grey alley

Lu Mingzhou has basically been admitted to the hospital to take care of Pei Xiqing. He usually works in the ward and almost becomes Pei Xiqing's escort. Except for the occasional need to go out for important meetings and interviews, most of the time he spends most of his time alone. In the ward, I accompany the bored patient on the bed.

Pei Xiqing's incision was deep, healed slowly, painful and itchy, and he would sweat a layer of sweat just lying on the bed without doing anything.

At this time, Lu Mingzhou will help him wipe his body and do other things along the way.

Lu Mingzhou wore thin-rimmed glasses and looked like a gentle scum. After being bullied, he returned to his small desk and continued to knock on the computer in a decent manner. Not long after, someone knocked on the door and came in.

Pei Xiqing was lazily paralyzed on the bed, and heard the man in a suit holding a document talking to Lu Mingzhou in a low voice, the voice was intermittent, such as "identification", "psychiatric history", "nature is yet to be assessed", and so on. It wasn't very real, so he simply stopped listening and closed his eyes to urge himself to sleep.

I don't know how Lu Mingzhou will deal with that incident.

Although he was one of the victims, he didn't really want to get involved, so he pretended he didn't hear anything.

After the lawyer left, Lu Mingzhou pushed away the computer and squeezed into bed together: "I'm sleepy."

Pei Xiqing took off the glasses on the bridge of his nose, held them in his hands and played with them, "How long will you stay in the hospital?"

The wound was too deep and almost cut off part of the muscle tissue. Fortunately, no important internal organs were injured. The hospital Lu Mingzhou is not sure how long he will stay. Everything is under the doctor's arrangement, so he can only comfort Pei Xiqing, "Be patient, You can't make any big moves recently, and you should be careful when raising your hands."

"Uncle," Pei Xiqing pinched the bridge of his nose with his fingers, "the eyes are very red, how long have you not slept?"

Lu Mingzhou sighed, "I can't sleep." When he closed his eyes, he looked like he was lying in a pool of blood, and that kind of dread overflowed from the bottom of his heart little by little, so it was really hard to feel sleepy.

"Then let's sleep together, or I'll watch you sleep," Pei Xiqing rubbed his face restlessly, "You can't sleep, and I sleep too much."

Lu Mingzhou turned on his phone and glanced at the time. He basically finished all the things to be dealt with: "Okay, let's sleep together."

Lying on the hospital bed for a while, Lu Mingzhou really felt a little sleepy, so he closed his eyelids under Pei Xiqing's gaze, and gradually fell asleep.

He had a lengthy dream, in which all kinds of spooky lights appeared, one after another, the former lovers popped up, and those more or less, familiar or unfamiliar faces, silently slipped past his eyes one by one like a revolving lantern.

With young and beautiful faces and a vigorous body, their eyes looked at him, always full of anticipation, waiting for his words, a promise, which changed their relationship from a lover to a boyfriend.

Because he gave them too much illusion.

But in the end, all these people without exception looked at him angrily and aggrieved, and accused him, "Since you don't have any feelings for us, why do you continue to convey this illusion to us?"

"Do you think it's fun to play us like this?"

"Do you have a sense of accomplishment? Do you just like to walk us high above?"

Lu Mingzhou did not refute.

He folded his arms and looked at those who lost their composure, and said softly: "Have I made a promise to you? Have I said that we are not lovers, but already lovers?"

Those questioning paused.

Lu Mingzhou smiled, "It's originally a mutual transaction relationship, you can't control your mentality and have delusions, why should I take the responsibility?"

He didn't think he was wrong.

It is said that lovers, lovers, shouldn't it be good to have a bit of fun?

He doesn't like a relationship that is purely physical. No matter what, it should be a bit romantic. This is just his usual style of doing things.

As for what kind of illusion he gave them, would they feel that he is an affectionate and dedicated person who must be him?

And he hates entangled lovers very much.

The sound of the glass falling to the ground woke Lu Mingzhou awake.

