Father Gu reminded Gu Qingchi to take medicine on time every day. After dinner every night, Gu Qingchi and Mrs. Gu would take the medicine obediently, watch TV for a while, and then go to bed.
Mrs. Gu would not let Gu Qingchi go back to his room until he was sleepy. In the morning, Gu Xie would go to see if Gu Qingchi was awake several times. If he was awake, she would pull him out of bed. If no one urged him, Gu Qingchi could stay in bed for a whole day, feeling groggy.
In this way, throughout the day, except when he was sleeping, Gu Qingchi was within the sight of his family, and no one dared to leave him alone.
Gu Qingchi felt very good after taking the medicine, but felt energetic right after taking it, but felt extremely sleepy afterwards and could sleep until noon. He took the medicine a little late tonight, and it was almost twelve o'clock, but Gu Qingchi didn't seem to be sleepy at all, so Mrs. Gu suggested watching a movie.
Gu's father opened a home theater, and the family discussed what movies to watch.
It was mainly discussed by Gu's father and Gu Xie. Madam Gu and Gu Qingchi didn't care. Madam Gu liked TV series and didn't have any requirements for movies. Gu Qingchi would never say a word as long as they didn't watch the movies he had filmed.
Gu's father and Gu Xie, two influential figures in the business world who have the final say and are swift and decisive, were arguing like children over what movie to watch. They put forward several arguments to refute the other side, and then went on to put forward new proposals.
The table was filled with opened snacks and a bucket of popcorn.
Gu Qingchi bit the straw and drank the milk tea sip by sip. When he shook the cup, he could hear the sound of ice cubes hitting the wall.
It was rare for Mrs. Gu to let Gu Qingchi drink his favorite iced milk tea.
It's his fault that he has a bad stomach. Mrs. Gu always keeps an eye on Gu Qingchi and doesn't let him drink anything too irritating.
Father Gu was refuting Gu Xie's proposal.
"Each era has its own cultural background. Transformers were popular in your era, but your mother and I were not influenced by this type of culture. Moreover, it is divided into several series. You young people may find it normal and easy to understand. But if your mother and I watch the latest one all at once without understanding the background in advance, we will not understand it."
Mrs. Gu was not happy.
"I can understand it, I just don't like it! Am I not young?"
Father Gu immediately slapped himself in the face and coaxed Mrs. Gu unconditionally.
“I didn’t say that…”
"What else do you want to say? You are such an interesting person."
Mrs. Gu crossed her arms and looked at Father Gu out of the corner of her eyes, full of sarcasm. Mrs. Gu was never merciful when she was insulting people, and Father Gu had stepped into a minefield this time, and it would take more than ten minutes to finish this matter.
Gu Qingchi looked at this and then that, and finally handed the milk tea in his hand to Mrs. Gu.
Mrs. Gu forgot about being angry. She hesitated for a moment, and finally remembered that this was given to her by Xiaoguai, so she carefully tried to take a sip, and then took another big sip.
Mrs. Gu didn’t like milk tea very much before. She tried it and found it too sweet and too greasy, so she didn’t like it very much and never touched it again. Not to mention the people around her, Father Gu and Gu Xie, who also didn’t have the chance to try it more.
Now I think maybe what I drank before was too bad.
"This is not bad, but it's a little cold, so drink less, little darling."
Mrs. Gu wiped the corner of her mouth elegantly with a handkerchief and pointed at the screen with her beautifully painted nails.
"Don't argue anymore, just watch a comedy, that one, it even won an award."
Father Gu and Gu Xie both stopped talking and sat back down, one played a movie while the other turned off the lights.
This movie just hit Gu Qingchi's funny spot. Gu Qingchi laughed out loud several times and almost choked on the milk tea in his mouth.
By the second half, Gu Qingchi began to feel sleepy. He leaned on the back of the sofa and leaned against Mrs. Gu's head.
"Little darling, go back to sleep."
Mrs. Gu called Gu Qingchi in a low voice, and Gu Qingchi raised his head in a daze. Gu Xie pulled him upstairs. When he was lying on the bed and the night lights in the corners of the walls gradually dimmed, leaving only the sound of shallow breathing, Gu Xie lightened his steps and slowly retreated.
