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Chapter 787: Chapter 331: The First Day of the 217th Year, Visiting the Gu Family House
Normally, New Year’s Day is a holiday when no classes are scheduled in schools, but Su Huai was even busier.
On the morning of the 1st, the Imperial Capital finally saw its second snowfall of the winter.
The classmates from the Big Data class had agreed to go to Jingshan to play, and early in the morning, they started chirping in the chat group.
Su Huai was puzzled: Seemingly out of nowhere, why did they suddenly make plans?
After lurking in the group chat for a while, he realized that the girls wanted to take photos, so they were feverishly flattering the boys and luring them as free labor.
Huang Mengting: "Brother Da Gao, Brother Ergao, without your protection, I’d feel so scared..."
The brothers were hooked, smiling foolishly, "Don’t worry, leave security to us!"
Ding Yi: "@Su Huai, class president, can you come?"
Chen Lan: "@Su Huai, it’s a group event, we can’t do it without you, come on, hurry!"
Su Huai held his breath, kept quiet, and didn’t bite no matter how they mentioned him.
Sorry, I’m in North America, just off the plane, thanks for the invite.
Then before long, the phone calls came flooding in.
He put his phone on silent, tossed it to the side, and later, if anyone asked, he would say he was in a meeting.
Except Gu, of course.
Indeed, she also called Su Huai shortly after, and once he answered, he understood everything, chuckling, "You don’t feel like going either?"
"Where do I have the time? You’re not allowed to go either."
Su Huai grumbled at her: "The snow hasn’t stopped yet, and the weather forecast says it’s going to be heavy this time. Why are you joining in the fuss? Just stay at home! It hasn’t even been a few days since you were sick—do you think you can float around now?"
"Oh!"
Gu Jiuyue agreed in a cutesy way, but she still had her sneaky little plans.
"But the house will definitely be crowded today, it’s going to be so boring..."
Su Huai understood and after thinking for a moment, came up with a new idea: "Then come to work with me? I can set up a little stool beside my desk, and you can play the role of my secretary~~~"
"That means I’ll have to really work, right?" 𝔫𝖔𝔳𝔭𝔲𝔟.𝖈𝔬𝔪
Her tone was already quite excited, yet she still pretended to be unsure.
Su Huai laughed: "No need, you’ll just be in charge of looking pretty and intimidating those thoughtless female anchors of mine."
Gou Dongxi really knew what she liked to hear, and Gu was immediately taken in.
"Then okay, I’ll accompany you for a little while~~~"
"Fine, then you come pick me up in the business car."
Gou Huai didn’t want to drive those two supercars, so Sister Wu drove the family Bentley with Wang Andy and Quanquan to join Gu Jiuyue in picking him up at the hotel.
He had slept at the Fragrance Place presidential suite the previous day, Senior Sister Yan had returned to school, and his good daughter hadn’t come either—it was a clean Huai, through and through.
Once he got in the car, Su Huai was amused by Gu.
She was wearing a hooded cloak, with a light-colored fur fabric, layered over a jacket, a fleece, and a high-neck thermal shirt—wrapped in three layers.
Beside her, Quanquan was just in one coat, with a shirt and long skirt underneath, the two of them were clearly not living in the same season.
Su Huai smiled, and Gu knew at once what was funny.
"She can withstand the cold... I can’t, just looking at her feels chilly."
Quanquan lifted her chest proudly, "That’s right, the winters in our place are like magic attacks; I’ve been resisting them since I was born!"
Su Huai had no interest in discussing which region had colder winters, nor did he want Gu to copy her, so he teased: "Stop showing off, it’s all flatland, you resist the cold with fat, or with your ribs, right?"
"Ah!"
Quanquan almost died of anger, her face flushed red as she strenuously explained: "Don’t you know that actresses look ten pounds heavier on camera? I control my weight for my artistic dream! My female classmates are not even bigger than me!"
The phrase "artistic dream" made Gou Huai burst into laughter.
"Giggle... hahaha... pfft!"
The last sound was him trying and failing to hold back the laughter.
Gou Huai gave Quanquan a sidelong glance: "Come on, explain to me, how exactly do ’artistic dreams’ relate to you?"
"I..."
Quanquan still wanted to be stubborn, but it lasted only a moment before she deflated, and her straight back slumped.
"What can I do if I just can’t learn?"
Gou Huai was about to press on when Gu felt sorry for her, embraced her and coaxed: "It’s okay Quanquan, don’t be sad. We won’t stoop to the level of clueless guys. We’ll take our time, there’s plenty of opportunities~~~"
"Opportunities? Forget it, I have no expectations!"
Quanquan slumped there like a salted fish, both deflated and adorable.
"It’s useless with just opportunities! My face and acting can’t hold up, it’s pointless, don’t worry about me..."
So Gu looked at Su Huai reproachfully, as if to say: Look what you’ve done, why did you have to bully her?
Su Huai wasn’t just trying to bully her, though; he wanted to gauge her real thoughts.
Planning to pile loads of resources and lots of thought onto her, it was essential to confirm her own drive and desired career path, right?
Otherwise, it would be all too easy to build up her fame, and then she ditches for the entertainment industry—the idea alone was enough to make his blood boil...
Now it seemed she was quite sensible.
However, Gu Jiuyue didn’t realize that Su Huai was probing her on purpose and quite innocently wondered: "How can resources be useless? Those top stars now—I don’t see much acting skill, and yet they’re still popular, aren’t they?"
"That’s different."
Quanquan shook her head and babble at her.
"The entertainment industry is not lacking in pretty fresh faces, you can find plenty, but what’s needed is that distinctive kind of beauty.
Like you, in real life, anyone who sees you stops and feels stunned, ’Wow! How can there be such a beautiful girl?’
But we’ve seen the video from your birthday, and in the video, you don’t look as beautiful, it’s not just because you’re not photogenic—more importantly, your face is too delicate and too perfect, lacking recognition. Plus, because your expressions are limited, dynamic beauty is not fully showcased, which makes the final on-camera result just average."
