If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

The Aston Martin parked under an old locust tree on the side of the road and turned off the engine. The passenger door was open, but Lin Nian in the seat was still fiddling with the bottles and cans in the vanity box.

The place where Li Huoyue parked his car seemed to be adjacent to a park, surrounded by pagoda trees and willows. Not far from the parking spot was a long corridor, under which was an open-air tea room. A group of old men from Beijiao played a life-and-death game on the chessboard with cattail fans.

Li Huoyue in the driver's seat has already left first to borrow water to remove makeup and wash her face. No girl would be as bold as her to find a place on the street to borrow water to remove makeup. Perhaps for her, there has always been no difference between makeup and no makeup, a typical practical thinking.But why is it that Lin Nian, who seems to be basically insulated from makeup, has such delicate gadgets in her makeup box?
Lin Nian picked up two small iron gadgets that looked like drumsticks in the vanity box and fiddled with them for a while. After recalling its technique, he wiped off some dust and impurities on them with a wet tissue, and put them aside for later use.

It can be seen that these expensive gadgets in the cosmetic box are not often used. Judging from the date of production and the amount of use, their owners may often forget them in a corner of the house, and only take them out to see the light of day for a short period of time on special occasions. La Mer's cream, Sisley's lotion, La Prairie's essence, and the little things for facial care are already expensive. Should it be said that girls never save money on their own skin?
But Lin Nian felt that Li Huoyue did not buy these things by herself, because judging by her eyeliner and eyebrow thrush skills, she is more like the type who finds a well-reviewed cosmetics store and buys everything from beginning to end in one go, so she would not be so picky about choosing such a luxurious and exquisite cosmetics combination from more than 20 brands.

NARS blush, Tom Ford eyeshadow palette, Guerlain meteor powder, and some familiar brand names that even Lin Nian has never heard of. He has seen many things in Su Xiaoqiang’s shopping cart. When a girl compares this with that and asks him which one is better, it is difficult for a person like him who is serious and has a good memory not to memorize these things that he may never use in his life when he is looking for information and quality control.

But you see, the phrase "never say never (don't say it will never happen, don't say it will never be done)" still has its truth. Who would have thought that one day he would see them in another girl's makeup box and try to use them?
When Li Huoyue, who was carrying a plastic bag of ice water, stood on the road next to the co-pilot again, she saw Lin Nian in the co-pilot's seat who had opened the door, rubbing a strangely shaped piece of jade. It was dark green in color and had a clear and transparent appearance. The stripes inside were winding like a dragon. Judging from various characteristics, it should be a piece of Hetian jade of good quality.

"What are you doing?" Li Huoyue asked Lin Nian while holding the ice water.

"Have you brought the ice water I wanted?" Lin Nian asked.

Li Huoyue raised the ice water as a signal, then turned her head to look at the other corner of the park, "I bought it at 7-11, are the ice cubes for making ice coke okay?"

"Food-grade ice is fine, as long as it's clean." Lin Nian wiped the Hetian jade board with a paper towel and put it aside. "Is this scraping board given to you by the person who gave you cosmetics?"

"Scraping board?" Li Huoyue handed the ice water plastic bag to Lin Nian with some doubts, and the latter hung it on the rearview mirror.

"Don't you know this is a scraping board?" Lin Nian put the two small metal mallets he found in the cosmetics into an ice water bag to cool down.

Li Huoyue was silent for a moment and said, "Are you joking?"

"Are you kidding me?" Lin Nian asked strangely.

"Don't fool me that I don't understand anything, this is a piece of evil jade." Li Huoyue pointed at the Hetian jade board very coldly and stiffly, "The person who gave it to me asked me to put it in the cosmetic box, so that I can exorcise those cosmetics and ensure that they will not deteriorate."

Lin Nian stared at Li Huoyue and squinted his eyes until the girl turned her head a little bit to avoid his sight before saying, "I only believe the first part of the second half of your sentence. It should indeed appear in the makeup box. The latter part should be your own misinterpretation, right?"

Li Huoyue opened her mouth, as if recalling her memory, then closed her mouth and remained silent.

