early bird sold out

There are a few maple trees outside the window, the gray and white trunks extend towards the sky, and the red leaves under the background of the clear autumn sky are as bright as the background in Hayao Miyazaki's fairy tales.

"Xia Zhizhu." Someone behind him called his name.

Looking at the trees outside the window in a daze, the boy turned his head and saw Yu Jianyi, who was also not supposed to be here, walking down the steps step by step with his trousers in the side pockets, stood beside him, and asked with downcast eyes: "You Why are you sitting here?"

There are many guests in Jiangyi Hotel today, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Xi Zhao opened a special room upstairs for Xia Zhizhu.

There is a big screen for live broadcasting and delicious fruits in the room. Xi Zhao has prepared everything, and even thoughtfully put different discs for his sweetheart, so that he can watch something else to change his mood during the movie.

But now Xia Zhizhu came to the library downstairs of the hotel. Although it is completely closed today and no outsiders will come in and out, he is still too bold.

Yu Jianyi asked thoughtfully: "Are you afraid that Xi Zhao will make a mistake...will he fail?"

Xia Zhizhu shook his head, his upper body leaned back slightly, revealing the small book of poems hidden on his lap.

The story before the bed is read from summer to autumn, and Xi Zhao has recently suddenly taken a liking to Japanese poets.When they were by the river last night, they chatted about those haiku and tanka, and finally Xi Zhao said that if Xia Zhizhu wanted to, he could wait for him here today.

The library of Jiangyi Hotel is on the second floor, directly above the banquet hall. The floor-to-ceiling windows are made of white wood panes. When they look back, they can see the similar autumn scenery.

Yu Jian looked at Xia Zhizhu for a long time, and finally laughed.

"You are really different from others."

Today's press conference was attended by only one person, Xi Zhao, who had long since left Xingyan.Gu Chenxing took Lily to Xingyan's branch office in Yancheng for a private interview. Bo Chi was still busy with the huge chores that were thrown at him, and Song Ci would not attend here, but they were all concerned The birth of a result is expected and apprehensive, even Yu Jianyi, who seems to be leisurely at the moment, has a hint of gambling belief hidden in his beating chest.

Only Xia Zhizhu really didn't care.

They have been planning for a long time and overturned almost all major events. In Xia Zhizhu's eyes, it was as ordinary as a decision to go out for an outing today.

It is best to win the bet, but even if they all lose, Xia Zhizhu will still turn around the moment Xi Zhao opens the library door, hold the poetry collection, wait or take the initiative to hug each other, raise his head and Xi Zhao looked at each other and seriously asked him if he was hungry and what we were going to eat tonight.

day to day.

Yu Jianyi once felt that this bamboo was too dull because of this.

It is indeed rare to be innocent and clean in their social circle, but maybe one day, Xi Zhao will still regret that everything he has worked so hard for and obtained cannot be rewarded with equal admiration and admiration.

But he ignored the deeper core of their relationship.

"Take back all the prejudices I didn't express before - although this sentence is a bit late, it is indeed what I just confirmed."

Yu Jian, who was always cynical, settled down and looked seriously at the young man sitting in the background of flowers and trees with a peaceful expression: "Xia Zhizhu, you are indeed the most qualified..."

The sound of high heels landing at the door interrupted Yu Jianyi's unfinished words.

Xia Zhizhu looked back together with him.

Dan's lips are bright and curling, and her honey brown curly hair hangs casually and delicately in front of her forehead. Together with the soft fur edges of the same color on the skirt tail and shawl, it slightly warms the cold and proud eyes of the beautiful woman.

Yu Jian frowned, but he quickly relaxed it again. In less than a second, he responded very quickly and greeted him with a smile: "Aunt Fu, you..."

"I'll find another one." Fu Yu interrupted his pleasantries.

Another Xia Zhizhu stood up from behind Yu Jianyi holding a collection of poems.

"Hello," the woman raised her chin, "I'm Fu Yu, Xi Zhao's mother."

"One last question."

Questions about the theme of today's press conference and the gossip questions that the public is most concerned about have been perfectly answered by Xi Zhao in the past one hour and 10 minutes. When it was the last question, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. His old partner, a reporter from the editorial department of the old fashion magazine "Fengxiu", grabbed the opportunity with a smile.

Under the hint of the reporter, the photographer who was traveling with him immediately pointed the camera at Xi Zhao's empty ring finger.

"Mr. Xi, for the general audience - are you still single?"

There was laughter in the arena, and Xi Zhao raised his eyebrows slightly.

He turned his head sideways with everyone, but the point of his gaze seemed to be slightly different from everyone's.

From Jiangcheng to Osaka, to Manhattan, and back to Yancheng, they always seemed to like to pay attention to his knuckles, but Xi Zhao finally set his sights on the antique handicraft on his left wrist that replaced the expensive mechanical watch. superior.

