Cheng Cheng and the Cicada
Chapter 21 Exposed
The Pomeranian was already asleep.
Perhaps it had eaten too much for dinner, its belly round and full, making it unable to lie on its stomach. It could only sleep on its side, in a posture not quite befitting a dog.
Its bulging belly really did look like it was pregnant!
But Zhao Yingjun was not sleeping.
She leaned against the headboard, her hair spread out behind her, held back by a hairband. Her slender legs were curled up, and she held a tablet in both hands, remaining in this position for a long time.
She was watching a movie on the tablet, a classic science fiction film.
*Back to the Future*. Ever since she learned that Lin Xianyi liked science fiction movies during their dinner, Zhao Yingjun had watched many in her spare time.
She watched a wide variety, basically all the top-ranked ones.
*Back to the Future* was a trilogy, and through her recent viewing, Zhao Yingjun deeply realized that most movie sequels were on a downward spiral, adding a dog's tail to a sable coat.
Even in 2229, there were few sequels that could surpass the first.
But the third movie was almost always a reputation destroyer.
It was precisely because of this inherent prejudice that Zhao Yingjun had temporarily shelved the *Back to the Future* trilogy and hadn't watched it.
But today was different!
She was going to watch this movie carefully!
This was a movie released in 1985, telling the story of a teenager and a crazy scientist's adventure.
Due to an accidental experiment, the two unexpectedly traveled back to 1950, to the era when the teenager's parents had not yet met.
By some twist of fate, the teenager disrupted the life trajectory of his young parents, causing them not to meet and fall in love. If this continued, the teenager's parents would not marry and have children, then naturally the teenager would not appear in the future, becoming someone destined to disappear!
The teenager had to think of a way!
So the crazy scientist suggested that he become his parents' wingman, allowing the two who were about to miss each other to finally meet, get to know each other, fall in love, and get married, only in this way could he guarantee that he would be born in the future and maintain his reasonable existence in time and space!
The ending, of course, was a happy one!
The teenager successfully matched his past parents, letting them fall in love again, and then he and the crazy scientist rode the time machine back to the future, 1985! At this time, the movie on the tablet was already nearing its end.
The camera!
Also froze in 1950, on the faces of the teenager's young and innocent parents holding hands, happily dating, and kissing under the beautiful scenery of the lake. Zhao Yingjun put on the protective case of the tablet, raised her head, and looked at the warm yellow walls in the bedroom illuminated by the warm bedside lamp, thinking about how!
To give birth to a common child without contact, pregnancy, or any relationship?
She could only think of one reasonable possibility!
In vitro fertilization technology?
Similar to test-tube babies, pairing them in the lab and then implanting them into the mother for nourishment!
But the prerequisite was that the reproductive cells of both men and women must be extracted beforehand!
That would be very difficult, right?
When she was a teenager, she was abroad while Lin Xian was in Hang City! Not to mention the state of test-tube baby technology at that time, just crossing the entire earth, several countries, specifically to steal the cells of two children to do embryo cultivation?
What was the point?
Even if it was for some kind of experiment, why did they have to choose her and Lin Xian?
No matter how you looked at it, it wasn't realistic!
Reasonable but not realistic!
Then she could only consider unreasonable reasons!
Just like the movie *Back to the Future* described -- if Yan Qiaoqiao, like the male protagonist in the movie, had traveled from the future, for example, from several years in the future, then everything would seem clear!
Zhao Yingjun began to simulate future trajectories in her mind according to the movie plot.
Perhaps within a few years, she would marry Lin Xian and give birth to a daughter. The daughter would grow up healthily to be a teenager. Then, like in the movie, something unexpected would happen, causing her and Lin Xian's daughter to travel back to the past, to 2024, which was now. After crossing over, something unexpected happened, causing amnesia, and then, by some twist of fate, she became Yan Qiaoqiao!
"If that's the case, it seems to explain the blood relationship and paternity test problem."
Zhao Yingjun tilted her head and supported her cheek, believing that this logic was fine.
Because Yan Qiaoqiao was her and Lin Xian's biological daughter in the future, the three of them naturally had a blood relationship! Then naturally she and her parents, and even Lin Xian's parents, all had blood relationships!
"That should be the reason!"
Zhao Yingjun shook her head gently: "Although time travel is really too incredible and not scientific enough, but..."
...When all the answers are ruled out and only the last option remains: no matter how outrageous or unrealistic this last option is...it must be the truth and correct! This is the process of elimination! A very effective scientific logic, and...there is one more thing...that is very concerning!
A few days ago, Lin Xian used the excuse of "coming all this way" to have her and the little girl named Yu Xi do a paternity test.
At that time, Lin Xian's reason was "Since we're here...let's draw some blood!" Now that I think about it: what kind of "since we're here" is that? Is a paternity test such a...a frivolous thing? If we really "came all this way"...and were desperate to seek medical attention! Then Brother Wang was also there at the time!
Why didn't he directly...let Brother Wang also draw blood? So! The truth is self-evident!
Lin Xian persuaded himself to have a DNA paternity test with Yu Xi because he had inner doubts.
Comparing Yu Xi and Yan Qiaoqiao! Height, appearance, physique, voice, etc., are all very different. Yu Xi looks like a small athlete, very refined; in comparison: Yan Qiaoqiao is a petite princess, staying at home and not exercising at all! The two girls really have nothing in common: the only thing is age, Yu Xi looks like she is fourteen or fifteen years old, and Yan Qiaoqiao's age is estimated to be similar but should also be in the range of thirteen to fifteen years old!
Looking at it this way! Lin Xian really knew something, so he did such an absurd thing as doing a paternity test with Yu Xi!
In other words, Lin Xian knew very well that "he and himself had a daughter in the future world!"
"He is aware of this matter!" Lin Xian should have a good idea of it!
Zhao Yingjun continued to analyze: "But Lin Xian's information is also very limited!"
She scratched her temples: "First of all, Lin Xian shouldn't be so sure, he just suspects that he and I will have a daughter in the future world, so at the time he simply wanted to verify it: at the time Lin Xian didn't have much confidence in the DNA paternity test results, it was completely a fluke."
"Secondly, Lin Xian doesn't know the specific appearance, specific name, specific age, etc. of our daughter at all. He doesn't know anything and hasn't even seen our daughter properly! So when he met Yan Qiaoqiao at the dinner table, he didn't recognize her at all!"
"No!"
Zhao Yingjun shook her head and recalled the details of the dinner that day: "Actually, Lin Xian still suspected her. He also specifically inquired about Yan Qiaoqiao's background! But my parents and I were all biased and said that Yan Qiaoqiao was a close relative of ours! As an outsider, how could Lin Xian doubt our words?"
"Speaking of which, it's all a coincidence. My parents felt that family scandals shouldn't be made public and didn't want Lin Xian to know that Yan Qiaoqiao was picked up! I already knew about the mother-daughter blood relationship between Yan Qiaoqiao and me at the time, but I definitely wouldn't say it on that occasion, not to mention at that time, I still don't know how to explain it now!"
"If we had admitted to Lin Xian that day that this girl was picked up on the street, then Lin Xian would most likely..."