After agreeing on a time with Pei Heng, Cen Yu remembered what Pei Baijun had said before leaving—
"My uncle said that he felt the pressure on him had weakened?" Pei Heng repeated Cen Yu's words.
Thinking about it this way, things are indeed a bit strange. Pei Baijun has been dead for so many years, but he has never appeared in front of Cen Yu before. Now, however, he has entered the Pei family's bathroom in a very open manner.
Thinking of this, Pei Heng looked at Cen Yu and asked, "Could I meet my uncle?"
Cen Yu was in a dilemma. The reason he was able to hide in Pei Heng's bathroom to take a bath was because Pei Heng had too much yang energy, making it impossible for Pei Baijun to get close.
He thought for a moment, then suddenly had an idea. He said, "Wait for me," and ran out the door.
Pei Heng wanted to get up and follow, but then remembered that Cen Yu had told him to wait here, so he stopped. He reached out and touched the book he had placed aside, but after reading a few pages and finding that the contents had not entered his mind at all, Pei Heng put the book down again.
A few minutes later, Pei Heng received a video call—
Upon seeing Cen Yu on the other end, he immediately answered the call and then watched Cen Yu standing in the bathroom, with the guest room mirror behind him.
Instead of Cen Yu's back view, Pei Heng saw a boy he knew very well.
That was his uncle from his memories.
Even though he had already learned about this from Cen Yu, Pei Heng still couldn't hide his surprise when he saw Pei Baijun.
“…Uncle.” Pei Heng called out to Pei Baijun, looking at him in the mirror.
Although Pei Baijun died young, he still knew that the thing in front of him was a cell phone.
He looked at Pei Heng on the screen, thought for a moment, and then said, "You've grown up."
In theory, Pei Heng knew that this was his uncle's way of showing concern for him, but for some reason he always felt that the words sounded sarcastic.
“Yes, unlike you, you’re still young.” Pei Heng looked at the young man in the mirror. “You are just like my childhood memories.”
"Stop chatting and get to the point," Cen Yu reminded them.
Couldn't these two uncles and nephews in the Pei family at least consider the timing of their casual conversation? They're almost 100 years old combined, how can they be so inconsiderate?!
Pei Heng noticed that Cen Yu's attitude towards him had become much more casual since Cen Yu returned from the mourning hall. Before, every time he saw Cen Yu, the other party had a fawning look that seemed eager to marry into the Pei family as soon as possible, which Pei Heng always found displeasing.
For some reason, now that this person has clearly returned to his "true nature," Pei Heng finds him slightly more agreeable, as if this is how this person was supposed to be.
In other words, Cen Yu doesn't have mind-reading abilities; otherwise, after seeing through Pei Heng's thoughts, he would definitely have told him three words: "You're sick."
"Uncle, are you saying that the suppression of your power by the human world has weakened a lot recently?" Pei Heng repeated what he had heard from Cen Yu before.
“Yes,” Pei Baijun replied.
He told Pei Heng in detail about his feelings during this period. Although he was still conscious, he could feel that his consciousness was blurred during the day and he could only maintain a moment of clarity during certain periods at night.
Most of the time, he couldn't show himself and could only communicate with Cen Yu through dreams.
Cen Yu: "...You're harassing me, you know that?"
Pei Baijun immediately felt wronged, "I just wanted to talk to you."
Cen Yu chuckled inwardly, "I think you're trying to scare me to death."
Pei Heng watched their conversation. The uncle he remembered didn't seem to have this kind of personality. If he had to say, the Pei Baijun in his memory was more gloomy.
Perhaps because of his frail health and the fact that he had spent many years in the gloomy old house of the Pei family, his uncle's image in Pei Heng's memory was blurry, and in the end, all that remained was a shadow filled with malevolence and misfortune.
Pei Heng observed Pei Baijun's much more vivid expression in the mirror and wondered if his personality would become more cheerful after turning into a ghost.
Did you come to terms with things after you stopped being human?
“Uncle,” Pei Heng began, “have you met Xiao Le? My adopted son, Pei Lejun.” He looked at Pei Baijun and added, “Cen Yu’s legally married partner.”
"No," Pei Baijun replied without hesitation. "I've never met Pei Leyun."
“Not everyone will become a ghost.” He looked at Pei Heng and Cen Yu. “Besides, I remember his accident happened abroad.”
“…Huh?” Cen Yu tried to understand Pei Baijun’s words. “You mean, even though he’s become a ghost, he can only be an immigrant ghost??”
Because he died abroad, he simply couldn't come back?
“But Cen Yu saw Xiao Le in that dream.” He didn’t say what dream it was, but he believed Pei Baijun knew perfectly well.
“What appears in a dream is not necessarily the reality,” Pei Baijun said, seemingly not intending to continue the discussion. “I did not actually see Pei Leyun.”
Cen Yu didn't believe Pei Baijun at all. In the original work, Pei Lejun's consciousness first appeared in China. How could his soul have remained on that small island?
In his view, there was only one reason why Pei Baijun couldn't sense Xiao Le—
Pei Baijun is too weak.
“The master said that Xiao Le’s soul has returned to his hometown,” Pei Heng added.
He used to disbelieve these things, but now he was talking to something that was the most unscientific of all, so he chose to believe what the master said.
Pei Heng then tried to ask more questions, but it was clear that Pei Baijun didn't know much.
He could only sense that the suppression of his power by the human world was weakening, but he had no idea why.
Cen Yu yawned while holding his phone. He was really sleepy. Since entering this little world yesterday, he had barely slept. Although he had taken a nap in the car just now, it only made him more sleepy.
"In that case, let's talk about it another time." Pei Heng ended the conversation.
He watched as Cen Yu was about to hang up, but couldn't help but say, "I have extra blankets."
What he wanted to say was that if Pei Baijun didn't leave Cen Yu's room, he could allow Cen Yu to sleep on the floor in his own room. He also noticed that Pei Baijun seemed unable to get close to him, which is why Cen Yu arranged for them to communicate through a screen.
“I have blankets here too.” Cen Yu took his phone and walked out of the bathroom. As if worried that Pei Heng wouldn’t believe him, he even turned the camera around so that Pei Heng could see the brand-new bedding on the guest room bed. “Uncle Sun has made ample preparations, Mr. Pei, you don’t need to worry.”
Pei Heng: "..."
"I'm hanging up," Pei Heng said, then hung up the phone.
Cen Yu looked at the screen displaying the end of the call and sighed—
Pei Heng is such a difficult person to please!
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