Sheng Min slept very uneasily at night and woke up several times. She could clearly see his hands and feet entangled. In a half-awake state, she would touch his eyebrows to confirm that he was by her side.
I was so busy that it was dawn, but I was no longer sleepy.
"Are you awake? Do you want some water?"
Sheng Min shook his head: "Does your hand still hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt."
Sheng Min's eyes were slightly red and swollen, and his voice was a little hoarse. After hearing what he said, he still turned sideways to carefully check Li Xuan's wound to make sure there was no blood seeping out. Then he took out his phone and checked the time.
"What time is it?"
"It's still early, a quarter past five."
Sheng Min was replying to messages while talking. It was not surprising. After what happened yesterday, it was still on the hot search list all night. From fans, reporters to colleagues, everyone wanted to know the inside story.
But I was a little hesitant in replying to this message. It took me a long time, and I typed and deleted it, but the screen was still on.
"What's wrong?"
Li Xuan hadn't seen anyone move for a long time, so he moved closer from behind, rested his chin on his shoulder, put his arms half-around Sheng Min, and swiped the screen.
Yin Qianpin sent a WeChat message in the early morning. I guess he knew about what happened yesterday, but he didn't say anything else. He just acted like nothing happened and asked Sheng Min when he would go back to rehearse.
"Why don't you reply?"
Sheng Min ignored him and pushed his hand that was on his waist.
"It hurts." Li Xuan took a deep breath.
Sheng Min was helpless and said coldly: "I pushed with my right hand."
"Oh." Li Xuan was not embarrassed at all, "My heart hurts."
"I'll just make you suffer." Sheng Min still didn't reply to the message. He turned off the screen and put it back on the bedside table.
"How can you bear to do that?"
Sheng Min turned his head to the side, and it was hard to tell whether he was happy or angry: "Yes, I can't bear to do it, and you can control me."
Li Xuan knew what happened yesterday, and it was still a thorn in Sheng Min's heart. The thorn was removed, but the hole was still there. He stuck to him and kissed him stickyly: "Don't wrongly accuse me, I dare not..."
"You have a very good idea..."
The rest of the words were swallowed up in the kiss. He gently held Sheng Min's jaw with his left hand, and Sheng Min could only let him kiss her until she was a little out of breath, and Li Xuan was willing to let him go.
The sparkling eyes didn't have much of a deterrent effect even when glaring at someone. Li Xuan pretended not to see it, hugged his thin waist, and reached out to play with his soft hair: "Why don't you go back?"
"I don't want to go back."
"Not going?"
Sheng Min did not answer, and after a pause, he said: "If I didn't know Yin Qianpin, Deng Jing wouldn't have come to see you..."
Li Xuan was stunned: "Why would you think so?"
"Of course you can't think like that." Sheng Min said softly, "They didn't know you beforehand, so how could they know that you were a lunatic."
Seeing that the fire was about to burn him again, Li Xuan was thinking about how to deal with it, but Sheng Min sighed first, put his arms around his neck, and kissed him gently: "Don't scare me again."
Li Xuan put his forehead against his, and for a moment he felt very soft-hearted: "Never again."
Their light breaths intertwined, creating a special lingering gesture. As they spoke, a ray of white appeared through the gap in the curtains.
"Are you going to the company today?"
"Later." Li Xuan said and then explained, "There are too many things to do, and you can't hold on in the company."
"Come back early, and watch your hands." Sheng Min didn't stop him. He turned sideways, stretched out his arm to hook the coat that fell on the carpet, took out his wallet, pulled out the card and handed it to him, "The password is birthday."
Li Xuan was stunned for a moment, and Sheng Min stuffed it into his pocket without further explanation: "You don't need the money for the termination of the contract, take it back. In addition, there is another sum..."
He noticed Li Xuan's eyes and curled his lips: "You are the only one allowed to prepare money for me, but I am not allowed to prepare money for you?"
Li Xuan smiled and hugged him gently. Sheng Min leaned against his collarbone obediently, paused for a moment and said, "Don't worry about me. After yesterday's incident, it's impossible for President Zhang to have any hope of renewing my contract. Now I'm afraid she's too busy trying to think of other ways to save the stock price and can't care about me... She's a businessman, and the benefits are in front of her. It's better not to do things that only hurt others. Give me face."
Li Xuan didn't know how much of this was true and how much was said to reassure him, but Sheng Min now had a way out, so even if Zhang Shan spread it, it wouldn't be a big problem. It would just add some after-dinner conversation, and it wasn't real evidence.
He gently stroked Sheng Min's cheek, and Sheng Min rubbed against his palm like a little animal: "So you can spend the money without worry. I don't know how much the company needs every day. Just hold on for another two months, and I don't think the problem will be too big."
