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When Xie Yiheng called, Gu Shuyu was staring at the drawings and worrying. He has been getting more and more exhausted of inspiration recently. Let alone a perfect drawing, he can hardly draw even a few lines, he thought Do you want to go on a trip to find inspiration, but the thought that if he proposes to go out for a period of time, he will face all kinds of questioning from his parents and Chen Hui, and he will be bored. What is freedom?He often feels that he is a bird that is being served with delicious food and drink, and he will never be able to fly out.

He picked up Xie Yiheng's phone. On the other end of the phone, Xie Yiheng yelled for him to accompany him to a party. Gu Shuyu asked who were there, and Xie Yiheng said it was a reunion of college classmates.

Gu Shuyu said helplessly: "Your college classmate, what am I going to do?"

He and Xie Yiheng met in the university club, but they were in different departments and classes.

Xie Yiheng smiled happily on the phone, and said eagerly: "Come on, come on, aren't you worried about not being able to draw a manuscript recently, come and relax."

"I have no inspiration, and I don't have a deadline, so I can think about it slowly."

"Yes, yes, little princess, anyway, your brother and sister are in charge of your real estate company, and you don't have to worry about food and clothing, so you can just draw and play by yourself."

"How come the words from your mouth are so ugly?"

"Okay, okay, you must come, I'll send you the address."

When Gu Shuyu arrived at the private room of the club, it was already very lively inside. Several girls were singing and dancing, playing cards, and drinking. He stood at the door and looked around, only to see Xie Yiheng sitting on the sofa drinking, Half lying in the arms of a man, he wondered how many boyfriends Xie Yiheng had this year.

When he saw the man's face clearly, he froze in place rather lively.

Across the years, there are some bones that have been shattered over the years. I don’t know if they can grow again. The only one that can symbolize freedom in many years is his first love, Xia Tian, ​​who has no contact with him after graduating from high school. Xia Tian.

Seeing him, Xie Yiheng got up and walked quickly, leading him to the box.

Xie Yiheng introduced the two of them to each other, Ye Duan smiled and held out his hand to him.

During the period, Xie Yiheng went to the front to sing, and wanted to pull Gu Shuyu away, but Gu Shuyu waved his hand and refused.Xie Yiheng wanted to pull Ye Duan away again, but Ye Duan also shook his head and said with a smile: "Good boy, go and sing by yourself."

In the small corner of the sofa, there were only Gu Shuyu and Ye Duan left.

Ye Duan shook the last sip of wine at the bottom of the glass, and asked, "Why does Mr. Gu always look at me tonight? Have we met before?"

Gu Shuyu felt his heart pounding, took a sip of water, and said slowly, "No, it's just that Mr. Ye looks very close."

"It's the first time someone described me as being close." Ye Duan chuckled twice, and then said; "That's right, we probably haven't met before, otherwise, a person as outstanding as Mr. Gu will definitely be unforgettable when he sees him .”

"Don't dare."

"I heard from Yiheng that Mr. Gu opened his own design studio."

Gu Shuyu swallowed again, and said, "It's just doing some small designs by myself."

Ye Duan looked directly at him, and his smile deepened: "Why don't we exchange contact information, maybe we will have time to work together in the future."

Xie Yiheng was so drunk that he pawed Ye Duan and called him "Duan Duan" non-stop.

When the show was over, Gu Shuyu watched Ye Duan take Xie Yiheng away, he suddenly became a little sober, what on earth was he doing.

When Gu Shuyu came home and opened the door, he saw a big orange cat walking around leisurely on the floor. Seeing that he was not afraid of strangers, he meowed.

Chen Hui came out of the kitchen, picked up the big orange cat, and was about to stuff it into Gu Shuyu's arms.He refused to pick it up, so Chen Hui stretched out the cat's paws and pressed it against Gu Shuyu's chest. Gu Shuyu had no choice but to hug the cat, bumped it twice, and asked, "Where did the cat come from? Why is it like this?" Shen."

