reverse trapping

A chill came from his cheeks, and Cheng Mu shivered.

He took a step back, away from the water bottle pressed against his cheek.

He looked at Shen Jinzhi with a complex expression, and after hesitating for a moment, he finally made up his mind.

He bowed to Shen Jinzhi.

"I'm sorry senior, it was all my problem that night, and I'm fully responsible for it, but I really didn't mean that. I'm willing to accept any kind of compensation that you can accept, except for this relationship."

Cheng Mu just kept bowing, not daring to look up at Shen Jinzhi's reaction.

"Really?" Shen Jinzhi lowered his hands and asked while turning the water bottle halfway, "Any compensation is fine?"

When Cheng Mu heard the turning point, he immediately got up and nodded to Shen Jinzhi without thinking.

Shen Jinzhi unscrewed the water bottle unhurriedly, but didn't take a sip.

He replied lightly: "Then, give me a chance to chase you?"

Cheng Mu opened his eyes wide, shocked by what he heard.

Shen Jinzhi continued: "Three months is the limit, don't rush to give me the answer during this period, after three months, if you still insist on your current idea, I will give up without your asking."

Such a proposal made Cheng Mu feel awkward. Even if he didn't understand it, he still knew the effort it took to pursue others.

It was probably like he was looking for the person in his memory, not knowing the result but still rushing forward with a solitary courage.

He knew the loneliness and loneliness, and he didn't want other people to experience the same feelings as himself.

He had to change Shen Jinzhi's mind, even if the other party hated him for that.

"Senior, I want to tell you something."

Cheng Mu took a deep breath, full of guilt hidden in his weak voice.

"Actually, I have been close to you for some other purpose. I misunderstood that you had a close relationship with Chen Jiao, and I wanted to persuade you to stay away from her by making friends with you.

"I avoided you a while ago because I learned that the whole thing was my misunderstanding. People like me—"

Shen Jinzhi interrupted him with a faint smile: "I know everything."

Cheng Mu looked at Shen Jinzhi in astonishment.

"After you met Xiaojiao, she contacted me. She talked about the content of your conversation at that time, and I roughly guessed the situation. But no matter how it started, the important thing is that we have already started, haven't we? "

Cheng Mu bit his lips: "But I have always had ulterior motives, but you have always treated me well. I owe you too much."

"You never owe me anything." Shen Jinzhi comforted in a soft voice, with a different kind of light in his eyes, "Ah Xia, I am willing to do so."

Cheng Mu shrank his fingertips slightly, staring blankly at the light in Shen Jinzhi's eyes.

"Didn't you just say that I can ask for any compensation? This is my wish. Are you trying to repent temporarily?"

Shen Jinzhi returned the unopened water to Cheng Muze's hand: "Drink some water, your lips are a bit dry."

The water in the water bottle shook uncomfortably, swaying repeatedly just like Cheng Muze's mood.

"Snapped--"

Shen Jinzhi snapped his fingers in front of him.

"Come back to your senses, Asha."

Shen Jinzhi's soft voice came slowly: "From now on, I will start chasing you."

A group of students poured into the gymnasium, and the sound of lively conversation came from behind, but it couldn't stop Cheng Muze's chaotic heartbeat.

Shen Jinzhi's dark irises moved slightly, carrying an addictive attraction.

Cheng Muze's heartbeat seemed to be clamped, and external forces were constantly pulling it out irregularly.

In his pocket, Shi Xun's phone gave Cheng Muze the most timely rescue.

He avoided Shen Jinzhi's sight and responded several times.

After hanging up the phone, he immediately bid farewell to Shen Jinzhi: "I have to leave earlier."

He left without waiting for Shen Jinzhi's response.

As soon as he left the gymnasium, Cheng Mu called Shi Xun again: "Where did you say you were from?"

Shi Xun: "..."

Cheng Mu searched half a circle in the stadium before finding him.

Shi Xun looked at Cheng Muze helplessly: "I almost thought you met a ghost and hit the wall."

Cheng Mu smiled awkwardly, sat down on the empty seat beside him, and asked instead, "Is your classmate okay?"

"It's okay." Shi Xun said, "That friend of yours is quite responsible. He bought breakfast when I went to the hospital in the morning."

Cheng Mu nodded, "That's good."