"It's just a scraping board. In a literal sense, the scraping board understood by normal people should be used for facial contouring in terms of shape and texture." Lin Nian picked up the scraping board to compare its arc, and glanced at Li Huoyue's jawline. "Well, it's a model specially hand-polished for you. It can help you maintain the beautiful lines of the face and sculpt the facial area. Long-term use has the effect of scraping bones, including but not limited to moisturizing the skin, promoting blood circulation and dehumidification."

"how do you know"

"My girlfriend also has one." Lin Nian interrupted Li Huoyue's powerless retort, "Her piece is a Bianstone slab. The price and texture are definitely not as good as your Hetian jade, but the Sha effect is faster than yours, and the dehumidification effect is better. It is more suitable for her skin and body. I can see her using it every morning. If she is going to stay up late, she will use it after moisturizing before going to bed."

"." Li Huoyue accepted the reality with silence.

Lin Nian fiddled with the Hetian jade board, "You put such a good thing in your makeup box and use it as mothballs? It's a pity that my girlfriend has been looking for a jade scraping board to distinguish morning and night from the Bianstone one, but it's a pity that I haven't found a good nourishing jade material on the market."

"If you like, I can give it to your girlfriend." Li Huoyue said.

"Forget it, as I said before, this piece of Hetian jade is made according to the shape of your face. The person who gave it to you put a lot of effort into it. You should cherish it more."

"You must be a good boyfriend." Li Huoyue said in a rather stiff tone.

Her voice was a bit muffled and unhappy, but it wasn't an aversion to Lin Nian. Rather than aversion, it might be better to describe it as discouraged. There was a feeling that she lost to the secret party's 'S' class for no reason.

"Thank you." Lin Nian paused and looked up at him. Let's just take this as a compliment. The recognition from the orthodox "Yue" is not easy. I didn't expect that I didn't get the other party's recognition on the battlefield. Instead, it was this strange place that was recognized.

He put down the Hetian jade, picked up the cosmetic case that had been packed and arranged for use, and was about to get off the car, "Let it be."

Li Huoyue paused for a moment, looked up and saw Lin Nian who got out of the car quickly, her body obediently got out of the way, but her eyes were still looking at the small box in Lin Nian's hand, her eyes showed hesitation and she asked in a low voice, "Can't make-up be allowed in the car?"

"The light is not good and the location is narrow. Your final makeup must be exposed to natural light. It is best to apply it in a place with sufficient light."

"...Why do you look like a makeup artist rather than a commissioner of the Secret Party." Li Huoyue asked in a deep voice.

"Because the commissioners of the Secret Party have more or less taken some makeup classes for camouflage and lurking, it is a pity that no matter how much makeup is used, it is difficult to achieve the human skin mask technology in "Mission: Impossible", so this class is not a credit, and there are no more professional advanced courses." Lin Nian got out of the car and looked around.

But Li Huoyue seemed to have known his thoughts in advance. When he took a step forward, his right arm was firmly stuck like a pliers, which made him look sideways at Li Huoyue in confusion, "What are you doing?"

"Not going there." Li Huoyue said.

"There's a place to sit over there, the light is pretty good, and the scenery is good. Give me a reason not to go there." Lin Nian has always been convincing people with reasoning. If you have any different opinions, you can put them out and discuss them. Whoever has reason can tell others to do it.

"There are a lot of people there, and I don't like places with a lot of people." Li Huoyue said.

"You don't seem to be socially phobic." Lin Nian looked Li Huoyue up and down for his pertinent evaluation, "I don't think you have crowd phobia, it doesn't fit your personality."

"Make-up is a private matter and cannot be done in crowded places." Li Huoyue said again.

Lin Nian was silent for a moment, then retracted the steps he had taken, and also retracted the iron hand that grabbed him, which could only chop pure-blooded dragons alive.

"Do you want to open a room?" He said the words of tiger and wolf.

"There's not enough time." Li Huoyue glanced at the DB lady's watch on her wrist. Lin Nian glanced at it and found that the watch was wrong except for the time and date, which meant that this watch would not be adjusted for a long time and appeared on her wrist.

So the person who gave her these things and the person she is going to wear these things to meet today are the same person. It is quite romantic to meet her in the way others expect you to be.And no matter who this person is, Lin Nian thinks that the other person's taste is particularly good, and whatever is given to Li Huoyue is the most suitable thing for her, even though she doesn't like to use it.

