What to do if you are too paranoid

Yu Duo's mind went blank.

I'm a little afraid of standing in the public eye?

This excuse couldn't be more false when it came from Yu Duo who had just returned from the stage reading.

Yu Duo could only insist, "I can't escape."

He held his breath and looked at Shen Zhen, trying to make his words sound more convincing: "I'm going to meet a very important friend tonight."

What kind of important friend can make Yu Duo give up the awards ceremony?Thinking of this, Shen Zhen couldn't help feeling jealous.

Yu Duo always has a lot of things to share with him, but before today, he had never heard anything about "this friend" from Yu Duo.

"This friend" seemed to appear in Yuncheng out of nowhere, and Shen Zhen could only think of one possibility: "This friend" was Yu Duogang's acquaintance not long ago.

Shen Zhen stepped back a little, as if accepting Yu Duo's explanation: "When are you going back tonight?"

Shen Zhen said, "I'll wait for you at home."

"No need!" Yu Duo pursed her lower lip, "Sir, don't wait for me, I shouldn't be going back tonight."

Since he was able to give up the awards ceremony for this fabricated "good friend", in order to show the importance of the friendship between the two, Yu Duo decided to act to the end.

Yu Duo said: "He was a little scared to stay in a hotel by himself, and said he wanted me to stay with him for one night."

Even though he said so, Yu Duo had already made up his mind.

He went back to Yu's house to stay for one night, and when tomorrow, he told Shen Zhen that his "friend" had had enough fun and left Yuncheng, so he could find a reasonable place for this "friend" who had never shown up way of disappearing.

"Tomorrow...you won't be back either?"

Shen Zhen's tone obviously didn't sound right, and Yu Duo didn't have time to think about it.He is now racking his brains to make up a "friend" to try to mix up tonight's awards ceremony.

"Of course I'll go back. He's leaving tomorrow, so I'll just stay with him for one night." Yu Duo thought for a while, then added with an emphatic tone: "And we don't live in the same room."

Shen Zhen: "Don't live in the same room?"

Yu Duo nodded: "We are both grown men, there is enough room to live in and there is no need to squeeze together."

"In this case, why don't you bring your friends back to live here." Shen Zhen seemed to have finally recovered from some emotions, and said in a deep voice: "I can go to the studio tonight."

Shen Zhen paused for a moment, then continued: "You live in my room, let your friend live in your room, there are new sheets in the cabinet, if you mind, you can replace them with new ones."

Yu Duo hesitated and said: "This is too troublesome, he and I should go directly to the hotel."

"If you find it troublesome," Shen Zhen said, "I'll go back later and put on new sheets for you."

Yu Duo: "..."

Yu Duo: "Actually, he, uh, he has to catch the early morning train tomorrow, so it would be more convenient to stay in a hotel and have breakfast."

Shen Zhen: "What time is his train, I can come back and bring you two breakfasts."

Yu Duo's eyes became wider and wider, because he even heard Shen Zhen say to him in a very serious tone: "If he can't get used to breakfast outside, I can cook for you."

"Where is he from? Any taste preferences?"

Yu Duo: "..."

Although Shen Zhen didn't have any other expressions, Yu Duo still felt inexplicably sad after hearing this.

Not for myself, but for Shen Zhen.

He couldn't bear the concession in Shen Zhen's tone, and wished he could go home with Shen Zhen now.

But with "friends" as an excuse, he could only bite the bullet and say, "Actually——"

The first time Shen Zhen interrupted him, he just said "I'll wait for you at home", then turned and left.

He walked extremely fast, as if he was afraid that Yu Duo would catch up and say something, the tall and slender figure quickly disappeared at the end of the corridor.

Yu Duo looked at the empty corridor in front of him, and whispered to himself: "What should we do now?"

He didn't have any friends who came to Yunshi from other places to play, and he didn't want to bring others to live in his and Shen Zhen's room.

It is impossible for him to conjure up a friend who is familiar with him and who will not show his clues in front of Shen Zhen.

After all, Shen Zhen met almost half of all his friends in Yunshi at Yingchen's engagement banquet before.

He didn't dare to bet on how perverted Xueba's memory was. Once he revealed his secrets, he might really have to move out of the apartment tomorrow.

It was the first time in Yu Duo's life that he felt such a sense of anxiety.

Shen Zhen didn't know where he went after leaving the backstage. Yu Duo couldn't find anyone in the auditorium, so he asked some acquaintances backstage. When Yu Duo asked about Shen Zhen, he said he hadn't seen him.

Before the school celebration party ended, Yu Duo sent many text messages to Shen Zhen.

Shen Zhen replied to every one of his messages, but she just refused to disclose any information about her location.

Until Shen Zhen sent him a message.

Senior: The award ceremony is about to begin.

Seeing this news, Yu Duo hurried back to the hall.

After the party, the auditorium was mostly empty, but the first few rows were still almost full.

On the stage was Yu Wandong's brief introduction to the original intention of the "Read More" bonus. Yu Duo leaned over and found a seat to sit down. He scanned the backs of the first few rows, but did not see Shen Zhen.

Yu Wandong on stage finished his speech, and the audience applauded thunderously.

The next process was to present awards to the scholarship students by Yu Wandong who stayed on stage.

Before the host took the stage, he got news from Yu Wandong that one of the students on the award list was unable to attend the awards ceremony because of something.

As Shen Zhen was the first person to come on stage, Yu Wandong handed him the souvenir book with both hands, looked up at him for a moment, and said to Shen Zhen: "I remember you."

"Did we meet here last year?"

"Yes, Mr. Yu."

