fear of intimacy

Chen Shu deliberately changed his seat to Xiang Dong's diagonally, and still had lingering fears about the professor who didn't know what he had done to his head.Professor Xiang was probably invited to the dinner as Director Huang's old friend, and did not participate in the discussion during the meeting. He rarely even raised his head. Only Chen Shu was secretly observing him.

Xin Hong raised his wine glass and came to Chen Shu: "Go one?"

Chen Shu waved his hand: "I have a cold."

"Oh," Xin Hong regretted, "what are you looking at?"

Chen Shu didn't hide his secrets: "Professor Xiang Dong, Ph.D supervisor of Psychology at University H, faculty member of American Psychological Association. Senior talent, rare to see." He memorized Xiang Dong's title smoothly.

Xin Hong was also interested: "He is teaching in China, why did he join the American Academy?"

"Because Xiang Dong is an American citizen."

"Oh, then why can you teach in China?"

Chen Shu glanced at Xin Hong, seriously suspecting that he was looking for something to say.Xin Hong held the wine glass with an innocent expression on his face.An unfamiliar person next to him interjected: "It is enough to obtain the approval of the labor department, right, Director Huang, you are also a Canadian citizen!"

Director Huang got drunk: "Ah? Ah...ah!"

The phone in Chen Shu's pocket vibrated with incoming letters—in view of Xiao Peng's behavior of always answering messages for him without anyone noticing, Chen Shu would never allow his phone to be in Xiao Peng's hands as long as he was not working.

It's Zhou Xu.

Chen Shu looked up at Xin Hong, implying why you didn't leave yet.Xin Hong shrugged and turned back to his seat.

[z6349426432622bslmx]: I should have time this afternoon, but I can't find my teacher, and I haven't finished my work, so I should make another appointment.

This is a reply to Chen Shu about the schedule of the last class.

Uh-huh.Chen Shu put away his phone.Oh no!He suddenly realized that Zhou Xu couldn't find his teacher... Isn't his teacher eating at the same table here? ? ?

[Tell a story]: Your teacher is having dinner with us at No. 22 Beiyuan Avenue.

Then secretly put the phone camera out of the corner of the table, and clicked a photo.

"Huh?" Director Huang looked around in confusion, "Who, who is taking, taking pictures?"

Oops forgot to turn off mute.Chen Shu frantically put his phone back into his pocket.Professor Xiang didn't seem to notice, and continued to eat alone in silence.

A toast is unavoidable during the banquet, and not everyone is as easy to shirk as Xin Hong. Fortunately, Peng Shuai prepared the Sprite in advance.Chen Shu drank a few cups, bid farewell to the bathroom, and came out to take a breath.There was no one outside the bathroom, a window was opened at the end of the corridor, and Chen Shu lay on the vent, exhaling alcohol and tobacco.

There were footsteps approaching behind him.

"Mr. Chen."

Chen Shu turned around, Xiang Dong only had one pair of eyes bright in the backlight.

"Are you coming to the bathroom too? What a coincidence." Xiang Dong's face was blurred, but his tone was very similar.

Chen Shu sneered in his heart and acted with me. "I went the wrong way, did the professor go the wrong way too, how do I come to the staff bathroom?" He asked sincerely.

Xiang Dong didn't respond, and walked up to Chen Shu: "Since we met by such a coincidence, Mr. Chen, can I ask you a few questions?"

Chen Shu's expression remained unchanged: "Please tell me."

"Can you tell me what Zhou Xu said when he came to you yesterday? To be honest, he has been greatly influenced by the past. Since I became his tutor, I have always advocated that he forget the things that cannot be changed in the past, but this student My heart is too dead, and my temper is too stubborn. This makes the help I can give him very limited."

Near the window illuminated by street lights, Xiang Dong seems to have lost some sense of mystery.

Chen Shu replied, "I suggest you ask Zhou Xu this question yourself."

Professor Xiang didn't answer, but just stared into Chen Shu's eyes.Hypnotists probably have a strange force, what they say is convincing, looking you in the eye can make you unable to break free.But this kind of courage is displayed in Zhou Xu's body, which is more profound than his teacher.

Xiang Dong raised his hand, as if he wanted to lightly press on his shoulder——

There was a slight odor from his wrists.Chen Shu felt a little strange, and there was a little bit of unease at a deeper level.

