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Xu Yanxin hurried to the hospital and rushed into the ward.Ye Yuqing's face was haggard, but his eyes were burning.Panting, he sat down slowly on the edge of the bed, thinking of making a joke, or apologizing.But Ye Yuqing stared at him steadfastly, as if about to burn a hole in him.Xu Yanxin pursed her lips, did not speak, and instead silently picked up a fruit knife to peel a pear for her, but heard a hoarse voice: "Let's break up."

The fingers resting on the side of the knife paused slightly, but quickly peeled off the thin skin of the apple. He gave a soft "hmm" and waited until the apple was peeled clean before handing it to her.

"Moisten your throat."

Ye Yuqing wanted to wave his hand away, but saw the tiny wound on his finger.It's a very small red spot that has scabbed over.

"when?"

Xu Yanxin smiled, and said as if embarrassed: "I was accidentally cut by a drawing board in the studio a few days ago."

Ye Yuqing smiled mockingly, and said, "The studio is another studio."

Xu Yanxin cut the apple in his hand into another piece, put it in a glass bowl, inserted a toothpick and handed it to her.Ye Yuqing didn't answer.Xu Yanxin put the bowl on the table embarrassingly.Ye Yuqing looked at his pale and slender fingers, protruding wrist bones, and the dry eye sockets filled with mist again. She said: "Do you hate me? We haven't seen each other for four months, but you don't say anything." Don't tell me."

"Why?" Xu Yanxin lowered her eyes and said in a low voice, "I just don't know what to say. I want to say sorry to you, but you probably don't need my apology. You said you hate those three words the most .”

Xu Yanxin looked at her seriously.

"But I don't hate the other three words. For example, you never told me. You mentioned breaking up so many times, but I didn't agree. I thought we could barely be counted as childhood sweethearts. Not to mention love at first sight, but also Love can last for a long time," Ye Yuqing stared at him, vaguely seeing the white-clothed boy from before, "I'm so naive."

Ye Yuqing finally asked: "Who did you draw in that cartoon?"

Xu Yanxin silently looked at her feet.

"You go."

Xu Yanxin sat for several hours, and suddenly left the hospital. It was snowing heavily outside.He was also wearing a thin sweater, showing his slender ankles.One foot stepped into the snow, creaking and creaking.The snow was sticking to his ankles, but he walked a long, long way unconsciously.

When he got back to the apartment, the whole studio was in a mess. When he received Ye Yuqing's call, he was too hasty and even forgot to close the door, as if he had been robbed.He was stunned for two seconds, before looking at the wind chime hanging in front of the window.He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the wind chime making a crisp sound with the breeze.When I sat down, I realized that my ankles were frozen.

Through the mist, he sank his face into the warm water, spit out a string of bubbles, and hid himself in the water like a fish.He stared at the ring on his hand and slowly took it off.

His girlfriend of four years broke up with him.

He was in a trance.

On the drawing board is a sketch drawn in the afternoon.

The flaming flames engulfed the dilapidated and crumbling shop, belching a black smoke.Even looking at the painting, he could feel his blazing tongue of fire and the sparks of electric wires flying everywhere.He gently touched the drawing paper with his hand, as if touching a strange treasure.When his expression darkened and he regained his senses, he crumpled up and threw it into the trash can.

The next day, he slept until seven o'clock, sitting at the table and drawing.The phone kept ringing.He opened Weibo, and there were tens of thousands of comments and hundreds of private messages.There were countless abuses and greetings. Some people even greeted the cat he sent. He replied in a good temper: The cat belongs to the sister of the flower shop downstairs. There is no need to insist that a puppet cat is bald.

There was almost a second reply: plagiarism dog dare to reply?

He clicked on that person's Weibo. It was a young girl. There were a lot of selfies in her Weibo album. She wasn't pretty, but she had good facial features, and she pouted at the camera to be cute. The latest Weibo "People are the easiest to be misled. I hate all those who abuse violence and accuse others." He smiled lightly and replied to the girl: remember to delete your own photos before scolding someone.

There is no return.

But soon emptied his photo album.

Xu Yanxin didn't care about the rest of the comments and replies, and the tone was roughly the same.

Grinning expressions and vulgar and vicious abuse are generally these two kinds.It's just that there were still a dozen or twenty messages a few days ago, but now the number has suddenly increased hundreds of times, and he didn't have the energy to explain them one by one, so he had to turn off Weibo notifications.

He knew that days like this were still a long time away.

