Pretending to be cute

When it rains, it lasts all night.

Nights abroad are no different from those in City C. Passing bars and homeless singers strumming guitars at the door, humming hoarse love song tunes, playing a sad tune together with the sound of rain.

Li Mi tightened his windbreaker, put the wet umbrella in a plastic bag, and walked into the hotel.After the front desk quickly completed the accommodation procedures, the service staff was afraid that Li Mi would not find the way, so she took the initiative to lead the way, but she politely declined.

Under the suspicious gaze of the waiter, Li Mi found the elevator around the corner familiarly, and pressed the button accurately.There were not many people coming and going at night, and the elevator came soon. She glanced at the mirror that hadn't changed for several years, pressed her floor, and looked away.

After entering the room, she threw the cold medicine she bought at the pharmacy by the table, opened the umbrella on the balcony, and went straight to the bathroom.

The hot water flowed through the chin, gradually warming up the stiff body, Li Mi's pale cheeks were finally tinged with powder.However, no matter how the heat washes away, she doesn't seem to feel it, her expression is still as tense as before she came in, and she can't relax at all.

In the dense heat, the tiles in front of him were also stained with a thin mist of water, reflecting the beautiful but blurred figure of a woman.Li Mi stretched out his hand, wiped away the shattered image with water, and murmured in a dazed way: "I'm not as good-looking as in the painting, I'm definitely not me..."

That is to say, but after seeing the painting hanging in the center of the exhibition, Li Mi clearly realized that the painting called "sister" was based on her.The appearance and demeanor of the protagonist in the painting are exactly the same as hers, and there is also the very distinctive thousand paper cranes.

——With such a four-dimensional thing, apart from Li Mi himself and Xiao Ling, I am afraid that no one else knows that it is a thing called a thousand paper cranes.

This is the first paper crane that Li Mi folded for Xiao Ling many years ago, but the completion date of this painting was the year before last.Li Mi didn't feel the emotion and time that lay in it at first, until she saw the eyes of the woman in the painting.

Those eyes were very clear, with a faint smile inside, the pulse flowing in them was gentle like the mildest poison, flowing from the blood vessels to the heart, killing him with one blow before he could feel the pain.

Beautiful and touching, gentle and tender, this is the feeling of painting.However, Li Mi never knew that she was like this in front of Xiao Ling.

Li Mi is not a person with low self-esteem, her parents left early, and she has to bear the ups and downs of the entire Li family, her low self-esteem can never be linked to the sole heir of the Li family, but she is not as confident and proud as she appears.

She's just used to taking care of herself.

I'm tired, but there's nothing I can do.With her parents away, she has no place to act like a baby, let alone time to act like a baby. Everyone in Hongjiang relies on her. Ling Sheng, who broke up with his father and came to join Hongjiang, needs her, and Xiao Ling is also her pillar.

But she worked so hard for so long, but did she end up like this?

If you follow your liking, you will be sorry to Xiao Lingquan's parents, moral values ​​and mainstream society; if you don't follow your liking, you will be sorry to the child who has loved her seriously for a long time, and her own trivial selfishness.

What should she do?What is the best way to do it?

Li Mi raised her head, letting the pouring hot water cover her face, as if she was absorbing the warmth that was nowhere to be found, and as if she just wanted to use the water flow to wash away the weakness that should not appear in her eyes.

After taking a shower for who knows how long, Li Mi's head was very dizzy when he walked out of the bathroom.She rubbed her temples, cleared her chaotic mind, let the water drip from her hair, and picked up the phone that kept ringing on the table.

"Hello?" Her voice was hoarse.

Ling Sheng on the other end asked: "What's wrong with you? Did you catch a cold?"

"It's okay, it's just a little rain. I'm in good health and rarely catch a cold."

"That's right, you haven't had a lot of colds since you were young. But just in case, take a hot bath and take some medicine to prevent it. Don't really catch a cold."

Li Mi hummed: "I know. Is there anything else? Something went wrong with the new project, or is there a loophole in the previous inspection?"

Ling Sheng said: "No. When I called, I just wanted to ask you when you would be back. After all, there is an important meeting the day after tomorrow. If you are absent, I am afraid that people from other departments will have some wrong thoughts. "

"I'll be back tomorrow."

Ling Sheng responded, and then did not speak for a long time.

Maybe it was because of being stimulated by the painting today. Although Li Mi was not feeling well, his senses were extremely keen. When he noticed his friend's uncharacteristic silence, he understood the whole process in an instant, and smiled: "You know I came to country X? Lin Ge told me your?"

Ling Sheng was a little surprised, but she still said something for poor Lin Ge: "She informed us that you were on a business trip. I am not as easy to fool as other people. I only found out that you went to Country X by asking Lin Ge. Well, she said you Discuss cooperation with LTM..."

