Cheng Cheng and the Cicada
Chapter 24 In My Name, I Crown You With My Surname
时不利兮骓不逝。
骓不逝兮可奈何,
虞兮虞兮奈若何。
……
This is *The Song of Gaixia*, sighed by Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King of Western Chu, when he was defeated in the Battle of Gaixia and surrounded by Liu Bang's hundreds of thousands of troops.
At that time, for Xiang Yu, the general trend was over, and he was besieged on all sides.
He knew clearly that continuing this battle would inevitably lead to his death, so he sang a tragic song and wrote this poem.
Analyzing the literal meaning, the poem begins with Xiang Yu lamenting his heroic spirit, possessing the strength to uproot mountains, and once dominating the world; then, he laments his situation, with unfavorable timing causing his steed, Wuzhui, to be unable to gallop...
But in reality, it wasn't just Wuzhui that couldn't gallop, Xiang Yu was the same.
Even if he was as brave as he was, he was powerless in the face of unfavorable timing, and who knew his helplessness.
At this time, Xiang Yu already knew his fate.
But at the same time, he was also very calm, without regret or remorse, only some helplessness.
Especially when he looked at his beautiful concubine, Yu Ji, who had been with him for so many years, he couldn't help but worry... what would happen to Yu Ji after his death?
In that era of war and chaos, when human life was as cheap as grass, what would become of a beauty like Yu Ji? It was obvious.
When he, the Hegemon-King, was alive, he could protect Yu Ji; but he was about to be beheaded by the enemy, so what would happen to Yu Ji in the future?
This is the creative background of this poem, and the epitome of the well-known story of *Farewell My Concubine*.
The events that followed are known to all.
Yu Ji immediately composed a poem and committed suicide, hoping to cut off Xiang Yu's worries and inspire him to fight again! If he could break through the encirclement, there might be a chance to make a comeback in the future!
But in the end, Xiang Yu chose to commit suicide on the banks of the Wu River, fulfilling his heroic end.
Some say...
He ultimately had no face to face the elders of Jiangdong.
Others say...
Perhaps he was just reluctant to part with the woman who sang, "The King's spirit is exhausted, what is the point of a humble concubine living on?"
This is history.
Silent about right and wrong; the winner is king.
Only the victors have the right to write history, even if it is not the true history.
……
On the banks of the Wu River, Xiang Yu fell.
On the shores of this shallow sea in Copenhagen, Huang Que disappeared.
Lin Xian gazed into the distance, at the churning and dark seawater.
Yu Xi.
At Huang Que's final farewell, one thing she entrusted, almost begged of him... was to tell him ["Never leave Yu Xi"].
But...
Who exactly is Yu Xi?
Lin Xian had always believed that Huang Que was Yu Ji in her story of *Farewell My Concubine*.
But on the spaceplane, when Chu Anqing jumped from an altitude of 20,000 meters to capture space-time particles for him... at that moment, he felt that perhaps the real hero, Yu Ji, in Huang Que's mouth, was Chu Anqing.
And just now, the sudden change between flashes of lightning... made Lin Xian constantly recall this time-space traveler who disappeared in his arms, vanished without a trace.
If this shallow sea of Copenhagen, leading to the Atlantic Ocean, was the Wu River that he could not cross, then the woman who truly deserved the name Yu Ji... wouldn't that be Huang Que, who guided him with her own actions, and gave him the last lesson of her life?
But.
Both of them are gone now.
Never leave Yu Xi...
What exactly isn't he supposed to leave?
In the end.
Yu Xi, in itself, is not a name, but a term of lament in poetry.
If Yu Xi is just a code name, a metaphor, the last riddle that Huang Que had to say due to time-space repulsion and mandatory avoidance...
Then who does it refer to?
Lin Xian admitted that there were very few women around him with whom he had a good relationship.
Especially in this current era, almost only Zhao Yingjun remained.
Recalling the previous riddles Huang Que had given him.
Looking at it from the perspective of hindsight, they were actually very simple and straightforward.
She told him [straightforwardly] that the invitation was fake.
She told him [straightforwardly] that the cat-and-mouse game had begun.
She [straightforwardly] led him to Zheng Chenhe, but he didn't understand.
She [straightforwardly] told him that what he wanted was in the mirror, to look in the mirror more often... In the end, it proved that Huang Que wasn't really a riddler; her riddles were already straightforward and direct enough, but sometimes his understanding was skewed.
