Mr. Butler on the catwalk

Zhang Yishan appeared in the model house because of a phone call.

The call was from a public number.Zhang Yishan picked it up, but didn't hear any sound, only one or two breaths could be heard.

Then Zhang Yishan asked:

"Alfred?"

... The breathing sound on the phone could no longer be heard, and then hung up.

Zhang Yishan rushed out the door when he hung up the phone.Just because Zhang Yishan had seen that number before - when Alfred was inconvenient to contact, he walked a few streets north, then called him in the phone booth, and told him what was going on for the day.

That number only appeared once, but Zhang Yishan remembered it.

Alfred was walking up the stairs when he arrived at the Model House.Zhang Yishan suddenly called out Alfred's name, and then watched the man turn around.

He asked in a very small voice:

"Did you make the call?"

For the first time he saw a shaken look on Alfred's face.He can really see it.

He felt a little pain.He asked Alfred:

"why?"

……

Alfred couldn't give an answer.Because at this time the paparazzi in the dark ran out and pointed the flashlight at the two of them.Then came the reporters—they approached Alfred and asked, "Is the previous rumor between you and this gentleman true? What do you think of your relationship with him?"

Zhang Yishan opened his eyes wide.He may trust the paparazzi's guarding, but he doesn't believe that reporters are so good at stepping on the spot.

He thought it was ridiculous, and asked Alfred across the group of people, "You arranged this?"

The voices were very noisy, and Zhang Yishan wondered if his question had been heard.But he did hear Alfred's words.

Alfred looked at himself, and then said into the reporter's microphone with an unwavering voice: "I am quite surprised. I would not have thought that he would be so obsessed... Regarding our relationship, I will talk about it tomorrow Give a formal response in the interview. Please do not disturb my current life."

If Zhang Yishan had a clear head, maybe he should get away now - but he wanted an answer.So he still asked Alfred: "You arranged this? On the phone...you figured it out and I will come over, right?"

Alfred was about to turn around, but ended up facing him.

That face that was so calm and expressionless made Zhang Yishan feel like his heart would be torn apart: "Are you still trying to lie to me at this point? Am I just a fool you can use!"

Alfred stood firmly on the steps.Zhang Yishan shouted in a broken voice: "Speak up! Tell me, you coward!"

——As if they smelled food, the paparazzi became more excited and surrounded the two people in front of the model.It was at this moment that Adechico called Luo Lin.

……

When He Shiwei knew the ins and outs of the incident, he just wanted to grab Zhang Yishan by the collar and drag him up.It's a pity that Luo Lin sat in front of Zhang Yishan to protect him, leaving him with no place to attack.

"Luo Lin, don't help him like this! He's still causing trouble at this point, and I..." He Shiwei looked very iron and steel.

Luo Lin's expression was still not warm: "He just came out of the hospital, and he can't stand your beating."

Zhang Yishan is sitting silently now.Luo Lin looked at Zhang Yishan like this, and said to He Shiwei: "Go back and rest first. Things have happened, so don't be afraid of scribbling in the reports. Anyway, Yishan has been here for a long time. I looked at him and told him He's fine with being alone."

He Shiwei smiled angrily: "Can you do this kind of thing after a short stay?...I'll book him a plane ticket now, and he'll go back for me tomorrow!"

Luo Lin looked at him: "You don't need to be so excited. You can decide on the air ticket, and getting angry now won't help."

He Shiwei took a deep breath, and then said to Luo Lin:

"You should always think about the possible impact of this incident. By doing this kind of thing at this time, he is tearing his own face off to promote Alfred!"

Luo Lin's voice was very calm: "So?...After this matter is over, if he can remember it, he will remember it. You don't need to say it. If you still can't remember...then no matter how many times you say it, it won't matter. use."

He Shiwei's face darkened: "What do you mean by that?"

Luo Lin lowered his eyes: "...It means literally. It may be that I didn't sound good. If you want me to apologize, I can say it now."

He Shiwei was completely blocked.He knew that Luo Lin was still angry—on the one hand, he was angry with the way he treated Zhang Yishan, and on the other hand, he was probably angry with his previous thoughtless behavior.

These are all easy for him to understand, but what he doesn't understand now is why Luo Lin "can" get angry.

After all, in He Shiwei's mind, there is no such image as Luo Lin.The Luo Lin he knew was probably the one who understood very well, had innocent eyes, and was trembling in everything he did.When I am in a good mood, I will smile shyly at others, and occasionally when I am unhappy, I just stay alone in the corner.When He Shiwei's tone was not good enough, Luo Lin would not refute, even if he disagreed, he would just keep quiet.

After getting along like the above for half a year, He Shiwei almost forgot, it turned out that Luo Lin also had the ability to clearly express his own voice.

Now Luo Lin is still silent on the sidelines.He Shiwei frowned, and began to think that he would break the silence first.

At this time, Luo Lin's cell phone rang.Luo Lin glanced at it, showed some doubts, and answered it anyway.The person on the other end of the phone said something, Luo Lin hesitated for a moment, and told the other party where they are now - the address of the Motel where Zhang Yishan lives.

