Dragon Clan: They're all insane, and you still want me to slay dragons?

"Clap clap clap!"

Xia Mi clapped her hands and commented on Gao Kui's acting: "Wonderful! Brother Ai, your cosplay of Sasuke is absolutely lifelike."

It fully expresses the hardships and struggles that Uchiha Sasuke experienced from childhood to adulthood. Every detail, from his eyes to his pose, is incredibly vivid and captivating.

In particular, his deliberately low voice is 90% similar to that of Noriaki Sugiyama, and coupled with his postmodern lines, it fully demonstrates his disdain for romantic relationships.

You deserve the Best Actor award. Congratulations, brother!

After rambling on about a bunch of award speeches, Xia Mi held a skewer of grilled gluten in both hands and handed it to Gao Kui like an award presenter. Then, she stood next to Gao Kui and gave him the formulaic smile of a stage host.

"thanks, thanks."

Gao Kui solemnly accepted the grilled gluten, adjusted the non-existent microphone in front of him: "First of all, I want to thank the judges for recognizing my acting skills, secondly..."

"Shadow!"

Chen Motong raised his hands and joined in the two's antics: "As for Uchiha Sasuke, Chu Zihang is clearly more like him, okay? I seriously suspect that the judging panel added too much subjective bias when deciding on the best actor."

"No, Gao Kui is more like him." Chu Zihang, who was suddenly involved, interjected, and he really thought so.

At first glance, Chu Zihang does resemble Uchiha Sasuke more; both are cool, aloof guys and dream lovers of countless girls. However, the quiet Gao Kui is also a static beauty.

Furthermore, aside from his cool and aloof persona, Sasuke also possesses the eccentric, manic state common to the Uchiha clan. In terms of eccentricity, no one has an advantage over Gao Kui.

"See? Senior Brother Chu has already admitted it. Besides, when it comes to judges, don't we all just rely on our subjective impressions to score?"

The group ate grilled gluten and laughed, quickly forgetting about the mermaid performance and changing topics at lightning speed.

Soon, all ten or so skewers of grilled gluten were gone. Xia Mi took out a wet wipe to clean her hands, then suddenly grabbed Gao Kui's wrist and pointed to the Ferris wheel: "The lights are on, the lights are on, let's go ride the Ferris wheel first."

Before she could finish speaking, Xia Mi had already dragged Gao Kui far away.

Chen Motong was slightly taken aback.

She had actually been looking for a suitable opportunity to ask everyone whether they wanted to go to the aquarium or the Ferris wheel first, and if they went to the Ferris wheel, how to allocate the seats.

If Xia Mi wants to sit in the same cabin as Gao Kui, should I give up my seat or not? If I don't, how should I phrase it so as not to create a tense atmosphere...?

But Xia Mi rendered all her careful consideration futile.

Without any calculations or concern for anyone's opinion, she simply pulled Gao Kui towards the Ferris wheel as soon as the neon lights came on, as if it were only natural for Gao Kui to ride the Ferris wheel with her and to be in the same double cabin.

Chapter 78 Ferris Wheel

Xia Mi pulled Gao Kui to the Ferris wheel ticket office.

“Junior sister, you…” Fingel threw away the skewer, rubbed oil on his body, and looked at Chen Motong, hesitating to speak.

You can't hide your feelings for someone. When you truly like someone, the way you treat that person will definitely be a little special.

Chen Motong may not truly like Gao Kui, but she has paid close attention to him, especially since leaving Nibelungen.

Two women vying for one man? A chaotic love triangle? Strictly speaking, neither of those can really be considered a love triangle.

Fingel really didn't know how to deal with the current situation.

“They’re riding the Ferris wheel, let’s go to the aquarium to see the mermaid show. I want to see just how beautiful the mermaid you’ve been talking about is, Senior Brother Finger.”

Chen Motong smiled and pointed confidently to the aquarium.

"Of course, no one is as pretty as you, Junior Sister Nuonuo. You are absolutely stunning, a beauty that could make fish sink and geese fall from the sky, a beauty that could shame the moon and flowers, a beauty that could topple kingdoms and be fragrant with the fragrance of the nation..." Fingel went on and on praising you.

"In the end, she still couldn't compete with Lin Daiyu who fell from the sky, right? Oh, it should be Shi Xiangyun, Xia Mi herself has claimed this identity..." Chen Motong complained self-deprecatingly.

Chu Zihang silently handed Chen Motong a wet wipe.

Chen Motong took the wet wipe, both amused and exasperated: "I'm not that fragile. This isn't a melodramatic soap opera; you're not going to act like you're going to die before anything's even happened..."

"Forget it, I feel like I'm making things worse by explaining. I'm going to see the mermaid show, are you guys coming?"

Without waiting for their reply, Chen Motong turned and walked towards the aquarium entrance.

"Junior Sister Nuonuo just tacitly acknowledged that she has some feelings for Junior Brother, right? No wonder they say that what you can't have is always the best."

If I didn't know that my junior brother wasn't that kind of person, I might have really suspected that he was playing hard to get.

Do you think Junior Sister Nuonuo will bring this up with Junior Brother...?

Fingel muttered to himself in a mournful tone, not expecting the aloof Chu Zihang to reply.

"I bet she won't."

Chu Zihang stared at Chen Motong's retreating figure, his eyes flickering.

"Um!?"

Unexpectedly, Fingal turned to look at Chu Zihang, stunned for a long time before asking, "How do you know?"

"Because she's afraid of losing it, and she has too many worries."

Chu Zihang remembered that Wong Kar-wai had made a movie called "Ashes of Time". The movie made the investors lose so much money that they ended up in the hospital. It is said that they even threatened to cut off one of Wong Kar-wai's hands.

