reverse trapping

The footsteps were getting closer, but Cheng Muze's brain was too shut down to function.

He opened his eyes in a daze, and slowly climbed up the corners of his eyes with an expression of disbelief.

Shen Jinzhi stepped back a few centimeters, and gently rubbed Cheng Mu Ze's cheek with his fingertips: "Why are you blushing? I haven't done anything yet."

Cheng Mu was stunned and forgot to breathe for a moment.

Without the cover of the sound of breathing, the fast-paced beating of the heart becomes particularly clear.

Outside the door, Li Yuan answered the phone.

Listening to the sound, people are standing outside the door, and they can push the door and enter by raising their hands.

"Yes, I understand correctly. Try to think in this direction, and there may be unexpected gains."

Cheng Mu took a deep breath.

Before the breath was finished, Shen Jinzhi's warm lips covered it again.

The effect of negative and positive inspired Cheng Muze's subconscious behavior. He pushed Shen Jinzhi outwards to stop him from doing so.

Shen Jinzhi didn't give him a chance to break free, and grabbed his wrist precisely.

"Okay, come find me in the office tomorrow."

Cheng Mu tried to speak, but his voice was inevitably disturbed between his lips and tongue, and in the end he could only make an ambiguous "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu".

"Morning, I have class in the afternoon."

The call continued, and the fear of being discovered rushed back and forth in the atrium, giving birth to a strange sense of excitement.

"Crack-"

The office door opened.

Li Yuan's voice came from the door: "Xiao Shen, haven't you left yet?"

Cheng Mu pushed Shen Jinzhi hard.

Shen Jinzhi's elbow hit the armrest of the chair, making a "bang" sound.

"what happened?"

Hearing the sound that was close at hand, Cheng Mu grabbed Shen Jinzhi's trousers in a panic.

Shen Jinzhi stood up from his seat as if nothing had happened, and replied: "It's okay, I accidentally bumped into something while picking up something, what's the matter?"

Li Yuan twitched the corners of his lips in embarrassment: "I just... want to ask you if something happened to you recently."

Cheng Muze's heart skipped a beat for a second, and his fingers tightened unconsciously on Shen Jinzhi's body.

Li Yuan added: "I'm not talking about anything else, and I'm not asking from the dean's point of view, I just want to see if I can help you a little."

Shen Jinzhi chuckled, casually picked up the photo frame on the table, and lowered his hand.

It looks like the frame is for him.

Cheng Mu took the photo frame and held it in his hand, his nervous attention was quickly diverted.

It was a photograph. Although it was just a silhouette, Cheng Mu could tell it was Shen Jinzhi at a glance.

In the next second, the dull memory signal is transmitted along the neuron.

Back then, he pestered Shen Jinzhi and kept asking him to be his photography model.

Shen Jinzhi refused tirelessly, and the reason was the same every time: he didn't like taking pictures.

But he felt it was a pity, he always wanted to try for the last time and then gave up, time after time, he actually waited until the day when Shen Jinzhi nodded.

However, there is only one silhouette.

It turned out that last time when he asked Shen Jinzhi whether he had succeeded in the past, that was what Shen Jinzhi meant when he replied "probably."

"Thank you, your words are enough."

In Shen Jinzhi's reply, Li Yuan sighed: "Okay, don't work overtime, go home early and rest."

Shen Jinzhi responded, until Li Yuan left the office, he gradually squatted down.

Cheng Mu raised his eyes and looked at Shen Jinzhi's level: "This is... the one I took for you back then?"

"Well, it's been on my desk for years."

Cheng Mu was distracted, remembering that when he was still in Jinsong a few years ago, he would occasionally come to Shen Jinzhi's office.

At that time, there was this photo on Shen Jinzhi's desk.

He blinked, and realized later: "No, I remember that I also came to your office a few months ago, for the matter of Qin Yi acting as a substitute teacher, why haven't I seen this photo?"

Shen Jinzhi explained earnestly: "You are so familiar with your own shooting techniques. I have a piece of work that you have never published on my desk. The subject of the photo is still me. Doesn't that mean that we have admitted our past? How do you go around me?"

Cheng Mu gasped: "You still mention this?"

"hiss--"

Shen Jinzhi raised his palm and put it on one elbow, his eyebrows frowned slightly.

That position happened to be where Shen Jinzhi bumped into before getting up.

Cheng Mu immediately dropped other emotions, and asked with concern: "Are you all right?"

Shen Jinzhi immediately put down his hands, and a successful smile curled up on the corner of his mouth.

Catching his smile, Cheng Mu immediately reacted, he frowned and said, "You're pretending again!"

Shen Jinzhi stretched out his hand to him and said to him, "Come out first."

Cheng Mu got out from under the table in displeasure.After squatting for too long, his feet were numb and he almost staggered.

Shen Jinzhi supported him, pressed him on the chair cushion, and massaged his sore and numb leg muscles: "Why are you so thin-skinned, you don't want to be teased at all."

Cheng Mu pursed his mouth: "You have a thick skin, if Li Yuan came in just now, it depends on how you explain."

Shen Jinzhi nodded bluntly: "How can I explain it? I have a treasure in the golden house, so I don't have to explain it."