Having said that, both of them knew it in their hearts.

Talking about cooperation with LTM, it's okay to lie to Lin Ge and others, but you can't lie to Ling Sheng, because Li Mi and Ling Sheng have already discussed this matter in private, and this cooperation project will soon be handed over to Ling Sheng.

Li Mi couldn't be bothered to regret the bad excuses he made that day, and said frankly: "My visit has nothing to do with business, I just don't care about Ah Ling, so come and see her."

Ling Sheng did not joke and gossip like in the past, but asked with concern: "Did you see that? How is Lingling doing?"

Li Mi thought of Xiao Ling's appearance of losing weight, and the scene where Xiao Ling and Song Lin walked away together, the corner of his mouth raised an arc, which seemed to be self-deprecating, but also sad: "I see, she is doing well. , I am very relieved."

Ling Sheng couldn't see Li Mi's expression, so he believed it was true: "That's good. When will you come back tomorrow, I'll pick you up. We haven't met for a long time, have a meal?"

"Not sure, we'll talk about it later. If I come back early, I'll send you the flight information."

"it is good."

Just say a few words of pleasantries and hang up the phone.

On a rare rest day, there are still a lot of messages and emails, including messages from Xu Mengjiang, who I just met before, asking if she arrived at the hotel safely.Li Mi put aside all the unimportant things, and replied to acquaintances, and also reported Xu Mengyao's safety.

After finally dealing with his friends, Li Mi's head hurts even more.She thought that Ling Sheng, a crow's mouth, was not good at anything else, and he was sure when he caught a cold, so she took out the bag that was placed on the table before, and drank a bunch of medicine with cold water, Then he pulled back the quilt and lay down on the bed.

Originally, she just wanted to take a rest, but the effect of the medicine and the tiredness accumulated for several days came together. Before her hair was dried, she wrapped herself in a quilt and fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, Li Mi developed a fever.

Her whole body seemed to be on fire, rolling like a suckling pig in the flames. She was so hot that she couldn't open her eyes, and her throat seemed to be burned, and she couldn't squeeze out a few complete words.

Although her consciousness was fuzzy, she knew that she was sick. She barely pushed away the heavy quilt, half of her body almost fell off the bed, and she was able to reach the mobile phone on the bedside table.

The light of the mobile phone was too dazzling, Li Mi squinted his eyes, because he couldn't see the screen clearly, he could only shed tears, clicked on the caller record with his memory, and dialed the first call.

Her chaotic consciousness was no longer strong enough to support her to think about whether Ling Sheng could save her or collect her body when Ling Sheng arrived on a [-]-hour plane.

It rang several times before picking up.

Li Mi was hot and cold for a while, his body was shaking, but he still held on and said: "Ling, Ling Sheng, I feel so bad...you, can you come here conveniently, I feel so bad..."

The female voice really became anxious: "Where are you? Home?"

Maybe people who are sick have very strange concerns. Li Mi coughed a few times, thinking that his smart and accustomed friends must be concerned, but he actually asked such a stupid question: "You know I'm coming, how could it be... still at home Stupid, stupid, Director Jiling, you are so stupid, no wonder you can't find, can't find a partner."

"..."

"Ling Sheng" over there seemed to be choked, and then asked patiently: "Where are you in country X? Be more specific!"

The other party's tone was very fierce, Li Mi felt wronged by the yelling, but he obediently reported the address, and the other party seemed to say something after reporting, but Li Mi had a splitting headache and tinnitus so badly, he fell back on the bed unconscious while holding the phone personnel.

And Xiao Ling over there changed his clothes as quickly as possible, and didn't even notice that the two socks were of different colors. He put on his coat, plugged in the earphones to his cell phone, and pushed open the door of the room.

"Lingling? It's midnight, where are you going?" Song Lin, who happened to come to the living room to pour water, saw Xiao Ling wearing a coat and looking like he was about to go out, and couldn't help being surprised.

Xiao Ling closed her eyes and tried her best to calm down, but her bloodless face and trembling hands still revealed her restlessness: "Senior Songsong, go back to sleep, I have something urgent to go out, and you are very disturbed by the noise." Feel sorry."

It was the first time Song Lin saw Xiao Ling like this. He looked up at the clock, frowned and said, "What's the hurry, you have to go out at three or four in the morning?"

The sound of breathing from the earphones was sometimes soothing, sometimes rapid, sometimes mixed with painful groans.Yin, Xiao Ling didn't want to explain, so he was about to go out.

Song Lin quickly grabbed Xiao Ling's arm: "Is it your friend what's the matter? I'll go with you. It's so late, it's not safe for you to be alone."

Xiao Ling suppressed his impatience, and withdrew his hand: "Don't bother Senior Sister."

