Shen Yiyou's August is busier than he imagined.
Various trivial problems frequently appeared during the exhibition, and Shen Yiyou could only bring his assistants and workers around to communicate with various people.
One day in the second half of the year, luck improved a little. The artist whom I met in the capital suddenly called Shen Yiyou, saying that he was very interested in the theme. After thinking about it, he decided to cooperate with Shen Yiyou.
Shen Yiyou, together with his partner, began to rush around for this.
Since Li Shu's road show started, he changed places every few days, and Shen Yiyou often couldn't figure out where he was.
But Shen Yiyou faintly noticed the change in Li Shu.
When contacting Shen Yiyou by telephone, even if the two of them were not chatting about anything and were working or doing something, Li Shu used Shen Yiyou's promise that he would "not answer the phone" as an excuse, and asked the phone to be connected until Shen Yiyou really wanted to sleep. , just want to say good night.
At the same time, Li Shu would suddenly attack Shen Yiyou in various contexts, forcing Shen Yiyou "Have you thought about it clearly", emphasizing that "the company is going to be listed soon", and then pitifully expressing that he misses Shen Yiyou very much, saying something like " I am very satisfied with you every day", "I think you are very good", and I promise that if Shen Yiyou comes to work in his company, he will never be fired.
Shen Yiyou felt that they communicated too frequently, and thought about reducing the frequency of the Telecom, but Li Shu's insecure behavior often made Shen Yiyou soft-hearted, and the relationship between the two became uncontrollably unclear.
Li Shu was more considerate than before, but the problem still seemed to run between him and Li Shu, which made people feel restless.
Shen Yiyou felt a sense of powerlessness and was afraid that if this continued, they would just repeat the previous way of getting along.
But he himself didn't know how to solve it, and Li Shu, who thought there was no problem at all, was even more unreliable. Shen Yiyou sometimes thinks that maybe he should be more firm with Li Shu, but sometimes he feels that maybe being firm is meaningless.
In the midst of hesitation, most of the time passed.
One day at the end of August, Li Shu suddenly sent Shen Yiyou a short story called "X.Bin's Life". He said that this novel was written by his friend Fred and touched many mutual friends, so he copied it. Send Shen Yiyou for a reward.
Shen Yiyou only had time to read when he got home at night. The short story was less than a thousand words in total, and he finished it in a few minutes.
It's not that he can't understand, but he doesn't know why this story, which is as precise as it is written by a machine, will move many friends, but Li Shu's words seem to hope to hear Shen Yiyou's feedback, so Shen Yiyou still thinks about it After a few minutes, he squeezed out three words and sent them to Li Shu: "Very touching."
That day when Li Shu went to Geneva for a road show, it should be around 4 pm when he received the text message. Shen Yiyou thought he was busy, but the reply came soon: "Be more specific."
Shen Yiyou asked Li Shu inexplicably, "How specific is touching."
Li Shu called him, and Shen Yiyou picked it up. Li Shu said, "Do you have any special insights? Why do you think they can't be together? Is there any way to improve it?"
"...Because you don't deserve it, I don't know," Shen Yiyou really had no idea, so he changed the subject and asked Li Shu, "You are alone now, it sounds very quiet."
Li Shu was silent for a long time, and said "Yes", he didn't pursue Shen Yiyou's post-reading impression, and told Shen Yiyou: "There is a dinner party tonight, and I just changed my clothes."
"What clothes?" Shen Yiyou asked him.
Li Shu said reluctantly, "Suits."
"The listing team insists that wearing formal attire can create a reliable image of the CEO. It's a waste of time arguing," Li Shu finished explaining, and then said to Shen Yi, "Next time I will change the team." As if afraid that Shen Yiyou would mention that he had privately spread critical remarks on suits and ties.
Shen Yiyou thought Li Shu's behavior was very interesting, so he asked him, "Can you let me see it?"
Because Shen Yiyou had only seen Li Shu wearing formal clothes in a low-resolution sneak photo, in which Li Shu was sitting opposite his rumored girlfriend.
"I don't want to." Li Shu refused.
Shen Yiyou pretended to be depressed, and said, "You said you would show me at the hotel last time."
"I didn't say that," Li Shu retorted, repeating what he said at the time, "I mean, if you're not angry, you can watch it."
Shen Yiyou insisted: "I want to watch."
