Don't You Like Me (Complete)

Chapter Ch59 - Tell your grandfather again!

Gu Kaifeng froze. “My family? My grandpa?”

Of the four elders of his family, only his maternal grandpa was no longer in this world. The other three were still alive and well.

Lin Feiran answered carefully: “Your grandpa should be around too.”

Gu Kaifeng’s expression was difficult to describe . He said slowly, “What do you mean, ‘around too’? Is there more than just him?”

Gu Kaifeng’s relationship with Lin Feiran meant that the Gu family would not have heirs, so these ancestors did not much like Lin Feiran, and even disliked him. So, Lin Feiran did not dare open his Yin-Yang eyes in Gu Kaifeng’s house. Every time he accidentally caught sight of the furious ancestors, he would panic so much he would go hug Gu Kaifeng’s thigh or Xia Xia’s hind leg. So, even though he had spent a lot of time at Gu Kaifeng’s house, he was not quite sure of how many ancestors there were, who they were, or what their habits were like. But based on his impressions, he could roughly estimate. “Maybe ten or so. I’m not sure, either…”

“Ten! Who are they?!” Gu Kaifeng stumbled and almost fell, but Lin Feiran caught and steadied him.

“I think it’s your grandfather, your great-grandfather, your great-great grandfather… they go up for ten generations or so.” Lin Feiran held on to Gu Kaifeng and said worriedly, “Kaifeng, are you okay?”

Gu Kaifeng had found his footing. He took a deep breath and asked, “So, when we’re at home, they’re usually nearby watching us? Surely not?”

Lin Feiran said with anguish, “They are.”

Gu Kaifeng’s lips pursed into a narrow line, and Lin Feiran could not tell what he was thinking. His cheeks seemed on the verge of turning red again. He rubbed his face and reasoned: “All right. Everyone’s house is like that, right?”

Lin Feiran hesitantly said ‘Mm’ in assent.

They had also visited Lin Feiran’s house twice. Emboldened by Gu Kaifeng’s courage, Lin Feiran had opened his Yin-Yang eyes in his own house. His house was fairly clean, aside from the old grandpa who lived next door who had passed away last year, who would occasionally come through the walls to hang out and admire Lin Feiran’s dad’s calligraphy hung on the walls. There was also a ghost who might have commited suicide by jumping from the roof of the building: he stood on his head and made thunking sounds as he jumped through the building, scaring Lin Feiran so much he never wanted to go home. Aside from these two passing ghosts, Lin Feiran had not seen other ghosts in his house. Of his relatives who had passed away, only his grandpa and grandma were still lingering in their own house; his other ancestors seemed to already have gone to reincarnation.

Hearing Lin Feiran’s hesitant answer, Gu Kaifeng checked again: “RanRan, are other houses like that, too?”

Lin Feiran scratched his head uneasily. He did not want to lie to Gu Kaifeng, so he braced himself and said: “… My house isn’t like that, anyway. My ancestors seem to all have gone on to reincarnate.”

Gu Kaifeng cursed from the bottom of his heart!

Lin Feiran had not paid much attention to this question before, but now that Gu Kaifeng mentioned it, Lin Feiran noticed something strange. If all the ghosts remained after their deaths to see their descendants, then would there not be almost no ghosts in the world who went to reincarnate? Since this was not the usual state of things, why did the Gu family’s ancestors remain in the Gu household? What wish of theirs could not be fulfilled even after so many generations?

Lin Feiran had never thought about these things in detail before.

As they conversed, they arrived at the front door. Before entering the little garden, Gu Kaifeng pulled up his scarf to hide half his face, revealing only half his high-bridged nose and his pitch-black eyes. He dawdled at the threshold in front of the door, then turned and jumped down again.