reverse trapping

Looking at the clear watermark on the borrowing card, Cheng Mu let go of the card.

When applying for this card, he and Shen Jinzhi didn't seem to have known each other for long.

It turned out that Shen Jinzhi had been with him with such a heart from the very beginning, but he had unknowingly accepted so much love that he hadn't realized.

Cheng Mu felt the pressure, and he quickly put the card back into Shen Jinzhi's hand: "The information can be changed, right? I can't accept such a precious kindness."

The palms of the two touched, and the heat was superimposed.

Shen Jinzhi grabbed Cheng Mu's hand, which was eager to return the borrowing card, and said in a deep voice, "It can be changed, but I have no plan to change it. I want to leave this card to you, and I will only leave it to you."

His voice was firm, more like a promise.

Shen Jinzhi's strength was transmitted through the palm of his hand, and it turned into Cheng Mu's strength to grab the borrowing card.

Shen Jinzhi let go, raised the book in his hand, and tapped Cheng Muze's head affectionately: "Let's go, I've chosen the book."

The plastic card surface is slightly cool, but unexpectedly warm.

After leaving the library, Shen Jinzhi received a call from the school and had to end the meeting with Cheng Muze.

Cheng Mu returned to the studio.

When the selection results of previous entries came out, Cheng Mu opened the award-winning email dully, but didn't care to read it, his mind was full of things related to Shen Jinzhi.

After being dazed for some time, Fang Shuo's call came to Cheng Muze's ears: "Your phone has rang several times."

Cheng Mu came back to his senses.

On the desktop, a phone number belonging to Beichi City was jumping on the screen of his mobile phone.

After returning to Jinsong City, the family didn't know whether they were too lazy to look for him or couldn't find him, so they didn't contact him again.

Cheng Mu originally thought that they would no longer restrain him when they had a new focus, but God failed, and before the Spring Festival last year, his family still dialed his phone.

In the six months since then, Cheng Mu has been on business trips and changing contact information non-stop.

In addition to this, this is already the third phone number he has changed.

He picked up the phone and hit the answer button.

There was silence on the other end of the phone, as if Cheng Mu hadn't expected Cheng Mu to answer the phone at all.

A few seconds later, a female voice came from the receiver.

"Mu Ze, it's me."

This was probably the last voice Cheng Muze wanted to hear.

The female voice continued: "Why didn't you approve my friend application? Uncle and aunt have something to bring to you, please agree quickly."

"I'm not a fool, and I believe you are neither."

Cheng Muze's voice seemed to be covered with a layer of frost, cold and heavy.

"I said what I should say a long time ago, no matter how you found my new number, I just want you to live your life well. Also, I changed my number faster than you can ask So, stop trying to get closer to my life circle."

Cheng Mu cut off the call involuntarily.

Notifications for friend requests are obtrusively listed on the message bar.

Cheng Mu clicked on the message, ignored the text on the note, and clicked reject.

Fang Shuo put down his work in a daze, and moved towards Cheng Muze's direction.

"What's wrong? You don't seem to be happy, who messed with you?"

Cheng Mu shook his head: "It's okay, it's just a scam call."

Fang Shuo could understand the perfunctory subtext, so he joked along Cheng Muze's words: "Hey, next time you receive a fraudulent call, you can tell me, my cousin taught me a set of speech skills, and I'm sure I can get around it." That liar doesn't even know Mom."

Hearing this, Cheng Mu was stunned: "What did you just say?"

Fang Shuo repeated dully: "I said my cousin taught me..."

Cheng Mu couldn't hear the following words clearly, because he had already grasped the key point he wanted - Fang Shuo's cousin.

If anyone could understand Shen Jinzhi, Wan Weiduo must be the best choice.

There, maybe the answer he wanted was hidden.

After realizing this, Cheng Muze's displeasure suddenly dissipated, and he contacted Wan Weiduo non-stop, inviting him to have dinner together in the evening.

Surprisingly, none of the excuses he had prepared were used, and Wan Weiduo accepted his invitation.

At a quarter past five in the afternoon, Wan Weiduo arrived at the reserved hotel on time.

Cheng Mu drank most of the drink in his cup, and it seemed that he had been waiting for a long time.

Wan Weiduo dressed very business-like, as if he was going to the next dinner party after eating.

Cheng Mu didn't want to delay Wan Weiduo's business because of personal affairs, so he said, "If you have something to do, we can talk about it another day."

"There are no other arrangements at the moment."

Wan Weiduo took the warm water handed over by the waiter.

He took a sip and asked lightly: "What do you want me to do today?"

Speaking of which, he and Wan Weiduo are not familiar. If he said it straight to the point, the other party might become wary, but Cheng Mu planned to take his time. He changed the subject and said, "No, I just—"

Wan Weiduo rubbed the rim of the cup with his fingertips, and said, "For Shen Jinzhi?"

