Drop

Without waiting for a reply, Zuo Chi swiped the address book and called Sheng Li's friend. The first one he dialed was Tai Xingyu's cell phone.

Zuo Chi cut to the chase: "Are you with Sheng Li?"

Tai Xingyu: "No, I work overtime at the company, what's wrong?"

"I'm looking for him." Zuo Chi said again, "Then do you know where he is?"

"Uh, let me ask for you." Tai Xingyu was smart and didn't ask Zuo Chi why he didn't contact Sheng Li directly.

"Okay, thank you." Zuo Chi was about to hang up, but Tai Xingyu said, "Wait a minute".

"Ok?"

Tai Xingyu: "Sheng Li is not in a good mood recently, and he speaks aggressively. Some words may not be his intention. You two have known each other for so many years, and suddenly you are going to get engaged. He can't change roles for a while."

Zuo Chi squeezed the phone tightly: "Is there no way for him to switch roles, or is there no way for him to accept me?"

Tai Xingyu weighed his words: "I want to say it's the former, and I hope it's the former, but as an outsider, I have no right to speak, I'm afraid you will be hurt because of it."

Zuo Chi knew that in the circle, his marriage with Sheng Li was highly discussed: "Aren't you unable to figure out why I accepted the marriage?"

Tai Xingyu said bluntly: "Although I can help you find other reasons, I guess you like him."

His intentions were exposed, Zuo Chi let out a long sigh, Tai Xingyu could see that he liked Sheng Li, and his secret love was really not clever.

All lifelong friends are self-deception, even if there is no marriage, he can't hide it forever.

Zuo Chi neither admitted nor denied it.Tai Xingyu said: "Don't look at Sheng Li who has been in love many times, he may not be enlightened yet, and he doesn't know what it means to like someone."

He didn't get Sheng Li's whereabouts from Tai Xingyu, so Zuo Chi called Xiang Yiqun again.

Xiang Yiqun said: "An hour ago, Sheng Li asked me to go out for a drink. I agreed to go to the movies with Zhou Jing in the evening, but I didn't ask him where to drink. If you are in a hurry, go to the ones he usually goes to. Look for it at the bar... Oh, yes, I said I won't go, but he said he should ask Xu Hui, and you can ask Hui Zai."

Xu Hui accidentally became famous because he was filming when he was young, and became a popular actor. He spent most of the year on the set, so it was difficult to contact.But Xiang Yiqun said so, which means that Xu Hui is probably in S city these few days.

Zuo Chi hesitated for a while, but still dialed the number.

"Hello, Xu Hui?"

The person who picked him up was not Xu Hui himself, but a cold male voice on the opposite side: "He is taking a bath."

As if he broke some secret, Zuo Chi was a little embarrassed: "Then ask him to call me back after he finishes washing, it's troublesome."

After a while, the call came back, and Xu Hui asked, "What's the matter?"

Zuo Chi repeated this sentence: "Do you know where Sheng Li is?"

Xu Hui was at a loss: "It's so late, isn't he at his house?"

Zuo Chi: "He's avoiding me..."

"Childish." Xu Hui clicked his tongue, "Just let him hide, he has to work, so he can't hide for a few days."

Zuo Chi smiled lightly, with a bitter smile: "Sheng Li and I are getting engaged, as his friend, what do you think?"

Xu Hui said seriously: "I don't think it's important. The marriage belongs to the two of you. I can probably guess what you think. What Sheng Li thinks may not even be clear to him."

As expected of Sheng Li's friends, Xu Hui and Tai Xingyu's answers were almost the same.

Zuo Chi heard the male voice who just answered the phone from the other end of the phone: "It's obstructing the appearance of the city."

Then Xu Hui replied with a smile: "Why am I obstructing the appearance of the city when I am at home?"

"Am I not a citizen?"

……

Zuo Chi didn't understand what they were talking about, but the tone was obviously flirting.

His heart was empty, and he no longer disturbed other people's world of two people.

When the surroundings became quiet, he felt that he was in a daze, and the behavior of calling Sheng Li's friends one by one was a little crazy.

He stood by the balcony, lit a cigarette, and let the smoke drift away.Looking down from a height, you can see a few sporadic figures.Someone is running at night, someone is hailing a taxi on the side of the road, someone is taking pictures of a tree that has lost all its leaves... Everyone has their own life, today is just an ordinary Wednesday.

"Happy 25th birthday."

Zuo Chi said to himself, just as he finished speaking, there was a "goo" sound in his stomach.

He closed the office door and went to the convenience store downstairs to buy oden.Kanto cooking is hot, which is just right to eat in winter. Zuo Chi still feels a little cold in his down jacket.

He also bought a small cake, sat on a chair by the window, and ate it bit by bit with a spoon, not knowing what it tasted like after eating it.

It's too sweet, he really doesn't like sweets.

The door of the convenience store was pushed open again, and a couple came in. Omega put his hand in Alpha's coat pocket to keep warm, and he asked Alpha what he wanted to eat.

Alpha said you can choose whatever you want.

Omega began to pick out snacks, saying that the family didn't have any.

Alpha said you eat less, eating too much is bad for your teeth, you see two of your teeth are broken.

Omega muttered who asked me to choose at will.

Alpha said buy some drinks and put them in the refrigerator. You like peach-flavored sparkling water, right?

