Li Zhengguo dismissed this idea, "Even if Chen Yao Shi could find people from Grandpa Chen's lineage."
"But in the face of money, even biological brothers can turn against each other, let alone half-brothers."
"No, no."
Tian Jing shook her head, "You haven't understood what I mean. If Chen Yao Shi can impersonate foreign servants to get close to Xiao Wei, he can also have someone impersonate him."
Li Zhengguo raised an eyebrow, "You mean, only he knows that the two children are half-brothers?"
"That's definitely it."
Tian Jing nodded, "These two children, one boy and one girl, would match the black and white of the yin and yang fish."
"And, these two children must not be old, so they are easy for him to control."
"If he brainwashes the boy to listen to his father's arrangements in everything."
"Then brainwashes the girl to understand that girls are meant to marry out and not compete for family property with their brothers..."
Li Zhengguo shivered, "Then everything will fall into his hands. Could he be the one who reincarnated?"
Tian Jing shook her head, "I don't know. I feel that everything he's doing has two purposes."
"One is the wealth of the Xiao and Chen families, and the second is me."
"Chen Yao Ming's appearance was probably just a test, a test of my changes."
"And he said he specifically studied Xiao Wei. I didn't pay attention at the time, but now, after guessing his purpose for Xiao Wei's children."
"I think, while studying Xiao Wei, he must have also studied me. Otherwise, he wouldn't be so sure he could take Xiao Wei away."
"He should understand my fighting strength. If he didn't want Xiao Wei to leave, he wouldn't be able to take her."
"Most importantly, why does he insist on Xiao Wei having children? If he needed children of the Chen surname who were half-brothers, other women would also suffice."
"This doubt should be related to me. He should know something I don't know, so when you say he's a reincarnator, I can't be sure."
Li Zhengguo's mind was thoroughly confused by his wife, "Even so, if he's not a reincarnator, what is he?"
"There are three possibilities."
"Tell me about them."
"The first possibility is: he reincarnated from this life, and we died prematurely, so he knows more than us."
"The second possibility is: we didn't die prematurely, he reincarnated from a later life, so he knows more than us."
"The third possibility, which is to rule out the possibility of being a reincarnator."
Tian Jing looked up at her husband and said word by word, "He's a book-traveler."
"A book-traveler?"
Li Zhengguo's voice rose by an octave in surprise, "We are in a book world?"
Tian Jing nodded, "If he's a book-traveler, then we are living in a book world."
"Then, then, this, this."
Li Zhengguo looked around, "All of this, and you and me, are fake?"
Tian Jing shook her head, "I think it's real. Because we have flesh and blood and emotions. A grain of sand is a world, a tree is a Bodhi."
"The world is very big to us, and very small to the universe. We don't know who's world our world is a grain of sand in...呜呜."
Her husband covered Tian Jing's mouth, "Shh! Aren't you afraid someone will hear you?"
Tian Jing pulled her husband's hand away, "Who?"
Li Zhengguo was still looking around, "That 'who' you mentioned. Didn't you say you felt the rules of heaven and earth here? Whoever set the rules, that's who it is."
"Hahahaha..."
Tian Jing couldn't help but laugh. Was Brother Zhen scared silly by her?
"Besides the author who wrote the book, who else could it be? Why are you afraid of him?"
The author of the book?
Li Zhengguo became even more worried, "Who is the protagonist? Who is the supporting character? Who is the cannon fodder?"
"If Chen Yao Shi is the protagonist, we are probably all supporting characters and cannon fodder. If we curse him like this, he can write us to death anytime, anywhere."
Tian Jing couldn't help but pinch her husband's waist, "Why are you so flustered? It's just a world that you don't recognize, aren't there still people with friends and family?"
Li Zhengguo looked bewildered, "Tian Tian, what do you mean by these words?"
"It means, we are definitely the protagonists, otherwise, would Chen Yao Shi still be so cautiously studying me from behind?"
"He would have jumped out to deal with us supporting characters and cannon fodder, after all, he is the author's biological son."
His wife's words reassured Li Zhengguo a lot.
"Wife, I'm just worried that we aren't the biological children. Otherwise, no matter how capable we are, as long as the author's hand moves, we will die a miserable death as we are destined to."
"Hmph!"
Tian Jing snorted dismissively, "So what if we're not biological children? If book-travelers have appeared, can the author still control this world? Can he still control the ending? He..."
A beam of light flashed in the middle of the maze, interrupting Tian Jing's words.
The light flickered with subtitles, like a modern advertisement screen.
Not only did it flicker, but many words were pixelated.
Tian Jing, who couldn't finish reading it at a glance, really wanted to curse.
"Brother Zhen, you look at the bottom, I'll look at the top, quickly."
"Mhm mhm."
The flickering lasted only about ten seconds before disappearing into the completely darkened night.
After reading the part above the pixelation, Tian Jing really wanted to kill the author.
Li Zhengguo grabbed his wife, who was about to fly into a rage.
"Tian Tian, you guessed right. It's useless to curse his ancestors. Didn't he send us a synopsis as a reminder?"
"Reminder of what? You saw the bottom, I saw the top, I saw the book title."
"What book title?"
" 'Nine Lives of X'. Damn it, did he make me reincarnate nine times, torment me nine times? Abuse me nine times?"
"Am I the heroine? This is the standard for a female supporting character!"
Li Zhengguo, however, was delighted, "Great, great. I am the male protagonist. If it's nine lives, and we can be together for so long, I'm very grateful to him."
"Nonsense, the author must be a man. You are the male protagonist, and I was randomly paired with you."
"Because the first sentence of the synopsis is 'Tian Jing, daughter of international socialite Xiao Wei'..."
As she said this, Tian Jing suddenly froze. She couldn't help but curse anymore.
"Damn it! No wonder Chen Yao Shi insisted on Xiao Wei's child? If you can't write a synopsis, don't write it."
Li Zhengguo hugged his wife, "Now, let's focus on other things. I only saw one sentence below those pixelations, and then it was all pixelated."
"What sentence?"
"Male protagonist Li Zhengguo is a retired soldier and has three sons and one daughter."
"I'll go to hell!"
Tian Jing, enraged, pushed her husband away and slapped the maze wall. The maze wall shook.
The array on the maze appeared again.
"Screw you!"
Even this damn array was bullying her. It clearly appeared without blood.
Li Zhengguo pulled his furious wife back into his arms and gently patted her back.
"Don't be angry, don't be angry. Things are already like this. We can only write the ending."
"Let's think about the third son."
"What else could it be?"
Tian Jing punched her husband's chest, "You must have cheated. Don't forget the book title is 'Nine Lives of X'."
"There must be similarities in each life. In the first and second lives, I didn't have a good ending. If this life has a good ending, will there be the remaining six lives?"
Li Zhengguo coaxed, "Can't you think of that 'X' as something beautiful?"
Tian Jing shook her head resolutely, "No! I firmly believe this author has a screw loose."