Don't You Like Me (Complete)

Chapter Ch26 - Metamorphosed into wind

When the eyes of the human and the cat met, the cat keenly realized that this human could see it. A hint of joy surfaced in its desolate eyes. It eagerly pounced towards Lin Feiran and carefully bit at his pant leg. Then, it turned around and took two steps before it stopped to turn its head and look at Lin Feiran with an imploring gaze. The cat meowed loudly a couple of times, then urgently repeated the same actions over again.

It seems to want me to follow it? Lin Feiran thought. Checking his phone, he found that there were still six minutes left before class began, so he stood up and followed.

While he wasn’t afraid of this cat, he was afraid of other ghosts. He had to be careful where he let himself look, so he locked his gaze upon the cat. Ultimately, this cat’s expression was too sorrowful and Lin Feiran couldn’t bring himself to pretend he hadn’t seen it. Thankfully, it was daytime. Most ghosts seemed to not like daylight, so even though there were many ghosts around, most of them were just lying on the ground, fast asleep. The old gentleman with half a head, who saw Lin Feiran as a key target for supervision, seemed to have run off to inspect another class and had not appeared.

Lin Feiran took a deep breath, keeping himself from carelessly looking around.

Gu Kaifeng, seeing that Lin Feiran’s expression was somewhat strange, took several large strides to catch up with him, then asked, “Where are you going?”

“Something came up. You don’t have to follow me,” Lin Feiran replied vaguely. He carefully kept a safe distance from Gu Kaifeng, worried that if he accidentally absorbed Yang energy he would not be able to see the cat.

Gu Kaifeng didn’t say anything, and merely followed from a distance. He stuck both hands in his pockets, his demeanor leisurely, as if he was only going on a walk. Lin Feiran didn’t send him away. After all, having Gu Kaifeng nearby made him more at ease.

The cat ran nimbly ahead, occasionally turning its head to confirm that Lin Feiran was keeping up. Lin Feiran followed it to the entrance of the school building. Seeing at the curtain of rain outside, his footsteps halted.

Just then, Wang Zhuo ran into the building while closing an umbrella, with a bag of drinks and snacks in hand. It looked like he was so hungry he hadn’t been able to wait for lunch.

“You came at the right time. I’m confiscating this.” Gu Kaifeng immediately went up to Wang Zhuo and took his umbrella.

Wang Zhuo shook the bag in his hand. “What are you going to buy? If you’re hungry, eat some of mine.”

“I’m not buying anything,” Gu Kaifeng said as he ran to catch up with Lin Feiran, holding the umbrella.

Wang Zhuo made fun of the two of them out of habit: “Taking a walk in the rain with your wife, how romantic.”

Lin Feiran glanced with hidden bitterness at this “accomplice” who had always helped Gu Kaifeng harass him. But he discovered that following immediately behind Wang Zhuo was a long trail of greedy ghosts who had not been given offerings for goodness knows how long. They were full of grievances as they salivated, their eyes fixed on the bag filled with snacks in Wang Zhuo’s hand, but there was nothing they could do about it.

“……” Lin Feiran wasn’t sure if he should be pitying Wang Zhuo, who knew nothing, or himself, who knew too much.

“You single dog, you’d better learn from me!” Gu Kaifeng shouted to Wang Zhuo from afar as he opened the umbrella for Lin Feiran. With one hand stuck in his pocket, the other hand holding the umbrella, and his uniform jacket unbuttoned even on this cold day, one might suspect that he was deliberately trying to look dashing. However, he genuinely was dashing.