Shen Zhizhe stood on the terrace, holding on to the railing, looking down at the courtyard below.

It was empty there, with only the shadows of trees hitting the white seats.

Where used to be? It was the place where Shen Yuntang drank tea.

He gradually tightened his grip on the railing until his palms turned white.

Shen Zhizhe had not been able to fall asleep for many days, and was on the verge of mental collapse. His eyes were covered with red bloodshot eyes, and he was looking at the garden below almost without blinking.

He was used to seeing Shen Yuntang from this perspective.

From a very young age, every time he came to the terrace after doing his homework, he would lower his eyes and see that person sitting on a bench in the courtyard with his legs crossed, reading a fashion magazine. , or watching a movie while stirring the coffee in your hand.

She always focused on her own things and never looked up, so she never noticed him.

Shen Zhizhe still remembers the first time he met Shen Yuntang.

He was cramped and silent, sitting in the living room of the Shen family, waiting for Uncle Shen to ask him. The people around him looked at him without leaving a trace, as if they were trying their best to hide their sight, and they were busy. But they had always known each other since childhood. Shen Zhizhe, who is particularly sensitive to the outside world's gaze, can always feel the curiosity that makes him feel like a thorn in his back.

He knew they meant no harm.

Perhaps you still have good intentions and care for him.

But Shen Zhizhe is too sensitive. Any half-hidden and half-revealed inquiry is a torment for him.

It was that day that he met Shen Yuntang for the first time. He remembered the first words Shen Yuntang said to him?, "Who is this person?"

A little girl as beautiful as a doll passed by him with an expressionless expression. Her voice was crisp and she was not very young, but her tone sounded like an adult who was in charge of the family.

Uncle Shen immediately seemed to be choked by her, and said helplessly: "This is your uncle's son. From now on, when he lives in our house, you have to call him brother."

Shen Yuntang glanced at him twice, said "Oh" and asked him: "Can you do four arithmetic operations within one hundred?"

Shen Zhizhe remembered that he was obviously stunned at that time.

Little Shen Yuntang frowned in disgust, shook his pigtails and went upstairs.

It seems that she thinks that this brother doesn't even know how to do this and is of no use at all.

Uncle Shen felt ashamed and explained to him that his daughter was really spoiled too much and had a bad temper.

Shen Zhizhe whispered that it was nothing, but he was thinking about her words in his heart. A few days later, at the dining table, he suddenly silently picked up a notebook from his hand and handed it to Shen Yuntang.

Xiao Shen Yuntang, who was eating porridge, paused, put down his spoon, took the notebook and saw that it was the exercise book he had made.

She finally showed some satisfaction to him: "You are still useful, teach me to do my homework later."

She said this so confidently that all the housekeepers around her were pinching their throats. They laughed repeatedly for the embarrassment of their eldest lady's shocking words, but Shen Zhizhe looked at her closely, but felt inexplicable in his heart. The ground breathed a sigh of relief.

He is useful.

The tension under the fence finally faded a little.

Shen Yuntang is very willful, this is the consensus of everyone. What amazing things she does are not unexpected. At most, it gives Shen's father a headache. It is impossible to beat him, and he can't bear to scold him. If you can educate her with all your heart and soul, she will just ignore it.

Shen Zhizhe was the nearest victim to her, so it was normal for her to cause trouble for her. Uncle Shen had apologized for this for a long time, and had to endure his daughter's temper for him, and was kind to him as compensation. ?A lot.

Every time he got into trouble, the housekeeper apologized to Shen Zhizhe who took the blame, but Shen Zhizhe didn't say a word.

He pursed his lips and muttered only one sentence?

She's very good.

Shen Yuntang is not a bad boy.

She is willful and cooperative, but she has never done anything with an irreversible outcome. It can even be said that she is extremely pure. Shen Yuntang believes in himself very much and never gives in to those who make excuses. Snake people have good looks.

Her emotions are never fake.

Shen Yuntang is so precious.

Shen Zhizhe is willing to solve all future troubles for her. He would rather Shen Yuntang continue to be willful forever, at least there is one person in this world who can be so true to the end.

What if Shen Yuntang could always be by his side?

I don’t know when Shen Zhizhe started to have such an idea.

He knew it was dangerous at the time.

Rain began to fall from the sky, and it slanted on Shen Zhizhe's cheeks and palms. His eyelashes caught water drops, but his eyes remained unwavering, and he looked at the swaying tree shadows in the spring rain quietly as if he had lost his soul. and empty benches.

Such a big house, he had never felt empty before. Shen Yuntang was here? It felt like everything was alive and lively.

