Chapter 147 I love you.

After being brought back to Huating by Pei Yu while drunk, Shen Zhiyi no longer cared about where to go back to. When she was busy, she would go back to her own house for convenience, and when she was not so busy, she would go back to Huating. Pei Yu was not so particular, and basically went wherever Shen Zhiyi was.

But there were times when it was inconvenient for him to follow.

"Why does it take so long?" Pei Yu said unhappily.

"Is only a week considered a long time?" Shen Zhiyi came to the cloakroom to change clothes, but this man insisted on following her, standing guard at the door step by step, expressing his strong dissatisfaction with the fact that she was about to participate in a rural slow variety show.

"Forget it," Pei Yu asked expressionlessly, "Do we really have to go?"

"Of course," Shen Zhiyi said with a smile, "The contract has been signed. This is my job. I didn't stop you from going on a business trip."

"You can stop me," Pei Yu hugged her from behind, "but you never stopped me. Will you not miss me even if we are apart for a year?"

"Hey," Shen Zhiyi said helplessly, "You are slandering me."

"I'm only away for a week, not a year." Shen Zhiyi was hugged by him and couldn't change her clothes, so she simply put her clothes down and turned around to face him. "I'll be back soon, and we can talk often."

Pei Yu remained silent, with his eyebrows slightly lowered, looking at the light-colored mole on her shoulder. After a while, he sighed softly and hugged her tighter, "It will take a week."

She would be gone for a week anyway.

Seeing him like this, Shen Zhiyi was a little shaken, but it was not her style to go back on a signed contract at the last minute. What's more, the filming location of this variety show was very special. It was her hometown that she hadn't been back to for many years, and she wanted to go back and take a look.

"We'll call each other every day," Shen Zhiyi promised, "OK?"

Pei Yu looked at her for a while and added, "You have to tell me you love me every time."

Shen Zhiyi: "..."

She is a somewhat reserved person when it comes to emotions, and seldom expresses her feelings directly. Just listening to corny words like these makes her feel uncomfortable, but Pei Yu is a person who lacks a sense of security.

Seeing her hesitation, Pei Yu let go of her hand and said without any emotion, "If you don't agree, forget it."

He picked up the clothes that Shen Zhiyi had casually put down, and said in a low voice, "I know you don't love me that much—"

"Tell me, tell me," Shen Zhiyi interrupted him quickly. If he didn't agree, the resentment in this man would almost turn into substance.

The goal was achieved. Pei Yu raised his eyes and smiled slightly, then leaned over and kissed the corner of her lips, "Hmm."

So the next day Shen Zhiyi set off with her luggage.

Secretary Qin helped to book the plane tickets, and also booked a first-class cabin for Xiao Dong. She took photos excitedly and sighed, "Brother-in-law is really more generous than our company."

Shen Zhiyi smiled slightly, he was already used to her calling him brother-in-law.

"Sister," Xiao Dong said after a while, "I heard that the place where the variety show is going to be recorded is your hometown?"

Shen Zhiyi was a little absent-minded, "Yeah."

In order to suit the tone of the program, the production crew chose beautiful countryside as the filming locations. In fact, her hometown is a little remote. Fortunately, in the past few years, someone has invested in road construction and even built a resort. Various infrastructures have gradually been improved, which made the production crew pay attention to that place.

"The name sounds familiar," Xiao Dong had only known Shen Zhiyi for a few months, and didn't know much about her. It wasn't until he got off the plane and drove into the town and saw the stone tablet with the town name that he suddenly remembered why he felt familiar with her. A few months ago, Shen Zhiyi's account had a donation campaign, donating hundreds of thousands of yuan to several institutions in batches, one of which was a mountain village school, which seemed to be in this town.

The variety show is recorded in the countryside. I heard that they rented land from a nearby farmer, and the wooden house was built with funds from the program crew a few months ago.

The environment was much better than Shen Zhiyi had imagined. The other guests were all people with high emotional intelligence and good at socializing in the circle. They would not easily have conflicts. Therefore, even though it was the first time they met each other, the atmosphere was relatively harmonious.

Because it was the first day here, they were not familiar with the place. It took a long time for the guests to introduce themselves to each other. Only after being reminded by the program crew did they start to pack up and familiarize themselves with the environment. There were so many things to do that they were inevitably a little flustered. When Shen Zhiyi remembered to call Pei Yu, it was already ten o'clock in the evening. The female artist who lived in the same room with her was washing up in the bathroom. She took advantage of this time to make a call.

The other party answered the call very quickly, obviously he had been waiting. Shen Zhiyi glanced at the camera, hesitated for a moment but did not avoid it deliberately.

"I just finished my work," Shen Zhiyi asked, "Have you been waiting for a long time?"

"Not bad," Pei Yu was still in the company and Shen Zhiyi was not there, so he didn't have to bring work home. He worked while waiting and didn't notice the passage of time.

The two chatted intermittently for a while. During this time, Shen Zhiyi packed her luggage again. When she heard the sound of water in the bathroom stop, she guessed that her roommate would come out soon.

“…I’m dead?”

Pei Yu paused and said slowly, "Did you forget something?"

In fact, he didn't forget, but Shen Zhiyi was embarrassed to bring it up, and she also had a little hope, just in case he had forgotten.

Sure enough, he has a good memory.

She chose to turn her back to the camera, hesitated for a few seconds, and lowered her voice, "...I love you."

It was the first time that Shen Zhiyi expressed her feelings in such words, and her face turned red. In order to avoid Pei Yu making more jokes or making further advances, she hung up the phone in a hurry.

The next second, her roommate came out of the bathroom and asked her directly when she saw her, "Why is your face red? Are you hot?"

It's almost winter now, so it's definitely not hot, so Shen Zhiyi's blushing face is incomprehensible.

"No," Shen Zhiyi couldn't explain, so he took his clothes and went into the bathroom, "I washed up."

After cleaning up, it was almost midnight when they were ready to go to bed. The roommate on the other bed was already asleep. Shen Zhiyi moved quietly, carefully turned off the lights, and got into bed.

She checked her phone messages before going to bed and found that Pei Yu had sent her a voice message while she was washing up, but she didn't see it at the time.

The headphones were in the bag on the table. Shen Zhiyi wanted to just convert the voice into text and see the content, but after hesitating for a moment, he got out of bed and got the headphones.

When she returned to bed, she put on her headphones and clicked on the voice message.

It was a very familiar voice and tone, lazy and low, and the content was equally familiar.

"I love you."

Unlike the haste and discomfort when she said these three words, Pei Yu's tone was gentle, as if she had said it countless times.

She listened to the short 3-second voice content dozens of times.