Shen Yiyou said that he would contact Li Shu as soon as he was free, but Li Shu waited for three days but did not receive any message from Shen Yiyou.
Li Shu and Shen Yiyou hadn't seen each other for more than a month, breaking the highest record in three years. Ever since Li Shu met Shen Yiyou, Li Shu had never been separated from Shen Yiyou for so long.
He really wanted to see Shen Yiyou, just like the time he returned the phone, he could accept it through the glass.
Or the phone call will be longer, he wants to get along with Shen Yiyou as before, but Shen Yiyou seems to be no longer willing.
August 7th was Li Shu's grandmother's 90th birthday, and his parents ordered him to attend.
On the night before returning to Los Angeles, Li Shu worked until two o'clock in the morning as usual. When closing the computer, he couldn't help but open the modeling software and take a look.
When he was making a model, he sometimes wondered if Shen Yiyou could become happy if he could really make one that was exactly the same, even if they broke up, he would still be willing to have a meal with him or find a place for a walk. Like when they first met.
It might be difficult, Li Shu guessed after calming down.
At eleven o'clock in the morning, Li Shu and Erin Felton arrived in Los Angeles.
He didn't go directly to the place where grandma's birthday banquet was held, because his younger sister Li Shishan had a phone call with Irene yesterday, hoping that Li Shu could stop by her apartment and pick her up, and Li Shu agreed.
Li Shishan's movements were as slow as usual. Li Shu sat in the car for ten minutes before she arrived late, accompanied by a tall lady.
Lilith Leslie.
Li Shu pressed the car window, and Li Shishan called him, "Brother."
"Lilith is coming with us," she said. "Grandma likes her."
Except for the driver, there are only three people in Li Shu's car. Irene immediately turned to Li Shu and said, "I can take a taxi back to the hotel by myself."
After Li Shu nodded, Irene got out of the car, and the driver also got out to open the door for the lady.
Li Shishan sat in the passenger seat, and Leslie sat in the back seat beside Li Shu.
There is a leather partition in the middle of the back seat. Originally, Li Shu's elbow was resting on the armrest between the two seats, and he was holding a tablet in his right hand to read documents. But when Leslie was less seated, he also put his right hand up. Li Shu didn't like to get too close to people, it would be uncomfortable, so he glanced sideways at her, and silently took his hand back.
"Li Shu, can you stop for a while?" Li Shishan turned her head back from the front seat and called him, "Why are you always working?"
Li Shu still kept his eyes on the information, and answered Li Shishan's question truthfully: "Because I have a job."
"..." Li Shishan choked, paused, and then said, "You robbed the apartment that Lilith wanted to buy, didn't you show any sign?"
Li Shu raised his head and looked at her: "I bought the apartment."
"That is-"
"—You said that you want to buy an apartment and you need my reference, so I went. If you are not here, it is deemed to have voluntarily given up the right to buy the apartment. After I visited the apartment, I thought it met my living standards, so I signed a house purchase contract," Li Shu put down the computer in his hand, reorganized the process of the incident for Li Shishan, and asked her, "Is there any problem with my house purchase procedure?"
"I-"
"—As for who else the real estate manager brings, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with me," Li Shu interrupted her again, and added patiently, "If another client of hers has objections to my purchase of a house, he can communicate directly with the real estate manager. "
Li Shishan looked at him wordlessly for a while, rolled her eyes, turned her head away, and muttered softly: "How can anyone stand you."
The lady sitting next to Li Shu changed her sitting position, and Li Shu picked up the computer again and continued browsing.
At first, Li Shu didn't feel that Li Shishan's words had any effect on him, but after turning two pages, there was a little dull pain on his fingertips touching the computer screen and on every piece of skin that was sensitive.
Li Shishan reminded him of Shen Yiyou.
Shen Yi said "We are not suitable anywhere".
"I won't come back to look for you in a shameless manner."
In fact, Shen Yiyou is a person with a particularly good temper. He has known Li Shu for so long, and the most serious words he said to Li Shu were just these two sentences.
At that time, Shen Yiyou probably didn't know it himself, he looked like he was about to cry. Li Shu hoped that Shen Yiyou would stop being sad, but he didn't know what to do.
Li Shishan's apartment was very close to the hotel where the banquet was held, and they arrived not long after.
