Artificial Respiration
Foolish doll, ugly doll, cute doll.
The same thing can evoke different feelings in different people. It's such a simple truth, yet some people always feel there's something wrong with it if they don't like it.
If you don't like it, you can find a hundred or a thousand reasons.
One reason is enough to like something; no matter how much you say, it's just liking it.
Liu Chang'an loved the moon in the sky. He was a man who would look up at the stars and the moon in any era, just as described in "The Moon and Sixpence": In this age of money everywhere, he looked up and saw the moon in the sky.
Such people can be admirable at times, but annoying to be around at others.
Because their will is so firm, it is very difficult to change them.
For example, Bai Hui thought Liu Chang'an was really annoying because he only knew how to like An Nuan and didn't know how to like other girls, especially Bai Hui, who he considered to be of average appearance, average figure, short legs, vain, and whose values didn't align with An Nuan's.
Liu Chang'an walked home under the moonlight, receiving a text message along the way.
"Are you going to the comic convention tomorrow? Just asking."
"Go ahead." What's so strange about that? Liu Chang'an felt confused, but still replied with just two words.
Back in the neighborhood, there was no card game under the grape trellis, nor the girl carrying the Pao Hu Zi pot.
Auntie Xie, peeling melon seeds, said that Shangguan Dandan bought three more packets of effervescent tablets today. She wondered why she bought so many.
Liu Chang'an went to the mahjong parlor and saw that it was still lively. Liu Chang'an watched for a while but did not play. He wondered why Shangguan Dandan was not as enthusiastic about mahjong as the old men and women.
Perhaps mahjong is too difficult for her, Liu Chang'an thought, secretly finding it amusing to tease Shangguan Dandan about her intelligence.
Back home, Liu Chang'an opened the door and saw Shangguan Dandan sitting on the sofa, holding a thermos, nervously watching TV.
Liu Chang'an glanced at it; the title, "Song in the Clouds," was in the lower right corner of the screen. It was an old film from three years ago, but it was still being broadcast on television because the production company and the lead actors were currently very popular.
Liu Chang'an still remembers seeing clips of this drama on a large GG screen nearby a while before the college entrance examination. At the time, he felt that the characters in the drama could not live up to the aura of the prominent figures of that era.
Now he looked at Shangguan Dandan, who was holding a thermos. Compared to her two thousand years ago, this kind of empress dowager would probably be even harder to portray. He couldn't portray her at all.
"Watching someone else play yourself?" Liu Chang'an glanced at the TV, then turned to look at Shangguan Dandan with a puzzled expression. Suddenly, he had a sudden realization. As human civilization develops, new things are always emerging that he has never experienced before. This is why humans, even after living for a very long time, still find things novel and exciting.
The TV series "Song in the Clouds" features a character named Shangguan Dandan, though her character's name in the series isn't actually Shangguan Dandan. The series also includes a storyline about a deposed emperor, but Liu Chang'an wasn't interested in watching such dramas, so he naturally didn't get the experience of seeing someone else portray him.
Shangguan Dandan ignored Liu Chang'an; she was focused on how the plot would unfold.
"What's it like to watch others play yourself, or even your family and friends?" Liu Chang'an asked earnestly and enthusiastically, moving closer to Shangguan Dandan.
Shangguan Dandan raised her hand and pushed the unsuspecting Liu Chang'an away. Liu Chang'an was pushed back a few steps and immediately realized that Shangguan Dandan could definitely lift a large kettle, and probably even a boiler.
Liu Chang'an stopped teasing her and went to do the laundry.
After a while, Zhou Dongdong ran downstairs with her reading textbook. Not seeing Liu Chang'an, she went to Shangguan Dandan's side with the book.
Shangguan Dandan saw Zhou Dongdong holding a textbook and remembered that she had volunteered to teach Zhou Dongdong how to do the problems last time.
"Sister Egg, I have homework to do! Can you help me finish it?" Zhou Dongdong flipped through the book haphazardly, then slid down onto the sofa and knelt down next to Shangguan Dandan.
Shangguan Dandan's gaze had left Zhou Dongdong and was fixed on the television. Then, without a word, she slowly fell down and lay motionless on the sofa.
"Sister Egg, what's wrong?" Zhou Dongdong turned around and glanced at Shangguan Dandan.
Shangguan Dandan was temporarily too weak to get up, couldn't even open her eyes, and was unable to move.
"You fainted!" Zhou Dongdong exclaimed in surprise, dropping her reading textbook and scrambling to her feet.
Zhou Dongdong stared wide-eyed for a few seconds, then remembered how the uncle saved the aunt on TV. She puffed out her cheeks and leaned over Shangguan Dandan's face, blowing air into her nostrils.
Shangguan Dandan didn't move, she couldn't move... She was still unable to move.
Zhou Dongdong has always been a persistent, determined, clever and brave child, so he would never give up and continued to blow air into Shangguan Dandan's nostrils.
"Stop!" Shangguan Dandan raised her hand. She couldn't stand Zhou Dongdong continuing to blow like that anymore, because Zhou Dongdong was blowing so much that he was drooling.
"Sister Egg, you're alive!" Zhou Dongdong jumped up and down happily, patting Shangguan Dandan's head with the same fondness she felt when patting Lu Si'en's head.
"Why... why did you blow air into my nose?" Shangguan Dandan couldn't understand Zhou Dongdong's actions at all.
