Become a one-time character in a comic

Yu Xiaoan sat at her desk with a blank A4 paper in front of her. She pouted her lips to steady the pen under her nose, thinking about where the plot of "Youth Gummy Candy" had gone.

She wrote down whatever she thought of on an A4 paper, and as she wrote, a mind map appeared on the A4 paper.

As she wrote, she muttered to herself: "It's been a month since the baby went missing. Hmm... Bairuan's brother should have invited Gu Sheng to dinner and secretly warned him to stay away from Bairuan. Is there anything else to do after the summer vacation of the first year of high school?"

After thinking hard, she suddenly remembered something that would happen in high school, and she immediately wrote two words "subject division" on an A4 paper.

"Youth Gummy Candy" is a work from a few years ago, and the content is still divided according to the traditional subject method. In youth campus-style comics, disagreements and conflicts over "subjects" are inevitable, and this is also a point that can easily create a "small climax" plot.

Before she became a classmate of the protagonists, I remember that Gu Sheng had good grades in all subjects, but Bairuan was a little biased in mathematics and physics, and her grades in the two subjects were only in the middle of the school ranking.

Since he couldn't remember the main characters' subject selections, Yu Xiaoan could only guess that Bairuan would choose liberal arts, while Gu Sheng would choose science.

Yu Xiaoan looked at what was written on the A4 paper in front of him, frowned, and muttered softly, "Something seems to be wrong..."

"Mr. Li, is there anything wrong with the document?"

Yu Xiaoan was startled by the sudden sound and turned over the A4 paper reflexively, revealing the side with nothing written on it.

Standing in front of her was Beibei's mother's secretary. She came over to ask about the content of the document for the meeting later. Yu Xiaoan quietly pulled the first page of the A4 paper in front of her and said guiltily, "Nothing, there is no problem with the document. After the copy is made, prepare to notify the meeting."

"Yes," the secretary took the documents in front of her, but she did not leave immediately. Instead, she stood in front of Yu Xiaoan and asked respectfully, "Mr. Li, Mr. Qian has an appointment to meet you at 2 pm tomorrow. Is it still the same place?"

Yu Xiaoan had no idea what the "old place" the secretary was talking about was. In this situation, he could only follow the secretary's words and said, "Well, it's still that place. Take me there tomorrow."

"Ok."

During the meeting, Yu Xiaoan stared at the PPT presentation on the whiteboard opposite her with an expressionless face. She felt devastated as she could hardly understand what these people were saying.

She used to be an ordinary worker, but now after experiencing the life of a senior executive, she is really at a loss and can’t understand. Looking at the pie charts and word cloud charts on the PPT, she can only tell which ones account for a large proportion and which words stand out.

The person standing opposite her who had just finished presenting and explaining the PPT was still nervously waiting for her to speak. What should she say? Just now she was like a college student listening to calculus in an advanced math class. The more she listened, the more confused she became.

Everyone in the conference room except her was looking at her, and she felt like their gazes could see through her.

Yu Xiaoan mustered up his courage and asked expressionlessly, "So what are you waiting for me to say?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she could feel the atmosphere in the entire conference room dropped to zero, or even lower. Just now she could hear the sound of clothes rubbing against each other, but now she could not even hear the sound of breathing.

Yu Xiaoan recalled what her bosses liked to say in meetings when she was working. She copied them exactly as they were, even their expressions, with a blank expression and a hint of anger: "Do you think these numbers are good? Is this your strength? The company hired you because you are all high-quality talents..."

Almost everyone in the conference room lowered their heads slightly. Yu Xiaoan paused because she had forgotten what the leader had said just now. Seeing them lowering their heads, she remembered and continued, "Is this the result you produced? I don't want to say anything about you, but the result you showed me did not meet my expectations at all..."

Yu Xiaoan continued to think about what the leaders had said: "Are there good communications between departments? Departments should have a good granularity, and problems should be reported and solved in a timely manner. Is there anything that cannot be said?"

She remembered that she had to call on a few people to explain the situation, but when she looked at the people sitting here, she didn't know anyone except the secretary. Yu Xiaoan really didn't want to treat them like this. She had already apologized to them crazily in her heart, but with her current status, she had no choice but to say these words.

