Schoolboy becomes boyfriend

Chapter 22 I Let You Down Again

This meal is destined to be tasteless to everyone.Jiang Zhixu was drinking water one cup after another, and since Zhou Chenning saw him, he couldn't see anything else in front of him.

Jiang Zhixu finally couldn't bear the "judgment" eyes, and told Xiao Fan: "Today, people from Xinqin came to the door again, you three go back and deal with it, and I will stay to entertain this expert."

The three people who had just picked up the chopsticks had no choice but to get up and leave.

As soon as the door of the private room was closed, Zhou Chenning called softly: "Ah Xu!" The sincerity in his eyes was the same as the white water shaking in Jiang Zhixu's hand.

Jiang Zhixu got up and handed the business card to the other party: "Jiang Zhixu, the chairman of Kai'an Group. Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to rescue our Kai'an. It is a great honor."

Zhou Chenning smiled and raised the red wine in front of him: "No thanks, A Xu, you know, I will show up even for you."

Jiang Zhixu also took off the disguise: "Then you also know that I hate work and personal emotions the most."

After hearing this, Zhou Chenning immediately put down his wine glass, and the red wine was still flowing down the corner of his mouth. He asked in surprise, "Are you also admitting that there is a personal relationship between us?"

Jiang Zhixu was so angry that he frowned: "After all these years, you still haven't changed at all, and you still annoy me as always."

"You haven't changed either, Ah Xu, you still choose to talk to me like this even though you know I'm the key to your company's success." Zhou Chenning said aggrievedly.

"Are you threatening me?"

"No, I'm talking about my own feelings. I know your ability. Without me, you can settle this matter. So as soon as I received the invitation, I immediately turned down all the work and rushed over. I was afraid that you would regret it. I even missed the chance to meet you." Zhou Chenning said, tears began to glisten in his eyes.

Seeing him like this, Jiang Zhixu got up immediately: "For the follow-up work, let my three subordinates just negotiate with you. Forgive me, I really don't want to see you. Every minute and every second I see of you, I feel Maggots are crawling in my heart."

Before leaving, he added: "If you choose not to cooperate because of this, that would be even better. I thought you might not be what you were in five years, but I was wrong."

The teardrops on Zhou Chenning's eyelashes rolled down and hit the porcelain plate one by one, and he apologized to Jiang Zhixu in a trembling voice: "I'm sorry, Axu! I, I let you down again."

Jiang Zhixu ignored it and left directly.He felt that staying one second longer was cruel to him.

After leaving Shengtai, Jiang Zhixu did not return to Kai'an, but went directly to Jiang Tian to "complain".

Jiang Tian was taking a bath at home and did not receive a call from Jiang Zhixu.

The other party came straight to the door and started banging on the door.

Jiang Tian scolded angrily: "Who is it? Hit me again and call the police." Then there was a burst of fragrant breath.

When he opened the door, he saw Jiang Zhixu with a livid face.With Jiang Tian's keen observation ability, he immediately judged that the other party had encountered a big problem, so he quickly nodded and bowed to welcome him into the room.

Knowing his reason for coming, Jiang Tian said, "Why haven't I heard you mention this person before?"

Jiang Zhixu asked back, "Have you heard me mention Jiang Wenzou?"

Jiang Tian nodded: "Yes."

Jiang Zhixu frowned: "When? Did I bring it up?"

"Right now!"

Jiang Zhixu picked up the cushion on the sofa and threw it at the person: "Get out."

Jiang Tian caught the cushion and laughed so hard that he would never let go of any chance to make Jiang Zhixu slump.

"Okay, okay. I won't tease you anymore." Jiang Tian tried his best to stop laughing: "I haven't mentioned it! So you mean that Zhou Chenning and Jiang Wenzou are the same in your heart."

Jiang Zhixu added: "It also disgusts me."

Jiang Tian was puzzled: "Why?"

Following this question, Jiang Zhixu began to fall into memories. It was supposed to be the best time in college, but because of Zhou Chenning's appearance, everything changed.

"I met him in college. He majored in medical technology, and I majored in clinical medicine. We lived in the same dormitory. Because of his congenital defects, he is a pathological 'weak personality', which is what we often call dependent. The students are not willing to get along with him. There are many clubs and activities organized by Chinese overseas students in Europe, and he does not participate. But I will not exclude him, nor will I isolate him like others, so he feels that the world only I am a good person. Slowly in his concept, there are only two themes in college life, scientific research and me."

