Manhattanhenge

Ning Yixiao didn't want to intervene in Su Hui's life with such a strong method at first.

He also tried to help gently, or secretly provide what he needed, but the results were not good. Su Hui was more resistant and indifferent than he imagined.

But hearing that Liang Wen was rejected, Ning Yixiao still couldn't restrain his heart. Seeing Su Hui fall into the swamp of depression, seeing him unconscious on the ground, hospitalized due to malnutrition, Ning Yixiao couldn't eat or drink. Xiao has no choice.

During this period of time, he thought of many ways to help Su Hui, but none of them were more or less good enough. The only safe thing seemed to be to keep him by his side.

This may sound funny, but his only purpose is to let Su Hui get through this period of time, and he has nothing else to think about.

When leaving the Jones Group, Ning Yixiao received a call from Bella. The other party's tone was urgent, and it sounded like something had happened.

"Has Chloe been looking for you these two days?"

Ning Yixiao was processing documents in the car, staring at the notebook, with a flat tone, "Why did she come to me?"

"Because we're getting engaged, there's news everywhere." Bella Jones began to plan ahead, and asked, "If Chloe comes to you, you must not reveal the truth, and don't let her admit it's fake without asking a few words. Engaged, you know?"

"I'm not interested in acting with you." Ning Yixiao sat in the car and pulled off his tie.

"If you're not interested, you're still acting, and the benefits are coming soon. Why don't you have to wait until I get the trust fund, let alone she wants to break up with me. Are you in a hurry now? Why did you go so early?"

Ning Yixiao really admires the eldest lady's personality, she is not afraid of anything, she must make things big to be satisfied.

Bella added, "It's not just Chloe, it's the same for everyone else asking. Don't spoil my business, show your best poker face!"

Ning Yixiao was upset and didn't say much. After the other party hung up the phone, he asked the driver to play piano music.

Not long after the car drove out, Carl's phone call came in.

"what happened?"

Ning Yixiao didn't ask Carl to do too much work recently, and almost all the tasks given to him were related to Su Hui. As soon as his call came in, Ning Yixiao had a bad premonition.

"Shaw..." Carl stammered, "Well, I just took someone there to pack up Eddy's things and help him move, but it turned out that all his things were gone."

"What?" Ning Yixiao frowned, "What about others?"

Carl cleared his throat unnaturally, "He...I'm in the hospital now, and the nurse said he was going to go out for a walk, but he disappeared."

His tone became anxious uncontrollably, "He is a mental patient, how can he just disappear?"

"They didn't expect it either. It stands to reason that he is currently in a period of severe depression, so he usually won't run out..."

Ning Yixiao was so angry that he didn't know what to say, "Go and guard the door of his grandmother's ward, I'll contact him."

After hanging up Carl's phone, Ning Yixiao asked the driver to park the car on the side of the road.

He got out of the car, and the cold air burst in through his collar.After standing by the car door for a while, Ning Yixiao knocked on the driver's window, asked him for a cigarette, lit it and leaned against the street lamp to smoke.

He finally called Su Hui, and kept calling if he couldn't get through.

Su Hui finally picked it up, but didn't speak.

"Where are you?"

Ning Yixiao suppressed his anger.

There was silence on the other end for a while, only the wind on the phone.

"Su Hui, do you like to play Missing?"

After Ning Yixiao said this, he finally opened his mouth, his tone was very light, very light, and he had no strength, "You are the one who wants to buy the house I am renting now, so I can only move out."

Ning Yixiao did not deny what he had done, "You know what I mean, you are not fit to live there by yourself, if you have other ideas, you can discuss with me, why did you disappear?"

He heard Su Hui being silent for a long time, and gradually began to wonder if he had done something wrong from the beginning.

"So we can still discuss it..." Su Hui spoke intermittently, his tone suppressing his grievances, "No one has ever asked my opinion."

Ning Yixiao's heart suddenly softened, he felt that he was hopeless.

"Didn't we make a deal? It's very simple. I will pay all your grandma's expenses. You just need to listen to me and live in the place I arranged for you. I don't need anything else. You didn't object, did you? "

The wind was so loud that he could barely hear Su Hui's breathing.

"You said we can discuss it, so I would like to make a request." Su Hui said.

"What request?" Ning Yixiao doesn't care what he wants, as long as he doesn't disappear, he can say anything.

Su Hui paused, and said in a calm and indifferent tone, "I agree to move there, but I don't want to see you. It's best not to see you all the time."

