“…Your parents prayed to Mana.” Pei Leyun stood beside Cen Yu. “So both I and he can help them realize their wishes.”
"And then you were the one who fulfilled the wish?" Cen Yu sorted out her thoughts. "But because you are the same person, Pei Baijun preemptively established a ghost marriage relationship."
Pei Leyun nodded immediately.
Just then, the door was pushed open, and Pei Leyun turned around to see his damned brother walk in from the other side of the door, followed by the very annoying red-haired guy.
“He’s the one lying,” Pei Baijun said immediately upon entering the room.
I don't know how long he listened.
"Pei Leyun wants you dead," Pei Baijun said, standing at the door. "He's no good, Xiao Yu, don't be fooled by him!"
Cen Yu leaned against the table, looking at Pei Leyun, then at Pei Baijun standing in the doorway... Finally, he tapped the table with his finger, "Come in and talk."
"Chen Wei, you come in too."
Cen Yu looked at Pei Heng, who was tied to one side by her, and said, "You should listen to it too."
He looked at Pei Leyun and Pei Baijun, "Let's see whose problem it is, who the bad guy is."
...
Amidst their mutual accusations, Cen Yu finally understood their connection to the entire Pei family—
He first looked at Pei Leyun, "My parents prayed to you, saying that if their wish came true, they would marry me off to Mana?"
Pei Leyun nodded immediately.
“But because Mona is actually two people…” Cen Yu looked at Pei Baijun, “so you took the initiative and appeared in the old lady’s dream first, which led to Pei Heng burning the marriage certificate?”
"He's a thief!" Pei Leyun said indignantly, "I was here first."
Cen Yu leaned against the edge of the table. "Explain?"
Pei Baijun immediately spoke up, "He's lying! It was my wish that came true!"
Pei Lejun was furious when he heard this. If Cen Yu hadn't been there, he probably would have grabbed Pei Baijun's clothes and started hitting him.
"...Is it possible that you all had your wishes fulfilled back then?" Pei Heng asked.
Because at the time, Cen Yu's parents' wish was very simple: to be healthy and to be cured of their serious illness... Cen Yu looked at Pei Lejun, "Have you discussed this with Pei Baijun?"
“He stole my chance to be born, what do I have to discuss with him?” Pei Leyun said, dissatisfied.
“He doesn’t talk to me,” Pei Baijun said.
Cen Yu clearly remembered that in Pei Heng's account, when Pei Baijun was still alive, he often muttered to himself, "You're not talking to him, what are you talking to yourself about?"
“I’m arguing with him.” Pei Baijun frowned. “He keeps nagging me that I stole his chance to be born.”
"I'll say it again, I didn't steal it. He was just unlucky; the body he chose was gone. It's not my fault."
Cen Yu remembered what Pei's father had said: when the old lady had her second child, everyone said they were twins, but when the baby was born, the tiny body of the fetus had an extra arm and nose—and it didn't even breathe at birth until it was dropped and started crying.
Pei Leyun nodded, then said to Cen Yu, "He's just that selfish."
Cen Yu: "..."
Pei Heng: "..."
Shen Wei: "..."
“If I were selfish, I wouldn’t have let the old lady adopt you after I found out you had found a body.” Pei Baijun also began to complain, “You even secretly went to see Xiao Yu.” He only found out later that this person had actually had his soul leave his body to go to see his wife.
“She was always my wife,” Pei Leyun retorted, “You stole her from me.”
Shen Wei looked at Cen Yu, who was expressionless and even a little impatient, and realized for the first time that being popular wasn't necessarily a good thing.
"What happened when you died at the age of 15?" Cen Yu asked.
“…There’s no other reason.” Pei Baijun looked at Pei Heng—his nominal nephew—and then looked away. “The human body is too fragile.”
Even though the Pei family was born with abundant yang energy, they could not withstand the erosion of their bodies after their arrival. It was already quite remarkable that they could survive for 15 years.
“Pei Leyun’s body is like that too,” Pei Baijun bluntly revealed.
“He knew his body wouldn’t last much longer,” he told Cen Yu. “So he decided to die in front of you, to make you feel guilty, and to tie you to the Pei family…”
"Then I'll take the opportunity to enter your dreams and pester you every day."
Upon hearing this, Cen Yu looked at Pei Leyun, only to see her guiltily look away. "Aren't you afraid that I'll be with Chu Yichen?"
According to the original work, he had a white moonlight in his heart, and Pei Heng knew about this. He felt that Pei Leyun couldn't possibly not know.
Pei Leyun didn't speak; he thought Cen Yu had no chance.
In his original plan, if Pei Baijun were not in the way, Cen Yu's dreams would only contain him, and they would constantly reminisce about the past... No matter where Cen Yu went, he would follow him, and he could never be with Chu Yichen.
Besides, Chu Yichen... his birth chart is so weak, he could be gone in an accident.
"An eyesore," Pei Leyun thought, but when facing Cen Yu, he still maintained that cautious demeanor, "I didn't..."
"What was that dream about?" Cen Yu asked again. "The dream I had at the Pei family's house was related to the honeymoon."
"He wants to keep you in his dreams." Pei Leyun began her accusation, as if Cen Yu were some kindergarten teacher who could uphold justice for her. "He impersonated me..."
Pei Baijun lowered his head and remained silent, looking somewhat guilty... but because he looked like a young boy, it was easy to feel sympathy for him. Cen Yu glanced at him a few times and said, "Then who broke my neck?"
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