Cen Yu could certainly sense someone approaching him. Judging from the reflection in the well, the person behind him did not resemble Pei Leyun—it was a delicate-looking man who appeared somewhat quiet and shy.
He braced himself on the edge of the well with one hand, and stroked Cen Yu's back with the other.
His hands were cold, probably to frighten Cen Yu. In his reflection, his appearance also became rapidly distorted... just like a demon in a horror movie.
The hand slowly climbed up Cen Yu's back and then reached his neck. "Aren't you afraid?" the voice asked.
His voice didn't sound like Pei Leyun's. It was unclear whether it was because he had been dead for too long or because he was naturally like that, but the other person's voice was hoarse, unlike his appearance.
Cen Yu leaned against the edge of the well. "What am I afraid of?" He chuckled. "Only those with a guilty conscience are afraid." He turned to face the ghostly face behind him. "Is the Lide Building incident related to you?"
The face less than 10 centimeters away from Cen Yu's had sunken holes where the eyes should have been, and upon closer inspection, traces of maggots crawling could be seen... The stench of decay lingered around them, accompanied by a chilling, damp atmosphere.
Finally, perhaps realizing that Cen Yu was too calm, he gave up using this appearance to intimidate Cen Yu and reverted to the appearance Cen Yu had initially seen.
"Yes." He loosened his grip on Cen Yu slightly, crossed his arms, and looked at him. "What, you want to call the police to arrest me?"
He chuckled. "Too bad, he deserved to die."
Perhaps it was because he harbored too much resentment towards the deceased, because after the man said "he deserved to die," his face turned a deathly bluish-black.
Cen Yu leaned against the edge of the well, not caring whether he would fall into the one-meter-diameter well... He reached into his pocket; the coat was one he had left at home before his honeymoon. He had quickly tidied up when he got home and then went to Chen Wei's milk tea shop, where the cigarette case and lighter he had put there last time were still inside.
He took out a cigarette case from his pocket, lit one, and put it in his mouth. "Mind?" he asked the thing opposite him.
The refined-looking man looked at him coldly, "If I said I minded, would you stop smoking?"
"No," Cen Yu said. "I was just asking politely. I'll have a smoke to calm my nerves."
Cen Yu looked up at the old house. "So where's your body? Still in the well?"
The man didn't speak.
Cen Yu didn't care. After lighting a cigarette, he thought for a moment and asked, "Did you come back with my neighbor?"
"Ha." The man finally laughed. "If he hadn't been curious... I wouldn't have come back with him."
"Then may I ask why you're following me?" Cen Yu asked.
"cannot."
Cen Yu sat on the edge of the well. He didn't know much about these things, but he knew that they were probably caught in each other's "sleight of hand," or in a sense, they were in a maze.
To outsiders, they might appear to be spacing out in the elevator.
"You met in 2019, so who was born in the Year of the Monkey, you or him?" Cen Yu asked again.
The year 2019 that appeared in the TV variety show should be the day the other person met. If that's the case, then the monkey on the Spring Festival couplets before must be either this person's zodiac animal or the one of his colleague who jumped off the building.
The man fell silent again. "Are you two the same age?"
"Does it make sense?" the man suddenly asked.
“Anyway, you can’t get out.” He looked at Cen Yu. Even though he was a kind person before, he naturally changed after being killed and becoming a vengeful ghost. His smile was a little malicious. “In the eyes of outsiders, you just suddenly went insane and accidentally fell off the building.”
The werewolf self-destructed, Cen Yu thought.
It seems that's how that person in the Lide Building died.
"Didn't he regain his senses in the end?" Cen Yu, his hand holding a cigarette, leaned against the edge of the well. "In that final moment before he died, you brought him to his senses, didn't you?"
At the end of the video, the person had broken down... Cen Yu imagined that scene, watching helplessly as his body went out of control and walked towards the edge of the top floor of the building. It was indeed very desperate.
“I’ve heard of that person before,” Cen Yu said again—but it was fake; he had never met this person before.
"I've never heard of him being married."
As soon as Cen Yu finished speaking, he saw the man, who had previously maintained a human appearance, transform back into a terrifying, ghostly figure. "He's a liar!"
Cen Yu didn't speak. He just sat there quietly, watching the "person" opposite him change his expression, and finally return to his original delicate appearance.
He stood there, looking at the surrounding scene, and after a long while he said, "No one usually comes here."
The cigarette in Cen Yu's hand was almost burned out. "You think I killed Pei Leyun?" he said definitively.
The whole thing wasn't hard to guess—
The other person was clearly killed by their spouse and then returned to the building with their neighbor.
Cen Yu didn't know the person who jumped off the building, but he guessed that at least one of the two people had lived in this building before and had seen him and Pei Leyun and heard their story.
"You think I'm a heartless man too?" Cen Yu said casually, "You heard about Pei Leyun's death in the elevator and saw that I wasn't sad at all, so you think I'm a scumbag too?"
The other person looked at him without saying anything.
"Pei Leyun also drowned, during her honeymoon." Cen Yu continued sitting on the edge of the well, seemingly not worried about falling in at all. "Were you also pushed into this well during your honeymoon?"
The other person had seen him and Pei Leyun before and naturally knew they were a married couple. Moreover, "he" had boasted about Pei Leyun's family background more than once. The neighbors knew this, and the person who jumped off the building might have heard about it too—it's not surprising that the person in front of him knew this.
The other party was originally just following the neighbor, but upon hearing the news of Pei Leyun's death and seeing his calm demeanor, he concluded that Pei Leyun was also a heartless scumbag who had killed his lover, and that's why he wanted him to be punished.
There is no 13th floor in this building, and the layout of the 13th floor they saw was completely different from that in the building.
"Is that your later house?" Cen Yu asked, referring, of course, to the layout he saw from the 13th floor.
“You met in 2019 and got together with your aunt’s matchmaking.” Cen Yu looked at the cigarette in his hand that was almost burned to the end. “Maybe for his future, maybe for something else, he killed you… so you came for revenge.”
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