Chapter 218 This Should Have Been a Good Start

After the date, Xie Shiyuan politely declined Bai Jiashu's invitation to see him off, saying that the driver was nearby.

Bai Jiashu heard this with a faint smile on his face. He glanced around inconspicuously and said, "Okay, then go home and be safe."

Xie Shiyuan nodded and hugged the man affectionately again.

Only after watching the man leave completely did she walk away in the opposite direction. She walked so fast that she shook off the paparazzi behind her before she had gone far.

Xie Shiyuan entered a quiet alley.

It was late at night, and the lights in the alley seemed particularly dim. All around was silent and quiet. Only one street lamp was still shining brightly. Standing under the light, it was like splitting the elongated shadow into two halves.

She turned around, stared at the person behind her for several seconds, and sneered, "Why did you follow me?"

"You deliberately tried to get rid of the reporters. You just wanted to meet me in a dark place. You were worried that you would be photographed with me after having dinner with Jiashu."

Pei Yao stood under the light with his head down. The warm yellow halo made his tall and slender figure look especially long. He stepped forward and the black shadow merged into Xie Shiyuan's shadow.

The young man stared at the shadow on the ground, then tentatively took another step forward, and the two shadows blended more deeply.

Xie Shiyuan immediately stepped on it in disgust.

Pei Yao looked hurt, his mouth opened, his voice choked with sobs, "Do you hate me so much? Will I never get your forgiveness in my life? I sincerely repent, don't you want to see me?"

"Remember that time at the swimming pool? Grandpa beat me up, and I went to your house to apologize. You didn't want a priceless gift, but you wanted me to protect you. In fact, from that time on, you knew the truth, right? It was from that time that you wanted me to repay you."

"But afterwards, you didn't give me a chance to repay you. You didn't need my protection. At the time, I felt that your request was humiliating me. Now I finally understand that you didn't even want to give me a chance."

"They say regret is useless and the past cannot be redone, but as the person involved, I regret it. I regret it so much. How can I control the extreme pain? I regret it every day after knowing the truth. It's like there's a monster hiding in my head. The monster has chewed up my past and swallowed up my future."

"I want to go back to the past..."

Go back in time and change the original time.

He would not faint. He would look at her soberly and remember that face firmly. He would not choose to escape out of cowardice.

They should have had a great start.

Pei Yao was deeply trapped in the pain of regret and was tortured every day.

This is where his contradiction lies.

The protection for Xie Yuanyuan began with the grace of saving her life.

But after meeting Xie Shiyuan, his eyes were focused on her again and again. Due to the favor he received from being kidnapped, he tried his best to deny paying any attention to her.

However, the falsehood was exposed.

The sudden outburst of emotion was like water breaking through a dam, uncontrollable.

He likes her.

Even though he was deceived by Xie Yuanyuan at first and Xie Yuanyuan tried her best to prevent him from having direct contact with Xie Shiyuan, he was already attracted to her.

Whether it was the scene where she beat him up in the swimming class, or the scene where she was isolated in the Xie family, or her heroic skiing at the resort, the way she talked and laughed with Wen Xuyan, and the way she acted coquettishly towards Bai Jiashu.

And the last scene, the moment she took off the mask.

Incredibly clear, incredibly sharp images.

Pei Yao didn't even realize when he remembered these scenes so clearly.

Whenever he appeared, his eyes followed her.

Because there were so many people around, he couldn't look at her openly, and would steal glances at her out of the corner of his eyes.

"I've thought about it for a long time, even if you don't want to listen--" Pei Yao wanted to say.

Xie Shiyuan interrupted, "I don't want to hear it, don't say it."

Pei Yao's face turned pale and his heart was beating violently.

"I looked down on you before, and I know you must look down on me now."

"But if you really didn't want to hear me, you wouldn't have shaken off the reporters and led me here."

The young master's IQ is online.

Xie Shiyuan did deliberately lead him here. She didn't expect that a simple meeting between her and Bai Jiashu would attract so many people.

Everything that should and shouldn’t have come has come.

Very good, then let’s listen to what Pei Yao has to say next.

Xie Shiyuan pretended not to want to listen and was about to leave. Pei Yao quickly blocked her way.

The boy was wearing a loose sports shirt. He was about 1.88 meters tall, with a pretty and rebellious face that made people gasp. He had a pair of bright and stubborn eyes that showed a bit of unwillingness to admit defeat.

He grabbed Xie Shiyuan's shoulders with both hands and forced her to face him.

"I know I'm a bastard and don't deserve your forgiveness. You ignored my regrets. Even if I sincerely repented, I can't go back to the way we were before."

"But I still want to say that I will make it up to you. No matter what method I use, I will return your childhood kindness to you, and I will compensate you for everything you should have received long ago."

Regret, regret again.

Regretful love is such an interesting thing.

This is the feeling of being slapped in the face. The more disgusted and repulsed you were before, the more sad and remorseful you are now.

When you have it and can make up for it, you won’t want to do anything. But once you suddenly realize it, you will want to make up for it and want to go back to the past.

They want to go back to the past only because the current situation does not meet their requirements.

If everything had gone according to the original trajectory, where would the regret come from? Who would want to go back to the past?

Xie Shiyuan asked: "Compensation for what?"

"One is fair." Pei Yao said firmly: "I will personally send your adoptive mother to prison, and all those who participated in your trafficking to prison."

Xie Shiyuan raised his eyebrows to express his doubt.

Pei Yao looked at her, his Adam's apple slid, he tilted his head, and his voice became firmer, "I'm sorry, even if I say it many times, I still want to say sorry countless times, I hurt you, the harm I caused you, even if I say I like you, I will still be laughed at."

"!!!"

If the previous statement, that all persons involved in human trafficking cases should be sent to prison, is a bombshell.

Then this sentence undoubtedly adds insult to injury.

Hiding in the darkness, those beautiful eyes like venomous snakes were distorted to the extreme.

Xie Yuanyuan dug into the wall so hard that her nails bled bright red.

She gritted her teeth and held back a scream.

"I like you, Xie Shiyuan."

Pei Yao said: "I like you more than Wen Xuyan and Bai Jiashu, because you and I are the only ones who have experienced the test of life and death, and we both won and survived."

As he said, this should have been a good start.