Above, a new round of announcements came from the radio: "The men's 800-meter competition is about to start, please report to the inspection office immediately for the students participating in the men's 800-meter race—"

Shi Xun put his hands on his knees and stood up: "It's my project again, I'll go first."

Shi Xun left in a hurry and disappeared into the crowd after a while.

The seat next to Cheng Muze had been vacant for less than 10 minutes when someone sat down suddenly.

He turned sideways: "I'm sorry to—"

Before he finished speaking, a palm holding a red candy appeared in his vision.

"Little classmate, do you want some candy? It's free."

Cheng Mu stared at the candy in his hand, his whole body froze.

"Why don't you pick it up?" Shen Jinzhi smiled, "Why are you so nervous? If you eat a piece of candy, you agree to be with me. At least we are friends, right? Or are you going to hide from me for three months? Won't you talk to me?"

Cheng Mu had to be convinced by a professor's logic.

He took the candy and stuffed it into the mouth as usual.

The candy was still as sweet as before, but his mood when eating the candy was quite different from before.

He asked Shen Jinzhi distressedly: "Can't we change the way?"

"Then why not—"

Shen Jinzhi went to lean on Cheng Muze's side.

The heat generated after exercise evaporated the woody fragrance on Shen Jinzhi's body, and the original cold fragrance was also dyed with temperature, covering Cheng Muze's body.

"I kiss back?"

Cheng Mu was speechless.

He raised his hand to cover half of his face, and flipped the candy in his mouth with the tip of his tongue: "You are so stubborn."

Shen Jinzhi didn't refute: "I think so too."

The candy was slowly dissolving in his mouth, and Shen Jinzhi stretched out his hand to point to the audience: "Do you think that is the kid you brought back last night?"

Cheng Mu looked in the direction of Shen Jinzhi's finger, and saw Shi Xun standing in front of the track in a preparatory posture.

He straightened his back: "Yes."

The contestants took the preparatory posture, and after a gunshot, Shi Xun rushed out quickly.

After one lap, Shi Xun was always in the top three position. In the last half of the lap, he started to accelerate, and finally surpassed the front position and took the first place.

Cheng Mu excitedly grabbed the people around him: "Number one! Xiao Xun is number one, you don't know, when he was young, he was always in poor health—"

He turned his head, and the voice stopped abruptly.

Shen Jinzhi stared at him intently, with gentle eyes: "A Xia, you held my hand."

Cheng Mu raised his eyebrows, let go of his hand suddenly, and shrank to the side unnaturally.

Shen Jinzhi raised the corners of his lips: "If you like it, I'll bring you back a prize."

"what?"

Shen Jinzhi didn't finish his sentence, but continued to watch the game with Cheng Mu.

After another half an hour, Shen Jinzhi handed Cheng Muze a bottle of water.

"Take it."

Cheng Mu took it without knowing it.

Shen Jinzhi got up: "I have signed up for the teacher's project, since you have received my water, please pass it to me at the finish line."

Looking at the water bottle in his hand, Cheng Mu raised his head in a daze.

Shen Jinzhi didn't give him a chance to say no, and walked directly to the edge of the stands.

"The 1500-meter long-distance run of the teachers' group is about to start, teachers please get ready—"

Cheng Mu reacted sluggishly for a moment, and finally followed Shen Jinzhi's footsteps.

He followed Shen Jinzhi from a distance, and finally stood outside the track.

Shen Jinzhi was talking and laughing with the other teachers, while Cheng Mu just watched.

Shen Jinzhi glanced in his direction from time to time, not as if telling him to come over, but more like confirming that he was there.

The number of people around the track became more visible to the naked eye, and their voices became more and more noisy.

Gunshots sounded as promised.

Looking at the back of Shen Jinzhi running forward, Cheng Mu's heart was shaken.

His mind was blank, and his legs rushed out along the perimeter of the track uncontrollably.

The cheering crowd suddenly changed.

"what happened?"

"Who is that running outside?"

Memories from the past are like slideshows played on a damaged screen, half blurred and half flashing with black stripes.

He seemed to be following someone's footsteps and running down the track.

The person in front of him waved to him.

"Run around again, your physical strength is too weak, and you will have more time to travel in the future, how can you carry so many photographic equipment back and forth?"

"Come on, I'll cook something delicious for you tonight."

"If you don't move, the extra meal will be cancelled."

When Cheng Mu regained his composure, Shen Jinzhi, who was originally on the track, stood in front of him, supporting his shoulders with both hands: "Ah Xia, talk."

