Chapter 103: Transmigrated as a Fraudulent Male Streamer (27)
Leaving aside Fan Jie, who was on the verge of fainting entirely over there.
Cen Yu’s words plunged Jiang Tuan into deep thought… It seemed he genuinely had never invited Yu Sheng to play basketball before?
Even in those memories that had been distorted early on, there were always only three people playing basketball.
Himself, Pei Hengyun (Cen Yu), and He Yongning.
Jiang Tuan opened his mouth, just about to defend himself by saying that Yu Sheng was always studying back then, which was why he had never invited him…
Yet before the words left his lips, he fell back into silence. Was that really the case?
Had he truly never invited Yu Sheng simply because Yu Sheng was busy studying? And was the class monitor of Grade 12, Class 1 back then really Yu Sheng?
Jiang Tuan felt his memories dissolving into total chaos as he stood there, staring at Cen Yu.
Cen Yu had just sprinted all the way back from the new teaching building and was currently out of breath. He had finally realized one thing: that trick worked great outside Meiman High School, but it was completely useless here.
He figured it was because this place was Yu Sheng’s main stronghold.
Furthermore, there was one thing Yu Sheng hadn’t lied about—there likely really was an ancient tomb beneath this teaching building.
The problem was, could they actually tear down the teaching building and dig Yu Sheng’s tomb out of the ground? Standing in the corridor, Cen Yu looked toward the new teaching building in the distance, catching sight of Yu Sheng walking out of the office right at that moment.
Yu Sheng clearly spotted Cen Yu as well, yet he showed no intention of chasing after him immediately.
Instead, standing where he was, he even offered a small wave in greeting.
Clearly, he was convinced that none of them could escape this campus no matter what…
Cen Yu flipped Yu Sheng a direct middle finger, then threw a glance at the unconscious Fan Jie. “If you don’t get up right now, Yu Sheng is coming to get you.”
Fan Jie instantly snapped his eyes open, throwing his hands up at Cen Yu in a surrendering gesture. “Save me!”
“I wish someone would come save me too,” Cen Yu cursed under his breath. Perhaps because the commotion from the two of them running earlier had been too loud, Cen Yu finally caught sight of Pei Hengyun and He Yongning running over together.
Upon seeing that Cen Yu was unharmed, Pei Hengyun immediately let out a long sigh of relief.
Stepping up to Cen Yu’s side, he was just about to wrap his arms around him when He Yongning grabbed him by the wrist.
“You still haven’t explained what on earth is going on here,” He Yongning said, glaring at Pei Hengyun.
Naturally, he had spotted Yu Sheng over by the new teaching building as well…
Yu Sheng was the ultimate problem here. He Yongning hadn’t expected the truth behind everything to turn out like this either.
Seeing the bewildered, shocked look on Jiang Tuan’s face, combined with Cen Yu’s panting state, he knew Cen Yu had likely gone to the new teaching building just now to hunt for clues, only to run straight into Yu Sheng.
“What did you see?” He Yongning asked point-blank.
Knowing Yu Sheng’s preference for playing cat-and-mouse games, he guessed Yu Sheng had definitely placed some clue right in front of Cen Yu rather than just telling him directly.
Cen Yu pulled that large group photo out of his pocket.
When he had swung the hammer earlier with every intention of bashing Yu Sheng to death, he had casually swiped the photo along with it…
The group quickly huddled around the large group photo—
“T-There’s no Yu Sheng!”
Fan Jie was the first to speak up.
“…You really were our classmate…” Jiang Tuan caught sight of Pei Hengyun in the corner.
Yet the more things unfolded like this, the less he could make sense of it deep down.
Why had Yu Sheng forged their memories and used Pei Hengyun’s existence to erase and replace Cen Yu?
Although he was thoroughly baffled, Pei Hengyun and He Yongning, who overheard his query, both fell silent… because both of them understood Yu Sheng’s line of thinking all too well.
Because he didn’t want anyone else knowing or remembering Cen Yu.
