Become a one-time character in a comic

Gu Mingxing opened the door of the suite, and Yu Xiaoan walked in calmly. Then Gu Mingxing also went in. He locked the door in front of Yu Xiaoan and deliberately made the sound of locking the door loud enough for Yu Xiaoan to hear.

Yu Xiaoan heard the sound of the door being locked, but she didn't react. She walked straight to the living room and sat on the sofa.

Gu Mingxing smiled helplessly. Logically speaking, when a man and a woman are alone in a room, the girl should be nervous or a little afraid. However, he could not see any nervousness or fear in Yu Xiaoan. It was as if this place was very safe and nothing dangerous or bad would happen to her.

Although he felt helpless, Gu Mingxing was glad at the same time that Yu Xiaoan, who was by his side, would not have the slightest worry or fear.

Gu Mingxing took out a pair of disposable slippers, removed the outer packaging, opened the slippers and placed them at Yu Xiaoan's feet.

Yu Xiaoan, who was not nervous at all, became uneasy after seeing his action: "I can do it myself."

Gu Mingxing just smiled. Yu Xiaoan looked at the slippers at her feet. Because they were a pair of slippers placed at her feet by someone else to serve her, she was embarrassed to take off her high heels and put on the slippers at her feet.

Gu Mingxing squatted at her feet and reached out to hold her legs. Yu Xiaoan saw that he was about to touch her legs, so she reflexively dodged his hand and moved her legs to the side.

"I can do it myself."

Yu Xiaoan was really embarrassed and waved his hands in panic.

"Don't move," Gu Mingxing quickly grabbed her calf, took off her high heels and put slippers on her feet.

At this time, Gu Mingxing was very domineering, with a noncommittal tone and clean and neat movements.

Yu Xiaoan, who was wearing slippers, politely thanked Gu Mingxing. He picked up her high heels with one hand and placed her shoes at the entrance.

"We don't need to say thank you or anything like that, right?"

Yu Xiaoan smiled gently: "I'll try my best. Now you can answer the questions I asked you on the way."

"You're changing the subject a little too quickly," Gu Mingxing sat next to her, and Yu Xiaoan handed him the wet tissue on the table, "Are you not going to talk about it anymore?"

Gu Mingxing tore open the wet tissue package and wiped his hands while saying, "As long as you want to know, I will tell you the answer, but I don't know where to start for the moment."

Yu Xiaoan moved the trash can next to him with his foot: "Then let's start from the winter break when you became an adult. After the winter break, you changed a lot and learned... to smoke."

Gu Mingxing threw the used wet tissue into the trash can. He looked at the trash can between them with disdain and moved it aside with his foot. He said awkwardly, "Forget about smoking. I don't smoke anymore."

He bit his lip and said, "That winter vacation, my parents took me abroad a few days before I came of age. They arranged a very special coming-of-age gift for me..."

Having said this, Gu Mingxing frowned, his lips tightly closed, opened and closed again, biting his lower lip.

Yu Xiaoan tilted her head and looked at his slightly painful expression and asked, "Don't you want to say it?"

Gu Mingxing opened his mouth, took a deep breath, and said, "What a freak show."

When Yu Xiaoan heard the word "freak show", she didn't know what it was. It was the first time she heard of this word, and the word "freak" could only make her think of the strange geometric shapes she learned in school.

Gu Mingxing looked at Yu Xiaoan, whose face was full of curiosity and expectation, and didn't want to say anything more, but he couldn't resist the curious person's questions.

"What's a 'freak show'?"

“Human deformity.”

With just four words, Yu Xiaoan instantly understood what "freak show" was. If geometric figures that do not conform to regular shapes and are very strange are considered deformed, then human deformities are people who do not conform to the rules of the human body and are very strange.

What kind of people are weird?

Personality?

This kind of internal thing that takes time to judge cannot be seen by the naked eye at a glance.

Then the answer is very simple and obvious.

What is deformed is the appearance. The appearance of humans is deformed.

But in this world there are always unlucky children who are born with more or less luck, but in Yu Xiaoan's eyes, they are not deformities, they just lack luck.

Then in Yu Xiaoan's eyes, the only things that can be called "human deformities" are...

Those who were forced to have an extra pair of hands, half a head missing, split legs, and a hollow chest...

Yu Xiaoan asked carefully: "It's not what I thought, right?"

Gu Mingxing looked at Yu Xiaoan's painful expression, feeling sad and a little happy. He was sad that she knew what it was, but he was happy that she didn't see it with her own eyes and didn't know the whole picture.

He decided to lie this time.

Gu Mingxing raised the corners of his mouth a little, his eyes drooped slightly: "It's not that scary."

After hearing the answer, Yu Xiaoan actually knew that he was lying to her. Yu Xiaoan, who hated and even despised deception, hoped at this moment that what Gu Mingxing said was true.

“What does your bar mitzvah have to do with your family’s business?”

When asking this question, Yu Xiaoan vaguely felt that there was a world behind this that she didn't know about.

Gu Mingxing would answer every question she asked and would never lie to her, but answering every question did not mean telling her everything.

"Drug research," Gu Mingxing said while counting on his fingers, "'Tea powder' trading, criminal assistance, 'exchange' of people, asset monopoly, material control, maritime transport control, these are invisible. There are many visible investments, such as games, daily necessities, cosmetics, and the catering industry."

Yu Xiaoan's body couldn't help but fall back half an inch. She looked at Gu Mingxing in surprise, unable to believe what she had just heard.

When she watched international news in the past, she saw many reports of terrorist attacks and ships in distress in certain sea areas. Living in a relatively safe country, she felt that these things were far away from her.

And now, there was someone who said that his family did these things, and those things that she never dared to think were far away from her now appeared in front of her in such a close way.

Gu Mingxing didn't like Yu Xiaoan's retreat, but he would not get close to her now. He just sat there, maintaining the same posture as at the beginning and looking at her motionlessly.

Yu Xiaoan couldn't help but clench her hands. She asked, "Are you involved in these things?"

"No," Gu Mingxing answered her firmly, "I was not involved in any of these things."

There was suspicion in Yu Xiaoan's eyes.

If a family exists for these things, then is it possible that the children of this family would not be contaminated by them at all?

Gu Mingxing felt a little hurt when he saw her suspicious look.

"Do you remember that the last time you saw me, I was covered in wounds?" Gu Mingxing couldn't help but smile when he recalled the scene at that time. "No, we were covered in wounds at that time. I trained there when I was in my sophomore year and then my junior year. During the training, I didn't attend any of my parents' affairs. I finished the training a year ago and came back. After I came back, I wanted to change everything. For this reason, I secretly arranged the chess pieces that would change everything."

He hesitated when saying the word "chess piece". He didn't know if his words would make Yu Xiaoan think that "Gu Mingxing turned out to be a very cunning person."