Based on the previous experience and what Gui had said before leaving, Xiao Lin guessed he must have gone to another host again.
He felt that it was not an option to continue like this. Gui was like a lonely ghost, floating around involuntarily all day long. If this kept going on, when would it come to an end?
It is said that people have three souls and seven spirits. Will Gui one day disperse and disappear, with no traces left between heaven and earth? No one would know that he ever existed, and even Xiao Lin would forget.
A wave of sadness rushed over Xiao Lin.
Gui clung to him day and night, chattering non-stop to the point that calluses grew in his ears. Sometimes he even wished he could just pack him up and launch him into outer space. But pondering over it seriously, Gui might be arrogant, sarcastic, and possess a mean tongue, but there was nothing really bad about him. And although he often threatened to absorb his yang qi, in the end, he had only ever done it only once.
If Gui’s soul dissipates one day, who would remember him except Xiao Lin?
Xiao Lin sighed and dazedly stared at the Coke held in his hand.
On the third day after Brother Gui left, he no longer felt the joy of solving questions. When he wrote the answer to a question just now, he subconsciously asked out loud, “Is this correct?”
It was only after the question left his mouth that he realized Gui had long since disappeared.
Xiao Lin thoroughly pondered about Gui’s identity. He was proficient in mathematics, physics, chemistry, Chinese, and English. He may not have been a teacher, but he was quite knowledgeable at the very least. He might have been an intellectual. But he also said he was overly familiar with hospitals. Could he be a doctor?
What if he examined the doctors who died recently in various hospitals? And if Gui is not a local ghost, then he could examine the hospitals in various provinces and other cities. What if he was a foreign ghost who could speak Chinese…?
Xiao Lin ruffled his hair worriedly and messed it up, thinking that in the worst case, he’d only have to let Gui absorb as much yang qi as he wanted. Wouldn’t it be alright if he didn’t object anymore?
He didn’t know if his chanting had an effect or what, but that night, he actually received a text.
I’m Brother Gui. See you at Starbucks on Feixia Road, District T, City.
At 3 o’clock tomorrow afternoon.
He was concise and straight to the point, with no unnecessary nonsense.
Xiao Lin was overjoyed at first, but then gradually became doubtful.
Why did Brother Gui send a text instead of calling this time?
But apart from him and Brother Gui, no one else knew about them.
Xiao Lin’s imagination was not lacking, and he assumed Gui might have unfortunately taken on a deaf or mute host this time, and couldn’t make a call.
Regardless, this was good news.
Xiao Lin didn’t realize that his mood was like a roller coaster ride, soaring from the bottom of the valley into the sky. His Coke seemed to taste sweeter, and he even solved ten pages of 《Three-Years and Five-Years of College Entrance Examination Simulation》 in one go.
The next afternoon, he arrived at Starbucks as scheduled.
After ordering a cup of latte and waiting for three minutes, there was still no trace of Gui.
Xiao Lin simply took out a set of questions and solved them. While doing so, he felt a wave of sadness in his heart.
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He quickly slapped himself, thinking, The nagging ghost isn’t here, so why should I solve questions?
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Xiao Lin raised his head and saw a beautiful woman standing in front of him, who struck him as familiar.
“Who are you?” He asked confusedly.
“Brother Gui.” The woman said expressionlessly.
She was in her early thirties, with no makeup, but a smooth forehead, a high nose bridge, accompanied by a fair complexion. She was a total beauty, the kind who could cause heads to turn even if she dressed ordinarily.
But that was beside the point.
What mattered was what the woman had said.
Xiao Lin looked at her in a daze.
It’s been a few days since I saw him and he only looks stupider, the woman thought as she sat down across him. She knocked her fist on the table and repeated, “I am your Brother Gui.”
Xiao Lin’s eyes twitched, feeling as if he was in a weird dream.
He took out 《Wu San》 from his schoolbag, opened up a random page and pointed to a question.
The pretty woman impatiently snatched the pen and wrote the answer with two effortless strokes, along with the solution.
Xiao Lin finally believed she was Gui, but then an even bigger question mark appeared on his head.
