Qin Wanglan raised his head and looked at Xia Chujian. "What about you? Since your aunt already sacrificed herself, where did you wake up? Why did you come here?"
Xia Chujian: "..."
How was she supposed to keep making this up? In that instant when Qin Wanglan pressed her for answers, Xia Chujian had nearly spilled everything.
But thinking of this strange place, she still could not trust Qin Wanglan completely.
One fried dough stick was nowhere near enough to make her believe him.
Xia Chujian lowered her head and said, "I don't know what happened either."
"When I woke up, I really was somewhere else. That place was called Green Radiance Star."
"I found out what happened to my aunt afterward through a historical record there."
"It recorded the histories of several alien planets, including an account of the Underwater Laboratory."
"I knew at once that it was my aunt... because my parents had told me about her since I was little. I knew her story by heart."
Qin Wanglan looked deeply at her and asked again, "What about your father? Was he Yi Xin's older male cousin or younger male cousin?"
Xia Chujian thought that Qin Wanglan had said Hua Yixin was an only child. If she was still Hua Yixin's "niece," then she could not claim they were siblings.
She said, "...He was her older male cousin."
Qin Wanglan's face suddenly darkened. "You're lying."
"Yi Xin had no older or younger male cousins."
"Because her father, Professor Hua, was an orphan."
Xia Chujian: "..."
So Qin Wanglan had been trying to bait her into revealing something earlier.
She had miscalculated.
"Tell me, who exactly are you?!"
Qin Wanglan looked at her eagerly, his eyes filling with a hope and yearning Xia Chujian could not understand.
Xia Chujian