Four-year-old Juanjuan was unloved by her father, ignored by her mother, and bullied by her older brothers. Left to shoulder the burden of a broken family all on her own.
Then one day, her pa...
"Do you think we can still go back?"
Jiang Dai's words made Juanjuan, who was secretly pretending to be asleep, clutch the bed sheet tightly.
Juanjuan could hear the expectation in her mother's voice, and she understood that it was quite normal for her mother to want to go back. Her parents were so good to her, and they were kind to her parents.
But if that day really comes, she really won't be able to bear it.
"Who can say for sure? Besides, I feel like even if I go back, I won't be the same person I was before."
Bai Tian's voice carried a hint of indifference.
Jiang Dai: "Hmm? What do you mean?"
Bai Tiansheng was devastated: "Because according to my deduction, my last memory was that I was drunk and fell asleep directly, and then it seemed like a pain came. At that time, my memory was a bit confused when I first transmigrated, but later I realized that I might have died in a car accident."
Jiang Dai's lips twitched slightly: "Then I'm a little better off than you. Maybe I'll even have a beautiful, intact corpse."
Bai Tian added insult to injury: "Those who die suddenly shouldn't speak; they'll be on the news faster than me."
Jiang Dai sighed: "Never mind, we don't know if we're unlucky or lucky."
Bai Tian: "So, whether it's bad luck or good luck, let's analyze the logic!"
The slightly off-topic topic was brought back on track.
The two quietly got out of bed, lit a lamp, and each took a brush and a piece of paper, and began to discuss logic.
"The first time we found sweet potatoes, it was in our house, and we didn't dig them up from outside. That means the original owner must have found them, or someone secretly put them in after we arrived."
Bai Tian wrote down two possibilities on the paper, then crossed out the first one.
"If the original owner found it, then there would be people in the village who would know about it and have seen it, so this is not right."
Jiang Dai: "If someone secretly put them in there, could it be that the sweet potatoes I dug up later were also put there beforehand?"
Curly, lying in bed: ...
It really was Third Brother who put it in beforehand.
Although her parents weren't as quick-witted as her third brother under normal circumstances, she had long since discovered that her parents had incredibly vivid imaginations and wildly creative minds!
My parents were the first to suspect that the whole family had been replaced. Even though they were fooled a few times by their "cunning" older brothers, they still managed to get them to admit that the family had been replaced.
There was nothing they could do; Third Brother was just too amazing. He could blend truth and falsehood, his logic was sound, and his persona was solidified.
The paper had the names of several family members written on it.
Bai Tian moved the handle of his calligraphy brush across the surface, finally landing on Bai Yun'an's name.
In the candlelight, his brows were slightly furrowed, as if he were thinking very seriously.
Jiang Dai leaned closer, almost touching his shoulder: "You suspect it's the third brother?"
Bai Tian's voice didn't sound very certain; he just speculated, "Something feels off."
"Think about it, back then, Manager Liang and that shop assistant both found our family by looking at the second and third sons."
"Moreover, all three sons wanted to sneak out to do their own thing. The eldest son wanted to find gold and jade to absorb spiritual energy from them, the second son wanted to confirm whether he was still in the original world and reconnected with his original family, but what about the third son?"
Jiang Dai: "What if he also wants to confirm whether he is still in his original world? He said that his original world dynasty was also called Dayu, which is considered a parallel world."
The dynasties of the parallel world came in handy again at this time.
Bai Tian:......
See, this is a bit tricky. That's why I had some doubts.
Juanjuan: Sure enough, we can't blame our parents; it's all because our third brother is too skilled.
"However, your suspicions are not without merit. Do you remember when the third brother vomited blood right after we transmigrated?"
Bai Tian nodded. How could he forget such a magnificent scene?
Jiang Dai: "The situation was special at the time, and I was also a bit disoriented after I first transmigrated, but then I thought about it, and it really did look like the blood from a blood pack..."
Bai Tian: "That's true. If someone really vomits blood, it means there's something wrong with their internal organs, and it's very difficult to save them. I suspected it at the time, but I thought it was because there was a time traveler in my family. Later, when the third child also time-traveled, I never thought about it again."
"That's one possibility, but there's another."
Jiang Dai raised her hand and wrote on Bai Tian's paper with a brush: Mysterious person.
Bai Tian:?
What does this mean?
"Do you remember when Yunqi confessed to us a while ago? He said he encountered a strange force, and it was this person who saved Juanjuan back then, when you fainted and my arm was injured."
Jiang Dai asked, "Then do you think these things might have been created by a mysterious person?"
[The whole family is wearing them, so who knows, maybe another mystery person will show up.]
Bai Tian's gaze fell on the rice paper, and hesitantly raised an unproven idea: "Do you think this mysterious person could be..."
Lying on the bed, Juanjuan couldn't help but hold her breath, still not quite understanding who her father was talking about.
As the atmosphere in the room grew increasingly tense, Bai Tian mysteriously voiced his bold guess: "Could it be Juanjuan?"
Bai Xiaojuan, lying on the bed, almost couldn't catch her breath.
Jiang Dai: ...
The white clouds hidden on the roof almost choked him to death.
Bai Yun'an thought her father could guess her identity: ...
Even Bai Yunxing frowned slightly, somewhat speechless.
"Tsk, look, you don't believe me? Our family has already time-traveled, so it's not impossible for Juanjuan to be one too. What if she's one of those little big shots who pretends to be weak but actually has a big deal to her? There must be some explanation for this, otherwise how could she have just happened to time-travel into Juanjuan's family!"
Jiang Dai's lips twitched: "Wake up! If you said this mysterious person was the third brother, I might believe you!"
Curly, lying on the bed: ? ? ?
Did Mother guess it?
Sitting on the roof, Bai Yunqi immediately turned to look at his third brother beside him: Stare!
Actually, he had his doubts.
Bai Yun'an remained completely calm.
[These are all guesses; there's no concrete evidence yet, so it doesn't matter.]
Juanjuan, lying on the bed, was startled again.
Is that Third Brother's voice?
Is Third Brother on top?
Did Third Brother hear that?