My Late Ex-boyfriend Pestered Me on WeChat

The First Mission to Save A Life

Lin Ranyi put down her phone and dealt with a few tasks absent-mindedly. From time to time, she picked her phone back up again and looked at it. In a blink of an eye, it was almost lunch when Li Songyang sent another message, "Let's have lunch together."

Lin Ranyi didn't answer, but sent a message to Young Master Xu, explaining that she needed to work overtime due to temporary work arrangements, so she couldn't have dinner with him in the evening, and told him she was sorry.

He quickly replied to her message and said it was okay, just make another date next time, and asked her not to work too hard and to pay more attention to her health.

After reading this spring breeze reply, Lin Ranyi really wanted to show Li Songyang how a considerate gentleman treated a girl.

After letting the rich boy off with a guilty conscience, Lin Ranyi asked half a day off from work to her chief editor, picked up her bag and prepared to go home to calm her little abused heart. When she walked to the lobby on the first floor of the TV station, she met Gao Hong who just returned from a field trip.

Gao Hong looked at how she was going out carrying her bag and asked what she was going to do. Lin Ranyi said she wasn't feeling well. She asked for leave to go home and stayed there, but Gao Hong came up and asked with a gossipy face, "Is it because someone came back suddenly?"

Lin Ranyi said coldly, "What does he have to do with anything."

After saying this, she left the loby without looking back and went to the parking lot.

When she got home, she cleaned the house without thinking. Just wanted to be numb and busy, so that she could ignore the pot of porridge that was almost boiling in her head, and didn't have to look at her phone every minute to confirm whether Millennium Ghost Baby had sent her a message and whether the world would evaporate. Wiping the floor and the furniture, wiping the furniture and the bathroom, until she couldn't find any dead spots in this small house of 80 square meters. 

She went to the bathroom to take a hot shower, coming out wrapped in a thick bathrobe, sat on the sofa wiping her wet hair while turning on her phone. When she saw the little red dot of unread message on Millennium Ghost Baby's name, she sat up straight immediately and fumbled to click open the unread message.

Millennium Ghost Baby: "Where are you going to have dinner with your suitor tonight?"

Lin Ranyi: "I have to work overtime. No dinner."

Millennium Ghost Baby: "Then let's eat hot pot tonight."

Before Lin Ranyi could reply to him, she heard the doorbell rang. She walked to open the door, Gao Hong stood at the door with a smiling face holding a case of beer, with a flattering smile of having done something bad and eager to please.

"Did you just do something to sorry me?"

Lin Ranyi asked vigilantly while letting her in, and before she could finish her sentence, she saw a tall, handsome figure flashing out from behind Gao Hong's side, carrying two large shopping bags, following Gao Hong in step by step.

When Lin Ranyi could finally react and wanted to stop him outside the door, it was too late. Li Songyang already stood in the foyer. Seeing Lin Ranyi with hair half-wet, wrapped in a fluffy bathrobe showing a section of her pink and white neck, he was stunned for a few seconds. Then gave her a slight narrow smile and walked into the kitchen with two big shopping bags, afraid that Lin Ranyi would sweep him out the door in the next second. He was eager to emphasize that he was a useful talent, so he walked and said: "Let's have hot pot tonight."

The words hadn't yet fallen. The person had already entered the kitchen, closed and locked the door, completed in one single breath without delay, not giving even a little stress reaction time for Lin Ranyi.

Gao Hong laughed like a pimping mother, kicked her shoes and walked into the living room, praising Lin Ranyi for cleaning the house as if no one lived there.

Lin Ranyi restrained the urge to strangle this bitch, ran into the bedroom to change out of the bathrobe, put on home clothes, took out her phone and sent a message to Millennium Ghost Baby.

Lin Ranyi: "How did you know he was coming."

Millennial Ghost Baby: "Of course, the events of my last life are still fresh in my mind. Gao Hong told him in the afternoon that you weren't feeling well and went home to rest. They went to the supermarket to buy the ingredients and came to you that night. So you stood up the rich boy not because you had to work overtime, but because of what?"

Lin Ranyi: "..."

Nasty ghost*—she didn't expect that it really existed. There really was such a thing as a supernatural species of nasty ghosts in this world.

*讨厌鬼—nasty ghost—pest, nuisance

Lin Ranyi: "Did you come back just to tease me? When did it happen to you and how exactly should I help you?"

Millennium Ghost Baby: "Of course, I can't come back just to tease you."

Lin Ranyi: "..."

Millennium Ghost Baby: "Don't be angry, I'll talk properly here. Between tonight and tomorrow after twelve, there will be a person calling Li Songyang. You need to make sure he doesn't pick up that person's call."

Lin Ranyi: "Okay, what's the phone number?"

Millennium Ghost Baby: "It starts with 139 and ends with 456, can't remember much of the middle."

Lin Ranyi: "Okay."

When she came out from the bedroom, Gao Hong had turned on the TV by herself, opening a can of beer and drank. She'd finished half a can of wine before finding out that Lin Ranyi had been busy chatting. She was so curious that she stretched her neck to come over and see.

"Millennium... what?"

Like a frightened grasshopper, Lin Ranyi jumped three feet high while clutching at her mobile phone. Gao Hong really shocked her into a grasshopper jumping up and down.

"Who are you talking to? Why do you look so guilty? Let me see, are you having an affair?"

