Father Zhou had been awake for a week, but he still felt as if he hadn’t woken up yet.
Or was he unconscious and fell into a hallucination?
While still undergoing rehabilitation therapy, his daily routine every night was to turn on his mobile phone and start searching for news about his son-in-law.
Ji Changze did a great thing.
He painted a picture and hung it in a gallery.
Then, the first day after the gallery opened, it was overflowing with people coming to see the painting.
There were those who joined in the fun, and some who were really sick wanted to see if this painting was really effective.
Facts have proven that it did have an effect.
Although it can’t be said that they were suddenly cured at first sight of this painting, it will indeed make the original difficult condition much better.
This was especially true for people with depression who didn’t want to take medication.
Of course, they also wanted to return to normal. However, the drugs used to treat depression still had side effects, and it took time to treat them thoroughly.
If they don’t take medicine, they would feel uncomfortable. If they took pill, they would still feel uncomfortable. It was better not to medicate it.
However, after seeing this painting, most patients said that although they couldn’t get better all at once, their health was indeed much easier to manage.
Moreover, many people choose to cooperate with doctors after returning home.
Ji Changze’s name was getting better and better.
For many people, the more powerful a painter was, the less attention was paid to the likeness of the painting.
They see it as an artistic conception!
As for this artistic conception, why do people see different results?
Doesn’t this illustrate the artist’s excellence!?
When a thousand people looked at the picture, they could see a thousand different feelings. That was amazing.
Ji Changze’s gallery almost became a Chinese national attraction.
As everyone knew, his gallery didn’t charge money, but the security was quite high. After all, it’s not that there had never been anyone trying to steal these paintings.
Right now, who didn’t know that Ji Changze’s paintings were very valuable, so many people wanted to buy them for their personal collection.
They didn’t necessarily want to buy his painting to heal themselves or their family member. Right now, any collectors with normal eyes could see how valuable Ji Changze’s painting were. As long as they bought it, collect it, and the longer they saved it, the higher the price would be.
A foreign rich man had offered a sky-high price, but he still wouldn’t sell them.
He only said that his painting had healing effects, and that if the person needed the painting to cure his illness, he should come to China, to the gallery.
After the amount was exposed, netizens were shocked.
At least when Father Zhou saw the price, his hands were shaking.
This amount of money was much higher than the total value of their Zhou Group.
But the son-in-law, who he used to think of as someone who was with his daughter for the money and lacked the desire to work hard, refused without batting an eyelid.
Now, not to mention Father Zhou, no one on the internet thought Ji Changze was a soft rice man, like the previous rumors.
If he really was that kind of person, why would he not sell for that amount of money?
This person was really an example of a noble and clean character, this was an unstained lotus growing out of the mud.
(TNote: unstained lotus growing out of the mud = living in a dirty environment, but untainted by the dirty things.)
Clearly, he only needed to lift one hand to earn for a lifetime, but he could keep a low profile for so long.
Moreover, Ji Changze didn’t pay attention to other people’s views on himself.
This could be seen from the previous online scolding and blackmailing of him. The fact that he stayed at home and didn’t go out to work for several years after he got married, made other people misunderstand him.
According to the discussions from the ‘reading party’, it was clear to everyone that Ji Changze was very talented from the beginning, but he was able to hold back his talent.
Was this something that ordinary people could do??
In this materialistic society filled with money and desire, there was actually such a clear stream as Ji Changze. It was simply impossible not to admire.
And Father Zhou’s attitude gradually changed from ‘I’ve been in a coma for so long, my son-in-law didn’t do anything’ to ‘Is there something wrong with the world?’ to ‘My God, my son-in-law is such a person’, and finally turned into ‘I’m lucky to have such a good son-in-law’.
There were few people who came to the hospital to visit him now, and who didn’t mention Ji Changze?
When he was in a coma, the partners either watched on the sidelines or tried to get a piece of the action, which was ignored by everyone.
Anyway, business was business.
But now, no one dared make a move on the Zhou Group.
It’s not that they were afraid, but taking them on wasn’t worthwhile.
It was easy to bring down the Zhou Group, but they couldn’t forget that Ji Changze was still standing behind the Zhou family.
If the Zhou Group collapsed. He just needed to sell a painting to make a comeback in minutes.
They wouldn’t collapse, but you would get an enemy for nothing. Who would be stupid enough to do such a thing?
Therefore, Father Zhou’s ward was very busy every day.
He also smiled, greeted everyone, and gave them a good impression.
Mother Zhou was very proud. In the past, her son-in-law looked like an unmotivated person; she heard a lot about it when she chatted with the ladies.
It wasn’t something hard to hear, just a strange discomfort in her heart.
Who said her son-in-law was unreliable?
Who said her son-in-law was in it for her family’s money?
My son-in-law! Is very rich!
He just doesn’t want to make money. If he wants to make money, he could earn it in minutes.
She would say that in a very irritating way, but no one would be angry at her this time.
Ji Changze’s painting had already been sold at a sky-high price.
The Zhou family’s future could be imagined.
They certainly wanted to get along well with the Zhou family.
When Ji Changze and Zhou Ranran came to visit Father Zhou, they also felt a wave of enthusiasm.
He was smiling the whole time, not even remotely impatient.
Zhou Ranran’s arm was always in his hand.
He waited for about 10 minutes to chat, then he smiled and said, “Sorry, we’re going to go see Dad first; we’ll talk next time.”
“Okay, okay, we’ll talk next time.”
