Shi Yan stretched out his hand, embraced the sleeping girl leaning on the sofa, picked her up, and then stood up with his knees. After this series of actions, the person in his arms showed no signs of waking up.
…
The boy stepped on the soft wool carpet. Because of the action of stretching out his arms to embrace, some bones protruded from his broad and thin back. The creases imprinted on the white T-shirt were very thin, but he did not look weak at all. On the contrary, his whole back revealed a kind of cold and restrained power.
The halo of the floor lamp sprinkled on him, his profile was delicate and clear. His long eyelashes moved slightly, and he lowered his eyes to look at the girl who was leaning on his chest, breathing lightly and already sleeping. His gaze lingered for a moment between her clean and delicate eyebrows.
He repeated it again, his originally low-pitched voice even softer than before.
"I called you, but you didn't wake up."
She is really light.
Shi Yan stood there holding the person for a long time without feeling any weight.
“…”
After a slight pause, Shi Yan turned on tiptoe and took her directly to the bedroom where she slept.
The bedroom in the suite alone is very large. When you push open the door, you will see the front part of the living room. After walking around the small living room, you will see a four-poster bed with light-colored curtains.
Perhaps it was because she had lived here for a while. The thick bedding on the bed was in relatively fresh colors, which was obviously the type that girls would prefer.
Shi Yan put her down so that her head could rest on the pillow, and then covered her with the quilt. The girl curled up in the soft big bed, and her originally slender body looked even smaller.
He turned sideways and raised his hand to adjust the desk lamp to the dimmest setting. He didn't turn it off completely, but it wouldn't affect her sleep. If she woke up in the middle of the night, she wouldn't have to face a pitch-black room.
…
Shi Yan came out of Sheng Yuan's bedroom and prepared to go to the room where he lived.
And at this moment.
The phone in his palm suddenly vibrated twice. Normally, his phone would only vibrate once when a new message came in, but this time, it vibrated twice directly——
Shi Yan paused in his movement of pushing the door, glanced at his phone, and saw that there was indeed a new message notification on the lit screen.
However, the window interface that pops up is neither the SMS interface that comes with the phone nor an app like WeChat, but a pure black mechanical frame.
The young man just lowered his eyes and looked at her, with no emotion on his cold face.
…
** Even at night.
The lights in front of the corridor of Xuyang Hotel are still bright.
A waiter in uniform caught a glimpse of a black Bentley approaching slowly from the other side. It was their duty to remember the names of some of the hotel's more distinguished guests.
"Mr. Xu."
The Bentley stopped steadily in front of the hall. The waiter walked over in an orderly manner and opened the car door with both hands.
The man who got out from the back seat was Xu Lizhi, who had just returned from seeing a psychiatrist.
The man was holding the phone to his ear and talking on the phone. He bent down and got out of the car while answering the call.
The waiter who came forward to park his car was slightly surprised.
Because he didn't know who was on the other end of the phone, the man's usually cold and defiant brow now showed a hint of helplessness, and his originally solemn voice became gentle when he spoke.
The man raised his hand and rubbed his brow, then spoke patiently.
"Mother, I really don't need you to worry about me anymore. I've gotten used to it over the years."
The person who called Xu Lizhi was Xu's mother who was far away in France.
She has always regarded her son's insomnia, which he has suffered since he was young, as a major concern. She has looked up countless relevant materials for Xu Lizhi and visited countless experts, but his insomnia has never improved.
Whenever she thought about this, she couldn't sleep all night.
Xu Lizhi naturally understood his mother's good intentions, so whenever his mother asked him to do something for his recovery or see a psychiatrist, he would do it without hesitation, even though he had long since given up hope.
"Well, that psychiatrist is very professional." The man said in a low and slow voice.
“…”
"Everything is fine on my end."
“…”
While comforting his mother on the phone, Xu Lizhi strode into the hotel.
The assistant followed behind him, keeping quiet and pursing his lips so as not to disturb him while he was on the phone.
However, when they were about to pass the hotel front desk, the man in front of them suddenly paused, and the assistant, who was busy walking with his head down, almost bumped into his back. Fortunately, he braked in time.
…
The mother was asking Xu Lizhi about his recent situation on the phone, and also explained that most of the family's industries had been successfully transferred to Beijing recently.
This also means that in the near future, the Xu family’s focus will finally return to the aristocratic family circle in Beijing and take root and develop.
Xu Lizhi's father was nostalgic after all. Even though he had lived in France for so many years, he still longed to return to his hometown.
Mother Xu: "I will probably follow your father to Beijing within a month."
It’s up to them to decide on these things. Xu Lizhi’s mind was mostly focused on filming and he didn’t have any opinions, so he just agreed.
He held the phone in his hand, and then raised his silver-gray eyes somewhat nonchalantly. Just as he was about to pass the hotel reception desk, a young man wearing dark sweatshirt and trousers, a baseball cap and a mask came towards him.
…
In the brightly lit hall, people were coming and going, with waiters and guests staying here moving in and out in a chaotic manner.
Although the boy was wrapped tightly with no trace of his face revealed, Xu Lizhi still noticed this man with outstanding temperament in the crowd at a glance.
He subconsciously moved the phone away from his ear and fixed his gaze for a moment.
The boy didn't notice his gaze, but it would be more accurate to say that he didn't pay any attention to the outside world at all. As he walked, his beautiful but cold black eyes hidden under the brim of his baseball cap occasionally showed, and his aura was as cold as a glacier.
He and Xu Lizhi almost passed each other.
“…”
"Brother Lizhi, what's wrong?"
Xu Lizhi came back to his senses when he heard his assistant's puzzled voice behind him. He heard his mother on the other end of the phone asking him with concern why he suddenly stopped talking and what had happened.
He immediately said calmly that it was okay.
Then he just regarded what happened just as a 'trivial' episode and continued to go to the elevator of the VIP suite over there.
(End of this chapter)