So...
Lin Xian believed.
The last instruction Huang Que left behind, "Don't leave Yu Xi," shouldn't be as complicated as he imagined, it should be equally [straightforward].
He noticed at the time that Huang Que's expression when she finally said the two words Yu Xi was one of tenderness, longing, heartache, and pleading.
Presumably.
This Yu Xi must also be a very important person to Huang Que.
Lin Xian turned his head, looking at the Little Mermaid statue in the darkness, gazing into the distance as always.
He clenched his fist.
Since Huang Que had instructed him like this.
He would definitely not fail this trust.
He would try his best to find out who Yu Xi was, and listen to Huang Que's words...
[Absolutely not leave her.]
He hoped that doing so could truly fulfill Huang Que's wish, so that her time-space journey would not leave any regrets.
……
Thinking of this.
Lin Xian couldn't help but wonder again.
What is it like for someone like Huang Que, after turning into blue stardust and disappearing... what state is she in, and where does she go?
Thinking in the best possible direction.
Could it be that she ended this lonely time-space journey and returned to her original time-space, her world?
Even if the world she spoke of became very, very bad because she didn't catch this space-time particle...
After all, that was her home, her final destination.
If that were the case, Lin Xian would be very happy for Huang Que instead.
She was finally free.
Free from the time-space elastic restraints, escaping from the torment of time-space rejection, breaking free from the strangulation of mandatory avoidance.
She was free; she could say anything she wanted, do anything she wanted, and finally be like an ordinary person, doing whatever she wanted.
But...
Would it really be like this?
Was there really such a good ending?
Lin Xian was not sure.
He only sincerely hoped that he would truly grow and become stronger because of the things that had happened during this time.
He sincerely hoped that Huang Que's disappearance would be the last departure of a friend in this world.
There would be no next time.
He would never let the same thing happen again!
So.
Now.
The best way to repay Huang Que, besides listening to her words, finding that "Yu Xi" and not leaving her, was to figure out as soon as possible the two crucial questions Huang Que left him in her last lesson—
1. Why did Huang Que know exactly that the time-space assassin, the teenage killer, was hiding behind the Little Mermaid statue; and even after running to distant Copenhagen, that time-space assassin could still accurately find Huang Que.
2. Why did that time-space assassin kill Huang Que and run away, without even looking at him or showing any interest in killing him. And Huang Que clearly stated that this was what she deliberately did for Lin Xian to see in the final moments of her life, with the goal of making him truly understand the seventh time-space law—mandatory avoidance.
First, consider the first question.
This shouldn't be difficult to guess because Huang Que's hints were too obvious.
If it was just said that the time-space assassin, the teenage killer, could accurately find Huang Que, then that really wouldn't prove anything... Perhaps the enemy's surveillance and reconnaissance methods were really powerful, even if he and Huang Que ran to the ends of the earth, they could be monitored by the enemy.
This wasn't something difficult to understand.
VV could do it, Lin Xian believed that Kevin Walker should also be able to do it, depending on whether he wanted to or not.
Even some hackers who weren't as strong as Kevin Walker might be able to do it... It would simply involve hacking into Denmark's national road monitoring system or a similar system.
From the current perspective, China's Skynet system, with VV's advanced reinforcement, might really be able to prevent Kevin Walker and other hackers from invading.
But now he was in Denmark, standing in Copenhagen.
This place wasn't protected by China's Skynet system and the Great Firewall, so being monitored was understandable.
But...
This was Huang Que's cleverness.
She knew that this answer was wrong, that the enemy didn't know they had come to Copenhagen through monitoring and hacking methods.
She knew what answers were wrong and what answers were correct, but because of time-space repulsion and mandatory avoidance, she had no way to say it clearly.
She could only hint.
She could only enter the game herself to guide Lin Xian's thinking, so that he would understand what the real answer was.
Actually, the real answer was very simple.
The key wasn't how the time-space assassin found Huang Que, but... how did Huang Que accurately know the time-space assassin's location.
Lin Xian and Huang Que had been together day and night these past few days, traveling every day.
Huang Que didn't have any black technology methods like the Skynet system to lock onto someone.
This meant that her ability to discover that time-space assassin relied entirely on [intuition] and [feeling].
This sounded very mysterious.