At the end of that film, there is a scene where the no-longer-young Maggie Cheung holds a withered peach blossom and leans against the window, looking at her son, thinking of Leslie Cheung, whom she once loved, while Tony Leung, who admires her, sits beside her peeling a pear.

At the beginning of that scene, Tony Leung Ka-fai gave this narration: "Although I liked her very much, I never told her. Because I know that what you can't have is always the best."

Does Huang Yaoshi, played by Tony Leung Ka-fai, really believe that what you can't have is the best, which is why he doesn't tell Maggie Cheung that he likes her?

This question can be answered using another narration by Tony Leung Ka-fai in this scene.

"If feelings could be judged as a battle, I don't know if she won, but I know for sure that I lost from the very beginning."

Ashes of Time, In the Mood for Love, Chungking Express...

The characters in Wong Kar-wai's films are always reserved and passive when it comes to relationships, and Chu Zihang doesn't think Chen Motong is that kind of person.

What kind of girl was she? Chu Zihang didn't know, just as no one knew when the next Hercules meteor shower would arrive.

Chu Zihang knew that Chen Motong was definitely not the kind of girl who was too reserved to express her feelings. If she believed she had a chance of winning, she would never be so indecisive.

“Junior Brother Chu, I always feel that your inner monologue is rich enough to be edited into a movie.”

Chu Zihang stared at Chen Motong's back, while Fingel stared at Chu Zihang, seemingly getting to know this cold and cool guy all over again.

"Half of it."

Chu Zihang withdrew his gaze and took the opportunity to correct Fingel's conjecture. He had just mentally replaced the characters in many of Wong Kar-wai's films with Gao Kui and the other two, and then sewed them haphazardly.

We can make connections for the remaining half later.

Chu Zihang glanced back at the Ferris wheel adorned with neon lights, then pulled Fingel along to catch up with Chen Motong.

The Ferris wheel's enormous light wheel slowly emerged, its neon lights, like molten gold and flowing endlessly, illuminating the night.

Xia Mi knelt on the chair, her hands gripping the glass as she gazed at the lake below. The enormous, colorful outline of the lake was upside down and submerged in the water, becoming another shimmering glass mirror.

Gao Kui sat in his seat with a dazed look in his eyes, trying to recall whether the last girl who had accompanied him on the Ferris wheel was Takemi Tae, Niijima Makoto, or Mifune Chihaya.

In short, it wasn't Goro Akechi.

Ugh, I'm such a jerk, dating ten girls at the same time.

Before Gao Kui could recall who the last girl who accompanied him on the Ferris wheel was, the lively Xia Mi caught him red-handed.

Xia Mi handed Gao Kui the camera that Professor Guderian had given them before their departure, and with her back to the window, she made a V-sign with her fingers as she watched the myriad stars and raindrops splashing on the lake.

"Brother Ai, please take a picture for me."

Why take photos?

Why not take a picture?

Time flies, leaving us behind; the cherries have ripened and the plantains have turned green.

It is through transience that eternal freedom is achieved; it is precisely because of their fleeting nature that some beautiful things become unforgettable. If we could preserve a moment as eternity, it would lose its charm.

"That makes sense."

Xia Mi nodded in deep agreement, then asked, "Are you really that serious?"

"Half of it, the other half is that I think it's cool. Everyone else is busy taking pictures, trying to record the beautiful scenery, but you're the only one not taking pictures and just looking at the scenery all by yourself. Don't you think that's classy?"

Xia Mi retorted speechlessly, "If you don't say what you really think, you do have a certain air of superiority."

"Just tell me if you can show off or not."

"Yes, you can, but you still need to take photos."

Xia Mi gripped the railing and gazed at the water, her eyes gentle: "Actually, there's something I've never told you: I have a brother with dementia."

She's clearly older than me, but has the mental capacity of a six or seven-year-old. She's always called me "sister" since we were little. Do you know what it means to be an adult with the mental capacity of a child?

Gao Kui straightened his expression: "I know."

“I know you must know, brother.”

Xia Mi continued, "When he was little, it was alright. At that time, his intellectual development was delayed, but the gap between him and his peers was not that big. After he turned thirteen or fourteen, his intelligence really started to fall behind his peers, to the point that he would be called stupid even if he went out to buy something."

Actually, he's not stupid, and he doesn't have any of the physical characteristics of Down syndrome. He just has delayed mental development and only has the intelligence of a six or seven-year-old child.

I attended a boarding school in junior high and only went home every two weeks. Many times after school, I saw my brother being bullied in the neighborhood.

Every time I go home, I ask my brother who has bullied him, and then I go to each of their homes and beat them up.

Gradually, my brother only went out two or three times a month: when I came home from school, he would greet me at the entrance of the community with a chuckle, just like many people's golden retrievers that would jump up and chuckle as soon as they opened the door.

Those who had bullied my brother before would still take this opportunity to bully him, and as usual, I beat them up one by one.

You might think my brother is a burden, right?

But my brother is actually very sensible, even though he's not very intelligent. After I got into a few fights with those bad kids and caused trouble, he never went out again. It wasn't because he was afraid of being bullied, but because he was afraid of getting me into trouble.

Even if I want to take him out with me, to go shopping or to the amusement park, my brother will refuse. Actually, he really likes amusement parks. What child doesn't like amusement parks?

So I often go to amusement parks alone, ride the Ferris wheel and pirate ship, and take lots of nice photos to bring back to him, so my brother can also share the joy of going to amusement parks.

Chapter 79 Will You Like Me?

What does it mean if an adult has the intellectual capacity of a child?

Gao Kui understood everything; he understood everything.

“Your brother must be very lonely,” Gao Kui said softly.