With a feeling of dry pain in his vague consciousness, Qin Jian subconsciously reached out to touch his dry and sore throat, and then slowly opened his eyes.
His field of vision went from dark to bright, and was gradually filled with the white living room wall. A few small toy-like things under the corner made his pupils tighten.
Then another pine.
When the pupils contracted - "Cough!!"
He coughed hard and climbed up using the sofa under his pillow.
The shaking of his body made his brain hurt.
Seeing two bottles of Yibao that had not yet been opened on the coffee table, he reached out and picked them up, unscrewed the bottle caps, and took a big gulp.
"Ah~"
The water moisturizing his dry throat made him feel better.
Panting slightly, Qin Jian looked around and found no one else or any movement.
The empty living room of 1401, only myself.
"call----"
Leaning gently on the sofa, Qin Jian rubbed his temples and slightly recalled last night.
In the end, he found that he only remembered the last scene of ordering a drink.
"I actually drank it to pieces."
Smiling to himself, Qin Jian couldn't remember the last time he drank like this.
What about the fat man?
I touched the sofa out of habit, but didn't find my phone.
Then he touched the coat pocket next to him.
"15:49."
If the time on his phone wasn't enough to wake him up completely, the 42 missed calls and a list of unread messages from Duan Ran were enough to make him shiver involuntarily.
A shiver!
Qin Jian sat up suddenly!!
For a moment, it seemed that he could not even notice the pain under his cerebral cortex.
Quickly open the information list.
Above the pinned avatar is a set of small red numbers 16.
Click.
The 16 messages are since he replied to the other party at 22:24 last night, "Practice hard and stop looking at your phone."
22:25 ‘Okay, drink less~’
22:26 ‘I won’t look at my phone anymore. Please tell me when you’re finished’
Then the next message arrived six hours later.
04:14 ‘Aren’t you done yet!? It’s already four o’clock!’
04:15 'Did you drink too much and fall asleep?'
04:28 ‘I just washed my face, I didn’t take a shower today and I went to bed because my stomach hurts’
04:30 ‘Huh~’
05:14 A video link with the words ‘Warsaw Food – Chopin Chocolate’
05:14 ‘This looks delicious, let’s go eat it then’
05:32 Two seconds of voice: ‘Tell me if you are a pig.’
06:43 ‘I’m so sleepy that I can’t hold on anymore. Wake up and send me a message.’
06:43 ‘Good night’
06:44 One second of voice: mua~
...
09:49 ‘My stomach hurts’
09:50 ‘Are you still awake?’
10:01 ‘I won’t answer the phone either~’
...
12:20 ‘Wake up quickly!!’
12:22 ‘Have you muted the sound?’
...
13:11 ‘Where are you?’
I took a quick glance and found that the front was fine.
But when he turned to the back, Qin Jian's brows frowned unconsciously.
When he saw the last message at 14:47, Qin Jian closed the page and opened the call history to see that Duan Ran's calls were basically concentrated in the time range from 14:25 to 14:40.
"Hold."
Qin Jian was anxious and secretly annoyed that he had turned his phone to silent. He couldn't remember when he had turned it on.
But now is no longer the time to dwell on this issue.
It sank.
Holding back his suddenly accelerated heartbeat, he called back.
The call was answered with just a beep. This short gap did not allow him to adjust his breathing.
There was silence on the other side of the phone, but the call time on the phone had reached 00:02.
A brief silence.
"cough."
"I woke up."
Qin Jian's voice was quite calm, but he was inexplicably lacking in confidence.
There was no movement on the other side of the phone.
"My cell phone is indeed on silent, sorry."
"I did not do it on purpose."
"I drank too much yesterday, please wait for me to think about it, uh——"
After a moment, two sentences released the breath that was held in his chest, and Qin Jian gradually regained the rhythm of his language.
"It seems that Fatty and I drank three cases. It seems like, I can't remember clearly, it was cut off later."
"I didn't know anything after that. I woke up from thirst. After I got up, I had a headache and I was not awake. I saw a bottle of Yibao on the coffee table, so I picked it up and took a sip. Then I looked at my phone and scared me.
One jump, and then I called you."
"Well, that's it for now."
Qin Jian recounted every scene in his memory before and after he woke up.
But the person on the other side of the phone remained silent.
a long time.
"Duan Ran."
"I really didn't mean to."
"Feel sorry."
Another long time.
Qin Jian sighed deeply.
"I... feel very uncomfortable now."
At the end of the sentence, Qin Jian's voice unconsciously trembled slightly.
"I'm at home now, my home in Nanshi."
At this moment, the secret of 1401 is no longer.
He felt uncomfortable, and he really felt uncomfortable.
There were times before when the two of them didn't send messages to each other for more than ten hours, and there were also times when they didn't reply to each other's messages in time.
But afterwards, the other party just grunted twice and then stopped.
But this time, it was the first time he saw Duan Ran so frantically calling him 40 times in 20 minutes to find him, and the last few messages made him a little worried and frightened.
The word "Nanshi" in it is full of Duan Ran's anxious sensitivity and little-founded suspicions.
At that moment, Qin Jian had to remember the farewell of that day again.
