Li Xuan walked to the front of the car in one breath before stopping. He got in with a stern face and closed the door with a little more force, which scared Yang Xu and the driver.
This driver was assigned by the company, and it wasn't the first time he had picked up Sheng Min. He knew that he had a good temper, but he had never seen him look as gloomy as he did today. He didn't understand the situation at all. He could only look at Yang Xu with doubt.
Yang Xu thought he knew the reason, but he didn't dare to say it. He shook his head like a rattle. Uncle Li Xuan sat in the back seat with his hands behind his back, ignoring their eyebrow lawsuit and not talking. The driver stayed for a while and felt that the low air pressure in the car was really unbearable. Seeing that Li Xuan didn't seem to want to leave immediately, he made an excuse to go to the bathroom and got out of the car as if escaping.
"Brother." Yang Xu turned around and asked tentatively, "Um... Where is Li Xuan? ... Did you have a fight?"
Li Xuan frowned and glanced at him. Yang Xu felt a pain in his flesh and hesitated to make conversation: "... ...Should we leave now? Or should we wait for him?"
"You didn't ask when the driver was here, but you remembered after he left. Do you want to drive?" Li Xuan had a blank expression.
Yang Xu opened her mouth but couldn't think of a rebuttal, Li Xuan had already turned away.
He was confused and annoyed. He wondered how could Shengmin be a homosexual
Li Xuan frowned and looked out the window. The parking lot was dimly lit and gloomy, reminding him of an incident from his youth. So many years had passed, but when he thought about it again, Li Xuan still felt sick.
He grabbed the water by the car door, unscrewed the cap and took a big gulp to suppress the nausea-inducing feeling.
It's different, Li Xuan frowned and thought, Sheng Min is different, this is completely different. But he still couldn't understand why men like men
He was really surprised, but after thinking about it calmly, there were signs. Before taking a shower on the first day they met, Sheng Min said that it was okay as long as he didn't mind. Zhang Zhihua's strange attitude when he saw him at Sheng Min's house, and Sheng Min would become inexplicably stiff and awkward when he got a little closer... There were many signs, but he rarely paid attention to them, and never thought about it in this way.
Li Xuan scratched his hair in annoyance, forgetting that there was still hairspray on his head from the hair styling. His hands were sticky. He grabbed a tissue and wiped it roughly, then looked at his watch. It was almost a quarter of an hour, and Sheng Min hadn't come yet. He became more and more annoyed, and raised his hand and slapped the back of the passenger seat.
"Brother." Yang Xu had been pretending to play with her phone, but she didn't expect him to suddenly get angry. She shivered and her phone fell under the chair. "Brother, what are you doing?"
"Go call him." Li Xuan said in a muffled voice.
"Who to call?" Yang Xu bent down to pick up the phone, and it took him a long time to find it. "Lao Liu?"
Li Xuan frowned: "Who is Lao Liu?"
Yang Xu was confused: "Driver..."
Li Xuan looked at him with a headache. Yang Xu reacted: "Oh, you call me Li Xuan, right... not brother, I'll go call him?"
He had a bitter face. Li Xuan was so angry that he reached out to open the car door: "I'll go!"
"I'll go, I'll go. I didn't say I wouldn't go." Yang Xu quickly stopped him, opened the car door, and rolled out of the car, "Brother, I'll go, you sit... You're so irritable today..."
He muttered to himself and ran away.
Sheng Min sat quietly in the dressing room, listening to the occasional footsteps outside the door, which gradually faded away. The sky darkened unconsciously. This room faced west, and the afterglow of the setting sun fell from the corner of the window onto the mirror, cutting out countless tiny shadows. Sheng Min felt a little dazzled, and lowered her head and buried her face in her arms.
He didn't seem very sad or embarrassed.
Since he found that he only had feelings for the same sex, these two emotions had always surrounded him for many years. But when he heard Yang Xu talking to Li Xuan at the door just now, Sheng Min calmed down quickly after a brief brain blank, and his calmness was beyond his expectation.