"I brought it from Li Ming and his hotel, how about it, isn't it cute?"

"It's not cute, it's so fat." Gu Shuyu said with disgust.

Chen Hui smiled "hehe" and said, "I think it looks like you."

Gu Shuyu looked left and right, but he didn't feel that this big fat cat resembled him at all. He put it on the ground, and the big cat jumped a few times, and went to sleep while running.

When they were sleeping at night, the big cat actually occupied the middle of their bed first. Chen Hui thought it was a mistake. He just reconciled with Little French Fries. Don’t make trouble with cats, but he can’t drive them away no matter what. Well, the cat insisted on sleeping between the two of them, which made Chen Qi angry.

He hugged Gu Shuyu tightly, and the cat felt that its space for movement was being squeezed out, so it yelped in dissatisfaction.

Gu Shuyu also hammered him on the shoulder and said, "What are you doing? Are you childish?"

The cat finally jumped out of the bed "unbearable", and stepped on Chen Hui's head before leaving.

For a moment, Chen Hui felt that the life of two people and one cat was really wonderful.

Chen Hui saw Wei Xiangfeng again, at their family's bank.

Recently, the stock market of local private bank funds has been sluggish in all aspects. He and his sister had originally planned to close down and merge several of their branches, but their parents disagreed. The older generation believed that this was the family business they started back then. , how also refused to change.There was no other way, Chen Hui had no choice but to visit the branch frequently.

At around 07:30 in the morning, the employees were still not in place.

He opened the lobby door, walked around the front desk, and was about to go upstairs to the office when someone stopped him.

"excuse me?"

He turned around, and it turned out that the person who came was Wei Xiangfeng who had met once at Shao Xing's wedding.

"It is you."

"You... Mr. Chen, do you work here?"

Chen Hui held back his smile, and replied seriously: "Ah, yes."

The equipment in their bank is the latest model, basically under the leadership and guidance of the staff, customers can operate it by themselves.

He found a machine and said to Wei Xiangfeng, "Come here, Xiao Wei."

In fact, Chen Hui has a somewhat familiar personality since he was a child. He can be serious in front of outsiders for a while, and after getting acquainted, he wants to be kind to everyone. A friend, although he is older than me, but after much deliberation, it is better to call him "Xiao Wei".

"Click here, yes," "No, click the button above." "No, no, first enter the ID card, then the mobile phone number," "Yes, fill in the name."

Chen Hui instructed him the steps. Obviously, it was too difficult for Wei Xiangfeng to operate.

Chen Hui looked up again, and found that Wei Xiangfeng's face was red, and there were still beads of sweat on his forehead. He hurriedly said, "Don't worry, Xiao Wei, it will be over soon."

Wei Xiangfeng looked at the camera of the machine and took pictures blankly. The last step was finally completed, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Chen Hui sent him out, and said goodbye to him like last time. He watched Wei Xiangfeng wrap up his scarf and put on his woolen cap, only showing two big clear eyes, waved to him, got on his bicycle, and rode towards him. Go to your own world.

Ye Duan gave Wei Xiangfeng a bank card, and he would transfer money into it every month, but Wei Xiangfeng never spent it. His own work was enough for his daily expenses, and he had no interest and money worth spending. For hobbies, clothes, daily necessities and so on are enough, and he never buys expensive things.

Only when Ye Duan was eating at home, he would buy more good food, and it was at his own expense.At the beginning, Ye Duan would ask him why he didn't spend the money he gave, and when Wei Xiangfeng said that he didn't need it, Ye Duan would lose his temper.

Later, Wei Xiangfeng thought of a way, he opened a bank card of a private bank, and every once in a while, he would spend some of the money Ye Duan called him and deposit it in this card.

Gu Shuyu did not expect to receive a text message from Ye Duan.

The text message said that he wanted to buy a painting for Xie Yiheng as a gift. Thinking that Gu Shuyu and Xie Yiheng were good friends in college, he invited him to the art exhibition and help as a consultant.

