reverse trapping

After receiving a call from Cheng Muze, Shen Jinzhi immediately stopped what he was doing.

Cheng Mu did not come back last night.

Worried, he called, but the person didn't answer, just sent a message saying he was fine.

Shen Jinzhi didn't bother anymore.

At this time, nearly twenty hours had passed since he confessed his love to Cheng Muze.

Shen Jinzhi hurried downstairs and saw Cheng Muze with a haggard face.

He raised his hand subconsciously, and the palm was raised at an angle, and then quietly retracted.

"Didn't sleep all night?"

As soon as the words fell, Cheng Mu raised his eyes, hiding a bit of apologetic dodge in his eyes: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to run yesterday, I just didn't think about it, and I can't believe it."

Shen Jinzhi held his breath silently, and said lightly, "I scared you."

Cheng Mu licked his lips in embarrassment, and said his purpose of coming to find Shen Jinzhi: "Can you give me a little time? I just received a call. Grandma's health is not optimistic. I have to go back to Beichi immediately. .I'm in a mess right now, can you...wait for me."

Shen Jinzhi didn't speak.

Graduation exaggerates parting, and the wicker blown by the summer wind has not been able to return to its place for a long time. People around are constantly pulling their suitcases and leaving, leaving a journey of life.

Cheng Mu took half a step forward and made a firm promise: "I will be back."

Shen Jinzhi nodded: "Then I'll wait for you."

If there is anything that Shen Jinzhi regrets in the past few years, it is probably that he failed to give a decent hug to the temporary goodbye.

Fortunately, time is cruel but also kind.

Shen Jinzhi reached out to hug Cheng Muze, making up for the past shortcomings.

"it's not your fault."

Shen Jinzhi let Cheng Muze's chin rub against his shoulder bone, and reached out to stroke his back: "It's not your fault."

Cheng Mu bit his lips tightly, a sour tear slipped down his lips, and stained Shen Jinzhi's clothes, damp and bitter.

Under Shen Jinzhi's calm comfort, Cheng Muze's trembling gradually calmed down.

He let go of his arms, looked at the person in front of him who looked unwell, and asked softly, "Are you still feeling uncomfortable?"

Cheng Mu closed his eyes and didn't answer.

Shen Jinzhi sighed in a low voice: "Let's stop here today, go back and sleep, it's not good for your memory to recover."

Cheng Mu had no choice but to respond.

Staggering back to the room on the fourth floor, Shen Jinzhi closed the window tightly, took out a candy from his pocket and stuffed it into his hand.

Cheng Mu squeezed his palm: "Candy?"

Shen Jinzhi nodded: "Sleep for a while, and eat after waking up."

Cheng Mu's fingertips were slightly loose, and his fingers rubbed against the candy paper, making a creaking sound.

He quickly fell asleep in a gentle voice.

Shen Jinzhi left the room, took the key and went back to the third floor.

He opened the doors and windows to ventilate, then packed the bed and took it to the balcony to dry.

Outside the balcony, the phoenix tree is growing lushly, and every branch and leaf is full of warm sunshine.

Cheng Mu moved away the colored sugar paper that was blocking the sycamore leaves, and focused his eyes on a pair of flying birds between the branches.

A gust of wind passed, and the two jubilant birds flew away in fright, while Cheng Mu looked back regretfully.

He opened the closet, took out the sugar bowl in the closet, and put the red sugar paper in his hand.

He swung the bottle full of red candy wrappers and watched the sun shine through and reflect the light around him.

"Stealing candy again?"

Cheng Mu hid the sugar bowl abruptly.

Realizing that he didn't have 300 taels of silver here, Cheng Mu hurriedly undid the action just now: "I didn't steal it, it's really the second candy. If you don't believe me, it's definitely only two more candy wrappers than yesterday."

Shen Jinzhi took the jar from his hand.

Cheng Mu let out a slow "ah": "You really count."

Shen Jinzhi shook the glass bottle, and a few pieces of blue sugar paper sandwiched in a piece of bright red leaked out.

He asked, "What does the blue one taste like?"

Cheng Mu twitched the corner of his mouth: "It smells like unhappiness."

Shen Jinzhi's movement of turning the sugar bowl paused, and his eyes moved to Cheng Muze, as if waiting for him to continue to explain.

"Actually, this kind of candy has no difference in taste except for the candy wrapper. It is the blue itself that represents sadness."

Shen Jinzhi frowned slightly, and glanced at the candy wrapper in the jar: "Why are you sad?"

Cheng Mu rubbed the back of his head: "It was just that I was unhappy at the time, and I don't remember it now. Maybe it was because the filming didn't go well or my supervisor asked me to hand in my thesis or something like that."

Shen Jinzhi breathed a sigh of relief, and asked again: "The red...?"

"I'm happy." Cheng Mu took back the jar, "Since I moved here, the candy wrappers in my sugar bowl seem to be mostly red, not as colorful as before."

Cheng Mu smiled brightly, turning the jar to find other rare colors in it.

He found three more white candy papers: "Look, these are the few days you were away on business, and my mood turned into waiting."

