Chapter 139 Gao Yu's Past
"Master, my name is Gao Yu, the extra Yu..."

Gao Yu looked at the doll and slowly told his story.

Gao Yu was born in 1997 in a small mountain village in Yunnan in a family that favors boys over girls. He has three older sisters and one older brother.

When her mother was pregnant with her, she was already 40 years old. She thought she would be a son, so she gave birth to her.

When the baby was born, it was discovered that she was a girl, so she was named Gao Yu, which means "extra Yu", meaning that she was a superfluous person in the family.

When she was born, her eldest sister was already married, and her second and third sisters dropped out of school early to work.

Her family was extremely patriarchal, and she had been like a superfluous person since she was little, with no one to care for her or love her. She had to help with housework every day, and would be beaten and scolded by her parents if she wasn't careful.

Her brother is six years older than her. As the only son in the family, he has often bullied her since childhood under the influence of his parents and family.

Gao Yu grew up in hunger, cold, beatings and scoldings.

This doll was given to her as a birthday present by a female teacher who taught at the school when she was in elementary school. It was also the only birthday present she received in the first 18 years.

No one at home cares about her, no one likes her, and no one celebrates her birthday.

But the gentle female teacher gave her this doll and told her that it didn’t matter if no one liked her here, because if she went out, there would be many people who would like her.

She always kept this sentence in mind. As long as she walked out of that home and out of those mountains, she would find many people who loved her.

She always carried the doll with her. Whenever she was bullied or beaten, she would talk to the doll and treat it as a friend. Over time, she felt like she had a new friend by her side and no longer felt lonely.

She truly felt the existence of this doll when she took the high school entrance examination.

She passed the junior high school entrance exam and was admitted to a high school in her city, but her parents disagreed with her going and insisted that she drop out of school and go out to work to earn money for her brother's dowry.

She still remembered the day when her parents forced her into a car with a fellow villager to go work in a factory. Just when she was completely desperate, she heard a very soft child's voice.

"Those who bully Yuyu are all bad people!"

Then her eyes went dark and she fell into a coma. When she woke up again, she was in the hospital. Only then did she realize that her fellow villager's car had broken down and was running uncontrollably on the road.

Her father was killed on the spot, her grandfather was paralyzed, her brother had a leg broken, and her mother and the fellow villager who was driving were also injured to varying degrees.

She was the only one who had a minor scrape.

From then on, she became an unlucky person in the village. Everyone was afraid of her, and her mother even kicked her out of the house and refused to acknowledge her as her child.

Fortunately, because she was admitted to high school with the highest score in the county, all tuition and miscellaneous fees for three years of high school were waived. In addition, with the secret support from her sisters, she finished high school on her own with great difficulty.

With the doll accompanying her, she didn't feel tired.

However, in her senior year of high school, her mother, who had kicked her out of the house, came and forced her to marry a fifty-year-old wealthy man.

Use her to exchange for money to pay off brother's gambling debts.

She disagreed, and just a few days before the college entrance examination, they kidnapped her and brought her back home, locked her in the house, and prevented her from taking the college entrance examination.

In despair, she heard the voice again.

"Anyone who bullies Yuyu must die!"

Her locked door was suddenly opened, and she successfully escaped and took the college entrance examination.

It was only after the college entrance examination that she heard that the fifty-year-old man fell into someone else's dry toilet after getting drunk and drowned.

Her brother was taken away by debt collectors and no one knew where he was.

Her mother was hit and killed by a car on the way to find her son. But she successfully got into a good university, walked out of the mountains, and finished college with student loans and part-time jobs.

The yard was very quiet, with only her voice to be heard.

Gao Yu touched the doll in his hand, tears welling in his eyes, "If it weren't for Nana, I definitely wouldn't be alive now."

Seeing that she was crying, the little girl reached out her hand to wipe the tears from her face, but unfortunately she couldn't touch her and her soul passed straight through her face.

No one else could see it, but Xiao Lin and Yang Fan could. The former's eyes became red when he saw that scene.

After hearing her story, the others felt very uncomfortable. Fu Cancan, who was originally afraid of ghosts, unconsciously let go of Xiao Lin's hand and kept looking at Gao Yu.

"Then..." Shen Nana swallowed the sourness in her throat, "Since you already know that she is protecting you, why do you want to find the master?"

"I can't feel her presence now," Gao Yu lowered his head slowly, "since that day when I helped you beat up that scumbag."

Because she couldn't feel Nana's presence, she came to find the master.

Shen Nana was stunned. What did it mean that after the day she helped her beat up the scumbag, she could no longer feel her presence?

Wu Chenxi asked, "What happened that day?"

"Nothing happened that day..." Shen Nana looked confused.

Although they had a fight that day, it wasn't anything particularly dangerous.

She told her everything that happened that day. When she was arguing with the scumbag in the dressing room, Gao Yu happened to pass by and came in to help her. The two of them worked together to beat up the scumbag.

The only thing wrong was that they beat the scumbag too smoothly, leaving him no room to resist.

At that time, she was still complacent that the boxing she had learned in just two days was finally useful.

"It must be Nana who helped us!" Gao Yu said with certainty.

Nana always appears to protect her when she is in danger.

Shen Nana: ...Sorry, I’m Nana too.

Whenever she talked about Nana, she always had the illusion that she was talking about her.

"Master, why can't I feel Nana's presence after that day?" Gao Yu asked Yang Fan, "Since you can all see her, it means she is still there."

Yang Fan asked her back, "Did you sometimes feel her and sometimes not feel her before?"

Gao Yu nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, yes, ever since I went to college, I can sometimes feel her and sometimes not."

"Until that day, I couldn't feel her at all."

"Why is this, Master?"

Xiao Lin looked at the little girl who seemed to be blown away by the wind and couldn't help but shed tears. "She seems to be disappearing soon."

It's about to disappear. Why is it about to disappear?
Gao Yu turned to look at Xiao Lin with a confused look.

"How could it disappear?" Fu Cancan said with reluctance.

Xiao Lin shook her head. She didn't know why she disappeared.

This is the conclusion she has drawn from seeing so many ghosts: the more substantial the ghost's soul appears, the more powerful it is, and the more transparent the ghost appears, the weaker it is.

This little girl's soul has become so transparent that we can't see her anymore.