Ning Yixiao froze in place, the streets of New York were crowded with people, the wind blew on his face like soft knives, cutting through the last of his decency.

"I know it's unreasonable. I'm living in your house and I'm asking you not to go, but that's my only request. I can grant you anything else, and I know you're not in New York most of the time. It's not hard to do."

Su Hui paused, "As for the fee... I can go to work when I get better, and I can also take on some other jobs. In this way, I will pay you back a little bit, I promise."

Su Hui sat on the bench by the roadside, his whole body was cold, he lowered his head, staring at a grass that was about to die by the roadside, waiting for Ning Yixiao's answer.

"it is good."

Ning Yixiao was not in trouble, and met his only request, his voice sounded calm, "I promise you, but I will arrange someone to clean and cook in the house, you can change the password of the house, I will not go .”

After speaking, he hung up the phone.

The busy tone left Su Hui with tinnitus and short-term chest tightness.

He didn't sleep all night, quietly left the ward in the early morning, took a taxi back to his rented house, put away all the important things, and called the moving company in the morning.

At a certain moment, he really planned to escape, but if he could escape, what would grandma do?

Su Hui could only bow to reality.

He got on the moving truck and couldn't even give the driver a destination. After a long silence, he asked them for temporary storage services. Fortunately, they also happened to have warehouses and agreed to his request.

He was very lucky, Ning Yixiao also met his request, just as he expected.Because Ning Yixiao originally wanted nothing else, he didn't need to meet him.

Su Hui's emotions are numb, and he can't tell whether this moment is suffering or happiness. He only knows that no matter what purpose Ning Yixiao has, he should not and is unwilling to intervene in his life and his upcoming marriage. .

Even if he is indeed very cheap now, it is easy to have nowhere to go.

Even if he is really just a small piece of the puzzle, he is not willing to be collected like this. It is better to hide and disappear.

When Karl came to pick up Su Hui, he was sitting on a bench by the side of the road, only wearing a coat over his hospital gown. He looked a bit embarrassed, but he couldn't hide the dignity on his face.

The tip of his nose and finger joints were frozen red, not like he ran away from home, but more like a kitten forced to stray.

Karl feels sorry, it seems that he ran away because he pushed Su Hui too hard with his proposal to Ning Yixiao to buy a house.

Feeling guilty, Karl walked over and asked Su Hui to get in the car. Su Hui moved bluntly, but still followed him.

In the car, Su Hui looked out the window motionlessly, and Carl noticed that he liked it so much, almost lying on the window, like a child.

"Eddy, don't you like staying in the ward?" He tentatively talked to Su Hui, "Let's go eat something first, and then go to see grandma, okay?"

Su Hui just nodded and didn't speak.

Karl had no choice but to follow Ning Yixiao's instructions and take him to a high-end Chinese restaurant, and ordered some of Su Hui's favorite dishes as he said.

When the waiter standing aside asked "Are there any taboos?" Su Hui, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke.

"No." He shook his head.

The "taste list" prepared by Carl suddenly lost its effect.

Sitting across from Su Hui, he found that his appetite was really bad. He barely ate a few chopsticks for the main dishes served, and only drank a little porridge and two shrimp dumplings.

Su Hui apologized for this, saying that she was too wasteful.

Carl smiled and waved his hands, "I happened to pack it for Shaw. He hasn't eaten well recently, and he still has a stomachache. Drink some porridge to nourish his stomach."

He saw that Su Hui's expression changed, and he lowered his eyes, but he still didn't say anything.

The boss's tricks don't seem to be working anymore, Carl thought.

But just when the waiter came forward with a packing box, Su Hui spoke again, as if talking to himself, "He doesn't like seafood porridge."

Carl reacted for a moment before realizing that the "he" Su Hui was referring to was Ning Yixiao.

"Yes, I almost forgot." He said to the waiter, "I don't want this one, change it to a porridge without seafood."

Su Hui's reaction was faster than his, Carl thought, this is enough to prove that they care about each other, but the timing seems wrong.

He originally thought that with his good intentions, these two people could get along well for a period of time, no matter how big or deep the conflict was, blood was thicker than water and it should be resolved.But he didn't expect that this contradiction seemed to be bigger than he imagined, to the point where he didn't meet each other.

Carl couldn't help sighing, and when he looked up, he found that Su Hui was staring at the seafood porridge, blinked, and turned away again.

Before leaving the restaurant, Karl received a message from Ning Yixiao.

