it's dark, coax me

Zhou Xing was exhausted all the way, and it was already eleven o'clock in the evening when he returned to the wooden house.

Looking at the empty wooden house in front of him, he felt that it seemed to have lost its popularity with Gu Xiu's departure, and it seemed monotonous and deserted.

He obviously didn't sleep the night before, and he didn't sleep well last night. Today, he drove for several hours to send Gu Xiu back, and then took the bullet train back to the bus, and it took several hours to get back.

Logically speaking, he should be very sleepy and tired, but unexpectedly, he was lying on the bed, but he couldn't fall asleep no matter what, as long as he closed his eyes, there was Gu Xiu's figure in front of him.

Gu Xiu who was helpless when he was sick, Gu Xiu who was lying on the ground roguely after exercise, Gu Xiu who was focused when making him juice, Gu Xiu who took good care of him when he was sick, stretched his arms to him Gu Xiu who was held in his arms by him, Gu Xiu who sat with him by the bonfire by the sea, Gu Xiu who subconsciously fell asleep in his arms because of fear...

The figure of Gu Xiu is all in the mind.

Zhou Xing took out his mobile phone and looked at it.

The message stayed on that he told Gu Xiu that he had arrived home two hours ago, but Gu Xiu didn't reply him, wondering if he was busy or had a rest.

He found a group photo of the two of them, and gently stroked Gu Xiu's cheek with his fingers, feeling a little indescribably soft in his heart.

After a while, he sat up from the bed, went to the window and lit a cigarette, wondering how Gu Xiu was doing now, whether he was with his family...

Although he went to bed very late at night, he woke up early the next morning under the action of his biological clock.

He had a rare feeling that he couldn't lift his spirits when doing anything.

He took the phone, and wanted to send a message to Gu Xiu, to tell him something.

But then he thought about what he should ask, he had almost already told him on the way, it would be superfluous to say anything more, and he seemed to say the wrong thing on the way back to make Gu Xiu unhappy.

Maybe his news is an unnecessary disturbance to Gu Xiu.

Zhou Xing put his phone aside, washed up and went for a run as usual.

It wasn't until he came back from running and finished breakfast and walked to the dining table that he realized that he subconsciously made breakfast for two when he just made breakfast, and even took two people when he took the dishes and chopsticks.

He put the bowls and chopsticks on the table in silence, sat alone in the chair for a while in silence, and then began to eat slowly.

Throughout the morning, Zhou Xing's eyes fell on the phone from time to time, but the whole morning passed, but it never rang.

He knew that things were supposed to be like this, as if he knew that Gu Xiu would leave eventually, but he couldn't help checking his phone again and again, and couldn't control his ups and downs.

As soon as the phone rang in the afternoon, he immediately picked it up. After seeing that the caller was the courier collection point, he felt lost for no reason.

Zhou Xing drove to the courier collection point. He originally thought that what he got should be Gu Xiu's medicine, but he found that there were two packages, and there seemed to be something else besides the medicine.

He doesn't shop much online, and he hasn't bought anything recently, so he thought that this should be something Gu Xiu bought.

He brought the two packages back to the wooden house together. These were Gu Xiu's courier. He didn't try to unpack them, but sent Gu Xiu a message again, but nothing came of it.

He sat quietly on the sofa, watching the sun slowly set to the west, and it was gradually getting dusk, he finally dialed Gu Xiu's phone as if he couldn't help it.

Although the courier was just an excuse, he just wanted to hear Gu Xiu's voice, but it was a reason after all, wasn't it?

However, there was only a beep on the other end of the phone, and no one answered the call until the reminder sounded.

He put the phone aside and took a sip of tea.

The tea leaves were bought by Gu Xiu. Before, they only felt sweet in the mouth, but only now did they realize the bitterness hidden in the sweetness.

He pressed a piece of tea under his tongue, savoring it inch by inch, and he remembered the scene when Gu Xiu watched him unpack the courier, and then said it was a gift for him.

After a while, he got up and opened two express packages.

One box contained medicines, all kinds of medicines, while the other package contained a whole set of tea sets.

During the time Gu Xiu was here with him, he has already noticed that Gu Xiu has a normal feeling for tea. He is not in the habit of making tea and drinking tea. I can't remember it myself, to him there is no difference between tea and boiled water.

This thing is the same as the tea leaves before, and it was obviously given to him.

Looking at this set of tea sets, Zhou Xing felt more and more uncomfortable. Finally, he put the set of tea sets back intact, and took two photos of Gu Xiu.

He looked at his phone and thought, this is the last time.