But he was able to draw unwaveringly, put on a down jacket, and went out to buy breakfast in his sneakers.Xu Yanxin is born with a good skin, with the appearance of a beautiful Japanese boy, with fair skin, peach blossoms on his face, clear eyes, long eyelashes, and a dimple on his right cheek when he smiles.It seems that the next second I will run with a toast in my mouth.But Xu Yanxin is a rough man in the comics world. He wears Crayon Shin-chan pajamas on the inside and a long black down jacket on the outside. The zipper is pulled up to the neck. , nothing fashionable to speak of.When passing the flower shop in front of the apartment, I squatted down to look at the puppet, and took a few photos with affection.

The florist poked her head out and said, "If you like her, give her a hug. Our steamed buns have been vaccinated, so she's very good."

Xu Yanxin waved her hands and shook her head like a rattle: "No, no, I'm afraid I will cause you trouble."

"What do you mean by causing trouble?" The sister of the florist was watering the flowers with a watering can. "The Chinese New Year is coming soon. Will you go back this year?"

Xu Yanxin hesitantly curled his fingers and hooked his face.

"Still with your little girlfriend?"

"No, we just broke up."

"Wow!" The girl held her face in her hands, suppressed the upward curve, cleared her throat, and said, "I'm being rude, but I'm really excited, it seems that there are more people in our store." A beautiful flower." Xu Yanxin blushed and waved her hand.The girl said again: "Where is your hometown?"

"S City," Xu Yanxin said, "You are so excited, I have to tell your boyfriend."

"It's useless to tell him! Our family is my decision."

The girl smiled smugly.

The girl went back into the shop, picked a fresh rose and handed it to him. Xu Yanxin pointed at herself at a loss, the girl smiled and said, "Buy you, someday I will ask you to look at the shop, you can't refuse .”

"Thank you," Xu Yanxin stuffed the rose into his breast pocket, "I wish you a happy marriage for a hundred years."

Don't be like him.

He squatted down and looked at the cat for a while, and then returned home lingering.It is said to be a home, but it is actually a popular youth loft, a duplex small house, with only a tatami bed on it, but he installed a projector for fear of boredom.Below is his studio, bathroom and kitchen.There are his watercolors on the walls.He put the rose in front of his desk and turned on the recording.But only his hand work can be seen.

He gently picked off the rose petals one by one, pulled out two sheets of paper, laid the rose flat on the paper, and put it flat in the book, before explaining to the camera: "First do the embossing, and then start to make other things." of."

He took out the 3D printing pen and various consumables from the drawer, and explained to the camera: "I use ABS, which has a high melting point, high temperature resistance and strong plasticity, but it has fewer colors, a stronger smell, and is easier to warp. , if you are a novice, I recommend PCL. I am going to make some small toys for the children in the nearby orphanage today, so I won’t talk nonsense.” Xu Yanxin stuffed the consumables into the printing pen, and first roughly drew a few strokes on the blueprint. The shape of Doraemon has just begun to be produced.

"It's kind of like building a house."

He sat at the table for more than three hours before he made the graffiti of Doraemon and Pikachu hand in hand. The two anime characters smiled cheerfully. Xu Yanxin showed the finished product in front of the camera and said: "It's the same as ordinary The difference with the figure is that if you look carefully, you can see the mesh structure, but it is not so strong. I hope the children will take care of it a little bit. Last time a fan asked me if I was recording videos full-time, and I have other jobs. I also asked if I would show my face, probably not. I recently discovered the 3D printing pen, which is quite interesting. There don’t seem to be many people playing in China, so I recorded the tutorial. I don’t have a Weibo account, just follow Bilibili. ,Thanks."

When the video is turned off, it is editing, soundtrack, and uploading. After this series of work is completed, it is already past two o'clock in the afternoon.And the farce on Weibo is not over yet, it seems to be intensifying, even a few friends in the circle have been alarmed, otherwise his editor would have sent him more than a dozen messages.He dialed a number.

Excited female voice.

"What did you go for?"

"Something happened, I didn't check my phone."

"What time is it now, my little ancestor," the other side said angrily, "Why do you say that Minxin plagiarized you? She has more than 1000 million fans on Weibo, and "FORHIM" is the most popular in the past three years Comics. Is there anyone like you who singled out the boss just after leaving Novice Village?"

"But she did plagiarize, both in storyboards and lines."

"My dear, what you drew are two animals!"

"Do you know how much trouble you have caused? A company bought the IP of "FORHIM", and it will be launched soon. Now the film and television company, authors, and fans are hiring lawyers with high salaries to infringe your reputation. Do you understand? They hired the top lawyers coming back from the UK."

United Kingdom.

He couldn't help asking, "What's your name?"

"My little ancestor, when are you still paying attention to this?" the editor flicked through the information, hesitantly said, "I lost their business card, it seems that the surname is Zhang or Jiang, and the name is related to the island. Young one. Wait! That's not the point, are you listening to me? I say you..."