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The moment he saw the news, Xi You subconsciously raised his head and looked around.

The window glass of the taxi he took was double-sided, and the inside could be seen from the outside.But most of the windows of private cars are single-sided, so Xi You glanced around as far as he could see, but didn't see the familiar person.

He lowered his eyes, wanting to send a message to ask Gu Chou in which direction, the license plate number and the characteristics of the car body.

Probably because he saw Xi You's actions, Gu Chou's message was sent one step ahead: [Front right. 】

Xi You paused with her fingertips and looked straight ahead to the right.

A pure white sports car lowered half of the window, stretched out a hand, and raised it twice casually.

Xi You closed his eyes, lowered his hair and sent a message: 【Let it go? 】

Gu Chou quickly replied: 【Come here. 】

Xi You raised the corner of her lips, and then asked the driver to end the trip, and after paying the fare according to the whole journey, he got out of the car.

There was a lane between his position and Gu Chou. Xi You walked through the unmoving traffic, walked to Gu Chou's co-pilot side, opened the door, and sat in.

Gu Qiu put one hand on the steering wheel, looked sideways: "What a coincidence."

Xi You fastened his seat belt and looked back: "Indeed."

Gu Chou's eyes were averted, he looked ahead: "The northern capital seems to be more congested than before."

Xi You said "um": "There are too many cars."

After saying this, the bad road conditions finally improved.The car in front started to move forward, Gu Qiu shifted gears, released the brake, and the car moved forward slowly.

The music that is popular in short videos nowadays is playing in the car, and the singing beats the quiet atmosphere.

Xi You looked for a topic: "Are you still used to it when you come back?"

Gu Qiu said, "It's okay. How about you? I heard from Li Pei that you have been working a lot of overtime recently."

"Well, things have been a little bit more lately."

"Pay attention to rest."

As a result, as soon as the two mentioned Li Pei, Li Pei's call came.

Gu Chou slid his fingertips across the screen to answer the call, and Li Pei's voice appeared in the Bluetooth headset.

"Jiu'er, have you picked up someone yet?"

Gu Chou said "Yes".

"That's good, that's good! Is the road still blocked?"

"It's not blocked anymore."

"Hurry up, it's just you two."

"10 minutes."

After that, I hung up the phone.

Xi You suddenly said, "It's good that you're back."

The words were a bit embarrassing, Gu Chou didn't quite understand: "This point? What point?"

Xi You said, "Li Pei won't just worry about me, now you are his main concern."

Gu Chou smiled: "He's not like that. If it wasn't for his straight steel, I doubt it..."

Halfway through his speech, he realized that the words were being ambiguous, so he stopped abruptly.

Xi You responded appropriately: "His girlfriend is very useful."

These words opened up a new chatter box, and the atmosphere of the chat was brought on the right track.

Gu Qiu asked: "Have you met his girlfriend?"

Xi You said, "I've seen it."

"How about it?"

"Xiaojiabiyu type. Li Pei is extremely spoiled."

"It's one he'll like."

In less than 10 minutes, they were on the street near the bar.

There are many people, the traffic flow is heavy, and the road is inevitably a bit congested.

Over the past few years, this area has not changed much.Gu Chou had been here a lot before, and he was quite familiar with it. He parked his car in a nearby parking lot and prepared to walk over with Xi You for the remaining few hundred meters.

The two had just crossed a road and walked onto the pedestrian street when a young girl with a camera trotted up to them.

"The two handsome guys are interrupting!"

Before the girl said the reason, Gu Qiu and Xi You both understood.

This area is the most trendy and fashionable neighborhood in the northern capital. Most of the people who come here are young people, and there are countless handsome men and women.Because of this, a large number of photographers and self-media gathered here from morning to night, and street photography culture prevailed.

So this girl stopped them, either to invite them to take a group of street photography, or to cooperate with them to shoot a walking video, or, it was just a street interview.

These Gu Chou were not interested, he said indifferently: "Sorry, we are rushing to the appointment."

As he spoke, he took a look at Xi You, and Xi You understood.The two walked away.

