Chapter 2: Reunion.

The "dang" piano abruptly produced a short syllable with the keys pressed.
All the pictures shrank violently, traversing mountains and rivers, turning over the years, and regressing at an extremely fast speed to the day of heavy rain in late autumn.
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The girl who was lying on the piano and didn't know when she fell asleep suddenly twitched and was awakened by the sudden sound of the piano.
She raised her head, her heart seemed to be held by a big hand, there was still a heart-piercing pain, but she couldn't find a way out, only the tip of her nose became sore.
But all this...
Zhou Yizhi suffocated and looked around.
The sky is dim, and there are light blue curtains and floor-to-ceiling windows next to Triangle Steinway. The sycamore leaves that stretch to the second floor have turned yellow. The heavy rain crackled and slammed on the glass windows, as if thousands of people clapped in silence.
She obviously embarked on a journey to a foreign country, but when she opened her eyes, why did she return to the villa? !
Zhou Yizhi's heartbeat speeded up gradually, and she looked at her hands incredulously. She lowered her head, and the smooth black piano was covered, reflecting the face of a young girl with a ball head tied up.
She has fair skin, slender swan neck, cold and world-weary features, sharp and proud.
It's a pretty face that everyone will love just by looking at the skin.
The mobile phone on the side suddenly lit up. It was a new email message. The sender was his father Zhou Du. The subject of the email was: Xue Xi's information.
Seeing this name again, Zhou Yizhi's breath missed for a second.
All of this is too familiar, so familiar that it makes blood flow, as if the gears of fate are running over again.
The late autumn, withered leaves, heavy rain at the age of fifteen, the black car slowly coming from the mountainside, the boy who was about to be taken in by the housekeeper.
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Zhou Yizhi realized that her time had gone back to the day of reunion!
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Her heart jumped wildly, even more anxious than the sound of rain. She hurriedly opened the door of the study room and went out, and she couldn't even notice that her knee was tripped on the piano bench.
As if eager to prove something, she stepped on her slippers and rushed down the stairs.
Because of the heavy rain, the door of the villa was tightly closed, the housekeeper went out, and Aunt He was making some snacks in the kitchen. Hearing her rushing downstairs stepping on her slippers, Aunt He hurried her head out of the kitchen: "Miss, be careful, don't fall."
Zhou Yizhi looked at Aunt He, and Aunt He was really younger than a teenager.
She looked at the coffee table again, holding a provincial competition trophy. It was she who woke up this morning and pretended to accidentally put it there when she heard that her parents were coming back. Sure enough, it really returned to that day!
Zhou Yizhi's heart excitement overlapped with the remaining pain, and she actually told her to sit down on the stairs, hugging her knees.
"What's wrong with Miss?!" Aunt He came to help her in a panic.
"...I'm fine." Zhou Yizhi finally awoke a little bit from his panic.
What happened was not a nightmare, it was real.
However, now that time goes back, she has returned to the beginning of everything, which is also true.
The person the world treats her best has not yet come to her, and has not ruined his best life because of her arrogance and ignorance.
Everything is too late.
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Zhou Yizhi wiped away the tears from the corner of her eye, glanced at the clock on the wall, trying to remember when the housekeeper brought Xue Xi back in her previous life, but after trying to search in her mind for a while, she found to her frustration that she could not remember at all .
Even the scene of the encounter in the previous life was blurred.
After all, to her, her brother at the time was just an outsider who suddenly appeared in this house.
She, the housekeeper and Aunt He lived in this huge villa for many years. If her parents hadn't come back every six months, Zhou Yizhi would hardly remember their faces.
She is like a cub that has been forgotten here, not knowing where she is not to please them.
But an outsider who stepped into the house suddenly made them praised again and again, and they were particularly concerned. This made Zhou Yizhi feel that his territory had been violated and his most desired things had been taken away. It is difficult for her not to show her teeth and claws, trying to drive the outsider out.
Thinking about it now, I was too bad when I was young.
In fact, Zhou Yizhi vaguely remembered that when he first saw the beautiful young man who appeared at the door, it was not entirely just annoying.
At that time, her emotions were very complicated, including the fear of being taken away from her parents, the jealousy of the teenager, and the moment of surprise-she was curious about him. After all, because of her character and family background, she had few friends. She thought she would have one more teenage playmate.
But after the wet boy stepped into the door of Zhou's house, his face looked at her with a pale expression, as if there was a kind of alienation that turned away thousands of miles away.
This aroused Zhou Yizhi's arrogance-this person sent under the fence, his shoes soiled the carpet, shouldn't it please her? But why does he have a straight back, not that meaning at all?
In Zhou Yizhi's heart, there were some inexplicable emotions.
