Miss Irene Felton's public and private life has been going quite well of late.
First of all, her new home has been decorated and ready to move in in a few days; second, her employer's mood has changed from cloudy to sunny, and her colleagues bid farewell to the turmoil; third, after the road show is over and everything is on track, Li Shu promises to give her Take a three-day vacation.
She believes that the root cause of everything going well is that Li Shu's relationship is back on the right track, and she should especially thank Mr. Shen who kindly accepted Li Shu again.
Their last stop was London. There was a three-day respite between the end of the road show and the price subscription. Li Shu's original plan was to go to New York with the team for a rest, but on the second day after arriving in London, he suddenly decided to stop after the road show. Go to S city alone.
The consultant team couldn't stop him, so he had to let him go and send Irene to accompany him.
Irene could deduce the key person who made Li Shu's decision—Li Shu changed his itinerary the day after meeting Fred Dale—but she didn't know the reason.
Li Shu was able to meet Fred thanks to the well-informed secretary Irene who told Li Shu in time after hearing from colleagues that "the employer's college classmate and fraternity friend, Mr. Dale, met an agent in London." special.
Li Shu and Fred talked on the phone, and it happened that both of them were free at noon, so they met for lunch at a chain burger restaurant near the hotel where Li Shu lived.
At the table by the window in the restaurant, the two chatted briefly for forty minutes, just like they did in college.
Li Shu arrived two minutes early and ordered food. Fred arrived on time, opened the door, walked in and sat down opposite Li Shu.
Fred was tall but unremarkable, with freckles and a mess of red hair.
Maybe it was to meet the agent that day, Fred specially wore a linen suit, but with a pair of sneakers, it still looked nondescript.
It is worth mentioning that although Li Shu was given the Silicon Valley Love Bible as a gift, Fred himself did not have a lot of love experience, and he has never had a relationship that lasted more than three months.
A few days ago, after Li Shu sent him his short stories, Fred made some heartfelt speeches.
He sent a long post-reading review, confiding to Li Shu his tragic experience in three love affairs.
When they met this time, he asked Li Shu as soon as he sat down, "Are you in a relationship?"
Li Shu was startled for a moment, but didn't answer right away.
Prior to this, Li Shu had never talked about Shen Yiyou with friends and family.
On the one hand, Li Shu didn't have the habit of wasting time chatting, and on the other hand, he didn't want to talk.
Li Shu never thought about why he didn't want to, he only knew that falling in love is a matter between him and Shen Yiyou, and no one is allowed to participate.
But since Fred asked, after thinking about it, Li Shu thought there was no need to deny it, and said to Fred, "Yes."
Fred nodded unsurprisingly, and said, ""X.Bin's Life" is indeed not something a single man could write." Then he asked Li Shu, "How long has it been?" He also asked Li Shu for a photo.
Li Shu didn't plan to talk too much with Fred, and didn't answer Fred's question directly, but just found a photo of Shen Yiyou from his phone and handed it to Fred.
At this time, the meal was served. Fred grabbed the hamburger with one hand and took Li Shu's cell phone with the other. He glanced at the screen, was stunned, and immediately raised his eyes to look at Li Shu.
"What's wrong?" Li Shu asked him.
Fred shook his head and suddenly asked, "Did you guys just start dating?"
"No." Li Shu denied, but did not tell Fred how long they had been in love.
"He looks like the..." Fred seemed to be looking for the right words, "the type who would only date the finance guys on your IPO team."
Li Shu frowned, thinking of the financial services expert who led the listing team.
Tall and handsome, well-dressed, energetic, eloquent, a typical Wall Street elite.
"But it's hard to say," Fred said realistically. "Your wealth is very attractive. Maybe he will stay with you all the time, but you have to be careful."
Li Shu put the phone back silently, and after a few seconds, told Fred, "He loves me very much."
"Every one of my ex-girlfriends said they loved me," Fred said noncommittally. "As a result, I found that none of them really liked me. What they liked was either my shares and identity, or my bank deposits. cash."
Li Shu didn't speak, but glanced at Shen Yiyou on the screen, and locked the screen.
He found that showing Fred the photo of Shen Yiyou was not a good decision, and it was meaningless to talk about love with his friends, he didn't want Shen Yiyou to be judged by anyone.
For Li Shu, evaluating Shen Yiyou itself was a kind of disrespect.
But Fred didn't stop, he seemed to be planning to persuade Li Shu, and continued: "Think about it, you are very busy at work, it is impossible to have a lot of time for him, are you considerate when you are in love? It is even more impossible. To be honest , I can completely imagine what you look like when you are in a relationship. It must be the same as my first girlfriend said, arrogant and conceited.