The girl didn't give up and followed them: "Don't be handsome, you are so beautiful. Everyone likes beauty, and our hobby is to retain beauty and share beauty. Please support me, please!"

Gu Chou thought about it, it's strange that someone posted a photo or video of himself on the Internet, and then received comments from a group of strangers.He felt that Xi You probably wouldn't like it either.So I refused again: "I really can't, thank you."

The girl still insisted: "Actually, there is no need for you to do anything, just walk naturally, and we will take a ten-second video. Isn't that okay?"

She showed a pleading expression: "We respect the portrait rights of passers-by, so we came here to ask, but let me tell you, there are so many photographers here, and you are so handsome and fashionable, you will definitely not be able to escape being photographed." Yes, not everyone will come to ask for your opinions like I did." He clasped his hands together as he spoke, his Qi Qi's eyes flicked back and forth on Xi You and Gu Chou.

Gu Chou frowned in embarrassment, and looked at Xi You again, as if to see what he meant.

Receiving Gu Chou's gaze, Xi You said to the girl, "Anything you want."

The girl's eyes lit up, and she said excitedly, "Thank you! Believe me, I will definitely capture [-]% of your beauty!"

The two nodded towards the girl very lightly, and walked forward.As a result, the girl caught up again: "Two handsome guys, wait!"

When they stopped, the girl said: "Actually, when you walked across the zebra crossing just now, I took a picture of you two. It's a photo, and the people and scenery around you are blurred. I think it's very beautiful and unique." Atmosphere, do you want to take a look?"

Before Xi You and Gu Chou could say whether they wanted to watch it, the girl had already put the video camera's screen in front of them.

Really good.

The girl said, "Isn't it pretty? If necessary, we can add a WeChat and I'll send you the photos."

As soon as she finished speaking, Xi You and Gu Chou subconsciously looked at each other.

Seeing their expressions, the girl hurriedly waved her hands and said, "That, that, don't get me wrong. You two must be a couple. I asked for your contact information. I didn't mean to hook up with any of you. I really just wanted to show you Send photos. Why don’t you give me an email address, and I’ll send it to your email address.”

As soon as she finished speaking, she found that the expressions of the two of them were even more strange.

She wanted to say that if I forget it, I will delete the photo.Just as he was about to speak, he heard the taller boy in a dark coat say in a deep voice, "Remember me."

Girl: "Huh? Huh?"

Gu Chou also looked at Xi You, and the trainee You reported a series of mailbox numbers to that girl.

The girl slowly took out her mobile phone and wrote it down, then looked up and said happily: "Thank you, go to the appointment, you go your way, I will take mine. I wish you happiness forever."

Later, on the way to Li Pei's bar, Gu Chou subconsciously thought, in the video that the girl took, I don't know what Xi You's expression is like, anyway, he must be unnatural.

Probably because of the guessing about their relationship and the blessing that the girl said.

And none of them refuted.

The aftertaste brought about by this little episode didn't completely dissipate until they saw the front of Li Pei's bar.

The name of Li Pei's bar is "Always". Gu Chou glanced at the door and said, "It's a good name."

Xi You said "Yeah": "Li Pei's girlfriend chose it. Li Pei said that this name carries his girlfriend's expectations for their relationship, either from beginning to end, or from beginning to end."

Gu Chou lightly said "Oh": "That's it."

While talking, they had already walked through a circular passage and arrived at the bar.Li Pei hugged his girlfriend's shoulders, leaning against the bar and talking to the bartender.It wasn't until his girlfriend patted his arm and signaled the location of the door that he turned around and saw Xi You and Gu Chou.

Li Pei didn't have the time to say anything, rubbed his girlfriend's hair, and walked towards Xi You and Gu Chou.

Xi You couldn't help him mobilize his enthusiasm, after all, he would see her from time to time over the years.

But Gu Qiu, although they kept in touch these days, it was the first time they met after returning to China.

Li Pei was so excited that his cheeks twitched a little. He quickly stepped forward, grabbed Gu Chou's shoulders, and hugged him tightly: "Fuck, fuck, fuck," he was speechless for a while, and finally picked a Visual experience to speak, "still so handsome!"

