I saw the hollow look on Mu Ge's face. His eyes had gone unfocused, and his body had gradually begun to tremble.
Forget him—even I, an outsider, felt suffocated.
How much time had passed, and already such terrible news?
I instinctively glanced at the clock on the living room wall.
Dealing with Gu Mo had taken a little time, mainly because the elderly Gu couple were so emotional. But after Mu Ge spoke, they gradually calmed down and entrusted Gu Mo entirely to him. Mu Ge handled Gu Mo's situation very simply, basically giving him a command that made the matter temporarily disappear from his consciousness.
For a child, this might have been the best solution.
Gu Mo had not only seen the two people closest to him turn against each other, with one killing the other; he had also realized the difference between Chen Jia and Liu Shengxuan, and become aware that paranormal events existed.
Explaining something like this to a child was extremely difficult. Putting aside Gu Junze and Chen Jia's despicable actions, what made it worse was that, apart from Gu Mo, no one else in the entire Gu family could see ghosts or even understood that they existed. If Gu Mo kept clinging to his beliefs, he might only become another Yu Chuanfeng.
At the time, I thought of my own childhood. If I hadn't forgotten those terrifying experiences, how would my parents and sister see me now? What would I have become?
By contrast, Mu Ai was both unlucky and fortunate. She had Mu Ge, who could guide and protect her.
But now, both father and daughter had realized a cruel truth.
Only the dead could become guardian spirits. When Mu Ai saw her mother appear as a guardian spirit, it meant that her mother