At some point, Gu Qingchi suddenly woke up, very awake and not sleepy at all. He had a chaotic sense of time disarray. He thought it should be daytime, but there was no sunlight in the room and the light in the corner was still on.
Maybe it was a cloudy day, he got out of bed and reached for the phone on the bedside table - it was now 1:57 in the morning and he had only slept for about half an hour.
Gu Qingchi lay back and closed his eyes.
When he was a child, he didn't want to go to bed. Mrs. Gu always coaxed him and told him not to sleep as long as he closed his eyes for ten minutes. Often, he would close his eyes and fall asleep without us knowing when.
He told himself to close his eyes for ten minutes. After a while, he turned over and turned on his cell phone - 2:24.
There are still four hours until dawn.
He sat there and suddenly tears rolled down his cheeks.
Even though he drank the milk tea he had always wanted to drink in the evening, it was great to watch a movie with his family and chat at the same time.
He felt like he could hardly breathe, his mouth felt dry, his chest felt stuffy, he felt that living was a torment, and he felt that time was a torture.
Tears rolled out uncontrollably, as if they could not be stopped. He covered his eyes, and tear marks meandered out from under his palms and finally hung on his chin.
He didn't want to make any sound, Gu Xie was right next to him, so he bit his wrist hard, and the suppressed, broken sobs leaked out from between his fingers.
By the time he reacted, his fingernails, which had grown a little longer, had already left scratches on his arm, and there was a circle of teeth marks on his wrist. The teeth were very blunt, and he bit very hard but not much blood came out. There were just some places that were very dark in color and bled slowly.
Gu Qingchi reacted and let go immediately. He fumbled to take out the medicine box from under the bed, spread it out on the carpet, and tried to treat his wound.
He couldn't stop crying, so he went to get some iodine and wiped away his tears with his sleeve. Because he had just cried so hard, his hands were a little unsteady. His hands were shaking as he thought to himself that this small wound should heal tomorrow and wouldn't be noticeable.
Gu Qingchi was afraid of pain. He didn’t feel any pain now, but he didn’t want to see Xie Luyu crying like that again. It was both funny and ugly.
After he dropped the small bottle of iodine cotton balls on the carpet for the third time, Gu Qingchi burst into tears, a low, suppressed voice in his throat.
He was originally kneeling on one knee, but now he straightened his upper body to get the mobile phone on the bed, then he lay down beside the bed and dialed Xie Luyu's number.
Xie Luyu picked up the phone quickly.
"I can't sleep now, I can't sleep..."
Gu Qingchi couldn't bear it anymore and he burst into tears. It made people's hearts tremble when they heard him and their hearts would break just by looking at him.
He seemed to be in excruciating pain, almost out of breath, while talking to Xie Luyu, but he kept talking about his own inability to sleep, as if this was a huge matter.
"Don't be anxious. Breathe. Follow me. Take a deep breath. 1-2-, do it again..."
After Gu Qingchi calmed down, Xie Luyu said again.
"If you can't sleep, let's chat. I like chatting with you. It's very comfortable."
Xie Luyu just talked to Gu Qingchi casually, very casually, talking about whatever came to his mind. His speech had a Beijing accent and he would make a few comments from time to time, which was very interesting to listen to.
"I was filming a movie in the mountains before, and I stayed at a fellow villager's house. The rent was very cheap, and I could live there for a month by staying in a hotel for one night..."
"…It was like a crew was in seclusion there. There was nothing around except for a small restaurant. They couldn't do anything else but plain noodles. It was also the cheapest, 5 yuan a bowl. I ate plain noodles there for a month.
It was winter then, and it was very cold. Down jackets were of no use at all. I found that the military coats of the crew were warmer than down jackets, so I wore them every day. The boss lady also gave me some snacks every now and then. I thought she must be a fan. She gave me so many snacks that I felt embarrassed to take them for nothing, so I wanted to sign an autograph for her, but she thought I was just a worker..."
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