bayedsolid Chapter 244 Do you really have to see his corpse before you're satisfied?
Chapter 244 Do you really have to see his corpse before you're satisfied?
An Ling felt terrible seeing Pei Chuyao suddenly enveloped in sadness.
An Ling was still young when Wei Qinghui disappeared, and Pei Yuning told her many things later.
Wei Qinghui was adopted. He was abandoned by his parents shortly after birth and later adopted by the Wei family.
The Wei family initially chose to adopt because they couldn't have their own children. However, a few years after adopting Wei Qinghui, Wei's mother became pregnant.
After Wei Qinghui's parents had their own child, his status in the Wei family became somewhat awkward, and he became a pitiful little thing who was neither loved by his father nor his mother.
When he was just over ten years old, his parents started getting a divorce again.
They fought over custody of their biological child, but left Wei Qinghui to be raised by Wei's grandparents.
Fortunately, the Wei family was not short of money, and they were never stingy with money for Wei Qinghui's daily life and studies. Wei Qinghui also had great artistic talent and later became a university teacher at the same university where Pei Yuansi taught.
Pei Chuyao's first meeting with Wei Qinghui was also quite dramatic. She was originally delivering something for her brother, and since the school wasn't far from home, she rode her bike there.
It just so happened to be lunchtime, and there were many people and bicycles on campus. She accidentally bumped into Wei Qinghui.
The second meeting was when Pei Chuyao ran into Zhuang Yi, who was having dinner with Wei Qinghui, while eating out.
After Zhuang Yi's introduction, Pei Chuyao learned that Zhuang Yi and Wei Qinghui had known each other for a long time.
The two studied at the same university. Although they majored in different fields, they quickly became good friends because they were both Chinese and from the same city. This relationship continued even after they returned to China.
The two exchanged contact information this time, and after spending some time together, they quickly got together.
The two were about to get engaged, but one time when Wei Qinghui went on a business trip to a university in a coastal city, he saw a child drowning while sketching at the beach. He rushed in and rescued the child, and after handing the child over to another person who came to help, he was swept away by the waves.
After that, Wei Qinghui completely disappeared without a trace. He neither retrieved the body nor sent any further messages to Pei Chuyao.
Wei's parents didn't care about their adopted son's life or death at all. Only Pei Chuyao posted a large reward notice for his whereabouts through various channels and sent people to search all over the country. Zhuang Yi also used the Zhuang family's resources to help with the search. However, ten years have passed and neither of them has obtained any useful information.
So after obtaining the character lookup tool, An Ling quickly thought of her aunt.
She tried entering Wei Qinghui's name several times, but no information popped up.
At that time, An Ling thought that because the Pei family was not mentioned in the original novel, Wei Qinghui's name did not appear, so he was not included in the range of characters that could be searched.
However, Anling later discovered that she could find information about some people who never appeared in the novel, as long as she had met them and knew their names, but she couldn't find information about others.
It wasn't until Anling discovered that the character lookup tool couldn't even find information about the male and female leads that she realized this cheat must have some limitations.
To figure out the limitation, she tried entering many people's names into it and managed to come up with some patterns.
First, Anling needs to know a person's appearance and name in order to search for information through the character lookup tool, but photos are invalid; Anling must have seen that person in person.
Secondly, there is a time limit to this "personal encounter." Her current conclusion is six months. If she met that person six months ago, she wouldn't be able to find out.
For example, An Ling once tried to find out the reason why Gu Chenming's parents treated him so coldly through Gu Chenming's parents, but she failed because the last time An Ling saw them was half a year ago.
Third, these rules do not apply to the male and female protagonists. Even if the conditions are met, their information cannot be displayed in the character query tool. An Ling has no clue as to why.
So even though An Ling desperately wanted to help her aunt find Wei Qinghui's whereabouts, she was powerless to do so.
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"I'm sorry, Xiaoling, I shouldn't have said these things to you," Pei Chuyao said to Anling, composing herself.
An Ling was about to say that it was nothing when she was suddenly interrupted.
"Chu Yao, so you and Xiao Ling were in the garden."
Zhuang Yi's voice rang out behind them, and An Ling knew without a doubt that he was coming for her aunt.
"Didn't you go to the company today?" Zhuang Yi asked.
"Well, Xiaoling and the others will be going back to Haicheng in a few days, so I'm staying home with my sister and the others these few days. What are you doing here?" Pei Chuyao replied expressionlessly.
Zhuang Yi looked at Pei Chuyao and said apologetically:
"I want to apologize. I saw what happened with Ji Yue... I'm sorry, if I hadn't suggested going to the lantern festival that day, this wouldn't have happened."
Pei Chuyao realized that this was just an excuse for him to come to the Pei family. If he really wanted to apologize, he should go to Pei Jiyue. Why did he have to say these things in front of her?
"This has nothing to do with you. No one will blame you. There's no need to take on all the responsibility."
"If there's nothing else, please leave."
"Chu Yao... are you really going to keep treating me this coldly? What did I do to upset you?" Zhuang Yi's voice sounded somewhat sad.
Pei Chuyao remained silent, her attitude clearly indicating that she was seeing the guest out.
Zhuang Yi sighed and turned to An Ling, saying:
"Xiaoling, could you please leave for a moment? I have something I'd like to say to your aunt."
An Ling knew that Zhuang Yi was definitely treating her like a third wheel.
Even if she avoided them, she could still find out what they were talking about, but An Ling was Pei Chuyao's niece, not Zhuang Yi's, so she would definitely side with her aunt.
She turned to look at Pei Chuyao, wanting to see what her aunt thought first.
Sure enough, Pei Chuyao shook her head at her, "It's okay, no need to avoid me."
She looked at Zhuang Yi again, "There's nothing between us that we need to talk about without Xiao Ling's knowledge. Just say what you need to say."
Zhuang Yi looked at Pei Chuyao with a hurt expression and whispered:
"I just want to know, is the reason you're being so cold to me now because I confessed my feelings to you a while ago?"
"Is it wrong for me to like you? Why are you punishing me like this?"
Pei Chuyao's expression remained calm, but An Ling could still see a hint of reluctance in her eyes.
She looked at Zhuang Yi, her tone carrying an unwavering firmness:
"Zhuang Yi, I don't want to give you the wrong idea, nor do I want you to still have expectations of me that you shouldn't have. You know very well that there is no possibility between us."
Zhuang Yi could no longer suppress his emotions. He stared into Pei Chuyao's eyes and asked:
"Why not? Is it still because of Qinghui? It's been ten years, and we've spent so much effort searching, but we haven't found anything. Why can't you accept reality?"
"Qinghui is definitely gone. Do you really have to see his body before you're satisfied?"