When Gabriel Liu walked out of the airport, he saw a girl with long hair and big eyes standing there looking around. Gabriel Liu walked behind her and gently tapped the back of her head. The girl immediately turned around and saw him. Her eyes lit up and she pounced on him like an octopus: "Brother!"
Gabriel Liu reluctantly peeled off the octopus on his body: "...How old are you? Is this appropriate?"
Lily Liu smiled and let go of her hand, looking up at Gabriel Liu. This girl's personality was a bit off-line. When she was a child, she especially liked to pester him and ask why - why this, why that, why? A typical child with a hundred thousand whys.
However, girls change a lot when they grow up. The little slug has now become a beautiful girl with fair skin, beautiful eyes, and long black hair that can kill countless people from behind. Only those who know her know that this girl is naughty and cunning, and she is willing to kill people without paying for it.
I haven't seen you for a few months. You seem to have grown taller?
Gabriel Liu looked at his sister, smiled and rubbed her head: "Where are our parents?"
Lily Liu said: "Dad is waiting for you at home. Mom will be back later due to a meeting. I am here to greet you personally as the representative of the Liu family."
Gabriel Liu walked out with his luggage and asked, "Did you drive here?"
Lily Liu nodded: "Yes, I just got my driver's license."
The brother and sister went to the parking lot together and took the car. Lily Liu was about to sit in the driver's seat when she was stopped by Gabriel Liu. Gabriel Liu pushed his sister to the passenger seat and sat in the driver's seat himself, saying, "I'll drive, you rookie, get out of the way."
Lily Liu stuck out her tongue and didn't argue with him. She just fastened her seat belt obediently.
The car drove out of the airport and headed home along the highway. Gabriel Liu was very familiar with the place where he grew up, and he didn't even need to turn on the navigation system to know how to get there.
The car stopped at a red light halfway along the road. Gabriel Liu's cell phone rang with a text message. Gabriel Liu picked it up and saw that it was a reply from Yese: "My flight to Xi'an is at 8 o'clock tomorrow night, so I need to change my dinner time."
Gabriel Liu replied: "Then let's go at 5 o'clock. There will be a lot of people during peak hours. I'll reserve a seat in advance and drive you directly to the airport after dinner."
The other party replied: "OK."
Lily Liu opened her big eyes and looked at her brother's mobile phone curiously. Gabriel Liu glanced at her and put the phone back.
Lily Liu smiled slyly: "So mysterious? Is she your girlfriend?"
Gabriel Liu said: "It's Adrian Qin."
Lily Liu understood now and immediately sat up straight: "Oh! Is it Adrian Qin, the vice-captain of the Chang'an team?"
Gabriel Liu raised the corner of his lips slightly: "Girl, you have a good memory. Do you still remember Adrian Qin?"
Lily Liu said: "Of course I remember, he was so good at scolding people..."
Lily Liu doesn't play games, nor does she understand what e-sports competitions are, but her eldest brother is a top player in the professional martial arts circle, known as the No. 1 Tang Sect in the martial arts professional circle. Naturally, she also learned some things about the martial arts professional circle through the influence of his elder brother.
To put it simply, the professional e-sports league is actually similar to competitive sports such as basketball and football. There are also various star teams and star players. The winning team will receive a lot of bonuses, businesses will sponsor the teams, and professional players will also receive share income from various advertising endorsements. Top players have a lot of fans, and some players are even treated like celebrities in the entertainment industry.
As one of the top players in the league, Gabriel Liu once led the Chinese team to win the glorious record of the annual Grand Slam. The so-called annual Grand Slam means that within one year, the Professional League Spring League, t,g,a Summer Grand Prix, Professional League Autumn League, and t,g,a Winter Grand Prix, all four consecutive competitions must be won to get the special trophy of "Year-End Grand Slam".
So far, only the Chinese team led by Gabriel Liu has achieved such a brilliant record.
The league is full of strong teams, and the Grand Slam record is hard to surpass, which also established Gabriel Liu's top position in the league. He has many mortal enemies and friends in the league. Lily Liu can never tell the names of those people apart, but she still has a deep impression of Adrian Qin.
On the day Gabriel Liu retired, the man named Adrian Qin called him and scolded him. Lily Liu and Gabriel Liu were at the airport at the time. In the noisy crowd, the man's voice through the phone was clear and calm, and every word was piercing and sharp. Gabriel Liu just listened silently with a smile, and after listening, he simply said: "I have made up my mind, it's useless for you to persuade me."
...The person on the other end was so angry that he hung up the phone.
Gabriel Liu put away his phone, turned around and walked into the security checkpoint.
Lily Liu looked at her brother's tall back as he turned and left, and felt inexplicably sad.