He watched so intently that the reporters sitting in the front row were even surprised to find that even Mr. Xi, whose eyes were dark when he was telling cold jokes, seemed to have a hint of a smile in his silent eyes at this moment unexpectedly.

"Last night, about sixteen hours ago, I proposed to the only love of my life."

This light and fluffy sentence made the audience suddenly silent again for his frankness.

Obviously it was such an important occasion, but Xi Zhao suddenly recalled the picture of Xia Zhizhu standing on tiptoe and carefully studying how to tie his tie before going out in the morning.

In Xi Zhao’s childhood world, this kind of scene is not uncommon, but in those scenes where the wallpaper background is as gorgeous as an oil painting, the parents who are the protagonists always have perfunctory and indifference in their eyes, which is not like the present —— Xi Wei In the bright morning light, Xia Zhizhu knelt at the end of the bed, worrying about the difference between the Windsor knot and the Pratt knot. The loose sweater on her body was incompatible with the straight style of the suit, but it was melted in the Tyndall effect washed by the cotton gauze curtains. Became the same group of harmony.

Obviously Xia Zhizhu's memory is so good, even better than Xi Zhao, but he still hasn't figured out how to tie a tie until now.He wanted to laugh at him with his head bowed, but Xia Zhizhu's expression was so serious that people couldn't bear to bully him, so Xi Zhao had no choice but to solemnly pinch the hat string of the boy's sweater and tie the knot with one hand, and finally used his fingertips maliciously from Xia Zhizhu. The ring chain that was worn there last night was hooked out of Zhizhu's collarbone socket.

It's okay to feel like he'll never learn how to tie a tie his whole life.

Thinking of this, Xi Zhao looked at Xia Zhizhu, and suddenly asked: What should I do if I really lose?

From childhood to adulthood, even though he has always acted calmly and never made mistakes, Xi Zhao always asks himself before doing everything: What should I do if I lose?

He can't ask Fu Yu, because the answer will only be more smashed cups; he can't ask others, because those people will only give him confused and vigilant eyes.

Xi Zhao is used to being taciturn—I thought he would always be taciturn—until a little bear honestly and actively got into his arms, and under Xi Zhao’s silent connivance, he dug out the cowardice hidden in the deep valley. , blowing away the dust in the lock cylinder, and staring at him quietly with those clean almond eyes again and again, Xi Zhaocai finally summoned up the courage to reveal the part of him that lacked the most courage, and asked the other party humbly and sincerely: If I really lose? What should I do?

But at that moment, Xia Zhizhu blinked his eyes and tilted his head, but he didn't seem to understand what he meant.

——If you lose, you lose, what's wrong?

Even gods make mistakes, and we're all mortal.If you lose, start over, start over, the life of a stupid child is full of stumbles and somersaults, it is too hard to care about everything, after all, we still have such a long life to walk through step by step.

Xi Zhao never lacks people who can stand with him on the heights of the wind and waves.

But in the past 20 years, no one has ever told him like Xia Zhizhu: "With me, you can always lose."

The fallen leaves outside the window spread a soft carpet in the yard, the gray and white tree trunks stretched towards the sky, and the red wind chimes stretched towards the white clouds.

What is more exciting than Xia Zhizhu reading poems looking at the same scenery at the moment, maybe Xia Zhizhu is reading poems for him at the moment.

Xi Zhao turned his head, and when he looked at the media reporters who were stunned or writing, he finally raised the corners of his lips, with a sincere smile in his brown eyes: "Propose to him—this is my last proposal." As I said at the beginning, after I returned to China, I did the most correct thing."

"Mr. Xia."

Fu Yu's eyes were indifferent, a bit like Xi Zhao's former "don't get close to strangers."

Like those rumored noble ladies, as the hero's mother, she also came to talk to Xia Zhizhu today, but unlike those people, she didn't come to Xia Zhizhu until today.

The woman knew about Xia Zhizhu's existence from a long time ago, but she never took him seriously.

She used to think that this beautiful boy was like a flower and pet that Xi Zhao had raised in the past, a caregiver who was kept by his side when he was lonely and cowardly, and would be abandoned by him one day when new comfort appeared.But today, after finally belatedly realizing that Xi Zhao's attitude this time seems to be no longer what he could easily control in the past, Fu Yu finally couldn't hold back his impulse and came here alone.

"I heard you met a long time ago, in Osaka, right?"

Fu Yu's eyes slid across the spine of the book in Xia Zhizhu's arms without stopping: I tasted the taste of things too early.Ishikawa Woodpecker.

What is he attracting Xi Zhao?Plain and peaceful temperament?

"You knew him a long time ago, but you haven't had any interaction with him for a long time. Rather than keeping a low profile, I'm more inclined to believe that you really didn't have any further development ideas with Xi Zhao at first."