In the end, Li Shu compromised. A few seconds after they hung up the phone, Li Shu made a video call to Shen Yiyou, Shen Yiyou pressed the answer button, and Li Shu appeared on his phone screen.
Li Shu stayed in a spacious dressing room with plenty of lighting.
He turned away unnaturally, with an impatient look on his face, and purposely turned the lens of the phone to the side, but Shen Yiyou still saw his appearance very clearly.
Li Shu was wearing a white shirt and a suit jacket. His hair had obviously been styled. It seemed to have been waxed to make it very neat. His glasses had been replaced with metal frames. When he was not speaking, he gave off a very sharp feeling.
Shen Yiyou felt that the listing team was right, Li Shu was indeed much more reliable than before, at least he finally looked like a successful businessman, not a tall boy who ran out of a science and engineering campus to eat.
"Have you finished watching?" Li Shu asked quickly, without looking at the camera.
"No," Shen Yiyou said slowly, "Aren't you still wearing clothes and having dinner with Lilith? I don't think so."
"I was very hungry that day," Li Shu explained meekly, "I left after eating." After finishing speaking, he frowned and raised his hand, touched his hair, and immediately put it down again.
Shen Yiyou didn't speak, but looked at Li Shu.
After a while, Li Shu finally turned his eyes back to the screen, he also looked at the screen, was quiet for a while, and said, "Really."
"At first I was eating with Li Shishan." For some reason, Li Shu's speech speed became a little faster, "I ate halfway, Li Shishan suddenly called Leslie, and soon Li Shishan answered the phone and left , but I haven't been alone with Leslie for more than five minutes."
Shen Yiyou watched Li Shu's defense quietly, but couldn't tell what it was like.
Li Shu didn't seem to understand at all. In fact, he didn't need to explain too much to Shen Yiyou. Even if he really dated Lilith, it wouldn't be considered wrong.
"I see." Shen Yiyou said to Li Shu.
Li Shu fell silent. He seemed to be enduring something, but in the end he didn't hold back, and said to Shen Yi: "I don't like you leaning on others and saying that you accept the pursuit."
His tone was not intense, but his tone of voice sounded like he was losing his temper.
Then, as if he really didn't like the pair of glasses he was wearing now, Li Shu took them off annoyedly, and replaced them with his own black frame on the table, returning to his usual appearance.
"There are things I don't like either." Li Shu slowly repeated to Shen Yiyou.
Shen Yiyou saw that Li Shu didn't speak, Li Shu paused, and asked Shen Yiyou: "Don't do this in the future, is it okay?"
Shen Yi swam for a while, said "Yes", and paused for a few seconds, trying to make the atmosphere less heavy, glanced at Li Shu, and praised him, "Actually, you look good in a suit."
Li Shu looked away, and asked in a low voice, "Really?" without knowing whether he recognized or not.
"-but I do not like it."
"—But if you don't like it, forget it."
Shen Yiyou and Li Shu spoke at almost the same time.
An indescribable distress slowly emerged from Shen Yiyou's heart.
Even though Li Shu is the one who drives ordinary people to adapt to his way of life and work most of the time, every time he sees Li Shu struggling to adapt to the rules, Shen Yiyou has an unrealistic hope: hope that the world can no longer Make things difficult for Li Shu, let society adapt to Li Shu, not Li Shu to adapt to society.
Then Shen Yiyou thought again, his own hope seemed to be very cheap.
Because obviously he himself couldn't fully adapt to Li Shu, and he would want to leave when he couldn't stand it.
When they were in love, the two were not perfect, and there were many things that went wrong when they got along. Shen Yiyou was the only one among the two who thought of running away.
— But Li Shu can be satisfied by Shen Yiyou so easily.
Li Shu said "Okay", the screen flashed and the screen went black, but the call continued, Shen Yiyou was stunned for a moment, realizing that Li Shu might have locked the phone on the table.
"Shen Yiyou," then Shen Yiyou heard Li Shu say inexperiencedly, "... I like you."
"I'll give you a home, okay?" His muffled voice came from the speaker, sounding very serious and persistent, "Don't think about it any more."
Before Shen Yiyou could speak, there was a knock on the door from Li Shu.
Then a woman spoke to Li Shu, seeming to urge him to go out to the road show dinner, and asked Li Shu if he had changed his glasses.
Li Shu seemed to be afraid that Shen Yiyou would reject him immediately, or say something evasive, saying "I'm leaving".
Shen Yiyou said goodbye to him.
So today, their topic did not continue.