Manhattanhenge

Su Hui lowered her eyes, staring at the milk froth floating on the coffee.His mind was drawn away, his frozen teeth touched, and he finally spoke, "I... have a good life."

Perhaps because his answer sounded too irrelevant, Ning Yixiao laughed.

But he is very used to Su Hui like this, because he used to be like this, jumping off, illogical, because of illness.This lack of change gave Ning Yixiao a slight sense of security.

Assistant Karl heard that he had made a big mistake in booking a hotel, so he hurried over before finishing his meal, and ran to the hotel when Ning Yixiao refused to answer his phone call. Through the floor-to-ceiling windows, he noticed Ning Yixiao at a glance.

To his surprise, Ning Yixiao was smiling.After working together for so long, he had never seen such a smile on his unsmiling workaholic boss, as if he had completely changed himself.

"What have you been doing all these years?" Ning Yixiao was in a relaxed state.

Su Hui's silence seemed very depressing, and it took a long time to recover, "...heal."

Ning Yixiao nodded clearly, stared at his downcast eyes, and asked again: "Is it better now?"

"Okay." Su Hui said something against her will, turned her face to look at the road outside the window again, and repeated, "It's much better."

He looked as if he wanted to get up immediately, get out of here, and walk outside.

Ning Yixiao smiled lightly, even though he didn't really believe it, even though he had seen his trembling hands, even though he knew better than anyone that this was a side effect of his medicine, he responded very politely, "Really? That's good .”

No, maybe now he is not the one who knows best.

Ning Yixiao couldn't help but think of Su Hui lying on the bed just now, and the voice kept echoing in his ears.

Liang Wen, this is the name he blurted out.

"Just now you seem to have misunderstood me as another person."

He clenched his fingers on the side of the cup, but kept a smile on his face.

Su Hui was a little out of energy, and it was difficult to even sit here properly. With his hands on the sofa booth, he hardly heard Ning Yixiao's question.

Ning Yixiao acquiesced that he didn't want to talk, and smiled, "Sorry, do I have too many questions?"

Hearing this sentence, Su Hui shook his head a little slowly.

"Because I haven't seen you for a long time, I'm somewhat curious." Ning Yixiao said.

Su Hui seemed to be very cold, so he wrapped his coat tighter, took a sip of coffee, and exhaled a few wisps of white water vapor from his slightly parted lips, covering his decadent and gloomy beautiful face like a fog hole.

But at the same time, when he removed the coffee cup, there was some milk foam on his lips, and his eyes were innocent.

Su Hui is such a contradiction.

Ning Yixiao also took a sip of coffee and looked away from him.

He looked out the window, the gray sky seemed to collapse in a second, the wind was strong, and the thoughts of every passerby were tightly covered.

In silence, Su Hui drank the remaining half cup of latte, the temperature and coffee seemed to stabilize his spirit.He looked at Ning Yixiao, who didn't seem to have changed much from six years ago, but had a better life.

It is still the handsome face that can be seen at a glance in the crowd, but wearing a different expensive coat from the past, it looks alienated and inaccessible.

"Ning Yixiao."

Hearing Su Hui's voice, Ning Yixiao was in a daze, he was not used to being called by this person's first and last name.

Turning around, Ning Yixiao stared at Su Hui's pale face, and found that his eyes soaked in water vapor were also looking at him. He couldn't read the emotion inside, it looked like confession.

But it’s not about repentance. Ning Yixiao doesn’t want to delve into it anymore. During the tens of seconds he just looked outside, he thought through a lot. He didn’t want to think about Su Hui’s thoughts again and again. He knew that his understanding was wrong. It was six years ago, and it will be the same six years from now.

There was always a question in Su Hui's mind. He had thought that if he could see this person again in the future, nothing else would matter, he could go there, but he had to ask this question.

During the time he sat down, he had been struggling, and when his energy finally recovered a little, he finally mustered up the courage to ask.

"You... my letter..."

"I saw it."

