On the athletic field, the weather was bright and pleasant.
Bulin could be seen in the distance, hopping about and playing with bricks, occasionally casting a cold glance at the Beauty Gang girls.
The scene was quite harmonious.
Zhang Buzai hesitated for a moment before asking, "That's yours?"
Liu Di replied casually, "One of my two children."
Zhang Buzai fell silent.
Liu Di smiled. "Not biological."
"Oh."
There was a trace of relief in Zhang Buzai's voice. "Then do you have a girlfriend?"
"Yes."
Zhang Buzai fell silent again.
After a while, she asked tentatively, "She must be very outstanding, then?"
Liu Di raised his head toward the distant sky, looking at the sun. Then his gaze passed beyond it, toward somewhere even farther away.
He pondered for a moment. "Very outstanding. She stands very high now, high above everyone else. I have to give it everything I have to catch up to her."
Zhang Buzai looked at Liu Di, unable to imagine what kind of woman could make a man like him strive so hard to pursue her.
But then again.
Wasn't Liu Di, sitting beside her now, also high above her reach?
Zhang Buzai lowered her gaze. "If even you have to pursue her so desperately, I'm afraid I'll never be able to compare to her."
Liu Di smiled. He understood what was in the girl's heart.
Liu Di let out a soft breath. "Every one of us has someone we admire and look up to. Maybe it's that perfect person from our school days, maybe it's some dazzling celebrity. Countless times, we've felt that it would be a lifelong regret, that we would never have the chance to get close to them."
"But in truth, that is something precious. We shouldn't sigh in self-pity or feel inferior."