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.
I feel like this Ke guy is somehow connected to the death of his parents… that would explain Grandma’s demeanor towards Mingxia and his ex
My thoughts exactly. I know it’s unlikely the case in this novel, but in theory his grandma could’ve just been homophobic in both worlds and he just never knew it in his world!
But here of course the problem is most likely in this guy Ke
Even without the possible horor plot brewing in background, this scene is totally in line in reality esp if cishet guys transmigrated into out and proud gay body
Okay so pei yuan or this ke guy are going to be the ultimate bridge for our main characters
i think theres gotta be smth wrong w this Ke guy. feels like thats gonna come back up