Cen Yu inquired with her colleagues at the company and learned some information—
"It's a pity that this happened right after the engagement."
"I heard she was a rich and beautiful woman I finally met..."
"This is too strange. Luckily you weren't at the company during this time."
From these colleagues, Cen Yu pieced together some of the truth of the matter—the man who jumped off the building had started working at an investment company in the Lide Building after graduation. It was said that he hadn't had a partner for many years and only had a roommate with whom he had a fairly good relationship. This was not surprising, as although he had a high salary, he was said to be preparing to buy a house, so he was quite frugal. Later, by chance, he met a rich and beautiful woman, got engaged quickly, and was about to reach the pinnacle of his life when this happened.
"Where's his roommate?" Cen Yu asked his colleague.
"Roommate?" The other person seemed surprised that Cen Yu's focus was on the roommate who had only appeared once. "...I haven't heard of her. I think she stopped sharing the apartment after getting another raise?"
This kind of thing happens frequently in big cities; who has time to care about their colleague's roommate?
Besides, they weren't even from the same company... Meanwhile, their colleagues were saying, "By the way, how's your honeymoon going? I heard from Qiu that you took a few more days off, having too much fun to remember home?"
"No," Cen Yu told the truth, "My fiancé passed away."
colleague:"……"
The person on the other end was clearly startled by Cen Yu's words, and immediately began to stammer, "...Don't joke around, I'm timid and scared."
“Brother Qiu knows,” Cen Yu said. “We just finished the funeral.”
"I've been having nightmares lately..."
The other party seemed afraid to listen any longer, made an excuse that his wife and children had returned, and hung up the phone.
Cen Yu put his phone in his pocket, then looked at the four people sitting in his living room—
Shen Wei had probably already discussed the complicated case with his brother. Wen Jingyao was whispering something to Pei Heng, with Chu Yichen occasionally adding his own comments. When Cen Yu came out of the room, he saw that they were all turning their gazes toward him at the same time.
"What are you looking at?" Cen Yu asked.
“I just checked the contents of the marriage certificate with Mr. Pei,” Wen Jingyao said, looking at Cen Yu. “That document shouldn’t be valid.”
“That money is also problematic.” Wen Jingyao looked at the group. “Where did he get this human currency?”
The other party has been dead for many years. Even if ghosts and gods have supernatural powers, they cannot interfere with the laws of the human world. A fake is a fake. Unless Pei Baijun has a middleman, he has no way to send money to Cen Yu.
The ways in which ghosts and spirits want people in the world to obtain real money are either by sending them a message in a dream, indicating that they have a fortune buried somewhere and that the money is yours if you find it, or by sending them a windfall, such as seeing lottery numbers in a dream... Anyway, in all these years, Wen Jingyao has never seen money directly deposited into someone's account.
“He clearly said that he hadn’t contacted you for so many years because the pressure on him was too great, so he couldn’t connect with you,” Wen Jingyao added. “But how come he could directly transfer money to you?”
Wen Jingyao then looked at Pei Heng, “Your uncle has a special fate. Back then, someone told the old lady that he would become a vengeful spirit after death, but apart from that time at the funeral hall, the other party did not cause any trouble. In your memory, the other party only appeared twice.”
"Once, he arranged a ghost marriage for himself; the other time, after your adopted son died in the funeral hall, the other party haunted him."
Cen Yu leaned back on the sofa and guessed, "Perhaps it's because Mr. Pei has a lot of yang energy?"
“Mr. Pei has plenty of yang energy, and his uncle’s yin energy is not weak either.” Wen Jingyao turned to look at Cen Yu sitting next to him. “The reason you encountered those strange things is because your luck was too low and your yin energy was too heavy.” He looked at the area between Cen Yu’s eyebrows. “The more you come into contact with him, the more strange things you will encounter.”
Cen Yu: "..." It's as if he went up there himself!
Isn't this all Pei Heng's fault for randomly pairing him up with other men?!
"Does the master have a solution?" Pei Heng asked.
“My uncle once spent some time in a temple. I remember that after he came back from the temple, he stopped talking to himself in the empty room.”
“Mr. Pei,” Wen Jingyao said, “I think the old lady of the Pei family probably hid something from you back then.”
"The old lady asked your uncle to go to the temple, perhaps not because he was too weak and wanted to go there to avoid trouble."
"But the old lady was hiding from something."
“You were too young at the time. Perhaps your father knew some of the truth, related to that uncle, such as who he was talking to in the room.”
In the past, Pei Heng would probably have dismissed it as nonsense and ignored it.
However, these strange events surrounding the Pei family prompted Pei Heng to send a message to his father... While waiting, Chu Yichen looked at Pei Heng and finally made up his mind to ask a question—
“Uncle, there’s something…that I’ve always been curious about.” He only said that he was curious, without mentioning that it was a point that puzzled many others in the circle.
"You were so young back then, why did you adopt Pei Leyun?"
When Pei Heng adopted Pei Leyun, he was still very young... It was as if it were a whim. Before anyone could react, Pei Heng had already gained an adopted son from the orphanage sponsored by the Pei family.
Chu Yichen was young at the time, so he naturally overheard the adults' whispers. Many people speculated that Pei Leyun was probably the illegitimate son of someone in the Pei family, and that she was brought back under Pei Heng's name.
However, as Pei Leyun grew up, this speculation faded away, since Pei Leyun did not resemble Pei Heng's father.
In the end, all we can say is that Pei Heng took pity on the child and brought him back.
Cen Yu didn't expect Chu Yichen to ask this... The original text didn't mention this at all. In Cen Yu's opinion, this was just a setting added by the author to add some hardships to the protagonist's fate.
Pei Heng seemed surprised that this old matter would be brought up again. He glanced at the people present, and his gaze inevitably fell on the photo of Pei Leyun and Cen Yu in the living room.
Pei Leyun was a person who loved taking photos. There were many photos of the two of them together in their home. These should have been sweet and warm scenes, but after one of them passed away, a lonely atmosphere arose. In the photos, Pei Leyun looked directly at the camera with a smile, and there was a vague feeling that he was staring at everyone.
“If Xiao Le were still alive, I don’t plan to say anything about this,” Pei Heng said. “I’m worried that he would overthink it if he heard it.”
"It was the old lady's idea to adopt him in the first place."
“She said she dreamed of a child who was being bullied in an orphanage sponsored by the Pei family. The child was very pitiful and couldn’t speak.” Pei Heng took a deep breath. “The old lady didn’t have much time left at that time… She said she felt that this child was destined for her, and if there really was such a child, she wanted me to help him.”
“The Pei family has no shortage of food. The fact that she could dream about him means that this child is destined to be with the Pei family, so she hopes that I can adopt him.”
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