I received the email last night and need to confirm whether to accept it within 24 hours, which is another hour and a half.
"And you said you didn't come here just to accompany me today."
"I didn't come here specially to accompany you. I just wanted to accompany you." Li Xuan poured another cup of tea and let him hold his hand to warm it. "Are you going?"
"If I don't go, will it be a waste of your kindness? ... ... When did you sign up?"
"On your birthday." Li Xuan looked at Sheng Min's slightly surprised expression and joked with him, "You were rejected, but you still had to sign up for me. I've never done anything so frustrating."
"Do you feel aggrieved?" Sheng Min frowned.
"I feel very honored." Li Xuan smiled and said seriously, "So there is no such thing as a waste, and signing up is not a difficult thing. I told you not to be swayed by others, including me. Going or not is your choice, I just want to give you one more chance to choose."
He gently pushed the phone in front of Sheng Min, said nothing more, and just waited for him to make a decision.
The glow of the phone screen looked very gentle against the bright light. Sheng Min lowered his eyes and looked at the two short lines of words for a long time, then said softly, "What I said is all true."
"I understand." Li Xuan nodded.
"But it shouldn't be a problem to give it a try?" Sheng Min took a deep breath and lightly tapped the acceptance option with his fingertips. The screen flashed, indicating that the confirmation was successful. The light seemed to fall into the depths of Sheng Min's eyes. He looked at Li Xuan and said shyly, "I won't say thank you to you."
Li Xuan smiled and pinched the back of his neck: "It's what I should do."
They didn't talk about it again on the way home, but the next day when Li Xuan got up and prepared to go to the company, Sheng Min also got up.
"No need to make breakfast, I'll just eat a few bites downstairs in the company." Li Xuan went to the closet and took a shirt, "Sleep a little longer, it's rare that you don't have to go to dubbing today, or if you want to eat anything, I'll order one for you..." Li Xuan didn't hear Sheng Min talking, and when he turned around, he saw that he had put on his clothes, and was startled, and laughed, "Are you going out? I'm still being sentimental here."
"I'm going to school." Sheng Min explained with a little nervousness, trying to look calm, "I haven't acted in a play for a long time. When I was in school, I only rehearsed two complete plays... It's different from acting in TV series and movies. I made an appointment with my acting teacher in college to have a chat."
"What time is the appointment?" Li Xuan raised his wrist to check his watch. "I'll take you there."
"No, I'll drive myself." He said halfway and then realized, "Yes, Yang Xu took the car away yesterday, I forgot."
Li Xuan did not reveal that he did not sleep well the whole night. He patted his back for a long time in a half-awake state, and fell into a daze for a while at dawn. He smiled and said, "So I'll take you there."
"Take a detour." Sheng Min frowned.
Li Xuan still smiled: "Not far."
"Okay, ... I can only give you this chance." Sheng Min thought for a moment and pointed at the clothes he was going to change into, "Change into the apricot-colored shirt next to it."
"This?" Li Xuan obediently moved his hand to the side.
Sheng Min nodded with satisfaction: "I'll go wash my face first."
They took two sandwiches from the refrigerator, ate them casually, and then went out.
Early in the morning, when students are going to school, I passed by a middle school and saw groups of students carrying heavy schoolbags, walking towards the school gate some fast and some slow.
"Our school uniforms before were similar to this." Sheng Min took a bottle of yogurt and drank it slowly, "It was also blue and white. It seems that the whole city has this color scheme..."
"Really?" Li Xuan stopped the car in front of the zebra crossing and waited for the students to walk over.
"You weren't before?"
Li Xuan tapped his fingertips on the steering wheel. "There was no school uniform requirement in elementary school. In private high school, the uniforms were made by all kinds of people. Every day, they were made like insurance salesmen."
His tone was relaxed, and Sheng Min's throat choked. She didn't ask him where he had been in junior high school. She put down the yogurt box, gently pinched his fingertips, and looked at the students in groups of twos and threes outside the car window: "... It would have been nice if we had gone to school together."
"You want me to give you extra lessons, right?"
Sheng Min glanced at him and let go of his hand, but Li Xuan took it back and kissed it: "Just kidding... Without me, who did you go to school with? Tell me so I can be jealous."
"Being with Shenghui... does that make you jealous?"
Hearing this name unexpectedly, Li Xuan quickly glanced at Sheng Min's expression, which was not affected by too many emotions, and deliberately put on a stern face: "I'm almost pissed off."
Sheng Min smiled and gently pinched his cheek: "I can only go to school when I am not filming. Sometimes I am gone for half a month, and my classes are scattered. My classmates are curious about you, but they also feel that they are not familiar enough with you. We are not particularly close... Only occasionally, Sheng Hui will want to go to school with me... In fact, it is usually when he wants pocket money."
Sheng Min seemed to be lost in a long memory. His voice was very soft, and he glanced at Li Xuan again, "It was really a long time ago. It feels like a long time since I thought of them... Last night, I seemed to dream about my mother..."
After this wave of people passed, Li Xuan drove forward again, feeling a little unhappy and unreasonable. Sheng Min had only slept for a few hours, and was disturbed by these people. He asked him gently, "What did you dream about?"
"I can't remember clearly." Sheng Min thought about it carefully, "Maybe it's because the last time I watched seniors rehearse a play at school, my mother called me back home in the middle of it. Later, various things delayed me, and when I returned to school, I had to take a leave of absence... I think about it during the day, and I dream about it at night."
"Next time, don't dream about them, dream about me."
"No." Sheng Min shook his head.
He refused so straightforwardly that Li Xuan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows in surprise: "Why?"
"Every time I dream about you, I wake up immediately... Do you remember when I was in the crew, I called you one night," Sheng Min pursed his lips, his eyebrows curved, "Dreams are never as good as they used to be."
It was exactly nine o'clock when they arrived at the drama academy. Sheng Min took the gift for the teacher from the back seat.
"You don't need to pick me up at noon." He said to Li Xuan while unbuckling his seat belt, "I have an endorsement that needs two autumn promotional photos. I'll go there this afternoon. Yang Xu knows."
"Okay." Li Xuan nodded, "See you tonight."
"See you tonight."
Sheng Min got out of the car. Li Xuan knew that Sheng Min was reluctant to leave if he didn't leave first, so he waved his hand again and started the car. He drove around the trees on the opposite side of the road before stopping and looking back at him.
Sheng Min's back was hidden among the green trees. His light apricot windbreaker seemed to be glowing in the sunlight. He walked towards the school with brisk steps, like a carefree college student.
If the contract is terminated, Sheng Min may be able to go back and finish his studies. Li Xuan touched his jaw, which still had the residual warmth from his fingertips.
He thought about the investors he had met during this period. What kind of sacrifice was this? At worst, he would lose a small part of the company's autonomy. When Against the Track was launched and the capital flow eased, he was sure to get it back.
But he wants Shengmin to completely break away from his past life, starting now.
Sheng Min picked the moon, and Li Xuan also thought he was a cloud, able to go anywhere, change into any shape, and not have to be watched by thousands of people forever to see if it is bright or not, and whether it waxes and wanes according to the script...
This is truly a deal that couldn't be better.
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I'm sorry, I haven't updated for a few days due to hand and work problems. The hand problem is indeed quite serious, but I will try my best to ensure the update. If there is no update one day, I would like to trouble everyone to understand during these days.