Chapter 78: Bai Yu in the Past
Ling Xiaoli suddenly remembered the only Weibo post she had seen when she searched through the original owner’s phone:
“What can dispel sorrow? Only Du Kang.”
Her throat suddenly felt as though something were stuck in it, and an unbearable sadness welled up inside her.
She shook her head.
“No more.”
“That’s good.”
Bai Yu looked at the cold and distant Ling Xiaoli, yet smiled with genuine relief.
“Your whole spirit and energy are completely different now. I’m really happy to see you pull yourself together.”
Hearing this, Ling Xiaoli’s brain suddenly short-circuited.
“What about you?”
The moment the words left her mouth, she wanted to smack herself.
No, she wanted to complain about the original owner.
You’re already dead, and now you suddenly throw a question like this at me? How am I supposed to deal with this?
How would I know what happened to Mr. Bai in the past?
Bai Yu seemed not to have expected Ling Xiaoli to ask that.
He froze for a moment before smiling.
“I’m quite satisfied with my life now. There’s nothing to pull myself together about.”
Ling Xiaoli waited for a moment, but the lingering trace of the original owner’s soul remained completely silent.
Hey, wait! At least let me know what exactly happened to Bai Yu in the past! Why do you think the current Bai Yu hasn’t pulled himself together?
Unfortunately, her brain had chosen this exact moment to stop malfunctioning.
Ling Xiaoli could only say,
“Okay.”
Bai Yu sighed with emotion.
“I listened to your song. I didn’t expect you to have this kind of talent. It’s really quite good.”
His tone sounded like an elder praising a younger person.
It was strange.
Bai Yu clearly looked only twenty-five or twenty-six years old, and at most, he couldn’t be more than thirty.
So how did he have such a weathered air about him?
Even stranger, Ling Xiaoli somehow didn’t find it incongruous at all.
It was as though he was simply supposed to be this way.
Ling Xiaoli nodded randomly, too embarrassed to respond, and continued eating her spicy numbing bullfrog.
Seeing this, Bai Yu smiled.
“I’ll go out and take a look around. Call me if you need anything.”
The moment Bai Yu left, Ling Xiaoli immediately planned to slip away as well.
For some reason, talking to this man made her feel an enormous amount of pressure.
It was probably because, as a fake replacement, she didn’t have enough confidence…
Zhou Yan?
She could face a scumbag like him with complete justification.
Keke?
There was an innate sense of familiarity between them, along with the original owner’s memories to back her up, so of course she wasn’t afraid.
But Bai Yu was like an elder who genuinely cared about her.
He even knew things that Keke didn’t know.
Ling Xiaoli hadn’t dared say much throughout the entire conversation, afraid that she might say something wrong.
Listening to the faint sound of Bai Yu chatting with the other customers outside, Ling Xiaoli reluctantly put down her chopsticks, quietly avoided the table, and slipped out.
After leaving, she didn’t forget to send him a WeChat message to let him know.
—Ling Xiaoli: Something came up unexpectedly, so I left first. See you another day.
………
When Bai Yu saw the message, he excused himself from the people at his table and returned to the private booth in the far corner.
But all he saw was the remaining bullfrog on the table.
He let out a soft laugh and replied:
—Bai: Okay. Come by whenever you’re free. You’re always welcome.
………
Sitting in the taxi, Ling Xiaoli immediately opened the browser on her phone and searched for Bai Yu’s name.
She had a feeling that this Bai Yu was no ordinary person.
She just didn’t know which character was used for the “Yu” in his name, so she searched every third-tone yu she could think of: 雨, 宇, 羽, 禹, and so on.
Yet she found nothing.
Just as Ling Xiaoli was about to give up, a possibility suddenly occurred to her.
She changed the search terms.
“What celebrities have the surname Bai?”
The first result on the encyclopedia page was a gallery of photos.
Ling Xiaoli opened the pages featuring the male celebrities one by one, comparing their appearances with her memory of Bai Yu.
And wouldn’t you know it!
On the third page, she actually found someone who looked somewhat similar!
Bai Ziyu!
Calling them similar was actually a bit of a stretch.
The main thing was that his name also contained a yu, although it wasn’t the third tone.
In the encyclopedia photo, the young man had short, slightly unruly hair and a spirited, heroic appearance.
His smile was exceptionally bright.