She couldn't help but use the question.

And Shi Nan looked at her, his eyes flickered slightly, and the answer he gave was yes, the same answer he gave when he was lying on her back last night.

Fu Zhao sat back on the chair he was sitting on this morning, and looked at Shi Nan lying on the bed from the same angle.

The wrist of her left hand was held in the palm of Shi Nan's hand again.

Same location, same people.

The warm fingertips are tightly attached to the middle of the wrist, and if you breathe slowly, you can feel the pulse beating in the warm and soft palm.

Shi Nan seems to like to hold other people's wrists very much, and once he holds them, he won't let them go.

There was still only the dim yellow bedside lamp, and the dim light filled the whole room. On the bed lay a Sleeping Beauty who was watching her quietly.

No, her metaphor is not appropriate.

Because no Sleeping Beauty sleeps with her eyes open.

A face that can be compared to "Sleeping Beauty", because it has just recovered, it still lacks some of the previous blood color, with a little sickly white, the tea-brown pupils are shining brightly, and the long and slender eyelashes are hanging down, looking up at herWhen he was trembling, there was a gentle sparkle in his eyes.

The whole person is huddled in the wide and long quilt, and the thin and white wrists protrude from the cuffs, making her look thinner and thinner. Perhaps it is the dim light that makes Shi Nan look like a "sick beauty" that makes people feel distressedthe taste of.

There were only the two of them in the house.

How could there be only two of them?

This idea popped up in my mind and never stopped.

"Aren't you sleeping? Why don't you close your eyes?" Fu Zhao was a little uncomfortable being stared at by Shi Nan, so he couldn't help but said, "Or, you can't sleep when I'm here?"

"How could it be?" Shi Nan shook his head slightly, the ripples in his eyes fluctuated slightly, his voice softened a lot, and his tone was soft, "I can't sleep because you're not here."

"Shi Nan..."

Fu Zhao called her in a soft voice, then leaned back on the chair as if discouraged, felt the warm temperature and soft touch from his wrist, and said softly, "Do you know the suspension bridge effect?"

After she finished saying this, the strength from her hand tightened, Shi Nan didn't speak, and the fingertips holding her wrist began to rub lightly on it, bringing a numb itching.

Fu Zhao stared at Shi Nan's movements, feeling a little awkward in his heart, but fortunately, Shi Nan only rubbed lightly a few times before stopping in good time, without giving her a chance to stop.

"The suspension bridge effect means that when a person crosses a suspension bridge with fear, her heartbeat will speed up, and at this time, if she meets another person, she is likely to speed up her heartbeat caused by the dangerous environment."It is understood as a heartbeat for the other party, so...so a feeling of love is born for the other party." (Note 1)

Fu Zhao's mouth became parched after saying the words "the feeling of love". She subconsciously licked her lips and stopped in time.

So far.

Shi Nan is so smart, it's impossible not to know what she means.

But Shi Nan just didn't want her to stop.

"Huh?" Shi Nan raised his eyebrows, "Continue talking."

Fu Zhao took a sip from the water glass next to her, and heard this sentence just after she drank it. She knew that Shi Nan couldn't possibly not know, but from Shi Nan's eyes with a slight smile, she could tell that she didn'tAfter finishing speaking, Shi Nan will continue to play dumb.

Her throat moved, and she simply said her thoughts, "The drawbridge effect can also occur in life situations, such as 'heroes save the beauty'. Dangerous or stimulating situations may make you feel bad about yourself or yourself.Created some, cognitive biases for me."

She directly put the two of them in, and used the four words "cognitive deviation" to summarize Shi Nan's behavior that is considered abnormal now.

"I understand..." Shi Nan still looked at her quietly, and after a while he said softly, as if casually, "Do you think that my behavior towards you now is because I am moved by you."

If it is said that Fu Zhao has to make eight hundred detours when speaking.

At that time, every sentence Nan said probably could directly dismantle her detours, and then directly analyze the meaning of her every sentence.

But after that, Shi Nan still deliberately grasped the key points that she had neglected intentionally or unintentionally.

This deviation gave Fu Zhao a headache.

She has never been very used to hitting straight balls.

But she couldn't avoid it, after meeting Shi Nan's cold eyes like ink, she was defeated.

"...I didn't mean that." Fu Zhao took a deep breath, calming down his panic after hearing Shi Nan's words.

"But your pulse tells me that's what you mean." Shi Nan pouted and tightened her wrist, indicating how fast her pulse is beating now.