Time flies so fast, and now she personally picked up her brother from the airport.
Lily Liu was in a very conflicted mood and asked anxiously: "Brother, you contacted Adrian Qin, don't you want to go back to play in the game?"
Gabriel Liu's face was expressionless, and he said calmly: "Let's talk about it later."
Lily Liu whispered: "Don't make Mom angry anymore. It's not good for anyone if you confront her..."
Gabriel Liu smiled and said, "I know."
The car soon stopped at the Liu family compound.
Gabriel Liu's father, Liu Boyuan, is a leading figure in the domestic academic community, a well-known history professor, knowledgeable, gentle, and also a very nostalgic person. The Liu family's decoration style is similar to that of a scholarly family in the Republic of China period. The house is filled with various precious antiques and jades. In Gabriel Liu's words: "As soon as you enter the door, you feel the atmosphere is particularly solemn."
No one would believe it if I told them that Gabriel Liu, this shameless guy, actually came from a scholarly family...
His father, Professor Liu, is a respected professor with many students all over the world. Such a terrible father-son relationship cannot be equated at all...
When Gabriel Liu entered the room, his father was practicing calligraphy in the study.
Professor Liu is an excellent calligrapher and is the honorary president of the Calligraphy and Painting Association. He is a master who can auction off any piece of calligraphy he writes. Many people specially ask him to write inscriptions. Many of the calligraphy and paintings in the home are from his father's hand. When Gabriel Liu was a child, he was forced to practice calligraphy by his father. He wrote dozens of calligraphy books and eventually developed a beautiful cursive script.
Gabriel Liu's calligraphy is very unrestrained, casual and unrestrained, just like his personality.
Lily Liu is quite tragic. Her father and brother both have good handwriting, but this girl's handwriting has always been that of a kindergartener and she can't improve no matter how hard she tries.
Gabriel Liu glanced at the writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone on his father's desk, smiled and said, "Dad, are you practicing calligraphy?"
When Liu Boyuan saw his son come in, he was too lazy to even raise his head. He just hummed, then picked up the pen, dipped it in ink, and continued to write slowly.
Liu Chuanhan: "Dad, I'll go upstairs to put my luggage first."
Liu Boyuan hummed with his nose.
Lily Liu said enthusiastically: "Dad, I'll go to the kitchen to make something to eat! We'll have dinner when Mom comes back!"
Liu Boyuan hummed again.
The brother and sister slipped away from the study in silence.
Gabriel Liu quickly packed his luggage in his room. His father, who was writing in the study, was like a Taoist priest practicing Tai Chi. Every step was slow and meticulous. He had such high requirements for just practicing a single character. There couldn't be any mistakes in the horizontal, vertical, left, and right strokes. I was really impressed... He remained calm even when Mount Tai collapsed in front of him. Even if a knife was placed on his neck, Professor Liu would finish writing first...
After taking a quick shower in the bathroom, changing clothes and going downstairs, Gabriel Liu's mother just came back.
My parents have completely different personalities, they can be said to be two extremes.
Professor Liu is a slow-tempered person, gentle and steady, and always speaks with sincerity; Yang Qiuning, on the other hand, is an impatient person, decisive and swift, and his words are as loud as popping beans, hitting people on the head.
Yang Qiuning was wearing a suit skirt and her hair was tied up in a neat bun. She looked like a professional strong woman. When she saw her son coming down from upstairs, she didn't show any emotion. She just glanced at him and said, "You're back?"
Gabriel Liu smiled: "Yeah. Mom, did you just finish the meeting?"
Yang Qiuning nodded, and Gabriel Liu walked over, took the bag from her hand, and helped her hang up her suit jacket.
Yang Qiuning put on slippers and walked into the study. Seeing Liu Boyuan still writing, she couldn't help but frowned: "Aren't you tired of practicing calligraphy every day?"
Professor Liu, who was lying down and shot, said: ...
Gabriel Liu who accidentally heard: ...
The couple quarreled every day, and the impatient mother was definitely more combative than the slow-tempered father.
In order to avoid becoming cannon fodder, Gabriel Liu consciously went to the kitchen to prepare dinner with his sister.
The brother and sister quickly brought up a table of dishes, most of which were prepared in advance by Professor Liu, and a small portion was made by Lily Liu.
Gabriel Liu's parents are typical of the rich lady falling for the poor boy. As the daughter of the Yang family, Yang Qiuning has never done housework since she was a child. After marriage, Liu Boyuan also took care of the housework. Yang Qiuning was also very courageous when she was young. In the era when business marriages were popular and parents decided their children's marriages, she ignored the strong opposition of Gabriel Liu's grandfather and resolutely married Liu Boyuan, who had no car, no house and no money at the time.