He ignored himself first.
Thinking about it now, Zhou Yizhi felt more and more that he had misunderstood something.
She opened the information of Xue Xi sent by her father and clicked on the attachments one by one.
In the last life, because she didn't care, she didn't even open the attached information indifferently.
It was only later that the rumors about Xue Xi's life experience were learned from the students in the school.
Her father Zhou Du was an egoistic businessman who would not support poor students who had nothing to do with him for no reason.
There is a reason why Xue Xi was brought home. Xue Jiazu was an official and Zhou Jiazu was a business. The two grandfathers had old friendships.
Three years ago, Xue Xi's father was the mayor and secretary of the provincial party committee of Haicheng. He was dismissed from his post in an explosion incident. He didn't know what happened. He was reported and found that he had taken bribes.
No one knows the specifics. Even the information available weekly is only slightly more than the news.
After Xue's father and mother Xue's property were compensated, both committed suicide. Xue Xi saw his parents jump off the building. Xue Xi was too irritated and autistic. He was sent to his grandfather. He changed his name and changed his surname. His family was destroyed overnight. Generations are reduced to poor students.
Three months ago, his grandfather passed away, leaving only one grandmother with dementia.
Zhou Yizhi's father followed the wishes of his overseas grandfather and provided financial support to Xue Xi. He took the son of the deceased from other cities, went through transfer procedures for him, and arranged for his grandma to be admitted to the hospital.
This was the beginning of Xue Xi being brought into Zhou's house.
Zhou Yizhi didn't read the information carefully at the time, so he didn't know, and when he heard it mockingly from the aristocratic children in the school, his dislike for his brother was deeply rooted.
But now I think about it. Before being brought back by the housekeeper, the young Xue Xi had just dealt with the funeral of his grandfather and brought his grandmother over a long distance. He was already desolate and exhausted. The pressure had bent him down. He was so tired that he walked heavily and his eyes were almost ready. Can't open it.
But he stood in front of Zhou's gate like a soup chicken, still straightened his back, probably trying to be decent in front of him.
He had the smell of a long-distance train and he was hungry for a day. He was afraid that he would be smelled by himself when he was close to him. He didn't have a good impression. So he stood far away, pursing his lips in silence, watching him not speak.
But at that time, I didn't think about anything, only his temper was agitated, thinking that he was disdainful of himself, and after he entered the door, he began to face coldly.
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The memory of the previous life in Zhou Yizhi's mind was gradually aroused, as if the pages of a book that had been yellowed and pressed on the bottom of the box were rediscovered. Her heart was empty, a little sad, and there was the joy of being able to come back to life.
She wants to make up for the bad and wrongs of the previous life and change the fate of her and her brother. She will no longer be the arrogant and arrogant Zhou Yizhi in this life.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yizhi jumped up quickly, rushed to the kitchen, full of vitality, said to Aunt He: "Aunt He, help me make some dishes!"
He had been hungry for a day in the previous life, and was even ridiculed by her. In this life, she wants to prepare meals in advance and wait for him to come.
Aunt He was taken aback and hurriedly pushed her out: "Miss, what are you doing in here?"
Zhou Yizhi has been a little squeamish since she was a child. She has a sensitive nose and a bad stomach. She can't smell too strong smell. The smell of oily smoke and blood will make her retching involuntarily.
Whenever the housekeeper and Aunt He caught these smells, they would first take a shower and then appear in front of her. Therefore, Zhou Yizhi would never enter the kitchen.
Her fingers are slender and do not touch the spring water, like exquisite exhibits on the shelf, which are incompatible with these.
But Zhou Yizhi had already ordered: "Aunt He, make a pork ribs steamed meat, remember to make it sweeter, and then watch to make some green vegetables."
Aunt He is even more suspicious of life: "Miss, don't you like sweets? You said that there are fattening things in sweets."
But brother likes to eat.
All the dishes in this villa in the previous life were based on Zhou Yizhi.
Because Zhou Yizhi hates Xue Xi, he doesn't eat at home often, and treats guests outside of school all the year round. Occasionally eating in the villa, Aunt He does everything she likes, and the silent teenager sitting opposite her never picks it.
He sprinted very quickly, his height changed every few days, but in those few years he ate all the spicy food he couldn't eat.
Zhou Yizhiguang was filled with sorrow after thinking about it. She didn't hesitate to say to Aunt He: "It's okay, Aunt He, remember to do it lightly, and there will be guests later."
Aunt He was responsive and didn't think much about it, and went into the kitchen busy.
Zhou Yizhi returned to the living room, took his shameful province trophy back to the bedroom, put it in the drawer and locked it.
She came out of the room and thought of another thing.
