Chapter 127 Gu Ye (ETL) Part 2
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Chapter 127 The Lover Who Climbed Out of the Movie
Then, for the first time ever, Gu Ye posted on the school’s gossip forum: [Students! It’s time to show other schools the cohesion of our Imperial University! While friendship comes first, competition second, our Imperial University students’ achievements are top-tier nationally, and even globally!
Can we lose? No! Our athletes need our cheers. Can we falter? No! Don’t let other schools laugh at us. Everyone who’s free, head to the gym to cheer! Put down your books, put down your research, and charge!!!]
Upon reading the post, the students’ first reaction was: [This guy who’s on steroids, isn’t he our high and mighty school heartthrob? What made him fall from grace?]
After realizing what was happening, the vocal music students grabbed their megaphones and started blowing the rallying cry: [Charge! Charge with our crazy senior!]
Countless girls volunteered to form a cheering squad: [Our school has not only an academic genius, but a good-looking academic genius! Charge with our fallen senior!]
Gu Ye almost spat blood onto the screen, wanting to say, ‘You guys are the crazy ones! You guys are the fallen ones! If it weren’t for credits, why would I be playing around with you kids at my age?’
However, Gu Ye’s rallying effort was quite successful. Students with free time went to cheer for the athletes, especially the freshmen who followed Gu Ye closely. They waved small colorful flags and cheered, “Senior brothers, you’re the best! Senior sisters, you’re the most beautiful! Charge!”
Gu Ye couldn’t help but cover his face after just one glance. These kids had worked so hard for his credits.
Over the next few days, throughout the entire sports meet, the principal was very satisfied with Gu Ye’s performance. And so, Gu Ye successfully earned 10 points. Gu Ye was overjoyed. “This way I can ask for 10 more classes off!”
Xia Xiang quickly looked around. “If the teacher hears you say that, they’ll dock all your points in no time!”
Zhao Pengyu asked with a mischievous grin, “You’re participating so enthusiastically just to ask for leave?”
Gu Ye nodded. “It’s so tough for me.”
Xia Xiang teased Gu Ye, “You really are having a tough time. Going to such lengths to get leave is rare indeed.”
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On the weekend, Gu Ye called home in advance and drove home.
Gu Decheng left work early every day, leaving all his social engagements to his eldest son.
So when Gu Ye arrived home, his father was walking their 2 dogs. Seeing Gu Ye’s car in the distance, his father’s lips curled into a smile, then quickly retracted. Until Gu Ye parked beside him, rolled down his window, and looked at him with a smile, his father said coldly, “Why are you back at this hour?”
Gu Ye clicked his tongue, teasingly replying, “If I didn’t come back, you’d miss your son so much you’d feel sick, your blood pressure would rise. You knew I was coming back and waited for me at the gate. Now that I’m back, you’re so serious, like you’re not welcoming me. Dad, that’s not good.”
Papa Gu chuckled, exasperated. “You brat! Nobody missed you.”
Gu Ye laughed too. “Fine, you didn’t miss me, but I missed you.”
Gu Ye got out of the car and had the security guard drive it to the garage. After he carried his things upstairs, Gu Ye pulled over the now over-a-meter-tall Gou Wang, giving it a good rub on the head. “I heard from my second brother that you’re buying land to build a house for each of us brothers. Have you chosen a location yet?”
Gu Decheng: “Not yet. Quiet places are too far, I’m worried about the inconvenience for your commute. Closer places might be too noisy when we get older.”
Gu Ye smiled and said, “How many places have you chosen? Do you have a map? Let me see.”
The father and son, each leading a dog, chatted as they walked home. Seeing Gu Ye’s smiling face in the sunset, Papa Gu felt a pang of emotion; his son had grown up.
Now in his early twenties, Gu Ye had fully matured, his face and physique increasingly resembling his mother. His features were exquisitely handsome, his appearance gentle and polite, yet his heart was fiercely proud. Undeniably, he possessed a gentle nature.
Papa Gu sighed, thinking resentfully, ‘The kids are all grown up; they’ll have to fly sooner or later. They all have to live their life.’ But there was still this slow-witted kid at home, unable to fly, and he was worried about him. Being a father is truly a worrisome thing.