Yu Wandong couldn't help but take a closer look at Shen Zhen. One year later, this young man gave him a more stable feeling.

Shen Zhen still stood upright, like an unyielding tree that wanted to grow towards the sun.

With admiration for Shen Zhen in Yu Wandong's eyes, before the next classmate came to the stage, he narrowed the distance between the two of them and whispered to Shen Zhen: "I will hold a banquet at the beginning of next month. We might have time to chat for a while."

He had read Shen Zhen's resume, and he admired Shen Zhen who was down-to-earth and steady and decisive in his work.

Yu Wandong patted Shen Zhen on the shoulder encouragingly, and Shen Zhen thanked Yu Wandong politely before turning and leaving.

When he stepped off the stage, he was stopped by the secretary standing in the corner.

Yu Wandong's secretary is a very capable woman. She took out a beautiful and unique invitation letter from her bag, and said with a smile, "Mr. Yu specially reminded me to send it to you."

Shen Zhen took a look at the invitation letter and nodded to the secretary: "Thank you."

The secretary reminded with a smile: "With this invitation letter, you can also bring a friend to the banquet next month."

There was wind in the cool night, and the surrounding trees and grass kept rustling.

Shen Zhen left the hall, turned on his phone, and saw an unread voice message sent to him by Yu Duo.

The voice was only two seconds long, and Shen Zhen clicked to play it.

What rang through the microphone was the voice of the host calling his name at the awards ceremony just now.

The voice stopped automatically after playing soon, Shen Zhen clicked play again, and put the phone to his ear.

With the wind blowing across her cheeks, Shen Zhen drooped her brows and eyes, but her expression was serious as if she was doing something important.

"Shen Zhen."

This time, he heard another almost invisible voice under the host's voice: "I..."

The voice behind was really unrecognizable, Shen Zhen frowned, and played it again six times.

Finding nothing, Shen Zhen's eyes became colder and colder, and he laughed at his unrealistic delusions.

While imagining the scene of Yu Duo talking and laughing with others together in his mind, he couldn't help but click on the voice playback again with his fingertips.

He typed a lot in the chat box, imagining what Yu Duo might be doing at the moment.

He stared at the last sentence in the input box for a long time, and then deleted all the words.

Seniors: Be careful.

Before waiting for a reply, Shen Zhen stood on the spot and blew the cold wind for a while, confirming that his brain had finally cooled down from some kind of frenzied impulse, and then walked away.

With Shen Zhen, Yu Duo lost his car keys, so he could only take the bus back to their apartment.

When he was sitting in the auditorium, he had already thought about how he would go back alone later, how to explain to Shen Zhen that his "friend" had something to leave Yunshi ahead of schedule.

Feeling relaxed, the map navigation searched for the bus recommended by the meeting and happened to pull into the station. Yu Duo got on the bus, grabbed the handrail with one hand, and followed the driver's guidance, clumsily finding out the interface of scanning the QR code to pay on the mobile phone.

Seeing this, the driver couldn't help asking curiously: "Have you never taken a bus before?"

"No." Yu Duo looked up from the phone and smiled sheepishly, "I'm not familiar with these things,"

It was already the last bus at this time, and there were only a handful of passengers in the carriage.

In order to find the driver for help later, Yu Duo simply sat down at the seat closest to the front door.

It's probably the last bus, and today's work will be over after driving to the terminal, and the driver is more interested in chatting, "I see that you have been looking for it on your phone for a long time, so I guess you have never taken a bus before. "

"Actually, the bus is quite convenient now. If you don't have to go out urgently, taking the bus can be regarded as an environmentally friendly travel." The driver smiled heartily twice, and chatted with Yu Duo all the way.

It wasn't until the announcement on the bus that the bus was about to arrive at the terminal, and the driver saw that Yu Duo was still sitting on the bus and didn't intend to get off, so he finally couldn't help but asked: "Little brother, the bus is about to arrive at the terminal, what are you doing?" Haven't arrived yet?"

"The terminal?" Yu Duo glanced out of the window, surrounded by a completely unfamiliar environment.

He reopened the navigation, and was shocked to find that the distance between himself and the apartment was getting farther and farther.

Seeing that Yu Duo looked wrong, the driver kindly asked: "What's the matter, did you miss the stop?"

Yu Duo re-entered the address of the apartment in the navigation, and chose the route again.

Although it is not clear what happened, he has indeed gone against the right direction now.

Yu Duo raised his head in a daze, and asked the driver, "Isn't this Route 56?"

The driver was also stunned: "Yes."

Yu Duo pursed her lips, and pointed to the name of the station written on the navigation: "Isn't this car passing by the Sunshine Community?"

The driver's expression became subtle, just as the bus had arrived at the terminal.

The driver stopped the car and said to the confused Yu Duo, "It seems that you have never taken a bus before."

The driver explained: "Although they are all on Route 56, you are taking the wrong direction."

Yu Duo didn't quite understand the meaning of this sentence, the driver patiently explained it to him, and he finally realized what stupid thing he had done.

After getting off the bus and standing at the terminus in the wilderness, Yu Duo was shivering from the cold.

The wind blows extraordinarily freely in the suburbs, and it seems that amidst the howling wind, there are other subtle sounds slowly approaching him.

Yu Duo looked around vigilantly, but the voice began to come and go, elusive.

Just at this time, a new message from Shen Zhen popped up.

Seniors: Be careful.

Yu Duo: "..."

In the next second, the battery ran out and the phone automatically shut down.

The author has something to say: sorry for being late >people<

I'm a bit stuck writing today

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