because i'm pretty

Five minutes later, Li Yikai and Lucifer, both dressed neatly, looked at each other.

Lucifer has a pair of very smart eyes, and he expresses all his doubts silently. What Li Yikai thinks in his heart is about your business, but politeness does not allow him to say it, especially the other party is Yuan Zhiming's friend.

"Don't talk nonsense about Lucifer, he drank too much yesterday, so he stayed for one night," Yuan Zhiming said.

Li Yikai withdrew his slightly displeased gaze, picked up his LV backpack from the "sofa", turned his head and said to Yuan Zhiming, "I have an appointment for lunch with a friend, let's go first."

"Okay," Yuan Zhiming nodded.

After a pause of three seconds, Li Yikai stretched out his hand: "The car key."

"Oh, I'll look for it," Yuan Zhiming started searching the room in a daze, from the messy table to the cardboard boxes full of clothes in the room.

Lucifer rested his chin on his elbows, put on a very obvious posture of looking at him, and said quietly: "He won't fall in love with you, don't waste any more time."

"Oh, thank you for the suggestion," Li Yikai straightened his collar.

Lucifer shook his head and sighed, his eyes full of sympathy.

Li Yikai and him looked at each other quietly, and was successfully aroused by this look. The sound of the cabinet falling to the ground was heard in the room, and he smiled at the corner of his mouth and said, "If you were really so determined, you wouldn't treat me like this." That's all."

"I found it, I found it," Yuan Zhiming rushed out.

"En", Li Yikai took it with his head down, without even saying thank you, but turned his head suddenly when he opened the door: "Yuan Zhiming, I also remember what you promised me yesterday."

Yuan Zhiming let out a "hmm" and turned his back to Lucifer's curious gaze: "Hmm... what else?"

"No more," Li Yikai smiled, "Just don't forget."

The old anti-theft iron door creaked and closed tightly as Li Yikai left.

Lucifer pulled Yuan Zhiming who was still looking at the door: "What happened to you and him? He must think you like him now!"

"It's nothing..." Yuan Zhiming said, even if there was, Li Yikai would have forgotten it.

"Wait, this is not the reaction you should have." Lucifer looked up at Yuan Zhiming: "Do you like him?"

"I don't know," Yuan Zhiming said.

"You said you wouldn't fall in love with him!"

Yuan Zhiming didn't make a sound, and after a while he said, "I'll find a chance to explain it to him."

Lucifer looked into his eyes, took out a stack of Tarot cards and shuffled them fluently: "Shouldn't you look at your heart clearly first?"

"No need," Yuan Zhiming said, "no need, it's enough for me to see my situation clearly."

"Is it okay if your father's condition is under control?" Lucifer said in a persuasive manner, "And you don't necessarily..."

"Lucifer, are you fishing for law enforcement?"

"No", Lucifer shook his head, and then sighed: "I just feel that some trajectories are already changing, and you can't stop them..."

Yuan Zhiming turned on the computer and refused to receive these superstitious information.

Li Yikai's clothes were yesterday's. They smelled of alcohol and tobacco, and there was a faint smell of paint. There were even mud marks on the trousers of his suit. These small details were like peas under the princess's bed, which would have caused him to collapse instantly in the past.

But today Li Yikai ignored them, and even wore this suit directly, stepped on the gas pedal to Zhou Xingjia's neighborhood across the road, and proudly packed several football game snacks at the Mexican restaurant downstairs.

When Zhou Xing opened the door, his eyes were full of searching, but he didn't make the scene any more embarrassing.

"I don't know, I thought we were going to welcome you. I'm so late, I'll wait for you to do the dishes."

Li Yikai followed the words and replied: "Jiefeng should go out to have a big meal, instead of forcing us to be your food testers."

"It's not me today," Zhou Xing smiled meaningfully: "Qi Jiu said he wants to be at home, he cooks."

Li Yikai didn't expect to see Qi Jiu again. The other party came out with a plate of beer duck, bright in color and fragrant.

He asked without thinking: "Did you go abroad or went to New Oriental?"

Qi Jiu hasn't changed much, the glasses are still the same frameless style as before, wearing jeans and a black sweater that industrial designers love, he puts the dishes on the table with a smile, takes out a tissue and wipes his hands, saying: "Chinese food in the United States is all For Sichuan cuisine and hot pot, if you want to eat hometown cuisine, you can only learn it yourself, which is more useful than New Oriental.”

"So you can't wait to show it to us? I want to requisition my kitchen," Zhou Xing said.

"Well, I haven't found a house yet, and I'll invite you to my house when the time comes." Qi Chen walked two steps towards Li Yikai from the dining table, looked at him and laughed again: "But you don't come here in formal clothes. taste."

Li Yikai also laughed out loud, this kind of joke is the same as it was many years ago, turning those redundant emotions into wind.He stopped being tense, and turned to ask Zhou Xing to borrow a set of home clothes to change into.

The three ate and drank, chatted about Qi Jiu's difficulty in finding a house in Jinghai, and the twists and turns of his dispatch from an American company, and shared their career status logically.After dinner, I set out my Xbox and PS5 every week. Men in their thirties play games like elementary school students. They basically have no time and energy to think about other things.

Li Yikai sat cross-legged on the sofa, Qi Jiu leaned on the other side, the carpet was almost lying on the ground for a week.It was the same situation a few years ago. At that time, it was the same as now. Li Yikai looked at his two good friends and suddenly felt that he couldn't figure out when this friendship began to deteriorate.

