"Smack."
Cen Yu watched Pei Leyun's stiff back, and the things in her hands were so frightened that they fell into the pool.
He seemed stunned by Cen Yu's words, slowly turning to look at her with a slightly hesitant expression, unsure of her meaning. "...I just...really like taking photos..."
He explained somewhat weakly.
Finally, he put down what he was holding, dried his hands, and went to the other side of the island platform, sitting down opposite Cen Yu. "How did you find out?"
Cen Yu looked at Pei Leyun's nervously clasped hands, then his gaze lingered on the ground for a moment, but Pei Leyun was nowhere to be seen.
"I was just kidding you." Of course, he couldn't say that he had seen that secret base—in his dream, he hadn't been to Pei Heng's house many times, so he couldn't have discovered that secret base.
"...Are you kidding me?" Pei Leyun blinked. "Is Xiao Yu lying to me?"
Cen Yu was actually a little unsure about the "rules" of this dream, so he could only go along with the other person and say, "Yes, I was lying to you."
Little did I know that this sentence would be a death flag.
Pei Leyun looked at him immediately, "But you clearly said you wouldn't lie to me."
The handsome young man who was sitting opposite Cen Yu suddenly had tears of blood in his eyes... He seemed to melt away like a candle, eventually turning into a pool of blood.
Immediately afterwards, the blood enveloped Cen Yu, blocking his mouth and nose, trying to drown him.
Damn it! Cen Yu cursed inwardly. He didn't expect that his words would trigger a death flag... Unfortunately, his consciousness quickly faded, and when he woke up again, he saw the ceiling, the sunlight hurting his eyes.
Cen Yu immediately grabbed a pillow to cover her head, but felt something was wrong the moment she reached out.
The pillow in his hand was a little damp...
He tossed the pillow aside and then reached out to touch the bed beside him.
The other side of the bed was completely wet, as if something had crawled out of the artificial lake under the balcony and sneaked into his room in the middle of the night, lying on the other side of his bed.
This thing was even resting on another pillow next to his head, perhaps less than 10 centimeters away from Cen Yu when he was fast asleep.
Cen Yu looked at the curtains that had been drawn back. He remembered that he had definitely drawn the curtains back last night.
But at this moment, the curtains were drawn aside, the balcony door was opened, and the wind swirled the curtains, as if mocking Cen Yu's naiveté.
...
When Cen Yu went downstairs to have breakfast, he was somewhat listless.
"Didn't you sleep well?" Pei Heng asked him.
Cen Yu looked at the sunny-side-up egg and bacon placed in front of him. "Something got into my room last night."
Pei Heng immediately pushed back his chair and stood up, ignoring the somewhat surprised looks from the others and servants. "Let's go check your room."
Sun Bogang wanted to say that it was impossible for a thief to break into the Pei family, but then he remembered what Cen Yu had said yesterday about "whispering," and his face immediately turned ugly. The remaining servants were not quite aware of the matter, and seeing Pei Heng so serious, they assumed that the Pei family had been robbed.
When the three of them arrived at Cen Yu's guest room, Pei Heng saw the open balcony door and a pillow thrown on the ground.
Uncle Sun glanced at Cen Yu, but in the end, he closed the guest room door first.
“This place,” Cen Yu walked to the edge of his bed and gestured to the location, “is a huge area that’s all wet.”
"The pillow on the floor too."
Upon hearing this, Uncle Sun immediately picked up the pillow from the ground and handed it to Pei Heng... Both of them could feel the pillow's dampness, as if water could be wrung out of it.
Pei Heng walked over again and touched the spot Cen Yu had mentioned. Sure enough, just as Cen Yu had said, the bed was also damp. Although it wasn't wet enough to wring out water, it was clearly damp.
Sun Bo naturally touched the damp bed, but he still didn't understand Cen Yu's meaning.
“I also closed the balcony door and curtains completely,” Cen Yu said, pointing to the balcony door and curtains.
"So last night, something crawled out of the artificial lake, then onto the balcony, opened the balcony door... and lay down on the bed."
Even Uncle Sun gasped in surprise.
Perhaps it was because Cen Yu described it in too much detail that the scene seemed to appear in his mind.
At night, next to the sleeping Cen Yu, there was a wet creature lying beside him, watching him.
Pei Heng frowned. His features were deep and he usually gave people the impression of being difficult to get along with and having a cold and hard temperament... Now he looked even more menacing. "Uncle Sun, give everyone in the villa a holiday."
Uncle Sun hesitated for a moment, "The young master has just passed away..."
There were already rumors that there were other hidden reasons for Pei Leyun's death, and Sun Bo was worried that giving the servants in the villa a holiday would lead to other rumors.
"When I live in this house, I always think of Xiao Le, so I decided to give the people in the villa a break and move to another place."
Uncle Sun nodded to indicate that he understood.
"After everyone leaves, have someone come and check on things," Pei Heng added.
Only after Uncle Sun left did Pei Heng say to Cen Yu, "...Do you think it might be Xiao Le?"
Cen Yu certainly understood why Pei Heng guessed that way—
Pei Leyun herself drowned. Legend has it that even if a drowned person returns to the surface, their body will still be wet.
They will also instinctively return to their own homes to look for people they know.
Before leaving the mourning hall, Pei Heng had someone bring him some ointment to cover the dark blue finger marks on Cen Yu's neck in order to conceal them.
Worried that the finger marks on Cen Yu's neck would deepen, Pei Heng said, "Take off the plaster, let me see how it's healing."
Cen Yu reached out his hand—
"Wait." Pei Heng immediately grabbed Cen Yu's wrist.
He walked around the room, then took out a bottle of mineral water from the mini-fridge and gently moistened the plaster on Cen Yu's neck, saying, "This will make it easier to peel off."
The chilled mineral water was too cold; when Cen Yu felt the water seeping into his clothes, he couldn't help but clench his fists.
"Hurry up," he urged Pei Heng.
Pei Heng slowly peeled off the edge of the plaster with his fingertips. It was probably because it was soaked, and the edge was slightly raised. As he peeled off the plaster, he looked down and observed Cen Yu's expression. "If it hurts, just say so."
Seeing that Cen Yu's expression was normal, he quickly tore off the two plasters covering the fingerprints on the other's neck.
The finger marks on Cen Yu's neck not only didn't improve, but instead became even more bluish-black—
Cen Yu held her phone, looked at her reflection on the screen, and commented, "If I went to work like this..."
"Meng Yunqiu will definitely ask me if I got a new tattoo."
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