The Mind-Read Heiress: From Impostor to Family Favorite-Chapter 620 - 352

"You’re really smart, Wenyan, so I’m going to talk to you about my work. I feel like I can hear your thoughts about me, which might be related to the research I’ve been doing recently."

Shen Jingcheng said, sounding serious and solemn.

Wenyan caught on immediately.

She lifted the file bag in her hand: "If I’m not wrong, this should contain the results of your research."

Shen Jingcheng nodded: "Part of it. I can’t share everything with you."

Wenyan nodded seriously: "Understood! Can I look at it now?"

"Of course. If you have any questions, we can discuss them."

Wenyan silently gave Shen Jingcheng an OK sign, then swiftly opened the file bag.

Upon a cursory glance, Wenyan saw a number first and foremost.

"Number 46? Pit?"

"Yes. The locals found some items underground that seemed like cultural relics, so my team and I were sent there. This document is about pit number 46."

"What a coincidence."

"Coincidence?" Hearing Wenyan say that, Shen Jingcheng sat up straight, "How so? Why do you say that?"

"Ah..." Wenyan quickly gestured with her hands, "Don’t get worked up, I definitely don’t know about this pit number 46. I haven’t studied your field and have never snooped on any information. It’s just that around half a year ago, or longer, I had a dream."

Wenyan clearly remembered that she had that dream on the night when Shen Jingxiu and Shen Jinghe both confessed their feelings to her.

But she decided not to tell Shen Jingcheng that part.

She continued from where she left off: "In my dream, I fell into a deep pit. It was pitch dark at the bottom, and I couldn’t see anything. Suddenly, a directional sign appeared in front of me. It lit up. The sign had the number 46 on it. I remember that dream vividly, clear as day even now. But in truth, as I was climbing, the entire tunnel was still dark, without any light, and I couldn’t see anything. All I could see was this sign with the number 46, and I kept following it until I climbed out."

Then, she dreamt of Shen Jingxiu and the others, who tore her into several parts.

"And after you got out, what did you see?"

"Ah..."

"Didn’t you just say you remember it vividly? Have you forgotten now?"

"Well, it’s quite abstract."

"I’ll ask, and you answer."

"Sure, ask away."

"Did you see the world you’re currently in, or a different one?"

"Ah... Is it that abstract? Well, strictly speaking, it should be this world."

"Then that really is a coincidence," Shen Jingcheng said, staring at Wenyan without wavering, "I actually have a lot more questions for you, but you should first look at the materials in your hand."

"Okay."

Wenyan lowered her head to continue looking through the materials.

The more she read, the wider her eyes opened, purely out of shock.

"So, originally you were there for archaeology, or to protect the cultural relics, but what you discovered was that pit number 46 might contain a parallel universe?"

Shocked, Wenyan flicked through the pages.

Most of what followed were photos of the so-called ’cultural relics’.

Experts confirmed these ’relics’ indeed had a history of hundreds or even thousands of years. However, their design, appearance, and function were clearly modern.

For example, a mobile phone encased in a shell that seemed to have been buried for five hundred years, a nearly weathered modern map that closely matched the administrative planning of a certain city today, among others.

"Are you sure about this?" Wenyan asked with the documents in hand, her black and white eyes full of doubt, "Are you sure this is the fruit of your many sleepless nights of research and not some fake information someone made up?"

Shen Jingcheng shook his head.

"Are you really certain? You’re not joking with me? There aren’t any cameras here, right? You’re not pranking me?"

"No."

Shen Jingcheng shook his head again.

"I can swear on my life. This is indeed proven by scientific means, not some casual fabrication. Now that you’ve seen everything, can you start answering my questions? Right now, it’s just the two of us here. The confidentiality of this office is very high, no one else can hear our conversation."

"Hmm."

Wenyan actually had a hunch by now.

From those bizarre questions he asked, to his confession about being able to hear her thoughts and finally to the parallel universe of pit number 46, what was there left to not understand?

But now that the moment truly arrived, she still felt somewhat dazed.

"Ask away, Third Brother. Perhaps I should call you Professor Shen now."

"You can call me anything, neither would be wrong. First question, you’re not from this world, right?"

Wenyan took a deep breath and then let out a long sigh.

Only then did she nod: "Right, I’m not from this world. Well, not exactly. My soul comes from another world, but this body has always existed in this world and belongs to the original Wenyan, you understand? But as a coincidence, in the other world, I’m also called Wenyan, and our appearances are quite similar, though not exactly the same."

Shen Jingcheng nodded: "I understand. Second question, do you know where the original Wenyan went?"

"I don’t know. But I’ve dreamt of her. She has left, freed from the shackles of this flesh. Maybe it has something to do with the magnetic field mentioned in your documents. I guess we can only explain it with magnetic fields, you haven’t found a more scientific reason, have you?"

"Third question, how did you come here? What is your purpose?"

"Hmm... well, this might be a bit explosive for you. So I need you to be mentally prepared, OK?"

Shen Jingcheng looked somewhat skeptical, but he nodded anyway.

Seeing that he was still as composed as ever, Wenyan started talking again: "Are you ready? Before I start, let me say that, at this point, I’m definitely not lying. Every word I’m about to say is true."

"I believe you. I’m ready."

"In my world, your world is just a novel I read, where your entire family are side characters, Wenyan included. She got a pretty, you know, ending because of some nonsense she did. Since we have the same name, I really laid into her in a rant. And then, here I am.

If I had to give a reason, it might be that in that moment, due to some magnetic field energy, there was a minor distortion between our two parallel worlds? And then my soul energy, through this space-time distortion, ’whoosh’ came over here...

Alright, I can’t make up more. But what I mean is, I can’t keep making up the scientific reason. However, everything I said before is true."