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Lin and Xi didn't expect to meet You Zhong here.

The reunion scene that had been rehearsed countless times in their minds failed to be used. After the initial panic and surprise, Lin Hexi subconsciously looked at You Zhong's wrist and cuff.

The other party was dressed very formally, the dark haute couture suit was straight and docile, the tie was tied meticulously, and the legs wrapped in trousers were straight and slender.The broken hair in front of the forehead was brushed up, revealing an increasingly attractive full forehead and high nose bridge, and the lines of the face were more mature and sharp than three years ago.

Watches and cufflinks look expensive, but they are also very strange.

Already expecting this to be the case, Lin Hexi did not show an overtly disappointed expression, nor did he notice You Zhong's gaze flickering over his empty wrist.

When he came back to his senses, the hand holding him had been loosened, as if the sudden tightening a second ago was just his illusion, as if the two were just strangers who met by chance.

You Zhong ignored his words of thanks, turned around and walked towards the foreign customers waiting in front of him.

There were no longer any people staying by the elevator door, so Lin Hexi had no choice but to take a few steps forward.

You Zhong was asking about the situation of foreign customers in English, the latter answered in shock, noticing Lin and Xi who were walking over here, passed You Zhong again, and said to Lin and Xi with emotion: "Now we also have the same experience. People who have experienced adversity, would you like to make friends with me?"

Lin and Xi did not give an answer immediately.

You Zhong, who was on the sidelines, interjected subconsciously: "His English is not very—"

Lin and Xi quickly interrupted him, as if grasping at the last straw, they replied in fluent and standard English: "Of course, I am very happy to make new friends."

You Zhong couldn't help but startled.

Not noticing the change of mood in You Zhong's eyes, Lin Hexi took out his mobile phone and exchanged names and email addresses with the foreign guest.

He didn't care what the purpose of the other party's approaching him was, he only knew that since the foreign guest in front of him knew You Zhong, the other party would be the only chance for him to interact with You Zhong in China.

Such a hard-won opportunity will never be missed again.

At this moment, Lin Hexi realized clearly like never before that maybe the two years of severing contact and the news of You Zhong's engagement did not completely make him give up.

The escape time of more than a year is just a self-suggestion buried in his heart in disguise. As long as he doesn't return to China, some pictures he doesn't want to see will never be seen, and some news he doesn't want to hear will never be heard.

And when he returns to China at this time, he can neither change the fact that You Zhong is about to get married, nor can he have delusions about rekindling the old relationship with You Zhong.The only thing to do is to give up on yourself.

During the whole process of communicating between Lin and Xi and the foreign guest, You Zhong never said anything to Lin and Xi.

But Zhou Xuan, who escaped from the long-term shock, could see clearly, and You Zhong's eyes never left Lin Hexi.

He winked at the hotel manager beside him, signaling him to appease the two guests who were trapped in the elevator.

After receiving the instruction, the manager immediately stepped forward to apologize to the two guests, and promised to waive all the hotel fees during their stay and extend the number of days they stayed in the hotel for free.

When it came to the specific extension of a few days, the manager looked at Zhou Xuan calmly.

Zhou Xuan thought for a while, first raised his left hand to show a number three, and then swept towards You Zhong calmly.

You Zhong looked flat, but he didn't look happy.

Seeing this, Zhou Xuan secretly sighed that his little boy's thoughts in the past three years had become more and more difficult to guess. At the same time, he tentatively raised his right hand and added a zero after the number three.

The manager's eyes widened, worrying if he was hallucinating.

You Zhong's expression remained unchanged, but the brows slightly moved.

Immediately understood, Zhou Xuan waved his hand, urging the manager to continue talking.

The latter had no choice but to take a deep breath and added with a heavy heart: "The maximum length of free extended stay is 30 days."

The foreign guests immediately praised the caring service of the hotel without hesitation.

The matter of the elevator has been resolved, and You Zhong left with the foreign guest.

Lin and Xi climbed the stairs back to their room on the eighteenth floor.

Leaving Zhou Xuan and the hotel staff behind, the manager on duty turned his face sadly.