"Okay," Yu Xiaoan stood up: "Today's meeting ends here. I hope you won't show this to me next time."

After saying that, the secretary opened the door of the conference room, and Yu Xiaoan quickened his pace to leave the place.

Yu Xiaoan asked the secretary: "Do I have anything else to do today?"

"Mr. Li, no more."

Yu Xiaoan took her bag in the office and went to the garage to drive back.

As soon as she got back, Beibei ran out and gave her a big hug.

"mom!"

"Oh, baby!"

"Hello, Mr. Li," Not only Beibei came out of Beibei's room, but also a female teacher. This was the tutor hired by Beibei's mother.

Yu Xiaoan smiled and nodded to the teacher and said, "Thank you for your hard work, teacher."

The teacher said politely: "It's not hard. Beibei is very smart and well behaved."

The teacher moved towards the door as he spoke. Yu Xiaoan smiled politely and said, "Then I won't see you off, teacher. Bye."

After the teacher left, Yu Xiaoan's tone became gentle and childish: "Baby, what did you learn today?"

Beibei opened her arms and made a big "circle" and said, "I learned a lot today." She took Yu Xiaoan's hand and said excitedly, "Mom, I'll take you to see it."

Yu Xiaoan was pulled into the room by her. She saw a piece of paper full of English writing on Beibei's desk. Beibei said proudly: "Beibei's composition today was praised by the teacher."

Yu Xiaoan was stunned when she saw the English composition she wrote. It seemed that she only reached this level after entering high school.

Beibei then showed her the composition she had written today. Yu Xiaoan took a closer look at Beibei's composition and immediately felt the disparity in the world. Was this composition really written by a child who was about to enter the first grade? Is it true that such a young child could write in such a good style?

"Mom, how's it going?"

Yu Xiaoan saw Beibei's expression of "waiting to be praised". Seeing such a cute and excellent child waiting to be praised, she didn't know how much she liked this child. She smiled and touched Beibei's head and praised: "Baby is great, whose baby is this great?"

Beibei hugged Yu Xiaoan and said happily, "It's mom's!"

"But is baby happy when learning these?"

Beibei thought for a moment and replied, "It's actually a little difficult, but when I think about how happy my mother will be, I really want to learn it."

Yu Xiaoan felt sorry for the child: "Do you still want to continue studying?"

Beibei nodded in her arms: "Think about it, I feel a sense of accomplishment after learning it, I like that feeling very much."

"Baby, how can you be so cute?" Yu Xiaoan squatted down and rubbed her face: "I really want to take you to my house."

"I'm already at my mother's house."

Yu Xiaoan realized that she had said the wrong thing and immediately corrected herself: "What mom meant is that mom will always be by baby's side. Baby, do you want to eat chicken wings today?"

"Wow!" Beibei raised her hands and cheered, "I have chicken wings made by my mom!"

After dinner, Beibei’s other tutor came. Yu Xiaoan cut a fruit plate and put it in Beibei’s room and then stopped disturbing her.

Yu Xiaoan called Gu Mingxing, who answered the phone in surprise and asked, "Beibei is looking for me to play again?"

“She is studying here now.”

"What are you learning? Painting?"

Yu Xiaoan answered: "High school English grammar, writing and Olympiad mathematics."

Gu Mingxing asked doubtfully: "Is this still a seven-year-old child?"

"I have the same question," Yu Xiaoan realized that he had diverted the topic he wanted to ask at the beginning, so he forced himself back to the topic and asked, "Have you finished your summer homework?"

"You called just to ask me about my homework?"

"No, I mainly want to ask you about your subject division."

Gu Mingxing replied indifferently: "Arts and science are the same to me."

"I knew you would think so," Yu Xiaoan said earnestly, "According to my experience in my world, science is better than liberal arts. At least it's easier to find a job."

Gu Mingxing thought about his family's assets and it seemed that he didn't need to worry about finding a job, but since Yu Xiaoan said so, he listened obediently without refutation.

Yu Xiaoan continued, "As someone who has been through this and as a friend, I only have this suggestion for choosing a subject."