In the novels Shangguan Dandan had read, first aid was always done mouth-to-mouth! Although Shangguan Dandan didn't want someone to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on her, why would they blow air into her nose?
Zhou Dongdong, of course, had her own reasoning. "Because the older sister on TV fainted, and the older brothers blew air into her mouth. Their mouths were open, but your mouth is tightly closed, so I had to blow air into your nose!"
Shangguan Dandan slowly sat up without saying a word.
After Liu Chang'an finished washing the clothes, he came out, and Zhou Dongdong hurriedly went to tell Liu Chang'an how she had cleverly saved Sister Egg.
"Hahaha..." Liu Chang'an walked up to Shangguan Dandan and burst into laughter. As the saying goes, one thing subdues another, and only an even more foolish child can handle a stupid girl like Shangguan Dandan.
"Brother Chang'an, I need to do my reading homework!" Zhou Dongdong looked around and found the textbook she had accidentally kicked twice in her panic under the sofa. She took it out and patted it.
Liu Chang'an wiped his hands and picked up his textbook.
Seeing Liu Chang'an pick up his textbook, Shangguan Dandan breathed a sigh of relief. She moved a little further away from Liu Chang'an and Zhou Dongdong and changed the TV channel, because the episode of the drama she had just watched had finished airing and wouldn't air again until tomorrow.
"Reading assignment, which passage are we going to read today?" Liu Chang'an casually flipped through his reading textbook.
Zhou Dongdong climbed onto the sofa, then climbed into Liu Chang'an's lap and sat there. She randomly pointed to a page, then took out a handful of damp sunflower seeds from her pocket and waved them at Shangguan Dandan.
Shangguan Dandan didn't eat, but Zhou Dongdong ate by herself.
The first-grade elementary school student's reading textbook didn't contain many words she could recognize; she relied entirely on adults to read and explain them. Liu Chang'an was reading an excerpt from Ye Shengtao's "A Seed".
After reading just a few sentences, Zhou Dongdong stuffed a sunflower seed into Liu Chang'an's mouth.
Liu Chang'an took a bite, and something was off—why was it so moist? He asked, "Did you soak these sunflower seeds in water?"
"I had some sunflower seeds in my pocket that I didn't finish eating last time. Mom washed and dried the clothes, and I found there were still some left in my pocket that I could eat!" Zhou Dongdong said happily.
"You can eat this?" Liu Chang'an spat it out, and at the same time took all the sunflower seeds out of Zhou Dongdong's pocket and threw them away. Nuts are very easy to mold after being soaked in water, producing the strong carcinogen aflatoxin... The key is that they are dirty and don't taste good.
"Hahaha..." Shangguan Dandan imitated Liu Chang'an's laughter from earlier, laughing three times on the count of three.
Liu Chang'an rolled his eyes at her and continued reading the text.
Without any sunflower seeds to eat, and after listening to Liu Chang'an read only a little over half of it, Zhou Dongdong fell fast asleep.
Zhou Shuling went home and looked around downstairs. Liu Chang'an then carried Zhou Dongdong upstairs. Zhou Shuling had bought a lot of yarn and said she was going to knit a sweater for Liu Chang'an, Zhou Dongdong, and Shangguan Dandan.
"And you?" Liu Chang'an asked.
"I don't need it." Zhou Shuling hadn't considered knitting one for herself; she didn't have the time to knit another one.
"You knit it for yourself, I only wear a single layer of clothing in winter." Liu Chang'an waved his hand.
Hearing his resolute tone, Zhou Shuling didn't say anything more, but just looked at him unhappily.
"Oh... keep knitting, keep knitting. If I don't let you knit, look at your pitiful expression." Liu Chang'an waved his hand and let her go.
Zhou Shuling gave him a reproachful look, then laughed. She knew Liu Chang'an didn't need anything in return, but was she really not going to do anything? How could someone be so shameless? She should be more self-aware. He wasn't the type to covet benefits, and this was all Zhou Shuling could do.
Liu Chang'an came downstairs and found that Shangguan Dandan hadn't gone back to sleep yet and was still sitting on the sofa watching TV.
"Aren't you going to sleep?" Liu Chang'an was about to go to bed, so he shooed him away.
"I want to watch a big TV." Shangguan Dandan refused to leave. "My TV is a small one, and it's bulging and doesn't look good."
"Okay, it's yours. You can take it now." Liu Chang'an waved his hand casually.
Shangguan Dandan immediately ran over happily, reached out and hugged the TV, unplugged it and removed the cables, picked it up, walked to the door, went out sideways, went downstairs sideways, and left.
Liu Chang'an was stunned. He really was just saying it casually. How could this person be like this?
When I asked her to boil some water, she said she couldn't lift the kettle. But just now she was carrying a TV that was several times her size so easily!
Liu Chang'an sat on the sofa, looking at the empty TV cabinet in front of him. It took him a while to accept the fact before he touched his hair and went to take a shower and go to bed.
Fortunately, given Qin Yanan's current mood, she probably won't be coming to his house anytime soon. Otherwise, if she saw that he had given away the two TVs she bought for her brother, she probably wouldn't say anything and would just look at him with the eyes of someone looking at a heartless man, which would be unbearable.
Liu Chang'an often speaks casually, but he probably can't just talk to a simple-minded girl like Shangguan Dandan, because she's easily taken things seriously.
Learn from this experience. Liu Chang'an casually dried his hair and went to bed. He'd go to the comic convention tomorrow, but he wouldn't Shangguan Dandan.
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