Li Xuan checked the game forum and found that Yi Yu had very good reviews. It had temporarily climbed to the top of the software store's business mobile game ratings list.
He picked out the few negative reviews, some of which were obviously malicious, but some were not completely without reference value. Li Xuan wrote them down, all of which were minor issues, and planned to improve them in the next update.
After finishing all this, he looked at the updated information and wrote some code, but it still didn't feel right, so he wrote for half an hour and then deleted it all.
It must be said that the words "legitimate" made him feel moved, although he also understood that this was just an excuse to deceive himself.
He wanted to see Shengmin and hear his voice, not just today, not just now.
It has nothing to do with Sheng Min helping with the promotion.
But it's always good to have an excuse, especially when he doesn't have a suitable position to face him yet.
The phone rang for a long time, but no one answered. Li Xuan remembered that Sheng Min had said in the live broadcast that he had to shoot a movie in the evening. He couldn't help but sigh and was about to hang up when a gentle "hello" came from the other end.
"Li Xuan?" Sheng Min called out tentatively.
Li Xuan sat up unconsciously, realizing that he was being stupid, and leaned back in his chair. His tongue was not working properly, and after a long while he managed to squeeze out a sentence, "It's me."
"I know."
While waiting for the call to be connected, Li Xuan actually thought about whether Sheng Min would deliberately refuse to answer his call. That thought only lasted for a short moment before it was overturned. Sheng Min would not do that. He has always been gentle and decent. Patience and whitewashing are what he is best at.
This realization made Li Xuan feel unprecedentedly sad, so much so that he had to cough to barely cover up his gaffe: "I thought you were filming a movie."
"We were filming, but it suddenly started raining an hour ago, so we had to call it a day." Sheng Min's voice sounded a little sticky and a little sleepy.
"Were you sleeping just now?" Li Xuan couldn't help but start talking nonsense.
Sheng Min was always very patient: "Watching the rain."
"It rained in N City today, too." Li Xuan stood up and walked to the window. It turned out that the rain, which had stopped briefly, fell again without anyone noticing. The raindrops formed a net, blurring the outline of the moon in the sky.
"Really?" Sheng Min smiled silently. "It's raining heavily here, and it's windy... I didn't hear your call just now. Is there something wrong?"
Li Xuan was silent for a moment: "I saw your live broadcast today."
Sheng Min uttered a soft "ah", and when he spoke again, he was a little embarrassed, his voice was soft and a little helpless: "... ... You saw it."
Li Xuan should have said thank you. He had rehearsed it countless times in his mind, but when the words came out of his mouth, they turned into: "You have lost weight."
He regretted the words, but couldn't take them back. There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while: "I'm filming, I can control myself a little bit... I'm fine, nothing's wrong."
Sheng Min's tone was very relaxed, but Li Xuan had no way to continue with him. He heard Sheng Min ask him cautiously again: "You are not angry, are you?"
"What?" Li Xuan was confused.
"I did it on my own initiative without telling you beforehand."
"Then why don't you ask me?"
"You won't agree to that." Sheng Min said, pausing for a moment, a little nervous, "Are you really angry?"
Li Xuan's heart seemed to be blocked: "No. How could it be... I should thank you. The number of downloads today has exceeded one million, and the backend flow is much higher than expected. Qi Boyuan and the others are very happy."
"What about you? Are you happy?"
"Um."
"That's good."
The air conditioner had been on for a long time, and the room was a little stuffy. Li Xuan pushed the window half open and let the rain fall in: "How did you know the game was online? I don't think I told you before."
"If you want to know, you can find out." Sheng Min whispered, and then asked him, "Why is it called "A Corner"? "
The rain kept hitting the treetops, and the tender green leaves were about to fall. Li Xuan was silent for a moment: "Forget it."
Sheng Min didn't mind this perfunctory answer: "I like this name very much."
"Really?" A smile unconsciously slipped across Li Xuan's lips.
"Of course." Sheng Min said affirmatively, paused, and gently called his name, "Li Xuan."
"I am here."
Sheng Min smiled and said gently, "'One Corner' is really well done. Even without me, there will definitely be many people who will discover and recognize it. What I did was just to speed up the process a little bit... You are really a genius. I don't remember if I have ever told you this before. So whatever achievements you or 'One Corner' can make are all because of your talent and hard work, and have nothing to do with the outside world."
There were still too many things that he hadn't said, such as he trusted Li Xuan's ability, but he didn't want to see him wait. Because he had been through so much to barely get by, he didn't want Li Xuan to experience the same thing. Although he understood that this might be a common thing for Li Xuan, he always hoped that fate would be kind to him and that success would be easier for him.
Li Xuan felt sad after hearing this. He only hummed in an ambiguous tone for a long while and then asked him, "Will your company cause trouble for you? ... ... Will it affect your future game endorsements or something like that?"
"You're talking about that. It's okay." Sheng Min said gently, "You don't have to worry..."
The thunder on the other end of the phone covered the last few words. Li Xuan frowned: "Is the rain getting heavier again?"