There were only three points of doubt in that tone, more of a statement.

Cheng Mu licked his lips.

Wan Weiduo is five or six years older than him, and has been in the mall for many years, so it is normal to be able to see through his mind at a glance.

Cheng Mu stopped talking about him and nodded affirmatively.

Wan Weiduo took a long breath: "Actually, I have been waiting for you to find me, which means you still care about him. Even if his efforts are in vain, it won't be too sad."

Cheng Mu opened his eyes slightly.

Wan Weiduo licked his lips: "Jin Zhi and I have known each other for a long time, but I went abroad five or six years ago, and we were in a different place, so we could only contact occasionally. I only came back last year during the Spring Festival, so it may be wrong Yes. But if you want to ask about him, I'm probably the only one who knows."

Cheng Mu nodded.

Wan Weiduo pouted, and said: "His father is the dean of the First Academy, and his mother is the deputy director of the [-] Research Institute. Just listening to these two occupations, you should guess what is missing in his growth. These years He is like a top, constantly spinning under the driving force, not daring to stop."

"But as long as you are a human being, there will be breaks." Wan Weiduo mumbled, "That is, his parents divorced within a few months after I left the country."

Cheng Mu has a personal experience of the great influence of family on a person. He is silent, but there is a strong empathy in his heart.

Wan Weiduo went on to say: "During that time, he was very bored. He is a kind of person who always likes to hide, and people can't understand or see clearly. If one day he shows something different, I'm afraid his heart will be turned upside down long ago. .”

The waiter was carrying the dish and preparing to serve, while Cheng Mu leaned back slightly to get out of the way.

Wan Weiduo's words turned back and forth in his mind, creating a turbulent sea.

like to hide...

Is Shen Jinzhi's love for him just the tip of the iceberg?

Cheng Mu slowly regained his concentration.

On the table, two cans of dark beer were placed in front of Wan Weiduo, one of which was already empty, and the shriveled wine bottle was lying crookedly.

Wan Weiduo opened another bottle, and he drank a couple of sips, but couldn't hold it any longer.

He put down the wine bottle in his hand, and said to Cheng Mu: "It's fine now, you can ask whatever you want, I know everything, anyway, I drank too much, and it's normal for me to speak freely."

Looking at the innocent wine jar and the sober Wan Weiduo, Cheng Mu blinked blankly.

It turns out that wine can also be used in this way.

Speaking of which, Cheng Mu did have something he wanted to ask.

He folded his hands, put them in front of the warm dishes, and asked, "The day the senior was sick, I asked you about what happened to him half a year ago, but you still haven't answered me."

"Uh..." Wan Weiduo squeezed the space between his brows in embarrassment, "Your progress is too fast, not step by step at all."

Cheng Mu knew that he asked the right question.

Wan Weiduo forced himself to drink half a bottle before he said, "Something happened to him half a year ago. I don't know the specific reason. I can only tell you what I saw."

Cheng Mu nodded in response.

Wan Weiduo recalled: "Six months ago, it was the New Year's Eve when I flew back from abroad, and he insisted on picking me up at the airport in the middle of the night."

Fortunately, the international flight was not delayed, which was a bit of comfort to Wan Weiduo who had a long flight.

As soon as he got off the plane, he got in touch with Shen Jinzhi.

He hadn't returned to China for many years, and Shen Jinzhi was worried that he was unfamiliar with everything, so he opened a shared location with him as soon as he got in touch.

On New Year's Eve in China, thousands of families gather together.

It means that unlucky people like Wan Weiduo and Shen Jinzhi will still be wandering outside when the New Year's Eve is approaching.

The Spring Festival Gala was broadcast in the airport. In the long-lost Mandarin atmosphere, Wan Weiduo felt a warm sense of familiarity.

Shen Jinzhi was only half an hour's drive away from the airport when location sharing was turned on, but Wan Weiduo waited at the airport for four to ten minutes, but Shen Jinzhi hadn't arrived yet.

Wan Weiduo opened the sharing interface and stared at it for a full 2 ​​minutes before realizing that this guy stopped halfway.

He tried to contact Shen Jinzhi in various ways, but there was no news from the other party, leaving nothing but a static location.

Shen Jinzhi will never disappear for no reason.

Wan Weiduo ran out of the airport anxiously, paid several times the fare before taking a taxi to Shen Jinzhi's location.

It was snowing heavily, and the snowflakes fell in lumps, covering the moonlight.

But even so, Shen Jinzhi is still easy to find.

Because there is no second person who will stand under the streetlight and look across the road motionlessly at this time.

Wan Weiduo didn't know how long he stood there, the heavy snow built a fragile castle on his shoulders, and he didn't worry that his achievements would fall short.

