America 1987

Chapter 80 Reason

However, just in case, he felt it was better to ask the person directly.

While some men are not particularly averse to, or even strongly support, the idea of ​​"two beautiful women being intimate" only applies to women they have no connection with.

David's sexual orientation is perfectly normal, so normal that before he transmigrated, he couldn't even accept novels with abnormal sexual orientations, so he had to find out the truth about it.

Emotional infidelity is still infidelity, and a woman who cheats is also cheating.

"No!" Nicole immediately denied the question with unwavering conviction. "Absolutely not, how could I possibly be a lesbian!"

"No, why are you so good to her?"

"Uh, friendship," Nicole explained, somewhat exasperated. "Can't there be friendship between women?"

"Last time I asked you if it was possible for a man and a woman to have a pure friendship, and you said no. You even wrote a script specifically for me to act in."

Now I'm asking my childhood best friend to come over and keep me company, and you're asking me if I'm a lesbian. Don't I even have the right to make female friends?

"I was wrong," David said, sliding to his knees in a flash after hearing the other party's reasoned and well-founded questioning. "I shouldn't have thought about everything in a sexual way. I shouldn't have been so suspicious. It was my fault..."

I was wrong. I shouldn't have gone to Baidu Tieba in my past life. That place turned me into a highly sensitive person.

After humbling herself and apologizing profusely, Nicole finally calmed down and then explained the reasons behind it.

"Judging from your expression, you're still curious about the reason, aren't you, David?"

"No, absolutely not, I believe you one hundred percent, Nicole."

"Come on, if I don't tell you, you probably won't sleep well at night. I'll tell you anyway."

Nicole cleared her throat, carefully assuming a certain posture, before speaking, "Do you know how we met? Back then..."

When Naomi was 14, she moved to Sydney with her mother, who enrolled her in acting classes. In her first class at the performing arts school, she sat next to Nicole.

Nicole was often ridiculed by her classmates because of her height and hairstyle, and they even gave her the nickname "tall bean sprout".

So she was basically isolated at the time; when she took acting classes, the seat next to her was always empty.

Naomi was a transfer student and didn't know Nicole's situation at the time, so she ended up sitting next to her by chance.

Then the two got to know each other. On their way home, they took the same taxi because it was on the same route. Ni could tell from the other person's clothes that her family's economic conditions were probably average, so when she got out of the car, she paid for her fare as well.

"And then you two got together?" "What do you mean 'you two got together'?" Nicole corrected him, "I've already said I'm not a lesbian, why won't you believe me?"

"I understand, I understand, okay? It was my fault. I shouldn't have used such ambiguous wording. Please continue, I won't interrupt."

Then, nothing particularly dramatic happened; it was simply that two introverted and self-conscious girls gradually developed a deep friendship by sticking together for warmth.

Nicole's low self-esteem stems from experiencing school bullying, but her experience pales in comparison to Naomi's.

Her father was a sound engineer for the famous British rock band Pink Floyd, and her mother worked in antique sales and fashion design.

Those who play rock music are generally restless and never settle down, and as expected, that was the end of the story.

Her parents divorced when she was 4 years old, and her father died of a heroin overdose when she was 7.

At the age of 14, she moved with her mother from England to Australia.

It's easy to imagine what kind of personality a girl with this kind of family background and childhood experience would have.

"You mean you've found someone like you?"

"Yes, you can understand it that way, but I prefer the idea of ​​sharing the same fate."

"That's true," David lay back down, staring at the ceiling and pondering the underlying principles.

Psychologist Festinger proposed a psychological mechanism called "downward social comparison," which means that people tend to compare themselves with those who are worse off than themselves in order to boost their self-esteem and relieve anxiety; it is commonly known as "comparing misery."

In the original timeline, Nicole Kidman often played strong, controlling women on screen, which to some extent reflected her true inner desires.

A person who has long suffered from low self-esteem has become accustomed to being looked down upon. Once she discovers someone who is "lower than herself," the role relationship instantly reverses. Helping the other person and becoming their support allows her to temporarily escape her own sense of powerlessness.

Moreover, because one can see a reflection of oneself in the other person, taking care of them is like taking care of the "worse self" within oneself. It is a very subtle projective identification and indirect self-comfort.

Influenced by her father's work, Nicole read many books on psychology during her childhood, so she is very clear about her own psychology. However, she feels that her relationship with Naomi is not entirely like that.

Friendships formed purely from comparing misery are completely asymmetrical—one side is the savior, and the other is the one being saved, leading to long-term exhaustion.

Moreover, since both parties gained their identity from being "miserable," any improvement in either party's situation would shake the foundation of the relationship.

But the truth is that her relationship with Naomi remains as strong as ever.

For example, right now, "You said you introduced me to a Hollywood director and asked me to come and audition?"

"Yeah, is there a problem?" Hearing the familiar voice on the other end of the line, Nicole said excitedly, "If you're free, come over quickly, I've been missing you."

"It's nothing, I was just a little too surprised and didn't quite process it for a moment."

Unlike Nicole Kidman, who gave up dancing due to her height and focused on her acting career, Naomi Campbell, due to her family's financial situation, was unable to take a full break from training and studying like Nicole.

She has worked in quite a few different trades.

Firstly, in 86, she tried working as a model in Japan. Why did she go to Japan?

Because Japan's economy was prosperous enough at the time.

The so-called Japanese economic bubble era refers to the period from 1986 to 1991.

89年12月29日，日经225指数触及历史最高点38915点，较95年翻了一倍多，当时市场普遍相信「股价永不下跌」。

In the early 1990s, the total value of land assets was estimated at 2365 trillion yen, approximately four times the total value of land in the United States at the time. The theoretical value of just one plot of land around the Tokyo Imperial Palace was considered to be enough to buy the entire state of California.

Japanese capital also took advantage of the strong yen to aggressively acquire overseas landmarks. Mitsubishi Estate acquired Rockefeller Center, and Sony acquired Columbia Pictures. Combined with the previous land valuations, the Japanese at the time even made the outrageous statement that they would "buy the whole of America".

That's why Naomi chose to try working as a model in Japan.