Xu Sheng couldn't remember the last time he had a dream.
And he thought that the dream he had this night might not be regarded as a real dream.
Tang Zhi in his arms was like a background picture, running through his entire sleep.
From midnight when sex was over and I was sweating, to early morning when I was awakened by the slightly familiar sound of the alarm clock.
The still pictures of people are like the sun above the snow in winter. They are pale and weak, difficult to melt the snow, and do not have much warmth, but they make Xu Sheng's twenty-nine years of life suddenly become brighter.
The ringing disturbed the canvas, and Xu Sheng opened his eyes. It was the cell phone on the bedside table next to Tang Zhi that was ringing. The screen was on, illuminating a small area of the room.
Tang Zhi seemed not to hear anything and remained motionless. Xu Sheng propped up his upper body, reached over Tang Zhi's shoulder, got his cell phone, and turned off the alarm clock.
The time displayed on the screen was 7:30 am.
Based on Xu Sheng's understanding of Tang Zhi, there would be more than one alarm clock, but Xu Sheng didn't want to wake Tang Zhi because Tang Zhi had only slept for less than four hours.
While hesitating, Tang Zhi suddenly moved, then raised his hand, gently hugged Xu Sheng's waist, buried his face in Xu Sheng's arms, and said a number in a hoarse voice.
Xu Sheng was stunned for a moment, and Tang Zhi said again: "Mobile phone password."
"There are five more alarm clocks," Tang Zhi's voice became weaker and weaker, as if he was about to fall asleep again while speaking, "Can you turn them all off for me?" He pressed his soft black hair and lips against Xu Sheng's chest.
The alarm clock rang again, and Tang Zhi in his arms moved. Xu Sheng reacted, quickly pressed stop, entered the password provided by Tang Zhi, and then turned off all the alarm clocks.
Just as Xu Sheng was about to lock the screen, a text message suddenly came in. He clicked it subconsciously. It was from Xi Manxiang.
Xi Manxiang told Tang Zhi that if she went home for dinner, she should tell her three hours in advance.
Above Xi Manxiang's text message, Xu Sheng saw the message Tang Zhi sent to Xi Manxiang while he was taking a shower last night.
Tang Zhi said that he would probably have to stay at his former company for a whole day today, and that "the problem is very difficult." He also made a few crying faces, which was more true than what Xu Sheng made up.
Xu Sheng felt a little funny, raised his hand and touched Tang Zhi's hair and warm cheek, and asked him: "Are you asleep?"
Tang Zhi said "Yeah" in a daze, and said weakly and confidently: "Asleep."
Of course, Xu Sheng now understands that Tang Zhi's coquettishness does not mean dependence, and kissing does not mean love.
There are also many things that Xu Sheng thought Tang Zhi would like, but Tang Zhi might not like at all.
But Tang Zhi's sweet tone and the look of being inseparable from Xu Sheng were all real, making Xu Sheng feel that sometimes his misunderstanding of Tang Zhi was not entirely his fault.
Seeing that Tang Zhi was unable to answer Xi Manxiang's text message immediately, Xu Sheng wanted to mark the text message as unread to prevent Tang Zhi from missing it. He returned to the main interface and found that Tang Zhi's text box only contained text messages with two people. .
Mom and Mr. Xu.
Xu Sheng wanted to put the phone back, but he couldn't help but click on the chat box belonging to Mr. Xu.
Tang Zhi did not delete every text message he had with Mr. Xu.
Looking from bottom to top, Tang Zhi sent text messages without expressions and text messages with expressions. Some of them talked about work with Mr. Xu and asked Mr. Xu what he wanted to eat.
Mr. Xu didn’t reply much.
Some replied with one or two words, and some may have directly responded to the call, making it seem like Tang Zhi was talking to himself.
At the earliest moment, Tang Zhi sent Xu Sheng an itinerary reminder for the first time and wrote, "Mr. Xu, this is my number. Please save it."
Xu Sheng did not save Tang Zhi's number at that time, and the text message records on Xu Sheng's mobile phone were not as complete as Tang Zhi's.
Xu Sheng would delete the text messages sent by Tang Zhi at first, until he forgot which time, Xu Sheng stopped deleting the text messages.
He began to want to receive messages and calls from Tang Zhi, but at first he often couldn't wait.
Xu Sheng locked Tang Zhi's screen and put it away.
The room was as dark as night, and only the gray mist on the lake outside the window could be seen through the gaps in the curtains.
Xu Sheng hugged Tang Zhi again, thought for a while, lowered his head and kissed the top of Tang Zhi's head. While Tang Zhi was sleeping, he couldn't deny it and said a little bit to himself: "Tang Zhi, you like me, right?"
"Do you like me?"
I didn’t delete the text messages and actively asked for a date.
Tang Zhi moved and Xu Sheng fell silent.