“Why do I feel like I’ve seen you somewhere?”
The beautiful woman replied, “This woman is your transfer student classmate’s mother.”
Xiao Lin gaped. “GuiGui, why did you get into someone else’s body?”
The woman dejectedly supported her big breasts, which were so plump they were about to fall off.
The scene was really eye-catching, and Xiao Lin, being the pure child that he was, couldn’t help averting his eyes.
“According to my guess, this woman should be killed soon. That transfer student does not have a simple background.”
“What kind of a background is it?” Xiao Lin only knew that the other party was dropped off and picked up by his secretary or assistant on the first day he transferred to their school. Others said that his father must be a big boss with a net worth of tens of billions or a high-ranking official who cannot show his face casually.
He discussed it with Brother Gui- oh wait, now Sister Gui.
The woman curled her pretty lips into a smile, saying, “I’m almost certain that the kid’s father was an official, but the mother was not his first wife. His father not only had a mistress, but he also engaged in bribery. Your classmate’s mother, the woman whom I’ve “possessed”, has a lot of evidence in her hands. Now the authorities are investigating. Although the student’s father has not yet been found, it will only be a matter of time.”
In this way, the woman became a key figure.
Xiao Lin asked nervously, “Will someone kill you to silence you?”
The woman said, “Actually, before I possessed the body, it had already been injured once. She was hit by a car and suffered a concussion.” She paused, continuing dejectedly, “Every time I possess a person, they are short-lived. This kind of temporary body seems to have a special attraction towards me.”
Xiao Lin hurriedly said, “Yes, yes, in fact, these past few days since you disappeared, I’ve been researching on the internet, and I also consulted some well-known Vs of metaphysics, and finally got some revelations. The hosts chosen by you may be missing one of the three souls and seven spirits, hence you could possess them. You are likely not an ordinary ghost.”
He was also a mean guy who liked to nag. Xiao Lin added a curse in his heart.
The beautiful woman frowned. “Are these your own speculations, or the metaphysics celebrity’s?”
Xiao Lin said, “The conclusion I drew is based on the opinions of various experts and, uh, also has a tiny bit of my own opinion added in.”
The woman hummed, encouraging him to continue.
Xiao Lin’s face lit up and he further said, “So you may be a living soul, that is, an incomplete ghost. You can possess bodies again and again, and also have to leave again and again, plus, you can’t be reincarnated. The most important point is, as long as we find your original body, there may be a chance for you to go back.”
This logic was not unreasonable, but the problem was that it was too difficult to find Gui’s real body. In this case, he was either a mental patient or in a vegetative state, or he may be lying in the intensive care unit. Finding Gui’s original body was equivalent to looking for a needle in a haystack.
Xiao Lin knitted his brows, very worried.
The woman was open-minded, and said, “Maybe I will be able to go back however I got here. You don’t have to worry. I called you here today mainly because I wanted to tell you about the situation. In fact, this woman’s identity is a bit sensitive. After you go back, make sure to delete the chat history, and I also won’t contact you again. If anyone asks about it in the future, just say that we met by chance in the coffee shop. The woman heard that you were her son’s classmate, so she wanted to chat with you a bit. Got it?”
Xiao Lin obediently nodded and said, “Brother Gui, we will meet again after you die anyway, why are you acting like you’re speaking your last words?”
The pretty woman said, “What if my soul also dies along with my body?”
Xiao Lin, “Bah bah bah! Children’s words are unbridled, and ghosts' words are unbridled. Brother Gui, although you have a venomous mouth and are more verbose than my mother, you’re still a good person. I, I can’t bear to let you go.”
He found his mood to be quite contradictory. On one hand, he hoped that Gui would continue to stay by his side forever, even if he was a little mean, nagging him all day long, and picking on his every flaw. Xiao Lin was okay with it. But on the other hand, he also hoped that Gui could stay with him and quickly find his body, along with his lost name and life.
Because that was the world that truly belonged to Gui.
He can’t keep the other person by his side out of his own selfishness.
The woman flashed him a pretty smile and joked, “Are you reluctant to part with me, or are you reluctant because there will be no one to absorb your yang qi?”