Cheng Mu's blurred vision refocused on Shen Jinzhi's nervous face.

He blinked steadily: "Why did you stop?"

"Why did you come after me?"

Cheng Mu shook his head: "I'm fine."

Shen Jinzhi frowned and confirmed: "Is it really all right?"

Looking at the backs of other teachers running on the track, Cheng Mu became anxious: "I'm fine, you go back to the competition, many people are watching you."

Shen Jinzhi let out a long sigh of relief, and touched the back of Cheng Muze's head: "Wait for me at the finish line."

Shen Jinzhi returned to the track, and everything returned to normal.

On the last lap of the race, someone pulled up the red silk at the finish line.

Cheng Mu took the water bottle and waited quietly nearby.

He didn't understand his loss of control just now, and he could only recall those images that flashed through his mind over and over again.

After several times, he could no longer regurgitate other information.

He looked up at the field again.

Shen Jinzhi has already caught up to the third place.

In the stands, Teacher Shen's voice became louder and louder, maintaining a high degree of consistency amidst the noise.

Shen Jinzhi's eyes fell on Cheng Muze.

The distance between the two began to shrink.

ten meters.

five meters.

two meters.

Someone crossed the finish line first, and the sighs on the field overshadowed the cheers.

One step away, Shen Jinzhi passed the finish line second and threw himself into Cheng Muze's arms.

The beating of drums and screams around seemed to stop for an instant.

Cheng Mu could clearly feel Shen Jinzhi's heart beating rapidly.

"Senior."

"Don't be so stingy." Shen Jinzhi rubbed Cheng Muze's shoulder, panting heavily and said in a hoarse voice, "I don't have the strength, let me hold on for a while."

"I also want to be Teacher Shen's humanoid bracket!"

"Mr. Shen ran first in 1500 last year, and ended up like a normal person. What happened this year?"

"I can't seem to get my water delivered."

"I knock, am I the only one who finds it so sweet that my teeth hurt?"

Cheng Mu stood motionless, his fingers nervously leaving fingerprints on the water bottle.

Shen Jinzhi raised his hand, patted the back of Cheng Muze's hand with his overheated hand, and whispered in his ear, "Ah Xia, let go."

Cheng Mu let go of his hand immediately.

Shen Jinzhi got up, unscrewed the water and took a sip.

Two beads of sweat slid down his jaw, past his Adam's Apple, which was moving up and down.

Cheng Mu's normally normal throat became inexplicably dry, even itchy.

Cheng Mu didn't recover until Shen Jinzhi finished drinking the water.

He quickly bid farewell to Shen Jinzhi, walked over the crowd, and walked towards the exit.

He knew that Shen Jinzhi was calling him, but he still didn't turn around.

After watching the game all afternoon, Cheng Muze was a little overdrawn.

He sat on the sofa with a blank mind, but unexpectedly received a call from Wan Weiduo.

Wan Weiduo said that the landlord will go back to live tonight, so let him make plans early.

Living alone for such a long time, Cheng Mu almost forgot that he didn't rent all the houses.

Thinking that the landlord was coming back, Cheng Mu did a big cleaning.

He never dared to stop, because as long as he stopped, he would remember what Shen Jinzhi said about chasing him.

After dinner, he started playing with his mobile phone to divert his attention.

At nine o'clock in the evening, there was a knock on the door.

Cheng Mu opened the door.

In the empty corridor, Shen Jinzhi stood at his door with a suitcase in one hand.

Cheng Mu looked at Shen Jinzhi without knowing it: "Is the senior going out so late?"

Shen Jinzhi smiled and said nothing.

He couldn't figure out Shen Jinzhi's intentions, so he wanted to end their conversation: "It's getting late today, I still have something to do, if you have something to ask me, why don't you talk about it tomorrow?"

Shen Jinzhi raised his eyebrows lightly, looking very happy: "Perhaps, do you know that the landlord is coming back tonight?"

Cheng Mu was shocked: "Why do you—"

He only said a few words, and the words were stuck in an instant.

Landlord, luggage, come back to live at night.

Cheng Mu tightened his hand on the doorknob: "You, you won't..."

Shen Jinzhi tilted his head slightly, looked directly at Cheng Mu and said, "Good evening, my tenant."

The author says:

Seriously chasing Shen Jinzhi: Just... live together?