Chapter 140 How many years have I loved her?

Shen Zhiyi sat on Pei Yu's lap, with his hands around her waist. The computer screen on the table had gone dark, but he ignored it.

She hesitated for a moment, then leaned close to his ear and asked, "Have you checked my past? My childhood."

When she had not yet entered the entertainment industry and was still staying in the mountain village with Huo Heng.

The hand around her waist tightened unconsciously. This was something Pei Yu didn't want to mention.

Of course he checked it, checked it carefully. When he checked all this about her, she was still abroad. She was still known as Huo Heng's girlfriend, and he himself didn't know why he checked all this.

"Ah."

He responded lightly, with no intention of continuing.

Shen Zhiyi leaned on his shoulder. Because she rarely talked about this with others, she felt uncomfortable when she spoke, and her voice was very low. "I didn't have a good childhood."

She never mentioned her childhood to anyone else, even to Huo Heng. Over time, she felt that those memories had become blurred.

"Huo Heng helped me a lot. His family's situation was similar to mine, so we always helped each other. My dad beat me so hard once that I thought I would be beaten to death, but Huo Heng saved me."

Shen Zhiyi was not talking about this out of nostalgia for the past. She just wanted to take this opportunity to seriously explain to Pei Yu that guilt and gratitude dominated her feelings for Huo Heng. After analyzing her inner thoughts several times, she realized that her trust in Huo Heng almost all came from her childhood experiences. Later, she herself could not confirm whether her love for Huo Heng was real or fake.

Pei Yu sometimes mentioned Huo Heng. Although it was not very obvious, his jealousy was real. Shen Zhiyi didn't want him to care about this all the time, so she mentioned Huo Heng.

She raised her head and kissed Pei Yu's cheek, and said seriously, "I think my feelings for him are mostly gratitude."

So after realizing that she didn't actually owe him anything, Shen Zhiyi withdrew so decisively.

Pei Yu was slightly distracted, and sensed something was wrong in Shen Zhiyi's words, "He saved you?"

"Well," Shen Zhiyi thought he was just curious about this matter, so he recalled the past and told him the part he remembered, "My father drank a lot of alcohol that time and asked me for money. He beat me when I didn't give him money. Later he threatened me with a knife. I hit my head at that time and was dizzy, so I couldn't avoid his knife."

Her voice gradually lowered. "I thought I was going to die, but when I woke up I was already in the hospital. Huo Heng was standing next to me covered in blood. He blocked the knife for me."

When she was discharged from the hospital, Huo Heng's abdomen was still wrapped in thick gauze. After a month, he said the wound had healed.

This was a life-saving favor, and from then on Shen Zhiyi regarded Huo Heng as the only person she could trust.

Pei Yu's eyebrows were somewhat gloomy, "Are you sure he is injured?"

From her words, Pei Yu could basically determine what it was. The first half was the same as his memory, but it was Huo Heng who took Shen Zhiyi from his hands at that time, so it was impossible for him to be injured.

Shen Zhiyi raised his head, "What do you mean?"

"Nothing." Pei Yu lowered his eyes and saw that she seemed uneasy, so he comforted her, "Just asking."

"Yes, he was injured," Shen Zhiyi said, becoming more and more confused. "Although I didn't see the wound, why would he lie to me?"

"Besides," she frowned, "before I passed out, I did see someone standing in front of me and blocking the knife. If it wasn't Huo Heng, who else could it be?"

The reason was so sufficient, but inexplicably, Shen Zhiyi felt that she seemed to have overlooked something. "Well," Pei Yu didn't want her to think about it anymore, nor did he want to pursue the fact that Huo Heng deliberately concealed it, "Don't think about it."

He changed the subject, "Aren't you curious about why I showed up in South Garden that night?"

That was the night she had the accident.

Shen Zhiyi's attention was drawn. She had always been curious about this. "Why?"

He didn't tell her at that time because the source of the matter could be traced back to the time when they met in their youth, which was something Pei Yu found difficult to talk about. He was willing to tell her now because Pei Yu decided to keep it secret forever.

She didn't need to know how many years Pei Yu had loved her; that was his own business.

"To wait for you," he recalled his mood at the time and smiled slightly, "I had just returned to China not long ago, and I heard that Huo Heng was on the list of artists invited to the Nanyuan dinner party. I thought you might also go, so I changed my route and went there temporarily."

In fact, he didn't think too much about it, and didn't even think about meeting her. If he saw her standing next to Huo Heng, it would be hard for him not to have the dirty thought of snatching her away, so he found a room to stay in alone. As long as he thought that she might be not far away, his long-restless emotions would be somewhat relieved.

Shen Zhiyi was stunned, "But... before that, didn't you only meet me once?"

Do you have such deep feelings for her after just meeting her once?

"Who said I only met you once?" Pei Yu smiled faintly, but did not explain clearly. Those were things he wanted to hide forever. "I have met you many times, but you don't know."

His voice was low and gentle, "I fell in love with you at first sight, do you believe it?"

It is not wrong to use this word to describe it, but Pei Yu did not realize this when he was a teenager. He just wanted to take Shen Zhiyi away and did not want to see her suffer or get hurt and cry. That was the first time he felt that if he was not a child of the Pei family, Shen Zhiyi would be able to stay with him forever.

For a long time after being forced to give up on her, what Pei Yu thought about most was not the shame of having no freedom and being forced to succumb to his father's power, but what Shen Zhiyi would continue to encounter, whether she was hurt, whether she shed tears... whether she had thought about himself who had made a promise to her but broke his promise.

He was glad that she had forgotten him.

Love at first sight... Shen Zhiyi's heart was pounding, and she couldn't believe it. Pei Yu's "love" came so easily, yet so sincerely. If he had told her this when they had just met, she would definitely not believe it, and would only think that this man was a master of sweet talk and a love expert.

But love is unreasonable.

Pei Yu looked at her in a daze, and rested his forehead against hers, their noses touching. There was a faint smile in his words, "Do you believe me?"

Shen Zhiyi believed it. She knew Pei Yu would not joke about such things, but she was too embarrassed to admit it. She turned her head away and deliberately said, "If you use it to make me happy, I don't believe it."

Pei Yu chuckled, but didn't expose her. "Are you happy?"

Of course, she was very happy to be coaxed. Shen Zhiyi said nothing, left his arms, and pretended to check the time, "I'm going to do my makeup."

She will also be walking the red carpet tonight.

Pei Yu grabbed the hem of her skirt and stopped her from leaving. "You're leaving me alone in this empty room?"

The free time that I finally managed to free up.

(End of this chapter)