The slender eyelashes cast a long shadow under the woman's lying silkworm: "I appreciate your quiet duty. As far as I know, most of the interactions with Xi Zhao were initiated by him. You As a subordinate employee, I am powerless to resist, I understand very well. Of course, I am also willing to have a good impression of you at first, and try to believe that in those interactions, you really saw Xi Zhao’s goodness and really fell in love with him killed him."

What a surprise, she was so eloquent that she could weave their story into a completely different past with the premise that every word is true. It's a pity that Fu Yu is used to being an unambiguous speaker, so she didn't leave it to Xia Xia. Zhizhu had no chance to rebut, until she was about to reach what she thought was the lore pain point, the woman slowly raised her eyes and looked at Xia Zhizhu absent-mindedly.

"Mr. Xia, I am very touched that you are still by Xi Zhao's side when he is so stupid, but what I want to ask is, if Xi Zhao has nothing from the beginning-no financial street experience, no star words President and so on, those once excellent auras, without the innate superior family background that my father and I provided for him, such an ordinary Xi Zhao who almost fell into the dust, would you still like him?"

The library was so quiet that even the sound of breathing could be heard clearly.

Another red leaf falls back to its roots in the autumn wind.

"I don't know."

Like a butterfly stopping at the tip of its petals and swaying its branches, Xia Zhizhu finally spoke the first sentence.

The boy's tone was very light, which reminded Fu Yu of the information she had found about this little star on the Internet.He seems to always be like this, only speaking and singing with one-fifth of the strength of ordinary people. If he hadn't been pushed to the front of the stage by external forces to be exposed again and again, he might always be willing to be ordinary on this stage that is not suitable for him.

She thought he was a weak flower and a whimpering pet, but at this moment Xia Zhizhu looked at her, and asked Fu Yu in a very calm tone: "Why do you ask me such a question?" Woolen cloth?"

Love is like a gust of spring breeze, making Xia Zhizhu finally stretch out his body from the shadow of occlusion, and show off his leaves that can play Qingle to the four seasons.

He finally dared to express his sincerity to the world as he wanted. He no longer stood alone with his eyes open in fear until the end of the night. When he stood behind countless pairs of bloodshot lenses, he no longer suffered, struggled, and even Will flinch again.

He still has a weakness, and even his weakness has become more obvious like a bull's-eye now, but who stipulates that the weakness cannot be the source of courage, and it is finally hung in the ring hidden in the collarbone fossa.

Xi Zhao taught him every word and every punctuation mark that his parents and school didn't teach him about "love".

In the exquisitely arranged window of Xi's house, one after another, photo frames freeze Xi Zhao's past.

The uninterested pupils of the boy standing on the podium, the pale and stubborn face of the teenager sitting behind the piano, the indifferent and evasive eyes of the young man facing the fanatical fans... They are the "halo of Xizhao" that Fu Yu called clearly priced. Xi Zhao can be the perfect proof for her son. Without these, the unbreakable family relationship will silently shatter deep cracks.

But what Xi Zhao taught him and what he gave Xi Zhao was not this kind of love.

"Xi Zhao is Xi Zhao." Xia Zhizhu said.

"Everything he owns now, and even everything he may be about to lose, is truly in his hands with his own strength. Why do I have to separate him from everything when I like Xi Zhao? "

Fu Yu's complexion finally changed a little: "You are lying..."

"But even if it's fallacious, even if it's the same assumption as you said, Xi Zhao will still become a great person in the end."

Xia Zhizhu answered the woman seriously: "I like him, and I will never prove it by denying him first."

The mermaid trapped in the air bubble finally broke through the lies that wrapped him up, and he swam to the deep sea, where another piece of upside-down real sky awaited him.

The bite of the back cheeks is too tight, and the slightest biting of the teeth will set off a hurricane in the ears under the effect of bone conduction.Fu Yu recovered from the hurricane, stiffly maintained an arrogant posture, and asked word by word: "Are you mocking me?"

Xia Zhizhu shook his head.

He had no such leisure, and his mother's upbringing would not have made him do it.

Appearance and nature are not his bargaining chips in the game of courtship. What can be exchanged for sincerity, with him, there has always been only sincerity.

"Madam Xi, I'm not a gambler." Xia Zhizhu said.

"I love Xi Zhao, there is no condition."

"correct."

Xi Zhao, who summed up today's theme with the answers to ten questions, suddenly remembered the most important thing.

The name of the new company, he has not told everyone.

Xi Zhao didn't look back, and didn't do anything, but the big screen behind him showed the beginning of his speech, which was also the last line of declaration in today's press conference:

I am like a mayfly, flying in the moon in the pond, determined to land in the universe.

Xi Zhao put his left arm behind his back and gracefully bowed slightly to everyone.

"Welcome everyone to join Yu Yu."