Gu Chou also hugged him back, and patted his back with his hands: "You've become handsome."

Li Pei said: "There's no way, my girlfriend is a face-controller, so I can't help it."

After Li Pei finished speaking, he raised his eyes and looked at Xi You expressionlessly.

He subconsciously let go of Gu Chou's hand, and did not forget to complain: "Xi You, you can't do it, it's just a hug between brothers."

Xi You didn't speak.

Li Pei said: "Okay, I understand, you didn't hug yourself."

"..."

As soon as he finished speaking, he met Gu Chou's unclear face again.

Got it.

Li Pei shouted "click" to himself in his heart.

The pace of reconciliation still has to be controlled by both parties themselves, and the assists and offensives of others should not be too fierce.

After Li Pei introduced his girlfriend to Xi You and Gu Chou, he took them to the private room upstairs.

As soon as the door of the private room was pushed open, Gu Chou saw two familiar faces.

Zhou Xidong and Pan Chao were also there.

The two originally had nothing to do with Li Pei, but when Li Pei's bar first opened, Xi You acted as a middleman and asked Zhou Xidong and Pan Chao to "always" visit the store and give it a publicity.

The two of them have a rambunctious personality, and they hit it off instantly when they met a social cow like Li Pei.

After coming and going, "Zong Zong" became a "regular visitor" in Zhou Xidong and Pan Chao's self-media videos. Not long after, under the publicity of these two private goods, "Zong Zong" became an Internet celebrity bar in this area.

As soon as he saw Gu Chou, Zhou Xidong pulled him up, with little pearls in his eye sockets: "Master Gu, long time no see, I miss you so much!" followed by a series of "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo".".

He thumped Gu Chou's shoulder twice: "For so many years, there is no news at all, so worry us to death!"

Gu Chou laughed and said, "No news is good news."

Zhou Xidong: "No problem, haha."

Pan Chao also hugged Gu Chou, and said, "It's good to be back." Seeing Zhou Xidong wink at him, Pan Chao intentionally added, "If you don't come back again, Brother Xi might not be able to return to this kind of gathering. How many times do you have to be ridiculed by the crowd. With our mortal appearance, we all have a partner, and he is the only one."

Gu Qiu subconsciously touched his nose, raised his eyes, and met Xi You's quiet eyes.

He looked back almost hastily, and then, as if realizing something, he glanced back and forth at Zhou Xidong and Pan Chao: "They both have a date. Huh? You two?"

Zhou Xidong jumped up immediately: "Master Gu, don't get me wrong! We are an absolutely pure partner, and I have a girlfriend! We are straight!"

Pan Chao said happily, "I also have a girlfriend." As he spoke, he raised his chin and gestured around the entire private room with sly eyes, "Master Gu, there are only two of us who are really crooked."

He turned around while talking: "Yes, Xi..."

Before the word "brother" could be finished, someone kicked his butt from behind, and he staggered forward: "Oh shit!"

Gu Chou's kick directly heated up the place.

The other two remaining in the private room came over.

Gu Qiu raised his eyebrows unexpectedly.

As soon as he entered the door just now, he was entangled by Zhou Xidong and Pan Chao who posted enthusiastically, so he didn't look carefully at the others.

At this moment, I found that Xia Xuyan was also there, besides her, there was also...Chen Yao.

Gu Chou searched his mind for a while before he remembered the name.

It was his classmate in the attached middle school back then, and he was quite at odds with him.

Even, after he transferred to another school, this person deliberately chased him to No. [-] Middle School to provoke him.

Gu Qiu narrowed his eyes.

Xia Xuyan had already walked in front of him with a smile: "Long time no see, Gu Qiu."

She took the arms of the people around her and introduced, "This is my boyfriend, Chen Yao."

Chen Yao stretched out his hand to Gu Chou: "Long time no see."

There wasn't much grievance at first, so Gu Chou stretched out his hand and shook him briefly: "Long time no see."

