After serious negotiations, Gui reluctantly agreed that he would not do such a thing again without explicit consent, but also had a request of his own; Xiao Lin must finish ten pages worth of questions of “Five-Year College Entrance Examination Simulation” within three days, otherwise he will keep using this method to absorb yang qi from Xiao Lin.
Xiao Lin was dumbfounded. He exclaimed, “You psycho, you’re not the author of “Wusan”, are you?”
Gui, “Or ten pages of “Longmen Question Bank” is also acceptable.”
Xiao Lin cried without tears and asked, “Why are you so persistent in making me solve these questions?”
Gui replied matter-of-factly, “Because every time I see you getting the question wrong during an exam, I feel unhappy.”
Xiao Lin silently mourned for his lack of luck. Was he Fan Jin when he was alive? Maybe he took the college entrance examination dozens of times, or maybe he was mentally disturbed by the examination? How could he be so strange even after turning into a ghost?
Gui, however, was unbothered by all this. He made yet another offer. “All ghosts are like this. If you exceed the task limit, then as a reward, I will serve you for free, just as I did now. Only that I won’t absorb your yang qi.”
Xiao Lin said dejectedly, “Can I decline?”
Gui, “No.”
The next day was the weekend. In hopes to help Gui recall anything he could from his life, Xiao Lin took him out for a walk.
Once they stepped outside in the scorching sun, he suddenly thought of something. “How come you can follow me out in broad daylight? As a ghost, shouldn’t you be afraid of light?”
Gui replied, “I don’t know. Apart from the fact that I can’t get too far from you, there are no restrictions.”
Amidst the bright sunshine and busy traffic, Xiao Lin realized Gui could no longer feel such excitement as a ghost.
He suddenly felt a wave of sadness course through him. He asked Gui, “Can you really not remember any relatives of yours? Even a name could prove to be useful.”
Unexpectedly, Gui said, “I did recall something.”
Xiao Lin was overjoyed. He perked up, “What did you recall?”
Gui replied, “The building in front of us looks very familiar to me. It’s as if there’s an invisible force pulling me towards it, wanting me to enter it.”
Qianlong Building?
Xiao Lin stared at the towering building and said skeptically, “That’s a well-known enterprise in China, are you sure you’re familiar with it? Did you perhaps work there?”
Gui scoffed and said, “Why are you speaking as if it’s not possible for me to belong to that company?”
Xiao Lin, “Because you’re more like a head teacher who hides behind the class window all day long to make sure we’re not slacking off.”
Gui sneered. “So that’s the kind of person you see me as.”
Xiao Lin said, “Of course not, you’re not a human being!”
Gui went silent for a moment. After a while, he quietly said, “Wusan increased to fifteen pages.”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
Xiao Lin hastened to butter him up, “Brother Gui, my handsome and charming Brother Gui, I was wrong, I was stupid and ignorant! Not only could you work there, you might’ve even been the owner!”
Gui didn’t bother with him anymore. This building felt very familiar to him. Maybe it could be a major clue. He told Xiao Lin, “Let’s go in and have a look.”
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The car then drove towards their direction, whizzing by at a fast speed. Xiao Lin, who was standing on the roadside, couldn’t avoid being fed a mouthful of the exhaust.
Xiao Lin asked Gui, “Do you still want to go in there? If we have to go in, I will think of a way.”
He didn’t know what Gui was up to, but he didn’t answer him for a while.
Xiao Lin didn’t think much about it. Gui was nagging in his ears day and night these few days. It was rare to have such peace and quiet, so he thoughtlessly walked around with his hands behind his back, feeling like he was in a good mood.
The next afternoon, he returned home after playing basketball with his classmates. Unexpectedly, the ghost still hadn’t spoken.
Xiao Lin gradually felt that something was wrong.
He walked around the room, trying to call out to see if he would answer. “Brother Gui? Gui? Gui Baobao?”
No way. It couldn’t be that he reincarnated without saying anything, right?
Super Plus Enjoy!! Now, there will be no one to continuously nag in his ear when he’s solving questions!
Xiao Lin pondered for a long time, but even then couldn’t figure out just how Gui came and how he left. He should at least celebrate this, so he made his way to the refrigerator and got soda and pastries with snacks. He sat on the couch, snacking while watching TV.
