The elevator stopped on the third floor, and five or six people walked in, and the space suddenly became crowded.
Li Shu moved when people came in, and moved in front of Shen Yiyou to help Shen Yiyou block people.
He turned his back to Shen Yiyou, with his hands hanging by his sides. Shen Yiyou looked at the back of his hands and arms with slightly protruding veins, and hid in the corner of the elevator in a daze.
On the fifth floor, three more people came in, and the elevator was even more crowded.
Li Shu stepped back, made room for the position in front of Shen Yiyou, turned sideways, and looked down at Shen Yiyou.
The boy in front of Shen Yiyou didn't seem to notice that there was someone behind him, and also took a big step back. When he was about to bump into Shen Yiyou, Li Shu stretched out his hand to stop him.
The boy turned his head in surprise, and Li Shu said to him, "I'm sorry, someone is behind you." The boy hurriedly apologized.
Shen Yiyou and Li Shu lived on the highest floor, and the people in the elevator gradually left, and finally they were the only ones left.
When the door opened, Shen Yiyou wanted to wait for Li Shu to leave first, but Li Shu blocked the door for him again, so he was not polite.
They walked from the elevator to the room, and after a few steps, Li Shu spoke first and asked Shen Yiyou, "How many days are you staying in the capital?"
"Leave tomorrow," Shen Yiyou said to him, and asked hesitantly, "Are you also on a business trip?"
"Come to do something," Li Shu said, instead of telling Shen Yiyou what it was like before, he turned his head to look at Shen Yiyou, "Are you so busy in August? You won't be free for a week."
Shen Yiyou nodded and said, "According to the calculations, we can only spare three days at most", and then asked Li Shu helplessly: "Is it really not enough for all night?"
Li Shu walked a little slower, as if after thinking about it, he said, "Even if it's enough, you'll get tired after going back and forth like this."
"It's okay," Shen Yiyou said in a low voice, "it won't be very tired."
Li Shu fell silent and stopped talking.
Shen Yiyou focused on the number engraved next to the door of the room. His room was almost here, so he took out the room card and held it tightly in his hand. When he reached the door of the room, Shen Yiyou stopped: "My room is here."
He turned to Li Shu, looked up at Li Shu. Li Shu glanced at him, then slightly averted his gaze.
Shen Yiyou felt a little sad, but he didn't show it. He asked Li Shu again: "Then when is it convenient for you?"
Li Shu lowered his eyes, and after a few seconds, he said, "The only weekend left in August is free."
"What about September?" Shen Yiyou asked.
He finally raised his eyes, met Shen Yiyou's gaze, and told Shen Yiyou flatly: "I'm not free in September."
"..." Shen Yiyou whispered, "So busy."
This is not the first time Li Shu told Shen Yiyou that he was not available.
The first time Shen Yiyou asked Li Shu if he would like to have a meal with his friends, Li Shu said that he was not free, and asked Li Shu if he could go to the supermarket with him. Movies are not available.
Li Shu is always busy, Shen Yiyou holds Li Shu's hand at home, Li Shu has to use the other hand to answer emails, but when they are together, he still makes up a lot of odds and ends to meet Shen Yiyou time.
But not now.
"I'll start the road show in September," Li Shu explained to Shen Yiyou, "I'm going to go public soon."
"I'm going back to San Francisco from City S this weekend," he told Shen Yiyou, "If you want, you can go back with me."
Two other hotel guests came over, and Li Shu blocked their way, so he stepped back and let them pass.
When the people walked away, Li Shu said to Shen Yiyou: "You go to the room first, you don't need to decide now."
Shen Yiyou nodded, took the room card and swiped it, pressed the doorknob, pushed the door open, turned around again, wanted to say goodbye to Li Shu, and met Li Shu's eyes.
Li Shu focused and quietly looked into Shen Yiyou's eyes.
The expression on his face was not obvious, and he was far away from Shen Yiyou, but for some reason, Shen Yiyou almost confused the Li Shu in front of him with the Li Shu when he first met him.
Li Shu's "I don't want to go at all, just leave me behind" attitude made it almost impossible for Shen Yiyou to keep looking at Li Shu.
He felt that Li Shu was like a boundless swamp, and Shen Yiyou was a sacrifice with his hands and feet tied and heavy objects hung on him.
As long as the swamp is still there, Shen Yiyou will keep sinking.
"I'm going in." Shen Yiyou lowered his head evasively, and said quickly and softly.
He pushed the door open and went in without looking back. When the door was about to close, he heard Li Shu calling his name outside, and the next second, the door closed.
Shen Yiyou didn't open the door right away, and stood in the entrance for a while, Li Shu didn't knock on the door, he thought Li Shu had left, put his hand on the doorknob, thought for a few seconds, pushed it down, opened the door a little, and looked out wait and see.
Then he saw Li Shu's shoes, pants, and T-shirt. Li Shu was still standing there motionless.
"Shen Yiyou," Li Shu said to him without moving, "Can I come in?"
When Shen Yiyou saw that he was young, he opened the door a little more and let Li Shu in.
Shen Yiyou let Li Shu sit on the chair by the desk, and sat on the sofa by himself, feeling both tormented and sad, and also a kind of sad joy that shouldn't have happened.
He wanted to divert some attention, so he found a topic, "I just heard that you are going to go public, and I haven't congratulated you yet."
Li Shu looked at him quietly for a while and said, "Thank you."
Shen Yiyou paused for a few seconds, and couldn't help but ask Li Shu, "How did you meet her?"
Li Shu frowned and asked, "Who?"
Shen Yiyou's face became a little hot, and he felt that it seemed a bit shameful to inquire about Li Shu's love life, so he shook his head, said forget it, and asked Li Shu: "Has your house been hung up yet?"
Li Shu didn't seem to hear Shen Yiyou's question at all, he still looked at Shen Yiyou's face, after a while, he said "Shen Yiyou", as if talking to himself, "I've never seen you for so long."
Shen Yiyou asked in a low voice: "Really."
Li Shu stood up.
He walked to the sofa where Shen Yiyou was sitting, slowly, tentatively touched the back of Shen Yiyou's hand, half-kneeled down, and looked straight at Shen Yiyou's face.
"Shen Yiyou." He said. He talked to Shen Yiyou like he didn't find a new partner at all, like he still likes and needs Shen Yiyou very much, he has no choice but doesn't want to leave, which made Shen Yiyou doubtful and flustered.
Shen Yiyou turned his face to one side, Li Shu lightly pinched Shen Yiyou's chin, asking him to turn back.
"I brought gifts to you on your birthday," Li Shu told Shen Yiyou, as if he was complaining to Shen Yiyou, saying, "I brought cakes and flowers downstairs to your house, but you went on a trip with your friends."
Shen Yiyou looked at Li Shu, recalling the bad birthday and that bad phone call, he couldn't tell what it was like, and after a while, he asked: "Really."
Li Shu gave a "hmm" and grabbed Shen Yiyou's right hand on his lap with his other hand, but Shen Yiyou didn't push him away.
"Don't do this in the future," Li Shu asked Shen Yiyou in a very stubborn tone, "Okay, don't say such angry words of accepting others."
For a few short minutes, Shen Yiyou was really bewitched by Li Shu, as if the breakup and pain were fake, but Shen Yiyou unilaterally quarreled with Li Shu, and Li Shu was still coaxing him.
From the night it rained to now, only three hours have actually passed.
Li Shu moved closer, took off his glasses again, and wanted to kiss Shen Yiyou's lips, but Shen Yiyou raised his hand to press his shoulder, and turned his face away, but he still couldn't really refuse.