Being together with “Ke”, marrying abroad, registration book…

Although Grandma Ji’s words are short, the amount of information was huge.

This boy surnamed Ke, could it be the original owner’s ex-boyfriend?

Until now, Ji Mingxia didn’t know who the original owner’s ex-boyfriend was, what their name was nor how he looked.

But through Pei Yuan and Grandma Ji’s reactions, the original owner was worthy of the title “love mentor”. His past was filled with the shadow of that ex-boyfriend.

Love was obviously a very important thing in his life.

Unfortunately, whether it was Pei Yuan or Grandma Ji, they did not approve of the original owner’s love.

Ji Mingxia did not dare to discuss with Grandma Ji about the original owner’s past, but a simple clearing of a misunderstanding was fine.

Seeing that Grandma Ji still looked disgusted, Ji Mingxia denied: “I didn’t want to take the registration book, nor did I intend to get married abroad. I went upstairs …… simply to clean up, don’t misunderstand.”

Grandma Ji was getting ready for a thunderstorm and a fight the moment he opened his mouth. She straightened her back and was ready to sneer back, only to be stunned by Ji Mingxia’s explanation.

Ji Mingxia was looking at her frankly, and Grandma Ji froze for a moment.  She quickly came back to her senses, still unable to believe Ji Mingxia.

Grandma Ji said, “If you didn’t conspire together with that boy surnamed Ke, why would you be so good today and sit here obediently to eat with me?”

Ji Mingxia was shocked. So coming by home to sit down and eat was not normal? The original owner didn’t eat with his grandmother?

Grandma Ji then looked around.

Their home was not messy, except that she was old and it was inevitable that some places couldn’t be cleaned.

Ji Mingxia came back and properly tidied it up, and although there weren’t so many changes, the whole home suddenly looked a lot brighter and tidier.

She was touched, but when she thought of what Ji Mingxia had done for the boy surnamed Ke, she couldn’t help but feel an indescribable anger start in her heart.

“Would you do this if you hadn’t done something unspeakable?” Grandma Ji said, “Your phone was turned off for several days. Why else would you switch it off if not for fear of being discovered that you were abroad?”

Ji Mingxia was very confused as he faced Grandma Ji’s repeated questions.

The Grandma Ji of his world was gentle and open-minded. Even when he was young and at the most naughty and mischievous age, Grandma Ji never sank her face and questioned him so seriously.

When he grew up and occasionally did something wrong, she would only scold him in a few sentences, but never reprimanded after it was over.

She usually spoke slowly, as if she would never be in a hurry even if the sky was falling.

But the Grandma Ji before him and the one in Ji Mingxia’s memory were completely different.

He already had a guilty conscience after taking over this body, and was now feeling more at a loss in the face of such a grandma Ji.

But he knew that Grandma Ji misunderstood, so he couldn’t let the misunderstanding go unsolved.

Under the oppression of Grandma Ji’s majestic gaze, Ji Mingxia bit the bullet and said: “I did not go abroad. I really went to Quanzhuang hotel on vacation with my roommates. Our entire dormitory went together, and we returned together. You know Zhao Zhouye, Chen Zhen and the others… “

Ji Mingxia continued: “My phone was off because the signal was bad and because the phone was completely unusable, I forgot to look at it. When I remembered later, I immediately turned on the phone to call you.”

He secretly raised his eyes to look at Grandma Ji, and saw that she was still looking at him with a cold face.

After all, it was unbelievable that a young man of Ji Mingxia’s age had somehow turned his phone off for many days and then said that he simply forgot to look at it.

Ji Mingxia couldn’t tell Grandma Ji what happened in the forest, and he couldn’t explain why the phone was turned off, so he had to start elsewhere.

Ji Mingxia added: “If I really wanted to lie to you, I could still make phone calls abroad. I could talk to you every day and you wouldn’t know whether I was in China or abroad. It would be useless to turn off the phone to make it obvious.”

