Chapter 12: Relax and tell me if you feel any pain
Gao Xing never expected that after taking on the job of delivering computers, not only did he not get any small profit, but he also had to pay out 120 yuan. He immediately felt terrible.
According to the law of space-time overlap in their previous experiments, things from different time and space cannot be transferred once they leave the villa, so Shen Xingjian is likely to not be able to pay her back the money.
She felt so happy but also felt a pang of pain in her heart when she thought about it. She must go to bed early and get up early in the future and try to make back the 120 yuan she spent on food!
When they returned to Villa No. 1, Shen Xingjian was sitting in the living room. Seeing her go out with one computer bag and come back with two, he asked curiously, "You finally bought a new one? I told you, there's no need to repair your broken computer!"
Gao Xing ignored his trash talk and placed one of the computer bags on the coffee table: "Yours."
"What mine?" Shen Xingjian opened it puzzledly and found that it was a notebook exactly the same as the one he was using now.
"Wow! You bought something so expensive?" He was a little shocked.
On second thought, electronic products like mobile phones and computers are updated quickly, with prices changing almost yearly. Ten years had passed between him and Gao Xing, so even the best things would depreciate. Furthermore, this computer looked like it still had signs of use, so it was probably second-hand, making it even cheaper.
He was about to praise Gaoxing for his good taste in using the same computer as him when he suddenly noticed some engraving on the back of the computer.
SXJ?
How come even the engraving on this one is exactly the same as his?
He was stunned and hurried back to his room to get his own verification device. Unexpectedly, as he approached the living room, he suddenly felt a huge repulsive force, like the same poles of a magnet, unable to come together.
Gao Xing saw him emerge from the room, carrying his computer. Just as he was wondering why he had stopped in front of the bathroom, the electrical appliances in the house began to hum at the same time, the dishes in the cupboard began to vibrate violently, and the liquid in the water glass splashed uncontrollably, making a "hissing" sound that threatened to burst.
Gao Xing felt dizzy, as if her soul was being pulled out of her. She shouted, "What did you do?"
Shen Xingjian immediately stepped back, and all the strange phenomena disappeared in an instant, as if nothing had happened.
He calmed his pounding heart and said to Gao Xing in disbelief, "Can you try and get the computer on the coffee table?"
Gao Xing also sensed something was amiss. She understood and cautiously picked up her computer and moved forward. Less than a meter away, the strange repulsion reappeared, and she hurriedly threw the computer back onto the sofa.
Now they can almost conclude that the abnormal phenomenon just now came from the computers in their hands!
"That is to say... the same thing from different time and space cannot appear in the same space?" Gao Xing said his inference with lingering fear.
“It’s not that we can’t appear in the same space, but… we have to keep a certain distance.” Shen Xingjian added with a frown.
If they could not appear in the same space, Gao Xing would not have been able to bring the computer in. The abnormality occurred after Shen Xingjian returned to the room and moved out another computer. This shows that distance is the variable.
"By the way, how come you have my computer?" Shen Xingjian suddenly reacted. It seemed that she knew that this computer was his from the beginning?
Gao Xing then told him what had just happened in the repair shop, saying that his computer had been there for many years. The boss tried to mail it but no one signed for it, and his number became invalid. The boss couldn't contact anyone, so he asked her to bring it back.
She deliberately concealed the bargaining, portraying herself as being out of pure kindness and even helping him advance the money for the system. Otherwise, with Shen Xingjian's temper, he might feel that he had taken advantage of him and then come up with a bunch of nonsense.
She finds it annoying.
After hearing Gao Xing's description, the furrow between Shen Xingjian's brows deepened. Since he chose to send the computer out for repair, it meant he definitely needed it. How could no one sign for it after it was repaired? His phone number hadn't changed since he registered, so how could he not be contacted?
He suddenly realized that he had been busy looking for the rules of overlapping time and space during this period, but ignored a more critical question, that is, where was he ten years later?
In other words, in these ten years, he not only sold the Shen family's old house and moved out of Mingjing Lake, but also changed his mobile phone number and even got rid of his computer?
This was so out of character, so unlike him to do anything.
Rather than delving into this unfounded question, Gao Xing was more concerned with the current situation: "So what should we do now? Should we send the computer back?"
Shen Xingjian put his computer back in the room, checked this "future" computer and said, "Put it on the second floor, just don't put it together with mine."
She was happy to think that she had to submit her manuscript soon, and her computer would take two or three days to repair. This computer was sitting on the second floor, unused, so if she could borrow it for a while...
"Well... since you don't need it, can you lend it to me for a few days?"
“Didn’t you repair your computer?” Shen Xingjian looked at her strangely.
Perhaps because he'd been around him for so long, Gao Xing had learned to turn the tables. "You...you were talking about one or two hundred, but the boss wanted five...eight hundred! He's so ruthless!"
“Eight hundred?” Shen Xingjian was shocked. Was her broken computer worth eight hundred yuan in total?
That boss seemed like a nice person before, why was he so cruel to strangers?
Seeing her eager look, Shen Xingjian simply said: “I can’t use it anyway, you can take it first.”
"Really?" Gao Xing, seeing him so generous, couldn't help but become cautious again. "You...would you be so kind?"
Now it was Shen Xingjian's turn to laugh angrily. He lent it to her, and she suspected that he had bad intentions. If he didn't lend it to her, would she still scold him for being stingy?
