and don't do things that make you unhappy. There are already many bad things in this world, so don't add more bad things to make yourself unhappy." Yu Xiaoan looked into his eyes and said, "People look best when they smile, at least that's what I think in my heart."

After she said this, Gu Mingxing, who had just been smiling faintly, looked at her and smiled. Yu Xiaoan looked at his smile and didn't think it was so beautiful, but she thought he was really silly, but very cute.

After finishing the not-so-delicious meal, Gu Mingxing took her to the shopping mall. Yu Xiaoan found that she really couldn't express her feelings sincerely. All she could do was provide emotional value and make Gu Mingxing feel that he really helped her.

"Wow! This is my first time here. I've only seen it on TV or in the news before."

Gu Mingxing observed her expression: "How does it feel to be here?"

Yu Xiaoan smiled and said, "My feelings cannot be expressed in words."

Gu Mingxing took her in to have a look, and then Yu Xiaoan saw the "zero-yuan shopping" with her own eyes. She witnessed the entire process of this special shopping, which can only be described in three words - fast, fierce, and chaotic.

The movements are swift, the actions are violent, and the scene is bright and chaotic.

Gu Mingxing pushed her into the fitting room and protected her behind him. After those people left, he asked her worriedly, "Are you not scared?"

Yu Xiaoan joked, "Compared to this, when I first came here, I also witnessed the building being bombed. In comparison, this doesn't seem like a big deal."

"Damn it," Gu Mingxing covered his face, "I didn't want you to see this..."

"It seems like you've said this too late. Didn't I go through illegal interrogation before?" Looking at Gu Mingxing's painful expression, her original intention of saying this was not to make him feel uncomfortable. From her perspective, this sentence could ease what he had just said, but it seemed to have failed and backfired. It seemed that Yu Xiaoan didn't know how to comfort someone.

She patted Gu Mingxing on the shoulder and said, "That's not what I meant. What I meant was that I've been through the worst of things, and it seems like nothing happened to me when something harmless like this happened to me."

Gu Mingxing now hates herself very much. She hates herself for not being independent yet and for not having any ability to protect her and let her see only the beauty of this world.

"Where are we going next? This place is so big, please take me around more, maybe we can find something delicious here." She looked unconvinced: "I don't believe it, there is really nothing delicious here."

Gu Mingxing looked at her cuteness and he really liked her and wanted to marry her home.

Gu Mingxing's eyes softened: "I'll take you to the nearest amusement park."

"Okay."

Yu Xiaoan couldn't laugh while holding a hot dog with a layer of mayonnaise and salad dressing in his hand: "Gu Mingxing, I want to go back to China. I really can't accept the food here. I can only show my respect."

Gu Mingxing took the hot dog from her hand, then handed the ice cream to her and asked her to eat it.

"Why don't you come to my house and I'll cook for you, but I don't have any vegetables at home, so we need to go to the supermarket."

Yu Xiaoan took a bite of the tip of the ice cream: "Can you cook?"

Gu Mingxing thought about his cooking skills. Apart from cooking instant noodles, he seemed to have never cooked before. However, he felt that cooking was not difficult. It was just frying the vegetables in a pan. He said confidently, "I am very good at it."

This is also Yu Xiaoan’s first time to buy vegetables in a supermarket in this country. Looking at the vegetables in the supermarket and the prices on them, she really wants to go back to the place she is familiar with.

“Are all the prices here this high?”

Gu Mingxing wanted to make her happier, but he didn't want to lie to her, so he nodded honestly: "Probably like this."

“Is the average salary here high?”

"generally."

Yu Xiaoan fell into deep thought, and after a long while he could only say one sentence: "It's so different."

"Disillusioned?"

"A little bit. Before, I thought it was just because of my current identity that I didn't see the good side," Yu Xiaoan said puzzledly, "Now I feel that it has little to do with my identity. I can't understand why there are still so many people who worship foreigners, when it's obviously... just like that."

Gu Mingxing picked up a box of steaks and looked at it and said, "Just like this piece of steak, he wanted me to see the good side of the steak, so he only showed me this side. Many people think this piece of steak is good, but when I buy it back and really handle it, I can see its whole side."

Yu Xiaoan looked at him in surprise. He continued, "Many journalists are paid to do what the client asks them to do. They promote whatever the client says, and we who read the news can only see the content of the promotion. In the public's impression, news is real and tells the facts. But now a lot of things have changed. Even if some people know this truth, there may be too few people who use their eyes to seek truth."

"I didn't expect that. A man who hasn't seen you for three days should be looked at with new eyes," Yu Xiaoan said to him with a smile, "You really made me look at you with new eyes. It seems that the image of you in my heart needs to change. In the past, I only thought that you were a childish Gu Mingxing who used childish means to get the head teacher to change his position. I didn't expect that you now have your own way of thinking about things."

Gu Mingxing smiled lightly and said, "It can be considered a kind of growth."

“I’ve grown a lot.”

"Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Yu. Student Gu will continue to work hard."

“No, no, no,” Yu Xiaoan lowered his head and waved his hands with a smile: “I can’t be your teacher now, you have already graduated.”

“Once a teacher, always a teacher.”

Yu Xiaoan pouted and frowned slightly: "But as a teacher, I didn't get any compensation. Student Gu, isn't this a bit of a loss?"

"What does Teacher Yu want?" Gu Mingxing patted his chest and said, "As long as you say it, I will make it happen."

"Oh?" Yu Xiaoan looked at him with a squinting expression, "Student Gu, you're a little too sure, what if what I want is the stars?"

For a moment, this sentence gave Gu Mingxing the illusion that Yu Xiaoan wanted him, because Gu Mingxing's nickname was "Little Star", but Yu Xiaoan didn't know his nickname.

Gu Mingxing looked at her as if he was looking at his own countless stars: "Okay, I will definitely give it to you."

Yu Xiaoan didn't know what Gu Mingxing was thinking, she just thought he was bragging: "Okay, then I'll look forward to it."

While buying groceries, Gu Mingxing suddenly remembered that the house was some distance away, but he didn't want Yu Xiaoan to take the subway as the smell in that environment was not very pleasant. So he made a phone call while Yu Xiaoan was choosing seasonings, and quickly accompanied Yu Xiaoan after the call.

After coming out of the supermarket, Gu Mingxing took out a pair of car keys from somewhere, but Yu Xiaoan didn't ask.

After arriving at the "home" that Gu Mingxing mentioned, Yu Xiaoan looked around at the ceiling and found that there was no smoke alarm here. Gu Mingxing said while packing up the things he bought: "There are no smoke alarms here. They have all been removed."

“Can this be dismantled at will?”

Gu Mingxing smiled and said, "As long as you have money, what can't be accomplished?"

"If you have money, you can do whatever you want," Yu Xiaoan reached out to help him, but was stopped by Gu Mingxing: "The kitchen is my battlefield, you should go watch TV and have a showdown with the TV."

Seeing how serious he was, Yu Xiaoan covered her mouth and laughed: "How can I have a duel with the TV? Let's see who will fall asleep first, me or it?"

"There's a remote control on the table, and you can beat it with the remote control."

Yu Xiaoan spread his hands: "Then I will go to fight with the TV. Call me when you need help here."