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There was still a door leading to the bedroom in the cloakroom. Lin Hexi walked out lightly with the cat in his arms, and glanced at the next room.

The bedroom door was still ajar, and You Zhong didn't come out. Lin Hexi closed the door of the cloakroom tightly, drove Alaska, who was chasing along his legs, to the stairs, and then sat on the stairs with the orange cat in his arms.

A few seconds later, hearing You Zhong coming out of the bedroom, Lin and Xi let go of the cat, stood up from the stairs, turned around and looked at each other thoughtfully.

Handing him the pajamas, You Zhong asked with a normal expression, "What's wrong?"

Lin Hexi suddenly didn't know how to speak.

It's not that you haven't noticed the changes in Youzhong compared to before. Compared with three years ago, Youzhong is now more and more difficult to see through. This is probably related to Youzhong's current job and identity.

The saying "seeing is believing" doesn't apply to You Zhong. Many times, when he thinks he is about to come into contact with the facts and truth, You Zhong's behavior seems to remind him that those things are not true.

And when he gradually believes in You Zhong's behavior, there will always be some existence that cannot be changed by time to tell him that maybe this matter will usher in a reversal, maybe he shouldn't give up those expectations in his heart too early.

Swallowing back the questions lingering on his lips, Lin Hexi decided not to ask him.

Nothing else happened that night. After taking a shower, Lin and Xi went back to sleep in the side sleeper, and after the light in his room was turned off, You Zhong also went up to the second floor with his computer in his arms.

A night without dreams.

Waking up by You Zhong's knock on the door the next morning, Lin and Xi changed their clothes and got out of bed to brush their teeth and wash their faces. When they opened the door and went out, they saw two breakfasts on the dining table.

He pulled the chair by the table and sat down, picked up the porridge in the bowl and drank it.

You Zhong had already finished eating, so he glanced up at him and said, "I'll drive you back to the hotel."

Lin Hexi didn't refuse, just nodded and added: "If you are not in a hurry to go to work."

You Zhong wanted to say something, but was interrupted by the sudden ringtone of the mobile phone.

The other party didn't get up to avoid him, but directly picked up the mobile phone beside the table to answer the call. From the fragmentary words, it was not difficult to hear that this was a work call.

Lin Hexi put down the bowl and couldn't help looking at You Zhong. When he saw the mobile phone in his hand, his eyes paused. It wasn't the mobile phone that You Zhong used in the hotel that day.

Within a few seconds of thinking, You Zhong had already hung up the phone call from his subordinate, noticing that his gaze stayed on him for a long time, You Zhong looked back silently with a sense of exploration.

Receiving the other party's gaze, Lin and Xi said, "Do you have two mobile phones?"

He also thought about saving the number in the hotel that day, thinking that he misunderstood that the mobile phone was a backup phone, You Zhong explained: "This is a work phone, and that is a personal phone."

Lin and Xi nodded slowly, "Do you use this mobile phone to contact foreign customers?"

Not understanding the intention of his question, You Zhong slightly raised his eyebrows, "Yes."

Lin Hexi looked at his mobile phone, which was also on the table, and gradually realized that You Zhong might not have noticed that his mobile phone had turned on the setting to block all overseas calls.

In this way, the breakfast time ended in the endless conversation.

The two went out to the parking lot, and the elevator descended from the upper floors. Lin Hexi and You Zhong didn't speak.It wasn't until the elevator stopped halfway and two residents from the same building walked in that the long silence in the elevator was broken.

The two middle-aged aunts seemed to be acquainted friends, and they had been gossiping since they came in.

The one on the left didn't even care about the fact that there were outsiders in the elevator, and asked directly, "Have you heard about the household downstairs?"

"The one about the divorce lawsuit?" The one on the right waved his hand, "I guess everyone in the community knows about this by now."

"I just came back yesterday." The person on the left lowered his voice, "I heard that the wife and the gringo ran away?"

"Yeah, what a crime." The person on the right sighed, "There are two children at home, so I just left my husband and children and went abroad."

The person on the left was about to ask again, but it happened that the elevator opened on the first floor, so the two stopped talking and walked out of the elevator.

The elevator door closed and continued to descend towards the basement level.

Lin Hexi didn't care about strangers' gossip. When he looked up to see the numbers above the elevator, he happened to bump into the gaze of You Zhong looking at him.