Listening to Shen Jinzhi's theory of "golden house hides a beauty", Cheng Mu raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Mr. Shen, do your students know that you are like this?"

Shen Jinzhi continued to rub Cheng Muze's legs, moving his fingers up from his calf to his knee.

"Didn't classmate Xiao Cheng know?"

Cheng Mu shook his head again and again: "I don't want to be your student, I don't want to be ruined by everything related to economics."

"Not teaching you that."

As Shen Jinzhi said, the moving fingertips on Cheng Muze's legs suddenly stopped, and meaningfully drew a small circle on the spot: "I can... teach something else."

The buried shame exploded from his body, and the blush quickly invaded Cheng Muze's earlobe.

Shen Jinzhi withdrew his hand appropriately, and tapped the photo frame in Cheng Muze's hand: "Okay, you can take it apart and have a look."

Cheng Muze's ears were still burning, and he quickly followed suit when he heard the interruption.

He flipped the photo frame over, undid the buckle, and took off the pure black back frame.

After the cover was removed, a hidden photo finally came into view.

In the photo, it was none other than Cheng Muze himself who fell asleep lying on a stack of books.

Needless to say, it must have been taken by Shen Jinzhi when he was tutoring him before the postgraduate entrance examination, and even the style of dressing was particularly small.

He couldn't remember the details of what clothes he had in those years, but Cheng Mu always felt very familiar when he saw the combination of the milky white sweater and jeans with blue and gray plaid embroidered edges.

He stared at it for a long time, remembering the morning when he slept in Shen Jin's house for the first time.

At that time, he secretly stayed at the other party's house because of Shen Jinzhi's illness, but accidentally bumped into Chen Jiao who came to visit him.

That's the set of clothes that Shen Jinzhi took him into the bedroom to change at that time.

"Yes." Shen Jinzhi admitted, "The clothes I wore for you at that time belonged to you. You left in a hurry and didn't have time to bring many things with you. I brought some up when I moved upstairs."

Cheng Mu was both surprised and curious: "How many things have you hidden from me?"

"A lot." Shen Jinzhi took Cheng Muze's hand and lifted him from the chair, "Go, I'll take you home to watch."

Cheng Mu put it back into the photo frame and followed silently.

Two photos from many years ago cuddled together again, witnessing the trajectory from strange to familiar.

The two took the elevator down, while Cheng Mu glanced at the time, and accidentally saw the call forwarding reminder that still existed on the phone.

He asked casually: "The call forwarding in my mobile phone..."

"I set it up, I want you to rest at ease." Shen Jinzhi rubbed his hair, "Fang Shuo called you in the middle, and I told him you were resting."

Cheng Mu let out a long "ah".

Shen Jinyi was taken aback: "What's the matter? You have something important to discuss? He clearly said it's not very important."

Cheng Mu twitched his eyebrows in distress: "Take it easy, it's a bit strange to be unable to wake up in broad daylight..."

He picked up his mobile phone and pointed to the open space beside him: "I'd better call him back, can you wait for me for a while?"

After Shen Jinzhi nodded, he walked to the window on the side of the corridor.

In fact, his call was to Qin Yi.

His purpose is very clear, just to know if there are rumors against Shen Jinzhi in the school, after all, this is what Cheng Muze is most worried about right now.

Qin Yi gave him a straightforward and affirmative answer, denying his conjecture.

Cheng Mu didn't know the reason for this short-lived peace, but he was really worried that it would harm Shen Jinzhi.

He told Qin Yi to help him pay attention to the news, and contact him on WeChat immediately if there is any trouble.

After hanging up the phone, Cheng Mu was puzzled.

Through a security glass window, a student was taking pictures of the girl in front of him with a video camera.

Once, he was so free.

Cheng Mu had always wanted to know the reason why he couldn't take portraits, but now that his memory had recovered, he couldn't accept it for a while.

The hands that forced him to be pressed on the hospital bed, the faces looking forward to his death, and the footsteps that hurriedly escaped and refused to stay for half a second, all became the reasons for him to be afraid of others.

He has lost faith, and the eyes that used to capture emotion with the camera can only see fear.

All colors turned gray and white.

But Cheng Mu understands that this world may not be as beautiful as he imagined, but it is by no means so bad that it makes people despair.

Besides, he still has Shen Jinzhi.

Shen Jinzhi, who will always stand by his side no matter when, where, or whatever happens.

He'll be fine, it just takes some time.

Cheng Mu curled his lips and turned around from the window.

Not far away, Shen Jinzhi waited there quietly, never spying on his concealment.

Cheng Mu walked up quickly and took Shen Jinzhi's hand from behind: "Let's go."

They went down the stairs step by step.

Suddenly, Cheng Mu turned sideways and asked, "Hey? Wait a minute, that photo has been placed on your desk, what about the one hidden behind?"

Shen Jinzhi said truthfully: "It's also there."

Cheng Mu stammered in astonishment: "That, that, then you wouldn't have liked me then, would you?"

"Oh~" Shen Jinzhi smiled, "I realized it, I thought you couldn't figure it out."

Cheng Mu said dully, "Wh... when did it start?"

"I asked myself this question before." Shen Jinzhi recalled, "But I seem to have failed, because liking you has been a thing for so long that I can't tell when it started."