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"Can I exchange some gold coins in your store?"
Gu Weijing took out a small transparent plastic box containing gold coins from his schoolbag and placed it on the bed.
"Exchange money? What do you want money for?"
Mona's tone was a little surprised, and her brows were raised slightly.
She knew that Gu Weijing had always been a person with very little materialistic desires. As an international school, there were many rich people in the school.
Mona also has many suitors, but Gu Weijing is not the one with the most outstanding conditions.
Some of the boys whose parents are entrepreneurs or local high-ranking officials are very generous with their money. They often take girls to high-end membership restaurants and even give them new bags and mobile phones without mercy.
However, compared to those playboys who changed girlfriends just like changing clothes, she admired Gu Weijing's calmness more.
Many of Mona’s best friends don’t understand.
There are obviously so many outstanding students, so why does Mona, the president of the Women's Student Union who is excellent in all aspects, like to hang out with Gu Weijing.
He is not very handsome.
Compared with those foreign students with blond hair and blue eyes, he is not tall and does not have marble-like muscles.
He can't show his manhood on the football field, and he doesn't have enough money in his pocket to give his girlfriend new lipstick, new bags, new perfume, and new leather shoes at any time.
In addition to his good grades in painting, he was a nobody in school, and his personality was not even considered "cool".
The school is not such an ivory tower, and high school girls also have vanity.
If you are good at painting... how many people can become great painters?
But he is handsome and rich, but he is a real and powerful stock.
Just watch "Gossip Girl" and you'll understand.
In this kind of prestigious private school, girls have a broader horizon, a better life, and may also have more material things.
They will compete with each other to see whose boyfriend is more handsome and richer, and they will also compare with each other the value of the gifts their boyfriends gave them this month, but they rarely care about a person's inner temperament.
Mona knew that there were some money-worshiping girls in the student union, the so-called fishermen, who could easily get thousands of dollars a month from their boyfriends whose parents were executives of foreign companies in Myanmar.
But Mona didn't see it that way.
She always felt that Gu Weijing was a very bookish, elegant, restrained, traditional boy with a typical oriental temperament.
That's a very quiet man.
There is no impetuousness of the times in Gu Weijing's body, which makes Mona feel a kind of peace and tranquility, just like drinking a cup of warm Darjeeling black tea.
She is not naive, nor is she a silly girl who doesn't care about anything for love.
Mona has always been a smart girl. Smart girls value long-term interests more than short-term glory and indulgence.
She saw in Gu Weijing the potential to become an excellent painter and an excellent boyfriend.
The latter is more important than the former.
Let’s take a look. From your girlfriend’s perspective, who are the great painters in history?
Titian, dandy.
Monet, a scumbag.
Van Gogh, crazy.
Gauguin, a madman and a scumbag.
About Picasso?
God, this guy lives with two wives and five lovers, and the emotional trajectory of his life is almost taking pleasure in hurting women.
Why didn't such a person strike him to death with a bolt of lightning from the sky?
Modern painters are not much better. In some clubs of emerging European painters, half of the people play the world as wanderers, surrounded by supermodels and call girls. Of the remaining half, 40% get divorced faster than picking up their pants.
The last ten percent are probably lunatics who will shoot themselves to death with a gun whenever they get interested.
And society is very tolerant of these artists.
It can be said that a man like Uncle Sakai, who behaves himself well after marriage and whose only hobby is feeding himself very fat, can definitely be regarded as a super invincible five-star good man.
Choosing such a gentle person makes you feel at ease as your boyfriend.
She believes that there is no reason why Gu Weijing cannot become an excellent painter due to his excellent spatial sensitivity and his diligent painting practice habits.
It’s really difficult for a great painter to have a solo exhibition in an art museum and not have to think about anything.
But growing up together allowed Mona to see Gu Weijing's life in her imagination at a glance.
In high school, I applied to an art academy with a good ranking in the world.
