For those who work in the fashion industry, beauty is the first of all principles.
And a person who is about to become a professional model doesn't even have decent clothes. This is simply a great crime.
Chu Muyu himself can't remember how long it has been since he took others out for shopping, but this time he made an exception again for a newcomer who just signed a contract, what a hell.
Inside a high-end store.
"Mr. Chu, this is our latest clothing series for this season." The female SA in uniform smiled and placed a thick album in front of Chu Muyu.
Sitting on the leather sofa in the VIP service room, Chu Muyu flipped through the album with interest, ordered two sets of clothes seemingly randomly, pointed to Nolan beside him and said to SA, "Take this Two sets, ask for his size."
"Do you need to try it on first?"
"No, just measure him directly." Chu Muyu took out a black card from his wallet and handed it to the smiling SA.
Nolan, with several question marks above his head, was pushed into the dressing room. After measuring the size data, Chu Muyu, who had been waiting at the door for a long time, tickled his fingers at him.
"Go, next one."
After visiting several luxury Line high-end clothing stores in a row, the SAs couldn't help recommending the new season's new styles when they saw Nolan. pocket.
To dress up Nolan, there is no need to choose any gorgeous and complicated clothes. The more neatly cut the clothes, the more able to highlight Nolan's temperament and advantages.
Putting on a set of outfits he just bought, Nolan was set off to be more refined and pleasing to the eye, revealing his sense of luxury and fashion.
"Are you buying too much?" Nolan shyly pinned his long hair behind his ears.
"..." Chu Muyu was stunned for a moment, and after careful calculation, he found that he had indeed exceeded the budget he had planned at the beginning, but Nolan was a born clothes hanger, and he couldn't bear to finish things sloppily. Chu Muyu coughed lightly, and pretended to be angry to cover up his embarrassment, "Who told you to go out without clothes?"
Mermaids usually don't need to wear clothes. Nolan thought aggrievedly.
The two of them returned to the apartment in the center of Chumu Island with a bunch of paper bags. Nolan was finally able to sit on the sofa and rest, liberating his sore feet.
Chu Muyu's apartment is located on the 18th floor, standing at the floor-to-ceiling windows, overlooking the night view of the most prosperous part of the city. The house has an open layout, except for the two bedrooms and the bathroom, all spaces can be seen at a glance. The decoration style of the whole apartment is highly compatible with Chu Muyu himself. It is a modern style with warm gray as the main color. In the living room, there are many artworks collected by Chu Muyu from all over the world.
Seeing the night fall outside the window, Chu Muyu, who had changed into home clothes and came out, remembered that his dinner hadn't arrived yet. He opened the refrigerator and rummaged through the ingredients in the refrigerator, thinking about what to cook for himself.
"Nolan," Chu Muyu asked Nolan who was sitting on the sofa, "What do you usually like to eat?"
Nolan turned around and looked at Chu Muyu who was wearing an apron in the kitchen, and replied honestly, "I usually eat a lot of lobster."
Chu Muyu closed the refrigerator door, with an expression of not being able to hear clearly, wondering if the kid was poor and stupid in a small fishing village, and asked, "What shrimp?"
"Lobster." Nolan spread out his hands and gestured, "About this big lobster meat is the sweetest. It's delicious raw or grilled with sea salt."
"..." Chu Muyu felt as if he had been severely slapped in the face. He took off the apron he had just put on and called the hotel to ask them to send a sashimi platter.
Do people from small fishing villages usually grow up eating lobsters? Chu Muyu couldn't help but began to doubt his life. He sat next to Nolan and looked at him closely.
Nolan's exquisite appearance and smooth long hair are indeed not like those fishermen in the small fishing village.
"Could it be the young master of some family who came out to play tickets?" Chu Muyu became more and more suspicious as he thought about it.
Nolan froze, sat up straight involuntarily, shook his head and said, "How can I be a young master like this." At most, I am just a mermaid prince in the sea.
This thin skin and tender meat is nothing like it. Chu Muyu groaned. Seeing that Nolan's right cheek was slightly red and shed a thin layer of skin, he knew it must be because his skin was too delicate and sunburned. Chu Muyu walked into her room without saying a word, took out two bottles and stuffed them into Nolan's hands.
"This bottle is for after-sun repair, you can wash your face later and apply it quickly. This bottle is sunscreen, remember to apply it before going out tomorrow."
Nolan only felt that the right side of his face was hot and painful, but he didn't know that the skin that had been lurking underwater all year round could not withstand the sun exposure so much. He touched the thing Chu Muyu handed him preciously, feeling warm in his heart.
"Thank you. You are as gentle as ever."
Chu Muyu seemed to have heard some unbelievable words, and laughed at herself, "Gentle? I am not gentle at all. The only reason I treat you now is because you can make me money."
"Lie, you are obviously not that kind of person." Nolan explained his lie in one sentence.
A person's tenderness can never be expressed by the effort of the mouth, but the warmth that is inadvertently revealed in the eyes.
