Cen Yu changed his clothes, and Pei Heng and Wen Jingyao looked at him together, asking, "Where are you going?"
Cen Yu: "?"
What a scene it is, with these iron-fisted parents questioning their middle school student about where they went during the holidays!
"Let's go for a walk," Cen Yu said. He still had the talisman that Shen Wei had given him, and he had also found the protective amulet that Pei Leyun had gotten for him earlier. He felt that he was in the best of luck.
Pei Heng was still asking his assistant to help him investigate Cen Yu's sponsor from back then. Wen Jingyao was temporarily free of work. He looked at Cen Yu and said, "Then be careful."
Cen Yu nodded, grabbed his phone, and left the room.
Wen Jingyao and Pei Heng were left behind.
“There’s a problem,” Wen Jingyao said.
Pei Heng wasn't familiar with him and didn't bother to talk to him. He stood up and said, "I'll go back first."
"Aren't you worried?" Wen Jingyao looked up at Pei Heng. He remembered that his unlucky younger brother had said that Pei Heng had specifically gone to Master Zhang to inquire about Cen Yu's encounter with a ghost. He thought that Pei Heng at least cared about his son-in-law.
Pei Heng lowered his head and straightened his cuffs before looking at Wen Jingyao, "Someone will be following him."
He seemed to feel there was no need to explain too much to Wen Jingyao, and nodded at him, "Thank you for what happened last night."
He looked at Wen Jingyao and quoted a number, "If that's not enough, I'll have my assistant contact you again." He knew that the other party's quote was not cheap, and hiring him for private protection would be even more expensive, so he quoted a fee that was almost double Wen Jingyao's usual rate as a thank you.
Wen Jingyao was still sitting on the sofa, propping his head up and looking up at the arrogant and haughty Pei Heng. He thought to himself that this person was really a scoundrel. Yesterday, seeing Pei Heng's attitude, he thought that other people's evaluation of Pei Heng was wrong.
Everyone says that the current head of the Pei family is domineering and arrogant, rarely smiles, and doesn't even bother to glance at things he doesn't care about. Yesterday, he thought that the outside world was dissatisfied with the Pei family's domineering nature and therefore slandered Pei Heng. Now it seems that he really has an annoying personality.
Wen Jingyao gave a forced smile, "No need, I've already received payment from Cen Yu."
"Reward?" Pei Heng was a little surprised. "I don't remember him having so much savings."
Because Cen Yu and Pei Leyun got married, Pei Heng had already investigated him thoroughly and knew that he didn't have much money. His company seemed to pay a decent salary, but Cen Yu hadn't been there for very long, so he didn't have much savings, at least not enough to pay Wen Jingyao double the salary.
“Yes.” Wen Jingyao took out his phone and glanced at the transfer amount. “76.8 yuan.”
"Cen Yu gave me the payment," Wen Jingyao said with a grin, of course not including the cost of the clothes—Cen Yu said he could definitely wash the clothes clean for Wen Jingyao, so he would not reimburse that part of the cost.
They were only willing to reimburse Wen Jingyao for toiletries and disposable underwear.
Wen Jingyao didn't care, since he wasn't short of money for the clothes anyway. He even found Cen Yu's stingy attitude particularly amusing. What was even more amusing was Pei Heng's obviously displeased expression after he mentioned the 76.8 yuan.
"When did Master Guan's fees become so cheap?" Pei Heng asked from the side.
He glanced at Wen Jingyao's screen and could see screenshots of toiletries and disposable underwear... It looked normal, but it wasn't.
Pei Heng had never seen a master perform exorcisms in someone's home, requiring them to take a bath, brush their teeth, and change into a new set of underwear. It didn't seem like an exorcism performed in a dream; it was more like going to sleep together.
"First impressions." Wen Jingyao put away his phone and looked at Pei Heng's expression with satisfaction. "In our line of work, first impressions are the most important thing."
"Bullshit, such goodwill!" Pei Heng muttered a rare curse in his mind.
“Cen Yu is already married,” Pei Heng couldn’t help but say.
"It's alright, I'm a widower now, aren't I?" Wen Jingyao said nonchalantly. "The law doesn't say that a man can't find another wife after his wife dies, does it?"
If he finds another one, he'll be married for the third time! Pei Heng cursed inwardly, not knowing whether he was cursing Wen Jingyao or someone else.
"...Cen Yu's marriage partner..." Pei Heng's gaze shifted to Pei Leyun in the photo, demonstrating to Wen Jingyao through his actions that marrying Cen Yu would not end well.
“I don’t care.” Wen Jingyao continued to provoke, “Everyone says perfection is the ultimate goal. Maybe by the tenth time, Cen Yu’s fate will be resolved.”
"...Can you accept this?" Pei Heng found Wen Jingyao unreasonable.
Wen Jingyao clasped his hands together, "Then I will become Cen Yu's ex-husband, and I will haunt him even as a ghost..." He paused here and looked at Pei Leyun in the photo.
Pei Heng was about to say that he was sick, but after seeing the direction of Wen Jingyao's gaze, he couldn't help but think of what the other party had just said.
They went together to stand in front of Pei Leyun's photo—
"Pei Leyun...loves Cen Yu very much?" Wen Jingyao asked.
“Yes,” Pei Heng said. Although he didn’t really want to bring it up, that was the truth. He thought about it for a moment and finally told Wen Jingyao about the secret room in the villa that belonged to Pei Leyun. It was filled with photos of Cen Yu. It seemed that Pei Leyun had been paying attention to Cen Yu for a long time since the beginning of the semester.
But before going to university, the farthest place Cen Yu had ever been was his hometown's county high school. How could he possibly have met Pei Leyun, who had never been there?
To say it's love at first sight...?
"He told me that he fell in love with Cen Yu at first sight." Pei Heng looked at Pei Leyun in the photo. Pei Leyun in the photo still had that quiet and gentle appearance, but after the other party died, Pei Heng realized that he didn't seem to know this adopted son at all.
At least, he didn't know that Pei Leyun had hidden these things in the room.
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