He Shiwei suddenly thought of someone, and his expression became complicated: "...whose phone is it?"

"A camper. He said he wanted to see Zhang Yishan."

……

The person who made the call was Aikawa Masayuki.He arrived here half an hour later and only said one thing.

...He hopes that Zhang Yishan will be his assistant in the next two weeks.

As Zhang Yishan's boss, He Shiwei couldn't agree because of emotion or reason.He thought the joke was lame, and simply threw Aikawa's checkbook back.However, Ai Chuan took a pen and paper and bowed his head to write something, and handed it to He Shiwei.

He Shiwei's original expression still had an element of refusal, but after he looked at it intently, he didn't say anything more.

In the end, the two men talked for a long time outside the room, and it seemed that some agreement was drawn up, and finally a conclusion was reached.

——That is to "sell" Zhang Yishan to Masaki Aikawa to work part-time, and He Shiwei leaves it alone.

Luo Lin was still a little surprised: "Is there any problem with this process? Why did it suddenly..."

He Shiwei took a long breath: "I don't need to think about those. The Japanese said he would handle the employment procedures. I didn't expect that after Zhang Yishan was targeted, he could generate some secondary value."

"... What kind of benefits did you... get from Aichuan?" Luo Lin frowned.

"It's a great benefit... you'll know it right away," He Shi smiled happily, showing his businessman's true colors: "Anyway, the Japanese also said that if Zhang Yishan wanted to help you, he would not stop him... How affectionate. It's a pity that this kind of plot is put on Zhang Yishan, I don't know why I feel a little disgusted..."

Luo Lin let out a breath, and seemed to feel a little headache about such a change.He picked up the coat on the side and was about to leave - it was already very late, tomorrow would be the last housekeeping day, and the schedule for the third phase would also be announced.Before that, he should have a good night's rest.

Before leaving, He Shiwei grabbed him at the door and asked in a low voice, "I saw Duan Fei here before. What is he doing here?"

Luo Lin pulled his hand out: "...I don't know, you can ask him yourself."

He Shiwei was a little embarrassed: "Well. I have to stay for a while and talk to Zhang Yishan. You go back and be careful... good night."

"Good night." Luo Lin straightened his scarf and left with lowered eyes.

……

December 31st of this year finally came.In the morning, Luo Lin felt a headache and woke up early.

He saw Rivers sitting on the next bed with his back to him.

Due to various incidents recently, Luo Lin seemed to have not spoken to Rivers for a long time.Before he knew what to say, Rivers turned around.

Rivers said good morning to him.

Luo Lin nodded to him, and unconsciously looked out the gray window.

Rivers said:

"Today is the last day I will live with you."

Luo Lin didn't speak.

"I didn't count the points anymore, and I didn't think of other ways to stay in the same room with you. I don't think you need me to accompany you at all." Rivers' voice was calm.

Luo Lin lowered his head and said, "...you are a great roommate."

"Maybe." Rivers smiled.

Luo Lin was silent for a while, and asked Rivers: "I don't think you look so happy...Is it all because of me?"

Rivers was still smiling, but his expression became bitter:

"You know what, you sound self-righteous when you say that. But, well, what you say is the truth."

Luo Lin's voice lowered: "...Sorry."

Rivers looked at Luo Lin again, then stood up and walked out of the room.

He said to Luo Lin:

"Today is another new day, come on."

Luo Lin didn't respond—he just silently watched Rivers go out.He felt that Rivers actually didn't want to hear what he had to say.

...Today is New Year's Eve. LGM plans to free up the evening to give the models time to go to Times Square for the festivities.So at noon, the last housekeeping began early.

When Luo Lin put his luggage by the bedside of Portway, he heard the latter asking, "Is everything all right?"

Luo Lin thought of something, but he was still able to reply with a smile: "Everything is fine."

Downstairs are Travis and their excited cries.They can't wait to witness the moment when the confetti is flying in the square, and shout out the countdown to welcome the new year.

But before the carnival comes, they have one more business to do.

The last two weeks of LGMCamp are called "sprint weeks".In the past few training sessions, the models had to actually walk into the backstage of the top designers at this stage; they had to negotiate with the designers, compete with their opponents, and then compete for possible personal show opportunities.

But in this session, the sprint week was divided into two parts - duel week and theme week.

During the week-long showdown week, campers will team up.The employer will give Cases of different importance according to the overall level of the team, but then there will be competition within the team—there is only one camper who can finally get a Case, and this person will get all the points for this mission.

In easy-to-understand words, even if the strong ones join forces, they may get a higher-level case, but the internal competition will become more intense afterwards.In the case where the strength of the players is clearly differentiated, in most cases, one side will easily win the final case; however, the quality of the case will be difficult to guarantee, and the task points will not be ideal.

Due to such a competition system, conservative people will probably tend to choose to form teams with weaker abilities than themselves, so as to ensure that they can get basic points.But for campers who want to hit a higher ranking, they may also take the risk to compete with the top few and challenge themselves in order to strive for a decisive high score.