Whether it was Pei Hengyun, He Yongning, or Jiang Tuan, every single one of them had harbored subtle feelings for Cen Yu at some point, and precisely because of that, they were eyesores to him.
It was better to make Cen Yu disappear from everyone’s memories altogether…
Because Pei Hengyun was already dead, he still remembered Cen Yu, yet in his memory, Yu Sheng existed as the class monitor as well.
In his memory, he was the Pei Hengyun who had died during their sophomore year of high school.
However, because he had been exceedingly lucky, he had slowly gained a solid physical form after becoming a ghost, allowing him to meet Cen Yu in college.
Even though Cen Yu no longer remembered him, it didn’t matter.
He knew that the only person he had ever wanted to find—and the only person he had ever wanted to stay beside—was Cen Yu alone.
“…So how did you die?” Cen Yu looked at Pei Hengyun.
Hearing Pei Hengyun directly asked about the cause of his own death, Fan Jie trembled in fear beside them, terrified that Cen Yu’s question might trigger Pei Hengyun into going full villain.
To his surprise, Pei Hengyun remained remarkably serene.
“I had bad luck,” Pei Hengyun said softly. “I ran into a mudslide…”
He offered a faint smile. “It was during the summer break of our sophomore year, right before school was about to start.”
He remembered how much Cen Yu loved coming over to his house to hang out back then, which was why Cen Yu had pasted quite a few basketball star posters—ones he had bought but couldn’t put up at his own place—all over his bedroom walls.
Cen Yu looked toward He Yongning and Jiang Tuan. He felt he could roughly guess what wish “Cen Yu” had made back then… Yet that four-corner game clearly required four people…
After pondering for a long time, he finally thought of a potential candidate.
Yan Feiluan…
However, Cen Yu suspected that Yan Feiluan must have grown suspicious of Yu Sheng during their subsequent interactions, which was why he had gone to Pei Hengyun’s old house to search for clues in the first place.
Only to be set up by Yu Sheng once again.
Yu Sheng had placed this group photo inside his office drawer. It was entirely possible that Yan Feiluan had already seen this photo before they gathered for the reunion, confirming that his own memory had been tampered with and that this Teacher Yu he had been interacting with wasn’t human from beginning to end.
That was why he had looked so surprised when he saw Cen Yu at the farmhouse restaurant.
And why his heart had been consumed by terror whenever the topic of ghosts and spirits was brought up.
As Cen Yu pondered, he turned to ask Pei Hengyun, “So was that really your house?”
He had originally thought that after everything was swapped, that place might actually be Cen Yu’s home… Seeing Pei Hengyun nod, a fresh doubt sprouted in his mind. In that case, where was Cen Yu’s house?
“Do you guys know…” Cen Yu looked at the group. “…where my house is?”
He knew the question sounded somewhat hilarious, yet it was the crucial key to the whole puzzle.
What about Cen Yu?
Where was the home of Cen Yu, whose very existence had been deliberately erased by Yu Sheng?
He Yongning glanced toward the teaching building. “It should be in the archives room.” He looked at Jiang Tuan. “In our enrollment files back then, everyone’s home address should be listed.”
Just like Cen Yu himself, none of them could recall where Cen Yu’s home was. Even Pei Hengyun, who was a ghost, had zero recollection in his mind when he tried to think about it.
It was as if Cen Yu’s home had never existed at all.
“No, that’s not right…” Jiang Tuan frowned.
As the village chief’s son, he actually possessed a basic understanding of the village residents.
Even if Yu Sheng had intentionally erased Cen Yu’s existence, the village records still tracked specific households and general addresses for anyone with the surname Cen…
After racking his brain for a long time, he finally turned to Cen Yu and said uncertainly,
“…I remember our old school security guard used to be named Cen, right?”
“It’s just that he passed away not long after we graduated.”
His gaze shifted toward the security guard post at the school gate. “I remember back then… Old Cen seemed to live right inside the security guard post.”