But Shen Yuntang will not come back.

She? Firmly, without hesitation, and decisively, she chose to stay in the world without him.

Not having him there was actually a happy thing for her.

Shen Zhizhe has been suffering from chest pain for a long time. When he thought of these words, a slight feeling of suffocation gripped him and became more intense.

He has given up on his purpose for living.

…

"Mr. Xiao Shen, Mr. Shen?" the housekeeper asked him cautiously, "Are you feeling unwell? Or should you go to the hospital?"

Shen Zhizhe came back to his senses and looked at him quietly. When he saw the housekeeper, his back felt a little cold. After a while, he shook his head.

"fine."

The housekeeper was a little worried, but it was not a good idea to make a decision for him, so he had to say: "Would you like to go down for a meal first?"

Shen Zhizhe was silent for a long time, and finally nodded gently to him.

The butler was relieved.

I don’t know what’s going on these days, but the young lady has become very strange. Even Mr. Shen is so nice and bad. I don’t know what’s going on. Because of the blind date and the ex-wife, the young lady didn’t come here. She has been having troubles with her family, but she seems to be well-behaved again these days. Although she is more difficult to maintain than before, she no longer makes trouble with Mr. Shen, and she is still alienated from Mr. Xiao Shen. When I wake up, it always feels weird.

And Mr. Xiao Shen seemed to have been stimulated by something. In just a short period of time, he almost lost his virginity. He didn't sleep or eat. The housekeeper seriously doubted whether these two people had a quarrel and fell in love with him. Go back? It caused quite a big fuss, and the impact on both parties can be said to be completely different.

He was originally thinking about finding an opportunity to ease the relationship between them, but it happened that the lady was here today. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Shen Zhizhe's expression suddenly change.

He looked at Shen Yuntang sitting at the dining table, his expression extremely ugly. When Shen Yuntang saw him, he was also frightened, as if he had seen something very scary, he suddenly panicked and pushed away violently? The chair goes away.

The housekeeper was confused.

He soon discovered that such a scene happened in more than one place.

Anywhere in this house, whenever he saw anything related to the young lady, Xiao Shen would suddenly become quiet, with a terrifyingly gloomy expression on his face. But he did not say another word, and just looked at it quietly for a long time, and finally Then he said gently: "Tangtang's things are all worn out, give them to her to change."

The butler was confused.

I couldn't throw out the changed things, they were all piled up in the utility room.

When Shen Yuntang came back, he found something strange in his home and asked the housekeeper unhappily: "Who changed everything?"

The housekeeper said awkwardly: "It's Mr. Shen."

Shen Yuntang, who was originally facing a storm, suddenly lost his temper.

She gritted her teeth for a long time before she pulled out a not-so-good one. She smiled and said, "Okay."

The butler was simply horrified.

According to the young lady's temper, she didn't even get angry. It must have been a big deal for Mr. Shen to catch her.

The housekeeper felt that Mr. Shen was getting weirder and weirder. He was supposed to be gentle, elegant, and flawless, but every time he turned around, he seemed to be able to catch the coldness that Shen Zhizhe had no time to hide.

His behavior is too weird.

One night when he woke up, the housekeeper was startled when he saw the door of the storage room ajar. He thought there was a thief and didn't dare to go forward by himself. When he found someone to come, the housekeeper was in the storage room. ?Empty again?, only a few things were moved and returned to their original places almost intact.

He pulled out in confusion and bumped head-on into Shen Zhizhe.

He told Shen Zhizhe about this, but he didn't seem to take it to heart. He just nodded lightly and let him go about his business.

The housekeeper left suspiciously. When he walked to the corridor, he turned his head and saw him staring at the door of the storage room without moving.

He also often heard noises in the courtyard in the middle of the night.

The housekeeper suspected that someone was guarding him, so he groped and crouched in the bushes at night to look around. It rained lightly that day, so he waited for a long time, thinking that no one would come. When it was almost dawn, he saw Shen Zhizhe coming out and sitting on the bench. Go up, lower your body, gently open an umbrella, and put it down.

He even looked a little nervous.

The housekeeper felt that Shen Zhizhe might have a mental problem.

Could it be that his quarrel with Miss Shen had such a big impact on him?

No way.

The butler's heart grew higher and higher. He couldn't help but come up with a conjecture that was both reasonable and absurd -

Mr. Shen, could it be that he likes the lady?

…

The butler's heartbeat almost immediately stopped for a beat.

That was too scary, but, but, it seemed not impossible. This was what frightened him the most.

The young lady agreed to the blind date, and she was about to get married.

How can Shen Zhizhe do this?
To be continued...