Pei Heng took out the talisman, crumpled it up a few times, and threw it into a corner, where it would stay with Cen Yu's poor cell phone.
“Because Pei Baijun isn’t that strong,” Pei Heng said.
"He asked me to sponsor you and to give you a betrothal gift... What do you think his motives are?"
How would I know what you lunatics are thinking? Cen Yu was baffled.
"Because Pei Baijun really wants to be with you." Pei Heng held Cen Yu's hand, preventing him from moving. "Have you heard those stories?"
“Young children, or young girls, might utter some innocent words when they go to the mountains to worship the gods,” Pei Heng said calmly. “They might say that an older sister just smiled at them, or that they saw a handsome young man in their dreams and asked him if they wanted to be together…”
"At first, the family didn't take it seriously, thinking it was just children talking nonsense or a young girl's thoughts... However, when they went to check on them the next day, they found that they had already passed away."
"Some say she became a pageboy to a celestial being, others say she became a celestial being's wife." Pei Heng put down Cen Yu's hand and stood up. "Cen Yu."
"You are the marriage partner chosen by Pei Baijun."
"He wants to take you away."
"Then tell him to get out here and see me." Cen Yu looked up at Pei Heng. "What kind of spokesperson are you appointing?"
Anyway, the system said that this dungeon has very little story and isn't part of the main plot, so you can go about it however you want, and you can even fake your death to escape the dungeon.
That's why he decided to come to the Pei family alone to explore and see if he could discover their secrets.
His phone was still vibrating in the corner; it seemed Shen Wei hadn't given up and was trying to contact the client...
"Your uncle isn't coming to see me..." Cen Yu suddenly realized something, "Is it because he's dying?"
He remembered the dream he had at the Pei family home, a dream featuring Pei Leyun and those strange and unusual instructions—Pei Leyun said that the water stains beside him that night were left by him when he drowned.
He vaguely felt that he had touched upon some of Pei Heng's hidden truths.
"What role are you playing here?" Cen Yu asked.
"Pei Baijun's lackey? A dutiful nephew who listens to his uncle?"
According to Pei Heng, Pei Baijun liked him so much that he should have taken him away in his dreams—but the other party was not a person at all, nor a dead ghost, but the "deity" that the Pei family worshipped for their unspeakable secret.
With such overwhelming power, why go to all that trouble to stage a play in his dream?
“Someone doesn’t want him to take me away,” Cen Yu asked.
Pei Lejun.
“Pei Lejun is stopping him.”
Looking at it this way, it all makes perfect sense. The other party wanted to make a move in his dream, and Pei Leyun came to his room that night... Cen Yu felt that although Pei Heng and Pei's father had concealed something during their phone call, it was based on certain facts.
For example, Pei Leyun probably really has some connection with Pei Baijun.
“Pei Heng,” Cen Yu looked at him, “is Pei Leyun the evil one?”
...
When Shen Wei was outside and found that he couldn't get through on the phone, he initially thought the other end was just playing a joke on him.
After looking around for a while, they realized that the villa seemed to be the Pei family's villa... and there was a faint ghostly aura emanating from the villa.
He then recalled that when Pei Heng came to consult him that day, he had mentioned the haunted Pei family villa—
Could it be such a coincidence?
With that thought in mind, he still quickly searched for information about the Pei family villa online.
Pei Heng is a well-known tycoon in the city, and the address of his villa has been mentioned in some gossip... Shen Wei looked at the exact address in front of him and confirmed that he had indeed arrived at the Pei family's villa.
Could it be a distress signal? Shen Wei wondered.
He carried four cups of milk tea and first made a voice call to Cen Yu, but no one answered.
Then I called Pei Heng by voice message, but no one answered.
Shen Wei still remembered Master Zhang telling him that if Pei Heng came with people to "exorcise evil spirits," he could just deal with it. He couldn't solve that problem, and even his brother couldn't solve it.
It was already three o'clock in the afternoon, and the entire Pei family was quiet. Shen Wei stood at the door, but he felt a strange sense of being stared at, as if something was watching him from the shadows.
He scratched his red hair in frustration, then finally decided to call his brother first.
"elder brother."
"I just delivered milk tea and discovered the address is the Pei family villa." Shen Wei explained the situation directly, "I couldn't get through to the customer by phone..."
He looked up at the villa in front of him. "If I go in now, will that be considered trespassing?"
As Shen Wei hesitated, he saw something blurry slowly sneaking out of the villa, and he grabbed it—
But then they realized the ghost looked familiar; it seemed to be the same ghost that had scared them in the elevator yesterday.
Shen Wei grabbed him, "Trying to harm someone again?" As he spoke, he took out his talisman, preparing to destroy the thing directly.
But then he saw that this tiny thing had grabbed his finger—
"Don't!"
"Cen Yu is at the villa!"
"There's something fishy about that guy in the suit!"
Shen Wei was about to ask who was in the suit when he suddenly remembered Pei Heng... He glanced at the villa in front of him and said, "Brother, I'll go in first."
"If it really turns out I've trespassed, remember to bail me out!"
...
Wen Jingyao stared at the disconnected phone, took a deep breath, and finally looked at Master Zhang—
"You clearly knew Pei Leyun had a problem, so why did you still let Pei Heng and the others go to Shen Wei?"
Master Zhang hadn't expected Wen Jingyao to come knocking on his door so directly. "...I only thought Pei Leyun had some problems, but didn't he come looking for revenge?"
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