Locking away my heart and love! Going back to 2000 to be a top student again.

Huang Chao, who was following behind Zhou Mochen, kept his eyes down the whole time and didn't dare to say a word. After walking for less than a few minutes, he sat down on a bench next to the flower bed and complained that his feet hurt.

Xu Su couldn't help but twitch her forehead. Compared to his fiery and pure acting skills in his previous life, Huang Chao's performance at this moment was simply appalling.

Zhou Mochen remained calm and composed. He didn't even turn his head, gesturing for Xu Su to continue walking.

"..."

Realizing that this man had even tracked down to her school, Xu Su wanted to talk to him alone, so she obediently continued walking forward.

It's class time now, and the weather is cold, so even teachers who don't have classes won't be out wandering around. The campus is very quiet.

After walking for a while, they passed the playground. Zhou Mochen stopped and pointed to the steps on the playground. "Are you tired? Let's sit here and chat."

Xu Su stood still, looking up at him, her eyes reddening as she suppressed her emotions. "Zhou Mochen, what exactly do you want?"

She looked like she was about to cry...

Zhou Mochen realized this, his hand twitched slightly, but he held back.

He smiled and asked softly, "Su Su, it's been seventy-six days. I've come to ask if you've forgiven me. You blocked my number and haven't left the school. I can't see you, so I have to come here to find you."

Seventy-six days without seeing her was indeed the limit of his patience. Zhou Mochen even regretted his impulsiveness that day, which made her so angry that she hadn't paid attention to him for so long and had even blocked his number.

These days, anger would occasionally rise up, resentment at her ruthlessness, anger mixed with longing, and even some regret. This is how Zhou Mochen got through these seventy-six days.

Xu Su looked away from him and sneered, "What if I say no? What are you going to do then? Are you going to resort to that angry, forceful kiss again?"

Zhou Mochen pursed his lips tightly. He took a step closer to Xu Su, who abruptly took two steps back, looking wary: "What are you planning to do now?"

He stood there for a long time before finally speaking: "I apologized to you, and you've ignored me for so long. You should have calmed down by now. Don't treat me like this."

Zhou Mochen's voice was full of compromise, "If you're really angry, tell me what I should do. Just don't ignore me like before. Xu Su, I can't take it anymore."

He couldn't take it anymore...

Xu Su's heart skipped a beat. She really didn't know what to do. This was a school. Did this person think she wouldn't dare to argue with him here, so he chose this place to talk to her?

"I can't take it anymore, Zhou Mochen. Why don't you tell me what I should do? Can you stay away from me? I just want to be a normal student. Can you please stop bothering me?"

She asked him in a helpless, almost resigned tone, as if she had lost all will to live.

These words, which would have previously enraged Zhou Mochen, didn't even make him flinch when he heard them now.

Instead, he stated frankly, "If I knew the way, I wouldn't be standing here now, Xu Su. I thought you understood long ago that Zhou Mochen is a very spineless person who can't stand not seeing you. These seventy-six days are the limit."

“I tried, I really tried.” Zhou Mochen walked over, looked down at her deeply, and sighed, “At first, I tried not to look for you, not to think about you, to make myself a little girl and not let myself be trapped by you, but seventy-six days really was the limit.”

On the fifth day since he last saw Xu Su, Zhou Mochen couldn't help but send her a message, but as expected, he didn't receive a reply.

Three days later, with still no response to his messages, Zhou Mochen started making phone calls.

Three days later, he discovered that his number had been blacklisted.

The girl wouldn't even answer calls from unknown numbers. When he tried calling from other numbers, they all ended up on her blacklist.

Xu Su is so heartless, what can he do?

Zhou Mochen also tried to give up; he really did.

He gritted his teeth and endured it for another 65 days, but in the end he couldn't hold on any longer.

He misses her.

When Xu Su stood vividly in front of him, he really wanted to hug her, pull her into his body, so that she could never escape again, and never dare to be so cruel to him again.

However, Zhou Mochen managed to suppress the urge to hug her in front of so many people.

Looking at the girl so close to him, afraid of being too abrupt again and upsetting her, he softened his voice and asked, "Susu, can I have a hug?"

Xu Su suddenly looked up, noticing the distance between them. She took two steps back and warned, "Zhou Mochen, don't go crazy. I don't want you to hug me."

"Hmm, who should carry you?" Zhou Mochen smiled and asked her, "If you don't want me to carry you, who should?"

Xu Su said, "I only hug my boyfriend."

Her tone was earnest, which made Zhou Mochen chuckle softly. "Okay, when can I be your boyfriend? Give me a straight answer."

"..." Xu Su once again wondered if this person's thought process was different from others. She asked herself if she had really rejected him cleanly and thoroughly.

How could he be so confident as to ask that question?

Xu Su took a deep breath, ignoring his question, and instead asked, "Class is about to end. If you don't have anything else, I'll go back to the classroom. Zhou Mochen, I have my final exams tomorrow, I don't have time to waste with you."

Zhou Mochen glanced at his watch, then reached out and grabbed her wrist, forcing their fingers together as if he had a skin hunger disorder. "It's fine if you don't want to hug me, but let me hold your hand. Xu Su, how many days of vacation do you have during winter break?"

Xu Su struggled a couple of times but couldn't break free. She was also afraid that if she made a scene and others saw them, the whole school would gossip about her...

She hated herself for weighing the pros and cons, but in the end, she gritted her teeth and replied, "Five days."

Gently squeezing the girl's hand, Zhou Mochen sighed with some satisfaction, "Remove my number from your blacklist, reply to my messages every day as before, and meet me occasionally. Xu Su, that's all I ask for."

He seemed to have backed down again and again, but Xu Su was defiant. "What if I say no, Zhou Mochen? I've made up my mind not to talk to you anymore, can't you tell?"

The pressure on his hand increased, and Xu Su winced in pain.

The smile on Zhou Mochen's face had completely disappeared at some point. He stared at her for a long time, so long that Xu Su felt a chill run down her spine and was somewhat terrified. She wished she could admit defeat on the spot and take out her phone to remove him from her blacklist.

She was genuinely afraid of him, even though he was crazy.

As expected, Zhou Mochen spoke with an aura of coldness, saying, "Xu Su, don't force me."

Don't push me...

Xu Su's hand trembled uncontrollably, but Zhou Mochen gripped her wrist tightly the next second. He leaned closer and whispered, "I just want to coax you properly. You don't need to do anything else. Just give me a chance to coax you. Xu Su, don't make me despair. I don't know what I might do."

He said, "If you don't care about your parents, you don't care about your Xu family, then do you care about anything? Do you have any vulnerabilities?"

He said, "Xu Su, I don't want this to happen. If I had any other way, I wouldn't really threaten you. Don't force me, really, don't force me."