Chapter 45 Pei Yu, I want to see you.

Shen Zhiyi found that Xiao Dong, who was driving, had been taking a detour and finally drove the car into a hotel outside the film and television base. She felt puzzled.

"Have you changed hotels?"

Just when he was worrying about how to trick people into coming in, Xiao Dong quickly continued the story, "Yes, yes, the director changed the hotel for us."

Filming was too tiring and Shen Zhiyi was still immersed in the script. She followed Xiao Dong in without doubting her words.

Because it was Chinese Valentine's Day, many people were holding proposal ceremonies or weddings in the hotel. As soon as she entered the lobby, she saw several wedding welcome signs. When the elevator stopped on the 24th floor, the exquisitely decorated lobby made Shen Zhiyi think she had accidentally walked into someone's banquet.

"Did we go the wrong way?"

Xiao Dong was also stunned. He looked at the message Wang Feifei sent him again and confirmed that this was the correct message. "It should be correct..."

Just then the screenwriter came over and teamed up with Xiao Dong to trick Shen Zhiyi in. Although she felt something was wrong at the time, she didn't think it had anything to do with her and was dragged in by the two of them.

There was no light in the room, but the crystal castle had its own lighting effects, which were bright and dreamy. Before Shen Zhiyi could react when he saw it, a chorus of Happy Birthday songs could be heard all around him.

The lights suddenly came on, and Shen Zhiyi saw familiar crew members, as well as juniors from the same agency with whom she had dealings, and even a few seniors with whom she had filmed a movie before. She stood at the door of the room in a daze, as more and more people approached her from three directions. Amid the chorus of the birthday song, the sweet smell of the cake surrounded her.

She slowly realized that this was a birthday surprise prepared for her.

Xiao Dong came over holding a large bouquet of Unison roses. The bright yellow petals were so attractive that people couldn't take their eyes off them. "Happy birthday, Sister Zhiyi!"

She stuck out her tongue. "It's not midnight yet, but we just can't wait."

"...Thank you," Shen Zhiyi realized her throat was dry when she spoke. This was the first time she had a real birthday surprise. Last year she didn't even have a birthday because everyone had forgotten, including herself.

The others pushed her into the room with laughter and noise. The crew's photographer followed her with a camera, shooting from the walls full of Unison roses to Shen Zhiyi surrounded by the crystal castle. Xiao Dong felt particularly uncomfortable when he saw her slightly red eyes.

"Are you touched by us?"

Shen Zhiyi nodded, her brows curved, and her smile was soft, "Thank you."

"Cut the cake quickly, we are really starving!"

"Make a wish, make a wish! Don't forget to make a wish!"

The candlelight flickered gently. In the past twenty years, she had never really made a birthday wish because she didn't know what she wanted. A successful career? A happy love life? She felt that these were impossible to obtain.

And now, she closed her eyes, her only wish was that her next birthday would be accompanied by many people like today.

The meals that had been prepared long ago were served one after another, and the sounds of chatting and laughing filled the air. Shen Zhiyi took the time to open the presents and found that the gift cards at the bottom had either "Qin" or "Fu" written on them.

Qin Fang and Fu Songzhi?

At the headquarters of Qin Corporation, Qin Fang hung up the phone and went to harass Fu Songzhi again, "...everything has been arranged. The roses were flown in from Japan, and the crowns are from my sister's collection. Pei Ge suddenly assigned me a task, which scared me. Fortunately, it's our own hotel, so it's easy to arrange."

Fu Songzhi: "Have you delivered the gift as well?"

"Yes, I sent it. I asked the assistant to pick out 20 pieces, including your share. Do you think we should show up?"

Brother Pei values ​​Shen Zhiyi so much, so as brothers they cannot neglect him.

"Show up?" Fu Songzhi sneered, "If you scare them again and some rumors spread, you'll see if Pei Ge'er will beat you up."

Qin Fang asked bitterly, "Then send a blessing message?"

Without experience, I really don't know how to deal with my best friend's girlfriend's birthday party. "Let's send it," Fu Songzhi checked the time, "Can't Pei Ge come back?"

"What else? If Pei Ge can come back, will he still need me?"

On the other side, in the hotel, Shen Zhiyi was halfway through opening her gifts when she received blessing text messages from Qin Fang and Fu Songzhi, and she thanked them one by one.

At the moment of midnight, the phone vibrated several times. It was a text message sent by Huo Heng using his assistant's phone.

Before he could click to check it out, Xiao Dong suddenly exclaimed, "Sister Zhiyi, come and see!"

All the people who were originally sitting together and chatting gathered in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows. Shen Zhiyi was called over and saw the colorful night scene outside through the transparent glass.

The hotel is high enough to take in the night view of the entire city. When the clock struck midnight in the central building, the scenes on the advertising screens in many buildings and squares changed in an instant. Shen Zhiyi lowered her head slightly and saw her face on those screens - there were advertisements she had shot, magazine photos, video clips of roles she had played, and birthday support videos in which her fans showed their faces. The colorful lights formed a ribbon that penetrated the darkness of the night.

At this moment, this city belongs to her, Shen Zhiyi.

Shen Zhiyi stared blankly, unable to come back to his senses when the phone rang. He answered the call unconsciously, and the first sound he heard from the other end was the whistling wind.

"…Happy birthday, Zhizhi."

Pei Yu's voice, mixed with the whistling sound of the wind, sounded softer than usual.

Shen Zhiyi suddenly asked, "Is it you?"

An unusually lavish birthday party tonight, dozens of advertising screens in tall buildings and squares—was it him?

"Ok?"

Pei Yu looked into the distance. The advertising screen of the building was playing the advertisement of the perfume she endorsed. He lowered his eyes and smiled, "Are you not satisfied?"

I have never pleased anyone, so when I do these things I always feel like I am not doing them well enough.

"No," Shen Zhiyi denied quickly. Somehow she suddenly had a premonition. Her heart was beating very fast. She walked past the people standing around the floor-to-ceiling windows and walked out. Her steps became bigger and bigger, and in the end she was almost jogging.

Her voice was tense, "Are you here?"

"Pei Yu," she asked again, somewhat incoherently, "are you here?"

He ran out of the room, walked around the corridor, and stood in front of the elevator. Looking at the unchanged number, Shen Zhiyi showed a trace of confusion and lowered his tone, "...Isn't he here?"

"You want me to show up?"

Pei Yu could imagine what she looked like at the moment. He chuckled and asked in an inducing way, "Want to see me?"

Shen Zhiyi did not answer directly, but murmured softly, unable to hide her disappointment, "I forgot you were still abroad."

How could he be here?

"Zhizhi," Pei Yu called her, with great patience, "Tell me you want to see me."

"...I," he paused, finally listening to his heart at the moment, "I want to see you."

"Pei Yu, I want to see you."

(End of this chapter)