Transformed into a heartthrob's simp, every day is a battleground.

Chapter 146 Instructing My Sister-in-Law

Song Baiyuan patted Yan Xun on the head, "What unlucky things are you saying?"

He gestured for Yan Xun to come into his office, then glanced at his assistant, who finally spoke, "We were talking about the visitor from earlier."

"He's not an important person," Song Baiyuan said. Seeing that his assistant didn't say much to Yan Xun, he patted Yan Xun on the shoulder and told him to go to his office and wait for him.

Only after Yan Xun entered the office did Song Baiyuan look at his assistant.

The assistant lowered his head. "He shouldn't suspect anything."

He then recounted his entire conversation with Yan Xun.

After listening for a while, Song Baiyuan guessed that Yan Xun was just bored and curious, so he gave up and then said to his assistant, "I heard that Lou Quan is on vacation."

The Lou Quan he was referring to was the newcomer who had abruptly entered the office a few days ago when he met with the master.

"Yes, they said there was some urgent business at home, so they were in a hurry," the assistant reported.

"What a coincidence," Song Baiyuan asked.

"They said their parents, who were staying in their hometown, suddenly broke their legs, and they submitted their leave applications at the train station."

The leave application on DingTalk, along with the check-in points, registration and hospitalization receipts, etc., showed that Lou Quan was not lying. His direct supervisor readily agreed and submitted it to Song Baiyuan, and also copied it to his assistant.

“You didn’t tell me in time,” Song Baiyuan said.

He certainly couldn't check message notifications on DingTalk anytime, anywhere; he usually delegated such miscellaneous tasks to his assistant.

"It was getting late that day," the assistant said cautiously.

"And you were at the party at the time."

He explained why he reported to Song Baiyuan a day late.

Song Baiyuan didn't say anything. He had his doubts, but he wouldn't choose to break ties with his assistant at this time, so he just nodded and went back to his office.

The assistant breathed a slight sigh of relief after Song Baiyuan left.

He didn't dare to message his companions at this critical moment, but he believed that the companions he had already notified would protect the newcomer named Lou Quan.

……

After Song Baiyuan arrived at the office, his expression changed.

Yan Xun didn't stand on ceremony and sat down on the sofa. Song Baiyuan walked over and, instead of sitting behind the desk, sat on the sofa on the other side. "What's the matter that's so urgent?"

"Don't you usually dislike coming to the company?"

This morning, Song Baiyuan received a message from Yan Xun saying that he had something important to say and asking if he was at the company.

He initially thought that Mu Yuanming had caused some trouble again, but now it seems that's not the case.

Song Baiyuan looked at Yan Xun, "Is there anything you want to say to your uncle?"

He remembered Yan Xun's message asking him if Mu Yuanming disliked him... He glanced at Yan Xun's face a few times, then his gaze shifted to his body, "Did Mu Yuanming hit you?"

"That's impossible, he shouldn't be able to hit you like that."

"Did you two have a fight?"

He figured that given Yan Xun's slow-wittedness, the other party probably wouldn't notice, and that Mu Yuanming had never really liked him.

Several times he wanted to tell Yan Xun directly that Mu Yuanming was the one who disliked him the most in the group, but seeing that the two got along quite well on the surface, Song Baiyuan stopped himself from doing so.

He thought that Mu Yuanming could continue pretending if he wanted.

But now, Mu Yuanming, who has lost his memory, is no longer pretending.

“We didn’t argue,” Yan Xun said.

He looked at Song Baiyuan and recalled the surprised look on Mu Yuanming's face when he talked about his true relationship with Song Baiyuan before he lost his memory... He couldn't tell if Mu Yuanming was acting or if he had really forgotten that Song Baiyuan was his uncle.

It's understandable that Song Baiyuan couldn't remember.

Back then, Mu Yuanming was still young, and when he sat on the high platform, half of his face was covered.

His original surname was Chi, but he changed his name later. It's perfectly normal that Song Baiyuan didn't know his identity.

But his teammate had acted as if he had no idea about his relationship with Song Baiyuan. Could it be that the other person had lost part of his memory again?

Yan Xun felt there were only two possibilities: either Mu Yuanming was faking it.

Otherwise, the other person genuinely can't remember this.

Recalling the other person's family background after being adopted, and his atheist identity that he constantly emphasized on variety shows and in his daily life, could it be that the Chi family tragedy was too much of a blow to him, and he was forced to forget this memory?

It wasn't until the black cat's car accident that Mu Yuanming recalled this old story.

For the first time, Yan Xun felt that Mu Yuanming's amnesia came at the worst possible time.