"Just like Eileen Felton would never be your secretary if he didn't have a high salary. If it wasn't for your wealth, how could he choose you with such a beautiful face."
"In every relationship," Fred said quickly, he raised his hand and said sadly, "I have been deeply hurt. Don't believe in so-called love."
Li Shu didn't want to listen to Fred's love speech any more, so he interrupted him directly and asked several questions about Fred's company when it went public.
Fred finally stopped talking and talked about normal matters with Li Shu.
After lunch, Li Shu returned to the hotel, he called Shen Yiyou, and Shen Yiyou picked it up.
Shen Yiyou seemed a little tired, and said very lightly and softly that he had just taken a shower.
"What about you?" He asked Li Shu.
It was very strange to say it, as if it was completely unscientific. Every time he heard Shen Yiyou's voice, Li Shu could feel the happiness and joy of a slight electric shock.
Like a surge of electricity, it flowed from his fingertips through his brain, calming the restlessness that had fermented during his meal with Fred.
Shen Yiyou's tone of voice was very light, and Li Shu could almost see him lying on the sofa or bed, half-closed his eyes, and answering calls with his mobile phone.
After a few seconds, Li Shu's brain seemed to suddenly understand the meaning of Shen Yiyou's words, and replied, "I'm in the room."
"You've been free these few days," Shen Yiyou didn't care about Li Shu's pause, and said to himself, "You always look for me."
Without waiting for Li Shu's response, he then asked Li Shu, "Can I be so free every day?"
When Shen Yiyou acted like a baby, it was easy for Li Shu to lose his mind.
Li Shu said to Shen Yiyou without even thinking about it: "Yes."
Shen Yiyou seemed to know that it was a fake, but still smiled happily, and called Li Shu's name.
Li Shu felt something was wrong, thought about it carefully, and asked Shen Yiyou with a little hesitation: "Have you been drinking?"
"Well," Shen Yiyou admitted, and immediately added, "But not much."
Li Shu didn't like Shen Yiyou drinking when he was not around, but before he had time to say anything, Shen Yiyou said, "Because I'm in a bad mood."
Li Shu was stunned for a moment, and immediately opened the book on the table, positioned it to the position of "active listening", grasped the key word "retelling", and tried to ask Shen Yiyou: "Is it in a bad mood?"
Shen Yiyou said "Yes" and was silent for a few seconds. Just when Li Shu thought he didn't want to talk about it in detail, he spoke again: "Tonight, my high school classmate came to S City for business. I'll take him and his wife to dinner. We met in the restaurant. My father, he put his arm around a lady, not my mother.
"He and his mother have a bad relationship, I know that, but it's a bit unreasonable to take others out to eat in restaurants."
Shen Yiyou's voice seemed to come from far away, which gave Li Shu a feeling: Actually Shen Yiyou wasn't talking to him, anyone on the other end of the phone would do.
"Actually, my parents divorced when I was just in college. I didn't know where to go back to the Christmas vacation. I finally ran back to the south and wanted to live in my grandmother's old house for a month, but when I went back, I found that my mother had already taken the set. The house was sold to someone else," Shen Yiyou said slowly, "After a year, they remarried, and I have a place to live again."
Listening to Shen Yiyou's voice, Li Shu asked after a while, "Then where do you live during Christmas vacation?"
"Going back to school," Shen Yiyou said, "I have nowhere to go."
"It would be great if we could meet earlier," Shen Yiyou said again, "I can find you."
"However, we may meet earlier, and we may break up earlier, not necessarily."
Shen Yiyou said some trivial and erratic words, Li Shu's heart began to ache because of this, he didn't turn over the book again, and said to Shen Yiyou: "Whenever we meet, we will never break up."
Shen Yiyou laughed, he was both happy and sad.
Li Shu couldn't tell the difference.
"Okay," Shen Yiyou said, "then it won't."
He yawned and said good night to Li Shu.
After hanging up the phone, Li Shu thought: He must go to S city.
Because Shen Yiyou needed him to go back very much, to an extent that Shen Yiyou himself could not estimate.
Shen Yiyou desperately needs to be accompanied.
Li Shu suddenly understood a simple fact: completely different from what Fred said, Shen Yiyou is just completely different.
He lives a muddleheaded life alone, doesn't care about shares and bank cash, randomly looks for a real person to hug and kiss him, and forms a simple, stable and intimate family.
Li Shu was chosen by super luck, so he must grasp it firmly so as not to miss the opportunity.
Early the next morning, in the elevator downstairs, Li Shu asked Irene Felton: "Do you think Shen Yiyou likes surprises?"
Irene showed him a very professional smile: "No one can refuse a modest surprise."
"I'll go back to City S the day after tomorrow," Li Shu told Irene, "make arrangements for me."