He approached Shen Jinzhi, swept the snow off the other's shoulders, and yelled several times before he finally responded.

"You still know how to move? I thought you died here."

The nervousness has not faded away, Wan Weiduo still did not forget to sarcasm sharply.

It was rare for Shen Jinzhi not to reply, but he didn't even give him an extra breath.

Wan Weiduo felt extremely uncomfortable.

He didn't know what happened to Shen Jinzhi, and it seemed that this person didn't intend to say anything.

The unmanned convenience stores on the street are still open.

He dragged Shen Jinzhi and walked in.

Shen Jinzhi's limbs were stiff, obviously frozen.

As soon as he entered the store, Shen Jinzhi walked towards the wine area without saying a word, grabbed a dozen bottles of wine without restraint and put them into the shopping basket.

Wan Weiduo stared dumbfounded, and didn't dare to ask more questions or stop him.

The thin table tops of the convenience store weakly support the heavy wine bottles.

Shen Jin poured one bottle after another, as if unconscious.

The whole time, he was looking out the window.

Wan Weiduo couldn't tell whether he was watching the heavy snow or the fireworks in the snow.

Wan Weiduo knew that Shen Jinzhi was a good drinker, and he had never heard of him getting drunk.

But that day, Shen Jinzhi got drunk.

Wan Weiduo couldn't persuade him, so he could only accompany him less.

A few shattered frost flowers climbed up the corner of the window lonely, stretching upwards with difficulty.

Fireworks lit up outside the window again, and the brilliant colors hit the two of them, but they couldn't dye the faded Shen Jinzhi a bit of color.

Suddenly, Shen Jinzhi touched his wrist.

He opened his cuffs and searched frantically.

After the left side is removed, the right side is removed, and the cycle repeats.

The nails had left bright red scars on his arms, like torn gashes.

Then, without warning, Shen Jinzhi half-kneeled on the ground and continued to grope.

His abnormal behavior caught Wan Weiduo's attention.

Wan Weiduo squatted down and asked, "Are you looking for something?"

Shen Jinzhi didn't speak, but stubbornly searched on the tiles, as if competing with himself.

Wan Weiduo leaned over and asked again in a deep voice: "What did you lose? I'll help you find it together."

After a while, two words popped out from Shen Jinzhi's clenched teeth: "Cuff buttons."

Wan Weiduo raised his eyes, only to see that there were cuff buttons on one side of Shen Jinzhi's messed up cuffs, but the other side was empty.

Shen Jinzhi can go crazy with alcohol.

Wan Weiduo opened his cuffs, took off the cuff buttons on his wrist, and tried to coax the drunk man: "Don't look for it, it's here."

Shen Jinzhi immediately stopped what he was doing, and rushed to Wan Weiduo's side.

He eagerly grabbed the cufflinks in the opponent's hand, and a sane sadness flashed across his eyes.

The cufflinks fell heavily back into Wan Weiduo's hands, and Shen Jinzhi said firmly, "It's not it."

After speaking, he returned to his original position.

Not sober as if drunk.

There was a sound of wind leaking from the unclosed glass door of the convenience store. Shen Jinzhi followed the sound and saw the white snow.

"It must have been left outside."

Shen Jinzhi pushed open the glass door.

The cold wind poured in, instantly dispelling the warm heat of the air conditioner.

Wan Weiduo was shocked and hurriedly followed out.

Heavy snow covered the street, and Shen Jinzhi ran towards the place where he had stood for a long time, leaving behind two infinitely long parallel lines.

Shen Jinzhi tripped and was forced to kneel on the snow.

But he didn't care, he just reached out and groped in the icy snow.

The snowflakes melted in his palm, passing the cold of winter to him mercilessly.

The large flakes of snow scattered to other places under his large movements, cruelly crushing the complete whiteness around him.

Wan Weiduo has seen his old friend's name in various important references many times, and he has also seen his shining appearance at many award ceremonies in the broadcast.

He is excellent and tough, and never shows his emotions.

But such a person suddenly went crazy.

Shen Jinzhi's fingertips were getting redder and redder, and Wan Weiduo couldn't tell if those were bloodstains or not.

He couldn't stand it anymore, so he rushed over to stop Shen Jinzhi.

"If you lose something, I'll buy it for you, as much as you want. It's so cold, can you go back with me first?"

Shen Jinzhi raised his blood clotted eyes.

Snowflakes scraped into his eye sockets and disappeared in tears.

He repeated dazedly.

"I lost my cufflinks."

The snow wet his trembling shoulders and extinguished his hope.

"How could I lose it?"

"lost."

"Never again."

Shen Jinzhi tightened his palms.

The snowflakes gathered in his hands, crowded together oppressively.

"I'll never, never have again."

A drop of warmth fell from top to bottom, passing through the thick layer of snow, leaving only a hollow black spot.