He didn't sleep for long, and had another dream in a daze. It was bizarre, and still in this house, he saw Sheng Min jump off the balcony again. But this time it was not his body, but Sheng Min himself. Li Xuan rushed over to grab him, but he only touched his fingertips. Sheng Min smiled at him, and then like a beautiful bird with broken wings, she fell from his sight forever...
Li Xuan woke up suddenly, got out of bed, and his heart was beating wildly. He pushed open the bedroom door, and fortunately, Sheng Min was sleeping quietly on the sofa in the living room.
He exhaled and grabbed a handful of hair. Sheng Min's hair was very soft, completely different from his own. Li Xuan looked at his palm and thought to himself that he was really sleepy. Sheng Min, a "dangerous person" who might commit suicide at any time, asked him to go in and sleep, but he actually fell asleep, leaving him alone. Fortunately, he woke up early, otherwise he might be gone if he woke up a little later.
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Li Xuan dared not continue to sleep even if he was very sleepy. After thinking for a while, he simply walked to the coffee table and sat down. He leaned his head and looked down at Sheng Min. It was still his own face, but it was completely different, and gradually overlapped with the falling figure in his dream.
After watching for a long time, Li Xuan almost wondered if another person had moved into his body, or if a self he had never seen before had grown out of his bones and blood.
Is this really not a dream? He began to doubt again and raised his hand to pinch his palm. His movement was a bit too big and his sleeve brushed against Sheng Min's arm, startling him.
Sheng Min was a light sleeper to begin with, and was half asleep. When he saw someone sitting next to him, staring at him motionlessly, he was so scared that he almost jumped up: "What are you doing?!"
"What are you doing?" He woke up so suddenly and reacted so violently that Li Xuan was frightened. He took a step back and stood up.
"You're asking me?" Sheng Min propped himself up and sat up. He patted his chest in shock and looked at Li Xuan with sleepy eyes. "It's the middle of the night, you don't say anything and don't turn on the lights. Why are you asking me?"
Li Xuan touched the switch on the wall and turned it on: "I can't sleep like this."
"What's the matter?" The sudden bright light made Sheng Min raise his hand to cover his eyes. He softened his tone and asked tentatively, "You don't dare to sleep alone? Are you afraid of the dark?"
Li Xuan was not happy: "I'm afraid of you."
"What?" Sheng Min was stunned.
Li Xuan didn't say anything. He looked at Sheng Min for a few seconds and felt that it was still not possible. After thinking for a while, he picked up the nylon tie on the ground and walked to him, negotiating in a not very sincere tone: "How about I tie you up first?"
Shengmin suspected that he had heard wrongly, "Tie him up?"
"What if I fall asleep and you go and commit suicide again?" Li Xuan said as he neatly tied a knot at one end of the rope. "Don't worry, I will be very careful when I do that. If it hurts, just tell me. If there is any problem, I will take the blame."
Of course it's yours, your skin, your flesh, and your bones.
Sheng Min had just woken up and was a little confused. She wasn't sure if he was joking or not, so she said blankly, "Didn't I promise you? I'll try my best to stay alive until we get back together."
"I don't believe you." Li Xuan said bluntly, "Don't look at me like that. You have to be on guard against others."
Sheng Min couldn't help but be stunned: "Is this how you use this sentence? Are you using it on me?"
Li Xuan raised his wrist and shook the wound that had been bandaged not long ago: "What else? Are you considered a good person in my eyes?"
Sheng Min, who usually has no temper, couldn't help but frown at this moment. Now he was sober: "According to what you said, you are not a good person in my eyes. I shouldn't have let you into the house. I don't even know who you are."
"Li Xuan, you asked."
"Li Xuan?" Sheng Min looked at him. "Who is Li Xuan? Two Chinese characters, just a code name. You can call me Li Xuan, and so can I."
"That's indeed your name now." Li Xuan shrugged and reminded him.
Sheng Min was speechless for a moment. He looked at Li Xuan's calm face, which showed absolutely no trace of joking. Suddenly, he was speechless.
He sighed inwardly. He originally thought that although they had known each other for a short time, they could still get along well, especially in the current situation. But now it seems that this is just his one-sided idea. Li Xuan does not think so...
"Don't always..." Li Xuan saw that he was silent and looked depressed, and couldn't help frowning.