In Nolan's heart, Chu Muyu has always been a gentle existence, whether it's buying him clothes or handing him sunscreen now, or the one who fished him ashore five years ago and helped him untie the seaweed wrapped around his body. , Chu Muyu's tenderness is always from the heart and meticulous.
Even though Chu Muyu always disguised himself with a cynical attitude, Nolan could still feel that Chu Muyu's heart had never changed.
Chu Muyu squeezed his face amusedly, "You've only known me for a long time, so don't act like you see through me."
Nolan rubbed his painfully pinched face, and said in disbelief, "I said that we have known each other for a long time, but you just forgot about me."
"Really." Chu Muyu lowered his eyes, his expression revealing a trace of loneliness.
Chu Muyu couldn't remember most of what happened five years ago.
His only clear memory is that after waking up in the hospital, the doctor told him that when he was surfing on Kejia Island, he encountered a storm and was overturned in the sea. Fortunately, he was rescued in time. Although he was in a coma for more than a week, But the body recovered well and did not leave any sequelae.
The person who rescued him was Qi Chuan, who later became his ex-boyfriend.
At that time, Chu Muyu established a relationship with Qi Chuan with a grateful attitude. First, he started as a friend, eating occasionally, and making an appointment for a movie on weekends. After getting acquainted, Qi Chuan confessed his love to him, and he agreed without thinking too much up.
I can't say I like it, but I don't hate it. Even if I become a lover, it seems that my life is the same as before.
Qi Chuan moved into his house as a matter of course, and the two embraced each other to sleep every night, just like ordinary couples slowly getting along in life. Qi Chuan got bored with his previous job, so he took Qi Chuan on the path of a professional model and helped him become one of the first-line models in China. Qi Chuan suffered from stomach problems and could not eat too greasy food, so he learned to cook by himself and arranged Qi Chuan's three meals a day. When Qi Chuan was tired and sick, he took care of him personally; when Qi Chuan was depressed and sad, he also accompanied Qi Chuan.
But Qi Chuan broke up saying that Chu Muyu didn't love him.
If it wasn't love, what was it that he did? Chu Muyu often asks himself this way. He didn't know whether he loved Qi Chuan or not, and his heart always felt empty, as if something was missing. Every time he dreams back at midnight, he always dreams of some broken pictures.
The waves as high as two people, the sea water pouring into the mouth and nose, the air bubbles squeezed out from the lungs, the bottomless sea blue... and a pair of hands that supported him to float back to the surface.
He has always firmly believed that those hands belonged to Qi Chuan, and insisted that he loved Qi Chuan based on this creed, but when Qi Chuan terminated the contract and went to MG company, he didn't even feel the slightest pain in his heart.
"You are the most ruthless person in the world." The last time Qi Chuan met him at a restaurant, Qi Chuan commented on him like this. "You always shut me out and don't want me to touch your heart."
Chu Muyu shook the red wine in the glass, and said, "I love you."
"You just take repaying your favor as a gift." Qi Chuan smiled bitterly, "Fortunately, I just use you as a springboard, so let's treat it as if we owe each other nothing."
After Qi Chuan left, Sun Yiling knew these things from nowhere. He laughed at Chu Muyu, laughing that he had raised a white-eyed wolf for more than a year because he didn't know people clearly.
Maybe just like what Qi Chuan said, Chu Muyu doesn't love him, and agreeing to all the requests made by Qi Chuan is just to repay his kindness. Chu Muyu has been worrying about gains and losses for a long time, and tried to indulge himself for a while to numb himself, but the more he lived a life of feasting and feasting, the more empty he felt inside. When he woke up again from the dream of falling into the deep sea, he felt the wetness on his cheek.
He seemed to have really forgotten something, the most important thing to him.
The memory was interrupted by a hand on his forehead, and Chu Muyu came back to look at Nolan, only to see him looking at her worriedly, and took away the hand that touched his forehead to feel the warmth.
"Are you not feeling well somewhere, and you seem to be in a bad mood." Nolan asked him.
"No." Chu Muyu stroked the drooping bangs with his hands, trying to make himself look more energetic.
"You must speak up if you feel uncomfortable, you know." Nolan urged.
"It's good if you can take good care of yourself." Chu Muyu sneered.
Nolan looked straight at him, and the slightly elevated gaze gave Chu Muyu a little oppressive feeling. Nolan looked at him with a lot of emotions that he couldn't understand, like a pool of deep water, and the ripples made him feel an inexplicable throbbing.
Chu Muyu had a feeling that Nolan might kiss him if they kept looking at each other like this.
"Ahem." Chu Muyu pushed Nolan away who was leaning over, and said awkwardly, "You are tired today, so go to bed early. If you want to take a bath, there is a bathtub in the bathroom."
"Is there a bathtub?!" Nolan's eyes lit up, and he was successfully distracted. After staying on the shore all day, Nolan felt like he was about to become a dried fish.
Seeing his expectant face, Chu Muyu sighed resignedly, got up and walked towards the bathroom.
"I'll get you some water."