If there is still no reply, if Gu Xiu thinks that he is disturbing, then he will never do this again in the future.

Just when he was thinking this way, the WeChat notification sounded suddenly.

Zhou Xing's eyes brightened instantly, but when he picked up his phone to look at it, he realized that the message was from Zheng Yan, who asked him if he could join the game.

Zhou Xing is not interested in playing games at the moment, he originally wanted to refuse, but thinking of the scene of playing games with Gu Xiu before, he finally changed his subject and said, "Okay."

Seeing Zhou Xing playing the game alone, Zheng Yan subconsciously asked, "Gu Xiu, isn't he playing the game?"

After asking, I remembered that Zhou Xing and Gu Xiu were not living together at the moment, so there was no such thing as buy one get one free.

"Brother Zhou, did you send him back?"

Zhou Xing responded.

"Have you asked Gu Xiu? Doesn't he play together?"

"did not ask."

"Okay, I'll ask, just wait a moment."

Zhou Xing's throat moved, but he didn't stop Zheng Yan in the end.

At this moment, he couldn't tell whether he hoped that Zheng Yan would receive Gu Xiu's reply, or that he would not receive it.

After a while, Zheng Yan asked suspiciously: "I didn't reply, why don't you ask Brother Zhou?"

Zhou Xing was silent for a while and said, "No need, let's drive."

Zhou Xing played this game extremely badly, it can be said that he played completely abnormally, it is quite different from his past.

In the past, it was Zheng Yan who held Zhou Xing back, but this time it was rare for Zhou Xing to hold Zheng Yan back.

Zhou Xing had no interest in continuing to play. After that, he didn't continue to play, but drove to the coastal bridge alone.

In the game, because Zhou Xing and Zheng Yan are still in a team state, Zheng Yan's words can still be transmitted through the game voice.

"Brother Zhou, are you home now? When are you coming to pick up Zhang Wanwan? You may have eaten this product, and you even ran to steal a few apples today..."

"In two days."

He couldn't lift his spirits to do anything at the moment, besides, Zhang Wanwan knew Zheng Yan very well, so there was not much difference between him and at home.

Zheng Yan had no opinion on this, he just said: "Okay."

Zhou Xing manipulated the character to get out of the car and looked out along the coastal bridge.

At this moment, the time of this map has come to night, and there is no more sunset scene, only the bright moon can be seen.

Zheng Yan was still talking.

During this period of time, because everyone played the game frequently, the game rankings have risen. When Zheng Yan was talking about the rankings, Zhou Xing also opened his eyes.

His name is very high.

Zhou Xing looked at his ranking in the game, and couldn't help but think of Gu Xiu for a moment.

It's a pity that the game is not reality after all, he is not a top sharpshooter in the real world, he has no ability to keep Gu Xiu behind and accompany Gu Xiu to do whatever he wants.

Zhou Xing got off the game and walked to Gu Xiu's room.

Before Gu Xiu left, he tidied up the room very neatly. It looked no different from before. It even gave people a feeling that Gu Xiu had never existed here, and everything about Gu Xiu was just his hallucination.

Zhou Xing sat on the chair that Gu Xiu often sat on, his eyes swept across the room, and he saw two pots of flowers on the open-air balcony.

Now the two flowers have sprouted and are growing vigorously. I don't know when they will bloom.

Subconsciously, he took out his mobile phone and wanted to take a photo to show Gu Xiu.

Then he realized belatedly that he had already decided not to bother Gu Xiu anymore.

Gu Xiu has only been away for a day, how could he feel that the time is so long.

Zhou Xing got up and watered the two potted flowers, and brought them into the room.

The temperature at night is getting lower and lower. I'm afraid they will be frozen outside, but it will be better indoors.

After finishing all this, Zhou Xing sat back on the chair, feeling a little dazed for a moment.

He couldn't remember how he lived alone before Gu Xiu came here.

As soon as Gu Xiu left, his heart seemed to be empty, and suddenly there was a lot of blank time.

These vacancies made him not know what to fill, so that it felt like a hole was broken in his heart, and he just felt empty.

Eat lunch alone and dinner alone.

It was getting dark, and Zhou Xing was lying on the bed, tossing and turning.

When morning came again, Zhou Xing realized that he had been insomnia all night.

He took the phone, but there was still no news from Gu Xiu on the phone.

His fingers slid, and when he came back to his senses, he realized that he had entered Gu Xiu's name on the website.

After such a long time, he only realized now that he didn't seem to know enough about Gu Xiu.

Gu Xiu didn't talk much about Gu Xiu's past, he could only piece together his life experience and his past through those scattered words, but now, he couldn't help but want to know more.