But is it also possible that behind the scenes of giving these things, the other party also hopes to use this method to subtly make some changes to this girl?Lin Nian didn't know, and didn't continue to think too much, because this shouldn't be his concern.

"If you don't mind, you can just draw here." Lin Nian put the cosmetic box on the hood of the Aston Martin and opened it. He took a car mat from the car seat and spread it on the floor to signal Li Huoyue to sit down.

Li Huoyue was a little hesitant, but putting on makeup on the spot seemed to be a good choice. They were under an old locust tree, which occupied most of the side of the road, separating them from the sidewalk behind them. With their backs against the old locust tree, all they faced was the road lined with blooming locust trees, the red wall opposite, and the traffic coming and going.

She took another look at the time on her watch. As she said, their time is indeed running out. Calculated the distance, they still have at most half an hour of makeup time.

"Wash your hands first, and apply lotion yourself. If you do it quickly, half an hour is enough, as long as you cooperate." Lin Nian leaned over and took a few bottles of mineral water and lotion from the car and handed them out, and then brought up the ice water bag that he hung on the rearview mirror. He turned around and looked at the girl who was sitting on the side of the locust tree stepping on autumn leaves and said, "What are you doing?"

Li Huoyue rubbed her face with toner as if washing her face with both hands, fixed her eyes on Lin Nian countless times and fell into a speechless silence, and finally said, "You asked me to apply lotion."

Oh, apply lotion, I thought you were washing your face.

Lin Nian hung the water bag on the rearview mirror again, took out a piece of soft cotton from the cosmetic box, and held it between his fingers. He stepped forward and squatted under the road sill. Because of his height, he squatted shallowly at the same height as the girl sitting on the roadside. He took the toner and moistened the soft cotton, and reached out to Li Huoyue's face.

Li Huoyue subconsciously leaned back, Lin Nian stopped and looked at her straight, without saying anything, until the other party slowly sat up straight again, but looked elsewhere.

"Remember to keep smiling and relax your face. This will help you apply makeup. If you are not used to it and feel strange, close your eyes." Lin Nian raised his hand from Li Huoyue's side cheeks and gently brushed the fair skin after washing from top to bottom, trying to wake up the skin with appropriate strength.

"I can't laugh." Li Huoyue said.

"What color do you like?" Lin Nian combed along the girl's slender neck the fluff that looked snow-white in the trivial sunlight exposed by the shade of the trees.

"...does it matter?"

"Just give me an answer." It doesn't matter what color Li Huoyue likes, the important thing is that Lin Nian uses chatting to distract her and make her muscles less tense.

"." Li Huoyue was silent, maybe no one in her life had asked her these insignificant and strange questions, which made it somewhat difficult for her to answer these questions the first time she faced them.

"I won't laugh at you if you answer pink. Although many girls around me publicize that they like red or milky white, their dormitories are all pink in private."

"blue."

"Close your eyes and imagine that there is only blue in this world, blue everywhere."

"No, this will make people very uncomfortable. No one likes a world full of blue." Li Huoyue said, "What I like does not mean that I want to make the whole world what it is. Excessive blue will make people feel depressed, causing diseases such as decline in motivation and psychological depression. Everything has polarity."

"All I want is for you to indulge yourself, indulge in some endless fantasies, imagine the absurdity of those things if they really exist, and look for some omens from it. If you can, reflect some things that your soul may desire in the deepest part of your soul from the omens."

"You're talking philosophy to me."

"This is not philosophy, this is poetry, the poetry of Louise Krieger. I joined the literary club for a while in high school. The president of our literary club likes these cold and introspective things."

"I can't see that you like literature." Li Huoyue opened his eyes.

"I don't like literature. Few people really like literature. Most people like only the derivatives around literature. I don't deny that literature itself is indeed beautiful and obscure, but it is precisely because of its obscurity that it is difficult to truly understand its original beauty. Most of us like literature, but we like those rare derivatives that are attracted by the obscure beauty of literature. We cannot understand literature, but we can easily understand those beautiful things that are truly attracted by literature. They are also based on the beauty born of literature and loved by us ignorant people."

Lin Nian said lightly, while he was talking, he carefully tapped the skin around Li Huoyue's eyes. Compared with the previous violent rubbing by the other party, Lin Nian's technique was more delicate and non-aggressive. Instead of manipulating the skin, he adapted to the skin and weighed the moisture on it to make decisions on increase or decrease.

