During the Spring Festival of 2018, Pei Ke and Shen Zhi made plans to have dinner together.

She blushed like a little girl and said mysteriously, "I... I'm in love."

Pei Ke's glass in his hand suddenly fell to the ground.

A waiter came to his side and said, "Mr. Pei, we'll take care of it."

At that moment, Pei Ke suddenly remembered a sentence his mother had said: "In families like ours, you'll get whatever you want."

But now, he wanted to refute his mother and said, "No.

"In this world, the thing I want most is Shen Zhi's love.

"But I can't have it."

One day in the summer of 2020, Shen Zhi, who hadn't shown up for a long time, suddenly found Pei Ke.

She said, "I'm leaving."

Pei Ke thought she was being sent on a business trip.

As he poured warm water for her, he asked, "When will you come back? I'll take you to a newly opened restaurant in the west of the city. The food there is sweet and sour, you'll definitely like it."

"Pei Ke."

Shen Zhi called his name seriously for the first time:

"I might not come back."

Pei Ke looked up at her.

He didn't even realize that water was overflowing from the cup.

Shen Zhi reached out and held Pei Ke's wrist, taking the kettle from him:

"In recent years, there has been rampant fraud by overseas criminal groups. They deceived many people and trapped them there.

"The Municipal Bureau has formed a special task force, and I signed up.

"If everything goes well, I and several other colleagues will pretend to be deceived and go undercover there, waiting to cooperate with the main force."

At that moment, Pei Ke felt a chill all over his body.

He had taken care of the girl for 11 years, and now she was about to go to such a dangerous place, where life and death were uncertain.

"Why did you sign up?"

Shen Zhi lowered her head, rubbing her fingertip along the rim of the cup: "My parents died at their hands.

"And there are so many people trapped there. If I don't go, if no one goes, how will they come back home?"

After finishing her words, she took out a document bag from her backpack: "My grandmother is old. This is the nursing home I selected in advance for her, and I have already paid enough money in advance.

"If I really can't come back, please take my grandmother to the nursing home."

Pei Ke silently reached out and accepted it, and heard Shen Zhi continue, "A total of five policemen from our family died in the line of duty, and if you count me, there are six people. So, don't tell my grandmother the truth, just say..."

She bit her lip: "Just say I went on a trip, to the farthest place in the world.

"Oh, my SIM card is on the balcony of my house. After I leave, please keep it for me."

"Anything else?" Pei Ke asked, restraining the sourness in his nose.

Shen Zhi sighed, "At Xie Jiasen's place, I need you to accompany me in a play. I can't let him know the truth.

"He has suffered too much in his life, and I don't want to make him cry because of me again."

Out of nowhere, Pei Ke felt a dull pain in his heart.

He knew that the pain came from his expectation that Shen Zhi's arrangements for him could be as thorough as they were for Xie Jiasen.

So he asked again, "Anything else?"

However, Shen Zhi shook her head, "That's all."