However, the search results from the web browser left Zhou Xing in a daze.

The first news item that appeared on the search page was 【Shock!A famous writer does not know the names of his characters, so he seems to have hired someone to write for him. What is the truth? 】

Zhou Xing sat up abruptly.

He clicked on the webpage and saw several screenshots from the video, the person in the screenshots was obviously Gu Xiu.

This news is just to attract people's attention. It just reprints all the video content and netizens' comments, and then it is more fishing like [I don't know what the majority of netizens think about this matter? 】As the ending like a panacea.

Zhou Xing opened several other news and found that the content was similar.

He logged on the Weibo that he hadn't used for a long time, went to the homepage of Gu Xiu's Weibo, and found that his last post was three months ago, and it was about the upcoming release of the new book "Rising Sun and Moon Eternal".

And now countless comments poured into that Weibo, many people questioned his ghostwriting and asked him to explain the matter.

Only a small number of people think that through the comparison of writing style, they can find obvious similarities between this book and the previous ones, and feel that it is undeniable that this book was written by Gu Xiu himself.

But even those who agree that Gu Xiu did not find a ghostwriter have different attitudes towards the content disclosed in the video.

Some people think that Gu Xiu has been calling for caring for others in the article, and has been encouraging others to look at life positively and help others, but in reality he treats others so indifferently, he is not even willing to do a small favor for a little girl, which seems to be superior It seems that it makes people feel very unfavorable.

Others thought the video was taken out of context, and they should take it calmly.

Some people thought that it was normal for Gu Xiu to be indifferent when suddenly disturbed by strangers, and thought that there was no need to go online because of such a trivial matter.

However, there are only a minority of people who are reasonable, or in other words, there are only a small number of people who think carefully to distinguish these things, and most people just vent their emotions at will.

The few sane comments were quickly suppressed by a large number of comments that questioned Gu Xiu's hiring of someone to write, ridiculed Gu Xiu's reputation, and asked him to explain and apologize, and soon disappeared.

Zhou Xing found the original video and played it several times over and over again. He suddenly thought of the scene where Gu Xiu asked him to read Qian Jing's marriage proposal to him.

Also, Gu Xiu seems unwilling to read text messages, never replying to text messages sent in the group, but will reply to voice messages, and what he told him before, he has lost the ability to write...

After connecting these things together, Zhou Xing finally discovered the truth of the matter.

He suddenly felt that his whole heart seemed to be kneaded into a ball. At this moment, he felt extremely uncomfortable and distressed. What could be more painful than letting a writer be unable to read and write?

It was no less severe than cutting off the legs of a dancer and the hands of a painter.

He quickly dialed Xie Jie's phone number.

Xie Jie took a while to answer the phone.

Zhou Xing asked: "Things on the Internet..."

"I saw that it has been dealt with in the past two days. I originally wanted to suppress it. After all, it was just nonsense, but I didn't expect that many marketing accounts would follow the rhythm. This matter is now being hyped up. It is obvious that it can no longer be suppressed. In the current state, if it doesn't work, we can only make public the fact that Gu Xiu is a depression patient, so as to clear up the rumors."

"Gu Xiu...does he agree?"

Gu Xiu is such a strong person, he is not even willing to tell Xie Jie about his depression, but now, he wants to tell everyone about it through the Internet.

"Well, I called him, and he apologized to me, and said that he will cooperate with me no matter how we deal with this matter. But what does it matter to Gu Xiu? Being sick is not what he wants, If you want me to say that I should apologize, it shouldn't be him coming out to apologize..."

Zhou Xing thought of Gu Xiu when he lowered his eyes and said sorry to him.

Gu Xiu is always like this, taking all the faults on himself.

Zhou Xing asked, "Did you call Gu Xiu? When?"

"The night before yesterday."

"What about yesterday and today?"

"I've been so busy dealing with this matter these past two days, I haven't called him since then. You know his illness, and I'm afraid that talking too much will irritate him."

"Besides, the media is all-pervasive now. His mobile phone number is likely to be leaked. I told him to shut down the phone as much as possible. I have almost prepared all kinds of materials here. I should be able to release a clarification this afternoon. Wait. Everything will be fine after the news is sent out..."

He has been really burnt out by the comments on the Internet these two days, and now he is exhausted to the extreme, and he seems a little weak in speaking.

Zhou Xingdao: "Call him now."

"Maybe it's turned off, so you don't need to make a call?"

"Let's take a look. If the mobile phone number will be leaked, what about his home address?"