Back at the house, Papa Gu showed Gu Ye the map. “These plots of land are all available; money isn’t a problem. My idea is to build 5 villas, and we’ll fence them off, so you brothers can live close by, and it’ll be convenient to discuss things. And after I’m gone, you can look out for each other.”
“Pfft! Dad, you’re thinking too far ahead. How old are you now?”
Papa Gu said seriously, “Some things need to be planned in advance; we have to face reality.”
“Okay, I’ll listen to you,” Gu Ye said with a smile. “Once the houses are settled, I’ll put my place closest to you.”
Papa Gu said disdainfully, “Don’t stay next to me; just looking at you gives me a headache.”
“No way!” Gu Ye said with a smile, “If you don’t see me for 3 days, won’t you miss me so much you can’t sleep? My second brother is right. Once I’m doing well, I’ll have to summon your spirit back to see me. It’s hard to do it if we’re too far apart.”
Papa Gu slapped Gu Ye on the head in exasperation. “You little brat!”
Gu Ye rubbed the back of his head. “I’m over twenty, and you still want to hit me?”
“Even when you’re fifty, I can still whip you with my cane!”
Gu Ye turned around helplessly to Mrs. Gu, who had just entered the room. “Mom, wasn’t I right? He’s going to hit me even when he needs support from his cane.”
Mrs. Gu laughed. “Who told you to be so mischievous and daring? Only you dare to tease your dad like that.”
“Isn’t this just to make him smile more? A smile makes you 10 years younger, and soon he won’t be an old man anymore.”
Papa Gu was both amused and exasperated, wanting to hit his son again. “Stop being naughty! Hurry up and see which place has good feng shui?”
Gu Ye looked around and finally pointed to a spot. “This place is quite nice. This side is a park with artificial hills and a lake. The land is spacious, transportation is convenient, and it’s right next to the golf course my brother gave you, so it’s easy for you to go there for activities.”
Gu Decheng: “But this place is a bit big; it’s just for the five of us. It’s a bit of a waste.”
Gu Ye: “No, we want this whole area. The rest of the land can be developed into a residential area—no, all of it into small villas. We can put up a fence here to enclose this area and keep outsiders out. The villas can all be sold to the wealthy. That way, it will be low-density and bigger rooms. Not only will it block out the noise from outside, but the neighborhood itself won’t be noisy either.”
“I’ll also tweak the feng shui a bit, and it’ll definitely fetch a high price. Why wouldn’t we make money?”
Papa Gu thought for a moment and nodded approvingly. “That makes sense. I’ll listen to you and buy this area. If this community is built, it will definitely be an area for the rich.” Papa Gu looked at Gu Ye. “Are you really not going to help your older brother after graduation? I never realized before that you were the perfect successor to me.”
Gu Ye quickly begged for mercy: “Dad, please let me go! I’m still a child, I can play until I’m 88.”
Gu Decheng sighed, “This brat.”
Having chosen the address, Papa Gu immediately sent someone to buy the land. While the other party was on the phone, Gu Ye returned to his room. He took his things out of his bag and quickly tidied up.
Most importantly, Gu Ye lit incense for his godfather, the King of Hell. “No one’s been contacting me lately, I’m so lucky. Please give me a few more days like this, don’t give me any work before the New Year, thank you! Here, please have a whiff of incense, don’t be shy.”
Just as Gu Ye lit the incense, his phone rang. Gu Ye glanced at the statue of the King of Hell, then at the caller ID on his phone, before hanging up expressionlessly.
A short while later, the phone rang again. Gu Ye answered reluctantly. Xie Cheng immediately asked, “Why didn’t you answer the phone? Did you fall into the toilet?”
Gu Ye scoffed, “Your name is cursed; your calls never bring good news.”
“Haha!” Xie Cheng laughed, “There’s a 20,000 yuan job; let’s go together tomorrow.”
Hearing that, Gu Ye was even more disgusted, “20,000 yuan? Is it to catch mice?”
“Don’t be silly, this is really interesting. We’d go even if we weren’t paid.”
