The Fairy Who Learned the Truth Shed Tears

Bai Hui sat down with her camera, her fingers spinning the dial as she looked at the photos she had taken that day. She wanted to evolve photography from a simple hobby into a skill, just like An Nuan had a sport like volleyball, rather than just a hobby.

This was her initial motivation for taking on photography assignments; perhaps she could change someone's perception of her and prevent them from thinking she was just a girl who knew nothing but material enjoyment.

"An Nuan is really photogenic." From the photographer's perspective, Bai Hui gave an objective comment.

Liu Chang'an didn't sit down. As they were talking, the elevator reached the bottom, and he said as he walked out, "You look quite photogenic too."

"I... I'm fine." Bai Hui replied calmly, not wanting to get overjoyed just because he praised her.

"Why are you suddenly jumping around like that? Wearing such high heels and jumping like that, it'll be quite a sight if you fall down," Liu Chang'an said, glancing back at her and kindly reminding her.

"No..." Bai Hui stopped unexpectedly, pointed to her legs, and tried to look confused, "It... it... it's jumping by itself."

Seeing that she seemed to be explaining very seriously, Liu Chang'an nodded without saying anything.

When someone is clearly talking nonsense and their thinking is disordered, there is no need to correct them or make them think about what's wrong with them.

Bai Hui's heels were indeed a bit high today, but the lack of thick soles prevented the shoes from looking bulky. This prevented people from immediately perceiving her height as solely dependent on her shoes, giving the impression that the shoes made up a large portion of her height. Instead, it effectively created the illusion of longer, more elongated legs.

"Are you more familiar with digital cameras now?" Bai Hui was actually a little excited; Liu Chang'an actually shared the same interests with her.

She had initially thought that she and Liu Chang'an had virtually nothing in common in terms of interests, hobbies, intellectual levels, artistic taste, and aesthetic preferences.

"It's alright, let's read the manual." Unlike most electronic products, including computers and televisions, the manual for a DSLR camera is not only an introduction to the product, but also includes basic photography techniques. It can be said that the manual for a DSLR camera is the most worthwhile manual to read carefully, like a "book".

Many photography newbies often don't read the instruction manual. When they have a camera and don't understand something, they like to ask others for help. This is unnecessary. Just read and understand the instruction manual first.

"If you have any questions, you can ask me," Bai Hui said with a touch of pride, never imagining that she would one day be able to say such a thing to Liu Chang'an.

Liu Chang'an glanced at Bai Hui, opened his mouth but didn't say anything, and then nodded.

"After all, I played for a while!" Bai Hui was annoyed when she saw Liu Chang'an nodding in that irritating way again.

"Um."

"Ugh! Seriously, you can ask me right now if I can answer any questions you don't understand," Bai Hui said confidently. Liu Chang'an must have played with cameras before, but he probably played with some kind of old-fashioned film camera.

A person like Liu Chang'an is probably the kind who wears a fisherman's hat, has a Leica film camera hanging around his neck, and whose outer coating has been deliberately scraped off to reveal the brass color, giving it a somewhat weathered and old-fashioned feel... He wanders around some streets full of humanistic atmosphere, occasionally raising his camera to take pictures of the brass rings on the gates, the brooms in the corners, the branches reaching out from the walls, like an old man sitting still, and so on.

Regardless of the artistic value of such street photography, it certainly seems to possess a lot of sentiment and character.

Bai Hui only thought about it. If she were to directly say that to Liu Chang'an, she felt she might get beaten up... or bullied like Zhu Juntang?

Liu Chang'an looked at Bai Hui's camera, a hint of doubt in his eyes, as if he needed an answer. "Alright, then I'll ask you a question."

"If this camera falls from the roof of the Baolong Center, calculate its speed when it hits the ground," Liu Chang'an asked after thinking for a moment.

Bai Hui felt that she must not have heard clearly.

"The Baolong Center is 452 meters tall. Add the 1 meter you raised your camera, and it's 453 meters. It should be easy to calculate, right? You still haven't figured it out?" Liu Chang'an tapped Bai Hui's forehead. This head looks round and big, but is it actually empty inside? After all, it's such a simple question.

