Ha ha

"I really never dreamed that I would compete with a dead man in my lifetime and be defeated by him." Xu Chenchuan laughed at himself, "The team leader is right, I am too overconfident."

Xu Chenchuan waited for Bai Qi to refute him with a little hope, but in the end even this little hope was shattered.

The wishful approach and understanding for a long time seem to have become a joke.Xu Chenchuan seemed to have been relieved of all the strength in his body, and it took a lot of effort to force himself to make a sound.

"When you said you wanted to move on...I thought you meant it."

Bai Qi opened his mouth, but Xu Chenchuan continued, "Maybe youdidtry. I just expected youtotry...harder."

He turned and walked over to open the door, "Thanks Katie for me."

Xu Chenchuan went all the way back to the hotel, with all kinds of emotions churning and unable to think calmly. It wasn't until he walked back to the door of his room that he realized that the room card was nowhere to be found.

He thought about it carefully, and it could only have landed at Katie's house.

Xu Chenchuan raised his mobile phone and looked at it for a long while, but he didn't expect to receive a new text message just at this time.

[newmessage] Bai Qi: "You didn't bring your room card back."

Xu Chenchuan didn't have the strength to think about whether it was abnormal to send such a text message with Bai Qi's temperament, so he raised his hand and knocked on the door.

"Who?" came the roommate's voice.

"it's me."

"Come on."

Xu Chenchuan heaved a sigh of relief, bowed his head and typed: "I'll pick it up tomorrow, thank you."

The other end quickly replied: "I'll send it over."

"No need. I need to calm down and talk about it tomorrow." When Xu Chenchuan typed this sentence, his fingers trembled a little, he took a long breath, and deleted the last few words.What are you talking about, even Gu Shuying's existence was pieced together bit by bit from other people's mouths.

That was a forbidden place in the other party's heart, and he had never received a pass from the beginning.

Bai Qi still sat on the spot, put down his phone, looked up at the ceiling for a long time, and covered his eyes with his hands.

******

Xu Chenchuan tossed and turned all night, and fell asleep almost at dawn, and even in his dream, he was wandering around in a gloomy maze.Every long road ends with a dead wall.

Exhausted, he stopped and squatted in place, waiting for someone to find him.

Even just once, let someone take him away...

Xu Chenchuan couldn't wait for that person in the end.A giant dog rushed over barking wildly, he turned around and fled in embarrassment, and suddenly lost his foot and woke up.

Katie wasn't home this time.Maybe it was dismissed, or maybe it was the initiative to leave space for the two of them.

Xu Chenchuan pressed the doorbell, and heard Bai Qi's voice saying: "The door is not locked."

He opened the door and walked into the living room, and saw his room card on the coffee table, and Bai Qi sitting beside him.

Xu Chenchuan looked down because of lack of sleep, and walked over to pick up the room card with his head down.Bai Qi silently looked at the tired halo in his eyes.

"sorry."

After a few seconds, Xu Chenchuan was convinced that Bai Qi said this ordinary sentence.He looked back in surprise, Bai Qi's expression was worse than his own.

Xu Chenchuan was a little soft-hearted, thought for a while and said: "Actually, I also said something angry yesterday..."

"I'm sorry," Bai Qi continued, "I'm sorry that I didn't evaluate myself accurately before, and deceived you in with false hopes."

Xu Chenchuan opened his mouth, but Yuanchang's words were still lingering on his lips.

"……and then?"

no respond.It was so still that one could almost hear the wind blowing across the moor.

"Does this mean it's over?"

Time seemed to be stopped in place by all efforts, and the second hand staggered across one frame, two frames.

Bai Qi lowered his eyes: "If you want to leave, you can leave at any time."

Xu Chenchuan stood numbly, and after a long while, he felt the vague anger burning from afar.

"Is that so?" he heard himself ask.

"You announce the beginning with one sentence, and the end with another sentence, do you think I have no temper? Do you believe this from the bottom of your heart?"

The fire was blown by the wind and intensified, and burned to the front in an instant.

"I like you, that's--that doesn't mean I owe you!" Xu Chenchuan hadn't lost his temper for many years, and he choked up, "You guys play games, why do you like to drag people who can't afford it so much?"

"..." Bai Qi still avoided making eye contact.