"Aren't you afraid that I will waste all my money on you?" Li Xuan joked.
Sheng Min hugged his back and said, "She's mine, the money doesn't matter."
After breakfast, I went to the traffic police team to deal with the fine and picked up the car to send to the 4S shop for repair before going to the company.
Li Xuan said yesterday that he would be back for a meeting in 40 minutes. Chu Tianheng waited and waited but didn't see him. He called him at night. When he saw the gauze on his hand, he couldn't help but ask a few more questions.
"It's okay." Li Xuan shook his head. "The road was slippery due to the rain, and the car crashed."
"Car crash?! Is it serious?"
"Can I still come if it's serious?" Li Xuan turned on the computer. "Is the updated information ready?"
"alright."
He glanced at his watch: "Come to the conference room at ten."
Chu Tianheng nodded and was about to leave when the administrator came over and knocked on the door. "Brother Xuan." She looked a little embarrassed, "Someone is looking for you at the door."
When he saw Zhao Jizhe, Li Xuan understood where the administrative embarrassment came from.
Except for Chu Tianheng, most of the other employees were unaware of the inside story, but ever since Qi Boyuan resigned in anger, all kinds of speculations, both reliable and unreliable, have never subsided.
Li Xuan glanced at him, walked calmly to the end of the corridor, and then said to Zhao Jizhe who followed him: "What's the matter?"
"Nineteen..." Zhao Jizhe called him timidly, "How are your injuries? I was worried about you and couldn't sleep all night."
Li Xuan shook his head: "It's not serious, is there anything else?"
Zhao Jizhe had already forgotten how long it had been since Li Xuan had spoken to him in such a calm and peaceful manner. However, this realization did not make Zhao Jizhe happy. Instead, it made him feel an unprecedented panic.
"Nineteen." He rushed forward and grabbed Li Xuan's hand, even hoping that Li Xuan would say he didn't know him like he did yesterday, which would be better than his attitude as if nothing had happened. "Hit me, scold me, I was wrong, I shouldn't have listened to your adoptive father and gave him that hard drive, I was wrong, Nineteen, I didn't know, I really didn't know..."
Li Xuan pulled his hand out easily: "It's okay, you don't have to do this, it doesn't look good. I still have to continue working in this building, and I can't afford to lose face with this person."
Even as he said this, he didn't have much emotion in his expression, like the thin layer of ice and snow covering the pine wood in winter.
"Zhao Jizhe." Li Xuan's cell phone was ringing, but he didn't look at it and hung up. "It doesn't matter. I already knew that you took the hard drive, so I don't care about it."
Zhao Jizhe's expression was almost terrified, his legs were weak and he could not stand steadily, which formed a sharp contrast with Li Xuan's indifference.
Li Xuan squatted down calmly and looked at him: "I have always said that I don't owe you anything. I have a clear conscience, but I also know that you may not think so."
"No..." Zhao Jizhe widened his eyes, "Nineteen, I..."
"I'm not willing to accept your kindness, but I am willing to repay you." Li Xuan shook his head. He didn't know who was in urgent need. The phone that had been hung up soon rang again. He hung up again and said seriously, "From now on, no, not from now on, from the day you stole the hard drive, we are even. No matter how unwilling you are, I won't accompany you anymore."
There were footsteps behind him. It was Chu Tianheng who was worried and came to check the situation.
"It's okay, senior, go back to the meeting."
Li Xuan stood up, and Zhao Jizhe quickly grabbed the hem of his coat: "Nineteen, Nineteen... I was wrong, I will change, really... Can you forgive me this time... Or, or are you lying to me?" He suddenly seemed to think of something, "You don't want to care about me because of that little star?!... You're in love, you don't need me anymore..."
"I never needed you!"
When it comes to Sheng Min, Li Xuan's expression remains unchanged, but his eyes suddenly become sinister, "I'm telling you, today's result is your own fault, as well as mine. I admit it, and you have to admit it too. If you can't get over it and want to infect other people..."
Li Xuan forced a smile on his lips: "Zhao Jizhe, remember, you are afraid of death."
The implication was so clear that Zhao Jizhe unconsciously loosened his hand for a moment. It was too late for him to grab him again. Li Xuan's back was so quick and decisive that he didn't even glance at him.
Finished.
This time, Nineteen really won't care about him anymore. Zhao Jizhe felt cold in his heart, but the voice lingered in his mind.
Looking at Li Xuan's back, he suddenly had the illusion that the whole building was collapsing. He wanted to chase him but didn't dare. He stood up, but suddenly fell to the ground.
Chu Tianheng, who was standing by the wall, overheard some gossip and felt a little awkward in this chaotic scene.
