Shen Heyu searched all around the villa but could not find Pei Yansi. Eventually, the butler, seeing Shen Heyu wandering about, came out.
"Madam, are you looking for the young master?"
"I’m no longer the lady of this house, and you don’t need to call me madam. Just use my name," Shen Heyu coldly reminded him, correcting his choice of words.
The butler pursed his lips and took out a love letter from his pocket.
"Madam, if you’re looking for the young master, I have a love letter here that he personally wrote for you."
"The young master said before he left that if, after his departure, you show no reaction and do not seek him out, only feeling relieved and happy, I should not disturb you, nor should I give you this letter."
"If the first thing you do upon waking up is to search the entire villa for him, then I am to hand you this love letter he personally wrote."
Shen Heyu looked at the love letter in the butler’s hand.
On the envelope was the familiar handwriting, Pei Yansi’s handwriting.
"What else did he say?"
"The young master also said that you might wonder why he left suddenly without saying goodbye. Everything he wanted to tell you is in this letter."
"He also said that you are not obliged to open the letter, and it’s alright if you don’t want to read it."
Shen Heyu silently stared at the letter. She felt as though she had never really sat down and had a heart-to-heart talk with Pei Yansi. Perhaps there were things he found difficult to say to her face, which is why he chose to communicate through a letter.
Shen Heyu took a deep breath and eventually took the love letter from the butler’s hand.
She took the letter back to her room.
Alone in her room, she silently read the long letter.
In this love letter, Pei Yansi poured out his heartfelt love for Shen Heyu. His love for Shen Heyu had always been sincere.
It appeared that he deeply understood himself, having truly erred in the past.
He mentioned that he was repentant. Previously, he had forcefully kept Shen Heyu tied to his side. He shouldn’t have treated Shen Heyu that way, so their three-day agreement was nullified. Shen Heyu was free to leave if she wished.
He would no longer think of keeping Shen Heyu tied to his side.
When Shen Heyu read this, she felt as though a piece of her heart had been carved out.
Her heart felt empty, and her hand holding the letter dropped weakly. The thick pages fluttered down onto the sofa and the floor.
Shen Heyu stared blankly at the floor for a long time. Finally, she picked up her phone from beside her and tried to call Pei Yansi.
She had thought the call would not go through, but to her surprise, Pei Yansi answered immediately.
"Where are you now?" Shen Heyu asked Pei Yansi.
"Have you seen the letter?" Through the phone, Shen Heyu could clearly hear Pei Yansi smile with relief as he spoke.
"Although you have already declared the three-day agreement void in your heart, I, being one to follow through with my words, will stay by your side for the full three days before leaving," he said.
"Where are you now?" Shen Heyu asked him again.
But just like the last time, she still did not get an answer from the drawer.
"Are you coming to find me?"
"You just need to tell me your location," he said.
Shen Heyu’s heart suddenly lifted. Pei Yansi’s letter sounded as if he was bidding her farewell, he might have truly let go of her.
Initially, under the pressure from the Chen Family, when the two of them parted, it was Shen Heyu who brought up the matter, and Pei Yansi had tried everything to make her stay.
But Shen Heyu left without a backward glance, and after leaving Pei Yansi, she lived a tranquil life for a while.
Without Pei Yansi by her side, though her days were calm and uneventful, Shen Heyu always felt as if something were missing.
Pei Yansi still managed a smile. "Shen Heyu, where I am right now isn’t important to you. What’s important is that I respect your wishes, and if you want to leave, I won’t force you to stay with me. You can go."
"That’s enough, I don’t want to talk anymore. I might have thought about it all night before making this choice, and if you talk to me again, I might just change my mind."
"I hope you’re happy."
After saying this, Pei Yansi hung up the phone. When Shen Heyu called back, she discovered that he had turned his phone off.
No, some things had to be clarified face-to-face with Pei Yansi. Saying goodbye over the phone, what was that all about?
Even though Pei Yansi hadn’t told Shen Heyu his current location, having been by his side for three years, she knew him quite well and decided to go look for Pei Yansi.
But she hadn’t expected that on her lonely journey to find Pei Yansi, she would be targeted.
Pei’s Villa was located halfway up a hill on an estate. Shen Heyu drove alone, and as she came down the hill, she passed through a deserted stretch of road.
As Shen Heyu was driving down, there was an old man lying in the middle of the road. Shen Heyu frowned, braked, unbuckled her seatbelt, and got out of the car to check on the old man’s injuries.
"Grandpa, what happened to you? How can you be lying here alone?" Shen Heyu walked over unprotected and helped the old man lying on the cold ground.
However, as soon as the old man saw Shen Heyu approaching without any guard, he immediately raised his hand and struck towards Shen Heyu’s neck.
Shen Heyu only felt a numbness in her neck, then darkness veiled her sight, and she collapsed, fainting.
She was awakened by a bucket of cold water.
Shen Heyu took a deep breath, enduring the water dripping down from her forehead, and opened her eyes.
Just as she flicked open her eyelashes, she was greeted by a blinding light; squinting, she finally managed to see her surroundings somewhat clearly.
The surroundings were an abandoned factory.
In front of her were three thug-like men, one of whom, standing closest to her, was holding a ladle—this was what he had used to splash cold water and wake her.
Her hands and feet were tied. Shen Heyu struggled a bit and discovered that the ropes were tied extremely tight; she quickly realized, alarmed, that she had been kidnapped.
"Who sent you to kidnap me?" Shen Heyu stared at the few thug-like men in front of her.
"Yo, this lady isn’t scared at all," one of them, a man with a rooster crest, sneered as he chewed gum.
The most ferocious-looking one among them, with a knife scar beside his eye, said viciously, "Now that she’s awake, hurry up and call that woman to ask what to do next."
The mastermind behind Shen Heyu’s kidnapping was a woman.
Shen Heyu’s heart tightened; her scalp tingled. Could it be Chen Lingmeng who had sent people to kidnap her?
Such a scenario wasn’t impossible, especially since she had argued with Chen Lingmeng just yesterday.