[Shaw: I have already taken all my things away, you can bring him here, and remember to teach him how to change the password. ]

Su Hui stood by and waited, feeling that Karl was working hard, but he couldn't put on a more enthusiastic appearance. He took the medicine in the car, and was drowsy until he arrived at the hospital where his grandmother was.

She has been in a coma for several days, and she is still not fully awake.Carl stayed by the side for an hour, and Su Hui kept urging him to go back to work, but he never agreed until he promised that he would not run around again.

"Then I'll go to the warehouse you mentioned and move things there." Carl said with a smile.

Su Hui couldn't refuse.

The nurse sat aside, not saying a word.In the quiet ward there was only the beeping of the instrument, one after another, long and lonely, Su Hui was always holding grandma's withered hand, lying beside her bed, feeling unbearable.

At seven o'clock in the evening, he felt his grandmother's hand move, the nurse got up, and quickly called the doctor and nurse.

"The patient is awake, and he still needs to be checked later."

Su Hui nodded quickly, asked them what they should pay attention to now, and kept holding grandma's hand with his own.

After the doctors and nurses left, the nurses also left in due course.

Su Hui looked at the grandma who opened her eyes, and her eye circles turned red.

Grandma was wearing a breathing mask and an oxygen tube was inserted into her nose. Looking at Su Hui like this, she opened her mouth and her voice was hoarse.

"Xiao Hui..."

"I'm here." Su Hui held back tears, and didn't want her to find out that she was in depression, so she tried her best to look happy, "Grandma, does it hurt?"

Grandma closed her eyes and shook her head slightly.She seemed to want to say something, Su Hui approached, but heard her say "one night".

Su Hui paused, "What happened to him?"

"I saw him yesterday... standing by the side..." Grandma didn't have much strength, and it was difficult to speak, and said intermittently, "He hasn't changed much..."

Su Hui didn't expect that he was there yesterday, so she suddenly felt sad, nodded, then shook her head, "It's changed a lot, don't you think?"

Grandma smiled, "Isn't it...he helped us..."

Su Hui nodded, "Well, he arranged the surgery and wards. If you had a complication, he even flew over to see you."

Grandma obviously misunderstood, "You guys..."

Su Hui immediately denied, "No, we..."

For a while, he couldn't find an accurate word to describe his current relationship with Ning Yixiao, so he said directly: "He is about to get married, his fiancée is very beautiful, and his family is also very good."

Grandma frowned, "Really? With the girl..."

Su Hui knew what she meant, and explained, "Grandma, the past is over, and I have only been with him for six months, or even more than half a year, and we have been separated for six years. We will be separated in six years. What happened, who knows?"

Every word he said came from the heart. He was very clear about Ning Yixiao's behavior. Even if he climbed up, he would never hurt anyone. He was willing to get married, and maybe he really liked her.He can't act to deceive others.

Six months is really short, but six years is a long time.In the long six years, Ning Yixiao can spend many months, many days with anyone.

"I heard that his fiancée is an alumnus of his graduate school. Maybe they have been together for a long time. He...never said that he only likes boys, and many girls chased him before."

He lowered his eyes, "Ning Yixiao helped us because he said he was very grateful to you. He was very grateful that you supported him in the past."

Grandma closed her eyes, shook her head, smiled bitterly, and stopped continuing.

Su Hui stopped talking, ordered meals from the hospital, fed grandma some soup, talked to her, saw that she was tired, helped her to sleep, and went outside to smoke a cigarette by herself when she fell asleep.

After smoking half a stick, Carl came.

They glanced at each other through the night, and Su Hui knew that the bird cage was ready.It's just that compared to the airtight golden cage in the past, he is more willing to be trapped in this one now.

Thinking of this word, Su Hui's moral sense can't help whipping himself, hypocritical and weak, cheap and pretentious.

The house is only an 8-minute drive from the hospital, and it will arrive soon. Take the beautifully decorated elevator to the top floor. There is only one family here.

"By the way, you can change the password first." Carl set the door lock and waited for Su Hui's input.

Su Hui didn't think too much, and entered grandma's birthday.

"Ok."

The door opened, and Su Hui was brought in, facing a whole piece of floor-to-ceiling windows, outside the window was the bustling Manhattan night scene and Central Park, which was very beautiful and impactful.

Some memories from six years ago could not help but appear in his mind, Su Hui felt pain, so he turned his face away and stopped looking.

"This is actually the first property that Shaw bought." Carl said with a smile, "In fact, he has been in the Bay Area during the entrepreneurial stage. I don't know why. When buying a property, he first considered New York. It's quite expensive here. "

Su Hui heard it all, but didn't respond. She just asked, "Which room is better for me to live in?"