Ning Yixiao didn't let him finish the question, and gave the answer with a flat corner of his mouth. This second showed a completely different coldness from before, as if he was stabbed by something.

Su Hui's scattered thoughts suddenly had a misplaced connection. Back in the summer, he thought of the lawn mower in his garden. The bodies of those grasses were cut off in an instant, leaving only the smell of grass.

The incomplete grass on the ground can only accept it, but cannot continue.

"I don't really want to talk about this right now." Ning Yixiao returned to the previous smile.

He changed the subject nonchalantly, put down his glass, "By the way, you said you liked Iceland before, it's been so many years, have you gone?"

The hallucination of the effect of the medicine seemed to continue, and Su Hui thought that she was a stranded fish with no bones, very weak and powerless.

He forced the corners of his mouth to give Ning Yixiao a smile.The coffee that had just been stirred suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, and he saw the floating vortex, spinning, spinning, as if it could swallow him up and bury him in the next moment.

"Ah."

"Is it pretty?" Ning Yixiao looked at him.

Su Hui nodded slowly, "It's beautiful."

"Come here as a tourist?" Ning Yixiao asked again.

Su Hui was silent, "Participate in... come to work."

As he spoke, he found that Ning Yixiao's hand was always in his own pocket.

Fortunately, Ning Yixiao seemed to intend to let him go, and did not continue to ask.

"That's right," Ning Yixiao pulled out his hand, "There's nothing worth visiting in Seattle."

Su Hui couldn't say anything else, as if even God knew that he needed to be rescued, the manager who was respectful to Ning Yixiao came over, bowed again to apologize to them, offered a gift card for compensation, and said Some scenes that Su Hui doesn't like very much but are necessary.

At least he can leave.

Su Hui stood up, held the handle of the suitcase, and said softly, "Then I'll go first."

Without looking back, he walked straight ahead.

But Ning Yixiao's footsteps were fast, and his footsteps were too unsteady, so he was followed in a few steps, and finally the two of them left the hotel gate together.

Suddenly snow fell outside, and it fell heavily, which was not at all what Su Hui expected. He subconsciously stretched out his hand and caught a snowflake.

He heard that it rarely snows here, but the probability is not very small, and it can be encountered occasionally.

It's not like he and Ning Yixiao, who can only meet through such extreme story development for six years.

Ning Yixiao turned his head, like an old friend reunited after a long absence in a foreign country, and said a very standard farewell to him: "I never expected to meet you again."

The snowflakes in Su Hui's hands have already started to melt, "Me too."

"Really?" Ning Yixiao suddenly smiled.

"It's a great honor. I thought you had forgotten that there is such a person as me."

After finishing speaking, he nodded to a person not far away, and told Su Hui very freely, "Let's go, it's snowing, be careful on the road."

Su Hui stood alone for a minute, not because he didn't want to leave, because he couldn't move his legs.

He stood in the flying snow, but in front of him was six years ago, the night he left Ning Yixiao, it was like this, he forgot to say goodbye.

When Ning Yixiao returned to the car, his assistant Karl had been waiting for him in the driver's seat for a long time.

Usually Ning Yixiao has almost strict requirements on punctuality, but this time it is obvious that he will be late, Karl is a little anxious, afraid that he will make trouble.

"Shaw, go directly to the dinner party?" Carl glanced at his watch, "The drive will take about 45 minutes. The meal for today's dinner party is a very famous chef in Seattle. I consulted the menu. They originally considered doing scallops and shrimps, but I I said hello in advance and said that you don't like seafood, so they urgently replaced it with venison..."

Realizing that he hadn't waited for Ning Yixiao's response after talking for a long time, Karl looked at him through the rearview mirror, and called his name again hesitantly.

In the mirror, Ning Yixiao's face was pale, his brows were furrowed, his eyes were fixed on the rearview mirror of the car, and there was a rare hostility on his face.

Karl was considering whether to try calling again, but Ning Yixiao opened the car door first and walked out.

