"Brother, what are you looking for?"
"I'm not looking for anything. Just focus on driving."
Sheng Min retracted his gaze. Just now, a black car flashed by in the rearview mirror. It looked very much like Li Xuan's, but the car was going too fast and he didn't see the license plate clearly.
It was seven in the morning, and it would take less than an hour to get from here to the Software Park. If Li Xuan made a round trip, he probably wouldn't need to rest. Sheng Min couldn't help but glance at the rearview mirror again. There were only pedestrians passing by on the empty street. Sure enough, he had seen it wrong.
I sighed silently unconsciously. It wasn't disappointment, but I just missed him a little. I took out my phone to send a message, but I thought Li Xuan might still be asleep, and I didn't know if he had muted it. Let's wait a little longer, Sheng Min thought, but finally gave up.
"Brother!" Yang Xu called him again.
"What's wrong?"
"I've called you several times."
"I heard you." The sun slowly came out, shining through the windshield, which was a bit dazzling. Sheng Min lowered the sun visor, "I haven't asked you yet. Didn't I tell you to go home to accompany your aunt and go directly to the airport to wait for me in the afternoon? Liu Jia can go with me for the morning announcement."
"You're sending me away." Yang Xu immediately started to yell in dissatisfaction, "I won't fall for this! I really don't know what kind of magic potion that male vixen has fed you..."
"Yang Xu!" Sheng Min raised her voice slightly. Before she could finish her next sentence, Yang Xu's eyes turned red and she dragged out her voice: "Brother..."
"What are you doing? You just came as soon as you said it. Last time the director said that they were still short of an actor. Can I recommend you?" Sheng Min thought of him calling Li Xuannan a vixen and found it funny again. He took out some tissues and gave them to him. "Why are you crying? Are you a child?"
Yang Xu sniffed stubbornly: "I'm not crying! You are the child. You just followed him when he gave you a candy!"
Sheng Min didn't say anything for a while. Yang Xu was afraid that his words were too harsh and might offend him, so he wiped his eyes and turned his head furtively to look at Sheng Min's face.
"Pay attention to the car." Sheng Min didn't show any anger, but just reminded him, "Just talk, don't swerve the steering wheel."
Yang Xu looked at the flickering traffic light in the distance angrily, not knowing what had happened. The light was clearly green, but the traffic was blocked: "I don't even know why you like him..."
"She's pretty." Sheng Min smiled.
"You are so good-looking, how can you be fooled by his appearance if you look in the mirror more often every day?" Yang Xu shouted. It seemed that it was difficult for him to admit that Li Xuan was good-looking or had any other advantages.
"Then I don't know either." Sheng Min tilted his head and thought for a while, then smiled softly, "But what can I do? I really want to eat this candy of his."
His gentle tone and expression were as lively as poplar catkins, and there was no way to interrupt him. After a long silence, he reluctantly said, "Brother, if he dumped you once, he can dump you twice..."
"He didn't dump me, believe it or not. From the time we met until now, in our relationship, he has never done anything to wrong me."
Yang Xu couldn't listen and still looked at him in distress: "I'm afraid you'll suffer a loss, afraid that you'll be deceived by him."
Sheng Min recalled the self-deprecating look on Li Xuan's face yesterday when he said Yang Xu thought he was a liar: "No... Even if he cheated me, I think I would make more money, so what's wrong with that?"
"What's so good about that! Just let him fool you like this forever!"
"How long do you think it has been?" Sheng Min asked him calmly. Yang Xu was stunned by the question and stammered, unable to say a word.
"I'm very happy now, I've never been so happy before." The traffic ahead slowly moved. Sheng Min took a sip of water from the bottle and said without thinking, "But I didn't think about how long it would last... Maybe I thought about it before, it would last a lifetime. I've acted in so many dramas, and they all said so... But I haven't seen him during this period, and slowly, I feel that this is unnecessary. One day is also good. Every day can be the last day for me. He has the right to call a halt at any time."
"I don't understand." After a long silence, Yang Xu said blankly.
"It doesn't matter." Sheng Min smiled, "I don't understand it either."
When they drove to the parking lot downstairs of the studio, Yang Xu didn't say another word. He looked at Sheng Min several times with grievance and anger. When he parked the car, he braked suddenly, and the ornaments on the dashboard shook, leaving a shadow.
Sheng Min didn't say anything. He stretched out his hand to open the car door and heard Yang Xu ask him from behind: "Is Mr. Zhang coming this morning..."
"I know." Sheng Min turned around, "Why? Did she look for you again?"
"I didn't say anything... I didn't know in the first place." Yang Xu said, getting a little anxious again, "Why did she come to see you? It sounded very serious to me. Didn't Li Xuan just say that yesterday... or did Brother Zhang say something to her before..."
"fine."
"How come everything is fine... No matter why she came to you, she must have asked about Li Xuan today... My brother, how are you going to explain..."
Shengmin sighed softly and interrupted him: "My contract is about to expire."
"Contract..." Yang Xu was stunned for a moment, as if waking up from a dream, "But she was asking me about Li Xuan yesterday and didn't mention this at all."
"What did she mention to you? You can't sign for me."
Yang Xu scratched his head: "That's right. Then brother, are you going to renew your contract? Your last contract was too long and the terms were too harsh. You finally became famous now, you can't..."
"Let's talk about it later. I don't know either." Sheng Min was still very gentle and calm. "Don't worry about it. Go have breakfast and go directly to the airport in the afternoon. Or you can stay at home with your aunt for a few more days if you want."
He closed the car door and was about to get into the elevator when Yang Xu caught up with him again. His expression still looked heartbroken, mixed with a kind of helplessness that was like throwing away the jar when it rained.
"Forget it." He sighed heavily and stood next to Sheng Min. "Brother, whatever you think is good... I will listen to you. You should think about how to deal with Mr. Zhang first."
After finishing her makeup, at almost ten o'clock, Sheng Min sent a message to Li Xuan.
Apart from the good night that Li Xuan said last night, saying that he had arrived at the company, if we look back further, their conversation even stopped at more than a month ago, and it couldn't be switched back to that time. It seemed that Li Xuan was out for a while, and sent a message asking him what kind of cake he wanted to eat.
He was so engrossed in reading the script at home that he didn't come back, so Li Xuan bought five flavors and put them in the refrigerator. He didn't finish them in three days.
Further up are some very lifelike conversations.
What to eat for dinner, I’m out of shampoo, what’s the courier pickup code…
Actually, there weren't many, and they were quickly read through, after all, they were together most of the time during that period.
Sheng Min remembered every single line, even the punctuation marks, but the only thing he couldn't remember clearly was how many times he had read these short conversations over and over again during those sleepless nights when they were apart.
After watching it again and scrolling to the end, I still didn't get a reply from Li Xuan. Even after the recording ended and I got the phone back from Yang Xu, there was still no reply.
Sheng Min frowned slightly, hesitated for a moment, and sent a message again.
"Are you up? Is it convenient to call now?"
Just as it showed that the message was sent successfully, the phone rang.
"Hello." Sheng Min picked up the phone without thinking and smiled, but the voice that came was not Li Xuan's.
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