"I asked you, I—I asked you from the beginning! I told you that I don't want to be a test subject again, I only have one request!" Xu Chenchuan blushed, and he took two steps back, as if being trapped The cornered beast was incoherently asking for proof, "I obviously..."

"sorry."

"what!"

Xu Chenchuan's internal organs were fighting, he gritted his teeth and couldn't speak.

The person in front of him had an unchanging calm expression, as if he was performing a sad one-man show from beginning to end.

He took a few deep breaths and suddenly came to his senses.

"Actually, I've always been the only one who regarded myself as the main character, right? You haven't finished writing the story about the relationship between people and ghosts. I just came here for a while. Maybe if I do too many tricks, I'll become a professional..."

Bai Qi stared at the back of his hand resting on the armrest of the wheelchair.It was trembling uncontrollably, with blue veins protruding ferociously.

Xu Chenchuan only saw his expression, with a bitter taste in his mouth: "Gu Shuying, isn't it? I asked the name once, and I didn't dare not mention it when I saw your reaction..."

"do not talk……"

Bai Qi's voice sounded as cold as ice.Xu Chenchuan wanted to obey subconsciously, and then suddenly realized that he almost felt ridiculous.

"Bai Qi." He said word by word, "Is this your last attitude?"

Bai Qi clutched the armrest tightly, his vision fluctuated violently, and only the pounding of his heart could be heard in his ears.The whole person seems to be falling heavily, and it is too late to control the final critical point.

Not now, he thought.Not here, not in front of Xu Chenchuan.

"Chris, you go back."

Xu Chenchuan was so angry that his eyes turned black.

"I really can't compare to Gu Shuying. He can bear you for so long, but I'm probably a normal person—"

"To shut up!"

Oscar jumped out suddenly, his eyes were red and he screamed.

Xu Chenchuan vaguely realized that the volume of the two of them had been raised too high. Oscar stood in front of Bai Qi, and showed him the claws of the giant dog in his dream.

Xu Chenchuan raised the corner of his mouth and smiled amidst the barking, turned around and left.

He just wanted to get out of this place quickly, and almost tripped himself when he stepped out the door, staggered around a corner, and walked quickly towards the road of the community.

Suddenly there were several sharp whistles from behind, and then the screeching brakes stopped abruptly within a short distance.When Xu Chenchuan turned his head, a car was about to hit him, and the driver was sticking his head out of the car window, cursing: "You don't have eyes, do you?"

Xu Chenchuan repeatedly apologized and retreated to the side of the road.The driver swears and stomps on the accelerator and walks away.

The sound of horns and brakes was clearly transmitted into the room.

Bai Qi's face turned pale instantly, and the air he inhaled into his lungs froze.

His body was as stiff as cement, and he struggled to control the wheelchair. He moved to the window and looked out, but he couldn't see anyone.Bai Qi trembled all over, turned around and moved towards the door amidst the growing sense of suffocation, never felt that the speed of the wheelchair was so slow.

He fumbled to press the reset speed button, and the wheelchair slammed into the coffee table.

Bai Qi was thrown out and fell to the ground.He propped up his elbows, and in his blurred vision, he saw the phone lying a few steps away.

Bai Qi reached out and grabbed a coffee table leg, trying to drag himself over.

Oscar rushed over and yelled at him incessantly, jumping his feet anxiously.

Bai Qi suddenly grabbed a handful of dog hair: "Good boy, see, is it over there? That thing, bring it here for me..."

When Xu Chenchuan walked halfway, his cell phone rang.He glanced down at the incoming call, turned his head and pressed reject as if his eyes had been pricked.

However, the phone hung up and rang again, and he was extremely persistent.

Xu Chenchuan was so upset that he could hardly think, so he simply turned off the phone.

"Chris?" a woman's voice.

Katie stopped the car on the side of the road in the community, rolled down the window and waved to him. Seeing his face, the smile gradually disappeared: "You..."

Xu Chenchuan forced a smile: "Sorry, I can't talk about this right now."

Katie nodded: "I can understand, so let's not talk about it. Are you going back? Do you want me to send you?"

"I'll just take the subway. Thank you, Katie." Xu Chenchuan thanked him solemnly. This should be the last time they meet.

"Okay." Katie said goodbye to him with unconcealed worry, watching his back gradually disappear in the rearview mirror.

She drove home at a constant speed, and just approached the gate when she heard a dog barking.

Katie's face changed, and she pushed open the door.

She raised her hand to cover her mouth: "God."