Cen Yu: "..."
“You are already dead.” Cen Yu was completely unmoved by his words and said coldly and ruthlessly.
Pei Leyun was about to burst into tears again, but Cen Yu finally raised his hand in surrender, "Fine, forget I said anything."
Pei Leyun then smiled slightly and looked at Cen Yu, "Who was that person today?" He seemed to only then notice Wen Jingyao, who had appeared in the dream earlier.
—If we were still in the first world, Cen Yu would definitely say, "This is your future partner."
But after experiencing so many worlds, he already knew one thing: the plot was completely uncontrollable, so he only picked out the important parts and said, "He was someone I invited to help... exorcise evil spirits."
Pei Leyun didn't understand his meaning at first. "Exorcising evil spirits?" He held Cen Yu's hand with some concern. "Xiao Yu, are you possessed?"
Cen Yu looked down at Pei Leyun's hand, which was gripping his. Even in his dream, the other person's hand was still cold. He was indeed a dead man, a fact they both knew.
Cen Yu found Pei Leyun's question amusing, so he did indeed chuckle briefly. "What do you think?"
Pei Leyun pondered for a moment, then pointed to herself, "Are you talking about me?"
He was deeply shocked and seemed unable to accept that the object of Cen Yu's exorcism was himself.
Cen Yu didn't offer any explanation. He sat on the bench, looking at the scenes from his dream. "How many times have you seen Pei Baijun?"
Pei Leyun recalled carefully, "Once?"
“It was at the funeral…” he looked at Cen Yu, “I was a little afraid of him.”
When Pei Leyun spoke of her adoptive father's uncle, who had died many years ago, her voice was filled with undisguised fear: "He was very powerful... the kind of person."
Cen Yu still remembered Pei Baijun at Pei Heng's villa. He actually wanted to ask Pei Lejun if he didn't see Pei Baijun when he came to his room that night.
But for some reason, I felt this wasn't a good time to ask.
He sat on the bench, recalling the stories Pei's father had told him, such as Pei Leyun possibly being the reincarnation of Pei Baijun's brother who died young.
He turned to look at Pei Leyun beside him. She seemed happy to spend more time with him in his dream. She slowly moved closer to Cen Yu, as if to complain, "I don't like him."
"Why?" Cen Yu asked, "He should be considered your relative."
"He is your adoptive father's uncle."
“I don’t know,” Pei Leyun said immediately. “I just think he’s terrifying.”
“That person is also terrifying,” Pei Leyun whispered. “The one you invited to exorcise the evil spirit.”
Cen Yu still remembered that in the original text, Wen Jingyao was extremely capable... When he first confronted Pei Leyun, he almost eliminated this newborn brat, so it's not surprising that Pei Leyun was afraid of him.
"Why didn't you say these things to me when you appeared in my dreams before?" Cen Yu asked.
He remembered Pei Leyun in the Pei family's dream, who was just like an NPC, repeating everything that happened during their honeymoon...
"Xiao Yu," Pei Leyun looked at him blankly, "what did the dream you had before mean?"
“My abilities are still very weak; this is the first time I’ve appeared in your dream.” Pei Leyun looked at Cen Yu. “But once my abilities are stronger, I’ll soon be able to appear in the real world, just like Pei Baijun…”
As if envisioning this bright future, Pei Leyun's mood improved, and the dark clouds in her dream finally dissipated.
"Soon," Pei Leyun said, "we'll be together again."
Cen Yu stared at Pei Leyun for a long time without speaking, which made Pei Leyun somewhat uneasy. "Xiao Yu?" he looked at Cen Yu. "What's wrong?"
"You didn't appear in my dreams before?" Cen Yu asked.
Pei Leyun hadn't yet understood why Cen Yu's expression had suddenly turned serious. He stared blankly at Cen Yu, "Did Xiao Yu dream about me before?"
“Yes,” Cen Yu said, “I dreamt about the day we went on our honeymoon.”
Cen Yu looked at Pei Leyun... Everyone said that if you wanted to know what happened that night, you could only ask the dead, and now the drowned person was right in front of him.
He had heard that ghosts and monsters were most afraid of recalling the moment of their death, as it would cause them to instantly lose their rationality.
He looked at Pei Lejun, "Xiao Le."
He sat on the bench, patiently watching Pei Leyun. People were passing by in the dream, and he could even hear the rustling of leaves in the wind. "That night."
Do you remember how you drowned?
Pei Leyun paused, looked at Cen Yu, and then large tears began to fall from his eyes... Soon, a torrential rain began to fall in the dream world, soaking Cen Yu to the bone.
"……I have no idea……"
Pei Leyun frantically tried to pull out an umbrella from her bag, but the rain in the dream was too fast and too heavy, and Cen Yu's clothes were already soaked through.
“…Xiao Yu…”
Pei Leyun's tears were still flowing. "I forgot."
"I've forgotten how I died."
...
Cen Yu opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling.
Wen Jingyao sat beside him, drinking milk tea. "He's awake."
"Where did this milk tea come from?" Cen Yu looked at the milk tea in Wen Jingyao's hand and thought to himself that he and Shen Wei were indeed brothers.
"I just ordered takeout," Wen Jingyao said, pointing to the takeout bag on the side. "I also ordered you a drink."
“…Thanks.” Cen Yu walked over and slowly took the milk tea. He glanced at the time on his phone and realized it was already 10 a.m. “Did I sleep for that long?”
In his view, he had only chatted with Pei Leyun for a short while in his dream.
“If you don’t wake up soon, I’m already considering using violence,” Wen Jingyao said.
Cen Yu went into the bathroom and found a brand new set of toiletries... and even a set of clothes that had been taken off in the laundry basket—
Cen Yu: "?"
"You used my bathroom?"
Wen Jingyao sent the phone bill to Cen Yu, saying, "Please reimburse me. I never stay overnight at clients' homes."
"Then what are you doing?" Cen Yu asked, his mouth full of words as he chewed on his toothbrush.
"I'm worried that if I leave, you'll be killed by a ghost." Wen Jingyao sneered. "Otherwise, do you think I'd want to stay here? Sitting in this chair all night?"
Cen Yu, biting her toothbrush, turned to look at Wen Jingyao in the chair and saw that there were indeed some dark circles under his eyes, as if he had spent the whole night in an internet cafe.
Cen Yu looked at the bill Wen Jingyao sent him and found it consisted of all sorts of miscellaneous items, including but not limited to toothbrushes, clothes, and even the two cups of milk tea he had drunk that morning.
"I forgot to mention, your cup of milk tea costs 18 yuan." Wen Jingyao clearly distinguished between public and private matters. "You don't need to pay for my own cup of milk tea."
In that instant, Cen Yu felt as if he had stumbled into a breakup advice group, and he even had a title ready—
After spending the night with someone, he actually sent me these bills, saying my milk tea cost 18 yuan?!
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