Jiang Tian hugged the big watermelon, dug it spoonful by spoonful, and answered vaguely: "Isn't this good? Anyway, you like this kind of watermelon, clingy, coquettish, pure, simple, careless, Isn’t Xiao Song like this?”

Jiang Zhixu wished he could pick up the person in front of him and beat him up, and leave after venting his anger.

Jiang Tian saw that his eyes were wrong, and immediately surrendered: "Okay, okay, say what you say, I will shut up."

"His feelings for me are not normal at all. I am more like a research subject for him. He has extremely high attainments in medical technology and has never failed. In his world, it is as simple as success or failure, nothing else .I don’t accept his overtures. In his view, the research is a failure. I’m more afraid of him, and I’m afraid to get close to him. Because he never gives up on me, just like he won’t give up on his Just like scientific research, if an experiment fails, he will find out the problem, change his thinking, and continue to study. I, I ask myself that I am really not a good person, so I really can't accept it." Jiang Zhixu is rarely as hysterical as he is now.

Jiang Tian asked: "Then what happened afterwards? Didn't he come to pester you after you returned to China?"

"That's because I rejected him in front of the whole school before I returned to China."

Jiang Tian opened his eyes wide, leaned forward, wiped the sugar stains from his mouth, and asked quickly, "What do you mean? He confessed his love to you in front of all the teachers and students in the school?"

Jiang Zhixu didn't really want to recall the past, he nodded irritably: "As far as I said, it's not because he loves me so much, it's just that he changed his research methods. But I've had enough of him, so I Say it in front of everyone..."

"say what?"

"It's not that I don't like men, I just don't like you."

Jiang Tian took a deep breath: "Damn, this is too cruel, brother, you are killing people."

Jiang Zhixu curled his lips: "Jiang Tian, ​​if you have been tortured in my position for three years, you might not be a murderer, but a real murderer."

Jiang Zhixu described that feeling: "He's not bad, I admit it. But he's really like a maggot, which makes you extremely annoying. And it's the kind of self-esteem that doesn't matter whether you take care of him, politely refuse, or Ignore it with cold treatment, it's like a red wine stain on your clothes, you can't wash it off. The bright red is always there, unless you throw away the clothes."

"So you ended up throwing away your clothes?"

"After that day, I returned to China not long after. It really hurt him, not because of that sentence, but because of my actions when I returned to China, and I severed ties with Jiang Wenzou. After he knew these things, he thought he was with him He is related. It is the guilt of so many years that makes him dare not come to me again. It's just that I didn't expect it, and I still can't get rid of it!"

Jiang Zhixu recalled the nightmarish life of those three years: "He loves to cry, whenever he feels a little anxiety and uneasiness, he will shed tears. But this is because of the physiological reaction caused by his innate personality, not the outpouring of emotion. During the three years I lived with him, as long as I was not around him, he would feel unsafe. For example, when a person is doing experiments in the laboratory, he will start crying when he thinks that I am not around."

Jiang Tian also frowned when he heard this: "Then, isn't he dependent on you like a baby is on a mother? Then who did he rely on before he met you in college?"

Jiang Zhixu paused for a while before answering: "His mother died when he was a freshman."

"So that counts as empathy? Haven't you been to a doctor?"

"I've seen it, but those hormonal drugs will damage his brain nerves. His mentor won't let him take it anymore, and I don't agree."

Jiang Tian's eyes widened: "Living Bodhisattva! Why don't you agree? Just be his mother for the rest of your life?"

Jiang Zhixu picked up another cushion and threw it at it: "Go away."

A corner of the cushion happened to fall into the watermelon, and Jiang Tian regretted: "What a waste of money, Jiang Zhixu, I will pay your brother a watermelon tomorrow."

While cleaning up the watermelon juice on his home clothes, he comforted Jiang Zhixu: "Don't think too much about it. Anyway, I haven't contacted him for five years, and he might not be as paranoid as he was back then. Besides, he is here to help you. It's not here to harm you. If you just throw someone there, he may not even get out of Shengtai's door. Others don't know these old things between you two. The more abnormal you do, the more suspicious they will be , as long as you do a little research, these things are not secrets. They will soon be rumored."

