Sleeper

Case [-]: Shen Yi

Age: 24

Occupation: unemployed

Sleep Difficulty: Three Stars

Background music: Open Heart Zoo

At midnight, Bai Zhe pressed the doorbell number 701 of the second building of a certain community.

The one who opened the door was a handsome guy with a small cut and a tear mole in the corner of his eye.

"Good evening, Mr. Shen, I'm Bai Yan," Bai Yan said with a faint smile on his face.

The handsome guy in front of him waved his hand: "What's your name, sir, just call him by name."

Bai Yan followed his will: "Hello, Shen Yi."

"Do you want some water? I still have something to eat here."

The two walked around the living room and into the bedroom.

Bai Yan glanced at the instant noodles, potato chips and soda bottles on the sofa from the corner of his eye, and said warmly, "It's best not to eat three hours before going to bed."

Shen Yi grinned: "I'm so hungry, I can't hold back."

"You can drink a glass of milk to help you sleep."

"I don't like that smell," the other party laughed awkwardly.

Bai Yan originally wanted to play the sound of whales in the deep sea for him, but was interrupted by the other party: "I can't hear this, I'm too lonely."

"Lonely?" Hearing what he said, Bai Yan's eyes flashed with surprise.

Indeed, one cannot be judged by one's appearance.

"No, as soon as I heard this, I thought of the loneliest whale in the world. She shouted at the bottom of the sea for 20 years, but unfortunately she never got a response from her companions."

Bai Yan nodded thoughtfully, flipping through the next CD.

"Do you know?" Shen Yi took off his shirt and lay down under the quilt, "It reminds me of myself."

Bai Yan tilted his head and looked at him: "Do you feel lonely?"

Shen Yi sat up dragging the quilt, and asked tentatively, "Can I tell you a secret?"

"Okay." The corners of Bai Yan's mouth slightly raised, "I'll keep it a secret."

The other party was obviously a little discouraged: "Oh, I didn't tell anyone about this, it's impossible to say, in fact, I'm gay." He paused for a while, "This society rejects homosexuality, and I have never met such a person around me. If my parents knew, they wouldn’t recognize my son even if they were killed.”

Bai Yan leaned over and looked at him: "I've heard such a saying, the ocean of sex is vast and boundless, heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common."

Shen Yi smiled wryly and said, "It would be great if more people could hear this and agree with it. Especially our fathers, their old ideas cannot be defeated."

"I'll play a music diary for you, so you can relax, okay?"

Seeing the other party nodded, Bai Zhe dug out the album "Blue Notebook" by Max Richter.

He asked Shen Yi to lie down again, closed his eyes, and massaged his temples for a minute, just as the first piece of music was almost over.

"My English is not good, so I don't understand," Shen Yi broke the silence suddenly.

"You just need to understand the first sentence, everyonecarriesaroomaboutinsidehim."

"What do you mean?"

"Everyone carries a room inside their body."

Shen Yi scratched his head, but still didn't understand.

Bai Yan continued: "Actually, you can understand it however you want. For example, everyone has their own world in their hearts. Maybe your inner world is a mystery that longs to be understood. Maybe we have no choice in living in this world. , or maybe the kind of people we were born with have already walked a path we must choose."

"Mr. Bai Yan, do you always speak so profoundly?"

Bai Yan reached out and touched his head, and said with a smile: "I just want to comfort you, don't think so much before going to bed. I will play a song for you now, called "Open Heart Zoo", it is a British musician, By Martin Grech. You let your mind go to the music, okay?"

"Is it because I fell asleep that you are leaving?"

"I'll wait for you to fall into a deep sleep before leaving."

"Deep sleep? No, I read an article in which psychologists said that deep sleep is no different from a dead state."

Bai Yan couldn't help laughing: "You have read a lot. I call it golden sleep, the highest quality."

"Bai Yan, why don't you leave at dawn?"

Bai Yan seemed to think for a while before saying: "Okay, go to sleep, I will accompany you."

Seeing that the other party was still worried, Bai Yan simply took off his coat, and talked with him for a while knowing the cold and hot.

How did Shen Yi fall asleep, I don't remember.

There is no way to know when Bai Yan left.

When the first ray of sunlight shone in in the morning, the CD "Blue Notebook" flickered on the edge of the bed.

The lullaby played all night seemed to still echo in every deserted corner of the room at this moment.