reverse trapping

The covering curtains confused the time, and Cheng Mu didn't know when he fell asleep.

He dreamed of his mother, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

Facing the bright sunshine, my mother was sitting at the stone table in front of the yard arranging flowers.

Cheng Mu walked to him slowly on the gravel road.

Mother was fiddling with the flowers in her hand intently, without looking at him.

After a long silence, Cheng Mu asked, "Are you blaming me?"

The remaining flower thorns accidentally scratched the fingertips, bringing out a few drops of bright red blood stains.

Mother raised her eyes and looked at him.

Cheng Mu lowered his voice and said, "Before you died, you hoped that I could maintain a relationship with him. I'm sorry, but I can't."

The rose branches swayed with the wind, trying to cling to the back of mother's hand.

Mother stretched out her hand, her fingertips protruded a little toward him, and then curled back quietly.

"Asha."

Her voice was soft, falling along with the morning dew outside the petals.

When the familiar voice came, Cheng Muze's eyes were instantly sour.

"Why should we Axia apologize?"

Cheng Mu was slightly stunned, his eyes seemed to be fixed on a certain point, and he couldn't move even a little bit.

"Have you forgotten, A-Xia?" She smiled, "Mother also said that we, A-Xia, must be free. Why did you forget that?"

Cheng Mu opened his eyes slightly, and before he had time to recall the other words her mother had said the night her mother passed away, everything in front of her eyes became blurred.

A white mist covered it, completely cutting off his connection with his mother.

"Mother--"

Cheng Mu opened his eyes, his chest heaving up and down.

The bed next to him was empty, and the body temperature in the quilt had dissipated. It seemed that Shen Jinzhi had woken up.

Cheng Muze's body was dry, but it was sore everywhere.

He lay flat on the bed, facing the ceiling.

In the dream, my mother's words were still in my ears.

He avoided it for so many years, just because of his mother's last words back then, but he seemed to have really forgotten that his mother didn't want him to completely cut off contact with Cheng Ye, but just wanted to have something to rely on.

Now it seems that there is no point in maintaining this false relationship.

Cheng Mu closed his eyes, got up and picked up his phone.

The information in the phone is very clean, there is not even a missed call.

After watching for a long time, Cheng Mu found the hidden call forwarding prompt in the message bar.

Cheng Mu sat up completely, and the brightly colored post-it notes on the bedside table immediately diverted his attention.

He picked up the note.

"A-Xia, I'm in a hurry to go back to school. I guess you won't wake up before dinner, so I'll come back as early as possible. Leave a note just in case. If you wake up, go find something to eat in the insulated lunch box on the dining table. Obediently wait for me to come back."

The handwriting on the note had already dried out, and Shen Jinzhi must have been out for a long time.

Cheng Muze's first reaction was shock.

He was still tired after sleeping, yet Shen Jinzhi went to work as usual.

Cheng Mu didn't want to think deeply about the reason, so he put down the note and walked out of the room.

The rudimentary sunset glow dyed the sky brilliantly, reminding him that it was already evening.

The messy ground is back to normal, everything out of the ordinary evaporated after last night's madness.

Cheng Mu was really hungry.

He went straight to the dining table and picked up the milk on the thermostat.

It's been a while since Shen Jinzhi bought this thing, and it's very convenient to use.

After eating something to pad his stomach, Cheng Mu's brain stopped from the strike state.

He left Beichi just like that yesterday, and Cheng Ye would definitely not let it go.Shen Jinzhi should have guessed that this would happen, so he quietly set up call forwarding.

With a "tsk", he put down what he hadn't finished eating, and plunged into the bedroom to change his clothes.

Reduced to the situation of selling his son, the situation on Cheng Ye's side seems to be more serious than he imagined. If he doesn't show up for a long time, Cheng Ye will jump over the wall in a hurry and slander his relationship with Shen Jinzhi. Reputation is very likely to be ruined in one fell swoop.

He had to stop this from happening.

Shen Jinzhi came out of the office, took the elevator downstairs, and was going to find another teacher.

The elevator stopped on the first floor, and before the door was fully opened, a strange voice came in through the elevator door: "Professor Shen."

The metal door opened slowly, and the young man with a cropped head pressed the floor button and stared at the elevator entrance.

"Mr. Cheng wants to talk to you alone."

Shen Jinzhi moved his gaze down and settled on the trolley case in the young man's hand - it was Cheng Muze's suitcase left in the hotel in Beichi.

Shen Jinzhi understood and followed him out of the building.

In the parking lot not far away, there was a car with a license plate starting with Pool A. The body was completely hidden in the darkness, and even the car film that sealed the windows was tightly pressed.

Shen Jinzhi approached the car, and the man sitting in the back seat said solemnly: "Everyone get out of the car."

Two people got out of the car and left side by side with the young man who brought him over.

The suitcase was left unattended, so Shen Jinzhi pulled it back.

The car window moved down a slit just enough to reveal a pair of sly and gloomy eyes.

The man said, "Professor Shen, let's get in the car and talk."

"Not yet." Shen Jinzhi took half a step back in disgust, and stood a little further away from the window, "The smell in this car is really... rotten."

Cheng Ye's forehead twitched, and his dog-like face was barely caught.

He frowned deeply, and continued: "I have come all the way, so you must know my purpose."

