reverse trapping

After taking a walk in the school, Cheng Mu not only got nothing, but also made himself feel uncomfortable, which made him a little upset.

For a long time after returning to the studio, that feeling haunted him faintly.

It has been more than an hour since Shen Jinzhi sent him a message, if he doesn't reply, it will be bad.

Cheng Mu took out his mobile phone and made an appointment with him in the evening.

He responded to Shen Jinzhi's request to meet at night, and an email happened to pop up on the taskbar of his mobile phone.

That was the only person who didn't reply to him at all after he sent out a cooperation intention last time.

He opened the email and left a personal contact information in it.

Cheng Mu copied the phone number and was about to dial it, but was afraid that his eagerness would frighten the other party away, so he decided to save the number first.

His number was saved, but the owner of the number actually called before him.

After a brief communication, the two made an appointment to meet at a nearby coffee shop.

Cheng Mu got closer, so he waited in the coffee shop first.

What he wants to meet today is a rookie who has made his mark in the portrait photography circle in the past two years, and has been in the limelight recently.

Cheng Mu just had an attitude of giving it a try. After all, newbies who are on the rise generally have a bit of domineering arrogance, and they might look down on old people like him who have lost their glory.

Not long after, a young man walked into the door, swept around, and walked straight towards Cheng Muze.

The young man stopped at Cheng Muze's desk and asked, "Excuse me, is this Z-air?"

Z-air is the name Cheng Muze once used in the circle, but since he was unable to take portraits, he has sealed the name.This time, I used the fame I had accumulated before to find a suitable partner.

Cheng Mu nodded and asked the other party to sit down.

He pushed the drink list in front of the other party: "Can I ask, how did you confirm that it was mine at first glance?"

"Maybe it is the special temperament of the profession?" The young man smiled, put his elbows on the table, and leaned towards Cheng Mu, "My name is Fang Shuo, and I am your loyal fan, and I have always hoped to become an excellent portrait photographer like you .”

Such an opening remark was really beyond Cheng Muze's expectation, he was slightly dazed, and replied dryly: "Thank you."

Cheng Mu pursed his lips, and his speech speed obviously slowed down a lot: "My situation... I also explained it in the email. Now I can't take any portraits."

"I know, it doesn't matter." Fang Shuo said firmly, "It will be fine, as long as you don't give up, there must be a moment to turn the camera on someone again."

Cheng Mu didn't know what to say, as if something was stuck in his throat, and there was a burst of salty and bitter taste.

Fang Shuo took out an album and handed it to Cheng Muze: "This is my photographic work in the last two or three years."

Cheng Mu took the album and walked into Fang Shuo's photography world.

These works lack skill, but carry a wonderful "spirituality", just like his works back then.

Cheng Mu's long silence made Fang Shuo uneasy.

Fang Shuo swallowed, and even his voice became much softer: "Is it very bad..."

Cheng Mu shook his head: "No, I just feel like I saw myself a few years ago."

"Really?" Fang Shuo rolled his eyes excitedly and asked in confirmation, "Then do I meet your requirements for recruiting a partner?"

Cheng Mu nodded, responding to his question.

Hearing this, Fang Shuo withdrew his exaggerated smile, and suddenly became serious: "Since it's a cooperation, can I hear your vision for the studio business in the future?"

The mood changed so quickly that Cheng Mu couldn't keep up with his train of thought for a while.

Fang Shuo tilted his head and looked at him, his eyes full of doubts.

Fang Shuo's serious question gave Cheng Mu a sense of peace of mind. He collected his thoughts and said, "At present, I want to open up a market that few people have set foot in..."

The two chatted very speculatively, and before they knew it, it was getting late, and the punctual time signal in the coffee shop reminded the guests that it was 5 pm.

Cheng Mu thought of the appointment with Professor Shen like an electric shock.

He found a gap in Fang Shuo's endless chatter, and proposed that he wanted to leave first.

Before leaving, Cheng Mu once again extended an olive branch of cooperation to Fang Shuo.

He settled the bill and left the cafe.

It happened to be the rush hour for getting off work, and the crowded flow of people blocked Cheng Muze's eagerness to move forward.

When he was still a few hundred meters away from the gate, Cheng Mu received a call from Professor Shen.

Across the road with traffic, Cheng Mu saw Shen Jinzhi standing across the road at a glance.

Cheng Mu glanced at the red light that was nearly 60 seconds away, and said to Shen Jinzhi: "Teacher, I'm opposite you, please wait a moment, I'll go over right away."

Shen Jinzhi said softly: "You don't need to come here, just stand where you are, and I'll drive over to pick you up."

Cheng Mu let out an "oh", and just as he moved the phone away from his ear, a hurried reminder suddenly came from the other end of the phone.

"Be careful--!"

A battery car brushed against Cheng Muze's arm and sped past, then sped away as if nothing had happened.

Cheng Mu touched the painful spot between his elbows, and then raised his eyes, only to see Shen Jinzhi standing at the waiting seat at the zebra crossing, as if he was about to come over.

Cheng Mu hurriedly picked up his phone and said to Shen Jinzhi, "Thank you, Mr. Shen, I'm fine, just drive over here."

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, and finally a faint "OK" came from the phone.

Cheng Mu hung up the phone and took a few steps back to prevent accidental injury from happening again.

The traffic flow was obviously high, but Shen Jinzhi's car quickly appeared in front of Cheng Muze's eyes.

