I'm not Yingjie

Chapter 5 Visiting Each House

"No, no, no! How could Lin do such a thing! Go back to sleep now, little brat!"

The shirtless, white-haired man wearing a mask was irritably chasing the boy away like a mosquito. He seemed very impatient with the boy's appearance. He was already very annoyed the moment the door was knocked and the boy appeared.

"No, no! Uncle Qianjie! I'm not here to talk about that!"

"...Hmph." The masked man snorted coldly after hearing the boy's panicked explanation, and made way for the boy to enter. However, his eyes under the mask were still staring at the boy, and it was obvious that if the boy dared to mention that matter, he would not mind teaching him a lesson on behalf of his parents.

The boy was still a little afraid of the uncle who taught him how to cook. Although both wore masks, the temperaments of his father and the masked man were completely opposite.

In comparison, my father was quite friendly.

After walking into the house, he found that the masked man was shirtless because he was busy cooking in the kitchen. He was still developing new dishes so late at night. The boy couldn't help but be impressed by the masked man's chef spirit.

"Go ahead and go back. I don't have time to take care of the little brat." The masked man put on a shirt with Winnie the Pooh printed on it and sat opposite the boy. His fingers tapping on the table revealed his feelings. "But let me be clear, if Kevin and Wei Wei hadn't specifically told me to take your feelings into consideration, and you're their son, I would have thrown you into the river when you asked me before."

"So you should have some idea of ​​what to say and what not to say."

The boy's hair stood up all over his body and he nodded nervously.

"Very good, then go ahead."

"Uncle Qianjie, I want to ask...did anything happen before my parents got married?"

"Get married? Humph, who remembers those boring things back then!" The masked man snorted disdainfully, "But I seem to remember that Abonya prayed all night on their wedding day, saying that she was blessing their marriage. Tsk, what a hypocritical woman."

"Aunt Aponya? That's right..."

The boy had the best impression of the nun among all the elders, of course before this incident happened. She was gentle, kind, and tolerant. If there was anything the boy learned from the nun, it was probably noble character.

But he vaguely realized that the nun was the one who looked at his father most eagerly among the few people... so eagerly that it made people feel a little chilly.

"Is that all you have to ask?"

"Wait, wait a minute, Uncle Qianjie, do you still remember what happened between you two before our father and mother decided to get married?"

"What happened... At that time, those things had just ended, so there was no time for leisure... Well..." The masked man saw the boy's serious eyes, no matter how impatient he was, he thought for a moment, and then said uncertainly, "At that time, your mother held a cocktail party to celebrate."

"When?"

"It was the day before your parents announced they were getting married."

This is it!

The boy was so excited that he almost jumped up. He thought in the beginning that his father had cheated on him, but now he realized that it was not that simple. He finally found an important clue!

"I have to say your mother's alcohol tolerance is really good. She got everyone, including me, drunk. I don't remember what happened afterwards very clearly, but I was the first one to wake up and found that only your mother and your father were missing."

It's exactly the same situation as that time!

At that cocktail party, the mother must have done something fishy. For example, the wine she drank was actually of lower alcohol content or even not alcohol at all. Then, she took the opportunity to propose to the father when everyone was unconscious, leaving no time for others to react.

The boy recalled the party, the scene where his father was taken away by his aunt and her sneering expression, and concluded that she was taking revenge on his mother.

"Thank you, Uncle Qianjie."

"Thank you... Tsk, if you have nothing else, go ahead. I still have things to do."

……

"Qi Jiu... would you like something to drink?"

The cherry-haired woman looked even more restrained than the boy. She rubbed her fingers nervously, not at all as heroic as usual.

After all, in her opinion, the reason for the conflict between the man's family and his son was due to her awkward attitude at the beginning, which led to the boy's misunderstanding.

"No need, Aunt Ying, I'll be leaving in a minute." The young man knew that the woman was also feeling very guilty, so he comforted her instead, "Don't worry, Aunt Ying, I already know that I misunderstood, I just want to know something else, just answer me truthfully if you can."

"Well, I'll tell you everything I know."

"Too serious, Aunt Sakura..."

The boy scratched his hair, coughed and said, "Aunt Ying, did you plan to follow father... um..."

Before the question was even finished, the cherry-haired woman had already lowered her head in embarrassment. Among the few people, she was the worst at lying and hiding her emotions, and everything she was going to say was already written on her face.

