Chapter 19: There are wolves in front of you and tigers behind you.

On the second day of the professional class, Ji Su sat in the third row of seats, his upper and lower eyelids fighting.

The teacher on the podium actually found it a bit of a novelty when she saw the way his head looked little by little.

Ji Su is a typical good student, even in elective classes, he will listen carefully and take notes, so teachers like to interact with him in class, but today is the first time I found him dozing off in class.

Qiao Jin notices the teacher's gaze resting on Ji Su and surreptitiously reaches out his arm and pounds the man at his side.

His long, black, thick eyelashes fluttered open like a frightened butterfly, and Ji Su abruptly straightened up, looking a little confused.

The teacher smiled kindly at him and continued his lecture.

For the second half of the class, Ji Su pinched her palms to stay awake.

When class ended, Qiao Jin asked, "Susu, what did you do last night, why are you so sleepy?"

"Don't mention it ......" Ji Su whispered back as she packed her book bag, "I was chased all night in my dreams."

"Huh?" Qiao Jin eyeballed, "The person who is after you is not Gu Zhao, right? Qiao Jin eyeballed him, "The person chasing after you wouldn't be Gu Zhao, would it?"

Ji Su : "Yes ......"

In his dream, Gu Zhao came through the cell phone screen, without saying a word, pulled out a gun from his arms, disguised as a cold-faced killer, the two of them fled and chased each other, until he was forced to the front of the cliff, and then woke up with a jolt.

He couldn't sleep any more in the second half of the night and kept his eyes open until dawn, severely sleep deprived.

"It's not that exaggerated!" Qiao Jin tried to comfort him, "A society based on the rule of law, and School Mistress Gu Da is also a senior law student, so he won't know the law and break it."

Ji Su sighed softly, "One really can't do anything wrong."

On the way to the cafeteria, Qiao Jin suddenly remembered an important question: "Tomorrow is vacation, have you thought about going out with us?"

Ji Su declined, "I'd better not go, you guys have fun."

Qiao Jin saw right through his concerns, "It's okay, I confirmed with Zhou Yang that Gu Zhao won't go."

Ji Su: "Really?"

"Really, how could I still screw you over?" Qiao Jin patted his chest and assured, "You stay in school alone instead of being prone to rambling, you might as well go out for a break."

Ji Su weighed her options and finally responded, "Good."

I don't want to go home, and it's easy to run into Gu Zhao if I stay at school, so the best option is to go on a trip.

"Great!" Qiao Jin jumped up happily, "I'll send a message to Zhou Yang right away to make arrangements."

Ji Su wanted to say, "Little Joe ......"

Qiao Jin: "What?"

Ji Su shook his head, "Never mind, it's nothing."

He originally wanted Qiao Jin to go to Zhou Yang to find out Gu Zhao's reaction, but he was blackmailed by Mengmeng last night, so he thought that the other party's mood wouldn't be any better.

He, the one who started it all, is now doing everything like a cat crying for fake mercy.

After dinner, Ji Su was drawing pictures in the dormitory.

I don't know how long it took, but the cell phone sitting on the table suddenly vibrated.

His first thought was that G had messaged him again, and it took several seconds before he woke up to the fact that he'd already hacked the other guy.

G won't message Mengmeng anymore and he won't log into that account anymore.

Ji Su picked up his cell phone and opened WeChat.

Ji Chen: [Brother Brother, will you go home tomorrow?]

Ji Su : [I'm not going back, I'm going out with my classmates.]

Ji Chen: [Huh? No reply ......]

Ji Chen: [Not even one day? I feel like I haven't seen my brother for a long time.]

Ji Su hesitated, but gave a negative answer.

Ji Su: [When you finish your exams, you can come and play with me.]

Ji Chen: [Really?]

Ji Chen: [Can I really come to you after the exam?]

Ji Su: [Uh-huh.]

Ji Su: [Go for it.]

Ji Chen: [I'll work hard, I'll look for you at the University of A as soon as I finish my exams!]

After a long time of chatting, Ji Su was about to continue drawing when his cell phone rang again.

Looking at the caller ID, he frowned and stepped out onto the balcony before pressing connect.

