When He Yunzhou woke up, the sky was already bright.
I was woken up because the pumpkin had been pawing at He Yunzhou's hair and face with its claws, making continuous and majestic howls. And He Yunzhou's mobile phone slipped into the gap of the sofa cushion at some point, and it was beeping and vibrating constantly.
"evil-"
He Yunzhou supported his head, resisting the nausea brought by the hangover, struggling to push away the heavy orange hair ball from his neck, then he opened his eyelids with difficulty, and groped in the crack of the sofa It took a long time to find the phone and press it off.
After the ringtone of the mobile phone disappeared, the pumpkin's cry became more and more piercing.
He Yunzhou lay unrequitedly on the spot, and after a long while, seeing that Pumpkin had no intention of letting go, he could only endure bouts of discomfort, and slowly sat up.
A burst of dizziness struck instantly, and He Yunzhou sat blankly for a long time before he barely recognized that the place where he was staying now was the sofa in his living room.
Getting drunk feels pretty bad.
It took He Yunzhou at least a few more minutes before he could barely remember why he spent the whole night on the sofa in crumpled clothes that smelled of wine.
Ah, drunk.
He Yunzhou thought slowly, his thinking seemed to be immersed in paste.
The last picture left in his consciousness was him sitting at the dining table, eating mutton and drinking wine, and the last thought before the fragment was "ah, why is my body so light" and "like to touch Touch Huo Zheng's head."
Wait - Huo Zheng -
A few hazy fragments flashed through his mind, He Yunzhou's body shook, and he seemed to vaguely remember something, but his memory after being drunk is like a cunning little fish, and he will get a little closer when he is completely at a loss, but once If you want to remember seriously, they will be scattered away in an instant, leaving only a layer of nothingness.
The pumpkin was still clamoring for food, so He Yunzhou could only stand up in pain, and reluctantly opened a can for it to plug its mouth.
When he opened the canned cat food, He Yunzhou found that his hands were shaking, and he almost poured the canned soup directly on the head of the impatient pumpkin.
Probably because of this, the physical discomfort is almost directly proportional to the regret in his heart.
"I really shouldn't be drinking so much..."
He Yunzhou sat next to Pumpkin's cat rice bowl, looked straight at the chubby cat, and murmured to himself.
In fact, He Yunzhou hasn't drunk alcohol for many years.
In other words, he has been carefully controlling the amount of alcohol he drinks for many years, so that he will not completely lose consciousness due to drunkenness. The reason why he did this is not because of anything else, but because he happens to be the very rare kind of person who will completely lose consciousness once he gets drunk to a certain extent and can't remember what he did at all. Although over the years, according to the feedback from friends around him, besides being more sentimental and chattering when drunk, He Yunzhou has no other eccentricities. In a sense, he can even be described as good wine, but once It is too dangerous to completely fall into a black screen after drinking the fragment.
but…
"Did I do something to Huo Zheng?"
He Yunzhou looked around his living room dully, except that the sofa looked messier, there seemed to be no difference.
But indistinctly, He Yunzhou always had an indescribable sense of anxiety.
Until He Yunzhou forced himself to go to the bathroom to take a shower, then wiped his hair and walked out of the room, he still didn't remember what he did after the screen went completely black yesterday.
He Yunzhou was a little hesitant to send a message to Huo Zheng to ask.
Thinking about the vivid dream about Guaji after being drunk, He Yunzhou actually wondered if he had directly revealed that he vaguely used that person as a substitute for Guaji to feed him while he was drunk.
"Probably very angry..."
He Yunzhou looked at the mobile phone in his hand over and over again, feeling a little uneasy in his chest.
After thinking and thinking, He Yunzhou sent a message to Huo Zheng.
[A small boat shakes and shakes: Are you awake? How do you feel today? I'm having a terrible headache right now.]
[A small boat shakes and shakes: Did I get really drunk last night? Not drunk, are you?]
[A small boat shakes and shakes: If I really did something, now I can only say sorry.]
…
He Yunzhou originally thought that he would wait a long time before receiving Huo Zheng's reply.