Both situations are possible, and each camper will have his own plan.Because of this, all kinds of contradictions are bound to appear when grouping.In anticipation of such a situation, LGM stipulates that the person with the lower score cannot refuse the team invitation of the person with the higher score; on the contrary, the person with the higher score can refuse, wait for the invitation of the next person, or take the initiative to invite others.Ultimately, each group should have no more than three candidates.

In the early afternoon, the campers stood in two lines in the living room of the Model House.Sith stood still in front of them, and randomly selected name tags. Those whose names were reported had to choose their teammates in turn.Those who are invited, those with lower points will only be able to answer "Accept (Take)", while those with higher points can choose "Accept (Take)" or "Reject (Reject)".

From a certain point of view, this situation can be regarded as dangerous-if those with low points are targeted by the superiors, they will have no choice but to fight with their backs.

……

Team time began—the first person whose name was called was Siestakovic.

He smiled happily and said:

"I choose Sasha."

Sasha opened her eyes wide and mouthed back, "No!"

Sistakovich repeated Sasha's name again. Sasha was so anxious that he almost cried out: "I don't want to compete with you!"

Sisterkovich's smile remained undiminished, and he also mouthed the past-"Trust me, baby. Trust me."

Sasha hesitated for a long time, and finally said in a low voice: "Take."

The second one is Sean - he looked around and finally set his eyes on Luo Lin.

"Luo Lin, come with me?" Sean smiled softly.

Luo Lin smiled a little embarrassedly, but said: "Sorry.Ireject."

Sean raised his eyebrows, but he didn't show any anger.

Sith said, "Sean rejected. Waiting for the next invitation. Next, Rivers."

Rivers lowered his head and said in a low voice, "...Travis."

"Ah? What?" Travis hadn't reacted yet: "I thought you would..."

Sith interrupted: "Rivers has higher points, and the invitation is automatically established. Next, Luke."

Luke showed his white teeth: "Sean! Don't lose heart, I still want you!"

Sean shrugged: "Thank you for accepting my old bones...Take."

... Next, Raul and Nafario, Aestis and Edmund, Adechico and Colin formed teams with each other; when there were only five people left, Portway's name was called.

He faced the Sith, intending to say the only name he had ever considered.But at the same time, he also saw Luo Lin shaking his head slightly.

Luo Lin said silently: "Please, don't choose me."

Portway's current score is twenty higher than Luo Lin's.Of course he could insist on his choice, but he still chose to respect Luo Lin's rare request.

Then he said: "... I choose Pierre."

Pierre whistled lazily: "What a good eye. Take."

In this way, there are three people left - Luo Lin, Aichuan and Alfred.

Sith drew another name card.Then he raised his eyebrows and looked at——

"Luo Lin, what is your choice?"

Luo Lin raised his head upon hearing the sound, and said in a firm tone, "... Alfred."

Then he met Alfred's eyes.There was sweat in his clenched fists now - Alfred could refuse, he knew that.

And Alfred looked at Luo Lin's appearance, and suddenly laughed: "It's so interesting...Take."

Then Alfred stood up from the queue whose original appearance could no longer be seen, and stood beside Luo Lin.

At that moment, Luo Lin wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, but he also found that his nerves became more and more tense.

...The last remaining Aikawa chose to join the group of Nafario and Raul.This choice has to be said to be a bit unexpected-not many people thought that Aikawa still chose to "crush" players with low points, instead of joining Alfred and Luo Lin, the group with the highest total points.

It was a long time later that Aikawa said to Luo Lin:

"I don't want to intervene in your war. If you have someone you want to defeat, I don't want to be your redundant helper."

...but the current Luo Lin still can't understand that much.He just felt the oppressive body temperature around him, and frowned slightly.

After dinner that day, most of the campers went out.

Portway was dragged to the dressing shop by Luke and the others. With a troubled expression on his face, he was forced to buy a "New Year's New Boer" hat.

Sitting in a chair in the hairstylist, Rivers compared the positions behind his ears to the stylist.Then his blond hair, which had been growing for many years, fell to the ground in strands.

Alfred was facing the reporter.The reporter said to him apologetically that he might not be able to catch up with the New Year's celebrations after the interview was over.Alfred smiled mildly and indifferently, waved his hands, and started the interview.

And now Luo Lin is standing on the roof of the model house, leaning on the railing, looking at the colorful sky in the distance.What shines is not the brilliance of fireworks, but the colorful lights that shine.

He looked at the sky for a long time, then slowly walked downstairs to his newly moved bedroom on the third floor.

He knew that Duan Fei was waiting in front of the model house at this moment.But he didn't want to go and open the door.

He Shiwei had already sent him several text messages, asking where he was and how the two of them could meet.

Luo Lin only replied a text message, saying that he wanted to rest alone today.The phone was put on silent after that.

……

Now the decoration of the bedroom is better than the previous two, and there is even an LCD TV screen installed on the wall.Luo Lin muted the TV and watched ABC's New Year's Eve broadcast.

When the countdown was three seconds, Luo Lin closed his eyes and made a wish.

When he opened his eyes, he saw the crowd kissing and hugging on the screen.Everyone looks happy.

Luo Lin lowered his eyes and sat quietly, then as if he had figured out something, he also laughed.