Song Lin wanted to say something, but Xiao Ling had already passed her and disappeared behind the door.After the sound of closing the door, Song Lin stared blankly at his empty hands, and said the instruction just now: "It's raining outside, at least, take an umbrella..."

Because it was raining in the middle of the night, the road was unimpeded, if Xiao Ling was not afraid that he would skid too fast and cause an accident and kill Li Mi, he would have run through a few red lights.

Even though she suppressed her speed like this, she arrived at the address Li Mi said in less than half an hour.Xiao Ling explained the situation to the front desk concisely. The front desk didn't dare to delay for fear of accidents with the guests, so they asked someone to get the key card and followed her to the elevator.

The blue-eyed guy holding the key card is the manager here. He is very interested in oriental girls like Xiao Ling. In order to interrupt the tense atmosphere, he pretended to be humorous and said: "Lovely girl, the person in the room is you friends or family?"

Xiao Ling looked at him coldly with earphones on, without saying a word.

Although the manager was taller and stronger than her, he was still so frightened by the stares that he had to shut his mouth embarrassingly, thinking to himself: Aren't all oriental girls very gentle?This girl is obedient at first glance, why is she so fierce.

When they got to the door of the room, the manager was about to knock on the door, but Xiao Ling snatched the key card and stuffed a tip into his pocket by the way: "It's ungentlemanlike to trespass on a lady's room, you should call me for me." An ambulance, please."

Then the door slammed, and he was locked in the door, almost getting his nose crooked.

manager:"……"

After Xiao Ling entered the room, he saw Li Mi curled up in a ball on the bed, and bit his lower lip tightly.She threw the earphones and mobile phone aside, ran to the side of the bed, and found that Li Mi's eyes were tightly closed, his whole body was like a cooked shrimp fished out of hot soup, his face and neck were abnormally red, and his mouth was constantly spitting. Talking nonsense, already confused.

"Sister Li..."

Xiao Ling carefully placed his hand on Li Mi's forehead, feeling the scalding heat under his palm, his face became even uglier.She has lived with Li Mi for many years and knows that Li Mi is in good health and rarely gets sick, but whenever he gets sick it must be a serious illness.

Illness comes like a mountain down, sickness goes like a thread.

In the winter when she was 14 years old, Li Mi caught a cold once, and then immediately developed a fever, which turned into pneumonia, and spent a long time in the hospital to recover.

Xiao Ling exhaled, first used the internal phone in the room to notify the front desk to let the ambulance come quickly, then ran to the bathroom, wet the towel with warm water, wrung it dry, and wiped off the sweat from Li Mi's forehead, cheeks, and neck.

"Thirsty...it's so hot, I want to cool off..." Li Mi regained some residual consciousness from his drowsiness, instinctively took Xiao Ling's hand and pressed it to his face, and hummed comfortably.

Xiao Ling's eyes darkened when he was excited by Li Mi's actions, but when he touched the other's ridiculously chapped lips, he suppressed his emotions, took out his hand, and got out of bed to get a glass of moderately warm water.

"Woooo..." Li Mi sobbed dissatisfiedly as the cool things disappeared.

It's rare for a woman to be so docile. Usually, the collar that was fastened meticulously is scattered into a ball, revealing the flushed skin, which is fragile and frustrating.Coupled with soft sobbing sounds from time to time, as if being bullied, like an invisible little hook, scratching the most itchy piece of soft flesh.

Xiao Ling lowered her eyes, gently wrapped her arms around Li Mi's waist, and fed Li Mi the water in the cup little by little.Li Mi was extremely thirsty, grabbed Xiao Ling's hand holding the cup, drank very anxiously, choked all of a sudden, wiped his tears and Huazi sobbed again.

Xiao Ling: "..."

She let out a long sigh, as if she had given up on something, she raised her head and drank a big mouthful of water, lifted Li Mi's chin, kissed Li Mi's lips lightly, and then crossed the water.

How can people who have stayed in the desert for a long time abandon the oasis so easily? Li Mi got enough water to relieve his urgent needs, and couldn't help but bite his cool little tongue.

Because it was sweet, she took a bite.

Xiao Ling frowned and struggled to get up, with anger in his eyes: "Li Mi, uh...do you know me, who am I, uh."

She remembered that Li Mi called Ling Sheng's name on the phone, and when she thought of running over in the middle of the night in the rain, she felt inexplicably wronged.

However, Li Mi's next sentence broke down all the barriers that Xiao Ling had hastily built during this time: "Ah Ling, I... miss you so much."

The coquettish sound full of nostalgia and dependence broke the string in Xiao Ling's heart instantly, and he could only let this scorching and familiar breath swallow her from head to toe.

she thought desperately.

The most terrifying thing in the world is not drugs, but addicts who know that they will make people addicted, but still willingly inject them.