Sheng Ting: "So, does your dad also know him?"
Shen Weiyi: "Well, we live in the same neighborhood. I’ve known him since I was about four or five years old; we grew up together." It was normal for both sets of parents to know each other.
She wasn’t bringing her boyfriend home to meet her parents on purpose; it was just that everyone already knew each other.
As for her relationship with Jiang Zhiyi, Shen Juanzhi probably knew about it too.
However, he always respected her and never asked too much, just telling her that a girl should know how to protect herself.
"So you’re not only ex-boy/girlfriends but also childhood sweethearts?"
Although his tone was casual and his face showed no expression, Shen Weiyi couldn’t help but feel that when he uttered the words "childhood sweethearts," there was an emphasis and a tinge of sourness in his voice.
"Are you upset?" Shen Weiyi speculated that if she encountered danger and an ex-girlfriend appeared, showing concern for him, she would also feel uncomfortable.
Just like the past with Xu Chenxi, and now with Senior Sister Zhuang.
She would feel annoyed and discontent; he must feel the same.
Sheng Ting: "I’m not upset, just regretful that I wasn’t a part of your past."
And yet, he was almost entirely a part of it.
Shen Weiyi clasped his hand in return and said, "You and he are the past, and now you are my boyfriend. You may not have been a part of my past, but I welcome you into my future."
Regarding her past with Jiang Zhiyi, Shen Weiyi didn’t plan to go into detail with Sheng Ting.
Having known each other for so long and him having been by her side throughout her adolescence, it was not something she could easily explain in a few sentences.
It wasn’t only about being childhood sweethearts or playmates during youth; these words couldn’t fully describe or summarize it.
Moreover, since it was in the past, there was no need to bring it up again.
Standing at the hospital entrance, waiting for a car, Shen Weiyi asked, "Did he say anything to you just now?"
Sheng Ting glanced at her: "He said to take good care of you."
Shen Weiyi pursed her lips, unsure of how to feel for a moment. After a while, she said, "He must have told you that I was kidnapped as a child, right? It was after that incident that I became extremely afraid of the dark."
To be precise, it was more like a phobia.
Shen Juanzhi had also helped her find a psychologist before.
But every time the doctor tried to use hypnosis to help her retrieve those lost memories, she would resist intensely.
Eventually, Shen Juanzhi gave up, feeling that it was fine even if she couldn’t remember.
Normally, she would deliberately avoid dark and enclosed spaces; the power outage in the lab was truly unexpected.
"Actually, I don’t remember the details of the kidnapping." She could only vaguely recall being locked in a very dark place, which was a fragment of memory she later conjured up through hypnotherapy.
Every time she tried to delve deeper into the memory, she would get a terrible headache.
Shen Juanzhi couldn’t bear to see her suffer, so he simply abandoned the psychological treatment.
Sheng Ting looked at her with tender eyes and said, "Bad memories are better forgotten."
Shen Weiyi smiled: "My dad says the same thing." If it was a memory that caused her pain, then it was better forgotten. Perhaps subconsciously, she chose to forget in order to protect herself.
However, as a result, her phobia was no longer treatable.