"What are you in a hurry for? They are not idlers, and they will stay for less than 30 days. Besides," Zhou Xuan walked over and patted the manager on the shoulder, "We don't need the hotel to pay for the extension, someone will pay for it."

After finishing speaking, he turned and left leisurely, leaving behind the manager with a dazed expression.

During the time when the foreign client called the assistant to bring the documents downstairs, You Zhong took back from the front desk of the hotel the things that Mrs. You had left before she left.

It was a camera I borrowed from him years ago.

You Zhong turned on the camera and flipped through the photos Mrs. You took with the camera.

There are not many of them, and they are all landscape photos taken when collecting wind around the world, and the background of the photos is mostly summer.

You Zhong kept moving his fingertips, and with a flicker in front of his eyes, the photo had changed from the waves and rocks in summer to the backyard covered with thick snow in winter.

Four years ago, Lin Hexi was wearing a thick white down jacket, squatting in the snow and smiling at him.

Four years later, Lin Hexi reunited with him after years of absence in the hotel, but they were strangers.

The residual touch of the fingertips had disappeared, and You Zhong stared at the person in the camera for a long time without returning to his senses.

At the end of an important meeting with an overseas client in the evening, Zhou Xuan drove to the door and asked him to have a drink on the grounds that there was a performance in the bar.

The bar they went to was called Seven Degrees Celsius. The boss behind it was also a rich and powerful kid in the circle. Zhou Xuan was a frequent visitor to the bar. The bar manager was attentive and respectful to them. After the two of them sat down in a dimly lit corner , Zhou Xuan asked as usual: "Where is your boss?"

The manager said: "The boss has something to go to other places, and he will come back after two days."

Zhou Xuan nodded, didn't say any more, and directly told him to open wine in the wine cabinet.

If the two want to drink, they naturally have to have a deep chat.Zhou Xuan didn't really ask him to come over to let him see how wonderful the performance was.

What's more, all the sex dancers in the bar are women. You Zhong likes men now, and he probably won't go back anytime soon.

Zhou Xuan asked straight to the point: "Do you know about Lin Hexi's return to China?"

You Zhong said: "I knew he was going back to China, but I didn't know he had already returned."

Zhou Xuan didn't quite believe it, "Really?"

Turning to glance at him, You Zhong said: "When you answered the phone in the car in the afternoon, weren't you there?"

Zhou Xuan was silent, and then as if remembering something, his eyes suddenly widened, "The phone call in the car in the afternoon, you just want to check his flight time?" He was full of emotion, "If it wasn't for the phone call in the afternoon, I really want to think that you go to the hotel to pick up customers and get things are just a cover for me."

You Zhong looked inexplicable, "Why should I deal with you?"

Zhou Xuan snorted slightly when he heard this, but he didn't take the initiative to expose the precarious dignity in his heart, "Okay, then let's not talk about you, let's talk about your ex-boyfriend. You said that there are so many hotels in the city, why does he have to live here?" My hotel?"

"Could it be—" he stroked his chin and drawled his tone.The deep meaning to be expressed in the words is self-evident, but Zhou Xuan did not say the second half of the sentence for a long time, only waiting for You Zhong to answer.

After a long silence, You Zhong said concisely: "I don't know."

Zhou Xuan said: "How come you don't know?" Zhou Xuan was really surprised, "There will be times when you don't know?"

You Zhong didn't speak any more, he really didn't know.

In the past few years when You Yueteng got the company's decision-making power, he will never say that he doesn't know or isn't sure.He has gradually become decisive and resolute in the business world, and will kill all unknown and uncertain possibilities in advance.

Lin and Xi, who haven't seen or even had any contact in the past four years, are the only uncertainties for him.

And such uncertainty is still slowly deepening with the passage of time.

What started as a blotch-sized shadow has evolved into the wide-open gap it is today.

When Lin Hexi had just left the country, You Zhong didn't believe You Yueteng's words.

Rather than saying that Lin Hexi left him for the opportunity to study abroad, You Zhong guessed that Lin Hexi's sudden departure was caused by You Yueteng.