Omega said that the green apple flavor I drank yesterday was also good.

……

Daily conversations fell in Zuo Chi's ears, contributing to the sourness in his heart.

From childhood to adulthood, he has been pursuing what others want him to fight for.

Zuo Yi asked him to learn Taekwondo, and he did.

He studied every book that Zuo Yi asked him to read thoroughly.

Zuo Yi asked him to take the No.1 exam, and he achieved it.

Zuo Yi asked him to take down the xx project, and he only slept for seven hours in three days.

……

Others think that he has lofty ambitions and that he wants to stand high, but he doesn't really care.Or I cared about it before, but now I am a little tired.

What he wants is very simple, that is to walk side by side with the person he likes.

A fruity aroma of black currant drifts with the wind.The cashier at the convenience store raised his head and saw a man in a short black down jacket throwing the cardboard box into the trash can.

He remembered this beautiful Omega. He should be working in the real estate company next door. He always got off work very late, and sometimes he would come to buy a pack of cigarettes.

Omega's skin was very white, his lips were bloodless, he tightened his clothes and walked out.I don't know if I read it wrong, but the cashier brother stared at his back, feeling that he was a bit lonely.

Sheng Li did not reply to the message.But a quarter of an hour before the end of his birthday, Zuo Chi received a strange call.

No one spoke on the other end of the phone, but it didn't look like a wrong call.

I don't know whether it is relying on the vague breathing sound or intuition, Zuo Chi determined that the other party is Sheng Li: "Don't you even say happy birthday?"

He wanted to hear Sheng Li's voice, no matter what he said.

"Dududu-"

The phone was hung up mercilessly.

Zuo Chi didn't know what Sheng Li meant, but because of this meaningless phone call, he suffered from insomnia, tossed and turned all night without falling asleep, and went to the company the next day with two dark circles under his eyes.

Sometimes work is easier to numb yourself than cigarettes and alcohol. The week before the engagement banquet, Zuo Chi stayed in the office every day until after nine o'clock in the evening before leaving.He doesn't like this kind of life, but he likes himself at work-calm, rational, and confident.

It's not like when he was facing Sheng Li, he was a clown who threw away his helmet and armor.

The preparations for the engagement banquet were well prepared, but when the day actually arrived, Zuo Chi didn't have any real feelings.He put on that solemn white suit in the hotel lounge, staring at himself in the mirror with all his makeup and hair, he couldn't tell whether it was an engagement or a business event.

Shu Qingyu held his hand, looking at him seriously for the first time: "Your lips and nose are like your father, and your eyes are more like mine."

Zuo Chi glanced at Shu Qingyu in the mirror, and saw a look of melancholy on her face.

Zuo Lie knocked on the door and told Shu Qingyu that a guest was looking for her, and Shu Qingyu went downstairs after asking who it was.

"Brother, let's do an interview." Zuo Lie walked in, smiling maliciously, "I'm going to get married soon, what do you think?"

Zuo Chi squinted: "It's just an engagement."

"I just met my brother-in-law in the bathroom." Zuo Lie sat down and raised his legs, "He doesn't look good to me, and I don't know if brother said something to him."

"Don't put gold on your face." Hearing the news about Sheng Li, Zuo Chi's heart skipped a beat.

After New Year's Eve, Sheng Changyu called him to apologize for Sheng Li, saying that Sheng Li had corrected his attitude so that he didn't have to worry about the normal holding of the engagement banquet.

There were hundreds of guests invited to the engagement banquet, all of whom were prominent figures in the business world.When Zuo Chi heard all kinds of greetings downstairs, he started to feel nervous.

This is the engagement banquet between him and Sheng Li.

Even if they haven't received the certificate yet, with so many witnesses, they have no way out.

At twelve o'clock, Zuo Chi and Sheng Li came out from two different lounges and stepped onto the red carpet.The hall is luxuriously furnished, the orchestra is playing a symphony, and the guests below are applauding.

Maybe it was because the lights in the arena were too dazzling, when Sheng Li walked towards him, every step seemed to be stepping on his heart.He must have dreamed of such a scene, Sheng Li was wearing a black suit, elegant and charming, but with a hint of ruffian in his gestures, he walked up to him and held his hand.

Zuo Chi stood still in a daze, and let go of his hand at the place blocked by the podium.

Sheng Li whispered: "Are you also nervous?"

Only then did Zuo Chi realize that his palms were sweating, and he avoided the microphone pinned to his collar: "For the first time in my life, it's normal to be nervous."

Sheng Li raised the corner of his lips: "It's just fake."

The elders of both parties came to the stage and spoke briefly, telling relatives and friends that Zuo and Sheng would be "one family" in the future.

Sheng Xi, a little girl who had met once before, walked onto the stage in a white gauze dress, holding a red velvet box in her palm.

Sheng Li took the ring and said concisely: "Stretch out your hand."

Zuo Chi stretched out his hand tremblingly: "Shouldn't you kneel on one knee?"

Sheng Li pursed his lips into a straight line: "Fakes still ask for so much, if you want to kneel, you kneel."

Sheng Li lightly squeezed Zuo Chi's fingertips, the silver ring with a half circle of diamonds shone under the light.Run through the knuckles of the middle finger to the base, loosening up a little.

Their eyes fell on the ring at the same time, and they fell into a brief silence.