But there were several things that made Lin Xian connect these clues.
First, there was the matter of that strange space-time particle.
That space-time particle was clearly unaffected by external forces and gravity, yet it could chase after Earth in outer space without deviating.
Obviously, Lin Xian and his team had also analyzed it, and there was only one reason—
Something on Earth was attracting the space-time particle.
Or, it could be said that something on Earth and the space-time particle were mutually attracted.
Mutual attraction!
This was the real key!
Let's boldly assume that if there was another space-time particle hidden somewhere on Earth... wouldn't that mean that the one they had just captured was mutually attracted to and sensed by the one on Earth?
There were similar phenomena in many fields of physics and chemistry:
For example, like poles attract, similarity breeds convergence... All of these indicate that things with the same properties can always attract, merge, and sense each other to a certain extent.
Then.
Once this principle was understood, it wouldn't be difficult to explain the problem of Huang Que and the time-space assassin.
After arriving at this shallow beach.
Huang Que repeatedly instructed him to take pictures, to take them clearly, and to take several more.
Lin Xian didn't understand what Huang Que was waiting for at the time.
She was waiting for the time-space assassin hiding behind the reef to make a move.
Huang Que knew clearly that the little girl was hiding behind there.
She also knew clearly that the little girl was there to kill her.
She could sense it; she could sense it early on. But similarly, because both of them were time-space travelers and both had blue eyes, they were the same in nature. So naturally, the time-space assassin, the little girl, could also sense Huang Que's location.
This made it easy to deduce that—
[Time-space travelers with blue eyes can, to a certain extent, sense the existence, direction, and distance of each other. The accuracy and sensitivity of this sense seemed to be quite good; otherwise, that time-space assassin wouldn't have found Huang Que in Copenhagen in just two days.]
Although it was unknown how this sense between time-space travelers was achieved, what its range was, and how accurate it was.
At least, they could indeed sense each other.
This was probably the first concept that Huang Que wanted to teach him in her last lesson.
Lin Xian couldn't guess what kind of help such a concept would provide him.
However, this seemed to be very useful tactical intelligence in future battles, and could be used for various situation analyses.
"Let's write down this hypothesis first. Countless situations have shown that every word Huang Que says and everything she teaches me is useful."
With the first question resolved.
Let's think about the second question Huang Que left behind.
"Why did that time-space assassin only kill Huang Que but not me? Huang Que herself said that she didn't have much time left, and that she was also limited by many time-space laws. In this light, killing her actually doesn't mean much. Even if we completely ignore Huang Que, she can't change any history or affect any future direction, and... at most, she will naturally dissipate in a few more days."
"But even in this situation, the time-space assassin still attacked Huang Que without hesitation. This doesn't seem like a wise move. Clearly, all they need to do is wait two more days and Huang Que will disappear on her own... Why did they have to let this time-space assassin expose herself in front of me?"
"What's more, as Huang Que raised the question, if the enemies are those who stand against me, wouldn't it be better to have that assassin kill me and solve the problem at its root? Everyone knows the consequences of not pulling up the weeds by the roots or not eliminating the evil completely... Besides angering me, what else can the enemy gain by killing the soon-to-be-dead Huang Que in front of us?"
This thought, although outside of Huang Que's hints, was still something Lin Xian couldn't understand.
Huang Que herself said that she didn't have much time left.
And she couldn't say what she wanted to say, couldn't write what she wanted to write, and was constantly restricted by time-space laws.
Let alone the fact that there was no need to kill her at all, even if there was, after enduring until now, what did it matter to wait these two days and let Huang Que die naturally?
No matter how you looked at it, this was a losing deal.
Behind this behavior...
There seemed to be deeper secrets, plans, conspiracies, and purposes hidden.
He couldn't guess them at the moment. But on a superficial level, with Huang Que's hints, Lin Xian could still understand it.
Mandatory avoidance.
Huang Que clearly pointed out before disappearing that the reason why the time-space assassin didn't kill him was related to the time-space law of mandatory avoidance.
Then, by linking the phenomenon with the law, it was easy to deduce the answer—
[The reason why the time-space assassin didn't kill me was also due to the restrictions of time-space laws. Neither time-space elasticity, time-space rejection, nor mandatory avoidance allow time-space travelers to arbitrarily change established history, or rather, to change history that has already been locked. Therefore, it's not that the time-space assassin didn't want to kill me, but that she couldn't kill, couldn't do it, and couldn't kill even if she wanted to!]
