Affectionate trapping

Chapter 71
The environment of the cafe is clean, and Wenxi looks far away, looking for a table.

"Hello, is this Mr. Zhou?"

The other party raised his head, revealing a face with good features. He was above average in appearance, with his head hunched back. He looked very energetic.

Zhou Xian stood up, smiled at her and said, "It's me, are you Wenxi?"

"Ah."

Zhou Xian ordered coffee and asked her what she wanted to drink.

Wen Xi sat across from her and declined, "Thank you, I don't like coffee."

He said to the waiter: "Then have another glass of the same."

She opened her mouth to say something, but swallowed it back.

"My name is Zhou Xian, Xian of the Gendarmerie."

"I'm Wenxi."

"I know." He smiled: "You don't have to be restrained, just sit and chat as friends, if you want to ask me anything, just ask me, I will answer."

She hesitated and opened her lips: "Actually, I didn't know about today's events in advance, so I didn't have any preparations,...I don't like blind dates very much."

"Oh, it's okay, I don't like blind dates either, everyone is the same at this age." He didn't seem to care at all, looking at her with a smile in his eyes: "I used to hate blind dates, but now our circle is basically fixed I can't meet new people, so I can only get to know the opposite sex in this way, what if I meet a suitable one?"

"It's like I didn't expect you to be so beautiful before I came here."

Wen Xi was so embarrassed that she didn't know what to reply.

He tried hard to find a topic: "Let me talk about myself first. I have a suite in the city center. I bought it with full payment and a car. It's not too good. If I work, I work in a state-owned enterprise with a monthly salary of more than 2. promotion."

Wen Xi listened absent-mindedly, not knowing where her thoughts drifted.

"I heard you are a counselor?"

She hummed.

Zhou Xian saw that she was not interested, so he took out his mobile phone after thinking for a while and said, "Why don't we add a contact information first? Let's talk later."

This man has a good eye.

Wen Xi breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to speak, when a gust of wind suddenly blew by his side, and the familiar scent of flowers wafted into his nostrils.

She raised her head abruptly, and met Shen Yuli's lowered gaze.

Wen Xi was in a daze for a while, obviously they hadn't seen each other for three days, but it seemed as long as a century.

Unexpectedly, he just glanced at her, then turned and left, as if he was just passing by.

Wen Xi: "..."

Zhou Xian looked at her absent-minded eyes hesitantly, "Do you know each other?"

She looked at the figure who was going further and further away, and couldn't sit still any longer, she stood up: "Sorry, I have something to do, so I left first, I'm really sorry!"

Zhou Xian stood up, the smile on his face faded.

Wen Xi chased and ran out: "Shen Yuli!"

He stopped and turned to look at her.

The two just looked at each other, and she bit her lip: "Aren't you in the middle of the night?"

Instead of answering, he asked, "Why did you come out? Are you no longer on a blind date?"

Wen Xi's eyes flickered slightly: "Just now..."

She opened her mouth, but didn't know how to explain.

Shen Yuli chuckled inexplicably: "He has good conditions, you can consider it."

Wen Xi looked up in astonishment, and said word by word in disbelief: "What did you say?"

Shen Yuli slowly suppressed his smile, staring at her with dark eyes.

Wen Xi was silent for a few seconds, then smiled: "That's right, I'll have a good chat with him later."

She didn't know how to say this sentence, after she finished speaking, she felt like an ant was gnawing vigorously in her heart, and her fingertips trembled from the pain.

Fearing that she could not control her expression, she quickly turned and left.

Shen Yuli's eyes were dark and gloomy, his fingers were tightly knit together, and his knuckles were turning white.

...

Half an hour later, Shen Yuli took the five cats to have them neutered one by one.

Cat: You are lofty, you are amazing, and you are throwing your temper at me!
Xiong Shaozhuo looked at his face as dark as a pan: "Why do you bother? I finally chased him down."

Shen Yuli peeled the cigarette and crushed the tobacco bit by bit: "I'm not ready yet."

"what?"

"Prepare to be a substitute."

"..."

Xiong Shaozhuo couldn't put it into words: "So you really plan to be a substitute?"

After a while, he said in a low voice, "I don't want to."

But he couldn't let go.

He has been jumping back and forth between being a substitute and being himself these days, and she doesn't want to see her until he figured it out.

Until today when I heard the news that she was going on a blind date, I couldn't sit still.

But he screwed up, he might as well not go.

Shen Yuli ruthlessly pulled the cigarette butt, his heart numb with pain.

"Have you ever thought that what she actually likes is you, not some... double?"

Shen Yuli twisted the crumbs: "I don't know."

"...If I had the attitude before, she wouldn't talk to me at all."

Xiong Shaozhuo has no love experience either. His previous relationship was pursued by a woman. After four months of dating, they broke up after the break-in period.

A substitute or something, this kind of bloody TV plot, he can't even think about it.

"You go to her and talk to her clearly."

The last bit of tobacco was ground by him, he smelled nicotine, his mind was in a mess, countless tangled threads were twisted together, and her words "turn back and have a good chat with him" suddenly appeared in his mind.

What to talk about?
What is there to talk about.

The man looked obscene and never took his eyes off her.

How dare he look at her with that look!
He stood up abruptly: "Help me send the cat to the pet store."

Xiong Shaozhuo: "...how about you?"

"Find her."

Xiong Shaozhuo didn't know why he wanted to laugh, so he asked him with a suppressed smile, "Are you ready?"

Shen Yuli rolled his eyes: "Yes."

He would rather be a stand-in than throw her into someone else's arms.
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In the bathroom, the floor was wet with water, and Wenxi pushed the water with a mop, as if trying to scratch the floor.

After finally polishing the floor, she took another basin of water, buried the dirty clothes in it, and rubbed them with her hands.

The water was cold, and she rubbed her fingers until they turned red, as if she wanted to vent her discomfort and depression.

It doesn't help.

Using force again, the nail scraped to the back of the finger, peeling off a layer of flesh.

Wen Xi hissed, looking at her bleeding fingers, she felt tingling pain, and she cried aggrievedly.

Once the valve was opened, it was easy to be unstoppable, her tears gushed out, and each drop fell into the basin, with very shallow ripples.

After crying for an unknown amount of time, the phone rang. She wiped her tears and fingers, picked up the phone, saw that it was Shen Yuli's call, and hung up without saying a word.

Without a pause, the phone rang again persistently.

She continued to hang up.

After three times, Shen Yuli sent a message: I am downstairs, can I come down, I have something to tell you

Facing this information, Wen Xi's eyes blurred again.

Why did he say see you? Last time she said she didn't have time to see him.

She replied angrily: no see
Shen Yuli: I'll wait for you downstairs
Wen Xi closed the phone and continued to wash clothes, letting the wound soak in the water as if masochistic.

As she was in pain, she thought that she would be like this too.

She used to always say to others that it was too worthless to do stupid things for men, and people should live for themselves.

What is she doing now...

The tingling sensation in her fingers became more and more intense, and she suddenly woke up, withdrew her hand, and ran out to cover it with a tissue.

Immediately afterwards, there was a knock on the door, with a vague sense of urgency.

　Wen Xi (crying loudly): You scumbag!

　　Shen Yuli (aggrieved): I want to be a substitute.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)