Grandma Ji listened and was a little relaxed on hearing Ji Mingxia’s words, but she still looked at him suspiciously. Her eyes drifted to the ring on his hand from time to time.

Ji Mingxia saw that Grandma Ji was very concerned about the ring and he couldn’t help but try to take it off secretly.

But as expected, the ring was still firmly attached to his finger. It didn’t move at all, nor could it be taken off.

Seeing that he couldn’t take off the ring, Ji Mingxia could only say to his grandmother, “This ring was given to me by my classmate. He was leaving for the capital and he gave it to me as a souvenir before he left. I just wore it casually and it has no other meaning.”

“Grandma, if I really lied to you, would I turn off my cell phone, then come back wearing the ring and wave it around in front of you? What would I gain from that?” Ji Mingxia said.

“Tsk, perhaps you are trying to tell me that you and that boy surnamed Ke are together.” Grandma Ji picked up, “You wanted to show off in front of me and wanted to be anger me, an old woman.”

Ji Mingxia was blocked by Grandma Ji’s words and almost choked.

He never thought that the original owner had such an image in Grandma Ji’s mind!

No wonder Grandma Ji felt that he was being suspicious when he came back and tidied up the house.

Even sitting down and eating were unusual acts.

But when he thought about it, it was this kind of rigid relationship that caused Grandma Ji to react so coldly when she saw her long-lost grandson coming home.

She cooked for him, but her face did not show any welcome. That was the root cause.

Ji Mingxia understood too late, and he had already acted abnormally in front of Grandma Ji, so he couldn’t remedy the situation anymore.

The original owner showed the same personality as him at school, but he was completely different when at home.

Even if Ji Mingxia knew how the original owner got along with Grandma Ji, he could not go against his heart and make a big trouble with Grandma Ji.

He respected Grandma Ji from the bottom of his heart, even if this Grandma Ji was not the old woman he spent time with, he could feel the love for her grandson from her strict face.

Anyway, the flaws had already been revealed, it was better to first solve the misunderstanding before him.Ji Mingxia said: “I wouldn’t need to rush upstairs to find the household registration book while you are cooking. Foreign same-sex marriages are registered with passports. Our household registration books and ID cards cannot be used abroad.”

Thanks to the danmei novels he used to read, Ji Mingxia had a little understanding of same-sex marriages.

Grandma Ji had begun to waver after hearing Ji Mingxia’s words.

After all, Ji Mingxia’s explanation made sense logically speaking.

However, her long-standing impression of Ji Mingxia still made her not quite at ease, and she looked at Ji Mingxia with suspicion, “Is what you say true?”

“Of course it is true. Even if you don’t believe me, you have to trust your phone. The check-in situation in the hotel is recorded on the app, not only me, but also many of my classmates were with me. How could I care about love with so many friends with me.” Ji Mingxia said the last sentence with guilt as he thought of his couple’s room with Yu Ning.

But the app records showed he stayed in an ordinary double room with Yu Ning, and not the one surnamed Ke.

In order to make Grandma Ji believe what he said, Ji Mingxia immediately put the phone in front of Grandma Ji.

Grandma Ji looked at the phone, and then down at the phone. At this moment, the screen showed a record of Ji Mingxia’s stay at Quanzhuang hotel.

Seeing Ji Mingxia obediently sitting before her and waiting for her answer, Grandma Ji couldn’t help but reach out her hand and scroll down a bit even though she didn’t want to invade Ji Mingxia’s privacy.

The names of Zhao Zhouye, Chen Zhen and others, indeed, appeared one by one.

Grandma Ji looked at Ji Mingxia’s roommates’ names that were recorded side by side with Ji Mingxia and she was stunned. Her hand accidentally shook, and somehow, she jumped out of the app and went back to the last opened app on the phone.

The last app on Ji Mingxia’s phone was the call app and the call log was on display.

Grandma Ji had read the hotel check-in records and didn’t intend to read more, but the call log page suddenly popped up. The black characters on a white background were particularly eye-catching and Grandma Ji unconsciously glanced at it.