"Milai, Milai, Milai, Dora, Milai, Milai, Milai..."

It wasn't Chen Shu's cell phone ringtone.Xiang Dong withdrew his hand that was supposed to be on Chen Shu's shoulder, and took out his cell phone from his pocket.As soon as he saw the caller ID, he frowned, gave Chen Shu an indistinct look, turned around and left: "Zhou Xu? What's the matter with you..."

Chen Shu pressed his back against the window sill, and he breathed a sigh of relief after a while. His tightly clenched palms were released, causing him to hiss in pain—there was a shallow bloodstain in the shape of a half-moon on the palm, which was pierced by nails.

When he returned to the box, Xiang Dong was already sitting in his seat and continued to enjoy dinner in silence.Xin Hong asked him why he had been gone for so long with his eyes. Chen Shu's mind was in a mess and he pretended not to notice. After sitting for a while, seeing that everyone was drinking incoherently during the banquet, he sent a message to call Xiao Peng out to go with him. .

Chen Shu waited for Xiao Peng to pick up the car in the cold wind, so cold that he almost wrapped his head in a scarf.He rubbed his hands and stomped his feet on the spot, and saw an acquaintance standing under the lamppost by the side of the road with sharp eyes.

Um?He narrowed his eyes.

The acquaintance also looked at him and walked over slowly.

Zhou Xu's hand holding the phone has been frozen blue and white.Chen Shu was taken aback, and touched the back of his cold hand: "Is it cold, hello!"

Zhou Xu grabbed his palm, turned it over, and there was a fresh and light red mark.

"That teacher of yours," Chen Shu complained, "it's too scary. Last time I was taken aback without anyone noticing. I was afraid that if I talked to him a few more words, I would be brainwashed on the spot!"

Zhou Xu held his hand, his brows and eyes looked deep in the backlight.

A car slid to the side and stopped, Xiao Peng rolled down the window, looked at his brother and then at his brother's teacher Xiao Zhou with sneaky eyes: "Why don't you two get in the car first?"

On the way to Zhou Xu's home, Chen Shu thought of a question: "Why do you rent a house so far away from the school?"

Zhou Xu just dug out the medicine box in his car and applied medicine to the pitifully shallow scar on Chen Shu's palm, but unfortunately he couldn't put on the band-aid before the scab formed.

"That's my aunt's house." Zhou Xu replied flatly.

Chen Shu tilted his head and looked at him.

"My rent was waived."

Then Chen Shu remembered that Zhou Xu was still a student at school with no source of income.

"What did my teacher tell you?" Zhou Xu asked.

Chen Shu counted one by one with his fingers: "Ask me a few questions: What did Zhou Xu say to you that day? Zhou Xu has a stubborn temper and I can't help you. Shouldn't have been brainwashed."

The street lights flickered by the car window one after another, Zhou Xu's face was sometimes clear and sometimes blurred.

"Xu Wendian said that my teacher could not learn hypnosis when he was in school in the United States. Until Xu Wendian returned to China and opened a consultation center, one day he suddenly received the news that my teacher had completed his studies and recommended himself to his clinic to provide hypnosis help. At that time, Xu Wendian was Taking care of my mother's depression..."

"Learning hypnotism does not require talent, but it requires certain qualities in people. For example, self-confidence, tongue-twisting, empathy and authority, the cultivation of these qualities is closely related to a person's education from childhood and the environment in which he grows up, so some people are very You can learn it quickly, but some people can't learn it at all. If you can't succeed in the first study, you will form a subconscious mind that you will not succeed in the next time, and it will be difficult to be convincing when you hypnotize people..."

Chen Shu listened to his narration in a daze, thinking, Professor Xiang was right, Zhou Xu was indeed a stubborn and determined person.Although this may also be Professor Xiang wanting him to think so.

Professor Xiang made him unable to understand Zhou Xu's meaning.

"Maybe, you should find a chance to have a frank chat with your teacher?"

Zhou Xu smiled: "Xu Wendian also suggested that."

The car was parked outside the community, and Zhou Xu waved to Chen Shu through the car window: "Any day is fine, just finish the class."

Chen Shu said OK.

Xiao Peng said quietly: "I don't have time for any day."

Chen Shu kicked the driver's seat.