Back then, whenever he switched to any channel at random, Gui would make sarcastic comments about which programs were too retarded. Such as, the host had the same IQ as Xiao Lin, the guest had done plastic surgery, and so on. Whenever Xiao Lin watched a TV program, it was no different than watching Bilibili with unnecessary background voiceover.
Hallelujah, peace has finally descended upon the world!
Xiao Lin happily waved his hands in the air, watched the program, and returned to his room afterwards.
He sat down, ready to start solving questions.
But soon after, he felt a little awkward.
Every time he answered a question, there would be no one to whisper the answer or solution to him.
Xiao Lin had developed the habit of frequently checking the answers every time he solved a question.
Lin Yinnian, are you a masochist?
Xiao Lin slapped himself, forcing himself to calm down and continue solving the questions.
Two days later, Xiao Lin received an unexpected call.
He answered the call. “Hello?”
A strange and beautiful masculine voice rang in his ears. “Xiao Lin?”
“Yes, that’s me. You are…?”
“I’m your Brother Gui.”
Xiao Lin, “???”
He got a bit confused and suspected that he had misheard.
Xiao Lin doubtfully asked, “What evidence do you have?”
The man on the other side calmly asked, “Have you solved ten pages of Wusan?”
Xiao Lin, “…fine, I believe you.”
After the confirmation, many questions popped up in his mind.
“How come you could make a phone call? Where are you calling from? Have you reincarnated or abducted someone as substitute?”
The other party muttered, “I can’t explain properly over the phone, so come meet me after school.”
Xiao Lin subconsciously said, “I still have to do my homework.”
The other side, “I will tutor you.”
Those words seemed to trigger a few traumatic memories in Xiao Lin.
That nightmare…
Xiao Lin rushed to deny, “No, no, no, I don’t need your guidance! I can do it myself, just give me your address!”
The man chuckled and said, “Come over to Qianlong Building and report your name to the reception desk, and the receptionist will escort you over.”
Hearing the name “Qianlong Building”, Xiao Lin exclaimed, “So you are indeed related to that company!”
He could barely hold back his curiosity. He couldn’t wait to see what the ghost looked like as a human. After school, he made a beeline for Qianlong Building.
He reported his name to the receptionist, and was escorted to the third floor as the man had said. They continued upwards, and when they reached the fourteenth floor, a handsome secretary took over and led Xiao Lin to the thirty-fifth floor.
The two doors were pushed open, and the man seated at the chair behind the luxurious desk turned around. Xiao Lin was stunned.
What came in view was a brightly lit, spacious lounge with floor-to-ceiling windows. A wool carpet as soft as feather, no doubt expensive, lay on the ground, painted in a golden hue by the sunlight pouring in from the windows. Coupled with the man’s charming appearance and a well-tailored suit, almost every corner of this office screamed “successful”.
Xiao Lin gaped, unable to speak clearly. “You….are you Brother Gui?”
The man stood up and walked towards him in slow strides, step by step, exuding invisible hormones. Xiao Lin subconsciously revealed a nervous expression, and his body slightly leaned back. As if he was a prey under the watchful eyes of a predator, ready to turn around and run away should the situation call for it.
“Mn, it’s me.” the man said. “Do you still remember the day you were standing at the side of the road, and a car drove past you?”
Xiao Lin nodded, “Yeah, I remember. It came out of Qianlong Building.”
The man spoke further, “After that, I was forcibly pulled away from you by an unknown force. When I regained consciousness, I was already in this body. The body’s owner was Qu Heng, the chairman of Qianlong Group. He had been unconscious for a few days for unknown reasons. It was said that his heart was not in a good condition.”
Xiao Lin beamed, “So I took in a domineering chairman? Did you look for me today in order to repay me?”
The man said, “How about buying you a million worth of test questions? Let you solve the questions to death?”
Xiao Lin, “Get out! Come and harass me with money all you want, I don’t care!”
The man, “That’s where the problem lies. I don’t have any memories of Qu Heng. Even though I’m sitting in his place, I don’t feel an ounce of familiarity. But Qu Heng’s illness lies in his heart, not his brain. Technically, I shouldn’t have any issues regarding memories.”
Xiao Lin, “Could it be that the illness caused gaps in the memory?”
The man shook his head, “I don’t know. After I became a ghost, I always stuck by your side. I thought I might get some clues after meeting you.”
