because i'm pretty

Zhao Kaisi obediently went out to hide, and waited until Li Yikai's car drove over.

Standing in the cold wind, he scolded, "Do you really want the three of you to come together?" "Oh, thank you, and you brought me flowers..."

Holding a bunch of sunflowers in his hands, Qi Jiu explained with a smile, "I thought Yi Kai would be on the way because of the limited number of cars."

Li Yikai didn't want to pick up Qi Chen alone, so he asked Zhou Xinglai to be the driver.

He didn't speak, Zhao Kaisi couldn't figure it out by himself, and was still chasing and condemning Zhou Xing.

"Don't ask, just think I miss Li Yikai, okay?" Zhou Xing grabbed the hat of his down jacket: "Come on, go in and I'll show you the booth for you."

Qi Jiu and Li Yikai were left behind, Qi Jiu stood on the steps and waited for him a step, then suddenly said: "Are you hiding from me these days?"

Li Yikai was obviously stunned, he couldn't react, but Qi Jiu seemed to guess it: "I didn't expect that I would ask directly?"

"Yes", he smiled unnaturally: "I'm not used to it."

Qi Jiu stood in front of him, and Li Yikai was separated by two steps, neither up nor down.He looked down at Li Yikai and said, "After so long, you have changed and so have I. What I missed before because I was not direct enough, I want to try again now."

"But you're like this..." Li Yikai paused, "We can't even be friends."

"If you can't do it, you can't do it." Qi Jiu smiled: "What I want is not to be friends with you."

According to Li Yikai's thinking, he should be a little angry when he heard this sentence.Because he cherishes Qi Chen very much, and also cherishes the friendship between the four of them, so he tries to maintain the balance between them, not to embarrass each other, and he doesn't want to affect the other two because of their rift.

But he was in a trance today, and was even slightly touched by such irresponsible and immature words.

It's just that this kind of touch is not for the person opposite.

He came back to his senses, took a step forward and said: "You have everything now, so you want to make up for this regret, but feelings are not a game that can be restarted after standby, and we can't pass the level just by changing the strategy plan." of."

Li Yikai also simply said the truth: "Actually, the choice at that time was not a matter of communication between you and me, but that we were not suitable."

"Then it seems." Qi Chen didn't move his feet, and the corner of his mouth was still faint: "You and your little friend are very suitable?"

Li Yikai subconsciously wanted to answer yes, but his certainty quickly died down, and he laughed at himself.

That's right, whether to say a word or not, how to say it, is actually the other party's choice.But the party with expectations always beautifies it as a communication problem, as if starting from scratch, changing a little, saying one more sentence, can change the result.

However, the result is already deeply ingrained.

"No." Li Yikai turned sideways and walked past him: "But it has nothing to do with our affairs."

In the past, Li Yikai admired Qi Chen the most - his reason is clear, he seems to be able to take out emotional factors at any time, no matter what he encounters, he can analyze the pros and cons of pros and cons.He and Li Yikai entered the exhibition hall, helped Zhao Kaisi deal with problems, met friends, socialized, and even asked Li Yikai some things, as if nothing happened.

But Li Yikai couldn't do it, his rationality was learned the day after tomorrow, and he was always fighting with his other half.In the face of real emotional fluctuations, he will fail instantly, just like himself who is out of his mind and can only deal with it mechanically.

The exhibition officially starts at 6:[-] pm, and those invited guests will start to visit the venue, followed by a dinner and auction.

The closer it was to this time, the more hectic the scene was, especially in the exhibition hall at the other end. Li Yikai saw some people pushing the carts and carried them, and he didn't understand why someone would bring the exhibits in good luck at this time.

"Why are you still here?" Zhao Kaisi came over and asked.

"Where am I not here?" Li Yikai turned his head to see that Zhou Xing and Qi Jiu were also there, and didn't understand what he was asking.

"Hey, I'm so touched by you." Zhao Kaisi suddenly felt emotional: "But I can see the rest of the media by myself. You can go and see Xiaoyuan, and you don't have to take care of me all the time."

Li Yikai frowned: "Did you invite him?"