Just like Huang Que was cautious when she wanted to explain a term or give a hint... If she crossed the line even a little bit, she would be subject to mandatory avoidance and become transparent, and even almost be obliterated by time-space forces.
Under the premise that even speaking was restricted...
Time-space travelers still wanted to kill people?
"No need to think about it; time-space laws wouldn't allow it."
Lin Xian understood instantly:
"That time-space assassin can't kill me. Just as Huang Que has always told me, she can't say it... that time-space assassin is also restricted by time-space laws, and can't kill."
"No wonder, no wonder Huang Que could so relaxed and take me traveling this time; it's because she knows that I won't be in any danger when facing time-space travelers."
"If that time-space assassin wanted to kill me, it's possible that the moment she raised her knife, the mandatory avoidance time-space law would be triggered, directly strangling her, making her transparent, or even directly obliterating and dissipating her."
Lin Xian believed that time-space laws definitely had this kind of power, and that they were fair, just, impartial, and treated all beings equally.
No wonder Huang Que had told him long ago that many secrets, almost all the codes, were hidden within the time-space laws...
Laws are the essence of time-space, the foundation of everything.
Through today's events, Lin Xian also thoroughly understood the concept of this seventh time-space law, mandatory avoidance—
[Time-space travelers cannot forcibly change established history. If what they say or do causes established history to deviate from its original track or break through time-space elasticity, triggering time-space changes... then they will be forcibly muted, forcibly stopped, forcibly erased, and forcibly disappeared by the power of time-space itself. This phenomenon, which is forbidden by the mandatory force, is called mandatory avoidance.]
"But... it doesn't seem complete enough, or comprehensive enough."
Lin Xian always felt that something was missing from the explanation of mandatory avoidance.
Because...
Huang Que had said something thought-provoking that day:
"This kind of thing generally doesn't happen. It's more like... it absolutely doesn't happen in normal time-space."
"Only when time-space rejection and historical locking exist simultaneously... will this phenomenon be triggered."
This also meant that time-space rejection was not a necessary condition for triggering mandatory avoidance; historical locking was.
Only in historically locked time-space could the phenomenon of mandatory avoidance occur.
So, after going around in a circle.
In the end, if he wanted to understand the complete version of the mandatory avoidance law and thoroughly understand it... he would have to wait until he understood what historical locking was before he could draw a final conclusion.
Hu...
Lin Xian let out a long breath, facing the dark sea.
This time, he shouldn't have disappointed Huang Que.
He had already figured out one and a half of the two questions she had left him... That was all he could say.
The complete description of the mandatory avoidance law, and the reason why the time-space assassin had to kill Huang Que, who only had two days left to live, in front of him... would probably have to wait until he collected clues and information in the future before he could slowly figure it out.
However.
Just by understanding this much, Lin Xian could understand something that had been lingering in his mind for a long time—
VV's disappearance.
Before, he couldn't understand why VV died, how it died... let alone understand who had the ability to kill VV, such a super-advanced AI.
But now, he understood a little.
Just like the matter of Huang Que and the time-space assassin...
Huang Que could be killed by a time-space traveler from the future, so why couldn't VV?
He hadn't really considered the possibility of other time-space travelers besides Huang Que before.
Thinking about it now, he was really arrogant and conceited.
If he could have a time-space traveler by his side, why couldn't others?
Now that he considered the possibility of time-space travelers, it wouldn't be difficult to explain why VV was killed.
A super hacker from the future? A more advanced AI from the future? A super virus from the future? A cyber attack from the future?
In short, something from the future must have destroyed VV.
VV, like Huang Que, was not a product of this era, and killing these foreign objects seemed to be allowed by time-space laws.
Perhaps...
Things that didn't belong to this time-space, those outsiders from other time-spaces, were not protected by time-space laws.
"That's not right either."
Lin Xian shook his head, feeling that there was a loophole in this reasoning.
First of all, VV, strictly speaking, couldn't be considered a foreign object from another time-space.
First, it wasn't subject to time-space rejection, and no part of it turned crystal blue.
Second, he typed it out letter by letter on his laptop, and both he and the laptop were native to this time-space, so VV should definitely be considered a product of this time-space.