"At that time... Actually, we were just friends who fought side by side and experienced a lot, so our relationship became closer. Don't think too much about it."

"..."

This level of lying is much weaker than the green-haired aunt's lying skills, where she keeps a straight face and spouts nonsense, eleven out of ten of her sentences are false.

"It's just... maybe I just think so." The cherry-haired woman sighed, and the boy could see the disappointment in her eyes. "I am the kind of person Lin hates the most. He can only tolerate me because of other people."

"Don't underestimate yourself, Aunt Ying, and at that time..."

"then?"

The young man who let the cat out of the bag broke out in a cold sweat, and the sharp gaze of the cherry-haired woman pierced his face.

Why are these people so sensitive!

"Father must have accepted Aunt Sakura at that time! He never said anything bad about you."

"is it?"

The cherry-haired woman frowned, she felt something was wrong, but the boy laughed it off in time.

Then he asked tentatively: "Um, Aunt Ying, if... I mean if... when father and mother got married, it was mother who secretly used some tricks to deceive you all..."

Before the boy could say anything, the look in the cherry-haired woman's eyes, which was comparable to the snow in February, had already made him shut up.

"That's just an if! How could my father get married so casually, right?"

"……Too."

The young man wiped a cold sweat, fortunately the Sakura-haired woman had a heavy filter for men, otherwise he might have made a big mistake again.

However, it was the look in the eyes of the cherry-haired woman that made him realize that even a woman with a gentle personality like her would react after knowing the truth. It was not surprising that the green-haired woman would do anything after knowing the truth...

Chapter 6 At that time

"Let's sort out the information."

The young man stopped writing and tapped the notebook with his fingertips. There was no extra emotion on his face. He learned this trick from his father. Men will reduce the appearance of emotions when doing things that involve thinking. According to him, as long as the expression on the face does not change drastically, the thinking can generally be more focused.

"Twenty years ago, my father, mother, uncles and aunts founded an unknown society. After the society achieved its original goal, it announced its disbandment. The day after the disbandment, my mother organized a cocktail party and proposed to my father that night. The next day, it was announced to everyone."

"And they have been getting along peacefully for the past twenty years, but Aunt Mobius was actually planning something in secret, and it is very likely that she has succeeded, which is what I saw at that time."

"But Aunt Velvet said that with Mother's cleverness, it's impossible for her to be kept in the dark... So, assuming that Aunt Mobius didn't do anything that Father and Mother found inappropriate, it's very likely that they were...really conducting academic research at the time?"

"So following this line of thought, including the time I witnessed other people appearing in my father's room, it is possible that it was just my misunderstanding? And mother, knowing all this, let me misunderstand?!"

He originally thought that the father was a suspect with heinous crimes and the mother was an innocent victim, but after visiting several people, the positions were instantly reversed. This dramatic change made the boy's forced calm expression loosen.

"But why..." The young man covered his head. He always felt like he had overlooked something, and an inexplicable sense of disobedience stagnated in his heart.

After organizing his thoughts and putting the notebook in his arms, the boy knocked on the last door of this trip with fear.

An ordinary-looking door of a laboratory.

……

"You seem to enjoy playing detective games."

A green-haired woman with her hands in the pockets of her white coat stood in front of a tubular petri dish in the laboratory. The faint fluorescent light became the only source of light in the dark laboratory. Her face was hidden in the darkness and could not be seen clearly. Only the corners of her mouth were raised with a hint of interest.

"Actually, it's not..."

"Have you found the truth?"

"The truth?" The boy didn't understand what the green-haired woman said. He just wanted to find out whether his father was right or not. In simple terms, he wanted to resolve this misunderstanding. Why did he use a word like "truth" that was like solving a puzzle? "Father is just discussing academic issues with you."

"…Are you still struggling with that?"

The green-haired woman was obviously a little surprised, but not out of surprise that the boy had cleared up the misunderstanding, but rather... a kind of surprise that was mostly disappointment.

"Eh?"

"Tsk, I thought they would tell you directly what happened, but I was asked to tell you." The green-haired woman said with a sigh, "If you knew what happened, you would understand that love is the most rare thing for people like us. That's why no one fought for favor like in a ridiculous palace drama. Your father and your mother have only come together as a matter of course. There is no such thing as either of them playing tricks."

"W-what does this mean?"

The boy was confused. Why did they all say different things?

But one thing he noticed was what the green-haired woman said happened at that time. He had never paid attention to what they were doing at that time, but now he became curious about what their club was doing, and even a scientific giant like the green-haired woman was a member of it.