Chen Yao raised his hand and scratched his temples, looking a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, Gu Chou, what happened back then..." He sighed, "I was too naive."

Gu Qiu smiled lightly: "I hold grudges, but it's not grudges, is it?"

Chen Yao also laughed, and he nodded twice: "Yes, this is not hatred." After speaking, he added, "I only found out later, Xu Yan told me that you are all for..."

In the middle of Chen Yao's speech, Xia Xuyan gently bumped his arm with her elbow.He reacted, and immediately stopped talking: "It's over, it's all over, we are all fine now, that's enough."

Gu Chou's eyes darkened for a moment, and then he responded flatly: "Well, everything is fine."

Greetings are over, and then sit down and drink.

Li Pei said that if he wanted to stalk people, he was really stalking. He picked out all the most expensive wines, and if he served a bottle, he would make a mark for Gu Chou.

It stands to reason that Gu Chou is the protagonist of today's party, and he has to be held for wine.But he said he wanted to drive, and everyone didn't like the wine table culture, so he didn't force it. After a lively chat, Gu Qiushui drank a lot.

Halfway through, he actually regretted it a bit.

Xi You sat next to him, and the two of them were next to each other. Occasionally, the fabric of the clothes would rub slightly.

Every time at this time, Gu Chou's heart felt as if it was touched lightly by something.

He was so restless after just being rubbed against.This feeling made him feel very uncomfortable.I've done such intimate things before, why can't I still stand up to the occasional touch?

Gu Qiu couldn't help but think, maybe drinking a little wine would make him less restrained and sensitive.

But he had already rejected it, and now he suddenly said that he wanted to drink, but it seemed abnormal.

Except for him and the two girls, everyone else present will basically have a drink when the atmosphere is up.

Including worry.

There were already several empty wine bottles standing on the coffee table.

Gu Chou turned his face and looked at the people around him.

Xi You used to have only a clean and refreshing masculine breath, but now it is mixed with a touch of alcohol.

To be honest, even though they were together, Gu Chou didn't know how much Xi You could drink.They had attended a few parties together in high school, but he had never had a drink.

This is the first time.

At this moment Xi You drank a lot, but his face was not red and his ears were not red.But the second Gu Chou turned his face away, Xi You slightly tilted his head towards him, and gently turned the brandy orchid cup between his fingers.

His eyes fell on Gu Chou's face, and his light-colored eyes showed a little gloomy: "Why?"

Gu Chou lightly pursed his lower lip: "It's nothing, don't drink too much."

Gu Chou turned his face back, and caught a glimpse of Xi You still looking at him out of the corner of his eye. After a while, he heard him answer, "En."

The longer Gu Chou stayed, the more upset he felt, he told everyone to go to the bathroom, and then came out.

After using the toilet, he stood in front of the sink and washed his hands at double speed.

While dawdling, he heard the bathroom door being pushed open.

Gu Chou raised his eyes, and saw Xi You in the mirror who pushed the door open.

He didn't seem to be drunk, he walked steadily to his side, raised the faucet, and the water poured down, washing his bony and slender fingers.

Gu Chou was staring at those hands, when he suddenly heard Xi You speak, probably because of drinking, his voice was hoarse: "Just now."

After uttering two words, there was no sound.

Gu Chou's eyes shifted to his face, waiting for his next words.

Xi You raised her hand to press out an appropriate amount of hand sanitizer, and rubbed her palms away.He continued, his voice still low and hoarse: "You told Chen Yao that everything is fine."

The white foam made his fingers almost invisible.

"You're not right." Xi You raised the faucet again, and the white foam faded away under the washing of the water, and the roots of his fingers were distinct.He suddenly raised his eyes and looked in Gu Chou's direction, but his gaze lowered, "It's actually not very good. During the years you were away, every day, I felt..."

He probably wanted to say "not very good", but when the words came to his lips, he seemed to feel that they were not in place.

He paused.

For a while.

Gu Chou heard him say, "It's hard."

During the years when you were not here, every day, I felt very difficult.

Time is a strong fire, boiling my blood and bones, cooking all the taste of "I miss you".

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reconciliation soon~