Sheng Min raised his eyes, his tone without any emotion: "Always what?"
I always use my face to show this kind of aggrieved and restrained expression. Li Xuan didn't say it out loud, but pressed his eyebrows and said reluctantly: "Okay, it's not that I don't believe you. I'm mainly afraid that you can't control yourself. You also said that you will try your best and work hard, but what if?"
"Yeah. That makes sense." Sheng Min felt it was boring and didn't want to argue with him, so he nodded calmly, "Whatever you want."
His tone was lifeless, and perhaps because of the light, his face looked a little pale. Li Xuan hesitated for a moment, then put down the rope in his hand.
"Where do you want to tie it?" Sheng Min waited for a long time without him making a move, then looked up and asked him seriously, "On the sofa or on the table?"
Li Xuan glanced at him up and down, but didn't answer. He grabbed the ceramic cup beside him and wanted to drink some water, but it was empty, so he put it back. He picked up the rope, but felt that something was wrong. When he met Sheng Min's dark and lifeless eyes, he couldn't bring himself to do it for a long time.
Sheng Min didn't know that he had so many thoughts in his mind. Since he didn't make any move, she simply reached out her hand and said, "Tie him up. After that, we can all sleep. I see that you are very sleepy too."
Li Xuan frowned and hesitated for a moment, but first tied it around his right wrist and said unhappily, "Can you tie it to me?"
Sheng Min was startled, and before she could react, she was pulled into the bedroom by Li Xuan. He pressed her down on the bed and sat her down, then tied the other end of the rope around Sheng Min's wrist.
"If you're not used to sleeping with someone, just bear with it. Let's both take a step back." Li Xuan sighed irritably, "That's it. If you move in the middle of the night, I'll wake you up."
Sheng Min didn't know what to say. The anger that had been suppressed in his heart seemed to subside, but it also seemed to disappear.
Li Xuan didn't care what he thought at all. He lay on the bed and pulled him: "Lie down. I can't sleep with my hands hanging like this."
"I've never seen you so afraid of death." Sheng Min muttered softly. He lay down as he was told. Fortunately, the bed was wide enough so he wouldn't bump into her. But the pillow was a long double pillow, which made him feel a little awkward.
"I've never seen you seeking death like this." Li Xuan raised his hand and turned off the light, and the room became dark again.
After his eyes adjusted to the darkness, everything in the room became clear again, not to mention the moonlight coming through the gaps in the curtains. Sheng Min lay quietly, perhaps because of psychological effects, familiar things looked different when seen with different eyes.
Li Xuan's breathing beside him gradually calmed down. After Sheng Min became an adult, he never slept in the same bed with anyone again. When he was a child, he slept with his younger brother, but at that time, he slept on the floor more often.
Thinking of this, Sheng Min's mood became low again. He turned his head slightly and looked at the person next to him. He was a little dazed. He was lying on the same bed with a stranger who he had never met a few hours ago? Of course, in another sense, he was the stranger.
Unable to fall asleep, Sheng Min tried to push the whole thing back to the moment when he woke up at the bus stop. Suddenly, he thought of something and sat up suddenly.
Li Xuan had just fallen asleep, but he woke up again when his wrist was pulled. Before he even opened his eyes, he grabbed his hand reflexively. His tone became stern: "What are you doing? Don't move."
"Don't get excited, I won't run away. I have something to ask you." Sheng Min said quickly, "You rode your bike to the bus stop with my face on it today. No one took pictures of you, right?"
Li Xuansong said in a breath: "I surrender to you. No, it's so dark. So what if it was photographed?"
"It will be troublesome if they take pictures." Sheng Min was worried and reached for the phone on the bedside table. "I have to take a look. It may have become a hot topic..."
"Don't look at it." Li Xuan stood up impatiently, put his hands on Sheng Min's shoulders and pushed him back onto the pillow, lowered his head and looked him in the eye, "Before the trouble comes, if we are exchanged back, you can die if you want, and there will be no trouble. If we are not exchanged back, no matter how big the problem is, I will handle it."
"But… "
"Don't say but." He lay down again. He was very sleepy and didn't want to be disturbed by anyone. He simply raised his hand to block Sheng Min's eyes. "You don't need to see anything now. Don't worry about things that are not your business. Just sleep peacefully."