"Do you want it?" He pretended to take the computer back.
"Yes!" Gao Xing hurriedly snatched the computer bag and ran up the stairs like a cat guarding its food, fearing that he would change his mind.
After Gao Xing carried the computer upstairs, he thought about it and felt that he couldn't take advantage of this opportunity for nothing, otherwise he wouldn't know how he would repay his favor and order him around in the future, so he went back downstairs.
In the living room on the first floor, Shen Xingjian was leaning on his wheelchair, holding his neck and thinking about something. Seeing her coming back, he asked, "Do you have anything else to do?"
"Do you have a stiff neck?" Gao Xing pointed at his neck.
"How do you know?"
Nonsense, his head is almost twisted into a crooked tree, can't you see it?
"I've learned a little bit of massage, would you like to try it?"
Shen Xingjian then looked her up and down suspiciously, wondering if this woman had changed her nature? Could she be so kind?
He involuntarily shrank back, not quite trusting, "Are you... sure you can do it? Where did you learn it? Do you have a certificate?"
Gao Xing took a deep breath. As expected, this person's kindness was only occasional, and his bad mouth was the norm.
She turned and went upstairs to get her diploma and nursing certificate, and showed them to him: "Is this the massage class I took as an elective at school, okay?"
Shen Xingjian was surprised. He didn't expect that she was a nurse. He saw her lying upstairs every day, her limbs almost degenerated, and he thought she was an unemployed vagrant.
After confirming that she was a graduate of a regular college, Shen Xingjian dared to give her his neck. He turned around and warned her: "Be gentle, the human cervical spine is very fragile!"
Gao Xing stood behind him and rolled his eyes silently: "I know."
After unbuttoning the first button of his pajamas collar, Gao Xing turned the collar over to expose the affected area, gently placed her fingers on his neck, and asked, "Does it hurt here?"
Her fingertips were slightly cool and moist, and when they touched Shen Xingjian's skin, it was like static electricity, causing him to tremble involuntarily, including his heart.
Shen Xingjian held his breath for a moment, and suddenly felt a little regretful. He shouldn't have let her get started. After all, she was not a strange medical staff in the hospital, but a person of the opposite sex who lived under the same roof with him.
"I……"
He was about to back out when Gao Xing applied a little force with his fingertips, and he immediately cried out in pain: "Ah——"
After confirming the pain point, before he could react, a pair of soft hands had completely covered the back of his neck.
The place where the palm of her hand touched the skin quickly began to heat up. Shen Xingjian could feel her flexible fingers slowly moving down along his cervical spine, drawing circles on the stiff muscles, from Fengchixue to Jianjingxue, kneading the tight muscle fibers bit by bit.
"Tell me if it hurts." Her voice was so soft, so close that it seemed to vibrate in the cochlea.
Shen Xingjian gritted his teeth, it was indeed painful, but what was fatal now was not the pain, but the uneasy feeling!
The pain in his shoulders and neck was tinged with a strange sense of comfort, like a long-stretched string finally being loosened, with an uncontrollable sense of relief. Her happy breaths occasionally gushed into his ears, and the faint scent of laundry detergent on her body dominated all his senses.
"Relax your body and don't be so nervous." Gao Xing reminded him with more force.
Shen Xingjian's forehead began to sweat, his voice was hoarse, and he responded vaguely.
All his attention was now focused on the hands behind his neck. The fingers were happily pressing on both sides of his cervical vertebrae. Every kneading made a shiver run through his spine, and there was an indescribable feeling of weightlessness.
“It might be a little painful next…”
Gao Xing suddenly leaned over, her lips almost touching his ear, her arms hooked under his chin, and she hugged him tightly in her arms.
"Bear with it."
Before Shen Xingjian could react, a sharp pain accompanied by a light "click" sound came from his neck. He cried out "Ah" and leaned back reflexively.
Time seemed to stand still at this moment. After all the strength was released, Shen Xingjian could clearly feel Gao Xing's body pressed against his back. Her heartbeat could be heard through the thin fabric, soft and slow.
In an instant, the living room was so quiet that the only sounds left were the breathing of the two people and the occasional chirping of cicadas and birds outside the window.
"alright."
Gao Xing let him go and let him move his neck to see if it still hurt.
Shen Xingjian didn't dare to move, for fear that he would accidentally break this delicate balance and expose the shameful thoughts in his heart.
Gao Xing walked around to him and found that he was sweating profusely during the massage, as if he had just been fished out of water.
She thought this was too exaggerated. Even if she didn't trust her skills, there was no need to scare her like this, right?
"Are you still in pain?"
Gao Xing saw that he had no reaction and wanted to check, but Shen Xingjian was like a frightened bird, so scared that he and his wheelchair immediately retreated three meters.
His gaze slowly moved down along her hair, from her lips to her neck and then to her body, then quickly moved away. The tips of his ears burned and his Adam's apple rolled noticeably.
"You, you are not allowed to come near me again!"
After he said this, he immediately rushed back to the room as if escaping, and slammed the door shut, slamming it so hard that the door frame shook.
Gao Xing was completely bewildered. She had been kind enough to help him with his stiff neck, yet he still acted like this? He must be crazy!
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Shen Xingjian [returning to his room and frantically chanting the Heart Purification Mantra]: A pure heart is like water; a pure heart is the heart. A gentle breeze rises, waves remain calm…
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