Shang Shaoyan was utterly exasperated: "How did you relate to me when you said that?!"
Xie Huayin was somewhat surprised: "I saw that you have the same name, so I automatically associated you with your face! Ah, anyway, after I finished reading this book, I woke up and found myself transmigrated here, as a random passerby, the kind without even a name. If I hadn't heard your name on the street, I wouldn't have known I had transmigrated into a book."
Shang Shaoyan pondered for a moment, then took out paper and pen, preparing to take notes: "Could you tell me more about this book?"
Xie Huayin scratched her head: "I've been here for three years, and I've forgotten almost everything from the original book..."
Shang Shaoyan was silent for a moment, then said, "Then tell me what you still remember."
Xie Huayin nodded: "That's no problem! I remember the female lead's name is Li Shuangyan. She's engaged to the Second Prince, and you're very jealous of her, so you keep making things difficult for her. The male lead is the Second Prince, named Lu Changhua. He's a womanizer, but he's a ladies' man who never gets involved with anyone, remaining chaste only for the female lead... I don't remember much else. This book is long and tedious. To sum it up: she runs away, he chases, and they can't escape. That's it."
Shang Shaoyan: My fist has hardened.
She took a deep breath, trying her best to maintain a smile: "Is there anything else?"
Xie Huayin shook her head, somewhat embarrassed: "That's about it..."
Shang Shaoyan sighed and then remembered that he didn't know Xie Huayin's current identity, so he asked her about it.
Xie Huayin thought for a moment and said, "Speaking of which, this identity is quite strange... When I woke up, I found myself covered in blood, lying among a pile of corpses. It scared me half to death! I only found a jade pendant on my body. Here, look, this is it."
Shang Shaoyan took it and looked at it, then froze – it was exactly the same as the jade pendant on Qiao Xiuyu's body, both belonging to the Cheng family of Northern Zhou.
She suddenly remembered something—Qiao Xiuyu had once told her that he had a aunt who took his maternal grandmother's surname, and like him, she had disappeared in a temple. That year, his aunt was only five years old.
Shang Shaoyan asked, "Are you twenty-five this year?"
Qiao Xiuyu was twenty years old, and his aunt was five years older than him.
Xie Huayin nodded: "Yes, I'm twenty-five. Do you know about this jade pendant?"
Shang Shaoyan didn't know Xie Huayin's stance or background. Even if she was her physics teacher from her previous life, she couldn't completely trust her. So she pretended to hesitate: "It's not that I know, I just saw this jade pendant once... When I entered the palace, I saw that the hostage prince of Northern Zhou also had one like this. I took a few more glances at it because it was beautiful, but I'm not sure if it looks the same."
Xie Huayin didn't suspect anything. She was a straightforward person and sat casually on the edge of the bed. Suddenly, her eyes lit up.
"Hey, *A Brief History of Time*!"
Shang Shaoyan followed her gaze and saw his hypnosis book prominently displayed in the center of the bed, with the words "A Brief History of Time" on the cover.
She opened her mouth, wanting to explain, but saw Xie Huayin already clutching the book, tears streaming down her face: "Waaah, you have no idea, the hardest thing for me since I came here isn't the lack of air conditioning or Wi-Fi, it's that there's no physics book here! Waaah..."
Shang Shaoyan: "..."
She paused for a moment, then suddenly gave up on Xie Huayin's intelligence, and said with unusual calmness, "This is what I wrote from memory. If the teacher likes it, feel free to take it."
Xie Huayin looked at Shang Shaoyan suspiciously: "Who are you trying to fool? You can recite famous physics works from memory? Ha."
Shang Shaoyan: "..."
Thank you, I was offended.
She twitched her lips: "Alright, it was my brother who wrote it down from memory. You know him, the new richest man in China. He came here with me."
Xie Huayin excitedly grabbed Shang Shaoyan's hand: "Your brother can recite 'A Brief History of Time' from memory?"
Shang Shaoyan sold out his own brother without any hesitation: "That's right, he can also recite other famous physics works from memory."
Xie Huayin exclaimed, "Wow, wow, no wonder you're the richest person! Tsk, I'm not trying to be mean, but we're born of the same mother, how come there's such a big difference! Why can't you recite it from memory?"
Shang Shaoyan: "...Teacher, I am a liberal arts student."
Xie Huayin nodded nostalgically: "I know, I was the one who persuaded you to study it. With your physics grades, ha."
Shang Shaoyan wasn't angry; in fact, she felt a strange sense of satisfaction—she wasn't the lazy Shang Shaoyan of the past, and her brother wasn't the domineering CEO Shang Yunlan either. Only Xie Huayin remained the same sharp-tongued Xie Huayin.
Things have changed... Ah, I didn't mean Xie Huayin was an object.
Xie Huayin snapped out of her daze, leaned closer to Shang Shaoyan mysteriously, and asked, "Speaking of which, you should have already met the male and female leads, right? How are they? Tell me quickly!"
Shang Shaoyan thought for a moment and said, "Well... a while ago, Lu Changhua took two Yangzhou girls as concubines, and I used that as an excuse to humiliate Li Shuangyan."
Xie Huayin's eyes widened: "You seem pretty smart, so why are you actually trying to trip up the female lead?"
Shang Shaoyan rolled his eyes and said helplessly, "Thank God, I never tried to trip her up! My parents are both dead, and although my brother survived because of time travel, the Li family thinks my family has fallen on hard times and came to break off the engagement with me. Li Shuangyan is also here to cause trouble for me. If I don't humiliate her, who will I humiliate?"
Xie Huayin was even more surprised: "You're also engaged to the Li family?"
Shang Shaoyan nodded irritably: "Yeah... Teacher Xie, I won't say much more, I'll just tell you, neither the male nor female lead is any good. Don't get too close to them, brainlessness is contagious."
Xie Huayin said, "I thought they were brain-dead when I was reading the novel, so you don't need to remind me."
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