Gao Hong was trying to grab her phone to see, Lin Ranyi's little heart almost got caught in her throat. She got up in fright and retreated to a safe distance, put her mobile phone into her trousers pocket, threatening Gao Hong: "You're free, aren't you? If your hands feel itchy, go help cook in the kitchen."

Gao Hong raised her eyebrows while holding her shoulders and smiled: "It's you who should go there and cook together, I'll just be a third wheel if I go there."

Lin Ranyi stared at her speechlessly.

She didn't know which medicine this girl took wrong. Lin Ranyi and Li Songyang broke up a year ago, but Gao Hong always refused to face the cold and cruel reality, every now and then wanted to give two people some space to reunite. Even a cupid wasn't as professional as this.

Lin Ranyi glanced at the closed kitchen door, suddenly thought of Millennium Ghost Baby's words: "Between tonight and tomorrow after twelve..."

This might be difficult to execute. Even the first problem was already too hard to beat—did she want to keep Li Songyang here overnight?

She took out her phone in panic and asked, "Hey, at what time did the call come, do you still remember? Can the time frame be more precise?"

Millennium Ghost Baby: "Probably 2 or 3 am, or 3 or 4 am, or maybe 4 or 5 am. After all, it was from my previous life. Also, something uncertain might disrupts the original time trajectory of the event, so to be on the safe side, it's better to stay alert from tonight to noon tomorrow."

Lin Ranyi: "How do I watch him overnight? Do you want him to stay at my house?"

Millennium Ghost Baby: "Why so excited, it's not like he'd never lived there before."

Lin Ranyi: "Now's not like before, we're all broken up."

Millennium Ghost Baby: "One-sided."

Lin Ranyi was more and more convinced that Millennium Ghost Baby was Li Songyang. Yes, only this once had she met such a savage rogue in her life. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but ground her teeth. But then she felt soreness in her nose soon after. What happened to him? Where was he? Was it cold and dark? Could she really help him?

Millennium Ghost Baby: "I take the liberty to ask, is that couch on the balcony still there?"

Lin Ranyi took a look at the balcony sprinkled with molten gold sunset, flower shelves filled with fat succulents next to a semi-circular dark red fabric sofa.

Lin Ranyi: "Still there."

Millennium Ghost Baby: "Say hello to it for me."

Lin Ranyi's gaze fell on that round sofa, suddenly understood what his words meant. Her cheeks felt a little strangely hot.

Once upon a time, in the many nights ablaze with lights, Li Songyang’s slender legs could hardly stretch out in the narrow space of the balcony. He liked to hold her soft and slender waist and watch her sit on top of him, swaying emotionally. The sound of greasy slapping was amplified infinitely in the narrow space of the balcony. The feeling of wanton joy under the night sky was more exciting than stealing love. They both liked to do it there. In the small space, there seemed to be endlessly growing postures. What Lin Ranyi couldn't let go in bed were of no taboo there. It often made Li Songyang look like a bloodthirsty goblin with a pair of narrow peach eyes.

The kitchen door opened when Lin Ranyi was lost in thought. Li Songyang came out with a pot of red and white symmetrical mandarin duck pot base, skilfully plugged in the induction cooker, and ran in and out of the kitchen several times to set up the dishes, while also peeking at Lin Ranyi's face, a big man of more than one meter eighty poking around the house to please Lin Ranyi, but like a little kid waiting for a candy to eat.

As the saying went, you can't beat a smiling man. Besides, this guy just made a rich dinner and almost wagged his tail at her. Even if Lin Ranyi had a heart of stone, she couldn't pull her face and get rid of him now. Not to mention she didn't even have a heart of stone.

Gao Hong didn’t know what was going on, so she bought a whole box of beer. Seeing that the food was on the table, she couldn’t wait to open three bottles of beer. She happily greeted the other two who were poking into the room to sit on the wooden table to eat. Watching her eagerness, she seemed like a child worried about the divorce of her parents. Worried that she'd be either short of father or mother overnight.

Lin Ranyi sighed silently in her heart, sat down and took the beer that Gao Hong handed to her, and sipped a large mouthful.

Li Songyang saw Lin Ranyi's slightly relaxed shoulders, guessing that she probably acquiesced that he could stay for dinner. The corners of his mouth couldn't help but curved a shallow smile. He sat down sideways, took the wine that Gao Hong handed to him, and also drank a large mouthful.

They hadn't ate the hot pot that much, but the box of beer went half dry in a flash. Lin Ranyi couldn't drink too much, thinking about helping Li Songyang intercept the phone call. She only took a sip and never drank again. She always wanted to look at her phone from time to time, afraid that the dead ghost in WeChat would talk to her but she didn't see it in time. She didn't eat much, and neither did she talk much. It looked like she was trying to make it awkward to the end with Li Songyang.

Li Songyang felt that her mood from this morning until now hadn't been very right. Unlike the way she used to be when she was angry and upset, it was more like she had been greatly agitated, or receiving some terror phone calls. Her whole body was in a very tense state, as if she was ready to meet any disaster at any moment.

He was worried about Lin Ranyi, but didn't know what to say to break the thick layer of ice between the two. Separated for a whole year, he didn't realize until today that he seemed to be really too much of a bastard. 

For a year, he ignored and abandoned her. He did said he would leave, why did he think she would wait for him silently in place...