Euthanasia

Liu Zhiwei thought he heard it wrong.

It wasn't until Lu Yi started to pack his things that he suddenly realized that Lu Yi was serious.

"Hey, wait a minute, my lease term for this month hasn't come yet... The contract is one year and there are two months left... Don't throw this away!... Where will I live when I go out?"

Lu Yi didn't go his own way like Jon did. He stopped what he was doing and said to him, "You're going to buy a house soon, and live with me for the time being."

Liu Zhiwei was stunned for a moment, and said again and again: "Oh, how embarrassing, I will move soon, within a month and a half..."

Lu Yi glanced at the few people who were still standing at the door and inside the door watching the excitement, and said to Liu Zhiwei, "I have a few words with you."

Liu Zhiwei was taken aback, and looked back at Sister Miao and the little girl lying at the door at some point, asking them out of the room and closing the door behind him, apologizing and pleading.

"If it was your own place, no matter how messy or expensive it is, I wouldn't make such a request," Lu Yi said, "but do you realize that they've been violating your privacy?"

"Ah? It's not that serious... right?" Liu Zhiwei looked at Lu Yi's face and swallowed the second half of the sentence.

"I'm also Chinese, and I know what Chinese people think," Lu Yi said. "You may think it's okay, but if you just put up with it, they will enter your room, use your things, check Your diary."

"Check the diary and..."

"There is no essential difference between checking the diary and entering your private space," Lu Yi said sternly, "Using other people's things without their permission is an invasion of other people's personal privacy. If you have been or are gradually getting used to all this , You will also become such a person. Freely look through other people's books and mobile phones, and easily enter other people's privacy."

Liu Zhiwei was speechless.

"I'm telling you this because you are Jon's husband," Lu Yi said, "I don't judge others easily and I don't preach easily, but you are the one we choose for Jon. I hope you and Jon We can respect each other's cultural habits and not hurt or offend each other."

Liu Zhiwei opened his mouth, scratched his head and said, "I...I won't..."

Lu Yi's expression softened: "Of course, you are very measured and have not done all the above. When you and Jon are close enough to be like a real couple, maybe he won't mind you doing anything, but I I hope you have some measure in your heart, whether it is for Jon or for others. Similarly, I hope that you can also have the strength to reject others."

Seeing that Liu Zhiwei seemed to be stunned, Lu Yi continued to pack his things: "These are just my personal opinions. In addition, it was Jon's idea to ask you to move out. It is indeed inconvenient for you to live here. I agree with you on this point." Broker’s point of view. Before you become a public figure, it’s best to live separately from these people who over-occupy other people’s personal space.”

Seeing what Liu Zhiwei was going to say again, Lu Yi seemed to know what he was going to say, and said again: "You have legally owned a lot of property, and now what you need is a higher level of pursuit."

Liu Zhiwei's move was not hidden from the neighbors.It took Lu Yi a few hours to find someone to evacuate Liu Zhiwei's small room with few things.People from several moving companies only went up and down two or three times, and the tenants all stuck their heads out to look.

When the little girl who lived in another room watched the car below go away from the window, she held her mobile phone in both hands and quickly sent a text message to the little sister downstairs: "He's gone! He's gone!!"

"Ah?! No way! I'm still on my way home!"

"I said that he will definitely live soon! And the person who came to pick him up today is also super handsome, mature and tall. Although he is a bit old, he really wants to be a CP..."

"Wow I didn't see that!"

"And I think that handsome uncle has a lot of background. When the two of them talked in English, I didn't understand it at all!"

"English?"

"Yeah, it sounds really tall...I'm going to learn English..."

"Why use English? Is he an overseas Chinese?"

"I don't know...Maybe I don't want us to understand...What a pity! I won't be able to see handsome guys every day from now on..."

"Do you know where he moved to?"

"I don't know... that older one looks quite fierce, don't let me know... my little Viagra..."

"But judging from the situation, he is going to debut soon, right? Is there anything else to do?"

"Not necessarily. When he went to Hengdian with Pei Ze who lived in the living room, I was more optimistic about Pei Ze. When Pei Ze moved away, I thought he was going to be famous, but I haven't seen any news yet."

"Oh, by the way, do you have Viagra's cell phone number?"

"Hahahahahahahaha I have it! You don't know how happy I was when I heard that aunt failed to ask for his number today. Hahahahahaha, thankfully I asked him to help me get the number!"

"Damn!! You traitor, give it to me..."

Liu Zhiwei finally moved everything into Lu Yi's home at midnight.Jon was upset that his dinner didn't taste like something made by Liu Zhiwei, and he understood when they learned that they were moving.He said unhappily: "I'll give you a holiday today and move. You don't need to come here. I can eat alone, sleep alone, fill a hot water bottle by myself, watch SpongeBob SquarePants by myself, and have a drip by myself—oh , I have a bear to accompany me."

