Li Xuan hesitated for a moment when he entered the bathroom, leaving the door a crack. He moved to the corner, trying to find a better angle to keep an eye on the situation in the living room. He kicked something under his feet without paying attention, and when he looked down, he saw it was a machete.
There was still blood on the blade. Li Xuan subconsciously glanced into the living room, bent down to pick up the knife, and compared it with the wound on his wrist. It fit perfectly.
The "murder weapon" was definitely there. He looked at the half-arm-long knife in his hand and could not help but quickly rinse his hair with cold water. He wrapped the knife in his changed clothes and took it out: "Okay, you wash it."
“So soon?”
Li Xuan thought to himself, I want to go slower, but do I dare? He didn't show it on his face: "Go ahead."
Sheng Min hummed and walked around him into the bathroom.
Li Xuan looked down at the bloodstained clothes on his hands, took the knife and threw them out the door. He dragged a chair across from the bathroom and sat down. He took out his cell phone from his schoolbag and typed Sheng Min's name in the search bar.
A large amount of information popped up. He clicked into the encyclopedia and found that Sheng Min and he had the same birthday. He paused for a second, made a mark on the note, and continued to scroll down.
Sheng Min was born as a child star and started acting in TV dramas at the age of five. However, he always played insignificant roles. There were a few popular movies, but he was too young at the time and did not reap any benefits.
At the age of 16 or 17, he started playing the second or third male lead in some low-budget online dramas. From the title of the drama, you can tell that it won't be good. The company didn't have any plans for him. He was given a lot of opportunities and never got a name.
Until the year before last, he participated in a talent show with several other artists from the same company. The rest were all eliminated, but he was the only one who unexpectedly made his debut as part of a group just because of his face.
The group only existed for a year before it disbanded, but Sheng Min gained some fame. Although he was not a big star, at least he was no longer an unknown. He then played the leading role in several dramas, which had good ratings. In addition, his family background was said to be not good, and he had been unknown for so many years, which made him even more loved by fans. He has come a long way and is now a well-known traffic star. He also has endorsements from several well-known brands. No matter how you look at it, his future is bright.
Li Xuan logged out and clicked on a video website. Sheng Min's most popular video was a dance video, a duet with a teammate named Qin Zhengchen who was in the same group with him at the time. He danced the girl's part.
To be fair, the dance was pretty good. It didn't seem feminine, and the two of them worked well together, but the comments were a mess, with people calling him "wife and baby". Li Xuan frowned as he watched it, and quickly exited and turned it off.
The sound of water hadn't stopped yet, and he was a little worried. He quickly recalled whether there was a window in the bathroom for Sheng Min to jump into, and just as he walked over and was about to knock on the door, he was pushed open from the inside. Sheng Min didn't expect him to be at the door, and was stunned: "What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Li Xuan coughed to cover it up and said perfunctorily, "I'm a little thirsty. Do you have a cup at home?"
"There's orange juice in the fridge."
"The one you endorse?" Li Xuan thought of the billboard at the bus stop. The pain he felt when he was hit seemed to come back from behind. He flatly refused, "I don't drink it."
"The new cup is in the delivery box." Sheng Min raised his chin, wiped the water droplets on his hair with a towel, and walked over to turn on the water dispenser.
Li Xuan half squatted in front of the delivery box and pulled the nylon tie on it: "Do you have scissors? A knife will do."
Sheng Min thought about it and went to the bathroom: "There is a machete, I didn't seem to see it just now..."
"I threw it away." Li Xuan hurriedly stopped him and said helplessly to Sheng Min's surprised look, "How can I praise you? You are as heartless as the Mariana Trench and you still want to commit suicide. You used the knife to cut your wrists, is it still usable?"
"Can't I?" Sheng Min asked back in confusion, "Just wash it."
"There's no need to be frugal here, right? I can't anyway. If you insist on using it, go pick it up." Li Xuan was too lazy to ask him to find other knives, so he pulled the nylon tie to both sides. It was quite sturdy. He brought it to the side of the coffee table and rubbed it against the glass. There was a whole box of cups, all kinds of ceramic cups, "Why did you buy so many?"
"I had insomnia one day, or maybe I was confused in my sleep, I don't know... Anyway, I shipped it when I got up in the morning." Sheng Min didn't insist on looking for the knife, and walked over, "Is it broken?"
Li Xuan shook his head: "No."
Sheng Min squatted down beside him and took a quick look: "Is my phone with you?"
"On the table." Li Xuan took it and handed it to him. Then he saw Sheng Min took a photo of the cup, opened the shopping app, and gave the merchant a good review.
Li Xuan didn't need to look in the mirror to know that the expression on his face at the moment must be very interesting. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would have been curious whether Sheng Min really wanted to commit suicide a quarter of an hour ago. The situation changed too quickly: "What are you doing?"