The ladies looked at the two entering and sighed a little.
“Why didn’t I see this child was so good-looking before? His nature is also very gentle. He was so good to Ranran; did you see him protect her so tightly?”
“I noticed before, but I wasn’t as envious as I am right now. It would be great if my daughter could also find such a good man.”
In fact, they all met frequently. How could they not notice that Ji Changze was good-looking, gentle in nature, and caring toward Zhou Ranran?
It was just because they used to think Ji Changze wasn’t a capable man, so they didn’t acknowledge him.
‘Being good to you without ability’ and ‘being good to you with the ability’, were two different concepts.
After chatting for a few minutes, they all got envious again.
How come they didn’t have such a good son-in-law like Ji Changze?
After Ji Changze saw Father Zhou, they went back and planned a trip with the whole family.
Now, Father Zhou would be fine as long as he recovered slowly. Too many things have happened this year, and the two elders have had a change of heart.
Earning money can’t stop, but people only have one life.
Now that the company had stabilized, seeing that the young couple had a good relationship, and Zhou Ranran was learning how to manage the company from Ji Changze, Father Zhou and Mother Zhou decided to let Zhou Ranran try it out first.
If there was no problem, they would let their daughter manage the company.
Even if something really went wrong, wasn’t Changze still there?
Having such a son-in-law was great.
So, while the internet was gradually treating Ji Changze’s gallery as some kind of hot spot to check in on social media, their family were happily out on a trip.
For Ji Changze, it didn’t matter whether he had a name or not and whether he was famous outside.
He was an introvert anyway (spreads hands).
Zhou Ranran has a happy life.
When she was young, her parents had just started a business, and they were so busy every day that they had to ask a nanny to take care of her. However, although the nanny did her job well, she wasn’t investing any feelings in her employer’s daughter.
Zhou Ranran, who lacked companionship since childhood, thus developed a slightly weak temper and longed for companionship.
Later, she went to school. Her parents were actually not as accomplished as they are now, but they still gritted their teeth and sent her to the best kindergarten, where Zhou Ranran met Jin Yan.
Jin Yan was a good best friend. She had been with Zhou Ranran since childhood. Helping her, looking after her, and immediately hit back when Miss Zhang made fun of her.
The only dispute between Zhou Ranran and Jin Yan was because of her husband Ji Changze.
Jin Yan firmly believed that Ji Changze wasn’t a good person, cuddling with a woman at a bar. Zhou Ranran knew she wouldn’t lie to her, but she didn’t believe that Ji Changze would betray her. Fortunately, Changze explained to her that it was all a misunderstanding.
Since then, Yanzi had been targeting Ji Changze, Changze wasn’t pleased with Yanzi either, and Zhou Ranran was caught in the middle.
Ji Changze saw that she was sad and actually took the initiative to paint a picture to make peace with Yanzi.
After that, everything seemed to get better.
Her mother no longer misunderstood Changze, Yanzi’s attitude began to improve, the company was rescued, and her father woke up from the coma.
Zhou Ranran has always been very grateful.
This year was the year with the biggest twists and turns, and it was also the year she had the most gratitude in her heart.
Changze’s talent was finally no longer hidden.
People around him no longer looked at him with strange eyes but sincerely praised him as a genius.
Zhou Ranran was happy, but also a little uneasy.
After all, when she grew up, she saw too many uncles who turn against their wives or look for women outside immediately after gaining power.
She believed Changze, but she couldn’t help but feel afraid.
Zhou Ranran no longer spoke her mind.
Until one day, Ji Changze painted a picture and pulled her over to show her.
In that picture, a girl was smiling by the river. A boy pokes his head out in the tent next to her and looks at her while smiling.
Obviously, it looks like a very ordinary painting, but Zhou Ranran was inexplicably relieved.
Since then, the apprehension had disappeared from her heart.
When the two were old and couldn’t walk anymore, they were still together.
As she laid in her hospital bed, smiling. She spoke to her husband, who sat by her bedside and had been with her all her life.
“In fact, I was very worried. I was worried that you wouldn’t want me when you were that popular.”
Ji Changze held her hand; his smile was still as gentle as ever, “How is that possible? I’m going to eat your soft rice all my life.”
Zhou Ranran smiled at him and closed her eyes slowly.
Ji Changze felt her pulse fading away, gently put her hand back under the covers, and touched her white hair.
[Ding! The task is completed. Please choose a vacation or continue the task.]
Ji Changze opened his eyes in a cloud of black smoke and found that he was lying on the ground.
While two soldiers in armor were standing in front of him, muttering, “The rebels have gone too far, even these people aren’t spared, really inhumane, ah. Aren’t they afraid of retribution?”
“No. These people are so poor ah. They came here to escape the famine, and finding a place to settle down isn’t easy. The rebels slaughtered the whole village, and they did these heartless things. Sooner or later, they would be struck by lightning.”
“That means we’re doing a good deed. We especially ran here to help them collect their bodies. They are lucky enough to meet such good people like us. I’m so kind; I’m sure I’ll be able to join a big family in my next life.”
The two men echoed each other, talked back and forth while walking up and down, left to right, and patting Ji Changze’s pockets while passing him.
Ji Changze looked down slightly and looked at the linen clothes he was wearing and their bloodstains.
Thinking, these two were really ‘righteous’. Tsk…
If they didn’t mutter about the misery of these people and searched for valuable objects on dead people one by one, it would certainly look more righteous.