In four years of college, if he performs well enough in college, he can stay in school after graduation, join the studio of a famous master, or even participate in an art exhibition - that is naturally the best situation under ideal conditions.
Becoming a professional painter that is truly recognized by the market, even if it is just a small painter with a shallow reputation in the European market, is the best way out for an art student.
Although the journey of being a painter is bumpy, professional painters are definitely more profitable jobs than lawyers and doctors.
Decent, leisurely, elegant, and a gathering of celebrities, he is also the perfect prince charming who has appeared in her dreams since she was a little girl.
But Mona didn’t dare to think so far.
She felt that with Gu Weijing's potential, even if she could not stay in school or be spotted by a big studio after graduation.
As long as you have a diploma from a prestigious school, don't be stuck on the career path with the dream of selling a painting for millions.
Honestly, go to some big Internet companies to do art design, game animation, or go to some special effects post-production teams in Hollywood, which are also very profitable jobs.
As long as he is serious and diligent enough, earning more than his father in a year is not a luxury.
This is Mona's more realistic imagination of Gu Weijing. At that time, she herself would consider actually marrying him.
Most of the second-generation rich people in school are playboys in the game world. In the short term, being their girlfriend is naturally very glamorous.
But from a long-term perspective, it is far inferior to potential stocks like Gu Weijing.
If you choose the former, except for a thousand dollars a month and a possible belly, you will get nothing after the other party abandons you.
Choosing the latter is a stable long-term investment.
Of course, in fact, Mona didn't have to choose Gu Weijing as her boyfriend.
She also had a lot of affection for Gu Weijing.
But again, she is a smart girl.
A girl who is not smart will be a careless love brain.
All of this is based on the fact that Gu Weijing can bring her a decent and prosperous life. Mona believes that this is not a matter of worshiping money, but just a passing line for marrying a charming girl like herself.
Therefore, if there is a boyfriend who is more valuable than Gu Weijing and pursues her, Mona will be open-minded in her heart.
This is why she has never established a relationship with Gu Weijing.
Instead, they deliberately maintained a moderate amount of ambiguity.
The girl's talent allows her to deal with introverted Eastern boys like Gu Weijing with ease.
"Mediocre Choice" - Mona felt that Gu Weijing was the typical middle-of-the-road approach that the girls in the cheerleading team used when discussing their boyfriends.
It's not so good that it sparkles, but it's not bad either.
It can be regarded as the eternal "Plan B" in Mona's heart.
Such boys are good and not that good.
If she couldn't find a better man, Mona knew from an early age that if she chose Gu Weijing, she would at least live a happy life.
She knows that she is beautiful, and she also knows that there are many boys pursuing her in her studies. In comparison, Gu Weijing became less noticeable.
On the emotional scale, the one with the better quality should naturally have more room for choice and requirements.
And since childhood, Mona has taken good care of each other.
She knew that Gu Weijing had a weak feeling for money and that his family conditions were not as good as hers, so she and Gu Weijing went anywhere - whether they were going to the movies together, going to an amusement park together, or playing go-karts together... it was always the case. Made in AA.
She would never give Gu Weijing an extraordinarily expensive gift.
This is not Mona being stingy, how much is a movie ticket? As the one with better family conditions, she is taking care of the boy's self-esteem.
Mona would write handwritten birthday cards to each other in the New Year and bring an apple decorated with beautiful gauze to the school after Christmas vacation.
On their birthday, I personally bake a small cake for each other, with My Best Friend written on it in purple milkshake.
This is much more troublesome than just picking up a small piece of jewelry from her house, and it also makes the other party much more moved.
Mona knows this kind of traditional oriental boy very well. As long as you show enough kindness to the other person, he will always follow you like a little tail and never leave.
In her impression, Gu Wei had never spent a lot of money, and she had never been seduced by consumerism. A mobile phone, clothes, shoes, etc. were enough.
What are you doing to exchange money for yourself today?