The marriages of each generation of the You family's heirs are the product of the marriage of the strong family, even You Yueteng and his mother are no exception.The two reached a consensus before they got married, and they would not interfere with each other's careers and lives after marriage.

It is obvious that You Yueteng does not want unnecessary accidents to happen to You Zhong's marriage.

But at that time, he didn't have any strength that could compete with You Yueteng, he was eager to obtain from You Yueteng enough power to make him independent and no longer be restrained by You Yueteng.

For a long time, You Zhong worked day and night upside down.And his ability was indeed recognized by You Yueteng, and he soon entered the core management of the family business.

In those long and boring late nights in the past, what supported him was not only the goals he set for himself, but also the phone calls that Tonglin and Xi failed to make.

He guessed that every late night in China was the time when Lin Hexi got up to go to class, so he was always waiting for Lin Hexi's call.

Lin Hexi's number was not canceled, and his mobile phone was not turned off, but he kept refusing to answer his past calls.

Lin Hexi's WeChat is still there, but he and all the people they know in common have been blocked.

On the day Lin and Xi went abroad, half of the wardrobe in the rented room was empty, but the two food bowls were filled with dog food and cat food.

He could tell himself that Lin Hexi didn't answer the phone and blocked him on WeChat because someone had already taken his phone away.The clothes taken from the closet and the dog and cat food in the food bowl were also deliberately misled by others.

But Lin and Xi never contacted him.

It doesn't matter if it's one month or two months, or even half a year, but the time of severing contact is as long as two full years.

You Zhong will also start to think, if he doesn't answer the phone, and WeChat blocks him, is it because he doesn't want to contact him again.I packed my luggage in an orderly manner, and didn't forget to prepare enough food for the dogs and cats. Did I have plans to leave long ago?

His thoughts even began to diverge to the time when the two were first together.

Why when it came to going abroad, Lin Hexi analyzed that the realistic reason why he would not go abroad was that the Lin family would not spend money to send him abroad.

Why do Lin and Xi's New Year's resolutions only take into account their second year together when making New Year's Eve wishes.

There is even a longer time before the relationship between each other was open and honest.

Lin and Xi's half-truths and half-false words always use jokes to cover up their true thoughts, and they always leave room for themselves and the habit of retreating between their mouths and mouths.

Withdrawing from those complicated thoughts, You Zhong shook the transparent glass in his hand, looking down at the liquid flowing in the glass.

Zhou Xuan was already dumbfounded.

He really didn't know that it turned out that You Zhong could make so many interlocking analyzes of a breakup that seemed so common to outsiders, but it seemed that his thinking was too simple.

"Maybe he was indeed forced to go abroad. It's not easy to study abroad now, so he just wants to come back to you after graduation." Zhou Xuan comforted him.

As if he was not surprised by Zhou Xuan's thinking direction, You Zhong slowly raised his eyes, his dark pupils were filled with deepness, "Then why didn't he come back?"

The music in the bar was restless and noisy, Zhou Xuan didn't understand what he said, "What?"

You Zhong's face has returned to calm, and he stated it more logically: "If this is the case, why didn't he come back after graduation?"

Zhou Xuan was left speechless by his question.

After a long time, he changed to a relatively lighter topic: "I didn't mention those before, but now that he's back, what do you think of him?"

You Zhong still said the same words: "I don't know."

This is the second time Zhou Xuan heard him say he didn't know tonight.

Only this time, Zhou Xuan saw it clearly, it wasn't that he really didn't know, but that he already had the answer in his heart, but he still had concerns.

In fact, even if you don't ask You Zhong himself about the last question, just judging from You Zhong's attitude when they met in the hotel during the day, Zhou Xuan knows what he is thinking now.

Zhou Xuan didn't know what he was still worried about, he could only speculate based on the conversation with You Zhong that You Zhong might still be hiding something from him.

Just looking at the way You Zhong was being led by emotion, Zhou Xuan had to admit in his heart that those golden phrases that Xia Chengfeng instilled in his ears before made him goosebumps were not unreasonable.

Love is not a choice, love is instinct.

If you really have a choice, You Zhong will definitely not let himself be held back by this relationship that has been unclear for more than three years.