"Shaw?" Carl was a little puzzled, and hurriedly opened the driver's door and followed.

In his opinion, Ning Yixiao seldom has emotional instability. Even when encountering extremely difficult situations at work with no chance of winning, Ning Yixiao is always calm, like an artificial intelligence lacking emotional expression. .

"Go back to the car." Ning Yixiao glanced down at his watch, "I'll take a taxi to the dinner."

Carl was even more puzzled, "Take a taxi?"

"That person just now..." Ning Yixiao paused for a moment, his expression changed, "You follow him in the car and report his whereabouts to me."

"Following, tracking? This is illegal..." Carl was stunned, but Ning Yixiao had already walked to the side of the road and waved to a taxi that happened to be heading towards them.

"You don't need to come with me, I will let you rest directly." After speaking, Ning Yixiao went straight into the car.

Although he was slightly critical of the boss's instructions, Karl obeyed Ning Yixiao's request, got into the car, and drove in the opposite direction, looking for the beautiful young man just now on the street.

Ning Yixiao sat in the back seat of the taxi, staring at the dirt left on the back of the car in front, without saying a word.The driver tried to talk to him, but seeing that his expression was not good, he stopped his voice angrily and drove silently.

It was dark outside the window, and the snow was quietly flying between the night and neon lights of the city, as if trying to cover everything up.

Many thoughts flashed through Ning Yixiao's mind, but he couldn't grasp any of them, he just felt that his previous self was a bit ridiculous.

After leaving for so many years, Su Hui had no curiosity about him, and the only question he asked was about the letter, as if he couldn't bear the continuous questioning, and finally gave him a fatal blow.

The most ridiculous thing is that when he sees Su Hui's fragile appearance now, a part of his body still can't bear it, and thinks that he is too much and shouldn't be aggressive.

The driver turned on the air conditioner, and the temperature in the car was not low.Ning Yixiao heard the news on the car radio. The host reported that this year Seattle will face heavy snow and the lowest temperature ever, reminding citizens to take precautions.

Ning Yixiao wanted to sneer.He lowered the car window and looked at Bai flying outside the window expressionlessly.

He clearly remembered the heavy snowfall six years ago, and also remembered Su Hui's back that was covered by the snow. Standing on the side of the road, he was frozen to the bone, his body was stiff, and he couldn't even take a step.

A "winter" like Seattle, which needs special coverage, is not worth mentioning to him.He has always been trapped in that snow, and has not been able to escape so far.

When arriving at the destination, Ning Yixiao received a call from Carl.

"Shaw, I followed him all the way, he walked at first, very slowly, then he got on a bus, and finally got off near a high-end apartment building and walked there."

Carl continued without hearing Ning Yixiao's interruption, "When he arrived, there was a man downstairs to pick him up."

The silent Ning Yixiao finally spoke, "What kind of man?"

His voice became a little scary, very low, as if he was suppressing his emotions, Carl choked his throat, and described him bravely: "Well...he is Chinese, tall, and looks similar to you, about 27-[-] look."

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone, and Carl felt a little uneasy.

"Shaw..."

"We met, then what?"

The question was a bit vague, so Karl could only describe what he saw: "The gentleman seemed to ask something, then patted him on the shoulder, gave him a hug, and then they went upstairs together."

"anything else?"

"No more." Carl said truthfully, "I didn't follow up. After all, this is someone else's privacy."

His words were like a secret warning, Ning Yixiao let out a chuckle, which sounded like contempt and self-mockery.

"You did the right thing."

Carl felt an inexplicable fear in his heart.Today's Ning Yixiao is very strange. To be more precise, Ning Yixiao became very strange after the hotel's oolong met that person. I have worked with him for the past few years, and I have never seen him smile like that. I've never seen him talk like this.

"Is there anything else I can do?"

"En." Ning Yixiao entered the elevator and pressed the floor.

"Check out a man named Liang Wen."

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[Karl: I thought I was doing great, but I vaguely felt something was wrong]