Ji Mingxia had called a lot of people, there was her number, there was Zhao Zhouye, Chen Zhen, Bao Guangyuan, and so on. There were all kinds of names but she did not see the boy surnamed Ke.

The time on the call page was clear, so there was no possibility of forgery.

Ji Mingxia was telling the truth and she had misunderstood him.

Grandma Ji breathed a sigh of relief but she was extraordinarily surprised.

If Ji Mingxia was telling the truth, then the situation was filled with circumstances that she could not understand.

Because of her objection to Ji Mingxia and that Ke, the relationship between the two of them was very bad over the years. Now her grandson, who had always been disobedient, suddenly changed his nature.

As soon as he came home, he helped her carry dishes, did housework, and almost cooked……

When eating, he obediently sat across from her; when questioned, not only did he not shout and quarrel, but patiently explained everything…

If it were not for the fact that it was daytime and this teenager in front of her looked and sounded just like her grandson, Grandma Ji would simply have suspected that this Ji Mingxia was a fake.

Thinking like this, Grandma Ji suddenly noticed the top of the call page.

In the list of call records, Ji Mingxia’s most recent call was to a person named “Yu Ning”.

Yu Ning (9)

Ji Mingxia called Yu Ning nine times, and Yu Ning didn’t answer any of them?

Grandma Ji noticed this detail, and raised her head and found that Ji Mingxia was still looking at her expectantly. Grandma Ji looked embarrassed and she handed the phone back to Ji Mingxia.

“I’m sorry, it’s me who misunderstood you.” Grandma Ji said.

Her face was pale and her voice had the hoarseness of an old woman. Her expression was sharp when questioning him and when she apologized, she also looked serious and very earnest.

Ji Mingxia did not expect Grandma Ji to apologize so solemnly. He hurriedly waved his hand and said, “It’s also my fault, you made so many calls and I did not receive any of them ……I will definitely pay attention next time.”

Grandma Ji listened to Ji Mingxia’s assurance, took a deeper look at Ji Mingxia with a belly full of doubts but l finally nodded her head.

Ji Mingxia naturally saw that Grandma Ji was looking at him with suspicion but the matter had come to this and he could only go with the flow.

Grandma Ji was a character outside the original book and a relative of his, so he was very apprehensive that she’d see through him. But now that he had met her, he found that things were a little better off than he thought.

Even if he knew that Grandma Ji was suspicious of him, he pretended not to see it.

There wasn’t a second Ji Mingxia in this world anyway.

Thinking like this, Ji Mingxia’s eyes finally stopped on Grandma Ji’s gray hair.

What he wanted to understand now was the issue of Grandma Ji’s age.

Grandma Ji was suspicious of the current Ji Mingxia, and Ji Mingxia didn’t know how to get along with Grandma Ji, so the two spent the day with this weird atmosphere.

At night, Ji Mingxia lay in his bed and could not help but open his address book once again, hesitating on whether to call Yu Ning or not.

Just when Ji Mingxia was hesitating, the loud ring of a doorbell came from the courtyard.

Because the house covered a large area, Grandma Ji installed a doorbell on the iron gate of the courtyard, so that when someone visits and rings the doorbell, the person inside the house would know.

Ji Mingxia often lived with his grandmother, so he was naturally very familiar with the doorbell.

But at this moment, the ringing of the bell made Ji Mingxia uncomfortable.

Although the sound was the same as he remembered, it sounded extraordinarily loud and harsh to his ears.

Ji Mingxia looked at the time. It was already past 10 p.m.

For people in the city, 10 pm was the start of nightlife, but for people in the village, this was time for people to go to bed.

For example, his grandmother had already gone to her room at 8 p.m to lie down and sleep.

The doorbell was still ringing and the person ringing it seemed anxious. He pressed the button repeatedly, causing the bell to ring so rapidly that it could not be ignored.

