Chapter 146 - Past (1/2)

Su Min was pretty certain that this child was Chen Su.

If that was the case, then could he think of this movie as Chen Su’s way of telling him about their history?

The only one who had an association with Chen Su was Xiao Su.

So the relationship between him and Xiao Su could be inferred. They are likely the same person.

Su Min carefully recalled his appearance when he was a child. In fact, he could remember it very clearly. That was probably why he felt that Xiao Su looked familiar when he saw him.

As the child hugged him, the cold sensation could still be felt through the clothes.

An unknown amount of time passed before the other party let go. He then lowered his head, and didn’t talk. That appearance of his looked a little pitiful.

Su Min squatted down and looked at him, “Why don’t you speak?”

Young Chen Su raised his eyes and looked at him.

Su Min asked: “Do you know who I am?”

Young Chen Su shook his head, then nodded, and finally shook his head again. Those three movements made it hard for him to tell whether he remembered or not.

Su Min laughed. He glanced at the run-down cabin, “You can leave this place now. Let’s go. You probably don’t want to stay here any longer, right?”

Young Chen Su whispered: “Don’t want.”

Su Min nodded. He had expected that answer. He didn’t know who it was that locked him there, but his first task was to take him away from this place.

He didn’t know what had happened to Chen Su in the past but since it is right now happening right in front of him, he wouldn’t let anything happen to him again.

Su Min brought young Chen Su back to his place.

When the two returned, his aunt was cooking in the kitchen. Hearing their sounds, she looked up: “You’re back.”

Su Min replied: “Yeah.”

Young Chen Su was led upstairs.

The following events were rather unsurprising. Young Chen Su stayed at his place while Xiao Su was watched over by second aunt and the others.

Su Min bought young Chen Su over to sleep.

As a ghost, he didn’t need to sleep but he liked to lie in the same bed as him and watch Su Min fall asleep.

He would only pretend to be asleep the next day.

Su Min didn’t know of this behaviour of his, nor did he suspect it.

The days went on like this. This continued until his aunt noticed that something wasn’t right so Su Min decided to tell her directly.

Surprisingly, his aunt didn’t mind. She even asked what young Chen Su looked like and how old he is.

It made Su Min a little shocked.

When Su Min saw Xiao Su again, he had become more cheerful. Carrying a schoolbag, he was heading home with his classmates.

Su Min shouted out: “Xiao Su.”

Xiao Su bounded over, “Brother.”

“Are you coming home from school now?” Su Min glanced at young Chen Su who was standing in the living room. He asked: “Do you still remember your friend from the old wooden cabin?”

Xiao Su had a blank look, “Wooden cabin? Who?”

Su Min persisted: “You don’t remember?”

Xiao Su said: “I don’t know.”

Su Min finally realised that something wasn’t right.

He watched Xiao Su leave. Carrying his schoolbag, he went back home as usual like a good child. This scene however made a chill run down his back.

Su Min returned to his room and looked through his window at the wooden cabin in the distance, but he didn’t see anything. At some unknown point in time, the wooden cabin had been demolished.

He didn’t notice it at all.

Su Min frowned. He eventually tied the bells and red threads to a rock and threw it into the river. There, it would no longer be able to do anything to anyone.

As for Chen Su, he believed that nothing would happen to him anymore.

At night, Su Min slept with young Chen Su. Thinking of his grown up self, he couldn’t help but wonder: “When will you grow up?”

As far as he knows ghosts don’t grow up.

Young Chen Su hugged him and said: “I don’t know.”

Su Min rubbed his head and sighed. He felt that it would be okay if he couldn’t grow up. He would be happy taking care of him for a lifetime.

Su Min stood outside in the courtyard.

The sun was setting. He was no longer in bed and the young Chen Su in his arms had also disappeared.

This place was a very familiar place. It was where he had lived as a child.

When he was in elementary school, he had attended school here and was cared for by his grandmother. This was the place he lived in and the surrounding neighbourhood was also very familiar.

The garden downstairs consisted of flowers planted by his family.

Everything seemed to be the same as the small village earlier. Almost everything corresponded.

As a bystander, Su Min looked over at Xiao Su’s parents. His parents couldn’t accept the fact that he could see ghosts.

In fact, they were his parents.

Su Min finally understood why his grandmother said she had never seen Xiao Su.

It was because he had never appeared before them. As long as he could see Xiao Su and he told his grandmother about it, his grandmother would know about Xiao Su.

The grandmother in Su Min’s memory was very understanding. If he really could see ghosts, his grandmother would believe in him.

So that made perfect sense.

His house in reality no longer looked like the one Su Min lived in as a child.

As the house in his memory overlapped with the house in the movie, Su Min’s breathing gradually eased. He pushed open the door.

There was no elevator in this house.

Su Min walked up the old-fashioned staircase. The house depicted in the movie was the house Chen Su saw that year, so it was relatively new.