After hearing these words, Jiang Zhixu also began to feel that he was indeed too impulsive to leave rashly today.

The two chatted until the evening, when Song Enyu called and said he was going home, and asked Jiang Zhixu if he would go home tonight?

Jiang Zhixu knew that he was going to have a picnic with his classmates tomorrow, and promised him that he would go back to see him tonight.

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Tian suddenly clicked his tongue and said, "Ah Xu, do you admit it, in the game of love, it's really hard to tell who wins or loses."

Jiang Zhixu was confused: "What do you mean?"

Jiang Tian folded his hands behind his head and winked at his cell phone: "What do you mean? In fact, what this Zhou did to you, if it were Xiao Song, you would only think that he was Acting like a baby is extremely cute. But if it is him, you will think that he has other purposes and that he is unreasonable. Admit it, you just don’t like it, it’s as simple as that.”

On the way Jiang Zhixu drove back to Tianyi Garden, he savored this passage over and over again.He knew that Jiang Tian was a bystander, and he really didn't like it.

Is everything wrong just because you don't like it?

While thinking about it, Xiao Fan called.

"Director Jiang, are you still with Professor Zhou?"

"No, he wasn't with me." Jiang Zhixu asked back, "Did he not go to Rhea?"

Xiao Fan said in a little panic: "From noon until now, we haven't seen anyone at all. We always thought you were together."

Jiang Zhixu immediately hung up the phone, turned around and started galloping towards Shengtai.Jiang Tian was right, he was an idiot without anyone to guide him, he would only be swallowed up by such a big Shanghai city.

Du Mingze's phone call also came. Jiang Zhixu felt guilty when he heard Du Mingze's Douyin tone. He comforted him: "It's okay, don't worry, you won't be able to lose such an older person. I'll take him back to the company in a while. "

Ten minutes later, he arrived at Shengtai.As soon as Jiang Zhixu got into the car, he saw Zhou Chenning sitting on the steps of the door before he calmed down his nervous and urgent expression.

The other party's eyes were red and swollen from crying. When he saw Jiang Zhixu, he immediately got up and ran towards him.

Tightly wrapping her arms around Jiang Zhixu's neck, buried her head in his shoulders, sobbing non-stop, and kept saying "Ah Xu".

Jiang Zhixu knew that his sudden departure frightened him, so he didn't push him away, and stood quietly where he was, letting the other party vent.

After getting into the car, Zhou Chenning curled up on the back seat, still trembling non-stop.

Jiang Zhixu called Du Mingze back first, telling the other party that the person has been found, so there is no need to worry.

"It scared me to death, just find it, then are you going back to the company now?"

Jiang Zhixu looked at the people in the back seat through the rearview mirror: "I won't go back now, I will take him to Rhea to stay first. You all get off work first, go back tonight and have a good rest, and we will return in the next few days." There is a final battle to be fought."

Jiang Zhixu hung up the phone, and the car fell into silence again.

"What do you want to eat?" Jiang Zhixu asked, he knew that Zhou Chenning didn't eat lunch or dinner.Anyway, he is an international expert and a classmate of his own in college.

Zhou Chenning shook his head and refused, he couldn't eat anything now.

Jiang Zhixu didn't insist anymore, and led the people to the hotel.Zhou Chenning's luggage had already been delivered by Du Mingze, and the few of them also arranged the place very carefully.

Jiang Zhixu inspected carefully inside and out several times before saying goodbye to Zhou Chenning who was sitting on the sofa with his knees hugged: "These days, I will live here first. What happened during the day today is my fault. After that, you There will be someone responsible for the trip, don’t worry.”

Jiang Zhixu's tone softened, and his mood had returned to calm, not as excited as this morning.

Hearing these words, Zhou Chenning started to cry again.

Jiang Zhixu suppressed the irritability in his heart, took out a tissue and handed it to the other party: "You have a good rest, the final appraisal date from the court is the day after tomorrow. Du Mingze will come to pick you up when the time comes."

After finishing speaking, I will leave.Zhou Chenning watched the black figure get farther and farther away with tears in his eyes, his anxiety suddenly resurfaced, he got up and rushed behind Jiang Zhixu, hugged him from behind, and begged: "Ah Xu, you stay here , stay with me, okay? Just this one night, I will be really scared, I beg you!"

