But he clearly didn't feel much pain just now. That thing never intended to strangle him to death. Tightening its hands was just a playful teasing... He reached up and touched the finger marks on his neck. "The allergy is quite severe."

"It seems the house isn't very clean," Chu Yichen said immediately.

“This place is rarely used,” said Pei Heng, the owner of the room. “This is an old house, and I don’t usually live here.”

His words also explained why such strange things happened in the funeral hall.

Pei Heng was right. The location of the mourning hall was the Pei family's old house, which had a history of over a hundred years... and the original purpose of the mourning hall was indeed that of a mourning hall.

There is even an ancestral hall of the Pei family nearby, where the ancestors of the Pei family are enshrined.

Cen Yu thought for a moment and then clicked his tongue in amazement—

In horror stories, if someone dares to set up a funeral parlor in such a place, it's obvious that something strange is going to happen.

He guessed that when Pei Heng approached him, the ghost immediately left, probably because the other party's yang energy was too strong.

"That's true," Cen Yu thought again. "After all, being born in a place like this, it probably wouldn't be good if the yang energy wasn't strong."

Reminded by Pei Heng, Chu Yichen seemed to remember something... He looked at Pei Heng, then at Cen Yu, and finally turned his gaze to the entrance of the mourning hall, "Could it be him?"

Pei Heng frowned upon hearing this, "Impossible."

"...That's just the old lady talking nonsense."

At first, Cen Yu thought they were talking about Pei Lejun, but when Pei Heng mentioned the old lady, she realized that she had probably misunderstood.

Could it be that something similar happened to the Pei family before?

"What are you talking about?" Cen Yu decided to take the initiative and gather intelligence.

Chu Yichen looked at Pei Heng questioningly, but in the end Pei Heng sighed and said, "Let's talk about my uncle."

“He passed away when I was 5 years old.” Therefore, Pei Heng did not have a deep impression of this uncle. He only knew that he was his father’s younger brother and the old lady’s favorite youngest son.

Unlike Pei Heng and others who had abundant yang energy, his uncle was said to have a weak constitution and a special destiny when he was born, and that he would most likely become a vengeful spirit after death.

The Pei family was considered a prominent family in the area. The old lady was heartbroken because her youngest son had been sick since birth, and she was furious when she heard this "bad omen".

Pei Heng's father was almost 20 years older than this younger uncle. When he went to school, this younger brother was just born. As the eldest son in the family, and with many collateral branches in the Pei family, he had heard some suspicions, such as whether the old lady would eventually give the Pei family's position to this youngest son.

When Pei Heng's father returned home, his uncle was also exactly seven years old. Although he wasn't constantly in the hospital, he was indeed weaker and paler. What worried the Pei family even more was—

This uncle seems to actually have access to that world.

People often heard him talking to someone in his room, but when the door was opened, there was only his uncle playing games inside.

The old lady was terrified, so she sent her young uncle to live in a temple for a few years, mostly hoping that it would bless him to grow up healthy.

Pei Heng had met his uncle a few times. At that time, the uncle had just started junior high school. He was quite good-tempered with his older brother's child. But even years later, he still remembered the first time he touched his uncle's hand. The uncle's hand was so cold that he was so frightened that he burst into tears, and his uncle was at a loss.

When Pei Heng was 5 years old, his uncle, who was in high school, passed away.

The old lady couldn't bear it, so she placed his ashes in the ancestral hall of the Pei family's old residence.

“The old lady is confused,” Pei Heng said. “Almost 15 years after he left, she suddenly said that Bai Jun appeared to her in a dream and said that he had found her a marriage and hoped that the old lady would grant him his wish.”

Chu Yichen, however, had never heard of this matter.

All he knew was that the Pei family had a young master who died young. He was in poor health and was extremely favored. Of course, they had also heard about his special fate.

Some people even gossiped that Pei Heng had no heir and insisted on finding an adopted son because he was "impotent," and the reason for his impotence was the curse of that uncle... The rumors were so absurd, but many people believed them.

"So you searched for it?"

“I didn’t look for him,” Pei Heng said. “According to the birth date and time the old lady mentioned, he’s only a few years old. It’s probably just a trick by a charlatan.”

Chu Yichen thought it made some sense, and besides, the idea of ​​someone appearing in a dream to ask for a ghost marriage sounded unreliable.

It looks exactly like the tricks of a con artist trying to swindle money.

Cen Yu nodded in agreement. "So what did you do after that?"

“They burned a paper marriage certificate,” Pei Heng said. “It had my uncle’s birth date and time written on it, along with the one he found, to lie to the old lady that everything was settled.”

According to their customs, this doesn't seem to constitute a proper ceremony.

But for some reason, Cen Yu felt something was off... Maybe it was because this was a thriller, where even the most outrageous things could happen?

Do you remember that birth date and time?

Pei Heng was already 20 years old at that time. It was his idea to do this, and he even wrote the words on the marriage certificate. Perhaps because it was so absurd, he remembered this matter very well, so he immediately recited the person's birth date and time.

Cen Yu paused for a second when he heard the birth date.

"What's wrong?" Pei Heng noticed the change in his expression.

“...That’s when I was born,” Cen Yu said.

His words startled the two remaining people in the mourning hall.

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