…Xiao Lin decided to take back that slightest bit of reluctance he felt just now.
The beautiful woman suddenly reached out her arm. With a gentle brush of her fingertips, a warm touch passed over him.
“There’s a saying that a living soul can only be close to a person with a pure heart. These few days away from you, I might’ve died and even lost my soul.”
That hand was so soft and smooth, it must have been well maintained. In order to win men’s favor, she must have put in a lot of effort, but at this moment, Xiao Lin seemed to see another person through this hand.
A tall and upright figure.
Somehow, Xiao Lin suddenly remembered the shadow he saw on the bathroom mirror.
He was stunned, stammering, “No, you, you’re welcome!”
Brother Gui smiled at him through the woman’s body. “If I could be reincarnated as a human being and we meet again in the future…”
Then what?
Xiao Lin waited for the next part, but Gui did not say any more.
“Study hard and try to get into T University.” With these last words, the woman stood up and left.
After that, Xiao Lin never heard from Gui again.
Once, Xiao Lin couldn’t bear it anymore and dialed the number at a public phone booth, but no one answered.
Half a month later, he saw the news on the internet that a car accident occurred in a crowded city, resulting in one dead and one injured person. The deceased was a woman.
Xiao Lin remembered that that very afternoon, on the way to class, the transfer student had received a phone call, after which his face had turned pale and he hurried away.
His heart thumped loudly, and he subconsciously linked the deceased woman to the transfer student.
Outside, the rain poured heavily, so he quickly ran to the phone booth. But after getting in, no matter how many times he dialed that number, there was a busy signal on the other end.
Soon, Xiao Lin heard some rumors. It was said that the transfer student’s mother died in a car accident and his father was cheated. It was also vaguely revealed that his mother was a mistress. The transfer student couldn’t bear the looks others gave him and transferred directly to another school in another city.
Maybe Brother Gui destroyed all evidence of his contact with Xiao Lin. Maybe Xiao Lin’s identity was not suspicious. No one questioned Xiao Lin.
Just like this, his peaceful and boring life continued. He spent his days like an average student who was about to take the college entrance examination.
But Brother Gui never appeared again.
He disappeared without a trace, just as Xiao Lin had thought, so clean that he never left any evidence of his existence.
Except for Xiao Lin’s memory.
Xiao Lin remembered the timbre of his voice and the cadence of every tone. Even if he were in a dense crowd, Xiao Lin felt that he could recognize the other person just by his voice.
Unfortunately, he never heard that voice again after that.
Sometimes, while walking in a hurry down the road, the voices of passers-by floated in his ears. If he detected any similarity, he would always subconsciously turn his head to look, searching with his eyes, but in the end he always ended up disappointed.
Xiao Lin didn’t want to imagine the worst-case scenario. He wanted Brother Bui to regain his body, his memory, and live a happy and successful, fulfilling life. He wanted the best for him, but maybe Gui had forgotten about him, or maybe he felt that there was no need to contact him again.
After all, there was no longer any intersection between them, and that weak fate had long since dissipated and no longer existed.
This encounter was just like a story that took place during one night, leaving no trace whatsoever, and the readers could only laugh while listening to it. Xiao Lin never told anyone about it, because even he himself sometimes doubted whether Brother Gui was an illusion, a fragment of his own imagination.
Until that year, he was admitted to T University. He stood under the Wutong tree, in front of his department and looked up at the rays of sunlight shining through the branches and leaves.
Suddenly, he heard a voice behind him.
“Have you finished 《Three-Years and Five-Years of College Entrance Examination Simulation》?”
Xiao Lin turned around sharply.
Ooohh, I hope everything is revealed in the extra!! This story is so short but I love it so much! 😭
Huhuhu so short!! I hope the extra will be a bit longer than the regular chapter.
Thank you for the update 🦊
Oho~ did he get his own body back?
Thx for the ch ٩( >ヮ<)۶
Thank You for the chapter (੭ु´･ω･`)੭ु⁾⁾❤
They Found Each Other !!! ^_^