On Jiang Xiaozhen's first day at university, He Yu asked for leave to pick her up.
The skill of painting has already brought income to He Yu. In the past two years, he saved money and bought a car by himself after taking the driver's license test.
Seeing He Yu getting off the driver's seat, Jiang Xiaozhen couldn't help but wonder: "What have you done these two years?"
Seeing Jiang Xiaozhen, He Yu was equally amazed: "What did you do to your face?"
A round face with a large washbasin, gray in the dead white, a layer of pink floating on the surface of the cheeks; thick eyebrows, as if drawn with a brush; black glue covering the eyes, a thick one One, as clear as how many can be counted.
"I figured I'd go to college and get dressed up and learn a bit about makeup from my mom."
Jiang Xiaozhen smiled at He Yu stiffly, obviously struggling to blink her eyes.
"Before I got off the train, I had to touch up my makeup several times. Don't you think... don't look good?"
He Yu scratched the back of his neck, but did not answer.
Jiang Xiaozhen read what he meant.
After getting in the car, after driving for a while, she turned to ask him.
"Is there any water in your car? I'm so uncomfortable, let's just wipe it off."
He Yu handed Jiang Xiaozhen an unopened bottle of mineral water.
Taking out the tissue in her pocket, she wet the tissue with water and rubbed it roughly on her face.
Stopping at a red light, He Yu looked at Jiang Xiaozhen and was startled by her face.
The makeup was scratched, and her whole figure was like a ghost crawling out of an overturned palette.
Jiang Xiaozhen "hissed" in pain. She used too much force to wipe her face as a table, and after this ruthless rubbing, her face was burning with pain.
"Is this how you remove makeup?" He Yu felt uncomfortable for her.
"No," recalling her mother's usual practice, Jiang Xiaozhen said in detail: "There must be makeup remover, makeup remover oil, and makeup remover cotton."
"Didn't you bring it?"
Jiang Xiaozhen shook her head.
"Then don't rub it, I'll take you to the mall to buy some." He Yu turned around.
So Jiang Xiaozhen, who came to meet He Yu with full makeup on the train carefully, received the first gift from He Yu when they met for the first time, which was a set of makeup remover products.
When they were shopping, the cabinet sister was helping a girl make up.
Big eyes, a straight nose, a cute little cherry mouth, every touch of color added to the girl's face by makeup is just icing on the cake.
He Yu stared at the beautiful girl intently.
There was a handsome guy standing behind him, the girl was shy and timid, she looked into the mirror from time to time, and the voice of communicating with the cabinet sister was much louder.
Jiang Xiaozhen glanced at them. Then, she took out the products she bought at the counter and silently removed her makeup in front of the mirror.
Get back in the car.
Jiang Xiaozhen kept looking in the mirror.
Compared to when she saw him before, she talked less.
"Jiang Xiaozhen," He Yu asked bluntly, "You don't seem very happy?"
"Is there?" She rubbed the edge of the small mirror, looking at herself in the mirror with a sad face.
Probably because she worked so hard to put on makeup and wiped it all off, so she felt a pity. He Yu guessed so, and asked Jiang Xiaozhen: "Do you have any cosmetics?"
"I brought it."
While talking, they reached their destination.
He Yu parked the car and proposed tentatively.
"Or..."
He unbuckled his seat belt and leaned closer suddenly.
Jiang Xiaozhen shrank back subconsciously.
He stared straight into her face, she swallowed, her frightened eyeballs kept rolling.
"Let me try and make up for you."
"Ah?" It took a while to react, Jiang Xiaozhen nodded: "Okay."
She spread her makeup bag on her lap, full of makeup from her mother.
Facing those bottles and jars, He Yu asked one by one what they were used for.
"You said you were going to help me with makeup, I thought you knew about this." Jiang Xiaozhen suddenly felt that He Yu was not very reliable.