Liu Zhiwei and Lu Yi: "..."

When the clock struck twelve, Liu Zhiwei finally wiped off his sweat and pushed the last box into the room.

Lu Yi's house is not far from the hospital. Since it is in the city center, the house is not too big, but compared to the place where Liu Zhiwei lives, it is considered a luxury house.

Just as Lu Yi wanted him to have a good rest, he heard Liu Zhiwei say, "Okay, then I'll go to the hospital."

"Now?" Lu Yi was a little surprised.

Liu Zhiwei smiled and said, "Five hours a day, it's agreed. Although it's past twelve o'clock, let's make up for it."

Lu Yi was almost a little surprised.

"Besides, Jon doesn't like to fall asleep alone. I'll go and see if he's still awake. Thank him when he's awake," Liu Zhiwei said, taking a thermos soaked in longan and red dates and going out. Before leaving He looked back at Lu Yi and said, "Thank you too, Brother Lu."

The lights in the inpatient department of the hospital had been dimmed.When Liu Zhiwei entered, there were still many people in the corridor.There are many family members who come to sleep with them. They have just finished serving the patients and are walking back and forth with water basins to fetch water.When Liu Zhiwei entered, many people greeted him.

His face appeared so often that the frequent visitors as well as the doctors and nurses knew him too.

The lights in Jon's room went out as well.Generally, Liu Zhiwei turns off the lights for him. Sometimes when he is away, the nurse will help turn off the lights.The lights must have been turned off by the nurse today too.

Liu Zhiwei peeked through the window above the door, and could vaguely see the arched figure on the bed.He gently turned the doorknob and walked in quietly.

The person on the bed moved.

"Zeo" Jon's voice was a little nasal.

Liu Zhiwei said softly: "Are you asleep?"

"Sleeping." Jon replied stiffly.

Liu Zhiwei knew that this awkward foreigner might not be happy.

He reached out and wiped Jon's feet, it was cold without a hot water bottle.

"No, that's too hot." Jon seemed to know what he was going to say, and refused in advance.

Liu Zhiwei had already expected it, and he didn't reply, he went straight into the bathroom and poured hot water for Jon, and put it under his feet.But when he lifted the quilt, Liu Zhiwei suddenly remembered Lu Yi's words, and asked a little cautiously: "Do you think I have violated your privacy?"

"what?"

Liu Zhiwei looked at Jon's face with an incomprehensible expression under the weak light of the bathroom, suddenly smiled, and put the hot water bottle inside.

"You came here just to give me a hot water bottle?" Jon still said a little coldly.

"Longan red dates," Liu Zhiwei put the thermos cup on his bedside, "you can drink it when you wake up at night, it's warm."

"That's all?"

"More than that." Liu Zhiwei squatted down beside Jon's bed, looked at Jon's chiseled face and green eyes lying on his side in the dim light, "I'm here to talk to you."

Jon seemed to subconsciously tilt his neck back because of Liu Zhiwei's action, but he didn't take much distance.

When Liu Zhiwei saw his bear being held in his arms, it simply didn't match his image.

The corners of Liu Zhiwei's mouth curled up, and he said, "Thank you."

Jon looked at Liu Zhiwei in the dark and didn't speak for a while.

"Maybe to you big men, what you have done for me is not worth mentioning," Liu Zhiwei said softly, "but you saved my dream. Thank you."

Jon was silent for another moment.Then he said, "Will you come over and watch SpongeBob SquarePants with me tomorrow?"

"How about "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"?" Liu Zhiwei said.

"I don't like orangutans."

"What about Beauty and the Beast?"

"Animated version?"

"Live-action version."

"Well...I'll think about it."

"Do you know what our Chinese lullaby is like?"

"Do you treat me like a child?"

"I have to wait for you to fall asleep."

"...Okay then, you can sing."

"Two tigers..."

"That's not a lullaby."

"Sleep, sleep, my dear darling..."

Liu Zhiwei waited until Jon closed his eyes and breathed evenly before he stopped humming.In fact, he had long forgotten how to sing a lullaby, he only remembered the first two lines, because every time his mother sang the first two lines, he fell asleep.

Liu Zhiwei tiptoed to the recliner beside the bed, looked at Jon for a while and then closed his eyes.

Jon opened his eyes after he closed them, and looked quietly at Liu Zhiwei by the window.He remembered a lot of past events.Including the self who was once penniless, the self who worked alone in his career, the self who lived on the street, and the self who received the first twenty-dollar bill from a passerby playing and singing in the square.

None of them were himself after he had become famous.

The author has something to say:

Jon: "I can be alone..."

Liu Zhiwei: "I understand, I'm going to see you now."