My brother hooked up with someone without me knowing.Xiao Peng shut his mouth and expressed his dissatisfaction with silence.

Before the end of the week, Chen Shu learned from Zhou Xu that Professor Xiang Dong was in some trouble.Mr. Wu, who was his partner in the hypnosis demonstration, was the one Chen Shu first met in the Mental Health Center of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Medical University. Because of his alcoholism, he received psychological treatment from Professor Xiang. As a result, he didn't drink often, and once he drank, he became violent. behavior, resulting in minor injuries at the level of domestic violence injury identification of wives and daughters.The wife and daughter wanted to sue Mr. Wu, and Mr. Wu turned around and sued Professor Xiang, which caused an uproar among the professor and his disciples.

Chen Shu asked if he was very busy recently and couldn't go to class?

Zhou Xu replied that it is the tutor's private matter, please do not become a student.

When the agreed date came, Chen Shu realized that H University was still some distance away from Zhou Xu's home, so he simply asked Xiao Peng to drive to the school to pick up Zhou Xu.When he arrived at the school, he had to get out of the car. Xiao Peng tightly held the safety door lock: "Be sober! Do you want to be surrounded by thousands of people at school!!"

Chen Shu wrapped his face with a scarf, buttoned his peaked cap, and then pulled up his coat hat. The fluffy down edge almost buried his whole head, and he couldn't hear clearly: "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo??" can't you? ?

"No, brother!! You are more suspicious like this, that student will wrap himself up like this?!"

While talking, a winter windproof guinea contestant passed by.

Xiao Peng: "..."

Chen Shu took the opportunity to press the safety lock, opened the door and got out of the car, shutting Xiao Peng's ghostly crying and wolf howling behind him.

Zhou Xu returned the news that he asked which classroom he was in, wondering why he wanted it.What are you doing?Chen Shu sticks out a fingertip from the warm sleeve, hooking the coffee bag.Give you warmth.

The School of Psychology is not in the main teaching area, and there are very few students coming and going. Chen Shu safely entered the back door of the classroom.Before class started, Chen Shu looked around but didn't see Zhou Xu——Zhou Xu was on the podium!

Chen Shu was shocked. He didn't expect that he came in to find the teacher?

There is an inch head in the back row, who looks like Zhou Xu's fellow student, Li San.Chen Shu walked around to look at the front, and it was true that he was sitting next to Li San.

Li San was tinkering with the computer, and suddenly a person sat next to him, and looked sideways.The classroom is so empty, people who are not acquaintances probably wouldn't want to sit together.Then he reflected on the computer screen and saw the neighbor take off his furry coat hat and push down his peaked cap even lower.

Li San continued to do his own thing, but couldn't help but take another look.Take another look...

Chen Shu briefly raised the brim of his hat and gave him a knowing look.

Li San: "!!!" Li San covered his mouth, and there was a convulsive sound in his throat.

Zhou Xu seemed to have sensed something on the podium, looked towards the back row, and Chen Shu waved to him slightly.

Across the classroom, Zhou Xuwannian's unchanging expression could be seen flickering with horror: "!!!"

The old professor sat directly under the podium drinking water, and slowly covered the thermos cup, as if asking Zhou Xu, Zhou Xu looked away and shook his head.

The students didn't notice, swiping their mobile phones, flipping through books.

Li San's thin voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth: "...Why are you here!"

"I'm here to find Zhou Xu," Chen Shu put the coffee bag in front of him to block himself, and said word by word, "Send, warm, warm."

Li Sanhun wandered outside the sky: "Brother, I admire your brother, I have never seen an artist as courageous as you..."

After sitting in the back row for a while, the class started and Zhou Xu cast a slide.It seems that it is not a lecture, but a topic.

Chen Shu asked, "Are there many classes in graduate school?"

Li San held his fragile heart: "It's not a class, it's a teaching assistant, 600 yuan a month - no, are you really not nervous at all, it's a sin to be famous without knowing it."

Chen Shu handed him a cup of steaming coffee: "Drink it?" Shut up after drinking it.

Li San fell silent.

There seems to be no big difference between Zhou Xu on the podium and Zhou Xu in the study. His gestures are concise and his speech is smooth. He is naturally confident and authoritative, and he is also very strict. When his eyes fall on you, he can make you sit up straight and know that you have to pay attention to the class.

