Pei Ji patiently followed Shen Zhiyi around the temple.
He watched her kneeling on the cushions in front of the Buddha statues, worshiping devoutly.
The gentle eyebrows and eyes seemed to be covered with a faint Buddha light.
He stood aside, raised his eyelids and looked at the tall, silent Buddha statues.
He thought.
If there really is a Buddha.
If everything she believed was true.
Then, he hoped that every Buddha statue would listen carefully to her wishes.
All her requests were granted.
Things like these require a little price.
Then he will pay it.
…
When they came out, Shen Zhiyi asked him with interest.
"Pei Ji, why don't you believe this?"
Pei Ji's gentle eyes fell on her through the lenses.
He brushed the strands of hair away from her forehead.
"No reason."
"Maybe Qi Wei has found something to believe in."
"What is it?" Shen Zhiyi looked surprised.
Pei Ji looked at her with a smile.
No words.
But a voice in my heart said softly.
It's you, baby.
My only faith.
He looked at her, her whole body shrouded in light, even her eyelashes trembling with golden light.
As beautiful as a fake.
Pei Ji suddenly felt a secret worry in his heart.
Can you really tie her up?
He lowered his eyes to look at the chain on her wrist. It was so thin that it would break immediately with just the slightest pull.
Pei Ji's eyelashes trembled.
I felt inexplicably panicked.
Shen Zhiyi didn’t ask any further questions.
She glanced not far away.
I saw a woman with eyebrows and eyes very similar to Pei Ji coming out of the temple gate.
Her eyes flashed.
"Pei Ji, I'm going to the bathroom."
"Wait for me here."
"Okay." Pei Ji closed his eyes, suppressed the anxiety and panic in his heart, rubbed her head, and then let go reluctantly.
He watched her turn around.
Walk towards the restroom.
He silently touched the bracelet on his wrist.
Shen Zhiyi turned his back to him and raised his head.
The sunlight shone on half of her face, and formed a dark shadow on the other side, covering half of her facial features.
She remembered the wish she had just made to the Buddha.
She wants an opportunity.
An opportunity to untie Pei Ji's knot.
She wanted to cast a ray of light into his dark soul.
A light that illuminates eternity.
A light that dispels all anxiety and fear.
But this means.
First, expose his darkness and hesitation.
How can you have the courage to face pain if you don’t face it?
Shen Zhiyi looked ahead.
He walked forward with a determined look in his eyes.
"Pei Ji?!"
A surprised voice sounded behind him.
Pei Ji's whole body was stiff.
Slowly, in disbelief, he turned his head and looked away.
A middle-aged woman with a haggard face rushed up to him, with a look of joy at having lost something and regained it.
“It’s really you…it’s really you!”
She murmured, tears welling up in her eyes, "It's Mom!"
"Pei Ji, it's mom!"
She grabbed Pei Ji's sleeve, afraid that the hope of regaining what she had lost would slip through her fingertips.
I didn’t expect that the wish I made to Buddha would come true so quickly.
She can finally stop living in such a mess and return to the wealthy family to be her rich wife again!
She was too naive when she was young.
I thought that if I left the Pei family and all the intrigues, I would be able to live a truly happy life with the person I love.
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