He glanced at Li Xuan who had already walked away, and then looked at Zhao Jizhe. They had not had much contact when they were in the company before, and he did not have much bad feelings towards Zhao Jizhe. But at this moment, it was indeed difficult for him to feel any sympathy.
But the sight of a person kneeling on the ground half-paralyzed like this was really annoying, so he sighed, "Can you leave? Do you need me to take you down?... Don't come, really, Li Xuan has a lot of things to do."
"Is it serious?"
Zhao Jizhe raised his head with empty eyes. Ever since Yuanyi got into trouble, he had been hanging out on the forum every day reading various people's analyses. Everyone said that the situation was very serious. He was afraid, but didn't want to believe it.
"What do you think?" Chu Tianheng was inevitably angry, but he managed to keep calm. "Let me put it simply. The company's revenue all depends on Yi Yu. This is also all the hard work of Li Xuan over the years. Now, to exaggerate a little, it is almost gone. Everything has to start all over again..."
"I don't know!" Zhao Jizhe suddenly yelled, then quickly lowered his voice and quickly explained, "He didn't tell me that, he said it was just a small lesson! No one told me... He lied to me..."
I don't know if it's stupidity, not a reason. Chu Tianheng had a headache: "You'd better leave early, it's not good to stay here all the time."
He had finished speaking and was about to leave when he heard Zhao Jizhe asking him tremblingly behind him, "Is it because of the company's affairs that Nineteen was too tired and stressed out that he crashed the car?"
Zhao Jizhe has been following Li Xuan these days. He wants to apologize or get the truth. He wants to hear Li Xuan say that it is not that serious, that those people on the Internet are talking nonsense and exaggerating, and he himself cannot explain it clearly.
He had been following him in a daze for several days, but Li Xuan rarely left the company during these days and didn't notice him at all.
When the car accident happened yesterday, Zhao Jizhe was hiding two cars behind Li Xuan. He saw clearly that the car was parked properly and suddenly started. It was not an accident. Li Xuan hit it on purpose...
Chu Tianheng was stunned when he heard this. He only knew about the car accident ten minutes ago. But according to Li Xuan's personality, it is absolutely impossible for him to have the idea of committing suicide because of work problems. It would be better for him to hit someone else. I really don't know why Zhao Jizhe came up with such an outrageous idea.
It seems like we've known each other for many years, but do you know each other at all? Chu Tianheng didn't know what to say.
But Zhao Jizhe obviously misunderstood this silence.
"Okay, I get it..." He stood up by supporting himself on the floor, muttering like a possessed man, "I will compensate him, I will compensate him, I didn't mean to do that, I won't hurt him..."
Zhao Jizhe held on to the wall, lowered his head, and walked slowly along the safe passage. The cold wind blew his hair like messy dead grass. After turning the corner, he disappeared.
In the company, Li Xuan was working as a programmer, dealing with a bug. His fingertips tapped on the keyboard smoothly. Several people stood around him, staring in amazement. When they saw Chu Tianheng coming over, they even forgot to say hello.
"Do you understand?" Li Xuan turned sideways, took the cup from one of the men and took a sip of water.
"We..." The person who answered hesitated and exchanged glances with his colleague, "Let's study it."
"Study it."
Li Xuan checked the time, got up and went back to the office, probably preparing to take his laptop to the conference room for a meeting. Seeing Chu Tianheng following him closely, he asked, "Is there something you want to talk about now?"
"He's gone."
"Oh." Li Xuan nodded, not really moved. "Let's go, let's go to the meeting... What? Is there anything else?"
Chu Tianheng saw that he had no intention of talking about Zhao Jizhe. He originally wanted to show some concern for his car accident, but he suddenly started talking about the gossip he had just heard: "Are you dating a female celebrity?"
Li Xuan raised his eyebrows, and Chu Tianheng regretted meddling in other people's business. Gossip is human nature and it is difficult to control. "No, Li Xuan, I just..."
"Male celebrity."
Chu Tianheng's words were abruptly cut off in the middle, but Li Xuan smiled and repeated to his surprised face, "I'm in love with a male celebrity."
"I...you..." Chu Tianheng was stunned, and he couldn't figure out what he was saying. The phone rang again.
Upon closer inspection, it was the same number that had just been hung up. Li Xuan had gone to deal with the bug as soon as he entered the company and hadn't called back yet.
He reached out and patted Chu Tianheng on the shoulder, signaling him not to stand there in surprise, and went to the meeting room first, while casually answering the phone: "Hello, who is this?"
"Li Xuan? It's really hard to get through to you. You've changed your number. Can you still recognize your voice?" The person on the other end of the phone said cheerfully, "It's me, Song Wen."