Gu Mingxing stood up, left the desk, looked in her direction through the window, smiled softly and said, "Then I'll choose science."

"Why do you say that as if you were asking me to do whatever I suggest?" Yu Xiaoan laughed without knowing why.

"Didn't you say that it's easier to find a job with a liberal arts degree than with a science degree? In order to get an easier chance to find a job in the future, I think science is indeed a better choice."

"Wow," Yu Xiaoan exclaimed, "You are so good at listening to advice."

"Listen to advice and eat your fill," Gu Mingxing said, holding the thorns of the cactus on the windowsill with his hands, "You are the one who is blaming me. How have you been recently?"

Yu Xiaoan fell back and sat on the sofa and said, "I don't understand anything about work. I even had a meeting today. The atmosphere reminded me of the time when I was called to a meeting at work."

"Is there any difference between the class you are taking now and the class you took before? It actually stumped you."

Yu Xiaoan replied helplessly: "Before, I was just an ordinary employee, but now I am Mr. Li. Adding the word 'Mr.' to my surname has a lot of weight, which is completely different from my previous position." She sighed deeply and muttered, "I really want to change my role quickly."

"Will Beibei's life be affected after the change?"

“No,” Yu Xiaoan recalled the roles he had played before and said, “Remember the role I first met you in? She has the same name as me. Later, I observed her and her friends and classmates couldn’t tell the difference between her and me. So at that time, I came to the conclusion that no matter what I do now, it will have no effect on the role.”

"That's quite convenient."

At this moment, Gu Mingxing had a vague dream flashback in his mind. He seemed to have a vague impression of a dream. Following this impression, he asked: "Have you ever thought about why you came to this world?"

Yu Xiaoan was stunned by this question. She seemed to have answered this question before, but she didn't know who asked her, nor did she remember what answer she gave to the other person at that time.

Gu Mingxing didn't hear the long reply from the other end of the phone, so he asked, "What's wrong?"

Yu Xiaoan said: "I seem to have forgotten something..."

"Can you remember?"

Yu Xiaoan smiled bitterly and said, "If I could remember, I wouldn't tell you what I forgot."

"It has nothing to do with your question of 'why did you come to this world'."

"It seems so, but I can't remember it no matter how hard I try."

Gu Mingxing understood her feelings, because he just couldn't remember a certain dream right now. He jokingly said, "I seem to have forgotten a dream. I heard that remembering your dreams is a sign of neurasthenia."

"real or fake?"

Gu Mingxing laughed and made fun of himself: "I don't know if it's true, but it's good to give myself a reason to prove that I'm mentally healthy."

"You're quite optimistic."

After that, he said a few irrelevant words and hung up the phone.

Gu Mingxing lowered his hand holding the phone, looked in her direction and muttered to himself: "That dream seems to be very necessary..."

Although he frowned and tried hard to recall the content of his dream, the dream was still vague and he couldn't remember it at all.

Since he couldn't remember, he didn't force himself to remember it immediately. He lowered his head and sighed, then turned back to his desk to write the summer homework that Yu Xiaoan was worried about.

Today is still a good day, with no clouds and a clear sky. The plane passed through the sky, leaving a white line. The white line was clear at first, then slowly spread out, became blurred, and finally disappeared. The trace of the plane disappeared...

In this world, the story of "Youth Soft Candy" continues. Bai Ruan and Gu Sheng have feelings for each other, but this is the first time for them as they are young. They carefully bury this feeling in their hearts and confirm their feelings again and again. They are both brave and afraid.

When Bai Ruan heard her brother inform her that she would go abroad directly after graduating from high school, she did not dare to object. This was the result of her family's consideration for her, so she gladly accepted it. However, after "gladly accepting" it, she thought of Gu Sheng.

If she went abroad, how many years would she not be able to see him?

The girl actually wanted to ask the boy, but she fell into a very long silence as she looked at the chat box that belonged to him on her phone. She didn't dare to say a word or type a word in the chat box.

In the end, she said nothing now because she was not sure whether he liked her as much as she liked him.

She decided to bury this worry deep in her heart, let the wind blow it away, and wait for it to naturally decay and eventually disappear...