Li Shu grabbed the computer and walked in, followed by Li Shishan and Leslie. When passing by the hotel lobby, Li Shu saw someone taking pictures from the corner of his eye, which seemed to be taking pictures of Leslie, so he quickened his pace and stopped paying too much attention.
The grandma's 90th birthday banquet was quite big, with more than 20 round tables set up, and her relatives in China were invited to come.
Li Shu's parents and younger brother were already seated. After he and his younger sister went to give gifts to their grandmother, they walked over to their parents and sat down together.
Leslie and Li Shishan whispered a few words and sat next to Li Shishan.
The seat to Li Shu's left was vacant, and after a while, a family of distant relatives filled the empty seat at their table. A pair of twin boys who looked about 14 or 15 years old were sitting next to Li Shu. One of them was holding a computer, and the two were wearing a pair of headphones, as if they were watching a video.
Li Shu's mother was outgoing and enthusiastic. She talked to the boy's parents across the table and learned that they were the descendants of Li Shu's grandmother and sister, and that both boys went to school in England.
"Okay, don't watch it," the boy's mother glared at them, "Is there any good game video, and is it polite?"
The boy next to Li Shu pressed the pause button and took off the earphones. Li Shu lowered his head, intending to quietly read the unfinished documents again.
After a few hours, the boy's parents and Li Shu's parents went to another table to greet relatives. The two boys sat for a while, and then secretly took out the computer. Later, a girl came over and stood between them to watch with them. The boy He unplugged the earphones and played them at a lower volume.
After Li Shu finished reading the document in his hand, Li Shishan suddenly leaned over a little and called him, "Brother, are you done with work?"
She knew that Li Shu didn't like to be close to people, so she kept a distance. Li Shu glanced at her and asked her, "What's the matter."
"While Lilith is going to the bathroom, tell me honestly," Li Shishan whispered, "What do you think of her?"
Li Shu asked, "Can your question be more precise?"
"You have been single for so many years," Li Shishan said, "Have you never thought about falling in love? Lilith is a perfect match for you. Did you know that she graduated from the same university as me and also has a degree in computer science. I suffered a lot in my last marriage, but I was very strong and kind-hearted. My mother liked her very much... "
"Li Shishan." Li Shu called her name, she stopped and looked at Li Shu.
Li Shu said to her, "I'm in a relationship."
Li Shishan froze for a moment, opened her mouth, and asked after a while, "With whom?"
Li Shu didn't answer, in fact he didn't pay attention, because he suddenly heard Shen Yiyou's voice.
He heard Shen Yiyou say "Hi".
Li Shu raised his head and looked around carefully, but he couldn't find Shen Yiyou. The banquet hall of the hotel was too noisy and there were too many people. Everyone was talking and greeting each other. The boy next to Li Shu was still playing the video. The sound changed from a hail of bullets to relaxing music.
There is a question mixed in the music, "Someone asks if you are still single and whether you will accept the pursuit."
Li Shu couldn't find it while sitting, so he stood up. Li Shishan was startled and asked him, "What's wrong with you?"
"I—" Li Shu lowered his head, wanting to tell Li Shishan that he had to leave for a while, but he saw Shen Yiyou's face on the screen in the boy's hand.
Shen Yiyou was wearing a bathrobe, and he leaned on a person's shoulder with slack eyes. He was obviously drunk, his cheeks were slightly red, and he looked at the screen expressionlessly, looking very indifferent. Behind him there is a dark blue-black night sky, and some bright spots of the city.
Li Shu remembered this place,
"Yes." Shen Yi said.
The screen was cut for a moment, as if it had been edited for a short period, Shen Yiyou said to the camera again: "Accept."
He looked very indifferent, as if there was nothing worth caring about, and he was no longer that Shen Yiyou who would hide in the hotel room and ask Li Shu "Can you come and accompany me now".
Shen Yiyou, who accepted the pursuit, gave Li Shu a kind of intense pain, as if the oxygen was being emptied.
Li Shu stood silently. After a while, he took out his phone, opened a software, and entered his account number and password for the first time.
He saw a small green dot staying quietly on the map of City S, without moving, flashing like a star.
Shen Yiyou is at home. Li Shu looked at the light spot for a long time, and finally felt that the pain became less unbearable.
He said to Li Shishan, "I'm leaving first."
Then he walked towards the door, sent a text message to Irene to change the itinerary, asked the driver to pick him up immediately, waited for a minute at the hotel door, and got into the car.