"Your brother said you won't be coming home on May 1st?" Ji Zhenghai began with a question, "Didn't I tell you to take the time to go home, and you're so busy with college?"

Ji Su softly explains, "I'm sorry dad, I've already made an appointment with my classmates."

Ji Zhenghai sounded disgruntled, "About what?"

Ji Su answered truthfully, "It's a date to go on a trip."

"So you'd rather go on a trip with your classmates than go home to visit?" Ji Zhenghai started to get angry, "So reluctant to go home, is there anyone in this family who treats you badly? Tell me!"

Ji Su bit her lower lip and didn't say anything.

Qiao Jin poked his head out from behind the balcony door and whispered, "Who is it?"

Ji Su mouthed back, "My dad."

Qiao Jin raised his eyebrows and stepped forward, grabbing the cell phone and loudly greeting, "Hello uncle!"

The counting on the other end of the line came to an abrupt halt, and Ji Zhenghai cleared his throat somewhat unnaturally, "Ahem ...... and you are?"

Qiao Jin rolled his eyes as he greeted, "Uncle, I'm Qiao Jin, don't you remember me?"

Ji Zhenghai: "Ah, remember remember."

"Uncle is like this, it is I have to pull Ji Su together to go out to travel." Qiao Jin's lies come out of his mouth, "Uncle, you know it's not safe out there now, there are always news about college students who go out alone and go missing, so it's always better to be accompanied by two people than one, isn't it?"

Ji Zhenghai: "But--"

"And oh, recently, isn't Ji Chen's younger brother about to take the midterm exam, the family must be more nervous, you and auntie can't even take care of your younger brother in time, isn't Ji Su coming home at this moment adding to the chaos for you?" Qiao Jin used the most polite tone and said the most eccentric words, "Don't you think so, uncle?"

Ji Zhenghai was at a loss for words as he rattled on, not knowing what to say.

"That's it then, uncle, goodbye." Qiao Jin said what he wanted to say and hung up the phone dryly.

Ji Su listened to the whole program with an indescribable admiration in her eyes, "Xiao Qiao, you are too eloquent."

"Where where." Qiao Jin ruffles his bangs dashingly and adds, "Susu, you're actually not so bad, you just don't want to contradict your dad, so you habitually keep quiet about him."

Ji Su tugged slightly at the corner of his lips, "There's no point in refuting it."

Ji Zhenghai never listens to what he says or cares what's really on his mind anyway, so why should he make a fool of himself?

So be it, maintain the calm, at least on the surface it looks like he's not alone.

"Forget it, forget it, let's not talk about these unhappy things." Qiao Jin returned the phone to him, "Let's go, let's go pack up our clothes and get ready to travel happily tomorrow!"

Ji Su put away her cell phone, "Good."

The other two roommates had already bought their tickets home early, leaving them alone in the dormitory.

Ji Su took his clothes out of the closet, rummaged through them, and was caught off guard when he found the dress that Gu Zhao had bought for him.

Qiao Jin also saw it and teased, "What, Susu, you still want to wear a little dress?"

"Where?" Ji Su snapped back to her senses and quickly shoved her skirt back into the deepest part of the closet.

"You don't say, I kinda miss you wearing skirts." Qiao Jin smacked his lips as if he was reminiscing about something, "Actually, I can't really blame Gu Zhao, who could look at those legs of yours and not get confused?"

"Xiao Qiao, stop talking ......" Ji Su looked at him helplessly, "Just let this go, okay?"

"Okay, okay!" Qiao Jin saw it as a good thing, "How many clothes are you going to bring?"

Ji Su stuffed the picked out clothes into her school bag, "Bring two sets."

Qiao Jin looks surprised, "Susu are you serious?"

Ji Su: "What's the problem?"

"It's really worthy of being a straight man, not refined at all!" Qiao Jin shook his finger, "We have to go for several days, bring more clothes, we can't wear the same clothes every day."

Ji Su: "It's fine, just wash and change."

Qiao Jin reminded, "Then you won't have any clothes to wear when the time comes, and I can't lend you mine."

Though they were of similar stature, Ji Su was a bit taller than him and they had completely different dressing styles, so even though they were close, they didn't make a habit of wearing each other's clothes.