With a twitch of his eyelids, he suddenly sensed some subtlety in the air, but he lifted his eyelids openly and looked back.

But you saw that You Zhong had already withdrawn his gaze, as if the other party's glance just now was just his illusion.

You Zhong drove him to the front of the hotel. Lin and Xi were still hesitating whether to bring him the clothes, but the other party said first: "I'm going out of town for a few days, and I'll come back in a week. I'll ask you to get the clothes then." .”

At that time, he should have stayed in the country. It was okay to think about it, and Lin Hexi agreed.

After returning to the hotel, Lin and Xi received an email from their colleagues, saying that they were flying to China next Tuesday, and they left detailed flight information in the email.

Lin Hexi replied to the email, telling the other party that he would pick up the plane at that time, and then thought about asking Zhou Xuan to come out to meet him.

A few hours later, he got Zhou Xuan's phone number from the hotel manager on duty.

It's just that for the next two days, he stayed in the hotel to deal with work, and he never found a chance to dial the number he got.

On the evening of Tuesday, when he went to the airport to pick up his American colleagues, You Zhong called from other places.

The other party said on the phone: "The watch has been repaired. I will send you the address. You can go directly to get it."

In fact, Lin and Xi didn't care too much about whether the watch was repaired or not.

It was just an ordinary watch he bought abroad. Lin Hexi wore it on the few trips, and when he found that the watch was broken, he just stuffed it in the suitcase and never took it out again.

If he hadn't packed his suitcase and returned to China later, he would have forgotten that there was still a broken watch in his suitcase.

After saying thank you, Lin Hexi found an empty chair at the airport and sat down, without saying when to pick it up, "Tell me the name of the store."

You Zhong reported the complete store name, and told him the specific words.

Suddenly, there was an announcement in the airport to remind you to board the plane, which just overwhelmed You Zhong's voice on the phone.

Lin and Xi didn't hear clearly, so they asked again, which words were they.

You Zhong's voice on the phone stopped abruptly. There was a faint electric sound, as if even the other party's breathing became restless. You Zhong didn't repeat it to him, but seemed to suddenly become very emotional It was terrible, and he asked in a heavy and angry voice, "Where are you?"

That was the most emotional tone he had heard from You Zhong in the past few days since he returned to China.

He froze in place, not understanding the specific reason for the other party's sudden mood change.

Seeing that he didn't answer, You Zhong's voice raised a little bit: "I ask you, where are you now?!"

Lin Hexi said, "I'm at the airport—"

You Zhong interrupted him hastily: "What are you doing at the airport?"

Lin Hexi explained: "I'm going to the airport—"

You Zhong interrupted him angrily again: "You want to leave? You want to go to America without saying a word?"

Lin and Xi were stunned, they didn't expect the other party to think so.

He also stopped rushing to explain to You Zhongting, on second thought, he might as well take this opportunity to try the other party, so he chose to remain silent.

After a long time without waiting for an answer or an explanation, You Zhong forced himself to calm down when he was acquiescing. While he was furious, there was also a feeling of uneasiness slowly spreading.

When Lin Hexi picked up the watch from the hot spring pool and lied to him that it was a hotel room card, he didn't expose it.

After the initial mutual testing, Lin and Xi temporarily changed their minds. When they took out another watch from the suitcase, although he was angry, he chose not to expose it.

There are still unresolved issues between them, and the situation of the year that has never been shared.Time may wait for him, but Lin Hexi will not wait for him any longer.

In fact, he was not sure that Lin and Xi would definitely return to China after receiving the news of his marriage.

And after he tried to spread such news, the other party did return to China.

Only this time, he tricked Lin and Xi into returning home with false news of their marriage.So what about next time?What did he use to trick the other party back to the country.

This time I will return to China three years later, and the next time I return to China may be five or ten years later.

It is only a dozen hours across the Pacific Ocean from the United States to China. It is never the distance between the Pacific Ocean that binds people, but the work, friends, and even family in a foreign country.

Lin Hexi and the Lin family had already severed contact. Perhaps for him, whether he returned home or not was no longer so important.

You Zhong gripped the phone tightly, and finally said to the person on the phone: "Wait for me to come back."

He spoke slowly, with clear words: "I have something to ask you, and I have something to tell you."