"Give it a good review." Sheng Min wrote a long review, read it over and corrected a typo before sending it. Seeing him looking at her, she said, "This can improve the store's..."
"I know, I know." Li Xuan was speechless. "No need to explain. I'm not really killing pigs in the countryside."
"Their quality is pretty good, and it's not easy for them to be merchants." Sheng Min picked out a blue cup and handed it over, "This one looks good, I'll give it to you."
Li Xuan took the cup and said, knowing it was inappropriate, "You know it's not easy. You're good-looking and have a bright future. There are many people in the world who don't have either. Why do you have to die?"
"I have both, and it's not my fault." Sheng Min said softly.
"I didn't say it was your fault." Li Xuan stood up and shrugged. "Forget it. You can do whatever you want, but I remind you again, you can't die now. Before we switch back, anything that happens to you is not suicide but murder." When he said this, he remembered: "Is your birthday on the encyclopedia true?"
Sheng Min raised his head, looking a little helpless, but without any other emotions: "I really didn't change my age."
"I didn't tell you to change your age? Why are you adding drama to yourself?" Li Xuan was puzzled.
Sheng Min pursed his lips and said nothing. Li Xuan grabbed his wrist and pulled him up from the ground: "I was thinking that our birthdays are on the same day, maybe that's why we changed."
Sheng Min was stunned for a moment: "Then there is no way to change this."
"Thank you, you are so smart. I wouldn't have thought of it if you hadn't told me." Li Xuan picked up the cup and walked to the water dispenser. He rinsed it with hot water, then took half a cup and drank it all.
"Don't be so sarcastic." Sheng Min saw him drinking water and felt thirsty too. He went to the refrigerator and got a bottle of orange juice. He said softly, "I'm not wrong. I can't change it anyway... It would be better if we both died."
"I didn't say I could change, I just wanted to let you know." Li Xuan got a headache when he heard him say death, "Don't think about death all the time. It's impossible to coax me to be with you."
"I didn't think about it... OK." Sheng Min sighed, realizing that this was indeed not very honest. "I won't think about it for now. Do you want to bandage the wound on your wrist, oh, my wrist?"
Although the wound on the wrist was deep and soaked with water, fortunately it was only this one spot. Li Xuan was very skilled in treating the wound, and he didn't need help. He disinfected it with hydrogen peroxide, and skillfully picked up the powder and sprinkled it on it without frowning. He bit one end of the bandage, turned his wrist a few times, and it was wrapped. The whole process took less than five minutes.
Seeing that Sheng Min was still slowly treating the scratch on his arm, he tapped his shoulder and said, "Turn over. There should be bruises on your back. You need to apply ice."
Li Xuan had a lot of wounds on his body, including bruises and scratches from the car accident, as well as many old scars. In particular, there was a cut on his waist that was almost ten centimeters long. Even after it healed, it was clear that the cut was very deep.
Sheng Min saw it when he was taking a shower just now. He wanted to ask him what happened, but then he changed his mind and thought it was his privacy, so he just asked, "Do you get hurt often?"
"It's less now." Li Xuan didn't answer him directly. He found a lot of ice cubes from the refrigerator, put them in a plastic bag and pressed them on his back. "It's a little painful, bear with it."
He didn't want to say, so Sheng Min didn't ask.
The living room fell silent, and no one spoke. Sheng Min's back was numb from the cold, and she wanted to tell Li Xuan that it was all right, but when she turned around, she found that he had fallen asleep on the sofa.
"Are you sleepy?" Sheng Min pushed him subconsciously, "Go to the bedroom and sleep."
Li Xuan was really tired after tossing and turning all night. He had been holding on for a while and didn't feel sleepy, but once he was quiet for a while, he quickly felt sleepy: "A little... You lost too much blood, I feel dizzy."
Sheng Min felt a little apologetic and took the ice pack from his hand and threw it into the trash can: "Then go in and sleep. Maybe after a good night's sleep, we can change back."
"Do you really think so?" Li Xuan rubbed his eyes, looking at him as if he were a fool.
Sheng Min was silent for a moment: "I'm comforting you."
Li Xuan didn't say anything, maybe because he was dizzy. Sheng Min turned to face him, hesitated for a moment and said, "But, if I can't change it back..."
"If you can't get it back, then figure out how to keep it." Li Xuan yawned, "Anyway, you can't die."
Sheng Min sighed secretly: "Then let's talk about it when you get up in the morning. I see you are so sleepy that you can't even open your eyes now."
"Yeah." Li Xuan walked to the bedroom door and suddenly remembered, "Then where are you going to sleep?"
"I'll sleep on the sofa." Sheng Min said, "It's okay, you sleep. I'm not used to sleeping with others."
"Okay." Li Xuan didn't dwell on this issue any more. He was so sleepy that his mind wasn't very clear. He just lay down on the bed and soon fell asleep again.