Chapter 672
Cute
Chapter 672 Cute
“But you’re cheating them! What you gave them was fake!” Yao Xingyu shouted.
“But their happiness at this moment is real!” Li Zhuangsheng replied instantly.
"If they also date other men, would you be able to accept it?"
Why are you making assumptions about things that don't exist?
"But what you're doing... is immoral!"
"But what's wrong with bearing a little immoral guilt if it makes my loved ones happy?"
Yao Xingyu and Xie Jiangqing were speechless for a moment, looking at each other in bewilderment.
"Believe me, I will definitely treat them well!" Li Zhuangsheng held the two women's hands, speaking with great emotion.
"...You're talking nonsense! You just want to have two women on each side!"
After a long while, Xie Jiangqing finally remembered to get straight to the point, and Yao Xingyu nodded in agreement.
“Okay, I don’t deny that,” Li Zhuangsheng said, shrugging. “But no one was hurt in this, right?”
Yao Xingyu retorted, "This is deception. Why don't you dare let them know?"
Li Zhuangsheng smiled and said, "Have you seen The Matrix? The Truman Show will do too. If the truth is cruel and the illusion is beautiful, would you rather wake up or continue to sleep? If knowing the truth only brings pain, then giving them the right to know is definitely for their own good?"
The two opened their mouths, unsure how to refute.
"Can you guarantee you can keep it from them forever? What's the point if they find out the truth in the future? They'll still get hurt!"
"...At least, they have some happy memories." Li Zhuangsheng remained silent for a long time. "You can trust me. I will treat them well and do my best to make them happy. If they suffer again, then you can do whatever you want with them."
Their chests heaved, their eyes shifting between light and shadow.
"Please, just pretend you didn't see anything. You're friends with them, but you're friends with me too. I don't want to hurt them, and you don't want to hurt them either, right?"
Li Zhuangsheng made a sincere request.
……
After parting ways with the two women, Li Zhuangsheng, drenched in cold sweat, got into a taxi without pausing for a moment, fearing they might change their minds.
Li Zhuangsheng was somewhat surprised that he had actually gotten away with it. Thinking about his earlier sophistry, he couldn't help but smirk self-deprecatingly.
"It's like I really am such a scumbag..." Li Zhuang thought to himself. They definitely know.
Was it really necessary to keep it from Xie Jiangqing and Yao Xingyu...? Now it definitely is. Since Hu Mengdie and Zhu Zhixue didn't tell their best friends, they should take responsibility for it too.
As for the disdain and contempt, those are the price to pay.
In the taxi, Li Zhuangsheng called Lin Yuehua to give her a brief update on Xie Jiangqing's situation and invited her to his home again to watch "Monkey King: Hero Is Back".
Lin Yuehua did not refuse, so Li Zhuangsheng took a taxi to Lin Yuehua's home.
The shop was already closed. When Li Zhuangsheng arrived, Lin Yuehua was standing at the door. She had finished showering and changed into a white T-shirt and a pair of faded jeans.
"Where is Grandma?"
“When she has nothing to do, she goes to bed early.”
"What time is it?"
"It's past eight o'clock." Lin Yuehua handed the keys to the electric scooter to Li Zhuangsheng: "You can ride it."
Li Zhuangsheng accepted it with a smile: "It doesn't matter who rides it. Let me tell you, I ran into Yao Xingyu at the hospital. Those two are sworn enemies. I'm really a bit tired."
After all, it's so hot outside, and I just broke up a fight between two girls, so my physical exertion was considerable.
"I want to sit behind you," Lin Yuehua said with a smile.
"Why? I'm too lazy to ride a bike." Li Zhuangsheng inserted the car key.
"I can hug you from behind."
Li Zhuangsheng paused for a moment, pursed his lips, and couldn't help but laugh: "Then you should hold on tight, it'll be safer that way!"
The two rode around on an electric scooter. Although Lin Yuehua had just finished showering, she didn't care at all and put her arm around Li Zhuangsheng's waist.
Lin Yuehua's hair brushed against Li Zhuangsheng's cheek, creating a fragrant scent.
"It really feels like a youth movie," Li Zhuangsheng thought to himself.
I opened the door, and just as I had imagined, the house was empty.
"Come to my room."
Li Zhuangsheng took the only can of Coke from the refrigerator and handed it to Lin Yuehua.
Lin Yuehua entered Li Zhuangsheng's room. The furnishings were not much different from what she remembered. The miscellaneous books she had brought back from high school were still casually piled in the corner.
Li Zhuangsheng warmly offered her his chair and then brought over a small chair himself, searching for "Monkey King: Hero Is Back".
Lin Yuehua opened the cola and took a small sip.
"Actually, when I first watched 'Monkey King: Hero Is Back,' I wasn't too surprised. When I watched it, the movie was already quite famous, and I had high expectations. So after watching it, I just thought, oh, it's pretty good. At the time, everyone was talking about the rise of Chinese animation, and I thought, with 'Monkey King: Hero Is Back' having such a high box office, there must be an even better Journey to the West adaptation in the future. But who knew that even ten years later, this would still be the best adaptation of Journey to the West, and since then, neither games, animations, nor movies have surpassed it."
Li Zhuangsheng sighed and pressed play.
“In the future, technology should be even better, right?” Lin Yuehua glanced at him.
"The technology has definitely improved... you could even say it's improved dramatically." Li Zhuangsheng chuckled and scratched the back of his head. "I'm just saying this in my subjective opinion. I don't like those Sun Wukongs later on. I feel like they're not Sun Wukongs at all, but more like little scoundrels who accidentally gained magic power."
“Then you can do it yourself; you have your own animation company.”
"I work in 2D animation. The market for 2D animation in China isn't very big... After all, many people watch pirated Japanese anime. If you want them to pay for it, the quality requirements have to be very high."
As Li Zhuangsheng spoke, he suddenly thought that this might not be the case. When "Big Fish & Begonia" first came out, it was quite popular. It was just that the script was bad. Otherwise, it might have been able to replicate the miracle of "Monkey King: Hero Is Back".
So, is there any potential in this?
But then he thought that "Big Fish & Begonia" was already the last glory of Chinese 2D animated films.
"Can't it be done?" Lin Yuehua asked, slightly disappointed.
"It's not a warp drive spaceship, what can't we do? Animation? As long as the funding is there, we can do it, don't worry!" Li Zhuangsheng suddenly became full of enthusiasm and assured Lin Yuehua, "I will definitely make a super awesome animated film based on Journey to the West. I want to set things right, reject those vulgar conspiracy theories. Sun Wukong is not a nobody, and he doesn't fall in love! The story of Journey to the West has been iterated so many times over the years, and Sun Wukong's image finally became perfect in the Ming Dynasty. But now third-rate screenwriters only come up with these self-righteous 'innovations,' making Sun Wukong vulgar again. Humph, laughable!"
Lin Yuehua looked at Li Zhuangsheng, who was filled with righteous indignation, and couldn't help but laugh: "Keep it up!"
"What are you laughing at?" Li Zhuangsheng asked, raising an eyebrow.
"The way you were defiant just now was quite cute, a bit like a child." Lin Yuehua's eyes were like crescent moons.
(End of this chapter)