Bai Hui realized what was happening, glanced at her camera, then at Liu Chang'an, then at Baolong Center Building One behind her, and glared at Liu Chang'an with a mixture of amusement and exasperation, "Who asks such a question?"

"The camera's weight is in the instruction manual, and I've already told you the floor height and your height. The other required values are common sense; you'll know how to calculate them once you've read the manual." Liu Chang'an scoffed, dismissively. "Someone who hasn't even read the instruction manual wants to teach me how to use a camera?"

"You... you... you... who said I didn't read the manual? Who would remember the camera's weight after reading the manual?!" Bai Hui stammered for a moment, then said helplessly, "No wonder he's the man Gao Dewei approves of."

"If it were Gao Dewei, he would say that this calculation has nothing to do with the camera's weight, but it does require the camera's shape data to account for air resistance." Liu Chang'an laughed, then tapped Bai Hui on the forehead. "You're so stupid, you don't believe me? High school just ended a short time ago, and you've already forgotten this."

Bai Hui angrily raised her hand to her chest, glaring at Liu Chang'an. But seeing that Liu Chang'an's smile remained unchanged, Bai Hui also laughed. How annoying! Why does it always seem like my IQ drops a lot in front of Liu Chang'an? I always get teased by him.

"Oh right, and... what do you mean I'm 1 meter tall when I raise the camera? And you've already told me my height? I'm 1 meter tall?" Bai Hui suddenly realized the key point, pouted with a hint of coquettish dissatisfaction, and pointed to her high heels, "I'm wearing 10-centimeter heels! Subtract those 10 centimeters, am I only 90 centimeters tall?!"

"Ninety centimeters is great, it makes you look like a doll, even cuter. Look at you now, you're neither tall nor short, you can only look like a fairy."

Hearing him say he was like a fairy, Bai Hui was about to be happy, but considering the context, she already had some doubts. "Liu Chang'an... in your mouth, is 'fairy' an insult?"

"A fairy... I think she's just a girl who's not very bright, has such a high opinion of herself that she's floating on air and doesn't touch the ground," Liu Chang'an explained.

Bai Hui opened her mouth slightly, then opened it wider and wider. It turned out that when Liu Chang'an called her a fairy or a little fairy several times, he meant this!

And Zhu Juntang, he cursed Zhu Juntang like that too! So this is how he sees the two little fairies!

"Be careful not to dislocate your jaw," Liu Chang'an said with concern. "Your tonsils aren't anything to look at, you don't need to show them."

"You're so annoying! You're so annoying! You're so annoying!" Bai Hui angrily hit Liu Chang'an's shoulder with her camera, watching to see if he showed any sign of wanting to change his story or try to appease her.

After smashing for a while, Bai Hui ran out of strength. The camera was too heavy. Her hand was already a little sore when she was taking pictures. Moreover, this was actually a controlled smash, which was more strenuous than actually smashing someone. This was because a lot of the potential energy was absorbed by her hand to control the speed. She couldn't just smash it like she would when she couldn't find a nutcracker and used the camera to crack walnuts.

"Are you done?" Liu Chang'an picked up the camera. "Let's go, I'll take you home."

Bai Hui squatted down and tugged at Liu Chang'an's trouser leg. "I did hard labor today, and I'm hungry now. I need to have a midnight snack before I go back. Will you stay with me?"

Bai Hui knew that she didn't need to act like a little girl eating timidly like a kitten in front of Liu Chang'an; he liked it when people ate heartily.

Having gone all the way, Liu Chang'an checked the time and took a taxi with Bai Hui to their usual late-night barbecue stall.

On the way, Bai Hui made a reservation and walked upstairs to the lobby with Liu Chang'an. They saw that Mi Gaoming and All-Star were sitting together by the window. The two of them had each ordered a whole leg of lamb and were gnawing on it, glancing at each other's progress from time to time.

Liu Chang'an felt that they would never be able to win Zhou Shuling's heart, because before they could even get Zhou Shuling, they would probably have already exhausted themselves.