"Ah?" Zhao Kaisi looked unpredictable: "You don't know?"

Li Yikai suddenly wanted to laugh. About Yuan Zhiming, too many people asked him this way recently, but he turned out to be true, and didn't know anything.

"I saw him on the exhibition list today. I thought you applied for him together." Zhao Kaisi rubbed his hands and said, "I still want to ask you what works he will exhibit..."

That's it... Li Yikai lowered his head, turned his watch, and started in 17 minutes.

He raised his head and looked at the other side. For some reason, he always felt that the reckless work seemed like something Yuan Zhiming would do.

But so what?Yuan Zhiming...does he hope that he will show up and intervene?

"Damn," Zhao Kaisi patted him: "Look, is that a refrigerator?"

That's not a refrigerator, that's a metal freezer for storing ice sculptures.Li Yikai looked towards the door, and through the messy crowd, he even seemed to see the figure of a certain master of the ice factory.

After a while, a man wearing a mask and a woolen cap and a baggy old-fashioned style passed through the crowd, as if arguing with the security personnel in suits and ties. The voice could not be heard clearly, but he recognized the man ...

He finally couldn't hold back—"I'll go and have a look."

"Lucifer", Li Yikai called him.

"NO, you've got the wrong person!" The man lowered the brim of his hat a little more, but couldn't cover his eyes, Li Yikai didn't admit his mistake at all.

"What happened?" Li Yikai asked knowingly, "Are you also here to participate in this exhibition auction?"

Lucifer frowned instantly: "Of course not!"

"Whose is this?"

"I don't have time to explain to you." Lucifer squeezed out from the crowd, "I'm going to change clothes, otherwise this person won't allow me to be here."

"Changing clothes?" Li Yikai turned his head, and the security guard explained to him: "If he insists on standing next to this work and dressing like that, others will think he is an artist. Please understand that we need to protect the rights and interests of creators. "

"Yes, I understand, it's a good thing." Li Yikai responded with a smile, looking at the person who was carefully dismantling the shell, and asked casually, "What about the creator of this?"

"Who knows?" The security guard shook his head: "You see, their position is so far away, and they don't even have a base, and they just stuffed it in now. It's probably not a normal way, it's weird."

Li Yikai didn't answer any more. He folded his arms and watched from a distance. The cold air came out from the metal protective shell, and he could even feel a little cool.

Is Yuan Zhiming busy with this these days?When they were making Hongda's ice sculpture signboard, he was also doing it under his nose; when he told him that Zhao Kaisi would have an exhibition, maybe he was also preparing for the same exhibition, but didn't say a word about it .

The size was wrong at that time, probably because of this thing in front of me.Is it a guilty conscience, that's why you don't admit it?

Or, did you not intend to trust yourself at all?

"Put it right here, open both ends, gently," Master Song commanded loudly in the crowd.

7 minutes to go.

Li Yikai took two steps forward.

The cover of the protective shell was lifted by the person on the ladder, and the middle part was pulled outward by two people, and the bulky metal insulation layer was removed.

A transparent, almost weightless block of ice appeared there.

Because there is no base, when the incubator is away, it almost assumes an isolated and fragile posture.A rounded arc surrounds it, which is clearly a soft line, but it is as cold as it is thousands of miles away.

When the people around left, Li Yikai saw a painting lying flat under the ice, separated by a layer of glass.

It was a figure, he was standing somewhere, surrounded by a bottomless emptiness, only his upper body could be seen—stretched out his hand, as if he was facing the sky, trying to catch or hug something.

Li Yikai's mind was chaotic and excited, and after taking two steps forward, he could clearly see a cat's fur floating inside the ice block—in the solid ice, he was facing the person who stretched out his hand below, far away.

"Oh, you're the second person to cry watching it."

Li Yikai's index finger quickly brushed his cheek, and he asked, "Who is the first one?"

"The author of this", Master Song looked at him from the side: "Eh? Are you together?"

"Yes", Li Yikai looked at the nameplate, everyone else's were placed on the base, only it was placed on the ground, and it said "The temperature of hugging——Yuan Zhiming"

Master Song said, "Then why don't you give it a hug and give it a hug?"