Gu Shuyu knew that he shouldn't go, they didn't know each other well enough to go to the art exhibition together, and he had a boyfriend; Ye Duan was his friend's boyfriend, no matter from which point of view, the two of them had no relationship. It needs to be cooked.

But he really wanted to see him again, seeing Ye Duan's face, he would always think of Xia Tian.He kept persuading himself to go, it was just a favor for his friend, he was aboveboard, and he didn't do anything wrong.

He said yes in a text message.

Ye Duan also proposed to pick him up at his studio.

Gu Shuyu said don't bother, they can meet directly at the art exhibition.

Ye Duan insisted.

Gu Shuyu was stunned for a while, but still sent the address.

He turned off the lights and locked the door after all the colleagues in the studio got off work. When he walked out, he saw Ye Duan leaning on the car waiting for him.

The night was hazy, and I couldn't see clearly for many years.

He got into the car, and Ye Duan fastened his seat belt for him.Gu Shuyu looked at him in a daze.

Ye Duan smiled and asked, "Shu Tiao, can I call you Shu Tiao? Why do you always look at me like this?"

He stopped talking.

Ye Duan just laughed.

Not many people went to the art exhibition at night, and it was also the first time for Gu Shuyu to come at night.There are many strange paintings inside, under the illumination of the night lights, they seem to be shining strangely, which looks a little scary, but because Gu Shuyao was originally engaged in design and creation, this kind of weirdness made him very addicted.

Until the ringing of the mobile phone woke him up from this obsession, Ye Duan was watching him leisurely from the side, and Gu Shuyu took out the mobile phone from his pocket and walked to the corner.

"Are you off work, little French fries, why aren't you home yet?" Chen Hui asked on the other end of the phone.

Gu Shuyu closed his eyes forcefully, and replied: "Yiheng's birthday is coming soon, and I'm buying gifts for him, you can eat first, and leave me alone." After finishing speaking, before Chen could speak, he hung up the phone.

Gu Shuyao and Ye Duan walked around for a while, and Ye Duan bought a painting of "Vase of Starry Sky" and brought Gu Shuyao to the restaurant.

The melodious music in the restaurant made Gu Shuyu completely relaxed. He thought this was the freedom he wanted.

It was already late when Gu Shuyu came home. The big cat was sleeping on the carpet. He entered the bedroom lightly, and just laying down on the bed, he found that Chen Hui had his eyes open. He was startled and slowed down. After a few seconds, he asked, "Are you still asleep?"

Chen Hui turned sideways, looked at him and said, "I was woken up by you."

Gu Shuyu apologized without sincerity: "That's really embarrassing."

Chen Hui added: "Little Potato Fries, don't you always say that you have no inspiration for creation? After a while, I will take you on a trip when I am free! Let's go to the South or Europe."

"Let's talk about it later." Gu Shuyu's voice was muffled.

On Xie Yiheng's birthday, Chen Hui wanted to go with Gu Shuyu, but Gu Shuyu refused, saying that Chen went back, and their own friends felt uncomfortable playing.

In the clubhouse, Xie Yiheng pulled Gu Shuyu to dance, and everyone booed below. Seeing the face of Xie Yiheng, the birthday star, Gu Shuyu finally went up to dance for a while, and some of his closest friends whistled , shouting "One more!"

Gu Shuyu looked at the audience, to be precise, at that person. After the dance was over, his eyes and Ye Duan's eyes met in the air.Ye Duan clapped his hands with a smile, and Gu Shuyu saw his mouth clearly and said, "It's so beautiful."

Xie Yiheng really drank too much today, and when everyone left, he pestered Gu Shuyu to take him home.

Gu Shuyu was afraid of him. He vaguely remembered when he was in college, every time Xie Yiheng drank too much, he would make a scene, either singing loudly or dancing.