Unexpectedly, just after he sent the message, the phone rang the next moment, and he quickly received a new message.
[Huo Zheng: It's okay, you fell asleep after drinking yesterday.]
Upon seeing this reply, He Yunzhou immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
During this period of getting along, He Yunzhou is also very aware of Huo Zheng's temper. If he is really having a fight, it is absolutely impossible for him to reply to his message so quickly.
However, his fingers were still pressing on the phone screen, and just as he was about to message Huo Zheng back, a new message arrived.
[Huo Zheng: I may be busy with work in the future, and it will not be very convenient to contact me in a short time.]
[Huo Zheng: I'm really sorry.]
Sorry, and bye...
In the headquarters building of the Huo Group, Huo Zheng's face was pale, and he stared at the message input field on the phone screen with a breathless expression. After hesitating for a long time, he deleted the last "goodbye".
He doesn't like that word.
Yes, in the end, Huo Zheng didn't make it too explicit that the two should not continue to communicate, but he believed that He Yunzhou could probably understand what he meant.
Because after He Yunzhou replied "I understand", he never sent any new messages.
The encounter with He Yunzhou was so uneventful, and the breakup with that person was so peaceful—but Huo Zheng had never felt as uncomfortable as this time.
The taste of He Yunzhou's tears seemed to still be on the tip of his tongue—that bitter taste had even spread to his whole body along his taste buds.
Huo Zheng could even clearly realize his regret.
Wanting to continue entangled with that person, wanting to stay with that person—a part of my body screamed like a naive child.
Probably because of this, even the part about the breakup was extremely ambiguous, leaving countless room for maneuver.
Huo Zheng re-read the words he had sent to He Yunzhou before, laughing at himself from the bottom of his heart.
Of course, in an ordinary residential building more than ten kilometers away from Huo Zheng, the mood of the other person who had just put down his phone was completely different.
"Huh... It's not easy being a boss..."
Seeing Huo Zheng's reply, He Yunzhou turned off the message interface with emotion.
As a freelancer who has just gone through the devil's rush period, He Yunzhou really understands the feeling of being squeezed by work to the last breath and completely disappearing from the sight of all outsiders.
Although it was said that for a period of time he couldn't rely on Huo Zheng to borrow others to think about cats, this inevitably made He Yunzhou a little bit disappointed and sad.
However, Guaji's helpless reprimand in Meng Zhong made him a little bit stronger.
(Useless humans, don't keep doing such stupid things that make cats worry...)
Guaji, who was already on Meow Planet, also sensed his decadence during this period of time, so he said such words in his dream
In fact, He Yunzhou was also secretly making up his mind, to let himself slowly accept the fact that Gua Ji had left, he also needed to change his vague and completely unspoken dependence on Huo Zheng.
I hope poor Huo Zheng will finish his work soon...
He Yunzhou prayed for Huo Zheng a little.
…
…
He Yunzhou started a new job after spending a few days at home, and when he was finally free again, half a month had passed.
Awareness of this comes from feeding cats.
That day, He Yunzhou routinely opened a can of mutton for the pumpkin. The pumpkin squatted in front of the cat's rice bowl, eating like a fluffy piglet.
From eating so hard, Pumpkin has canned crumbs all over his forehead and face.
If Gua Ji was here, he would definitely not be able to tolerate this horrible eating, and would probably start beating the pumpkin because he thought it was annoying...
He Yunzhou squatted next to the cat's rice bowl, thinking while stroking the pumpkin's thick back.
Of course, if it was Huo Zheng, it would be even more impossible to see such an ugly eating appearance of pumpkin.
When that man was eating, no matter how much he liked the food in front of him, his etiquette and posture were still as elegant as a noble.
Speaking of which, I don't know if Huo Zheng took good care of himself and ate well during this time
Wait, should I ask him about his situation
This thought flashed through He Yunzhou's mind.
He Yunzhou picked up the phone without thinking, but as soon as he opened the interface of the communication software, the last few words of the conversation with Huo Zheng jumped into view.