Fu Zhao subconsciously withdrew his hand, but he still didn't take it out.She lowered her eyes, staring at her wrist that was already turning red due to being clenched too tightly, and answered after a moment of silence, "Then take it as what I mean. I'm just reminding you that if something like this happensThis kind of cognitive bias must be corrected in time.”

"What will happen if I don't correct it?"

Shi Nan said this sentence abruptly, with a soft tone, as if explaining the facts.

Fu Zhao was stunned, choked by Shi Nan's words for a moment.

Shi Nan was lying on the bed, the distance between them was not too close, it could even be regarded as the distance between friends looking at each other, but the difference was that Shi Nan's palm was tightly attached to her wrist.

She could even feel the itch of her fingertips sweeping across her wrist, mixed with earth-shattering movements rushed to her heart, causing her temples to ache.

There was silence in the air for a while, and finally a voice broke the silence.

"Kidding."

Shi Nan opened his mouth again, with a casual tone, and gently closed his eyelids, "How is that possible? Don't worry, I don't have the drawbridge effect right now."

A light and fluffy sentence interrupted her temples' dull pain in time.

Fu Zhao breathed a sigh of relief quietly, but felt that he still didn't let go of everything, instead he felt like he couldn't get up or down.

She looked at Shi Nan who closed her eyes tightly and didn't intend to continue talking to her, she opened and closed her mouth without uttering a word, but she finally suppressed the question that had been lingering in her mind for a long time.

She didn't ask, but Shi Nan seemed to have heard the question she asked quietly in her heart, her eyelashes trembled, and then those tea-brown eyes lit up again, and she explained in a soft voice,

"I don't have to hold someone's wrist to sleep, I just want to hold yours."

"Do you know why?" Shi Nan paused after saying this, as if he was waiting for Fu Zhao to answer.

Fu Zhao shook his head, his mind was a little confused by Shi Nan's sentence "I just want to hold your wrist", he stumbled and asked, "Why?"

She asked a little stupidly, like someone who was flattering Shi Nan.

The corners of Shi Nan's lips were slightly raised, and his smile rippled faintly in the dim environment, "Because of this... I can feel your lively pulse, and I can feel the real, vivid, you in front of my eyes..”

"Only by my side, you who are full of vitality can make me feel safe."

After Shi Nan finished saying this, he gently closed his eyelids again,

"If I told you to go to bed together, you would definitely jump up and refuse."

Fu Zhao pursed his lips, but did not speak.

Shi Nan opened his eyes and yawned. The mist in his eyes overflowed and was covered by slender and thick eyelashes. His voice softened, with a bit of sleepiness.

"So wait ten minutes and you'll be home."

"Or just go to sleep instead of sitting by the bed all night."

"Otherwise I'd be embarrassed." Her drooping eyelashes trembled, and the following words softened,

"It will also hurt."

After Shi Nan finished speaking, she closed her eyes and didn't speak again.

Fu Zhao sat, not knowing how to react. Although Shi Nan added a lot of adjectives to this sentence, the sentence "only then can make me feel safe" lingered in her mind and couldn't get rid of it.

Although she clearly knew that what Shi Nan said after denying the suspension bridge effect had no other meaning.

But she still couldn't help but keep speculating about what kind of emotion and reason Shi Nan said this sentence.

It's like she didn't know what Shi Nan meant by "will feel sorry for her" later.

Distress, is it the source of all her emotions towards Shi Nan now?

She was sitting on the chair, staring at Shi Nan who was quietly lying on the bed, listening to Shi Nan's breathing gradually calmed down and lightened, but she still couldn't think of the answer to this question.

Perhaps, Shi Nan especially liked the rhythm of her pulse.

I heard that Kong Weiyan has a set of equipment that can record the sound of a person's pulse beating clearly and in real time.

It's like being there.

Another nightmare.

The locations and scenes were repeated countless times in her dreams.It should be the planet she is on, not Nankey Island.

It was a scene she could not forget all the time, and it kept her trapped at this node and could not escape. It was the most unforgettable memory in her mind.

The roadside was brightly lit, illuminated by car lights and street lights, almost daytime.

Fu Zhao was standing across the road, under the traffic light, a tall and long-legged man, wearing a simple white shirt, black trousers, charming lines, smooth black hair tied loosely in a ponytail.

Cars come and go, lights flicker.

Soon, the green light came on.

Fu Zhao smiled and walked towards her, looking straight at her, as if in his eyes and in his heart, she was always the only one.

Shi Nan was in a daze, and anxiously shouted to Fu Zhao to watch the road.

She also wanted to go to Fu Zhao's side, but she couldn't move her legs no matter what, so she could only stand there.

Fortunately, Fu Zhao heard her words, obediently slowed down, followed the crowd cautiously, watched the passing cars, step by step, with a gentle rhythm, and stepped gently to her side.