"Of course it's the master bedroom." Carl planned to take him up, and a servant came down from upstairs, a middle-aged woman of Mexican descent.

She immediately bowed to Su Hui, "Hi, I'm Kofi."

"Coffey is a professional escort, and she has a healer's certificate." Carl explained, "A private chef will come tomorrow."

Su Hui also returned the salute, turned to Carl and said, "I won't live in the master bedroom anymore, there should be a guest room on the first floor, I'll just live on the first floor."

Karl couldn't hold him back, so he had to take him to a side sleeper room on the first floor that had always been vacant, "This is connected to a study room, you should like it."

Su Hui nodded, "Thank you."

"Then I'll ask Kofi to pack your luggage for you."

Su Hui gently refused, "I can do it myself."

Soon he was alone in the room.

It is bright and spacious here, located in the center of New York City, a second bedroom is almost half the area of ​​his rented house, and there are works of famous designers everywhere, even a carpet is expensive.

But Su Hui felt extremely unsafe, even depressed.

He took a shower and found that there were no sharp objects in the bathroom, the mirror was non-glass and solid, the razor blade was not removable, and even the bottom of the toothbrush was blunt.

After he came out, he started to pack his clothes. The closet door was opened, and the clothes rail inside was also specially designed and inclined, so each hanger had a custom-made card slot, and the words [Unable to bear heavy objects] were printed on it. hint.

The tempered glass floor-to-ceiling windows cannot be opened, and are covered with a layer of venetian blinds. There is no chandelier in the room, but an inner suction ring. There are no protruding wall lights at the four corners, no ropes, and even the charging cable in the room is short.

Su Hui was in a space that was designed to be extremely safe, but she couldn't sleep.

He wanted to know why Ning Yixiao bought this house, was it related to his unintentional words when they first dated?

Why is this place designed like this? Is it because his self-harm in the past left him too deep a shadow.

Just like when Ning Yixiao was abandoned by his dependent mother when he was a child, he couldn't get out again.

Su Hui hated her fragility and cruelty, but there was nothing she could do.He is like a piece of glass that shines brightly in the sun, with a superficial appearance that hurts anyone who holds it.

In any case, as long as he didn't meet him, he could convince himself that he was just a stranger.

I can't sleep well here. Su Hui wakes up very early and only leaves the room after lying down for a long time. In the living room, there is a man in a chef's uniform standing. He looks Chinese. He introduces himself and says his name is Mark. To make breakfast for him.

It was only then that Su Hui discovered that the knives in the kitchen were locked, and only the private chef knew the password.

"Thank you Mark, I'm not very hungry." Su Hui said, "You don't need to help me."

"I still need a little."

To his surprise, Mark can also speak Chinese with a little Shanghai accent, "I need to eat something in the morning, and I will make you a bowl of Yangchun noodles, with less noodles, so that it will be refreshing."

"Okay." Staying in this big room, Su Hui felt uncomfortable all over, as if part of the skin on his body fell off piece by piece like scales.He couldn't help but went back to the bathroom and took a shower.

When she came out, Su Hui wiped her hair with a towel, and found that her hair had grown long again, and she looked very lethargic. Suddenly, the doorbell rang. Kofi was packing up, and Mark was cooking noodles. Su Hui thought for a while, and walked over by herself.

He doesn't have the habit of watching cat's eyes, because he watched a horror movie when he was a child, so he has always been afraid of cat's eyes.

The doorbell kept ringing, Su Hui held the doorknob, unlocked it, and pulled the door open.

The visitor was a tall mulatto in white sunglasses and a floral shirt who looked like he had just returned from a vacation in Hawaii.

The moment he saw Su Hui, he froze for a moment, and the hand that was hanging in mid-air, about to knock on the door, also stopped.

Su Hui tentatively asked: "Are you..."

Unexpectedly, the other party's reaction was very strange. First, he checked the house number, then looked back at him, raised his sunglasses, and then moved closer to stare at his face carefully.

Then there was a sound of correct words——

"Fuck me..."

Su Hui got up and took the medicine. He was already groggy and confused, but he was stunned by his sound.Unexpectedly, this guy would not stop, looking him up and down with a pair of big eyes.

"I knew it, I knew it—" He slapped his forehead suddenly, took out his mobile phone, and complained while dialing the number, "No wonder he got confused..."

Su Hui wanted to ask him if he was looking for Ning Yixiao, but he left before he could speak, but his voice still echoed in the elevator.

"Fuck... I'm really convinced!"

Weird guy.