Jiang Zhixu had listened to Jiang Tian's words and tried to communicate with him calmly, but now Jiang Zhixu only felt that discomfort came again.

Jiang Zhixu was about to explode when Du Mingze called.

"Jiang Dong, should I go over to see if Professor Zhou needs help?"

Jiang Zhixu refused, and the people behind him couldn't remember that he was a professor at this moment.Thinking of Du Mingze's sleepless nights because of this incident, his whole body was so thin that he lost his appearance, Jiang Zhixu still swallowed his curse words.

He untied Zhou Chenning's embrace, sat back on the sofa, turned on the TV, and said, "Go to sleep, I'm right here."

Zhou Chenning finally wiped away tears: "Really?"

Jiang Zhixu assured him that he would never leave.Only then did Zhou Chenning smile contentedly, and went into the bathroom to take a bath.

Jiang Zhixu called Song Enyu and told him that he would not be going back tonight and asked him to go to bed early.Even though Song Enyu said he understood, the disappointment in that tone still made Jiang Zhixu's heart shiver suddenly.

He blamed Jiang Wenzou for his anger at not being able to accompany Song Enyu this month.I just feel that the old man is here to restrain himself, and I never want to make him feel better.

But in fact, Jiang Wenzou just wanted to teach him a lesson, and didn't intend to make trouble like this.

After Zhou Chenning was washed, his eyes were still slightly red and swollen, and he couldn't see any connection with the person who cried so much just now.

He sat next to Jiang Zhixu, the collar of his bathrobe was wide open, and after being soaked in high temperature, everything except his face was pink.

Jiang Zhixu moved to the side, and urged: "Go to sleep."

Zhou Chenning still sat next to Jiang Zhixu: "Ah Xu, I haven't seen you for five years, I miss you very much, don't you have anything to say to me? It's good to catch up on the past, just treat it as coaxing me to sleep gone."

Jiang Zhixu stared at him for a long time before asking, "I really want to know, without me in the past five years, how did you cure your anxiety?"

Zhou Chenning replied honestly: "It hasn't been cured. I have been treating the problem of controlling my crying. At least I look like a normal person."

"Treatment? How did you cure it?"

"Electric shock therapy, that is, every time during the treatment, the doctor let me have images of thinking about you, crying, and being afraid of contacting people, and then started electric shocks, because of the painful stimulation, until I stopped going. If you think about it, it will be a little bit effective.”

Jiang Zhixu frowned: "Who told you to go to this treatment?"

"My mentor, after you left, I began to dare not leave the dormitory, and many experiments were stopped. In order to let me get out of this vicious circle, the instructor contacted this treatment method."

As he said that, he began to touch Jiang Zhixu's hand cautiously. Seeing that the other party didn't move, he smiled and grabbed it: "Just one touch, Axu. When we meet today, you owe me a handshake."

Jiang Zhixu's Adam's apple moved slightly: "When I go back this time, don't treat it like this again, I will find another way."

Zhou Chenning did what he said, he shook his head and said, "The instructor won't agree! What's more, I'm used to this kind of treatment, and it really works." Then he laughed again: " Ah Xu, you can go to sleep with me, we are still like the university."

Jiang Zhixu refused coldly, "I'm not leaving here, you go back to the bedroom and sleep."

Zhou Chenning heard the displeasure in his tone, and tears began to glisten in his eyes again.

Jiang Zhixu smirked hard: "What on earth are you willing to sleep on?"

Zhou Chenning cried aloud, pointed at the bedroom and refused to give in: "I sleep with you."

Jiang Zhixu pursed his lips tightly, pulled Zhou Chenning's wrist and walked towards the bedroom without saying a word.Borrowing the inertia of brisk walking, he took the person over and threw him on the bed.Zhou Chenning groaned in pain, before he had time to complain.Jiang Zhixu threw off the quilt roughly, and angrily pulled it over the opponent's body.

Then he moved to the bamboo and rattan chair on the balcony, sat on it, looked at Zhou Chenning and said coldly: "My patience is limited. If you haven't fallen asleep in half an hour, I'll leave immediately."

Zhou Chenning didn't dare to move anymore, so he quietly covered the quilt and closed his eyes.He was afraid that Jiang Zhixu would leave, even though he couldn't sleep.

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