Reborn on My Wedding Night: This Time, I Won't Fail My Soldier Husband
Lu Yuzhou did not resist, allowing her to pull him toward Huaihua Hutong.
This alley was a place Shen Zhinian, Jiang Xiaochun, and Dong Shuyao had frequented back in their school days.
It was located in the alley just behind Shen Zhinian's house.
The alley was narrow, with pomegranate trees peeking over the walls of the houses; their vibrant red buds were so swollen they looked as if one could reach out and pluck them.
The door to the west room across the way was half-open, with shadows flickering inside; it was where a few pedicab drivers, having found no work for the day, had gathered to play cards.
A deck of cards, their edges frayed and worn, was spread out on a dilapidated square table, and the men huddled around it, their fingers stained a charred yellow from cheap cigarettes.
Their entire focus was on the card game, and they didn't even notice when two people slipped through the doorway.
Rather than a secret base for three, it was more of a trysting spot for Shen Zhinian and Jiang Xiaochun.
In the past, they only brought Dong Shuyao to Huaihua Hutong when they were secretly reaching out to ask her for things or when they wanted to make her the patsy for their expenses.
Huaihua Hutong didn't actually have any pagoda trees; it was lined with ginkgo trees instead.
As soon as Dong Shuyao stood still, she looked up at the old ginkgo trees, feeling as if she were in another lifetime.
It was here that she had first met Shen Zhinian.
Dong Shuyao had been cornered in the alley by a few thugs, trembling with fear.
It was Shen Zhinian who had descended like a hero, rescuing her from the hands of those hoodlums.
A young girl's affection is innocent and easily given, and she had fallen for him head over heels just like that.
Only after being sold to Hong Kong did Dong Shuyao realize that the heroic rescue back then had been carefully orchestrated by Jiang Xiaochun and Shen Zhinian.
Something flashed across her eyes, so quickly that Lu Yuzhou didn't catch it, and then she said: "Stay here and don't make a sound. No matter what you see in a moment, just trust me."
Lu Yuzhou nodded without a second thought.