It is said that because of this, Yang Qiuning almost broke up with the Yang family and completely severed ties. It was not until Gabriel Liu was born that the Yang family gradually relented. With the secret help of Gabriel Liu's grandmother, Yang Qiuning finally got her father's approval and returned home with her husband and one-year-old Gabriel Liu.
Liu Boyuan was a talented man when he was young and became a well-known professor at the age of 30. When Gabriel Liu could remember, his father was already a celebrity in the academic world. His current status... In short, he has disciples all over the country, to the extent that his home is overwhelmed with flowers every Teacher's Day.
Although my parents often quarreled, they loved each other very much and had been the same for decades.
Yang Qiuning is a sharp-tongued person, but in fact, he is cold on the outside but warm on the inside. Liu Boyuan is gentle and tolerant, but he is very principled when it comes to key issues. The two of them usually bicker and quarrel, but Gabriel Liu and Lily Liu are not worried that they will divorce. When they were young, children would usually cry when their parents quarreled, but when Gabriel Liu and Lily Liu were young, they would say: Mom and Dad are quarreling again, great, we can go out and play...
The family of four sat around the table to eat the reunion dinner. Lily Liu was obviously very happy and kept putting food into Gabriel Liu's bowl: "Brother, try this. I made this myself."
"This was made by my dad..."
"And this, I just learned it yesterday..."
The brother and sister have a very good relationship, but the two elders don't talk much at the dinner table.
After finishing the meal with mixed feelings, Yang Qiuning stood up and said, "Gabriel Liu, come with me to the study."
Lily Liu looked at him sympathetically.
When I was a child, my mother's words "Come with me to the study" meant that I would be beaten. When I grew up, my mother's words "Come with me to the study" meant that I would be scolded. The Liu brothers and sisters have long been accustomed to the meaning of this sentence.
However, to Gabriel Liu's surprise, this time she didn't scold him, but asked seriously: "How many bank cards do you have on you now?"
Gabriel Liu said: "I only have one savings card."
Yang Qiuning said, "How much is it? Let me see."
Gabriel Liu took out a card from his wallet and handed it to her: "There is one million in this card. It's the money I got from various competitions and advertising endorsements in the past few years. I didn't spend it all, so I saved it."
Yang Qiuning said: "You are a student and you don't need so much money to go to school. I will keep the money for you first, and return it to you intact when you graduate from university." After saying that, he took Gabriel Liu's card with a calm face.
Liu Boyuan, who was sitting next to him, calmly pretended not to see it.
Gabriel Liu was surprised: "...Are you going to confiscate my personal savings?"
Yang Qiuning nodded, and took out a brand new ICBC card from her wallet and handed it to Gabriel Liu: "This is the new card I opened for you. The password is 012523. There are 3,000 yuan in it. From now on, on the 1st of every month, I will transfer 1,000 yuan of living expenses to this card. When you go back to college, you have to act like a college student. I will transfer your living expenses monthly. For a college student, 1,000 yuan a month should be enough."
Gabriel Liu: ...
Gabriel Liu looked back at his father, who pretended that it was none of his business.
Gabriel Liu said helplessly: "Mom, this is not necessary, right? I am already so old, I won't spend money recklessly..."
Yang Qiuning stuffed the new card into his son's hand and said seriously: "What else can you do with so much money at school? You must be flying around to watch various games. Do you think I don't know?"
Gabriel Liu: ...
Yang Qiuning said: "Since you are going back to school, you should focus on your studies. Your dad has also informed the school that you will live with your classmates, and your dormitory will be..." Yang Qiuning looked at the man next to him.
Liu Boyuan immediately came online from invisible mode and answered, "The boys' dormitory is in Building 301. The school has arranged everything. Just go and live there."
Yang Qiuning nodded and looked back at his son: "Dormitory 301, remember. Go back and study hard, and don't play that game again."
Gabriel Liu: ...
Yang Qiuning frowned: "Did you hear that?"
Gabriel Liu was helpless: "I heard it..."
Yang Qiuning went to take a shower contentedly. Gabriel Liu was about to go back to his room when his father, who was used to being invisible and silent, suddenly called him, "Gabriel Liu."
Gabriel Liu looked back in confusion: "Dad, do you have anything else to say?"
Liu Boyuan took out a piece of paper from the drawer and handed it to him, then turned around and went upstairs with a calm expression.
Gabriel Liu unfolded the paper in his hand. The paper his father used for writing was of excellent quality. It felt very thick in his hand. On it was written an idiom in skillful regular script - "Be content with what you have done".
It turned out that he wrote these four words in his study today and gave them to his son.
---Treat unfavorable situations and negative comments with a normal attitude. Don't hear them, don't ask them, just listen and let them be.
---Be calm and at ease.
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