Qi Yu smiled and said, "Sister, this is my bedroom. Wait here for me for a moment. I have a surprise for you."
"good."
Gu Baiwei immediately agreed; she had been nervous the whole way and could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Ever since she found out that he was Qi Yu, Gu Baiwei always felt inexplicably uncomfortable when she was by his side, as if her body instinctively feared and rejected the person in front of her.
Just now, when Qi Yu took her hand, her first reaction was to pull away, but when she thought of the cold look in his eyes when she refused to hug him at the beginning, she forced herself to calm down.
Just then, the faint sound of footsteps coming downstairs came from outside the door, and Gu Baiwei's tense heart finally relaxed for a moment.
Just as I breathed a sigh of relief, another muffled thud came from the next room.
Gu Baiwei was now almost certain that it was the sound of someone forcefully hitting the ground.
She tried to remain calm, pretending not to hear. After all, her purpose in coming here was to retrieve her parents' and her own ashes; nothing else mattered to her.
But the voice came again, and Gu Baiwei gritted her teeth, still feeling that she couldn't just ignore it.
As Qi Yu's footsteps faded into the distance, she hesitated for a moment before quietly opening the door a crack.
Through the gaps in the wooden railing on the second floor, Gu Baiwei saw Qi Yu appear at the door of the room in the far corner on the first floor, open the door and go inside.
She waited for a while, and seeing that Qi Yu still hadn't come out, she mustered up her courage and went to the door of the room next door.
She reached out and turned the handle, and to her surprise, the door was not closed.
Taking a deep breath, Gu Baiwei turned on her phone's flashlight and shone it through the crack in the door.
The moment a corner of the room was illuminated by the light, Gu Bai was startled by the scene before him and almost screamed.
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