Ji Su looked at the fancy clothes and laughed, "Don't worry, I won't rob you of your clothes."

*

It's after 9 p.m. Gu Zhao sits in a chair and looks at the WeChat dialog box, his condensed gaze looking as if he could shoot his cell phone through it.

"Brother Gu, I've found it, I've found it!" Wang Mingzhe excitedly stood up and moved over with one hand on the table.

Gu Zhao side-eyed, "Look."

"There are only three girls with Meng in their names in this freshman class of the Conservatory of Music, named Li Shimeng, Zheng Yimeng, and Zhao Mengmeng." Wang Mingzhe handed his cell phone in front of his eyes, "This is their picture, do you want to meet them one by one, Brother Gu? "

Gu Zhao scanned the screen and spoke in a somber tone, "Neither."

"That's not right Brother Gu, haven't you never seen Mengmeng's face before?" Zhou Yang couldn't help but wonder, "Why did you recognize that it wasn't even her at once?"

Gu Zhao: "Look at the legs."

"Crap, can you even tell?" Wang Mingzhe thought it was unbelievable, "What if the other party sends you pictures that are all p?"

Gu Zhao affirmed, "It's not P's."

No one knew that he was a heavy leg man, with his own set of aesthetic standards for legs, and so strict as to be almost pathological, and that for so long, only those legs had stepped on his every nerve with precision and perfection.

Slender and straight, as if one hand couldn't touch the end, skin as white as jade, smooth and delicate, couldn't see a single flaw. Thighs and calves are perfectly proportioned, leg lines are beautiful and smooth, slender with just the right amount of fleshiness, not one point more and not one point less. The knee joints were round and luscious, translucent with a light powder, and even the red mole on the inner thighs looked like it had grown to his liking.

He had to admit that at first he did get caught up in the leg photo.

"Wait!" Wang Mingzhe slammed the table, "Then is there a possibility that the name Mengmeng is also a fake?"

Gu Zhao also thought of this possibility, and his face was somber, not saying a word.

He'd always known the other man came with an agenda, and he didn't mind Mengmeng's occasional harmless little lie, but how could someone who could play a piano piece like that be a complete fraud?

"Maybe the other party is a professional online scammer!" Zhou Yang finally couldn't help herself, her tone sounded very chagrined, "Ji Su said that you might have encountered an Internet scammer, I didn't think so at the time, I should've listened to him and warned you as early as possible!"

Wang Mingzhe's eyes widened, "Brother Gu, were you cheated by that Mengmeng?"

"No." Gu Zhao said coldly, "Can't see past my money."

Not only did he not cheat him out of his money, he reversed it and gave him ten thousand dollars.

So he couldn't figure out in any case why the other party changed his face when he said he would, and pulled the plug when he said he would.

Is it true that as Mengmeng said, he thought of him as someone else from the beginning, played piano music for him when he needed it most, looked for him to chat with him every day, claimed to like him so he was willing to like everything about him, but it was actually all for another man ......

Thinking of this, Gu Zhao face became even more ugly, with a face of mountain rain.

"Did not cheat money ah?" Wang Mingzhe scratched the back of his head, confused, "Then how the hell is this this ...... this?"

"If it's not to cheat money, then it's to cheat feelings, right?" Zhou Yang guessed, "Isn't there that kind of Zha Nan scum who specializes in playing with other people's feelings for fun?"

Gu Zhao was silent for a few seconds and looked up at him, "You were saying, who said I might have run into an internet scam?"

"Huh? It's Ji Su." Zhou Yang explained, "That's Ji Su from the architecture department! It's Ji Su." Zhou Yang explained, "That's Ji Su from the Architecture Department, he came to play with Qiao Jin on my birthday that day, do you have any impression of him?"

Gu Zhao narrowed his dark eyes slightly, "How did he know I'd run into an internet scam?"

"Well ......" Zhou Yang was a little bit vain and moved a step to the side, "I just casually said that you might have been having an online relationship recently... ..."

Gu Gu frowns, "You guys are going around advertising my online dating?"

"No, no, no!" Zhou Yang quickly waved her hands to deny, "It wasn't publicized everywhere, just to the two of them."

Wang Mingzhe also raised his hands, "This matter has nothing to do with me, I said nothing!"