He Yunzhou paused his fingers and hesitated for a moment.
And at this moment, the screen of his mobile phone lit up, and a call came.
It was his editor, Xiaoxi, on the phone.
After answering the call, He Yunzhou's little entanglement about Huo Zheng had to be moved back.
Xiaoxi called He Yunzhou today because of work.
"I've seen all the pictures of the cat's figure you drew before. It's really a fan of Li Fu. It's very good. But the publishing house doesn't know what it's doing. It was rushed like that before, and I'm waiting for the manuscript. I really handed it in and didn't believe it... It just so happens that Editor Ding is here for a meeting today, so I'll make it my own idea to help you make an appointment with him to have a meal first, maybe get in touch with each other, and the work will go smoother after that... "
He Yunzhou listened to Xiaoxi babbling on the phone, and unconsciously rubbed his temples with his hands.
Although Xiaoxi said that she also had the name of an editor, she was actually only an editor of a publishing company. When communicating with a real editor from a truly qualified publishing house, it was inevitable that she could not straighten up.
As for the lukewarmness of editor Ding, who was in charge of the publication of "Magic Cat" at the publishing house, He Yunzhou was not completely unaware of his lukewarmness towards him during this period of time.
Probably because He Yunzhou himself is not a very famous illustrator, and now he has been named by the author as an exclusive illustrator, which makes the publishing house feel a bit inferior, right? When He Yunzhou thought of this incident, he could probably understand why the other party's attitude was subtle.
Xiaoxi was probably the same as him, and found that the other party's attitude was not right, so he thought of inviting the other party to dinner, to open up some joints, and to improve the relationship.
According to He Yunzhou's original personality, he would never go to this so-called dinner party. After all, the reason why he would squat at home and draw illustrations was because he was not good at dealing with such human relations. However, the words of refusal were already on his lips, and He Yunzhou suddenly remembered the leg of lamb and the note with the words "thank you" that the other party sent over.
"Okay, tell me the address and I'll be there."
With a thought in his mind, He Yunzhou agreed by accident. Obviously, even Xiaoxi, who sent out the invitation, didn't expect that He Yunzhou would really agree to have dinner together. As soon as he heard He Yunzhou's answer, he quickly sent him the address and time—a look that was completely afraid of He Yunzhou's remorse.
He Yunzhou was really angry and funny when he heard her nervous voice.
However, when he took a closer look at the address sent by Xiaoxi, he realized that the other party's worries were not unfounded.
He really regrets it...
Who will tell him that two editors and a poor painter are going to have a meal at the western restaurant of the most exclusive five-star hotel in City A
That western restaurant is well-known far and wide, even a dead homer like He Yunzhou knows it's high-end...and expensive.
And when He Yunzhou stood at the door of the western restaurant at the specified time, looking behind the oak paneled glass door, the high-end western restaurant was extraordinarily resplendent just by looking at it, the feeling of regret became more intense.
"I always feel like I'm a bit out of place in this place and don't want to go in."
He Yunzhou couldn't help loosening the collar of the cheap shirt on his body, and said to Xiaoxi beside him with a very bad expression.
Today's Xiaoxi dressed up in a serious way. She is petite and has a baby face. As long as she dresses up a bit, she will be quite beautiful and cute.
However, standing next to He Yunzhou at this moment, she was full of cowardice.
"Oh, there's no way. When I asked about it before, Editor Ding meant to come here for some afternoon tea."
Xiaoxi said bitterly.
"He's said it so clearly, what else can I say... Oh my god, I'm nervous. I think the two of us are going to bleed a lot today."
She muttered quietly.
Seeing that Xiaoxi was even more fearful than himself, He Yunzhou could only bite the bullet and push forward. He grabbed Xiaoxi in his arms and led her into the western restaurant.
The author has something to say: Mr. Huo: I'm confused, I'm in pain, I'm so sad, I broke up and cried, I love him so much, but I'm sorry, I can't give him happiness...
Mr. He, the straight man of steel: What, are you busy? Oh, well, then you work hard. (calm)