Seeing that Song Baiyuan across from him still looked curious and inquisitive, as if he were a good parent afraid that he would suffer a loss, Yan Xun simply told him the real reason why he came to see him.

"uncle."

I had a dream last night.

"In my dream, we visited a village."

"It's a place I visited in childhood photos from a variety show."

Yan Xun noticed a change in Song Baiyuan's expression, and after a pause, he continued, "I remember that time, you took me to a family's house."

"They were muttering things like 'Bodhisattva Fairy'..."

When Song Baiyuan heard the name of the Bodhisattva Fairy, he rubbed his forehead with a headache.

"I thought you didn't remember this at all."

He frankly told Yan Xun, "You seemed to be possessed at the time, and you didn't react when you talked to people. I heard that the Bodhisattva Fairy was somewhat effective, so I thought I would take you to see her."

As Song Baiyuan spoke, he became lost in his memories.

He naturally knew what tragedy had happened to the Chi family afterward, and this background, so similar to Yan Xun's, always made him feel uneasy.

On several occasions, he suspected that it was because he did not fully believe in Jia Ye and tried to seek the protection of other gods that Jia Ye brought misfortune upon the Chi family.

But soon, Song Baiyuan dismissed the idea.

Because he was certain that the so-called "golden boy" of the Chi family did indeed possess something.

He and Yan Xun stayed there for only a week before leaving. Less than two months later, the inexplicable tragedy occurred there.

All that remained of the entire Chi family was "Golden Boy," who was locked in the basement.

The basement door was locked from the outside. When Jin Tong was found, he had not eaten or drunk anything for several days and was on the verge of death.

Because they had visited the Chi family, Song Baiyuan later received an investigation call.

He told the investigators in detail what he had seen and heard at the Chi family's house, saying that he only wanted to seek help from the mysterious power for his nephew.

The investigators ultimately advised him not to believe in such feudal superstitions and suggested he consult a doctor at a major hospital.

Song Baiyuan sneered inwardly, becoming increasingly convinced that only when Jia Ye calmed down could he forgive their family and bring Yan Xun back to normal.

"How long did I stay there?" Yan Xun asked.

"One week."

Seeing that Yan Xun already knew about this, Song Baiyuan told Yan Xun everything he had done in the past week and what happened afterward.

"You mean that happened two months after we left?" Yan Xun asked.

"Yes." Song Baiyuan sighed.

He concealed the matter of Jia Ye, only lamenting the tragedy of the Chi family with Yan Xun.

“I never imagined that such a tragedy would happen to the Chi family in just two months after we left.”

"Besides these, what else did you dream about?" Song Baiyuan asked tentatively.

He was a little worried. Yan Xun was dreaming about these things. Could it be that the Golden Boy and the Bodhisattva Fairy had appeared again?

Strangely enough, no one knows where the Chi family's golden boy went after that, Song Baiyuan thought, but then he guessed that he probably went into hiding, was adopted, and lived an ordinary life.

"In my dream, I also saw the face of that golden boy."

"I also heard a name."

"What's your name?"

“Jia Ye.” After Yan Xun finished speaking, he stared at Song Baiyuan’s expression. “Uncle, have you heard of it?”

Song Baiyuan instinctively wanted to avoid Yan Xun's gaze, but quickly pretended to be calm, "Never heard of it..."

"Uncle, don't lie to me." Yan Xun decided to try to trick Song Baiyuan. "You told me in my dream that my parents didn't die in a car accident."

"But it is related to Jia Ye."

"Did my parents really die in a car accident, Uncle?"

Song Baiyuan was surprised to find such content in Yan Xun's dream. He felt a strange sense of panic, as if everything had become abnormal ever since the newcomer took leave.

He wanted to cover it up, but when he spoke, he changed his mind.

"...Your parents did not die in a car accident."

Song Baiyuan finally told the truth.

He avoided Yan Xun's gaze, then recalled the past, "By the time I found out, they were already gone."

He didn't want to describe in detail what Yan Xun's parents had gone through. He subconsciously reached for a cigarette, but his hand trembled several times. In the end, he gave up the action of reaching for a cigarette and just put his hand on the sofa. If you looked closely, you could still see that it was still trembling.

How much of it do you remember?

Yan Xun never imagined that he was just trying to trick Song Baiyuan because he felt that his parents' deaths were mostly related to Jia Ye.

But judging from the other person's reaction, they seemed extremely reluctant to speak...

Yan Xun recalled the movie that existed in the copy. He stared directly at Song Baiyuan, "All I saw was them dying mysteriously at home."

"There was a lot of blood loss."