He could actually walk away. Li Xuan sometimes had a bad temper, but he was not a reckless person. If he pretended not to know, Li Xuan probably wouldn't ask immediately. But for some reason, Sheng Min didn't want to hide, even though it was his usual principle to muddle through and keep things quiet.
So he pushed the door open and came in. He didn't regret it now. The only thing was that he felt a little regretful. Li Xuan looked like he couldn't accept it. They probably couldn't be friends anymore. Although he didn't know if they could be considered friends after only knowing each other for a few days... ...
Sheng Min closed his eyes and let his thoughts run wild. Even the sound outside the door was automatically blocked out, until someone patted his shoulder and Yang Xu's panicked voice exploded in his ears: "You cried?!"
"No." Sheng Min raised his head and blinked because of the sudden light.
"Hey, don't cry." Yang Xu came closer to look at his face anxiously.
"I really didn't cry." Sheng Min said, "Why are you here?"
Yang Xu still looked at him suspiciously: "I came to tell you to leave."
"Is that so?" Sheng Min perked up and stood up, "Let's go then."
They walked out along the corridor, and Yang Xu followed him all the way, wanting to say something but stopping herself. When they reached the elevator, she finally couldn't help herself and called him, "Li Xuan."
Sheng Min turned around and saw his face full of bitterness and resentment.
"What's wrong?" Sheng Min asked.
"Brother Xuan." Yang Xu suddenly changed the subject, "Did you have a quarrel with my brother?"
"No."
"Don't lie to me." Yang Xu shouted, "His face is long like a horse's, but you can't tell it because his face is small. And you said you didn't have a fight, or I didn't provoke him, so why would he explode like a cheap firecracker today without being lit?"
Sheng Min pressed the elevator button and didn't know how to answer it for a moment.
Yang Xu was silent for a while, then he entered the elevator and watched the door slowly close before he said, "My brother really has a hard time. He may not have told you, so you don't know."
Of course I know. Sheng Min thought, I didn't think it was that difficult. But seeing Yang Xu's eyes suddenly turn red when she talked about it, I felt a little bit sorry.
Yang Xu was not very smart sometimes, but she had nothing to say about him. She had been his assistant for four or five years. Even when he was least popular, she never had any unfaithful thoughts.
As Sheng Min was thinking, Yang Xu spoke again: "I just saw that my brother cares about you, otherwise I wouldn't tell you this. He scolded your agent today because of you, and he was so angry. He's completely changed."
It was a different person, but not the one Yang Xu thought.
Sheng Min sighed and was about to speak, but Yang Xu sniffed, "Don't argue with him because you're jealous of his ex-boyfriend. He didn't tell you about this, and I can't bring it up either. Anyway, that guy is a piece of shit. My brother hasn't liked him for eight hundred years."
In fact, if Yang Xu hadn't mentioned it today, Sheng Min hadn't thought about that person for a long time. Even if he occasionally met her at an event, it would be difficult for him to have any waves in his heart.
In the final analysis, it was nothing, but when he told it, people who knew a little about his past would not believe it. He didn't want to talk about it at first, so he didn't explain it. Now, he can't explain it clearly.
"Yang Xu." Sheng Min saw that Yang Xu was getting angrier and angrier, so he interrupted him gently, "You misunderstood. The relationship between me... between me and Sheng Min is not what you think."
Yang Xu looked at him, always with a look of disbelief.
"Really. We were a little unhappy because of other things, but it had nothing to do with love, and we didn't have any feelings for each other. It was an accident that I lived with him, and it's hard to explain, but don't get me wrong." Sheng Min thought about it and said, "It's just that he has a bad temper recently. You should be careful with what you say and do, and don't make him angry. Even if he says a few words sometimes, he doesn't mean any harm, so don't take it to heart."
Yang Xu didn't understand why he was the one being persuaded when he was clearly trying to persuade Li Xuan. It was just that this gentle and patient look made him feel very familiar for no reason, and suddenly he forgot to reply.
The elevator reached the basement floor at this time, and Sheng Min gently pushed his shoulder: "Let's go."
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It's even later. Sorry. See you the day after tomorrow.