Cen Yu thought for a moment, and before Pei Heng could react, she added, "Oh, I'm sorry, you didn't like it just now."

"Mr. Pei, it seems to be haunted."

Pei Heng remained silent, unsure whether he was angered by Cen Yu or simply felt that his son-in-law was talking nonsense again.

Pei Heng's inaction does not mean that anything that has moved close to Cen Yu will remain still.

It seemed surprised that Cen Yu would speak up, and mischievously touched Cen Yu's face with its cold hand—in the darkness, Cen Yu was too lazy to pretend, and directly grabbed the cold hand, "Stop fooling around."

“…Stop messing around?” Pei Heng finally spoke up. “I think you should stop acting recklessly.”

Cen Yu: "..."

No, I wasn't talking to you.

"Then who are you talking to?" Pei Heng asked in an unfriendly tone.

“I’m talking to a ghost,” Cen Yu said immediately.

As soon as Cen Yu finished speaking, he realized something was wrong. Pei Heng seemed to be angered by Cen Yu, who had just lost his temper and was no longer bothered to pretend, and for a moment he didn't react.

It was at this moment that the lights in the mourning hall came back on, presumably because Pei Heng had arranged for servants to be hired.

When the lights came on again, Cen Yu felt that the cold hand she had been holding was gone.

He glanced back at the incense burner in front of Pei Leyun's portrait. The three sticks of incense that had just been lit were burning quietly, as if the incense sticks that had gone out earlier were just his imagination.

Cen Yu glanced again at the ever-burning lamp in the corner of the coffin. The lamp oil and wick wouldn't need to be refilled for a while... He sat back down on the prayer mat, and Pei Heng walked back in from the side near the entrance of the mourning hall.

Perhaps because Cen Yu had just angered him, Pei Heng didn't even glance at Cen Yu as he passed by, and went straight to sit down in his own seat.

After Cen Yu sat cross-legged, he felt he should still try to explain himself—

I didn't insult you.

"There really is a ghost touching me."

Pei Heng turned his head and said, "I'm not in the mood to listen to your nonsense right now."

“Didn’t you say Pei Leyun would come back to see me?” Cen Yu said. “Maybe it was Xiao Le who came back just now.”

Pei Heng remained silent.

He couldn't tell Cen Yu directly that he didn't believe in these supernatural and superstitious things at all.

Pei Heng only wanted to scare Cen Yu by trying to trick him. He always felt that there were suspicious points about Pei Leyun's sudden drowning death, so he wanted to make a fuss about it and see Cen Yu's reaction.

I never expected Cen Yu to be so audacious as to indirectly criticize me.

Chu Yichen listened to their conversation thoughtfully, and he said sincerely to Pei Heng, "Maybe what Cen Yu said is true, and Xiao Le really has come back to see us."

Cen Yu: "..."

That's not necessary.

As Chu Yichen spoke, he looked at Cen Yu, trying to get some affirmation, but unexpectedly Cen Yu just looked down at the black coffin in front of him, seemingly not caring about what he said at all.

Chu Yichen's expression remained unchanged, but he raised his voice slightly, "Cen Yu, perhaps it really was Xiao Le who came back to see us just now."

“Senior, you’re right.” Cen Yu chuckled. “One of you is Xiao Le’s adoptive father, and the other is his childhood sweetheart. He will definitely miss you and remember to come back and visit.”

He spoke sincerely, but his tone gave the impression that "if I'm caught by a ghost, you can't escape either," which sounded less like comfort and more like a curse.

After he said that, the three people in the mourning hall fell silent.

Chu Yichen was closest to the incense burner, and seeing that the incense was about to go out, he hurriedly got up to rekindle it.

Pei Heng returned to his previous lifeless state.

Cen Yu's suit was quite fitted, and he inevitably felt uncomfortable after sitting for a long time, so he got up and changed to a half-kneeling position on the futon... He glanced at the time and found that only half an hour had passed.

Pei Heng burned some more paper money, saying, "I was against Xiao Le being with you from the beginning."

Cen Yu remained silent, turning his head to observe Pei Heng, who was watching Pei Lejun's adoptive father.

The original work only said that Pei Leyun was Pei Heng's adopted child, without mentioning his specific age... But now it seems that he is too young. Judging from his appearance, he is at most around 35 years old. Cen Yu guessed that Pei Heng's actual age should be older than he looks.

From Pei Heng's perspective, Cen Yu completely understood why the other party was so opposed to Pei Leyun being with him.

Chu Yichen spoke up at this moment, "I saw Xiao Le once at school."

“He said he loves Cen Yu very much, so even if you object, Uncle, he will not regret it.”

Cen Yu remained silent, knowing that Chu Yichen was filled with deep regret when he said those words.

According to the original work, it was only after Pei Leyun's death that the other party realized that he did not just treat Pei Leyun as a simple neighborly younger brother, but it was all too late... He also hated Cen Yu and felt that Pei Leyun was blind to have fallen for him.

Cen Yu was actually a little puzzled. Since Chu Yichen had treated the protagonist like a younger brother next door, why did he have to pretend to be friendly with the scumbag just to find out about the protagonist's current situation?

With his narrow-minded thinking, he could only conceive of one possibility—

Chu Yichen wanted to know if Pei Leyun was doing well.

But the problem is, what kind person would specifically care whether their neighbor's younger brother is doing well?

Cen Yu could only summarize Chu Yichen's behavior as a case of being a hypocrite who said one thing but did another, but actually did another, after he died.

"I wonder if he regretted it before he died," Pei Heng suddenly said.

"To die during your honeymoon..." Chu Yichen said softly, "isn't so bad, actually."

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