"Your girlfriend is from the high school literature club." Li Huoyue concluded with eyes closed.

"Yes, but only half of the truth. The sample I cite in this example is not me, but my friend. His girlfriend is from the high school literature club, and he joined the literature club because of that girl." Lin Nian denied this. in conclusion.

"Then why did you join the literature club if you don't like literature?"

"Because my friend joined the literary club."

"You like your friend?"

Lin Nian put away the hand that applied milk to Li Huoyue, and scratched his forehead lightly expressionlessly, thinking about whether to draw a big face for this girl, so that she could embarrass her severely in front of the people she cared about.

But after thinking about it, the bronze sword box is still in the trunk, and I can't open the trunk door without the car key. In the end, the other party probably cut me with a knife. It's a bit of a disadvantage, so let's forget it.

After he put on the lotion, he took out the bag of ice water from the co-pilot. Li Huoyue sat under the locust tree and opened his eyes. Looking at his movements, he had a good habit of asking questions when he didn't understand, and asked calmly, "What is ice water used for?"

Lin Nian took out the pair of small metal drumsticks from the ice water bag, "Cool down."

Li Huoyue stared at the pair of small drumsticks in Lin Nian's hand without saying a word.

"Let me guess, you usually use this pair of freezing balls to promote your blood circulation and lymphatic drainage to help the concealer spread more easily, right? Instead of using it to beat your back?" Lin Nian took the freezing balls and made a drumming motion, "Anyway, no matter how strange the usage is, I don't think it's so weird that I use them to play or something."

Li Huoyue looked away, everyone could see that there was a guilty conscience hidden under her cold mood, at least Lin Nian was right that this thing had at least one wrong use in her hands.

"Turn towards me a little bit."

Lin Nian stopped teasing her, and squatted in front of Li Huoyue holding the pair of cold drumsticks. When he gently pressed the girl's skin against the girl's skin, the other party shrank a little due to the temperature, but fortunately, he restrained the conditioned reflex to dodge, and stood still in place trembling slightly.

"You have a good foundation, so I won't give you some special makeup, just do a simple 'no makeup look'." He said.

"What is no makeup look?" Li Huoyue felt the pressure of the cold hammer ball rolling down the gap between the apple muscles and the bridge of the nose on her face. This unique feeling made her feel novel and sensitive at the same time, and tried to use dialogue to distract herself from her uncomfortable psychology.

"Increases the definition of face lines and your own features, makes you look more striking, gives the best impression of who you are with the least effort, a little more hassle than normal heavy makeup, but it should work well, because it is only suitable for people with good foundation, such as you."

"Do you often give people makeup?" Li Huoyue closed her eyes and asked in a low voice. In order to reduce her psychological burden, she said a lot of things that she wouldn't normally say today.

"Not often, the most respected men's style in Kassel College is the tough guy, Cesar Gattuso, you should have known it? Girls prefer men with that style. They don't use any cosmetics and facial cleanser. They wash their face with cold water every morning and clean their face with a traditional manual razor. They are full of hormones." Lin Nian said, "I know how to make up because the people around me need it. Occasionally, I need to do it for me, so I need to master this skill."

"Do you want to be what they want for the people around you?" Li Huoyue asked flatly.

"It's too serious. It's just one more skill. There's nothing wrong with it. I can make up and no one will call me a bitch. Instead, it will give me extra points in the assessment of the executive department. One more point in dangerous missions will allow teammates to succeed in lurking. The main thing is whether you are willing to do it, whether you want to do it, if you are not willing, then just don't do it."

Lin Nian felt that it was almost done, so he put the frozen ball back into the ice water bag, and took out the eyebrow pencil, "Do you like willow-leaf eyebrows? I saw that your eyebrows were shaped in the direction of willow eyebrows."

"...you make the decision." Li Huoyue said.

"There is nothing wrong with a cold blue eyebrow pencil. It is suitable for your acquired cold white skin. Your skin is fair not because you are born white. You are an orthodox Asian, so your skin should be yellowish. But you should have undergone the surgery called 'Moon' plan very early, which led to poor blood circulation for a long time. When the blood circulation of the human body is affected, the blood cannot be effectively transported to the surface of the skin, resulting in a cold white color of the skin. I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but it should be a good thing when it comes to makeup." Lin Nian said, "Just Liu Yemei, I think it suits you, sometimes it's always a good thing to change and try a new style."