These contents are all inferred from Mu Yuanming's experience. Yan Xun thought that Song Baiyuan's concealment was probably not only because he didn't want him to know about Jia Ye's existence, but also because the scene at that time was extremely tragic.

Yan Xun looked at Song Baiyuan, "Uncle, I just want to know what happened back then."

Upon hearing this, Song Baiyuan looked up at Yan Xun again. He composed himself for a moment before taking out his cigarette case, picking one up, and asking, "Do you mind?"

Yan Xun shook his head.

Song Baiyuan lit a cigarette. He seemed to be organizing his thoughts. After a while, he finally made up his mind and told Yan Xun everything that had happened back then.

“Nobody knows what happened back then,” Song Baiyuan said, then realized that this sounded too much like an excuse, “just like the Chi family case.” He then went on to explain.

"At the time of the incident, only you and your parents were at home."

He recounted the story of Yan Xun's father, who had his head severed, Yan Xun's mother, who threw her hand into the pot, the burning kitchen, and Yan Xun crying and screaming.

"But all I heard were retellings from other people."

Song Baiyuan, with a cigarette between his fingers, looked at Yan Xun sitting across from him through the smoke. "When I arrived, my sister was already in the hospital."

"You know nothing and remember nothing; it's as if you've been traumatized."

"That's why I'm taking you to find Fairy Bodhi."

"People nearby say you've been so frightened that you've lost your soul, and you need to find a master to help you get it back."

Song Baiyuan said, half-jokingly, "That's why I went to the Chi family and asked for the power of the Bodhisattva Fairy."

"After that, you did get much better."

Yan Xun knew that Song Baiyuan was still withholding some information. "What is Jia Ye?"

Song Baiyuan didn't really want Yan Xun to get involved in anything related to Jia Ye. Even though he believed in Jia Ye, he had a vague feeling that Jia Ye wasn't normal.

But all his thoughts vanished without a trace in Yan Xun's next sentence—

“I recently dreamed that I was dating someone named Jia Ye.”

Song Baiyuan was so startled he almost dropped his cigarette.

"...What did you say?" He wondered if he had misheard.

“I was saying that I recently dreamt that I was dating someone named Jia Ye.” Yan Xun looked troubled. “I couldn’t see his face clearly in the dream, and I thought I was just imagining things.”

"But I never expected that when I dreamed of going to see Jin Tong with my uncle, I would hear the name Jia Ye again."

"Could it be that he's really not human?"

"What kind of wandering ghost is it?"

Yan Xun looked at Song Baiyuan, "Uncle, you really haven't heard of Jia Ye?"

"Am I being haunted by wandering ghosts?"

Song Baiyuan was truly terrified this time. Whenever he thought of Jia Ye, he could only think of his sister in the hospital room back then, and the strange things that had happened in the company over the years. In his heart, he felt that this thing was almost like a ghost or spirit that had been summoned, an absolute evil spirit.

Upon hearing that Yan Xun was haunted by this evil spirit, Song Baiyuan hurriedly stubbed out his cigarette. "Tell me everything else you dreamed about."

“That’s all,” Yan Xun said.

He leaned back on the sofa, looking at Song Baiyuan across from him. "But I dreamt that I secretly went to see the golden boy from the Chi family and told him that my parents believe in Kagyu."

Song Baiyuan genuinely knew nothing about this.

In his memory, Yan Xun and he stayed temporarily under the arrangement of the Chi family. Most of the time, Yan Xun stayed alone in the room. Sometimes he had to deal with some company matters. The signal at the Chi family's house was not good, so he had to go to other places to make phone calls.

At this time, only Yan Xun was at the Chi family's residence.

He hadn't expected that Yan Xun would have such an interaction with that golden boy, and even talk about the Jia Ye incident, but he clearly remembered that Yan Xun was very slow to react to the outside world at that time.

Upon hearing this, Song Baiyuan's head throbbed even more. He would rather deal with 10 public relations incidents involving celebrities exposing their wives than deal with this problem.

Looking at Song Baiyuan's expression, Yan Xun knew that he was unaware that she had secretly contacted Mu Yuanming.

"I'm quite rebellious," Yan Xun thought.

"You said you even dreamed about the face of that golden boy from the Chi family," Song Baiyuan changed the subject. "Do you remember what he looks like?"

All he remembered was that the child was dressed very elegantly and sat on a high platform with his face covered.

Judging from Yan Xun's statement, could it be that he saw the other person's true appearance while secretly talking to them?

"remember."

Yan Xun glanced at Song Baiyuan's expression. "He's an acquaintance."

"Ok?"

Yan Xun dropped a bombshell.

"That golden boy from the Chi family..."

"It's Mu Yuanming."