"Yeah, it's raining hard. There was lightning just now. Wait for me to get a coat." A subtle sound of fabric rubbing against each other came from the other end of the phone. After a moment, Sheng Min's voice came again. With the increasingly obvious sound of rain, he sounded a little tired, "The weather forecast says that there will be showers in the next half month... ... It gets colder here every time it rains, it doesn't feel like summer anymore."
Li Xuan remembered that a fan club member had posted leaked photos of Sheng Min's new drama on Weibo a few days ago. He was currently in a small mountainous town in the south. "How long will we have to shoot here?"
"If everything goes well, it will take about ten days. We should prepare to move into the mountains. There will probably be more rain."
"It's cold, be careful not to catch a cold."
Sheng Min smiled and said, "Okay."
It seemed that this was the end of the conversation, but no one hung up the phone. The sound of wind and rain continued on both sides, and it was unclear where it came from.
The phone in his hand gradually became hot. The rain soaked his black T-shirt. No one spoke for a long time. Li Xuan suddenly realized that Sheng Min fell asleep.
His breathing was light and even. In a trance, Li Xuan seemed to be swept into a gentle dream and became more and more reluctant to hang up.
"Brother?" There was a sudden sound of a door opening from the other end of the phone, followed by the sound of footsteps.
"Asleep..." Yang Xu sounded a little happy, and whispered why he was still holding the phone. She gently pulled the phone out of his hand. There was another rustling sound, as if a quilt was being put over Sheng Min.
"Who is this..." He finished, then turned around to look at the still lit phone screen, saw the name on it, and cursed subconsciously. As if afraid of waking up Sheng Min, he quickly picked up the phone and ran out again.
"Why are you calling my brother?" he asked Li Xuan angrily.
"Is he asleep?"
"Asleep... No, you're being too nosy." Yang Xu said, "A good ex should be like dead. You broke up, you know? Break up!"
His noise made Li Xuan's eardrums vibrate, and he put the phone a little further away. But Yang Xu's voice was still very clear: "Hey, Li Xuan, I find that you are really a piece of shit. My brother is kind-hearted and good-tempered, so he deserves to be bullied by you? ... Qin Zhengchen, you see. There is no good ending. I warn you, and you are the same. Stay away from my brother."
Li Xuan thought that he not only knew, but he was the one who did it. He remained silent and did not speak.
Yang Xu cursed for a while, but he probably couldn't find any words. He was so angry that his breathing was uneven, like a kettle, grunting.
"I really beg you, let him go, he doesn't owe you anything." Li Xuan didn't refute. Yang Xu was like hitting a ball of cotton. He said frustratedly, "His family is bad enough, like a vampire that can't be shaken off. My brother is tougher with them now, but he has no principles when it comes to you."
Li Xuan narrowed his eyes: "His mother came to him to ask for money again?"
"I'm talking about you! Don't change the subject." Yang Xu shouted, "I didn't want to say it... No, I still have to say it. My brother suddenly went live this morning because of you, right?"
Li Xuan's Adam's apple moved: "Yes."
"I knew it." Yang Xu said in a distressed tone, "My brother lied to me, saying that he was just bored. I think he was just confused... He said it so loudly that I almost believed him. But then I checked Weibo this afternoon, and it was Yuanyi Technology. Wasn't this the place where they asked me to go in the middle of the night last time? They said they were looking for a place to borrow money from a friend. What friend? A boyfriend? It was you... Your name was written on the business license at the door. I saw it when I was leaving, and I thought you were lending your ID to someone to open a shell company to make extra money. I wanted to teach you that it was illegal, but I forgot about it after I woke up..."
Yang Xu's speech was always off-topic, and he would go off topic without realizing it, nagging at every detail: "We broke up and it felt like we had a skin scraped off, and I couldn't sleep well. We've been shooting for three or four night scenes in a row, and we didn't finish until after four this morning. Last night was all fight scenes, and the costumes weighed 20 to 30 kilograms. I couldn't even stand after the scene, and I spent several hours on your trivial matter."
As she spoke, Yang Xu became emotional and began to sob faintly: "His last live broadcast was on his birthday last year. As a result, his mother came to him to ask for money... His mother is also sick. She always makes a scene on his birthday every year. She rushed directly to the company's live broadcast room and scolded him for being unfilial. Millions of people are watching. Does my brother still want to live as a human being? Weibo and forums have been digging up all kinds of situations in his family for more than a month. His father's posthumous photo was posted... My brother is going to have a psychological disorder. He will never accept any work related to live broadcasting. He would rather spend two more days shooting commercials for brands than broadcast for half an hour... Now he is willing to do anything because of you. You are really capable."
Of course Li Xuan could say no, he had no feelings about it beforehand, but facing Yang Xu's accusations, he could not utter a word.
"I... ... "
"What do you mean by 'you'? What's so good about you? Apart from your good looks, your family is rich... My brother is not short of money, how can he want you?" Yang Xu scolded him righteously, and couldn't help but grumbled in tears, "... He still thinks you are a fairy. I think you are the reincarnation of Daji."
"What?"
Li Xuan didn't hear clearly, the person on the other end had already hung up the phone.