Lofty future

There was no dream all night, and it was already bright when I woke up, so I had a rare good sleep.The only burden is a person hanging on his shoulders.

Chi Xue's right arm rested on my left shoulder, almost half of her body pressed up, her face was buried between my shoulder and the pillow, she didn't show any signs of waking up, and I didn't know how to react for a while.

The hotel is located in the quiet old town, and the room floor is also high, so it is too quiet in the morning.The sound of his breathing was close to my ears, and my mood was indescribable, I only felt a warm current spreading in my abdomen.

At this moment, there was no thought in his mind, and he was so calm as if things should be like this.Even if reason doesn't agree with it.

But what is reason compared to instinct and inertia?

I just lay there for a few minutes, and seeing that I had to get up, I raised my hand and pushed him: "Chi Xue, wake up, it's getting late."

He slept surprisingly deeply, and this push did not affect him in the slightest.

Feeling helpless, I took his arm away, and the moment I touched his wrist, I was shocked.

He has a fever.

Just now, he was a little too confused by the atmosphere, and he didn't notice that he was not only burdened, but also scalding hot.

"Chi Xue, wake up!" I got up and patted his face.

He really woke up, his eyelids stretched and opened a bit, and he was still in a daze: "Ah Cheng, don't keep patting my face, it makes my tooth hurt..."

Hearing this, I couldn't help being a little stunned.

When he was a child, he didn't like going to school very much. He felt that going to school was a huge torture, so he always stayed in bed in the morning, and I just shot him like this.

For a while, he suffered from tooth decay, and his gums were often swollen and painful. Whenever I slapped him, he screamed in pain, and then muttered and protested at me.

His appearance now is so similar to that at that time, I couldn't tell whether he really had a toothache or whether he had just woken up from a dream.

"A...Axue," I covered his forehead with the back of my hand, "Do you know that you have a fever? Can I ask Assistant Bai to come over?"

He didn't know if he heard clearly, his eyes were lax, and he looked at me blankly.

There was no other way, I got out of bed to get my phone, pulled out his assistant's WeChat account from the work group, and prepared to make a voice call.

He let out a casual laugh on the bed: "Why did you let him come? See us waking up in the same bed?"

When did this mouth take a glib training class, and why did it not forget to show off its quick tongue under any circumstances.I was so angry that I turned to stare at him.

"See what's wrong, is it the first time he saw you waking up from a man's bed?"

Hearing this, he showed a trace of grievance, pressed his lower lip against his upper lip, with a pitiful expression: "Xiang Cheng, you are so mean."

"It's just describing objective facts." I ignored him, and I turned back to make a voice call.

After the other party picked it up, I briefly stated the current situation, and the other side replied with three words "ah", "um", and "good", which sounded really calm and made people suspect that he had experienced many battles.

"You shouldn't be working today, so are we only filming Group B scenes?"

"I'm so sick, you only care about filming..." He turned over, buried his face in the pillow on the side where I lay, and said in a muffled voice, "It's so sad."

"..."

What are you talking about with him at this time?Patients should have the right to make trouble without reason.

I didn't say a word, went to put the water on the boil, went to the bathroom to change clothes and wash.When he came out again, Assistant Bai arrived.

I handed over the cold towel in my hand, and he skillfully covered Chi Xue to cool down, and the phone on the table was already calling the doctor.

He is a person who rarely talks and has a very low sense of presence. I have been on the set for so long, and I often see him going in and out with Chi Xue, but I can't always notice when he is there and when he is not.

He is very suitable to be around celebrities, and Chi Xue seems to be very used to being taken care of by him, letting him apply towels and take temperature.Although sluggish, the state is relaxed and stretched.

I looked at it for a while, felt relieved, took the room card and planned to go out.

"Where are you going?" Chi Xuezhi stood up and asked.

I was planning to go to the set, but my words changed for no reason, and I said, "I'll buy you breakfast."

After hearing this, he laughed with satisfaction, lay down leisurely, and asked Assistant Bai to get him the phone.

The words were out, I had to change my plans and go buy breakfast.

I haven't been here for a few years, and my face is completely changed. It took me a while to pick out a good-looking breakfast restaurant, and I ordered three sashimi, one of which had more ginger and less salt.

Half an hour later, when I returned to the hotel room, Chi Xue fell asleep again.

Seeing me enter the door, Assistant Bai rushed up to greet me: "Mr. Xiang, I have to go to the studio quickly. Please take care of the boss. The doctor will arrive later."

"What's the arrangement for Group A today?"

"The boss asked Deputy Li to execute it."

"oh".I nodded and handed him the porridge I brought, "Take it to the studio to eat."

He was not polite, said "thank you" and took it away.

As Assistant Bai said, the doctor will arrive soon.It seems to be an old acquaintance. After entering the door, he briefly asked about his condition, and did auscultation directly without waking up Chi Xue himself.

"Excessive fatigue, normal fever, don't worry too much."

The whole process was completed in three steps, five times and two additions, even the medicine was prepared in the medicine box, and the doctor took out a bag and put it on the table: "Three times a day, one small bag each time, the key is to let him sleep well. "

"Okay...doctor, does he do this often?"

