Zero-sum game

Zhou Xingchuan was obviously surprised, "How do you know?"

"Just watch these few scenes," Shen Yan said, "The character of the rich young master in it is too similar to your character in "Daydream". Cai Ying probably took this into consideration and let you try the play. Bar."

"Indeed," Zhou Xingchuan said, "but..."

"Where did the bear on your TV cabinet come from? Was it a gift from your girlfriend?" Shen Yan suddenly interrupted him and asked a completely irrelevant question.

Zhou Xingchuan was taken aback by the question, subconsciously turned back to look at the bear Shen Yan mentioned, it was very ordinary, wearing a very beautiful red plaid dress, with a pink ribbon bow tied around his neck, sitting quietly in the TV cabinet in the corner.

"Yes, it was given by my ex-girlfriend." Zhou Xingchuan murmured.

It was given to him by a girlfriend of his freshman year, a girl from the dance department who is keen on everything pink.Because it's been there for quite a long time, he who didn't pay much attention to that corner almost forgot the existence of such a thing.

"That's it," Shen Yan picked up the bag, stood up and said, "Then I'll go first, I even made an appointment with the landlord to look at the house today."

After he asked this question, Zhou Xingchuan seemed to have been pierced through the weak protective layer blown out by courage, and watched Shen Yan go out without saying anything.

He looked down at the phone, and the chat interface with Cai Ying showed that he asked if he could take his junior to try the role of a little tailor, and Cai Ying had readily agreed.

"This place is enough for you to live alone." The landlord coiled a bunch of keys in his hand, "This price is really the lowest among air-conditioned rooms. There are many people who want to rent if you don't want to rent."

"Then settle here," Shen Yan said, "I'll move here tomorrow."

He looked at the room, which was only a few square meters, and there was not much space after a bed was placed.The curtains in front of the window were blue-gray, and he took a closer look, only to find that they should have been blue, but there were too many parts covered by gray mildew, which made him think it was blue-gray.

He never wanted the space to be alone for a while more than he did now.

But he didn't want to be alone, because the divergence of thoughts in his mind often made him feel ashamed.

Just like now, while walking back to the dormitory, he couldn't help recalling the details of being with Zhou Xingchuan last night.Only he himself knew that half of those actions were due to the drugs he was given, and the other half were intentional.

Shen Yan was playing a game with himself in his heart.

On the one hand, he approached Zhou Xingchuan as if he couldn't restrain himself, half-heartedly and tentatively, on the one hand, he was really close and wanted to push away.He doesn't want to get too close and sink too deep, because if he devotes himself to moths to the flame, he can only hurt himself.

He was a little cunning, not wanting to pay too much and seeking Zhou Xingchuan's response.

Of course, he would also feel that such a self was a bit shameless, and even felt ashamed. The only way to comfort himself was-he found that Zhou Xingchuan was not much better, and he was also pretending to cater to him.He may not be crooked, but he still cooperates with himself in playing the dilemma game.Neither of the two people's methods are very clever, but the outcome is still undecided. Neither of them is willing to take a step beyond the thunder, and it is a bit funny to think about it.

When he returned to the dormitory, he received a contact from Tian Xin, telling him not to mind not getting the theater tour, and also sent him an audio.

Said that she usually has the habit of carrying a voice recorder to record inspirations, and she recorded everything that happened yesterday. If Shen Yan figured it out and went to the police, it could be used as evidence.

Shen Yan replied thank you, Tian Xin didn't send any more messages, unlike her habit of ending each chat with countless emoticons.

He was about to put his phone away, when the phone suddenly turned to the incoming call page, and the caller ID was "Mom".

This is really a long time ago.

"Hey?"

"Xiaoyan," his mother Lin Yuehe's voice sounded a little downcast, "Are you on vacation?"

"Well, it's been a few days of vacation." Shen Yan continued the phone call, and several roommates just came back, so he walked out while talking, and reached the end of the corridor.

There was silence on the other side for a while, he sensitively sensed that something was wrong with his mother's mood, and asked again: "What's wrong?"

"It's okay..." There was a bit of obvious crying in this voice.

