"Brother... I can't find him... Did he go back?" Li Xuan walked out and called Yang Xu, who was out of breath looking for him.
"Where have you been looking?" Li Xuan heard a faint echo from the other end. "Where are you now?"
"The garage. If he wants to leave, he has to go through the garage..."
"Why did he leave the garage when the car keys are all here with you? I asked you to find someone. Do you think he was waiting for you in the car?!" Li Xuan got a headache after hearing this.
"Brother, I'm not stupid." Yang Xu shouted, "I didn't even take the elevator to get off the garage. I took the stairs and found a stairwell."
"Did you find it?"
"No… "
"Then what can you do?!"
He met two staff members who came forward and saw Li Xuan, seeming to want to take a photo with him. Li Xuan shook his head, indicating that he was on the phone, and walked over quickly.
"What should we do then..." Yang Xu said, "Why did he leave... Did you have a fight today?"
From his tone, Li Xuan knew that the improper gay relationship between him and Sheng Min had already taken root in Yang Xu's mind: "Why am I arguing? Why don't you say that you pissed him off?"
"I didn't!" Yang Xu said quickly.
"Okay, okay, I get it. I didn't scold you." Li Xuan frowned.
"Then should I come to see you now? Are you still upstairs?"
"Don't come. Go wait in the car." At the end of the corridor was a floor plan of the building. Li Xuan looked at it and wondered where Sheng Min might go.
"Oh." Yang Xu felt a little aggrieved, "You don't need me to look for it."
"You just stay in the car, in case he comes again later, there has to be someone there." Li Xuan said perfunctorily.
"That's right." Yang Xu believed his excuse and her voice immediately became cheerful again. Li Xuan responded with a few words and hung up the phone.
He guessed that Sheng Min should not have gone too far, and he was not such an irresponsible person. So he took a picture of the floor plan and looked for the possible place.
The building doesn't occupy too large an area, but it's still very hard to find it. When I met staff, I asked them, but they either hadn't seen it or had only a vague impression of it. But it's better than nothing.
After failing to find the person, Li Xuan began to doubt his own confidence and gradually became uneasy. When he finally saw a familiar figure on the rooftop, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
By this time, almost an hour had passed. Sheng Min stood with her back to him and did not notice his arrival.
Li Xuan should be angry, both emotionally and rationally. For searching for so long in vain, for the anxiety and worry during the search, but the moment he saw Sheng Min, he really didn't have a trace of anger.
It was getting darker, and the sky was a gorgeous deep blue with layers of clouds. The shadow cast by the tall building behind him blocked most of the light from the rooftop. On the rooftop, which was definitely not open and bright, Sheng Min's moon-white shirt was the only bright spot.
Li Xuan did not make any noise to disturb them. He sent a message to Yang Xu to tell him that he had found someone and that he could leave first. Then he just stood silently by the rooftop door. He knew that he should call Sheng Min at this time, but he didn't want to speak at all.
Sheng Min's shadow was stretched out by the setting sun, almost falling to his feet. Li Xuan lowered his eyes to look at the figure on the ground, and then looked at Sheng Min's thin back that looked like a sculpture.
He was in a trance for a while, not knowing where his eyes were fixed. However, this was probably just an illusion, because when Sheng Min suddenly walked towards the rooftop, he rushed over as swiftly as possible and held his hand tightly.
"What are you doing?" After staring at each other for a few seconds, Li Xuan finally found his voice.
He appeared suddenly, and Sheng Min forgot to speak for a moment when his hand was caught. She just looked into his eyes. After a while, she tentatively tried to pull her hand out, and a thin layer of sweat had already appeared on her face.
"Don't move." Li Xuan didn't let go, but held on tighter. "What are you doing?"
"There's a cat." Sheng Min came back to his senses.
"What?" Li Xuan was startled. Only then did he realize that a black cat had appeared outside the railing of the rooftop. It was curled up in a small ball on the edge, its tail trembling nervously.
"It jumped over from the building next door." Sheng Min explained, "Let it go first, I'll go and pick it up. It's too small, don't let it fall."
Li Xuan knew that he had misunderstood, but he couldn't explain why he still didn't want Sheng Min to go to the rooftop. He was reluctant to let go.
"What's wrong?"
"Don't go."
Sheng Min looked at him in confusion. Li Xuan could have stopped explaining and just hugged him. Sheng Min would not have delved into the matter.
But he would definitely overthink it. Li Xuan was a little helpless and could only bite the bullet and make up an excuse: "I'm allergic to cat hair."
"ah?"
"Allergic." Li Xuan repeated, and then asked seriously, "You are not allergic, are you?"
Sheng Min hesitated and shook his head.
"Okay, I'll go and pick it up." He then let go of her hand. He quickly walked to the railing, bent down, reached his hand through the gap in the railing, grabbed the black cat by the scruff of its neck, and brought it in.
The cat was frightened, but it curled up in the stranger's arms and was surprisingly docile, only meowing twice.
He walked back with the cat in his arms, and in order to prove his excuse of being allergic to cat hair, he just wanted to let Sheng Min take a look and then let it go. But Sheng Min looked at the cat with bright eyes, like a child looking at candy, and Li Xuan couldn't help asking, "Do you want to hold it?"
“You’re not allergic…”
"Just a little. You can hold me if you want."
Sheng Min pursed her lips and looked at him for a while, then suddenly said, "You're not allergic, are you?" He sighed, glanced at the place where the cat had just stayed, and said in a lighter voice, "The railing is very high, I can't jump out, and I don't plan to jump."
After talking about it over and over again, it was finally exposed. Even though he didn't want to think about it too much, he had already thought about it.
"I didn't think so. I just didn't react to it just now."