It was very quiet today, Gu Shuyu drove very slowly, the neon lights of this road shone into the car, and shone on Xie Yiheng's face, he tilted his head on the seat, Gu Shuyu clearly saw his face It's tear streaks.

In Gu Shuyu's memory, Xie Yiheng is the pistachio among his friends. When did he see Xie Yiheng crying like this like a little sun? What's more, he himself has never comforted others. It has been others for many years. comfort him.

Gu Shuyu drove the car downstairs to Xie Yiheng's house in silence, neither of them moved or spoke.

After a while, Gu Shuyu finally asked, "What's wrong?"

Xie Yiheng moved his body, leaned his head on Gu Shuyu's shoulder, and said softly, "Shuyu, I was broken up today. Everyone celebrates their birthdays happily, but he is the only one who picks me for my birthday." One day he came to talk to me about breaking up. He said early in the morning that we could be together, but only as 'friends with benefits'. I thought at the time, friends with benefits are friends with benefits. Even if he wants to stay for a long time, I still don't want to... Shu Tiao, sometimes I really envy you, you and your family Chen Hui, although they always seem to dislike each other, but it's not like us, I never I knew from the beginning that there would always be such a day, but when this day really came, I, I, I didn't seem so chic..."

Gu Shuyu squeezed his shoulder.

Xie Yiheng rubbed against his neck a few times and got out of the car. He waved to Gu Shuyu and smiled again. He still looked like a "heartless" little sun, and said, "Go back quickly!" , Shutiao, be careful, I'm going home."

After that, Ye Duan sent him several text messages and even called him once, but Gu Shuyu didn't reply.He thought Ye Duan was acting on a whim, and it was fine if he didn't get a response.

Unexpectedly, Ye Duan came to his studio to block him. Fortunately, it was after get off work, and there was almost no one in the building.

Ye Duan walked towards him, pushed him against a wall, and stretched out his hand to pinch his face, but he turned his head and avoided it.

Ye Duan asked him: "Are you hiding from me recently?"

Gu Shuyu pushed him and put a little distance away from him, his voice was cold and alienated: "You can't say that, originally we met through Xie Yiheng for a few times, not even friends. Saying 'I'm hiding from you' is even more inappropriate."

Ye Duan was almost laughed at by him, and said with a sneer: "Didn't you seduce me when I was dancing that day? Turn your face and deny anyone? Huh?"

"You may have misunderstood." Gu Shuyu paused, then added, "And I have a boyfriend."

Hearing this, Ye Duan couldn't stop laughing. He said, "So what if you have a boyfriend? If you are so good at playing, I guess your boyfriend can't keep you down."

Gu Shuyu was really angry, turned around and was about to leave, Ye Duan grabbed his wrist, he broke free a few times, but he didn't break free, so he said coldly, "Let go."

Ye Duan softened his tone and said, "Shu Tiao, I really like you. I know that you may be a little resistant to me because of Xie Yiheng's matter. If you accuse me from the standpoint of his friend, I have nothing to say. It can be said. But from my point of view? I don't like him, I don't want to delay him any longer, so I broke up with him, we get together and part ways, what's wrong?"

Gu Shuyu didn't speak.

Ye Duan said again: "Shu Tiao, I know you are not happy now..."

Gu Shuyu suddenly raised his head and looked at him.

Ye Duan went on to say: "The first time I saw you, when you appeared at the door of the box, I looked at you like a student who failed an exam. And that time I went to the art exhibition, I also came here to pick you up , At that time, in my eyes, you were the same as every employee who came out of this office building. Maybe your appearance was amazingly good-looking in the crowd, but it was only good-looking, but not attractive. Until the art exhibition, You are immersed in the painting, just like a little leopard in the jungle, I guess, what you want most is freedom, just like a little leopard happily in the jungle."

Gu Shuyu closed his eyes, he suddenly felt that he was too tired, he let Ye Duan hold him in his arms, and said in his voice as if there was a perennial fog, "Yeah, I really want to be free , I just want to be free..."