Pei Heng was the first to notice Cen Yu's unusual behavior. He noticed that after talking with Chu Yichen for a while, Cen Yu suddenly became silent.
He rushed to look at Cen Yu and found that Cen Yu's eyes were closed, as if he had hysteria, and he was muttering something to himself.
"Cen Yu!" Pei Heng tried to shake Cen Yu's shoulders a few times, only to find that the other seemed to be trapped in an even deeper nightmare.
He even muttered Pei Heng and Chu Yichen's names. Chu Yichen glanced at the time; it was exactly 12 o'clock. He and Pei Heng shook Cen Yu's shoulders, but obviously these little tricks were ineffective.
The temperature in the mourning hall was dropping lower and lower. Even those wearing heavy suits gradually felt the biting cold, as if they had been thrown into a frozen wasteland.
Perhaps because it was past midnight and the thing was even more powerful, even though Pei Heng circled Cen Yu with lit yellow paper several times, Cen Yu still didn't react at all.
On the contrary, the other person's face grew paler and paler.
It was as if if he couldn't wake up this time, he would never wake up again.
“…Xiao Le…” Cen Yu, who was mesmerized by the object, suddenly murmured Pei Leyun’s name.
Just as Pei Heng thought the other person was dreaming about Pei Leyun, he saw Cen Yu take a deep breath and then suddenly open his eyes.
Before Pei Heng could even catch his breath, Cen Yu immediately pushed them both away and took a few steps back...
Pei Heng looked puzzled, and Chu Yichen, who was about to reach out to grab Cen Yu, was also stunned on the spot, until the yellow paper used to ward off evil burned to ashes on the ground... Cen Yu looked at the last bit of fire and then woke up as if from a dream.
"We're doomed." Pei Heng heard Cen Yu say this.
"I'm really getting married for the second time now."
His voice was not low, and the mourning hall was quiet, so Pei Heng and Chu Yichen heard him clearly.
Pei Heng: "?"
Chu Yichen: "?"
"What?! Second marriage?!" Pei Heng immediately realized, "Who else did you marry?"
"Hehe, you should know best, right?" Cen Yu glanced at Pei Heng. "You even wrote the marriage certificate by hand."
Pei Heng instinctively wanted to refute, saying that the other party was talking nonsense, but in an instant he understood what Cen Yu meant... His expression went blank for a moment. Even the shock of encountering so many strange things before was not as great as this.
Chu Yichen certainly remembered what Pei Heng had just said.
"...Really?" His expression was complicated as he thought that if Cen Yu were with him, he would be getting married for the third time.
Cen Yu touched his neck and recounted everything he had seen in his dream, including the boy who got up from the coffin and Pei Lejun who helped him.
Upon hearing that Pei Leyun had appeared to help Cen Yu, Pei Heng fell silent again until Cen Yu described the boy's appearance, at which point Pei Heng finally spoke.
“Apart from his vertical pupils, my uncle does look like that.”
Of course, Cen Yu could not have seen Pei Heng's long-deceased uncle. Before Pei Lejun's death, he had never been to the Pei family's old house, so he naturally would not know what Pei Baijun looked like.
Pei Baijun passed away too early, and due to poor health, he stayed in the old house. Some gossip tabloids were curious and wanted to photograph this mysterious youngest son of the Pei family, but they never managed to take a single picture.
Before today, Pei Heng would never have believed in such supernatural and bizarre things.
But whether it was Chu Yichen, who had just been possessed by evil spirits, or Cen Yu, who dreamed of Pei Baijun, both caused Pei Heng's worldview to collapse.
Chu Yichen didn't think it was as complicated as Pei Heng. At this moment, he was still planning to become Cen Yu's third marriage partner—regardless of the fact that Cen Yu's first two marriage partners had become dead. He first went to burn three incense sticks again, repented in his heart, and then told Pei Leyun that he would help him take care of Cen Yu before returning to Cen Yu's side.
"Logically speaking, the marriage certificate was burned by Cen Yu when he was a child," Chu Yichen said. "Why didn't he approach Cen Yu before?"
“…Perhaps he is a relatively moral male ghost,” Cen Yu said.
At first, Cen Yu was still young. After he grew up, he started dating someone else. Now that his second marriage partner has also died, he has finally decided to make his presence felt.
Cen Yu's answer plunged the mourning hall into silence once again.
The series of strange events had made Pei Heng decide that he could no longer disbelieve in superstitions. Pei Heng paid five times the usual wages to the bodyguards and servants of the Pei family who were still awake, and then had them wait at the entrance of the mourning hall.
Whether it was due to increased popularity or the passing of the most dangerous time, nothing strange happened again until dawn broke and it was time to send Pei Leyun away from the mourning hall.
...
Just as Cen Yu was about to leave after Pei Leyun was laid to rest, Pei Heng called him back.
"Where are you going back to?" Pei Heng asked.
He stood by the car, looking at Cen Yu, who was dressed in a black suit and whose face showed signs of exhaustion.
"Go home," Cen Yu said instinctively.
"How are you going to get back without a car?" Pei Heng asked. The Pei family cemetery is far from the city center, and it's practically impossible to hail a taxi there.
“I can take Cen Yu back,” Chu Yichen said.
He had driven to the Pei family's house anyway, so taking Cen Yu back was just something he was doing on the way.
Knowing that her father did not like Cen Yu, Pei Leyun moved out after getting together with Cen Yu. The two moved several times before finally renting a house closer to Cen Yu's company.
"Let's go home first," Pei Heng said, glancing at Cen Yu. "We'll talk about it when we get back."
Cen Yu, of course, could not object.
According to the original plot, after Pei Leyun's death, Cen Yu took the opportunity to move into Pei Heng's villa, trying to gain Pei Heng's sympathy and get some benefits.
He was still thinking about how to get Pei Heng to agree, but Pei Heng directly extended an invitation, which saved him a lot of trouble.
After greeting Chu Yichen, Cen Yu opened the door of Pei Heng's car and got in.
Pei Heng and Chu Yichen nodded, and then got into the car.
Chu Yichen didn't say anything. He was about to drive back when he noticed that a servant from the Pei family came up to him and said that Mr. Pei had asked him to drive Chu Yichen back home, considering that he had stayed up all night keeping watch.
Chu Yichen stared at the servant for a long time before saying, "Thank you for your help."
Then open the car door and get into the back seat.
...
Pei Heng sat there, already holding the various documents his assistant had given him.
However, he was feeling rather agitated at the moment.
He glanced at Cen Yu, who was already fast asleep, and really didn't know how to face him—
According to the way people talk in the mortal world, this person is his son-in-law.
According to the underworld, Cen Yu is probably his aunt.
Especially since he personally found this aunt for her.
Thinking of this, Pei Heng really had a headache. He felt that he couldn't ignore Cen Yu for both emotional and rational reasons, so when he saw Cen Yu about to return to the rented room he shared with Pei Leyun, he called out to him.
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