"The following is the difference between perception and feeling. Perception is an indirect reflection of the overall attributes of things, which is more subjective; feeling is a direct response to individual attributes of things, which is more objective..."

Listening to each other, Chen Shu remembered the conversation with Professor Xiang that night at the dinner party, and the vague smell emanating from Xiang Dong's wrist.I don't know if it's a perception or a feeling, more subjective or objective... Let's talk about it with Zhou, after all, he is always thinking about what his teacher is hiding.

When get out of class was about to end, Li San suddenly remembered and asked Chen Shu if he could sign him, but there were no posters or photos, so could he sign elsewhere.

"Where is the signature?" Chen Shu asked.

"Phone case!" Li San seemed to have prepared it a long time ago, and peeled off the silicone case of his mobile phone, "I think Zhou Xu also has one, and he takes his mobile phone to show off every day, in case anyone doesn't know that he has your signature .”

Have it?Chen Shu recalled when he had signed for Zhou Xu—the first time he met at the Wendong Consultation Center, when Zhou Xu was still a cool doctor in his eyes.It turned out that the phone case was actually used.

Li San gave a ballpoint pen, which was exactly the same as Zhou Xu's fake fan behavior.Ballpoint pens are not easy to write on silicone materials. Li San does not have the treatment of Zhou Xu. Zhou Xu’s signature takes up the entire back of the phone. Li San’s, Chen Shu wrote it once and did not come out, so he shrunk to a corner to draw more. several times.

It just so happened that a girl came to Li San at this time and handed him something: "Brother San, please help me deliver it to Teacher Xiao Zhou! I'll bring you milk tea next time!"

Chen Shu glanced under the brim of his hat—eh, the pink envelope?

Seeing that there was another person beside her, the girl hesitated a bit, but her eyes widened quickly, she even forgot about Li San's complaint, as if she had discovered something serious and was not sure.

Before Chen Shu realized it, after painting the name, he was thinking about whether to put it in Li San's drawer or in his backpack.

That girl: "Hey..."

A gust of wind rushed through the aisle, and he put the down cap on Chen Shu's head to cover it, picked him up and walked out of the classroom quickly.Li San was still calling behind him: "Hey Zhouer, your letter!"

Chen Shu also yelled: "My coffee!" Being dragged by Zhou Xu, he stumbled and covered himself in a pile of down feathers, almost having trouble breathing.

Zhou Xu dragged him out of the School of Psychology without saying a word, and the caring Xiao Peng had already parked on the side of the road.

Chen Shu got into the car and took off his hat before he was relieved: "My coffee..." He was a little frustrated.

Zhou Xu said in a cold voice: "You still want coffee, why don't you go to heaven? Are you not clear about your position?"

Chen Shu was a little frightened, this was the first time Zhou Xu got angry with him.

Xiao Peng was also very worried, and turned around with the back of his chair: "Brother, you are really too careless. Your fans can recognize what kind of wrap you are in. The pictures of masks, sunglasses, and low-brimmed hats posted in Chaohua are still less!"

Chen Shu was at a loss for words for a while, but when he thought that he was not recognized by others, wouldn't it be all right, so he argued again: "Didn't I also come to the last time I was looking for Professor Xiang to teach, so it doesn't matter if you cover it well."

Xiao Peng started the car and drove out of the school, while teaching him a lesson: "Last time you went to the administration building, there was no one there, let alone the time we chose for class. Brother, ask yourself, do you do these things too little?" : I slipped out alone at the airport to buy coffee and was secretly photographed, causing me to be chased by fans and scolded me for being negligent for a long time; taking photos to an open-air cafe to bask in the sun until I fell asleep and then being secretly photographed, causing the company to be scolded for a long time and oppressing employees!"

It wasn't a big deal at first, mainly because Chen Shu was a public figure, and his behavior was overly magnified.Chen Shu never took it seriously, but Xiao Peng exposed Zhou Xu's faults in front of Zhou Xu, which is unbearable! "Peng Bushuai, don't you want to do it..."

Zhou Xu interrupted coldly: "I think you lack self-knowledge."

Chen Shu was dumbfounded.

"Only when self-awareness is inaccurate will you act inappropriately."

Zhou Xu was really angry.