Maybe now, it is really possible to go back, and the water can also flow backwards.

"The two of you are a bitch." Zhou Xing, with the style of a rich second generation, dropped the handle without feeling sorry for him: "I won't play anymore, let's take a break."

Li Yikai went to the refrigerator to get drinks, threw a bottle of fruit juice to Zhou Xing, and a bottle of soda water to Qi Jiu, and he pulled the pull tab of Coke and gulped it down, without any burden of being an idol.

Qi Chen looked at him and always said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to become the project supervisor."

In fact, he wanted to say that he did not expect him to give up creative design. Li Yikai stood leaning against the refrigerator and casually said the reason he used many times: "Designing is boring, and I feel that I am not talented enough."

After speaking, he realized that this excuse could not deceive Qi Chen, but fortunately the other party did not get to the bottom of it, Li Yikai changed the subject: "What about you? Do you feel that you are already a winner in life after going to Tesla?"

From the time he met Qi Chen, his career ideal was vehicle design. His initial goal was Mercedes-Benz, but after a few years he switched to the more advanced Tesla—and after this person graduated, he received invitations from two companies at the same time.

Qi Chen smiled, and what he said made people want to beat him up: "No, the promotion and salary increase in the past few years is not as happy as when I received the offer from ArtCenter. Instead, I feel very empty. I want to come back because I feel that I am pursuing work. There is no end, there are many important things in life.”

"Yes, after all, uncles and aunts are only your son, come back and be at ease," Zhou Xing interjected.

Qi Jiu looked at Li Yikai and said "Yes".

After falling silent for a while, Li Yikai suddenly remembered something.

"I saw the recent Red Dot Award selection. Do you know this?" He turned on his phone and searched, found a picture and handed it to Qi Chen: "Is this crowdfunding available?"

Qi Jiu took it over: "Sleep light? Do you have sleep problems?"

Li Yikai replied vaguely: "There are as many as there are."

"But I have always disagreed with this kind of design," said Qi Jiu. "The functions of adjusting indoor light and fragrance can be completed with indoor lights and aromatherapy. Such products have little real value."

But this light can automatically sense the time, slowly change the chromaticity of the light, it can also play white noise to remind you to fall asleep, and release aromatherapy to relieve brain excitement in advance...Li Yikai didn't talk about it one by one, in short: "But these functions are made into one lamp It’s a beautiful lamp, and it’s a joy to have at home.”

Qi Chen pushed his glasses a little unexpectedly, and said with a smile: "You have changed a lot."

After watching the game, it was past ten o'clock at night, and it was too late for Qi Zhu to live at his parents' house. When he took a taxi, he asked Li Yikai how to get there. He said that he had been drinking, and it was snowing outside, so he planned to simply stay at Zhou Xing's house for a night.

Qi Jiu nodded, and said, "Tomorrow, I have an appointment with an agent to inspect the house. Do you have time to give me advice? I'm not even familiar with the living circle here."

"Not tomorrow," Li Yikai said, "I want to go back to see my mother, she is not in a good condition recently."

"What's wrong with Auntie? Are you uncomfortable?" Qi Chen asked.

"Oh, she is in good health, but her emotional state is not very good. She was cheated a while ago," Li Yikai said.

Zhou Xing started laughing after hearing this: "Auntie has always been a girl."

Qi Chen shook his head with a smile: "Yikai has a lot to worry about."

"No way," Li Yikai said, "As long as she likes it."

After Qi Jiu left, Li Yikai sat back on the sofa and looked at his phone, asking Yuan Zhiming how his creation was progressing.

Zhou Xing walked around the sofa twice, intending not to hold back anymore: "You didn't go home last night, and you stayed at my house again today. Is it because your house is flooded?"

"You can speak directly," Li Yikai didn't even raise his head, "Yesterday, I had too much to drink, and Yuan Zhiming had no choice but to take me back. It's not what you think."

Zhou Xing was very relieved to admit that his attitude was good, but he was worried again: "Then you have such a good opportunity, why didn't you do anything? Are you not good?"

Tens of thousands of game controllers were thrown over again, Zhou Xing took it resentfully, sat on the carpet and raised his head and said: "The main reason is that it was too sudden, if you have progress, please let me know in advance, so I can help Qi Qiu Do mental work."

"I've said it all, it has nothing to do with Qi Jiu," Li Yikai disagreed.

"I'm afraid you'll be beaten."

"Then I won't be in two boats," Li Yikai laughed, "And Yuan Zhiming and I..."

"What?" Zhou Xing jumped up.

Li Yikai laughed to himself, it was not easy, but he refused to reveal it.

Even Yuan Zhiming himself didn't know, maybe he wasn't completely drunk last night, or the impact of that moment was so strong that it remained in his memory.

After Li Yikai gradually woke up in the morning, he still remembered a scene.

He stood in the snow and refused to go upstairs. In his impression, he seemed to regard the old building as his former home.

I don't quite remember what Yuan Zhiming said to him, and how he used the strength of wine to say what he had buried in his heart more than ten years ago.

The clearest picture was at the end when Yuan Zhiming stretched out his hand and gave him a hug.

"Li Yikai".

Yuan Zhiming was also calling him. Yesterday he seemed to hear Yuan Zhiming call his name for the first time, and he called him many times.He said:

"Li Yikai, you will have a warm home in the future."