"How?"

I thought about choosing a word: "Excessive fatigue?"

The doctor smiled: "I don't know about other big stars. I have warned him many times. In their business, if you really do it seriously, you will risk your life. He is the most risky person I have ever met."

I would take this as an exaggeration if I listened to it in normal times, but now that it was on Chi Xue's body, I was so worried that I couldn't help but ask the doctor what he said.

"Are you familiar with him? He...does he have any injuries from filming?"

"Yes, of course. There was a car accident in the early years, and I almost lost it. Now I still have nails in my back. Other injuries are fine."

I am stunned.

Over the years, I think I have paid enough attention to him, and I have ignored all his incidents, but I don't even know that he has been in a car accident.Song Weiran never mentioned it either.

It has long been the norm for celebrities and entertainers to make headlines and trending searches. It is impossible for him to have a serious car accident that almost killed him and no one reported it.

Even if he was not well-known at the time of the incident and no one cared, he will always be dug out after he becomes popular.Such a thrilling experience, even if it is just used to tell a story, is worth talking about again and again.

So why is he suppressing media coverage?Are you unwilling to let the outside world know?Why not?

Does he not want the outside world to know, or does he not want us—me, to know?

Looking back, he was still in a deep sleep, his face was flushed with a high fever, and his brows were frowned because of discomfort.So weak, so harmless, like the hapless kid I remember.

God, what have we lost between us all these years, what has been separated?He didn't want to be known by me when life and death were at stake, and he didn't look for me. Why did he come back at this time?

I thought that April [-]st of this year would be the same ordinary April [-]st as in previous years, but now I have doubts.

An inexplicable intuition came up, and I couldn't grasp its specific context, but I could vaguely know that he didn't choose at random to shoot his directorial debut on Guxu Road; perhaps it wasn't just a coincidence that he reunited with me.

My brother who has been unfortunate since he was a child has more eyes than a hornet's nest, so there must be something that he didn't tell me.

Until the doctor was sent away, I still couldn't help thinking about these questions.

I dragged a chair and sat in front of the bed, and I stared at him unscrupulously, wishing I could get into his mind and check it out.

After two months, I finally couldn't stop being curious about him.

How did he live the ten years, did he suffer, did he really want to go home but dared not go back, did he come back secretly to have a look and then sneak away?

In the past two months, he never asked a word about Xiang Meifang, and he didn't even mention it. He must have known that she had passed away.But, does he know how she died?

Countless questions hovered in my mind, and I couldn't find a way out. I felt unprecedentedly sad and depressed.

On the way, Chi Xue woke up briefly, and I took the opportunity to feed him half a bowl of porridge.He didn't want to eat it at first, but when he saw it was me, he obediently ate it again as if in a dream.

After eating, I lay down again, insisting on holding my hand, resting my forehead on the palm of my hand, moaning and not knowing what to say.In the end, I fell asleep again with my hand on my pillow.

After that, he hardly really woke up again.

There was no one from the film crew looking for me, so I stayed in the hotel to watch him—not to mention taking care of him, as the doctor said, he just needed sleep.

In a blink of an eye, night fell.

The day passed in a hurry and a long time.

For the first time, I discovered that people can pass the time in such a trance without doing anything.I just stared at him throughout the day, and sometimes my eyes were sour, thinking that I was tired, but when I blinked my eyes, I burst into tears.

If crying is crying, then I am crying.

Eyes that haven't cried for many years can still awaken this skill, I really don't know whether to be happy or sad.Hi, what's the hi?Sad, what is sad, the past is over.

Before I knew it, I was also tired and fell asleep on the bed.

"Ah Cheng, Ah Cheng." I don't know if I was awake or dreaming, but someone called my name.When he listened intently, it sounded like Chi Xue's voice.

I tried to open my eyes and saw a not-so-clear light.

Sure enough, Chi Xue's face was in that light.The beautiful eyes are full of smiles, and the tails of the eyes are upturned, which can be seen as both charming and ruthless.

"Are you hungry? Get up and eat something." He tugged at my arm.

I wanted to answer him, but my throat seemed to be stuck.I held my breath and struggled, unable to make a sound, and could only watch his smile turn into a little disappointment.

"Well," he said, "if you don't eat it, I'll eat it myself."

After speaking, he stepped back and slowly left the light.

My vision became blurred, and it was useless to try to open my eyes, everything was in chaos.

Ash...Ash...

I subconsciously wanted to reach out to hold him back, but my arm was as heavy as a thousand catties, and I couldn't lift it up at all.His back just went away like that, I was in a hurry.

A voice in my head told me not to worry, he just went to eat.On the other side, unspeakable fear entangled like a snake, tightening a little bit.Not only physically, but also mentally.

I'm so scared.

I'm afraid he'll just walk away.

I was so afraid that I couldn't even breathe, and I was as heavy as drowning.Light, people, are gone, only I am struggling in vain, hating, angry and wronged.

All of this ends at the moment when the eyes are really opened.

It turned out that I had a nightmare, caught in the deepest fear that I thought was long gone.What dragged me out of that horrible situation was Chi Xue's warmth on my lips.