Xie Jie didn't expect this, and was startled into a cold sweat by Zhou Xing's words. He hurriedly called Gu Xiu's phone, but it was turned off, and he couldn't get through at all.

He was about to go to Gu Xiu, but stopped. He and Gu Xiu had appeared together in front of the screen, and the relationship between him and Gu Xiu could be found out if anyone wanted to.

He didn't know if there were people guarding Gu Xiu's side, but there were some on his side. Last night he expelled some media reporters, and only said that relevant clarifications would be released today.

If he went there now, maybe no one knew about Gu Xiu's residence before, but he brought the media over in this way.

He originally wanted to ask one of his employees to go there on his behalf, but then he realized that with Gu Xiu's personality, if it wasn't someone he knew well, he might not have given any reaction at all.

At this moment, Zhou Xing called again, and when he heard that Gu Xiu couldn't get through, he only said one sentence, "Give me his address."

Xie Jie wanted to say that this was a bit too much trouble for him, but when he thought about it, there was indeed no one more suitable than Zhou Xing for this matter.

During this time, Gu Xiu and Zhou Xing got along very well, they were familiar with each other, if he went to find Gu Xiu, Gu Xiu would definitely open the door.

And if Gu Xiu's condition is not good, he can still accompany Gu Xiu and even take care of him.

After Zhou Xing got Gu Xiu's address, he quickly changed his clothes, took the medicine, drove the off-road vehicle and set off on the road.

Zhou Xing didn't sleep all night, and now he wanted to go to Gu Xiu, but he was very energetic and didn't feel tired at all.

He didn't waste any time, didn't eat breakfast or lunch, and only drank some water on the way. When he arrived at the door of Gu Xiu's house, it was just after twelve noon.

He had already checked the surrounding situation along the way, but fortunately, things were not as bad as he imagined. There was no media stationed in Gu Xiu's community, so it could be seen that Gu Xiu's address had not been exposed yet.

Of course, this has something to do with the good security conditions in Gu Xiu's community. Even Zhou Xing was let in by the security after he contacted Xie Jie and confirmed his identity.

The community that Gu Xiu lives in is also a high-end community, but compared to the previous villa, it looks much more approachable overall.

Zhou Xing parked the car in the underground garage, then took the elevator to the door of Gu Xiu's room.

He pressed the doorbell, and then said, "Gu Xiu, I'm Zhou Xing."

The room was dark, Gu Xiu huddled in the corner of the room, sitting with his head down.

He was in pain all over and didn't want to see even a little light.

All the curtains in this house were replaced with blackout curtains when he was ill before. When all the curtains were closed, there would no longer be any light in the whole house.

But even so, he didn't feel much better.

He fell ill again, and there were whispers in his ears from time to time, and hallucinations appeared again.

Negative emotions made him breathless, he didn't feel hungry or sleepy, he didn't eat, drink or sleep, just hid in the corner of the room, letting time go by.

His mobile phone rang many times, and he couldn't get up the energy to look at it. After talking with Xie Jie on the phone and confirming the follow-up solution, he let his mobile phone ring until it was turned off.

Now when he heard the doorbell and Zhou Xing's voice outside, he still didn't respond at all.

Visual and auditory hallucinations, he has experienced many times in the past few days.

Zhou Xing rang the doorbell a few times, but the door was quiet without any response.

Zhou Xing called Xie Jie again.

Xie Jie was also a little confused about this, "When I called Gu Xiu before to ask where he was, he said that he was at his home... He rarely goes out at ordinary times, and it is even less likely that he will go out at this juncture. Is it possible that he fell asleep?"

Zhou Xing hung up the phone and tried to call Gu Xiu again, but the phone was still turned off.

Maybe Gu Xiu really fell asleep.

Zhou Xing stopped ringing the doorbell. He stood in front of the door and lit a cigarette.

Then came the second, the third...

An hour later, Zhou Xing rang the doorbell again three times and said, "I'm Zhou Xing, Gu Xiu, if you're at home, open the door for me, and I'll take a look at you. of."

There was still no movement inside the door.

Zhou Xing began to repeat this process. When he rang the doorbell, he said a few words to Gu Xiu from time to time, letting Gu Xiu know that the person outside the door was him, so there was no need to be afraid.

After a while, Gu Xiu's sight finally gradually gained focus.

The reassuring voice outside was still talking to him, and he had never had such a regular and nostalgic hallucination.

He stood up against the wall, walked to the door, and opened the door with a gesture of welcoming the hallucination.

Zhou Xing was leaning against the wall to smoke a cigarette at this time, he thought that there would be no movement inside the door this time, until this time, when he heard the movement, he raised his head and met Gu Xiu's gaze.