Right then, a commotion suddenly sounded outside, and someone pushed open the door. A male secretary tried to stop a beautiful woman from breaking in, but his efforts were in vain.
Xiao Lin recognized the woman. She was the same gorgeous lady he had seen outside the building that day!
A crisp and sharp voice rang out, “Qu Heng, you bastard! While you’re in the middle of filing divorce with me, you actually have the audacity to mess around with a young boy in your office?” She rushed over with a ferocious expression on her face.
Xiao Lin wordlessly hid behind the man to minimize his presence. He first-handedly witnessed a bloody drama with a woman baring her teeth and scolding her husband for being a workaholic who made her stay alone in the house every day, and is now asking for divorce to chase her out of the house.
After the security guard dragged the woman away, Xiao Lin watched the man’s face turn pale and slowly fall down, clutching his chest.
He was rushed to the hospital, but breathed his last even before arriving.
What followed after was another wave of chaos, but that had nothing to do with Xiao Lin.
Xiao Lin was confused by this series of changes. He didn’t know how to describe his mood.
Witnessing a car accident and then encountering a ghost, then the ghost found a spare body and turned into a domineering CEO. As a result, the domineering CEO’s wife came to his door and scolded him, then the CEO died of a heart attack?
Who would believe this kind of novel-like plot?
When Xiao Lin returned to his room, his mind was in a mess. He couldn’t calm down the chaos for a long time. Oh well, it’s not like he intended to do homework anyway.
Suddenly, a faint voice suddenly reached his ears.
“I’m back.”
Xiao Lin experienced a myriad of emotions. He was first surprised, then happy, and then all that dissolved into confusion. All in all, human words could no longer describe his mood.
“Brother Gui, why are you back again?”
“Do you not welcome me?”
“No, no, no, how could it be? I’m so happy to see you! Without you, I didn’t even have a person to solve problems for me-” he suddenly paused, then hastened to say, “Ah, no, a ghost who solves problems,”
Which ghost wouldn’t be depressed when they turn human only to turn back into a ghost? It was only natural to feel dejected.
Xiao Lin asked Gui again, “What on earth is going on with you? Are you Qu Heng, the chairman of Qianlong Group?”
Gui sighed, “I don’t know, but I don’t think that’s the case. Not only am I not Qu Heng, but the victim of the car accident you saw on the road before was also probably not my real body.”
Another wave of confusion washed over Xiao Lin. “You mean, you’re just a ghost, looking for someone’s body to take over?”
Gui, “No, I didn’t deliberately take over anyone’s body. I don’t know what’s happening.”
Xiao Lin felt that Gui was in a rather low mood, so he attempted to comfort him. “It’s just a bout of amnesia. One day, you will regain your memories and it’ll all be solved. Anyway, I never said I’d drive you away, you can just stay by my side. Maybe with your presence in the college entrance examination hall, I can get a high score and enter Tsinghua University or Peking University.”
Gui scoffed, “You haven’t even finished the ten pages of Wusan that you promised to do, and you’re still dreaming of going to Tsinghua University or Peking University?”
Xiao Lin knit his brows together, saying, “Aren’t I just worried about you? Why haven’t I heard you praise me for my kindness and consideration?”
Gui hummed, “I think you did it on purpose.”
Xiao Lin, “???”
Gui, “You deliberately didn’t solve the questions, so I could forcibly absorb your yang qi.”
A faint red dusted on Xiao Lin’s fair cheeks.
“Actually, I’m not that interested in absorbing yang qi with that method, but if that’s what you really want, solve eight pages and I’ll do it for you.”
Xiao Lin held his breath and shouted, “F**k off!!!”
»Gui, “Or ten pages of “Longmen Question..« Starting from ‘Or’ until the end of the chapter the whole text is italicized.
You sure that that isn’t what you yourself want, eh dear Gui? lol
So, no handsome CEO xDD
Thx for the ch (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘)
apparently some sort of bug, I can’t fix it
Dreading the time I’ll have to be taking the PSATs 😞
Brother Gui jumping around between bodies. Is he in coma?
Thank you for the chapter 🦊
… First I thought this is ghost x human. Then it became CEO’s story? But then it’s back to square one??? Author your imagination are good lol.
Thank You for the chapter (੭ु´･ω･`)੭ु⁾⁾❤