He sat up quickly, hugged Pei Xiqing who almost rolled out of bed, and frowned, "What are you doing?!"

Pei Xiqing looked at his face, lowered his eyebrows and said pleasantly: "I want to drink water."

"Why don't you call me if you want to drink water? What if the wound bursts?"

"You seem to be sleeping well." Pei Xiqing hung his head as if he had done something wrong, "I don't want to wake you up."

Lu Mingzhou froze for a moment, then pinched the bridge of his nose, "Don't move."

He got out of bed to sweep away the glass on the floor, poured another glass of water and came back, then held Pei Xiqing's fingers and looked carefully to make sure that he was not cut by the glass shards, and then gave him small sips of water.

After Pei Xiqing drank the water, his lips were moistened with a layer of water, Lu Mingzhou's face turned pale, and he heard the other party say: "How did you sleep?"

"It's okay." With the palm of his hand, he pushed Pei Qing's sweat-drenched bangs to the top of his head, and it didn't take long for locks and locks to fall down, covering his forehead.

"The hair is a bit long," Lu Mingzhou said casually, "How about the wound?"

"It's still itchy."

"It proves that it is healing. If you want to take anything, just tell me, don't try to do it yourself." Lu Mingzhou sighed, and wiped off the thin sweat on his forehead, shoulders and neck with a wet towel, "Now uncle has something to tell you. "

Pei Xiqing blinked.

"The man who hurt you in the mall that day, do you still remember what he looked like?"

Pei Xiqing nodded, "I remember," he said, "when we were on the first floor of the shopping mall, he followed us all the way."

Lu Mingzhou paused, not knowing what to say.It turned out that Pei Xiqing had been on guard for a long time, and was able to push him away in time when he noticed what he hadn't noticed.

He patted the child's head and continued: "He has a relationship with me. He was my lover a long time ago. It should be three or four years now." Speaking of this, he hesitated for a moment, and then continued. Going on, "Because he has only been with me for a few months, so there are not many entanglements between us. He has been silent for a long time after we disconnected from him that time. This person has changed too much, and he is not I know why you suddenly attacked me when we met in the mall, and you were injured..."

"I will give an explanation on this matter, and he must pay the price for his actions."

"I'm sorry, but I have troubled you with this matter."

"It's nothing to be implicated or not, I do it voluntarily." Pei Xiqing took back the glasses, put them on the bridge of his nose, and stroked Lu Mingzhou's lower eyelids that were slightly blue and black due to insomnia: "And it's not uncle's fault, you Don't blame yourself, that person is indeed too extreme."

Stalking all the way in the shopping mall, peeping, holding a fruit knife and violently hurting people, of course it is either extreme or sick.Even extremes are still sick.

"He did this because I didn't make it clear when I broke up with him." Lu Mingzhou knew that this was his own bad nature, and he couldn't say it. "I used to be flirtatious and provoked everywhere. Many, you may have heard of them, but you don't know how I used to treat them-"

"Is that important?" Pei Xiqing interrupted him.

Lu Mingzhou was caught off guard and heard him continue: "Uncle, you don't need to analyze yourself in front of me, and you don't need to feel guilty because of this kind of thing. Our relationship started as a lover, but it has not reached the category of a lover, so there is no need to interfere with each other's past. .”

"You are very special to me, but our relationship is based on money transactions. You are what you were in the past. That is your way of life, and it is a part of you."

Lu Mingzhou opened his mouth: "...Okay."

"It's just that there is an extra part of you now." Pei Xiqing approached him with clear eyes, no longer the indifferent and haggard look he had when we first met: "Look, you have raised me so well and taken me in." , accept that I am different from ordinary people, does that prove that I am different from them?"

This remark made Lu Mingzhou startled: "Yes."

"That's fine." Pei Xiqing smiled at him, "I just need to know this."

He doesn't need the future promised by others, and those complicated and heavy entanglements.

He is still alone in his planned future.

The author has something to say: Good night, Brother Octopus.