A light rain was falling outside the window.
Sheng Min woke up to the sound of rain, rested his head on Li Xuan's neck, and asked vaguely, "What time is it?"
"Half past two."
"Morning?"
"afternoon."
Sheng Min moved. The bright sunlight shining through the curtains was a bit dazzling. He shrank back into Li Xuan's arms like some light-fearing animal. "Isn't it raining? How come there's still sunshine... You're lying."
"Who is lying?" Li Xuan couldn't help laughing when he saw that he didn't look sleepy yet.
"you."
"Okay, it's my fault." Li Xuan said with a smile, "I'll go talk to the Dragon King and ask him to stop the rain soon."
Sheng Min didn't respond, and continued to lie down for a while with his eyes closed. Suddenly, as if he had just come to his senses, he said in a lazy tone: "Why is it so late?"
Li Xuan pressed down the quilt for him: "It's not late at all, sleep a little longer if you want to."
"My whole body aches from sleeping so hard." Sheng Min muttered.
"So are we going to get up?"
After thinking for a moment, he still shook his head: "I don't want to think about it."
Li Xuan smiled to himself and discussed with him in a low voice: "Then I'll get up first and make something to eat. I'll call you when I'm done."
"Yeah." Sheng Min grabbed the quilt to cover his face and closed his eyes in a daze.
I haven't slept for too long. It's hard to go from luxury to frugality.
I have gone through so many days of sleeping alone, and now that Li Xuan is gone, I actually feel uncomfortable.
Sheng Min instinctively moved a little to the side, and his palm lovingly touched the place where Li Xuan had just lain. When the remaining temperature under his palm gradually cooled down, he also got up from the bed.
As if in response to Li Xuan's words, when he opened the door, the rain had stopped. The boaster was in the kitchen, looking at a pot of boiling water in an unskilled manner.
"What to eat?"
"Why did you get up so suddenly?" Li Xuan turned down the fire and turned to look at him.
Sheng Min didn't want to talk about his thoughts, and only said, "I've had enough sleep." Then he asked him, "Do you need my help?"
“It’s not difficult to cook a bowl of noodles.”
"What toppings?"
"Tomato and eggs."
Sheng Min laughed, and Li Xuan shrugged and laughed as well: "Like I said, I only know two."
"I want something sweet."
"Okay, I'll fry them separately."
Sheng Min nodded with satisfaction: "I'll go take a shower first." Just as he was about to leave, Li Xuan called him again.
"Hmm?" He turned around, and Li Xuan took two steps forward, hugged him and kissed him, then rubbed his nose, smiling contentedly, "Okay, go ahead."
When I came out of the shower, two bowls of noodles were already on the table, with two small plates of pickled mustard greens and cold shredded vegetables as side dishes.
"Are we going to the company later?" Li Xuan's cooking was mediocre, the appearance was average but the taste was okay. Sheng Min took a bite and asked.
"Let's go. Qi Boyuan just called and said there will be a game operation technology forum next week. Yuanyi will attend it." Li Xuan said, "The information is ready and needs to be released to the public. I need to take a look."
"You're not going?"
"I hate joining in the fun the most." Li Xuan said casually, "It's better for him to go to this kind of occasion where we have to say clichés."
"Oh." Sheng Min glanced at him, "It's hard for you to say so many things for me."
Li Xuan said solemnly: "That's not a problem. I thought it was written on my boyfriend's hand."
"You weren't at that time." Sheng Min kindly reminded him.
"If you don't do anything, you won't have a chance."
"You always have a chance." Sheng Min smiled, and then heard Li Xuan ask him, "Are you going out this afternoon?"
"I can't do it today. I have to go for dubbing tomorrow afternoon. Let me take another look at the script."
"Then I'll come back as soon as possible."
"Come when you're done. No rush. It's not like I have nothing to do."
Sheng Min casually picked up a piece of pickled mustard greens for him. Li Xuan ate quickly and finished it in two bites. He put down his chopsticks, stood up to get a glass of water, turned around, and suddenly noticed something. He was stunned for a moment: "Where did the silver phoenix next to the TV cabinet come from? ... ... I was here last time, right? I don't remember it."
Sheng Min followed his gaze and turned to look at him, saying calmly, "Oh, you're talking about this... Why did you see it only now?"
"It happened to be behind you, otherwise no one would have seen it." Li Xuan put down the cup as if it was a matter of course, "Did the crew force you to give it as a souvenir or who gave it to you?"
“Why can’t I buy it myself?”
"You don't like this kind of thing." Li Xuan said firmly.
Sheng Min smiled, drank another mouthful of soup, picked up some bamboo shoots and put them in his mouth. After swallowing them, he said, "Boss Zhang sent them here." He was afraid that Li Xuan would forget about this person, so he explained, "My cousin Zhang Zhihua."
"Why did she give you this..." Li Xuan frowned and abruptly cut off his words, "Is it about the contract? I remember your contract expires in January next year?"
Sheng Min subconsciously raised his eyes and pursed his lips, not denying it. Li Xuan observed his expression, which was indifferent, and it was difficult to tell his emotions for a moment, so he said: "The phoenix is true, but it is not the Wutong. You have to judge it, not her... What do you think?"
The huge silver phoenix gleamed brightly under the light. It was beautiful, yet also out of place.
"I don't know." Sheng Min bit the tip of the chopsticks lightly and put them down, pursing his lips, "I haven't thought about it yet."
Li Xuan was unwilling to renew his contract out of personal reasons. Looking only at Zhang Zhihua, he did not think this was a very reliable company. What was the point of trying to please him now? Sheng Min was so mentally ill at the beginning. Wang Shuying was one reason, but the company was also not unrelated.
"I signed a contract with the company when I was less than 15 years old, for an eight-year term... It's too much work to open my own studio, and I can't do it. It's hard to say whether changing to another company would be worse or better. Mr. Zhang has been very kind to me, no matter what. But sometimes I think I don't like being an actor anymore."
His tone was somewhat melancholy, and he casually pointed at the pile of scripts on the coffee table: "During this period, there have been about ten scripts handed in one after another. After screening them several times, I didn't see any that I particularly liked... It's not that the scripts are bad. You know, I played too many dramas in the past, and many roles are too repetitive. But if I don't become an artist, what else can I do? I don't know..."
He smiled sheepishly and said, "I'm just not a very planned person. I actually liked acting when I was a kid."
Li Xuan looked at him, his mind full of thoughts, but his face showed no sign of it. He put down his cup, walked over and gently held Sheng Min's shoulder: "You don't have no plans, you are considering everyone. It doesn't matter, if there is no suitable script, just take a break first, don't you still need to dub this month? There is no rush to take a new one at this time. As for whether to renew the contract, I will not interfere with your work... But if you want to terminate the contract and encounter any trouble, remember to tell me."
"What kind of trouble can there be?" Sheng Min glanced at the gorgeous phoenix from the corner of his eye, raised his face to look at Li Xuan and just smiled very relaxedly, "It's normal whether to renew the contract when it expires."
Li Xuan did not comment on this. The two looked at each other briefly for a few seconds. Sheng Min rubbed his eyebrows and chuckled: "Why are you frowning? It's like this."
"It's fine, whatever you want. Just if you make a pinky promise with me, I'll make a pinky promise with you." Li Xuan held his fingertips and looked into his eyes. "If you encounter any problems, tell me."
"Why are you so serious?" Sheng Min broke free from his hand, touched his cheek with her fingertips and pulled it upwards, evoking a barely noticeable smile, and said lightly, "Okay, got it."