Believing that Sheng Min had nothing to do with this matter, Zhang Zhihua changed his embarrassed look. Pulling his clothes and fanning himself, he said, "Don't mind what I said just now. I was just anxious... ... How did you say that? That's right, caring makes you confused, caring makes you confused."
He sat down and said pretentiously, "I was just thinking about you. In fact, you know it's impossible. You had to spend money to find a veterinarian for those disabled dogs and cats in the props group, fearing that they would die. How could you do such a thing? I'm putting this out here today. Even if I did it, it definitely couldn't have been you."
"Then it's you." Li Xuan said coldly.
"Hey." Zhang Zhihua waved his hands randomly twice, "Look at what you said. It's just a joke."
"No one wants to joke with you. Are you done?" Li Xuan said coldly, expressionless. "You can leave now. Don't ask around, or others will think you care too much. If you are so curious, wouldn't it be better for you to become his agent and get first-hand information up close?"
Zhang Zhihua pretended not to hear the second half of his words. He came in a hurry and left in a flash: "That's all. Okay, you eat first. Then I'll leave. I'll ask someone to bring you the warm-up plan tonight..."
Hearing the door close, Li Xuan slowly took a sip of soup and put down his chopsticks.
Sheng Min hadn't come back yet. In a corner of the sofa, documents were casually spread out, and the pen cap was not on, as if he had left in a hurry. The drop of ink on the tip of the pen was faintly dried up, and Li Xuan took out his cell phone to call him again. When he turned on the screen, he found that there was a missed call from Sheng Min three minutes ago.
"Where are you?" Li Xuan called back, and this was the first thing Sheng Min asked him when she answered the phone.
"Lounge." Li Xuan heard his voice and subconsciously stood up from his chair, "You..."
Sheng Min said, "Then wait for me to come over."
"Okay." Li Xuan nodded, then remembered that the other party couldn't see him, so he repeated, "I'll wait for you."
There were footsteps outside the door from time to time, and Li Xuan's hearing suddenly became extremely sensitive at this moment. The waiting time was not long, but it made him feel suffocated. He was just impatient when dealing with Yang Xu and Zhang Zhihua, but at this moment, a kind of nervousness that he had not felt for a long time enveloped him.
Waiting is such a tormenting thing. In a trance, Li Xuan returned to the moment when he was lying on the operating table, waiting for the doctor's scalpel to cut his skin. But that was seven years ago. For him now, such emotions are unnecessary and should not be there.
He went to get a glass of ice water and drank it, and then started to clean up the opened dishes on the table. He ordered a sweet oyster rice with pear soup for Sheng Min again, and even checked the information Sheng Min had read in the past few days, marking the wrong steps one by one. During this process, he couldn't help but recall the tone of Sheng Min's voice on the phone.
Do you know? How much do you know? But the voice seemed to be devoid of any emotion, and no matter how hard I tried, I could not get any results.
When Sheng Min came in, Li Xuan was smoking a cigarette. In just a few days, he smoked several times more than usual, and the cigarette box was almost empty. Li Xuan thought this was not good. He couldn't be overly dependent on anything, tobacco or anything else.
No one spoke, but by looking at each other's expressions, they understood each other.
The ash accidentally landed on the back of my hand, causing a barely perceptible burn. The spark was so weak that it didn't actually produce much heat, more like the feeling of being bitten by an ant.
If you know, then you know. Li Xuan suddenly calmed down and thought indifferently.
This is not surprising. After all, he is the real Shengmin, a popular idol. Although his body has been swapped, his connections and network still belong to him. If he wants to, if he is willing, he can naturally get the information he needs.
"Qin Zhengchen had his legs broken and his fingers chopped off." After a while, Sheng Min spoke first, without any context.
"Qin Zhengchen." Li Xuan tilted his head and even smiled. "Your former teammate?"
This was how Sheng Min defined their relationship that day, and Li Xuan threw the same words back to him.
Shengmin bit his lip: "You did it."
Three simple words. Not even a question.
Li Xuan was recalling at that moment, when he decided to make Qin Zhengchen pay the price, did he ever think about letting Sheng Min know? Then he realized that he had never considered this issue at all. Because this was something he had to do. No one and nothing could change it, including Sheng Min.
"Yes." Li Xuan nodded and admitted readily, "I did it."
The air conditioner was running smoothly, bringing out a cool breeze that ruffled Sheng Min's hair. Hearing this, he looked at Li Xuan, his expression clean and confused, and there seemed to be a trace of guilt that shouldn't have appeared. His soft eyes were like some harmless little animal.
Why do this? I guessed it a long time ago. But this still made Li Xuan feel unbearable. He said nothing more, lowered his head, and took another deep puff of his cigarette.
White smoke rings appeared and dissipated. Li Xuan lowered his eyes and saw Sheng Min's white sneakers approaching step by step, and finally stopped in front of him. He always walked without making any sound. Li Xuan suddenly thought.
"You know." Sheng Min seemed to sigh, "Who did you ask? Zhang Zhihua or Yang Xu? ... Ask both. You are so smart, it's easy to get questions from anyone."
"Are you here to call me to task?" Li Xuan looked up at him and suddenly gave him a wicked smile. "Are you feeling sorry for me?"
"Li Xuan!" Sheng Min frowned, "You clearly know it's not."
"I don't know." Li Xuan said bluntly.
"Okay. Okay." Sheng Min was stunned for two seconds and nodded. "You don't know. So you asked others about it behind my back, but you refused to ask me. Even if I wanted to mention it, you were always unwilling to listen. I really don't want to talk about it, but if you want, then there is nothing I can't tell you. Do you not want to listen or are you afraid to listen? What are you afraid of hearing? You asked them, did you get the answer you wanted? ... No, is that right?"
The tone was not harsh, and in such a situation, it was still gentle and restrained.
Li Xuan's body stiffened involuntarily, and he put out the cigarette in his hand with his backhand. There was an unprecedented severity in his eyes, and he stood up neatly: "I don't understand what you are saying."
He walked around Sheng Min and was about to leave, but Sheng Min gently grabbed his wrist.
"If you don't understand, then I'll explain it to you word by word, okay?" Sheng Min's voice was still very low, and it sounded a little tired. Li Xuan wanted to interrupt him, but he couldn't say the words to stop him like he did the previous two times.
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