Qin Jian clearly remembered that at the Salzburg Airport, the moment Ran picked up the red string around his neck before leaving, his heartbeat almost reached the fastest pace he had ever experienced.
Perhaps the other party discovered the red string when he hugged me outside the door of the Hamburg hotel room. After all, it was something that had not appeared around his neck in Tokyo.
But out of a certain guilty conscience, I didn't say anything immediately to the other person's seemingly unintentional flirtation. At that time, I only had the other person's words in my mind, 'Remember to miss me.'
And later on, I still didn’t mention it.
No one asked, and no one said anything, as if they had reached some kind of tacit understanding.
But are there really inexplicable behavioral motives in this world?
Still at such an important moment.
Perhaps Qin Jian could have dispelled Duan Ran's doubts with just a casual comment.
So this time.
He felt that he should explain it clearly, although he was worse at explaining it than avoiding it.
He believes that words like ‘1401 and at home’ can enhance his confidence to some extent.
After all, Duan Ran repeatedly asked at the end of the message - 'Where are you?'
"Why."
Another sigh of helplessness.
Just as Qin Jian was annoyed for a moment, there was a faint sound of sobbing on the other side of Qin Jian's quiet words.
Qin Jian's nerves tightened, "Don't..."
Before I could even say the word cry, the phone was hung up...
Qin Jian held the phone with a confused look on his face, and then looked at the video call from Duan Ran on the screen.
Answered in seconds!
When the video screen is read out, it shows a white wall and a neat desk in the distance.
Although there was no figure of Duan Ran, Qin Jian had guessed that Duan Ran was holding the phone and she was looking at him.
My heart suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and my nerves relaxed.
Taking a deep breath, Qin Jian looked at the camera and couldn't help but smile.
"Don't cry, don't cry."
There was still no movement on the other side.
"Well——" Qin Jian picked up the mineral water bottle on the table and shook it at the camera, "The water I drank just now."
Then he showed the other person the piano in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and said, "sk-5, it feels great. If you don't believe me, come and try it."
"Let me show you my piano."
As he said this, he stood up with his cell phone in hand. As soon as his nerves relaxed, he stood up suddenly and felt another pain in his head.
"hiss--"
Qin Jian frowned slightly.
""Sit down quickly, who told you to stand up!"
At this moment, Duan Ran's choking and anxious voice suddenly came from the phone that had been quiet.
this moment.
Qin Jian felt his nose was sore.
There is sweetness and bitterness in my heart.
After blowing his nose, Qin Jian smiled and said, "I'll play the piano for you."
"No, sit down quickly!" The voice in the video became louder by another decibel.
"I don't want to listen! I want you to sit down."
"Qin Jian!"
Qin Jian couldn't help but walked to the piano with his cell phone.
Sat down.
The phone went quiet, leaving only a gentle whimper.
Qin Jian opened the cover of the piano, looked at the battery level of his phone, which was 87%, and then placed the phone on the music stand and pointed it at himself.
Smiling softly, "Don't cry."
As he spoke, ten pale fingers gently landed on the keys.
moment.
"Dip-dah, beep-dah."
The clear rhythm indicates that this is a waltz, and the whimpering sound at the other end of the video is gradually covered.
Howl's Moving Castle.
Qin Jian has not played for a long time. The last time he was alone in Ink Garden 206.
This is a piece that he has always regarded as playing only for himself, but for some reason it flows out of his fingers involuntarily at this moment.
The gorgeous melody with a hint of gray sentimentality enveloped both ends of the far cell phone.
Qin Jian's jumping fingers outline a gorgeous melody, like a lonely dancer wearing a Gothic mask swaying with psychedelic steps under the spotlight.
In the empty auditorium under the stage, there was only a small audience member in the corner of the last row who was hugging his knees and listening.
One is acting and the other is watching.
Time flies by.
...
...
In this way, Qin Jian raised the battery of his mobile phone to 15%.
As the living room gradually becomes dark, the winter night is about to fall.
Qin Jian dropped the last note.
Like a real concert, Qin Jian played 27 tracks for the video without any gaps.
Close hand.
Qin Jian looked at the phone. Although Duan Ran's face did not appear on the screen, the white wall had been replaced by a pair of shining slender calves.
moment.
"sounds so good."
Duan Ran's voice is also very nice.
"Then shall I continue?"
Qin Jian's throat is a little dry.
"don't want!"
Duan Ran's screen shook hard.
"Are you hungry?"
Qin Jian smiled and asked.
"Hmm~"
Everything seemed to have passed like this.
If love can make people nervous in ten thousand ways, this should be one of them.
Qin Jian finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Turn on the light, I can't see you clearly." Duan Ran's tone was as clear as a little girl's.
All of a sudden.
Both ends of the video were inexplicably caught up in some extremely tender moments.
Qin Jian was about to get up and turn on the light.
"Dang Dang Dang."
"Ding dong ding dong ding dong."
Three consecutive doorbells, followed by three doorbells, came from the living room door.
It is particularly clear and obvious in a quiet living room.
...
At this moment, Qin Jian's mind buzzed and went blank...
In the darkness, his hand stopped on the switch.
There was an expression on his face that no one could see clearly.