Afterlife Department

Chapter 421 – Night Visit

The night ended with all the guests returning to their respective rooms with being more cautious while the servants took lord Xu's corpse away. After all, it's already late in the night and they need to rest. Furthermore, there's a dangerous supernatural that is lurking in the dark and is waiting to pounce on them and kill them. 

But, the grim reapers naturally are wide awake. They 

"Pei Tingming is definitely hiding something." Shi Jiu spoke as he sat on Jiu Ye's bed. 

Yes. They are in Jiu Ye's room again, making it their meeting room.

"Or, is it Pei Tinghe who should be hiding something?" Huo Ling suddenly spoke. 

They all looked at each other. Their gazes speaking. 

"That's why the Pei family, especially Pei Tingming who is the current head, is hiding this matter." Shi Jiu spoke. 

Huo Ling nodded in agreement and turned to Yi Bing. 

Yi Bing saw his gaze and nodded in understanding. "We will execute our plans tomorrow." He said. 

"Yes." Huo Ling and Shi Jiu answered. 

"Jiu Ye." Yi Bing called as he turned. 

"Yes?" Jiu Ye answered, fixing his bed. 

"After you deal with Pei Li, you tail that priestess." Yi Bing spoke. "See if she made some discoveries or found some clues." He told him. 

They will use this to their advantage. If someone wants to help, then why would they refuse to take it? 

"Yes." Jiu Ye answered. 

"Speaking of Pei Li – " Shi Jiu spoke when he remembered something. 

The others also realized it. "Mini Anji Li!" they said. 

Yi Bing immediately tapped on his jade ring and the holographic screen appeared. He pressed some icons until the room of Pei Li appeared on the screen, which is currently being recorded by mini Anji Li. At first, they thought that they would see only Pei Li, who should be sleeping now, and then the nanny. Who knew that tonight, there's suddenly a change. 

Pei Li and the nanny are still sleeping. But, they saw that there is an extra person in the room. 

"What – " they muttered when they saw it. 

"What is Pei Ru doing there?" Shi Jiu asked when they saw Pei Ru was lied down beside Pei Li on the bed. Then, he paused when he remembered something. "Right. Pei Li is her younger sister. Pei Ru has been far away after she left the Pei family to be married and never came back. She must have missed her younger sister…" He said, then frowned. A vein is throbbing on his forehead. "Heck! This definitely isn't it!" he said, unconvinced by his words. "She has already greeted her younger sister earlier. And, for her to leave them like that before, her family clearly doesn't have that much weight in her heart! Furthermore – " he took a deep breath. " – even if she really visited Pei Li at night to bond, but Pei Li is now asleep. So, why should she go here at this hour to bond?! She clearly has other motives!" he told them. 

The others didn't speak. They also have doubts in their hearts. Since Shi Jiu already spoke it all for them, they turned back to the holographic screen showing Pei Li's room and started watching. 

Since it's night, when they saw Pei Ru in Pei Li's room, at first, they thought that Pei Ru would also just sleep since Pei Li was already asleep. Even if Pei Ru came to chat with the nanny, but the nanny is also asleep. Furthermore, what can she chat about with the nanny? She is the master and the other is just a servant. So, they weren't expecting anything and are planning to rest to prepare for their tomorrow's plan after watching the recording of Pei Li's room. 

But, there is something that really happened. 

"Pei Tingming, that bastard." She gnashed her teeth in anger after she lied down the bed and covered herself with the quilt. "He will definitely make some trouble for me again!" she muttered in irritation. She turned to Pei Li, paused for a while, then lowered her head to kiss her cheek before she turned to look at the sleeping nanny. "He ma. He ma." She called in a low voice. 

In order to prevent Pei Li in case the little girl would suddenly wake up in the middle of the night and go out because of sleepwalking, the Pei family found her a nanny who is a light sleeper. It turned out to be a good choice since it can be used to the current situation where no one should go out at night since they will be killed. 

He ma woke up. "Eldest young miss. Is something the matter?" she asked Pei Ru. 

Among the female descendants in the Pei family, Pei Ru is the eldest, followed by Pei Tingting, and the youngest is Pei Li. Because Pei Tingming didn't have a daughter with his legal wife Sun Ri, this made him like Li Hua more. He also wanted to dote on a daughter, so when Pei Tingting was born, he was overjoyed and treasured her so much. 

So, it isn't a wonder how Pei Tingting grew up being spoiled. She was spoiled to death by Pei Tingming and Li Hua. 

"I…" Pei Ru muttered. She fell silent. 

Pei Li's nanny thought she wouldn't speak and have fallen asleep. She was about to go back to sleep when she heard Pei Ru spoke. 

"Do you know what happened to the girl that Pei Tinghe fell in love with?" Pei Ru asked. 

She remembered that before she got married, the family is having a discussion… more like an argument, because Pei Tinghe wanted to marry an orphaned common girl. She has remembered this because the girl is in a similar situation like Li Hua and Li Hua was saying that love doesn't differentiate people because of status, etc. Sun Ri dissed her for this saying that love also shouldn't be compared especially if the problem lies with the personality of the people and not their status. 

She secretly laughed because the Pei grandparents are obviously objecting to Pei Tinghe, and is indirectly dissing Li Hua because they really cared about status and doesn't want for a second Li Hua in the family. 

"… huh?" Han ma muttered, feeling sleepy. Her mind is in a haze so she can't clearly understand what Pei Ru is trying to say. "Eldest young miss…" she called while rubbing her eyes. Her voice is thick with sleepiness. 

Pei Ru saw that Han ma really feels sleepy. Instead of feeling remorse from waking her up, on the contrary, it was her intention to ask her while she feel sleepy. This is in order to make her confess. A sleepy person would be honest to the person who is asking them since they will feel irritated because they wanted to sleep. In order to shoo them away, they would rashly answer their question out of irritation. 

But, they might also give a perfunctory answer or that can't understand you because they are very sleepy their mind can't properly function, resulting to not able to process your words. 

"Never mind." Pei Ru spoke and then fell asleep. 

She remembered the girl since Pei Tinghe has said that he has promised her before to marry her. Maybe that girl was still waiting for Pei Tinghe. But, she didn't know that Pei Tinghe actually never cared much for her since what she proposed to the Pei family is to marry her as a concubine. But, the Pei grandparents still rejected his request, since not only will it lower their family's standards, but that girl might really become the second monster Li Hua. 

What an unfortunate girl, falling for a man like Pei Tinghe. 

"Huh? Ah, okay?" He ma muttered before she returned to sleep. 

Pei Li's room descended into a silence once again. But, Jiu Ye's room didn't since Pei Ru's words is like a bomb being set off to them. 

"A girl… who is Pei Tinghe's crush?" Shi Jiu asked. 

Yi Bing thought about it. "This must have happened when Pei Tinghe was still a teenager. Many years have already passed. It doesn't matter now who was his crush before." He said. "Let's go and rest. We have work tomorrow." He told them. 

"Okay!" they answered, then went back to their respective rooms. 

Morning, dining hall. 

Jiu Ye was the first one to move among them four. After all, they are still in the Pei mansion so Yi Bing, Huo Ling and Shi Jiu can't execute yet their plan and should wait for the opportunity to arrive. They can't let the Pei family notice their plan. 

"Eldest young miss… what were you speaking about last night?" they heard Han ma asked Pei Ru while eating. "I'm sorry I was too sleepy so I can't understand you clearly…" she said. 

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Pei Ru asked. "I didn't say anything last night. I was asleep." She said.