Cheng Mu opened the door and sat in the passenger seat.

This time, he buckled the seat belt smoothly.

"Are you hurt?" Shen Jinzhi asked.

Cheng Mu reacted for a while, only to realize that Shen Jinzhi was asking about the collision accident that he didn't care about, so he shook his head casually: "It's okay."

Shen Jinzhi glanced at the storage compartment in front of Cheng Muze: "Open it."

Cheng Mu only thought that Shen Jinzhi wanted him to help get something, so he did.

The storage compartment doesn't have a lot of space, and it's full of trauma medicines. Cheng Mu looked at Shen Jinzhi who was driving: "This is...?"

"Didn't it get scratched? If there is no trauma, use aerosol, and if there is a trauma, use iodophor to disinfect."

Cheng Mu was stunned: "Why do you keep so many trauma medicines in your car?"

Shen Jinzhi smiled lightly and said, "I used to have a coquettish person by my side, and every time I touched it, it would hurt me a little, and there was nothing I could do about it."

"Are you squeamish?" Cheng Muze raised the corners of his mouth slightly, "Actually, being squeamish is a kind of happiness in itself."

He closed the storage box and said to Shen Jinzhi: "Thank you, teacher, but no need, this little injury is not enough to be treated."

Shen Jinzhi didn't say anything, and the car quickly became quiet.

As the vehicles shuttled by, Cheng Mu turned his head to look out the window, but his eyes stayed on the reflection of Shen Jinzhi on the glass window.

It's really strange.

In the morning, he was still secretly displeased because of Shen Jinzhi and Chen Jiao's dinner, but after hearing a few words of concern from him, that feeling disappeared without a trace.

Cheng Mu couldn't help feeling that Shen Jinzhi was too confusing.

He cast his eyes away and looked at the lights on the side of the road that were drawn into filaments.

While walking, Cheng Mu found that they were going in the wrong direction, so he quickly turned his head: "Teacher, we are going in the wrong direction."

Shen Jinzhi's expression remained calm: "That's right, let's go eat."

"Ah?" Hearing something unplanned, Cheng Mu completely turned his gaze back, "Aren't you going to pick up the car?"

Shen Jinzhi sighed, and the tight back line loosened: "But I have been in class all afternoon, and I am quite hungry now, can you have a meal with me first?"

Cheng Mu didn't know how Shen Jinzhi made his words so irresistible every time, so he finally had to agree.

At the dinner table, Cheng Mu took the menu and handed it to Shen Jinzhi.

Shen Jinzhi was not polite, and ordered directly.

But fortunately, the dishes Shen Jinzhi ordered were all in line with his appetite, and there were two other dishes he particularly liked.

After ordering the dishes, Shen Jinzhi closed the menu and said to the waiter who ordered: "Also, if there are carrots in these dishes, please remove them, thank you."

Perhaps the same dislike will bring them closer, but Cheng Mu asked, "Don't you like carrots, too?"

Shen Jinzhi raised his eyes, folded his hands and said, "What's wrong?"

Cheng Mu shook his head: "I just thought that a person like you would not show excessive love or dislike for any kind of thing."

Shen Jinzhi fell silent. He slowly took off his glasses and placed them on both sides of the phone: "As long as you are a human being, you will have passionate emotions. If a person's emotions are always as flat as water, it can only mean that there is no emotion in his life. The person who can shake his mood appears."

Shen Jinzhi lowered his eyelashes, the bright lights of the restaurant hit his eyelashes, and the shadow of his long eyelashes cast under his eyes, as if something was hidden.

After a while, Shen Jinzhi stood up and said, "Excuse me, I'm going to the bathroom."

Cheng Mu nodded in a daze.

Professor Shen, did he think of something because of his words?

But that question didn't stay in Cheng Muze's mind for long. Soon, the glasses on the table caught his attention.

Cheng Mu is extremely sensitive to light and shadow. Looking at the halo under the pair of glasses, he couldn't help but have doubts - the light refracted by ordinary myopia glasses is not like this.

He stared at the pair of glasses carefully, only to realize that they were plano lenses.

Is Professor Shen not myopic?But if it's just a decorative mirror, shouldn't you wear it every day?

Facing the unreasonable conclusion, Cheng Mu started to observe closely again.

At this moment, the cell phone lying between the glasses unexpectedly turned on, and a message jumped into Cheng Muze's eyes.

Shen Jinzhi's cell phone was turned upside down, and Cheng Mu inevitably saw the message.

"You want to rent out the house? Shen Jinzhi, I really have you."

Cheng Mu felt impolite, and hurriedly retreated.

Then, Shen Jinzhi's cell phone rang.

The melody of the phone ring was familiar, but Cheng Mu couldn't remember it for a while.

Behind him, Shen Jinzhi walked out of the bathroom and connected the phone when he walked to the desk.

He sat down slowly, and put on the pair of silver-white rimless glasses again.

"Shen Jinzhi, do you have something to do? Last time I wanted to stay in your house for one night, but you would rather arrange for me to go to the hotel than give me the key. Now you want to rent it out?! Are you treating me as a wrong person? ?!"

"I'm eating, I have something to say later." Shen Jinzhi said.

"What's wrong with the meal? Even if you starve to death, you have to explain it to me first."

"I'm dating."

Shen Jinzhi raised his eyes and looked at Cheng Muze, without changing his face, he said, "Can we talk later now?"