Chapter 365 – Your family’s plum blossom is lost again (42)
Yan Luo gathered her thoughts, lowered her head, and blinked.
So this person transmigrated into this book world and was then bound by this pseudo-system because of her characteristics?
“What exactly do you mean?” Yan Luo shifted her body slightly backward, her face a mix of terror and anger as she stared at Wang Shi. “I don’t care what you are—send me back right now! Otherwise, my Grandpa and my Xiao Gege won’t let you off!”
“This is all you ever rely on, isn’t it?” Wang Shi sneered. “Clinging to your powerful family, clinging to Mu Ci. Tell me, did you already know? About Mu Ci’s real identity?”
“Xiao Gege’s identity…?” Yan Luo froze, looking at Wang Shi, her fingers curling slightly. “What are you talking about? I don’t know anything.”
Yan Luo : Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up! So curious! (✧◡✧)
“Mu Ci isn’t just some ordinary person,” Wang Shi leaned in slightly, smiling as she spoke. “He’s a genetically engineered human, created by a top-secret research lab using the most perfect human genome.”
Yan Luo : What the—?! w(ﾟДﾟ)w What did you just say?!
—Wait a second! Isn’t this supposed to be a lighthearted school-life dimension?! What the hell is this research lab nonsense?!
“They used the genetic material of the Mu family couple and combined it with experimental modifications. With today’s medical technology, it’s impossible to detect his true identity. But because the genetic engineering is still in its experimental phase, there’s a fatal flaw. Mu Ci has an emotional deficiency. Every emotion he displays is something he learned to mimic over time.” Wang Shi relished the disbelief in Yan Luo’s eyes, finding immense satisfaction in finally revealing the secret she had been holding onto. She looked down at Yan Luo from above and continued, “So, while I don’t know how he first came across you when you were lost….”
Yan Luo’s pupils dilated slightly as Wang Shi’s voice, laced with malice and amusement, echoed in her ears.
“But one thing is certain. You never meant anything to him. As for you and the Yan family, from the very beginning, Mu Ci was only using you… Using you all to escape the Mu family’s surveillance, to deceive the research institute behind them.”
—Yan Luo.
—To him, you were nothing.
“No, that’s not true! That’s not true! You’re lying! Xiao Gege isn’t like that!” Yan Luo shook her head violently, her eyes rimmed red, though stubbornly refusing to let her tears fall. “You couldn’t possibly know these things. He’s just an ordinary human. A research lab? That’s impossible!”
“Impossible? You think I couldn’t know? You think it’s unscientific? But aren’t you witnessing something unscientific right now? Then why don’t you explain, scientifically, why you and I ended up here?” Wang Shi grinned, enjoying the despair creeping onto Yan Luo’s face.
“Besides, your Xiao Gege is nothing more than an experiment, a test subject being monitored. That research institute needed a family to help integrate this artificial human into society for observation. His fate was already decided long ago…”
Wang Shi smiled faintly. “After all, the Mu family already has a real son. He was diagnosed with organ failure at a young age. The original plan was for Mu Ci’s experiment to conclude when he turned eighteen, at which point he would ‘accidentally’ die, and his organs would be transplanted into the only true Mu family heir, Mu Li.”