"You know more than I thought." Li Huoyue said after a moment of silence.

"What do you think I should look like." Lin Nian used the eyebrow pencil to compare the three-point positioning method, trying to build a pair of curvy willow eyebrows that this girl should have in his mind.

"." Li Huoyue did not answer this question.

"Has anyone taught you how to do makeup before? Or have you always taught yourself." Lin Nian asked.

"Someone taught it."

"But you didn't study hard?"

"Only taught once. She painted me once."

"You can teach me if you draw once, so it seems that your comprehension is not bad."

"Is this sarcasm?"

"It's a compliment."

"There's no point in making up."

"It really doesn't make sense to someone like you."

"."

"It's also a compliment. Naturally beautiful people don't need make-up, at least most people think so." Lin Nian said, "But make-up is done to please yourself or others. You don't seem to be a person who pleases yourself, so you put on make-up for others. Make-up doesn't need to be so good. As long as you do it, it means that the heart full of expectations has been conveyed. I believe that even if I don't change the make-up for you, the person you want to see will be happy to see you."

Li Huoyue's lips moved slightly, feeling a little strange in her heart, but she restrained herself.

She stopped talking, so Lin Nian didn't talk, just quietly doing what she was doing, earnestly and attentively.

In the darkness, she could only hear the sound of the wind blowing the leaves, the traffic flow and the singing of birds in the park. She felt the strokes between her eyebrows, and there seemed to be something soft brushing on the peaks and tails of her eyebrows. It was itchy, and she wanted to sneeze.

And every time she felt a little strange, the discomfort would be alleviated, and the other party seemed to be able to detect her feelings in advance, and leave a little buffer space for her, so as to minimize the discomfort.

It was a strange sense of attunement. The other party seemed to know what she was thinking and could empathize with her. It was as if she could understand herself and understand her from simple makeup. Although it was just some small things, she had never experienced this feeling of identification and peering.

She didn't know if it was the sun or the makeup, she closed her eyes indifferently, and felt that the skin on her face was slightly warmer, probably due to the freezing balls before.

The eyebrow pencil is slightly raised and expresses emotion, and each stroke outlines the style and personality. The other party's eyebrow drawing technique is as superb as he said, or it may simply be superior to his own. The brushwork is careful and peaceful. The sense of patience and carefulness seems to be conveyed to her through the darkness of sight and the itchiness of strokes.

He also has someone he cares about, someone he is passionate about, is his girlfriend?Or someone else?

Suddenly, there was a loose place in her heart, which was the sense of identity, and the loose things were barriers and prejudices.

Even though she was in the darkness, she began to see a touch of light blue, just a little bit, hidden in the deepest part, floating and sinking, she didn't know if it was real or a bubble, and it disappeared in the blink of an eye, and in the blink of an eye, she saw the bright spots of natural light falling on it, and the person who lowered her eyelids in front of her and sculpted her brows wholeheartedly.

"You can open your eyes, but don't move." Lin Nian said slowly.

Li Huoyue obeyed silently.

What a beautiful autumn in Beijing, under the sunshine, the young boy half-kneeled under the old locust tree in front of the red wall, earnestly and wholeheartedly drawing eyebrows for the well-behaved girl in front of him. The golden leaves of the locust tree fell on the iron-gray Aston Martin car hood and fell to the ground, rolling around their feet, as if to make a beautiful frame for this scene.

If the girl puts on makeup to express her heart, then the person who puts on her makeup is trying to repair her heart as much as possible. She is surrounded by pure kindness, which makes her a little strange when she is silent.

Something, like a sudden early autumn breeze rolling over the leaves of the pagoda tree, causing the branches to shake.

Tourists and pedestrians passing by in the distance suddenly saw this beautiful scene, raised their mobile phones and took pictures, which attracted the red-haired female companion beside him to ask curiously, "What are you taking pictures of?"

"Interesting stuff." The handsome blond Italian tourist glanced at the unintentionally taken photo on his phone and raised his eyebrows.