Lin Yuan appeared in a villa in Mountain Stream Garden, which was where he lived when he was alive.
Although he had lived there for less than a month, it was, after all, his property.
After his death, only this place made him feel a sense of familiarity.
It was a pity, though, that he was now a ghost and could no longer enjoy any of it.
A month before his death, a fortune had fallen from the sky and landed on him, and this villa was one of the assets.
His father had gone abroad when he was very young and then lost contact.
Until his mother passed away, there had been no news of his father.
They didn't know if that man had died abroad or had abandoned them, mother and son.
That day, his father found him, and at first, he didn't want to see his so-called father.
After all, he didn't have many impressions of this person.
His only impressions were negative.
He was an irresponsible man who abandoned his wife and son.
His mother had raised him alone, enduring countless hardships, and that man had no connection to him.
He couldn't possibly have any good feelings towards this suddenly appearing father.
But after learning that his father was critically ill and didn't have long to live, he still went to see him.
After all, he was his last living relative in this world, and he was about to pass away.
After meeting his father, he learned about his father's experiences abroad over the years.
Back then, his father had been tricked into going abroad, and once there, he was controlled by local gangs, forced to work illegally, toiling day and night, barely able to keep himself from starving.
In those years, his father had also been very difficult and unable to contact his family.
But such a reason couldn't stir up much sympathy in him.
Because if he were truly a responsible man, he wouldn't have left his wife and son to be tricked into going abroad.
His father's abilities were good, and his luck was also good; after working for a few years, he was noticed by a boss, who kept him by his side to work.
From then on, it took another ten years or so for him to gradually achieve success and accumulate a large fortune.
During this period, his father returned to China to look for them, but by then, Lin Yuan's mother had already passed away, and Lin Yuan had long since moved out of their original residence, living an unsettled life.
Subsequently, his father fell ill, his health deteriorated, and he returned to China to recuperate, continuously searching for Lin Yuan during this time.
A week before his father's death, the father and son finally met.
At that time, looking at his critically ill father, Lin Yuan's mood was very calm.
There was no sadness, nor any hatred.
Because he had always thought that his father had already died.
His father had also married abroad during these years, but his wife and daughter died in a disaster, and apart from Lin Yuan, he had no other relatives.
Therefore, Lin Yuan became his father's sole heir.
Finally, he inexplicably inherited a large fortune, which included cash he couldn't spend in a lifetime, and this villa.
Since his mother passed away when he was in his teens, he had dropped out of school to work, his income was always low, barely enough to make ends meet, and life was quite hard.
Suddenly inheriting money he could never earn in a lifetime of work should have completely changed the trajectory of his original fate.
In fact, it did change it, making him die even earlier.
After handling his father's funeral, he planned a beautiful future.
In this future, he could easily enjoy life, no longer having to do those tedious yet low-paying jobs.
He could do whatever he wanted.
He could also travel the world, visit places where beautiful stories happened, pursue poetry and distant lands, and do things he never dared to imagine before.
In the rest of his life, as long as he didn't seek death to prove himself, he would live a very relaxed and comfortable life.
But unfortunately, fate is so unpredictable.
A car accident took his life.
That money was useless because dead people don't need money, nor can they use it.
He had only inherited the fortune for a month; he hadn't even had the chance to enjoy the changes that money brought to his life before he passed away.
At that time, he had also ordered a Panamera that he had always loved but couldn't afford, but the car hadn't arrived yet, and he was gone.
This is probably the impermanence of fate.
Blessings and misfortunes are intertwined; people never know whether an event is ultimately a blessing or a curse.
Perhaps he and his father were both destined not to have wealth.
After his father became rich, he fell seriously ill, and after he inherited the fortune, he was hit by a car and died.
He was indeed taken away by that ill-gotten gain, because without that money, he wouldn't have been at that place at that time.
When a person dies and the money hasn't been spent, how can there be no resentment?
Perhaps it was this resentment that kept him lingering in this world, turning him into a ghost.
He still vaguely remembered that after his death, his soul floated back home and entered a stone, where it was nourished.
It was a stone he had accidentally picked up when he was little; he didn't know what kind of stone it was, but it was quite pretty, so he kept it.
It was black, about the size of a fist, and its shape was very peculiar.
When he was little, he didn't have many toys, so he treated that stone as a toy.
Because it was a childhood memory, he even took that stone with him through several moves later on.
It was that stone that gave him his current power.
It must be said that this is also a very wonderful coincidence, making one marvel at the wonder of fate.
When he first died, his resentment was still very strong, but now, the longer he was a ghost, the less humanity he possessed.
His resentment had also almost disappeared.
Now, even if the driver who ran him over were brought before him, he wouldn't react much.
This is also why he can still maintain a human-like clarity even as a ghost.
Because he won't be swayed by any obsessions or emotions.
He will no longer be sad or resentful about the past; now, what he needs to consider is how to prevent himself from dissipating.
Every day he exists, he consumes energy, and the source of this energy is human wish power.
Wish power can maintain his spiritual body and allow him to use various abilities.
There is only one way to obtain wish power: by fulfilling people's wishes.
However, for such a long time, only the girl named Xu Xiaonan had made a wish to him just now.
Currently, that wish has not yet been fulfilled, so he cannot obtain wish power.
But after it's fulfilled, he can gain about 0.1 wish power.
Not much, mainly because it's a very simple matter.
Now his total wish power is only 0.3, which makes him like a flickering candle in the wind, ready to extinguish at any moment.
To reduce energy consumption, he spends most of his time in a dormant state, only waking up for a few hours around midnight each day.
Only during these few hours can he feel people's calls.
However, he's not very worried right now, after all, he still has a few months.
There are so many people in this city; who knows when he'll encounter someone else who wishes upon him.
Moreover, those two girls will come looking for him again.
After all, how many people can resist the temptation of having their wishes fulfilled?
As long as there is a strong wish that cannot be realized, people will be willing to make a deal even with a ghost.
And in a person's life, there are countless things that cannot be achieved by their own strength; people will always encounter difficulties.
A ghost like him can never starve to death.