Shen Jinzhi didn't hide his impatience at all, and said bluntly: "I have limited time, I hope you can hurry up and stop talking nonsense."

Cheng Ye gritted his teeth and tried to remain calm before he finished speaking: "Father and son's blood is thicker than water. No matter what happens between us, it's a family matter. You can't control it, and you have no right to control it."

Shen Jinzhi let out a smirk, and a few traces of indifferent contempt appeared in his eyes behind the lens: "Then what if I have to take care of it?"

He looked inward along the window slit, and met those triangular eyes full of menace.

"Professor Shen is a decent person. You don't want to make such a fuss public?"

Hearing this, Shen Jinzhi laughed: "Really? Then I have to thank you for helping me declare my sovereignty."

In a few words, the smell of gunpowder rose.

The young man with a cropped head hurriedly approached the car, breaking the tense atmosphere between the two.

Cheng Ye scolded: "Who allowed you to come here? Which eye of yours saw that I finished talking?"

The young man licked his lips in embarrassment: "Mr. Cheng, there is something urgent in the company."

Shen Jinzhi took a big step back and dragged the suitcase away from them.

Cheng Ye rolled down the car window and went over with his ear.

"The supplier suddenly let go and asked you to meet at nine o'clock in the evening."

His volume was very low, but it couldn't stand the excessive silence of the parking lot, and his voice fell into Shen Jinzhi's ears clearly.

Cheng Ye raised his cuffs to look at his watch, and immediately gestured for the others to come back.

Before leaving, Cheng Ye finally issued a warning: "It's useless to be brave. Young people had better consider the price of bearing the consequences. Don't go the wrong way and regret it for the rest of your life."

Shen Jinzhi replied indifferently: "Thanks for your concern, I don't need it."

"Oh, that's right." Shen Jinzhi glanced at the box in his hand, and deliberately raised his voice, "Thank you for your long-distance courier service."

The car window moved as if venting its anger, and snapped into the groove with a "click".

The vehicle sped away, Shen Jinzhi dragged his luggage and left, and the screen of the mobile phone in his pocket lighted up quietly.

The time was wasted, and there was no time to do the previous matter, so Shen Jinzhi had to go back to the office and wait for get off work.

Cheng Mu didn't send him a message, presumably he hasn't woken up yet.

He was the only one in the office, so Shen Jinzhi casually took out a financial magazine from the desk shelf and flipped through it.

At three minutes past five, Shen Jinzhi had tidied up the desk and was about to get off work when there was a knock on the door.

"Please come in."

Cheng Mu walked in from the door.

"General~ Axia will pick you up from get off work."

Shen Jinzhi raised the corners of his mouth, and his smile became exaggerated visible to the naked eye.

"May I come in?"

Shen Jinzhi nodded with a smile.

Once in, Cheng Mu saw his suitcase.Pointing to the box, he asked, "Have the things from the hotel been mailed? This is too fast. I used to send things to my grandma, and it took four or five days to arrive."

Shen Jinzhi replied: "They asked the driver who happened to come to Jinsong to bring them here. They drove day and night, so of course it was fast."

"Huh?" Cheng Mu blinked, "I have to give you a lot of money to carry things so far away?"

Shen Jinzhi shook his head: "Don't worry, it's free."

Cheng Mu, on the other hand, was confused and looked at his suitcase suspiciously.

Behind him, Shen Jinzhi joked, "Why did you wake up so early? I'm ready to serve the meal and go to the bedside."

Cheng Mu suddenly turned around, frowning and took a step closer to Shen Jinzhi.

Shen Jinzhi smiled lightly, leaning on the desk relaxedly.

Cheng Mu leaned down and pressed closer and closer to Shen Jinzhi: "Why do I feel that you are laughing at me?"

Shen Jinzhi raised his hand unhurriedly, and touched the corner of Cheng Muze's bitten lip with his fingertips: "You have wronged me, I am very serious about you tonight."

When Cheng Mu realized the danger, it was too late to get away.

Shen Jinzhi wrapped his arms around his waist, his strength was not heavy, but it was enough to restrict him from leaving.

"Da da da--"

There was a sound of low footsteps outside the corridor, and Cheng Mu reminded while struggling: "Someone, someone is here."

Shen Jinzhi let out a "hmm", and then analyzed it casually: "I heard the footsteps, it should be the dean."

"Li Yuan?"

Shen Jinzhi nodded.

Isn't that his head teacher in college?

Cheng Mu hurriedly broke away Shen Jinzhi's hand, and got under the desk.

Shen Jinzhi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to tug at him: "What are you doing? Come out quickly, it makes us look like we've done something wrong."

While looking for a suitable angle to hide, Cheng Mu urged Shen Jinzhi: "Sit down quickly, he will find out."

He patted Shen Jinzhi's outstretched hand anxiously, and shrank back guiltily.

"What's the matter?"

Facing Shen Jinzhi's relentless pursuit, Cheng Mu had no choice but to answer: "Flirt openly in the office, if caught, it would be a serious crime."

Suddenly, Shen Jinzhi grabbed Cheng Muze's fiddling hand.

"Flirting?" He squeezed Cheng Muze's chin, and pecked a kiss on the other's soft lips, "You mean...is that so?"