Gu Ye thought for a moment, “What’s interesting about it?”
“There’s a guy who fell in love with a female ghost in a movie.”
“What?”
Xie Cheng asked excitedly, “Interesting, right? Let’s go see it tomorrow!”
Gu Ye sighed, “Okay.”
After hanging up, Gu Ye texted Zhao Pengyu and Xia Xiang: [I need to ask for leave again tomorrow.]
Zhao Pengyu: [Go ahead, didn’t you just earn some credits? You can ask for 10 more classes this year.]
Reading that, Gu Ye thought about how he had worked so hard to earn the credits, and they were about to be gone. On an impulse, he pulled out the incense stick that he lit for the King of Hell and said, “Do you know how hard it is for me to earn credits? You’re really my dad! What a rip-off!”
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The next morning, Gu Ye and Xie Cheng went to a coffee shop and met the client of this case, an elegantly dressed, kind-looking woman in her fifties. The person involved was her son, Shao Yinfan.
Seeing that the two ‘masters’ were so young, the woman didn’t look down on them. She immediately recognized Gu Ye, “You’re that famous young master online, the one who travels by plane.”
Gu Ye’s lips twitched. “Auntie, I don’t fly planes every day.”
The woman smiled. “I know, you’re very famous and very capable. My son will be saved this time.”
After Gu Ye and Xie Cheng sat down, each ordered a coffee and listened quietly to the woman’s story.
“In the beginning, I didn’t think there was anything wrong with my son. He said he had a girlfriend and was dating, which made me quite happy. I urged him to bring her home to meet us. He’s already 25, and as his parents, we all hope he can find a reliable partner.”
“At first, he readily agreed, but later he kept making excuses to refuse. His father and I felt something was off about him; we were afraid he’d been scammed. So I went to his place to look for him.”
At this point, the aunty’s expression changed. “That evening, after I got off work, I went there to invite the girl out for dinner and see what she was like. Who knew, my son pointed at thin air and said to me, ‘That’s my girlfriend.’”
“At first, I thought he was joking. After we sat down, he had the girl serve me tea and water, and he kept praising his girlfriend for being pretty and good at cooking. I looked around the room, and there were indeed things the girl used, like they were already living together. You won’t believe how cold I felt in my heart. I thought he was having some kind of delusional disorder.”
“When we got home, I talked to his dad about it, thinking of taking him to the hospital to get checked out. But as soon as I brought it up, he got angry with me, saying I looked down on his girlfriend and didn’t respect his decision.”
The aunty looked embarrassed. “After his outburst, I even suspected I was the one who was sick. I actually went to the hospital for a checkup. But the doctor said my eyes were fine, and I wasn’t sick at all.”
Then, the aunty became increasingly agitated, her eyes welling up with tears. “The important part is what happened next. That day, I went to see him again. On the way, I met a master who said my son was possessed by a ghost. If it were before, I would have definitely called him a fraud. But I’d never seen him before, and this man is able to describe my son’s condition right away, so I had no choice but to believe him.”
“I spent some money on a talisman, and when I went to my son’s house, I took the talisman with me. I really saw that girl. She was quite pretty and well-behaved, but after I put the talisman down, I watched her disappear before my eyes. I was terrified. When I told my son about it, he got angry with me, saying I’d been scammed. He also said that I shouldn’t come to see him again unless it’s for something important. Doesn’t this seem like he was bewitched by a ghost?”
At this point, the aunty wiped away her tears and took an old CD from her bag. “Oh, right, it’s this girl. She’s doing just fine, still living, and she’s quite famous now. But the one I saw with my son looks exactly like the person on this CD; she’s only in her early twenties.”
Gu Ye took it and recognized her. “Gao Yingjing?”
Gao Yingjing is now in her forties, and she just had a child. Gu Ye even named the child. She’s almost retired from acting, focusing on raising her child at home. There’s no way she’d be with the aunty’s son pretending to be a ghost. Something’s fishy here.
The author has something to say:
What made the male god fall from grace?
Answer: Academic credits!
What made the male god suddenly become manic?
Answer: He lost his credits!
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