Chapter 168 is actually a reunion.

As the temperature dropped, heavy rains fell for several days in a row. Most of the prepared shooting locations were flooded. The crew's hard work was wasted and they were forced to stop work. The director said he planned to take the leading actors to the temple to worship after the rain stopped. After all, since the start of work, there have been Xu Xia and heavy rains, which always affect the shooting progress and it is not going smoothly.

Before this, Shen Zhiyi got a few days to rest, but because of the heavy rain, she couldn't go anywhere, so she stayed in Huating to chat with the housekeeper and read the script.

Her work was stopped, but Pei Yu still had things to deal with and needed to fly to Washington. She finally waited for an opportunity when the rain subsided and had to leave in the early morning.

When he woke up, Shen Zhiyi was still sleeping, so he didn't disturb her and went to wash and change clothes. When he was in the cloakroom, he suddenly heard footsteps behind him.

"Why are you up?" Pei Yu was a little surprised. He hadn't buttoned up his shirt yet. He first straightened the collar of her pajamas and asked, "Did I disturb you?"

"No," Shen Zhiyi was still sleepy, rubbing against his arms, and said vaguely, "I'll take you there."

Pei Yu smiled softly, "Can't bear to leave me?"

The indoor heating was turned on high, and she felt soft and warm when he held her. Pei Yu couldn't let go, so he asked her to help him button his clothes. He lowered his head and teased her, "Why don't you come with me?"

Shen Zhiyi did want to, but the rainstorm was about to end, and the crew would resume work as soon as it ended. Even if she accompanied Pei Yu abroad, she wouldn't be able to stay for long.

"I can't go," she said a little regretfully, "you can only come back early."

After seeing Pei Yu off, Shen Zhiyi went back to take a nap. When he woke up, it was already bright.

After washing up, she went downstairs and saw the housekeeper coming in from outside, holding something in his hand, which was covered with a thin layer of dust.

"what is this?"

The things were dirty, so the housekeeper didn't let her touch them and gave them to other servants. "I took them back from the attic of the villa. They are some tea sets. They have been stored for a long time and are covered in dust. I took them out to see if I should sell them."

Shen Zhiyi sat aside and had her meal. She was a little interested in the villa she mentioned because the housekeeper said that was where Pei Yu lived for a while.

"Are you still going over? I want to go with you."

It happened to stop raining outside, so the housekeeper nodded and said, "Okay, but it's been a long time since anyone has been there, and it hasn't been cleaned for a long time, so it's quite dirty."

Pei Yu had only arranged for her to clean and tidy up the place these few days, and no one was allowed to touch that place before.

Compared with the entire Hua Ting, this villa is actually very inconspicuous and the space is also very small. Shen Zhiyi didn't expect that Pei Yu had lived in such a place.

"Hasn't he always lived in the main building?"

Compared with the main building, this villa is really cramped and simple.

"She lived in the main building most of the time," the housekeeper also heard from other elderly people in Hua Ting, "It seems that when she was sixteen or seventeen years old, she was arranged to live here for a while."

The servants didn't know much about this and only guessed that Pei Yu was sent here to live as a lesson for him because he had angered Pei's father. Some people also said that Pei Yu took the initiative to ask to move out of the main building. Regardless of which statement was true, they all believed that Pei Yu's relationship with Pei's father was very tense at the time.

The housekeeper only moved some of the things in the room and left Pei Yu's bedroom alone. Shen Zhiyi was very curious about the room with the closed door. "Can I go in and take a look?"

She wanted to see the place where Pei Yu once lived.

"Okay," the housekeeper said without hesitation. She knew that even if Pei Yu was there, he would not refuse Shen Zhiyi.

After the door opened, Shen Zhiyi went in alone to take a look.

It was very empty inside because Pei Yu was only staying there temporarily and moved out later, so there was nothing left here. Shen Zhiyi flipped through it casually and unexpectedly saw a stack of documents in an inconspicuous cabinet. It looked like a diagnosis made by a private doctor.

"Pei Yu is allergic to pollen?" This was the first time Shen Zhiyi heard this.

"Yes," the housekeeper knew more about this. "He is more allergic to cherry blossoms, but not to other flowers and plants. He just coughs. I heard that when he moved in here, he had a rash on his face due to the allergy."

Cherry blossoms?

Shen Zhiyi inexplicably thought of the cherry trees in her hometown. The last time she went to see them, the trees had already been cut down. She still felt it was a pity, because the cherry blossoms were so beautiful when they were in full bloom.

Her attention returned to the medical record in her hand. In addition to the diagnosis of his allergy, there was also a record of multiple fractures in his arms and legs. The date seemed to be around the same time as his allergy.

She frowned. The only person she could think of who would attack Pei Yu was his father.

It seems that the conflict between him and his father was indeed very deep at that time, but no one knows exactly why.

Seeing this, Shen Zhiyi no longer had the same mood as at the beginning. She stopped flipping through the papers and put the stack back to its original place. A photo that was sandwiched between them happened to fall out and landed at her feet.

The photo was probably taken a long time ago. The edges are slightly curled and yellowed. The father and son in the photo look very different from now. They might not be recognizable at first glance, but Shen Zhiyi's eyes froze slightly, and he felt that the boy in the photo looked very familiar.

The photo should have been taken when Pei Yu was allergic. He wore a mask to cover the rash on his face, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed. The lines of his eyebrows and eyes were more childish and sharper than they are now, with a wanton boyish spirit.

He stood next to his father, with a large grove of blooming cherry trees behind him and a baseball cap in his hand. I don't know what caught his attention, but he was not looking at the camera. His eyes were slightly tilted and looking outside the camera.

Both the cherry forest and the young man wearing a mask looked familiar to Shen Zhiyi.

She turned the photo over and saw the time and place written in pen on the back.

It's not her imagination.

The photo was taken in the place where she grew up, so of course she felt familiar with it. And the teenage Pei Yu... Shen Zhiyi found a vague shadow from her long-forgotten memories.

She remembered that one summer vacation, a lot of new faces suddenly came to the town. They were going to build roads and something else. At that time, she just wanted to make money quickly to save some tuition fees, and just wanted to hide the money so that it would not be searched by her alcoholic father. She didn't care about these things at all, so when the city boy who looked strange wearing a hat and mask in the middle of summer approached her, she didn't pay much attention.

The memory of that summer vacation was exceptionally long but not too hot. The boy never showed his face once, like a mysterious and unpredictable wind. But they had actually met many times and talked a little. But at that time Shen Zhiyi had too many things to take care of, so she only had a vague impression of it, and she did not remember the boy firmly.

Little did she know that many years later, what she thought was her first meeting was actually a reunion.