After Xue Xi came to this home in the previous life, Zhou Yizhi, who was very repellent at that time, deliberately asked the housekeeper to arrange his room in the gardener's room outside the villa because everything in the family was in charge of Zhou Yizhi.
Although the house was well-equipped, it was no different from the basement. It was cold and humid, and the last gardener only occasionally stayed for a day.
After Xue Xi lived there for two months, Zhou Yizhi's parents came back and scolded Zhou Yizhi, and Xue Xi's room was changed to the villa.
At that time, Xue Xi, who had always been taciturn, had not fully recovered his vocal cords, and had to stand up and explain in a silent voice. He had arranged his room early because he felt that the air outside was better and he had not had time to move. Father Zhou didn't say anything. But no surprise, when my brother said so, it was Zhou Yizhi who was hypocritical again.
Zhou Yizhi rejected him more and more, unwilling to go to school with him, let alone go home with him.
Even began to stop the driver from picking up and going to school by himself.
Then one day, the third year of high school was very late, and when she came back from the night, she found that the teenager was a head taller than herself, carrying a white-washed schoolbag and following far behind. When she came home, she furious and said a lot of bad words. if.
Zhou Yizhi felt that he could no longer think about those things, nor could he recall that every time he made trouble unreasonably, Xue Xi looked at him with silent and dark eyes.
She intends to wait for the housekeeper and the driver to return, so that the housekeeper will buy some daily necessities and give her brother a room on the second floor facing south.
After doing this, the guilt that was pressing on Zhou Yizhi's heart only slightly dissipated.
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At this moment, she heard the sound of car brakes coming from the mountainside with heavy rain.
Her heart beats suddenly, like a drum, is she back?
She hurried to the end of the corridor and looked down through the window.
In the previous life, she waited for someone to be led into the door by the housekeeper, and then walked down the stairs on the second floor impatiently, so naturally she didn't see this scene.
The black car stopped outside the fence of the villa, and a tall boy in an old school uniform with a schoolbag on one shoulder walked down.
And the car drove into the garage.
The butler opened the umbrella from behind and hurriedly walked into the villa, hurriedly to inform Zhou Yizhi, and he didn't care about him being drenched in soup.
But when he was waiting for the housekeeper at the entrance of the hospital, he had been in the rain for quite a while, and his body was already soaked, but it was a little wetter now.
The boy's hair was pitch black, and the rain dripped down the straight bridge of his nose. He stood silently on the side of the car for a while. After hearing the sound of the butler letting him in, he walked towards the villa gate.
He was born beautifully, his eyes were like distant mountains covered in snow, with a little coolness. His feet were still the old pair of shoes from the previous life, splashed with mud and water, and he looked thinly dressed, and the cold wind poured into his neck.
He walked to the steps of the villa and paused.
He seemed to be looking at the mud on the soles of his shoes.
Don't know if he noticed something, he suddenly raised his head.
Zhou Yizhi almost ran into his sight, inexplicably guilty, and hid under the window in time.
The butler’s voice came downstairs: "Miss, have you received the mail from your husband?"
Zhou Yizhi moved to the top of the stairs in a squatting position, and then stood up. She tugged at the off-white ankle knit dress on her body, and then raised her hand to touch the random ball head on the back of her head. Not pretty.
But thinking that his brother did so much for himself in his previous life, in his eyes, he must be perfect.
After a pause, Zhou Yizhi relaxed and walked downstairs slowly.
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The cold boy was already standing at the door.
Zhou Yiyi went downstairs and ran into his eyes.
Four eyes face each other.
Zhou Yizhi's breath choked.
The gaze was a little flat, it seemed to be no different from the previous life, but Zhou Yizhi of the previous life was impetuous, only glanced at him and then looked away, while Zhou Yizhi of this life was sad and emotional, but couldn't help but stare at him.
Gradually, he realized that the boy's eyes had been on her for a little too long.
Although Zhou Yizhi wanted to step forward and hug him very much, but with Zhou Yizhi’s arrogant character, she couldn’t do this kind of gesture of closeness anyway—she seemed to be born incapable of expressing feelings, and was able to do the best. Just put away the thorns all over the body.
She took the initiative to speak dryly: "I heard my father say, your name is Xue Xi."
Xue Xi still looked at her.
After a pause, Zhou Yizhi looked at Xue Xi: "Brother, welcome home."
Her tone is jerky and stiff, but if you are careful enough, you will find a little trembling in it, and the ending sound seems to be muttering.
It's not tit-for-tat, it's not disgusting.
It turned out to be "Welcome Home".
He never heard her say these four words.
Standing at the door of the villa, Xue Xi, who looked up at her, was stunned on the spot.