From beginning to end, Pei Yi was always waiting.
When Jiang Se accompanied Feng Zhongliang to visit the Pei family, he was the Pei family member who had accompanied the two of them the farthest away. Many scenes in his memory were about the car she was riding in sped away, and he stood there and watched for a long time.
Whenever he talked to her, she would always hang up the phone, and he would listen to the busy tone.
Follow her footsteps, read the books she read, eat at the restaurants she had eaten at, "walk the path you have walked, go to the school you have attended." But every time she graduated, he was still there.
When she didn't know his feelings, he was always anxious, but he didn't know what to do to make her notice him.
Pei Yi was conflicted at that time. Despair and hope were always mixed together, like a tug-of-war. On the one hand, he clearly understood that no matter what he did, she was a few years older than him, and in her eyes, he would always be a younger brother. The desperate side always wanted to persuade himself to give up.
The hopeful side is to always hold on to a vague idea, expecting a miracle to happen one day.
He understood the feeling of anticipation, so when he saw Jiang Se, the expression on her face seemed familiar to him at first, but when he thought about it later, he felt that it was like himself.
That was what she was expecting. She didn't say it, but in her heart she still hoped to get a response for her past.
"Am I?"
Jiang Se murmured and asked, and he said "hmm":
"Yes. So how could I not look for you? The worst thing I did was to go to France by myself that year."
That time he almost lost her, not in a noisy way, but he almost lost her as a person.
He couldn't imagine how he would bear that loss when he came back from France one day and saw Feng Nan, only to find that she had become a different person.
The best thing Pei Yi did was to muster up the courage to confess his love to her after he found out she was reborn. He took advantage of her helplessness and held her in his arms.
"sorry."
Jiang Se calmed down and apologized quietly. She had lost control of her emotions before, so she called him impulsively. Now that she realized that she was being unreasonable, she quickly bowed her head and admitted her mistake:
"I shouldn't say things like that."
"I like."
Pei Yi leaned against the wall, suppressing the little joy in his heart. This was the first time that Jiang Se lost his temper with him. The feeling was very novel. He spoke with some interest:
"You remember that pile of photographic equipment at home?"
Jiang Se nodded, "Of course I remember."
He used all these things to trick her into going to his house for the first time. In fact, it was because she knew Pei Yi and knew what kind of person he was at that time, so he thought his "trick" was successful so smoothly.
"That's Xiang Qiuran's thing." He said that Xiang Qiuran was pursuing a young model in the entertainment industry at that time and even opened an entertainment company for this young model. He promoted her for a while and provided her with some resources to help her build some fame, but the good times didn't last long and Xiang Qiuran soon lost interest.
At that time, Xiang Qiuran inadvertently mentioned that once after he caught the little model, he became a different person, throwing tantrums all the time and requiring people to coax him. A rich young man like him had never done anything to coax people, and he was too lazy to even humble himself, so he finally broke up with her.
When Pei Yi heard this, he was very envious of Xiang Qiuran.
Jiang Se was too calm. He actually hoped that Jiang Se would occasionally lose her temper with him so that he would have a chance to coax her.
"I like Sese like this." He said sweetly with confidence:
"I like you to act like a spoiled child with me, I like you to lose your temper, and I like you to say you like me even more, but what I like most is that when you feel uncomfortable, you remember to call me, and I am so happy."
His words made Jiang Se blush a little. She turned sideways to get the bag beside her, took out a tissue to wipe her face, and couldn't help saying:
"How do you know I'm feeling bad?"
"My Sese never cries."
He knows her very well, and knows her character better than anyone else. "She has a character that never admits defeat. She will do her utmost in everything she does, and never thinks of giving up when faced with difficulties." She is gentle on the outside but strong on the inside, and has never been a person who cries easily. Even the difficulties she faced after her rebirth, she could overcome them and live the life she wanted.
But when she called, she sounded delicate and a little tearful.
Pei Yi really understood her very well. When he said this, Jiang Se felt her eyes, which had just been wiped, feel a little sore.
She sniffed, her voice a little hoarse:
"Because sometimes tears are useless."
When she said this, she looked at her hands and pursed her lips:
"Ayi, I went to see my grandpa."
She wanted to cry again, but she took a deep breath and held it back:
"I stayed home for lunch." She mentioned lunch, Tangbushuang, and what Wang Ma had said unintentionally. She recalled the past and couldn't help but call Pei Yi.
She didn't say much about the kidnapping. She was not someone who was used to complaining to others. Most of the time, she liked to wrap herself up thickly and not allow others to peek into her heart.
Pei Yi had vaguely heard that Feng Nan had been kidnapped, but since she came back alive, he didn't take it seriously.
The feeling of hearing it from an elder was completely different from hearing it from her. She mentioned the bowl of candy and refused to throw it away, which made him feel distressed. When he thought of the kidnappers, his fists clenched and made a clattering sound:
"Has the kidnapper been caught?"
"We caught him later." She smiled, "Because of my grandfather, my family forbade me to mention this matter in front of me."
She was nearly killed, experienced days and nights of fear, and almost died in that room. After Feng Zhongliang returned to the Feng family, he forbade his family to mention the kidnapping.
In addition, the Feng family was well-known in Hong Kong, so the matter was suppressed. The tabloids mentioned it sporadically, but it was soon covered up by other news.
Because of Feng Zhongliang's special status, the court did not hold a public trial. Feng Nan did not deliberately inquire about the case afterwards. She only vaguely knew that there were nine kidnappers involved in the case, including her driver and maid. Five of them were charged with kidnapping, and the remaining three were accomplices, charged with covering up and concealing the crime.
Feng Zhongliang once put pressure on the Hong Kong judicial authorities, and the main culprit was eventually sentenced to nineteen years in prison.
"Nineteen years..." She was very young when she was kidnapped. Calculating the time, even if her sentence was not reduced, she should have been released from prison by now.
"I'll ask my grandfather later."
Pei Yi's voice was somewhat gloomy, and he obviously wanted to settle the score later. He was a little depressed that he was too young at that time and was not the one who saved her. If it were now, he would definitely try his best to protect her.
He originally wanted to ask Jiang Se if she still remembered the kidnapper's information, but he didn't want to bring up her unpleasant memories.
In fact, Jiang Se really couldn't remember it clearly. Now that she thought about it, the kidnapper's main culprit was tall and spoke fluent Chinese. She was deeply impressed. He didn't look like a Hong Konger. Afterwards, she accidentally heard someone from the Feng family mention it after the kidnapper was captured. It seemed that the main culprit's surname was Jiang, but she couldn't remember his name. (To be continued)