In Shen Yan's heart, the hope that his mother would ask him to live there during the summer vacation was gone, and he said eagerly, "Mom? What's wrong with you? What happened?"

"... Xiaoyan, do you have any money?"

"One more thing." Shen Yan looked at the trees on the school road outside the window, the leaves were frighteningly green, "How much do you need? What happened?"

"Mom...is sick."

Originally planned to move out in two days, the luggage had already been packed, so the next morning, Shen Yan rushed to the high-speed rail station with the suitcase.

The earliest high-speed train is at [-]:[-], and the sky is already bright.Shen Yan was sitting in the waiting room, before the ticket check time, an older lady next to her was eating a piece of boiled corn.

When his parents divorced, his mother actually disagreed.She entered the only textile factory in the county when she was a teenager, and met his father there, and then the textile factory closed down within a few years, and his mother has been a housewife for many years.

Before his father's factory closed down, he was the workshop director. After closing down, he went south to pan for gold with his burden on his back.After a few years, I really made money when I came back. Not long after, I fell in love with a woman who opened a ktv, and then I was about to divorce his mother.

Lin Yuehe hadn't earned money to support herself for more than ten years, so she had to go back to her natal family, and remarried in the past two years.

Shen Yan met her current husband a few times. He heard that he was a cement worker. He called him Uncle Wu. He only remembered that his skin was quite dark and he looked quite honest.

It only takes two and a half hours to go back from Dingchuan by high-speed train.

It's just that there are always children running around screaming on the high-speed rail, Shen Yan didn't sleep well all night, even if he wanted to lean on for a while, his brain hurts from the noise.

Shen Yan walked out of the high-speed rail station and found his mother and Uncle Wu waiting for him in the square not far from the exit.

Tears welled up in Lin Yuehe's eyes when she saw him, "Xiaoyan... is back."

"Ah."

Uncle Wu took the box in his hand, "Tired from the car ride? Go back first, and cook at home."

Shen Yan nodded.

The house where his mother and Uncle Wu live now also looks like it has been renovated.Although it is only two bungalows in the countryside, the walls have been painted inside and outside, and furniture has been bought. It is also the first time for Shen Yan to come here.

"The little money I earned as a mason has been used to repair the house, and I have a child in junior high school. I really can't afford it." During the meal, Uncle Wu said while serving him vegetables.

He is also married twice, and his ex-wife passed away many years ago, leaving him only one child.

"It's okay, I brought money." Shen Yan said.

"Your mother can't move, the food I cook is not delicious, right?" Uncle Wu asked again.

Shen Yan shook his head and said, "Very good."

Lin Yuehe was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer last month, and was immediately hospitalized for the first chemotherapy.

"I heard from those patients in the hospital," she said, "This disease will cost a lot of money in the future, 10,000+. There is really no way, otherwise I would not ask you."

"I know," Shen Yan put down his chopsticks, he couldn't swallow, "When is the next chemotherapy?"

Every time his mother said the word "patient", it poked his heart.

"the day after tomorrow."

Shen Yan still has money in hand, which is the hush money that Boss Chen transferred to him, no more, no less, exactly [-].At night he slept on the bed, thankful that the dirty money came at just the right time, he didn't know whether to be sad or happy.

It is already midsummer, and there are endless croaking of frogs outside the window.There was no air conditioner in the room, and he was sweating constantly on the back of the bed. He tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. When he opened his phone, he saw a mailbox full of spam, and there were only advertisements on the communication app.

He stared at Zhou Xingchuan's name on the page, thinking that he should have finished the interview for Cai Ying's script at this time, and was sleeping with his head covered without any worries.

He remembered the afternoon when Tian Xin and the others chose the second male lead for "Daydream", he waited in the next classroom until all the audition participants came out, and then deliberately pretended to find someone to push the door in, and even made up a lie, Said that he came to find a classmate named Li Heng, but in fact there was no such person.

Thinking of Zhou Xingchuan's expression at that time, he couldn't help feeling amused.

That is Zhou Xingchuan who is always surrounded by stars and the moon.

His little smile froze at the corner of his mouth in the dark night, maybe it was because he was so calm and deceptive that he always got retribution.