Ji Mingxia hurriedly got up from the bed, pulled open the curtains and peeked out.

The dark sky enveloped the entire village. Except for the street lights, there were no residential buildings lit up.

Looking around, whether it was the street outside, or the residential buildings, everywhere was quiet and not disturbed by the slightest sound.

Except for the ringing doorbell at Ji Mingxia’s house.

Ji Mingxia looked in the direction of the door. The courtyard was designed not only for safety, but also for the convenience of daily life, so the courtyard wall and the gate were roofed.

At the moment, the location outside the gate was blocked by the roof, and from Ji Mingxia’s point of view, it was impossible to see what the person ringing the bell looked like.

Ji Mingxia had no choice but to ask: “Who is ringing the bell?”

There was a pause for a moment, and then, immediately after, the bell rang again mechanically, with no one answering the whole time.

Perhaps it was his illusion, but Ji Mingxia felt as if the whole village became even quieter after his shout.

The bell was so loud that Ji Mingxia had to come out of his room and quickly walk downstairs in order to prevent Grandma Ji and the neighbors from being woken up,

Ji Mingxia hurriedly turned on all the lights as he walked through the corridor.

The lights were all switched on and the whole house was bright, immediately dispersing the gloom of darkness.

Hearing the doorbell still ringing, Ji Mingxia wore his slippers and walked outside while saying, “Coming, coming.”

He hoped that the person ringing the bell would hear his voice and not continue to ring.

But the person outside the courtyard turned a deaf ear. Not only did they not stop, but they pressed even more urgently.

The gate to Grandma Ji’s house was a half-hollowed iron gate. It had an impermeable iron plate in the middle and hollowed out at the top and bottom in a very common country gate style.

Ji Mingxia got out of the house and walked towards the gate. The street lights were still on outside and everything in the yard was clear.

Ji Mingxia could only see a dark shadow through the hollow part below the iron gate, and could not see the feet of the person.

‘It should be the shadow cast on the ground after the street lamp shines on the person.’

The doorbell was still ringing wildly. Ji Mingxia was affected by the noise and he was a little impatient, only wishing for the ringing to stop quickly.

He hurriedly put his hand on the gate but just when he was about to turn the lock to open the gate, he suddenly noticed that the blood red ring on his ring finger was glowing faintly.

Ji Mingxia froze for a moment and instinctively retracted his hand, not touching the lock again.

He looked at the iron gate in front of him, and then looked at the black shadow on the ground.

At this moment, Ji Mingxia and the person outside the gate were only a gate apart.

The street light was shining down from the top left, and his shadow fell to his right. Every detail of his body was clear in the shadow.

But the person’s shadow outside the gate was a blur. It was just a dark mass and it was completely indistinguishable.

The doorbell was still ringing, and the person outside the gate seemed very anxious when he saw that Ji Minxia was not opening the door.

Not only did he frantically press the doorbell, but even the lock was constantly shaking.

The sound of the bell became more frantic. Ji Mingxia looked back at the black shadow and he unconsciously took a step back.

At this point, he suddenly saw the doorbell screen hanging on the wall.

Grandma Ji’s house was installed with a smart doorbell with two monitoring devices. One was in Grandma Ji’s bedroom as it made it more convenient for her to receive guests as she rested. After all, Grandma Ji was old, her hands and feet were not nimble so she could just open the gabe from her room; the other one was by the gate and was for daily use.

Ji Mingxia was so disturbed by the doorbell that he was about to open the gate out of habit. It was only now, after seeing the screen, that he remembered the intercom also had a monitoring function.

Ji Mingxia stretched out his hand and gently pressed the “camera on” button under the monitor.

The screen lit up, and the camera outside the gate was immediately activated. It aimed at the courtyard gate to take a clear shot.

The doorbell was still ringing, the knocking on the gate was still so noisy, and the black shadow was still outside the gate.

However, on the monitor screen, the gate to Grandma Ji’s house was empty. There was nothing.