Shen Jinzhi smiled helplessly: "Waiting? Waiting for my cooking, or waiting for my return?"

Cheng Mu blurted out, "Of course I'm waiting for you!"

Shen Jinzhi glanced at him silently.

Cheng Mu had no choice but to add: "...I cooked with you."

He raised his eyes to sneak a peek at Shen Jinzhi, observing his reaction.

Finally, he waited until Shen Jinzhi asked, "What do you want to eat?"

Cheng Mu immediately replied: "Sweet and sour pork ribs!"

He quietly tucked up the Tangkuan hidden in his cuff, and snickered triumphantly.

Cheng Mu opened his eyes suddenly, and the hard candy wrapper in his palm was poked in his palm, causing slight pain.

The memory recorded in the dream came back to his mind, he lifted the quilt and walked into Shen Jinzhi's room.

Following his memory, Cheng Mu opened the closet and saw those "strange" sugar bowls again.

It turned out that hiding candy paper was not Shen Jinzhi's habit, but his own.

At this moment, Cheng Mu finally understood the meaning hidden in the sugar cubes in the jar that changed from white to black, and then from blue to red.

During his absence, no one ate candy, and collecting candy wrappers became collecting candy cubes.

A white candy every day, silently telling the waiting.

After knowing that he was with someone else, Shen Jinzhi ushered in the darkest period of his life.

Since then, the days of real happiness have ceased to exist.

Until, they meet again.

The scene stopped a few months ago, when he had to sit in Shen Jinzhi's car in order to deal with the car accident.

Shen Jinzhi stretched out his hand and handed him a candy. The red candy wrapper reflected the light of joy in his palm.

The brilliance is dim but intense.

There was the sound of the door opening in the living room.

The sound of footsteps gradually approaching him, Cheng Mu turned around and stared deeply at Shen Jinzhi.

Shen Jinzhi laughed softly: "You came to my place when you woke up, did you miss me?"

Cheng Mu nodded emphatically.

He raised his hand and spread it out in front of Shen Jinzhi.

The piece of candy that Shen Jinzhi gave before going to bed lay in his palm, and a red halo was dyed on the candy paper, slowly reflecting into the pupils of the two of them.

Cheng Mu whispered, "I'm also very happy to see you again."

Shen Jinzhi froze for a moment.

After a while, he was relieved from the stunned state.

He took half a step forward, kissed Cheng Muze lightly, and replaced answers with actions.

He mentioned the ingredients he brought back from the supermarket and asked, "What do you want to eat?"

Cheng Mu tilted his head and smiled, as if regaining the vitality of the past, and announced the same dish name as before: "Sweet and sour pork ribs!"

Nothing seems to have changed.

Time slowly returns everything it deprived, and will eventually return to the original beauty.

·

The sporadic memories kept coming up, causing Cheng Muze's mental state to continue to slump.

The next day, he lay on the bed in a daze for two hours, but Cheng Mu couldn't stay any longer.

He dragged his heavy body out to get some wind.

Rongning City is worthy of being called an "elite community". In such a large community, there are no grandparents walking around and playing chess during the day.

Cheng Mu picked up the phone in boredom, only to find that there was a missed call in the phone.

Since it was a local number, he called back.

Surprisingly, it was Shi Xun on the other end of the phone.

Shi Xun's voice was urgent: "You can answer the phone, I saw your stepmother, she is in Jinsong."

Cheng Mu didn't answer the conversation for a while, and then smiled after a while: "Xiao Xun, don't be kidding, you haven't seen her before, how do you know her?"

Shi Xun paused: "Actually, I met you after the orphanage. Three years ago, in the cemetery in the outer suburbs of Beichi."

The cemetery in the outer suburbs of Beichi is where his mother died.

Realizing that Shi Xun met him three years ago, Cheng Mu seemed to have caught an important clue, and his voice suddenly became tense: "You saw me back to Beichi three years ago? Did I say anything to you?"

"I'll talk about it later." Shi Xun said anxiously, "Qin Yi said you have a bad relationship with your family, and she came to look for you, what are you going to do?"

Compared with his stepmother, he cared more about the meeting in the cemetery that Shi Xun said, so he turned to ask, "Are you free? Can we meet today?"

"Cheng Muze."

At this moment, someone behind him stopped him.

Cheng Mu's teeth tightened, and he said in a subdued voice, "Xiao Xun, let's talk about it later."

After hanging up the phone, Cheng Mu turned around and looked at his stepmother standing opposite him.

After not seeing her for such a long time, her hostility only increased, and she didn't even bother to hide it.

Entering Rongning City with tight security without any effort, his stepmother is obviously much more difficult to deal with than Meng Jiao.

She said coldly, "Come back with me."

Cheng Mu remained calm and did not intend to pick on each other.

He changed direction, ignored and left.

But the woman repeated it additionally: "If you want to know the truth about your amnesia, come back with me."

Cheng Mu stopped in his tracks.

Suddenly, there was a light scoff beside him.

"It seems that the community is too quiet today, and even the barking of dogs can be heard so clearly."

The author says:

Low EQ: Bullshit.

High emotional intelligence: Today's barking is particularly loud.