"I don't understand at all." He picked up a plate of sparkling powder and recalled how he saw it in the mall just now. After taking some with his finger, he was going to wipe it on Jiang Xiaozhen's eyes.
Even though she only learned half-baked tricks from her mother, she also saw that He Yu's approach was wrong.
"You need to put on the foundation first, and then the eye shadow?" Jiang Xiaozhen dodged his hand.
He Yu listened to her very much, and went to look for it immediately: "Which foundation is it?"
"Forget it..." Jiang Xiaozhen sighed: "Makeup can't save me, my mother is very good at makeup, she can't do anything with my face."
He Yu didn't like to see her give up on herself, so she took out the foundation and held it in her hand.
"Maybe I'm better than your mother?"
He got the theory from nowhere, and he is full of confidence: "I can draw, and people who are good at drawing can also have good makeup skills."
She had no choice but to trust him.
Jiang Xiaozhen's big face became He Yu's canvas.
She doesn't have a sponge egg for makeup brushes, and he paints all the base makeup by hand.
The ice-cold foundation, the ice-cold concealer, his hands are warm, but the temperature of her skin is different. Jiang Xiaozhen's whole body was tense, her eyes were tightly closed, she was extremely uncomfortable.
Sensing that He Yu hadn't moved for a while, she opened her eyes a little bit.
There was not enough light in the car, and He Yu's chin was held up by He Yu's index finger. His eyes wandered over her face, sizing up her facial features carefully.
Jiang Xiaozhen was also watching him quietly.
I can smell the reassuring, light scent of soap on his body. Being so close, I feel that his eyebrows and eyes are exquisite. His long eyelashes covered his eyes, and he tilted his head slightly, looking thoughtful.
"Close."
Hearing this, she quickly closed her mouth.
"I mean the eyes."
"oh."
Her peeps were discovered.
"Do you want to turn on the air conditioner?"
With his eyes fixed on her cheeks, he said, "You look a little hot."
With her eyes closed, Jiang Xiaozhen shook her head vigorously, her face blushing even more.
The last step is to apply lipstick.
He Yu announced that the work was done, and Jiang Xiaozhen could open her eyes.
He handed her the mirror.
Holding the mirror and looking left and right, Jiang Xiaozhen's expression didn't seem very good.
"..."
He Yu was scratching his head, preparing to admit to her that painting is different from makeup, and that he is indeed not skilled enough.
"Puchi."
Unable to hold back anymore, pointing at the mirror, Jiang Xiaozhen burst out laughing.
"I'm so ugly!"
He Yu fiddled with it for a long time, and it was even uglier than the one she made herself before.
After careful drawing, he made her eyes smaller, her skin more yellow, her nose more collapsed, and her mouth was red enough. In this way, at a glance, her face is an earth-colored desert where not a single blade of grass grows, and that extraordinarily bright red mouth is like a ferocious piranha, grabbing the focus of attention and making it unforgettable.
"My face is really amazing! How can I be so ugly?"
She couldn't stop laughing, winking at herself in the mirror, amused by her own ugliness.
He Yu looked at Jiang Xiaozhen, wanting to make an objective evaluation of her appearance.
Close at hand, she rolled her eyes and grinned her teeth, her giggling sound was like a crowing chicken.
This is Jiang Xiaozhen. Her smile was so bright, and she looked so vivid, with tiny bits of soft light on her face.
"You are not ugly..." he murmured.
Jiang Xiaozhen believed that he was a ghost.
"Don't comfort me," she patted him on the shoulder, joking with him in a good mood: "Doctor, I know you tried your best."
In the end, Jiang Xiaozhen didn't take off her makeup again, and walked into her university campus with this face on her face.
Everyone in the Academy of Fine Arts seems to be better looking than ordinary people.
And Jiang Xiaozhen was not overwhelmed by the brilliance of handsome men and beautiful women at all.
Among the crowd, she was the ugliest and most outstanding.
No matter how beautiful the beauty is, people only see her at first glance.