"Oh, although I don't want to admit it, your father Lin is better than anyone at playing tricks. It would be easy for him to find out what your mother did at that time. Of course, we are not fools. At that time, everyone knew it clearly. In fact, no one cared who Lin would marry. It was natural for him to marry anyone."

The boy suddenly thought of the Sakura-haired woman's slight anger. What made her angry at that time was not the so-called tricks played by someone, but the fact that the boy was questioning the authenticity of his parents' marriage. In their view, this kind of thing was beyond doubt. It came from their recognition of the result of hard work and sweetness. Denying the marriage was denying their friendship.

I was fooled by Aunt Weiwei!

The boy immediately thought of the meaning of the magician's meaningful smile at that time.

She was the person who was most out of the matter, so she was also the best outsider who could sit back and watch the show. The more he struggled, the happier she was.

So her words are all ambiguous and misleading.

The green-haired woman brushed her hair aside her ears and said, "The truth is, your mother was also drunk at the time. She hugged your father and said a lot of nonsense. Then she was moved and said that they would live happily together in the future. Your father's thinking pattern, which was straighter than a telephone pole in some ways, interpreted her words as a proposal."

"But it's not his fault. Everything had just ended. Your mother is usually outspoken, so it's normal for her to have such a misunderstanding."

"So your father thought for thirty seconds and said..."

Her expression changed.

"'You want to reproduce with me'?"

"..."

The young man was silent.

The father who often sat in the corner in silence seemed very gloomy to him, but still relatively normal. He never expected that he would say such words... which were not even cheesy love words.

If it were any other girl, he would have been slapped for saying this.

"Hmph... From your expression, I can tell that you have some misunderstanding about Lin. Before you were born, he had an extreme idea of ​​inheritance. Everything is based on the principle of future generations being the most important. It is a good deal to be able to use one's own things to exchange for the happiness of future generations. So, for him, reproducing offspring is something he has never thought about before, but at the same time, it is the most important thing for him."

Because people want to exchange their own happiness for the happiness of future generations, they don’t consider their own descendants. Does this contradictory idea really exist in this era?

"So, my parents are very happy... My father didn't cheat on me, my mother didn't lie, and my uncles and aunts are important friends of my parents..." The boy slowly raised his head, "But what happened before that? Why did my father have that idea? Why did his parents pass away when he was a child? Why did my mother say 'live happily'?"

"…So, do you want to know the truth? Even if it subverts your worldview? Let you take another path?"

The green-haired woman smiled in the darkness.

"A path your father walked."

Chapter 7: Consciousness Transfer Experiment

Dear Father and Mother:

When you see this letter, I have already run away from home, but please don't worry. I didn't run away because there was something wrong with this family or because I was angry. I just ran away because there was something I had to do.

Before I apologize to you for leaving without saying goodbye, I want to say sorry to my father first. Not only did I doubt you, but I also said such excessive words without knowing anything about your past.

I have learned from Aunt Mobius what you were fighting and what a strange time you went through, and now... it's my turn.

Please arrange for my leave of absence from school, and let my parents continue to maintain this hard-earned life. If possible, you can have another child, because I don’t know if I can persevere to the end like you did.

Actually, I have a lot to say...but when it’s time to say goodbye, maybe it’s better to remain silent.

——Lin Qi stayed for a long time.

……

"Have you brought your stuff?"

The boy put the bag on his back and turned to ask the white-haired girl.

"Baseball bat, magazines, potato chips... yeah! I've got them all!" The white-haired girl rummaged through her messy backpack and nodded to the boy with satisfaction.

"What did you bring? Why did you bring magazines and potato chips? Do you think we are going on a trip?" The boy snatched her bag and took out those useless things with a sullen look. "And why are there no bullets? Don't you know gun fighting? Why did you bring a baseball bat?"

"Bullets cost money, and I don't have that much spare money to stock up on bullets..." The white-haired girl poked her finger in grievance. "Besides, when my dad was teaching me gun fighting, I asked him if the Kaslana family developed gun fighting because they were afraid that bullets would be wasted too quickly. He told me that he had the same idea!"

"…What's that? Like father, like daughter? So the reason you like girls is that your father also likes girls?" The young man complained, holding his forehead.

"You're not yet! You said you wanted to join that mysterious organization because of your father's experience, and you actually know about Honkai..."