The fragrant and rich tea scent came over and rushed to the tip of the nose. It was the scent of Fu Zhao's body.

She seemed to have smelled Fu Zhao only this time.

But it seemed a bit different, Fu Zhao looked at her cautiously, his eyes sneaked up and then retracted, a bit like the way that Fu Zhao looked at her before.

Shi Nan was in a daze, and she couldn't tell which time this was.

But when Fu Zhao came to her side and led her forward, she seemed to be able to move.

"Didn't you say you wanted to hold an exhibition before? I rented the venue for you. The exhibition date is on your birthday. How about it?"

Fu Zhao spoke slowly, in a neither hasty nor slow tone, standing beside her, keeping a distance from her.

"When is my birthday?" she asked.

Fu Zhao laughed, and the light in her amber eyes brightened, as if she was laughing at her stupidity and bad memory, but she still didn't say anything, and only patiently said, "Christmas Day."

"But, it's just the beginning of summer, isn't it still a long time?"

She grabbed Fu Zhao's wrist quickly, and under Fu Zhao's surprised eyes, she felt the familiar rhythm of the pulse beating from the palm of her hand. The pulse was very real, but because of the current scene, she became in a trance.

She knew that at the corner ahead, there would be a robbery and murderer rushing out. She still hasn't figured out why this person came at them.

And Fu Zhao would block the knife for her, would bleed all over the ground, and would die in front of her.

Even if she holds Fu Zhao's wrist firmly in her palm, she still cannot change the fact that "Fu Zhao's pulse will slowly dissipate in her palm".

Thinking of this situation, her eye sockets became hot and moist.

With tears, couldn't help but slipped out of eyes and ran down.

"Well, although it's only early summer, I think it may take some time to prepare, so winter will be more suitable."

"Why is it winter?"

Fu Zhao paused, then smiled at her, "Because you like winter and your birthday is in winter, this is your exhibition."

Fu Zhao was still smiling, his amber pupils were set in the sockets of his eyes, as if soaked in the cold moonlight, or burning in the scorching sun, bright and brilliant.

until they came to the corner.

Someone bumped into her, but Shi Nan couldn't move a step. He could only watch Fu Zhao pull her into his arms.Until a man in black rushed out and caught the gangster.

He watched Fu Zhao spit out blood one after another, and there was a pool of blood under his body.

She yelled, why didn't the group of people in black come out earlier, why she knew what was going to happen, but still couldn't change this fact.

She cried loudly and frantically tried to help Fu Zhao cover the wound on her body.

But there were too many wounds and too much blood, and she couldn't stop it.

Until the bright blood stained Fu Zhao's white shirt red.

Until Fu Zhao opened his mouth countless times, every time he opened his mouth, a surging blood flowed out.

Fu Zhao closed his eyes without saying a word until the last time.

Until the wrist she clenched in her hand, until the pulse she held tightly, began to beat slowly.

One click, one click, bang bang... bang bang beating.

Then it starts to get weaker, and finally disappears completely.

The wrist clenched in the palm of his hand no longer had any vitality.

Until the person in his arms became completely cold and completely lost his breath.

Shi Nan opened his eyes suddenly, his body and forehead were covered with cold sweat.

Shortness of breath and dry mouth.

The senses everywhere began to recover.

Sitting in front of him was a figure with delicate features, who was about to get up from the chair and leave, the light in his eyes brightened, as if he was surprised why she woke up at this time.

She was in a trance, and suddenly realized that she had started all over again, and she still had a long time to prevent this. She had already asked her mother to help find out the robbery murderer.

Although there is no news yet.

But there are still three years to go.

enough.She will definitely get rid of all the risk factors before that time comes.

Just let Fu Zhao stay in Nankey Island well before then.

Shi Nan thought about this, and his tense body relaxed.

She looked at the person in front of her, and suddenly felt an impulse in her heart, but she immediately suppressed it.

The warm and soft touch on her hand slowly came to life, and the heat in her eyes began to catch on. She couldn't help but squeeze the wrist in the palm of her hand with more strength.

"Boom—boom—"

The pulse beats steadily and powerfully where her fingertips touch.

She counted silently, facing Fu Zhao's trembling eyes, and when the number in her heart reached, she breathed a sigh of relief.

The frequency is 75 times/min, the interval time is stable, and the slight pulse of blood vessel expansion can be felt.

This is the frequency and rhythm of Fu Zhao's pulse.

It is the source of all her sense of security at this moment.

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Note 1 reference: Baidu Encyclopedia entry: suspension bridge effect.