"Hold it?" Li Yikai asked.

"Yes, don't you know? Oh, what happened to that road? He explained it more clearly." Master Song sighed and said, "Ah, this is the ice sculpture. When Xiaoyuan made it, he said it was going to be placed here. Let all the visitors come and give a hug, just look at this arc, is it perfect, it just happens to be the arc of the arms when people hug.”

"Hug it, and then what?" When Li Yikai asked, he had already thought that everyone's body temperature could melt the ice a little bit, and then, when it all melted, that cat's fur would land on the ground. That person can hug his cat.

The exhibition has already started. Waves of guests entered the venue, and the gentle voice of the guide came over.

"The area we are visiting now is the area dedicated to the Allergic Asthma Foundation. The artist hopes that through these works, more people will pay attention to and care about allergic asthma patients, and understand their difficulty..."

Li Yikai's heart beat fast, and his eardrums buzzed and vibrated.

Yuan Zhiming has skin allergies, and he is the one with respiratory allergies;

When did you tell him that you had allergic asthma?I don't remember, maybe I didn't say it myself.

And...Yuan Zhiming seems to have said that he wants to give him a gift?

Next to his ear was Master Song's rambling voice: "Unfortunately, the size of this base is not suitable, otherwise it would just sit on the base, and the height would be about the same as a person's height. Now that I am so short, I don't know if anyone is willing to squat down hug it"

After Li Yikai saw the curtain, it was placed on the base of the props area, and asked, "Why hasn't it been changed?"

"It's not that easy." Master Song sighed: "Look at this arc, it needs to be finely ground. In just a few days, this kind of manual work can't keep up. The two of us discussed it for a long time. Later, Xiaoyuan Everyone said that they should not participate in the exhibition at all, and I also think that it is better not to show things that are not perfect..."

"It's perfect now," Li Yikai said.

Master Song said: "It looks like it is, but it's not... just according to Xiaoyuan, it's half performance art, he's not perfect."

Li Yikai turned his head and asked him, "Do you have any tools with you? Hammers, files and the like."

Master Song was startled: "What are you going to do?"

"Performance art, the behavior of all audiences is a part of art, irresistibility is its charm," Li Yikai said, "You have no right to interfere."

Master Song was taken aback. He looked at the noble man in front of him, unbuttoned his suit one by one, took off his jacket and handed it to him, then pulled up the sleeve of his shirt, and picked up a handful of ice chisel Shovel - Shovel towards the lower part of the ice sculpture.

The brushing ice layer was chipped off, he was very strong, but he controlled the angle of his strike, and the flying ice chips quickly piled up in a circle.

"Wait!" Master Song saw the audience start to look this way, and he came back to his senses: "You are like this, you have ruined my radians and cuts!"

"Melting is also destroying, and this is also destroying." Li Yikai stood up, raised his hand and used his elbow to wipe off the ice on his forehead.

He walked towards the curtain, took out the transparent base with one hand, and gestured.

Then he smiled at the onlookers: "I'm sorry, I'm the first viewer of this work, and I'm exercising my... part of the right to participate."

After speaking, he picked up the ice shovel from the ground and continued to peel the ice.

It wasn't until the arc of the ice sculpture's arms went down, and the position near the ground was cut off abruptly, that it was originally a 360-degree arc with no dead ends, turned into a series of rough cut surfaces, did Li Yikai call out "Song" Master: "Help move it to the base."

The camera flash and shutter sound intensified.

In the audience, a person asked: "Although it is interactive art, don't you think it disrespects the creator if you destroy it like this?"

Li Yikai looked up and smiled: "I understand that the creator's ultimate hope is to melt the ice and embrace it."

"Sometimes breaking the ice requires a gentle temperature and a bit of courage."

Xue Ming laughed out loud: "Then I really have to ask the creator what he thinks at this time."

"Fuck!"

Behind the crowd, Lucifer rushed in desperately with his mobile phone in hand, yelling a dirty word that stunned everyone.

On the other end of the video call on the mobile phone, he cursed loudly again:

"Look, Yuan Zhiming! Is Li Yikai an idiot?"