Two hours ago, Hong Kong City, Airport Expressway.
In the BMW, He Tianran, who was concentrating on driving, glanced at the woman sitting in the back seat holding flowers through the rearview mirror.
As if noticing this sight, the woman in the back seat smiled.
"When you grow up, you even know how to send flowers when you pick up people. If I remember correctly, is this the first time you have sent flowers to your mother?"
He Tianran's Adam's apple squirmed twice, and he could only smile bitterly:
"If I had known, I would have bought carnations."
"Really? What is the flower language of carnations?"
"Dedicated to my loving mother."
"Haha, actually it's just flowers, women aren't that particular..."
Bai Wenyu, who rushed back from England, lowered her head and sniffed the flowers sent by her son, and continued:
"But these lilies are not bad. Mom has indeed taken advantage of someone this time."
In the car, which had been silent just now, the pressure suddenly rose because of these words.
He Tianran opened the automatic sunroof on the roof of the car. As the fresh air flowed in, he exhaled and asked calmly:
"Mom, didn't you say you were going to Shanghai first?"
Bai Wenyu sighed and said:
"My son won't go, so there's no point in me going by myself. Then I thought about it. We can communicate about the company at any time, but of course it's best to see my son one day early, so mom I didn’t tell you in advance, so I’ll surprise you with the sudden attack.”
"That's really a surprise. If I had known it, I wouldn't have let another person in charge of the company go to Shanghai. She is mainly in charge of the company's actor management business. She seems to have booked a restaurant or something there in advance, just waiting. Looking forward to receiving you."
He Tianran looked in the direction and drove off the elevated highway.
Bai Wenyu looked out the car window at the changes in Hong Kong City in the past few years and said casually:
"Don't worry, it won't be wasted. I asked my assistant to keep an eye on it. She will fully represent me this time."
He Tianran was stunned and had a bad feeling in his heart.
"Assistant? When did you find an assistant?"
"Temporary, you know me too."
The speed of the BMW suddenly increased, and the people in the car couldn't help but lean back, but soon, the speed of the car returned to normal.
Faced with such a temporary change, both mother and son in the car were very calm. The mother did not criticize, and the son did not explain. Bai Wenyu just smiled and said:
"You are also the boss now. You usually go out to socialize so much. Have you ever thought about finding a driver?"
He Tianran said in a deep voice:
"Mom, what a car is all about is a sense of control. If I hand over the steering wheel to someone else, I won't feel at ease."
Bai Wenyu was silent for a few seconds. Just when He Tianran thought the topic had stopped, he heard this sentence:
"Of course, you are now...looking more and more like your dad..."
"...Maybe it's because I'm not a child anymore."
The car was silent again. It was just that my mother liked to listen to some classical music. He Tianran rarely listened to this. However, his playlist contained many OSTs from classic movies. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, he played a song from the movie "Cow Herding Class". The classic song "Vois sur ton chemin" from "Spring".
Among the few memories He Tianran has of his childhood, he watched this movie with his mother. He was learning piano at the time. Although he failed to persist in the end, Bai Wenyu wanted to improve his children's musical literacy. I found a lot of extracurricular materials like this to guide his interest.
Who would have thought that He Tianran failed to become a musician when he grew up, but instead became interested in movies as an adult and became a director?
The childish singing is like the singing of an angel, pure and ethereal. However, the true meaning of the lyrics is not very friendly to the mother and son in the car, because the first few lines of the lyrics are translated into Chinese, and their general meaning is:
"Look at the children who are lost on the road you pass by, reach out to them, give them a hand, and walk towards the future..."
Ironically, in the movie, a little boy named Pepino finally waited for his father on Saturday; but in reality, a boy named He Tianran was abandoned by his mother shortly after watching the movie. Got him.
The music brought their thoughts back to the past, but that was already more than ten years ago...
It's in the past.
"Why... would you let Ai Qing go to Shanghai for you?"
Amid such singing, He Tianran finally asked.
"I didn't ask her to go..."
"What?"
Bai Wenyu looked at the pure lily in his hand, gently rubbed the petals with his fingers, and said silently:
"Once I told this girl Ai Qing about one of her shortcomings. I said that she is very soft-tempered and sometimes falls into a passive attitude when it comes to relationships. But now that I think about it, I still don't understand her well enough, because This girl has established her goals since she was a child and has never changed them.
From high school with you, to the University of Hong Kong, and then to London, she has always held her life tightly in her hands and never veered off course. How can such a young girl be considered 'passive'?
She is very powerful, even more powerful than I imagined..."
He Tianran felt the same way about his mother's evaluation of Cao Aiqing.
"You mean...she is going to Shanghai by herself? Why?"
Bai Wenyu raised his head:
"Is there... a girl named Wen Liang by your side now?"
He Tianran's heart was moved, but thinking of what he had done in the past year, he could still speak frankly and said:
"Yes, she is a girl with great potential. The drama we are filming is about to be released. She will develop very well in the future. However, our relationship has always been in the category of 'friends'. Nothing extraordinary happened.”
"You and Ai Qing are also 'friends'."
"..."
Bai Wenyu choked her son, leaving him speechless. He was about to argue something when his mother continued:
"I know some of your actions, son. For example, a long time ago, you told Ai Qing about Wen Liang, including how you met, how you helped her later, and reported these to your sweetheart across the ocean. , it can indeed bring a sense of security to the other party, but you have also overlooked how attentive a girl can be to the person she likes, especially a girl like Ai Qing, not to mention the Vlog you two shot together. No matter whether it is intentional or not, when you mention another girl in front of a girl, you will be able to understand certain things, let alone you think that girl is very good..."
"..."
He Tianran had mixed feelings in his heart and was speechless.
Bai Wenyu, who could sense his son's embarrassment just by looking at his back without looking at the front, smiled and comforted:
"Of course, Ai Qing going to Shanghai actually has nothing to do with you to a certain extent. If you have a clear conscience, there is no need to panic about it. She went there this time just to defend something that belongs to her.
Her life has not veered off course. I think she also holds some of the same concepts about love. This is her 'active' way.
My child, you have to accept that the girl you like is just this person, and this kind of behavior is also proof that she loves you. "
(End of chapter)