This was indeed the truth. Li Xuan believed that Sheng Min would live well if she promised him that she would not die. If he thought Sheng Min was going to commit suicide again, why would he bother to deal with the matter before looking for someone? However, since he had lied before, the truth would not be credible if it fell into Sheng Min's ears. It was rare for Li Xuan to do something wrong by being so smart. In embarrassment, his tone became a little hard, and he only asked: "... Do you want to hug me or not?"
Sheng Min stretched out his hand, but hesitated for a moment: "Are you really not allergic?"
"Yeah." Li Xuan was so embarrassed that he almost wanted to laugh, "Okay, take it quickly, I don't like small animals."
Sheng Min pouted slightly. Finally, he held her in his arms. The cat was not afraid of strangers at all. He did not move even after being held in another embrace. He just licked the back of Sheng Min's hand with his tongue. Sheng Min raised his hand and slowly stroked its smooth fur.
"Do you want to take it home to raise it?" Li Xuan saw that he seemed to like it very much.
Sheng Min raised his eyes, and Li Xuan quickly said, "I really don't like it. I'm not lying to you. But if you want to keep it, I have no objection at all."
"I don't." Sheng Min shook his head, "I haven't kept any animals for a long time."
"Why?" Li Xuan asked subconsciously.
Sheng Min pursed his lips, not wanting to answer. But Li Xuan kept looking at him, waiting for the next words. Sheng Min was helpless and hesitated for a moment: "I used to have a dog..." He lowered his eyes as if embarrassed, "Actually it wasn't my dog, it just often hung out at the vegetable market downstairs from my house. I saw it every day after school, and if I had money I would buy it a sausage to feed it... I fed it for two or three months, and it wagged its tail when it saw me. Later I went to film, and when I came back it was gone... It was a yellow dog with a tuft of white hair on its head, probably ran away to some other place."
That being said, in fact, both of them understand the most likely fate of a stray dog that suddenly disappears.
Li Xuan did not respond, but Sheng Min smiled lightly, and the smile was fleeting: "Small animals are too delicate and too expensive. I can't even take care of myself. I can't afford to keep them, so I don't keep them."
As he spoke, he stroked the black cat's head with his palm and was about to let it go. But he was afraid that it would run outside the rooftop again, so he held it all the way to the stairs, then squatted down and let go, letting the cat jump out of his arms.
The black cat meowed and quickly ran down the stairs and disappeared. Sheng Min, however, was still squatting there.
It was getting late, and there were no lights on the rooftop. The lights from the building opposite sparsely sprinkled over, passing over Li Xuan's shoulders, but they could not illuminate the small area where Sheng Min was, as if she was about to melt into the night.
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Li Xuan couldn't help but take a step forward. Sheng Min heard his footsteps, turned around and stood up.
Li Xuan stopped two steps away. The rooftop was very quiet. Except for the occasional faint voices coming from the building and the sound of car horns passing by downstairs, there was only the sound of each other's breathing.
Li Xuan felt like he had to say something. He didn't like to talk much, but as long as he thought about it, it would be a piece of cake for him to speak. But at this moment, he really forgot what he wanted to say.
So in the end, it was Sheng Min who spoke first, and what came out of his mouth was a solemn apology.
"Why are you telling me this?" Li Xuan frowned heavily.
"I should have said it." Sheng Min said seriously, "This afternoon... the recording room was too stuffy, I really couldn't stay there, actually I just wanted to come out for some fresh air, I got distracted and forgot the time. You must have been looking for a long time... Did you call? I didn't hear it either..." He took out his cell phone again, only to find that it had been turned off because it was out of battery.
"I didn't look for it for long." Li Xuan's brows were still furrowed, and he added, "It was indeed boring."
Sheng Min paused: "And... I didn't expect..."
"It's okay." Li Xuan didn't let him continue, but Sheng Min insisted on finishing his words: "I really didn't expect what happened today. I made you deal with it for me on stage, and I shouldn't have left. It's just that at that time..." He didn't finish his words, and said: "Next time if something like this happens again, just don't record it. It's okay."
His tone was sincere, and the guilt on his face could not be hidden.
"If you were here, you wouldn't record it?"
"It's different." Sheng Min looked into his eyes, "Even if we are in this situation now, you don't have to suffer this because of me. It's not fair to you."
Li Xuan wanted to ask if that was fair to you, but he didn't say it, and just frowned more tightly.
Sheng Min lowered his eyes and kicked a stone away from his feet, then raised his head again, and said in a deliberately lighter tone: "So you see, it is indeed me who should apologize... Okay, stop frowning. If you don't like it, I won't say it anymore."
"You're the one saying everything. You've already said whether I like you or not." Li Xuan wanted to leave, but Sheng Min grabbed his arm quickly. He didn't use much strength, and Li Xuan could easily break free, but he couldn't break free at all. He said impatiently: "What else do you want to say?"
Originally, there was no more. But Sheng Min saw his unfriendly expression, hesitated for a moment, let go of his hand, and then spoke again: "It's not stomach cancer, it's a problem with the pancreas. I didn't start acting after I was diagnosed with the disease. Children always like to show off. When I was young, I actually just treated filming as a game. I was very proud of it... Anyway, it's not all true..."
This was not what he expected, and he spoke lightly and quickly. After he finished speaking, he breathed a sigh of relief: "That's it, it's really nothing... So don't be angry, you must have been very angry today. I..."
"I know." Li Xuan said, his expression still not being very good.
Sheng Min smiled softly: "What do you know now?"
"I know everything you need me to know."
He couldn't have been more certain about what he said, but it seemed like he was just saying it casually. He didn't continue the topic after he finished speaking. He pushed Shengmin's back and said, "You've been blowing the wind for a long time. Your hands are cold. Don't stay here. Go downstairs."
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