Gu Zhao's gaze fell back onto the cell phone screen, the color of his eyes getting darker and darker.

Wang Mingzhe thought for a moment and then suggested, "Otherwise, Gu, you can go next door to the Conservatory of Music and squat, and recognize people by looking at the legs of the girls who pass by, and maybe you'll catch Mengmeng!"

Gu Zhao glanced at him, "You think I'm a pervert?"

Wang Mingzhe manually sealed his mouth, "Ok fine, forget I said that."

The dormitory went quiet and no one made a sound.

"Brother Gu, tomorrow is the May Day holiday, I don't think this person can be found for a while, why don't you go out with us." Zhou Yang carefully broke the silence, "Go out for a walk, maybe you'll forget about it when you come back."

Gu Zhao tapped his desktop with his knuckles, "Which ones will be there, you said last time?"

"At the moment, there's me, Old Wang and Qiao Jin, and Ji Su said she wouldn't go but changed her mind a while ago." Zhou Yang counted on his fingers, "And--"

The result was interrupted before Gu Zhao could finish his count, "I'll go too."

*

Early Saturday morning, Qiao Jin jumped out of bed excitedly and got busy pouring herself out.

Ji Su waited until he was almost done before washing up, and still ended up waiting an extra ten minutes.

At 7:50, the two walked together to the school entrance.

"Qiao Jin, Ji Su!" Zhou Yang waved enthusiastically at them from afar, "We're here!"

Qiao Jin waves in response, "Coming!"

When Ji Su approached, she realized that besides Zhou Yang and Wang Mingzhe, who was on crutches, there was also a tall boy who was not familiar to her.

"Ji Su," the boy opened his mouth to greet him, "I told you we'd meet again!"

Ji Su looks a little confused, "You are ......"

"I'm He Yiming!" He Yiming looked at him expectantly, "Don't you remember me?"

Ji Su finally retrieved the boy's information from her mind and tried to hide her embarrassment with a smile, "I remember, we met before at Zhou Yang's birthday party."

"Right, right, right!" He Yiming's eyes lit up when he saw him remembering himself, "We were going to add WeChat at that time, but it didn't work out when your cell phone ran out of battery."

Ji Su: "......"

It's been so long, why is this guy still obsessed with adding him on WeChat?

"Oh yo, there's still this little tidbit?" Wang Mingzhe keenly smelled a hint of something wrong, "Lao He, what do you want to add Ji Su's WeChat for?"

He Yiming's face inexplicably turned red, "I--"

"Hey!" Just then, Zhou Yang spotted the oncoming person with sharp eyes, "Brother Gu! Over here!"

Ji Su stiffened and subconsciously looked back for confirmation.

Gu Zhao, wearing a familiar black jacket and carrying a black hiking bag over one shoulder, walked expressionlessly in their direction with one hand in his pocket.

"Crap--" Qiao Jin choked off the expletive just in time, lowering his voice to ask sharply, "Zhou Yang, didn't you say Gu Zhao wasn't coming?"

Zhou Yang rubbed the back of his head, "Oh yeah, Gu wanted to come last night on a whim, I forgot to tell you guys."

"It's lively when there are more people!" Wang Mingzhe interjected, "I'm the kind of person who likes to be lively."

He Yiming teased him, "See, otherwise you wouldn't be so physically disabled that you'd go out and travel on crutches."

"You--" Wang Mingzhe raised his cane to hit him, and then let it go when he saw Gu Zhao's figure out of the corner of his eye.

Ji Su turned back his face and exchanged a look with Qiao Jin.

Ji Su: Can I pull out now?

Qiao Jin: It seems like you can't ......

"Ji Su, let me help you with your backpack." He Yiming stretched out his right hand, "It feels like your bag is quite heavy."

Ji Su politely declined, "It's not heavy, I can carry it myself, thanks."

He Yiming didn't insist either, "Alright then."

"Good, everyone is here!" Zhou Yang clapped her hands, "The car is parked right in front of the school, so we can get ready to go."

In front of him is the sunny He Yiming, and behind him is Gu Zhao, whose expression is as cold as ice.

Ji Su stood still, not wanting to move his feet.

Is there any kind soul that swoops in to kidnap him?