Third, VV's death was not a dissipation into blue stardust, which was also ironclad evidence that it was not a time-space anomaly.
"Then why, even though VV is a product of this time-space, is it still not protected by time-space laws?"
"Is it because it's not human? Doesn't have a real soul and individuality?"
"Or... because of some other reason, some other time-space law that I still haven't understood?"
Now.
As Lin Xian's understanding of time-space laws grew, he became more and more thorough.
He really discovered that knowledge is power, knowledge is a weapon.
The more laws he understood, the more mysteries he solved, the clearer and broader his thinking became, and the more he could see through the enemy's conspiracies and deduce the truth behind the darkness.
At this moment.
He finally understood Huang Que's good intentions.
She helped him with many things, but the most important thing, and what she considered to be her true mission and task...
Was [teaching him to understand time-space laws].
This was the true purpose of Huang Que's time-space journey from that terrible future back to the now that still had hope.
The importance of time-space laws was above everything else.
Snatching that inactive time-space particle was perhaps just an insurance; and what could truly lead him to victory in this time-space battle, this salvation against the opposition... was ultimately the time-space laws, full of unlimited possibilities and unlimited power!
Lin Xian looked away from the sea.
He took out his phone from his pocket.
He lit up the screen.
Everything that had happened here today had been arranged by Huang Que, so naturally no step was superfluous.
Including taking photos.
Huang Que might not care whether she could really take a photo with the Little Mermaid statue.
Her true purpose should be, as she said when she was pierced by the sharp knife... to let him hurry up and take photos, take more of them, and take them clearly... so that he could capture the appearance of that time-space assassin, know who the murderer was, and be wary.
Or, wait for the day to avenge her.
Click.
The phone made a crisp unlocking sound, and Lin Xian clicked on the album icon in the upper left corner of the interface to view the photos he had just taken.
The first photo was of Huang Que, wearing a trench coat, with her hands in her pockets, standing in front of the Little Mermaid statue, smiling confidently and proudly.
These photos were taken very well; Lin Xian had brought out his best skills.
Various angles.
Various details.
This should be the greatest masterpiece he could produce in his unprofessional photography career.
But he never thought that this would be the last trace Huang Que left in this world.
"I was here."
This was her final whisper.
After a few normal tourist photos, there were dozens of photos that Lin Xian frantically took in rapid succession. From the moment the time-space assassin drew her sharp knife to the moment she disappeared into the black night, the entire process was captured like a slideshow.
It's just that the girl's running speed was too fast... Like a cheetah or a gazelle, Lin Xian couldn't believe that such a little girl would have the explosive power of an Olympic champion.
But the fact was the fact.
From the Little Mermaid statue in front of him to the shadow on the other side of the beach, it was at least a hundred meters away.
But the girl ran it in seven or eight seconds.
Although Lin Xian's perceived time at the time might not be accurate, this kind of physical fitness could at least compete with the hundred-meter superman Bolt.
Logically speaking...
A little girl of this height and age hadn't fully developed her muscle strength, her body was still developing rapidly, and her coordination was still being adjusted. She shouldn't have such strong physical abilities.
However, considering that she was, after all, a time-space traveler from the future, if her original era was hundreds of years later, anything was possible.
In the Third Dream, there had already been vaccine-like drugs that strengthened the body and brain. They only needed to be injected in small doses in batches during the infant stage, and the brain and body could be strengthened without any side effects... They could even make the appearance as handsome and beautiful as a sculpture.
From this perspective, it wasn't difficult to explain the girl's exaggerated physical fitness.
Lin Xian slid his fingers across the phone screen.
Constantly enlarging each photo in order to see the girl's appearance clearly.
In terms of overall height, Lin Xian's estimate was correct.
The girl's height was probably between 155-160 centimeters, and she was indeed still in her developmental stage.
Her body proportions were very good, and her figure was also very slender. From her exposed calf, he could see obvious traces of exercise.
The girl's upper body was wearing a gray hoodie, which was obviously a size too big. The hood covered her facial features tightly, making it impossible to see any details. Her lower body was wearing a pair of loose-fitting sweatpants. Because the cuffs weren't elasticated, the trouser legs flew up when she ran quickly, allowing Lin Xian to see the muscle lines on her calves.
She was running so fast that most of the snapshots were blurry afterimages.
Finally.
Lin Xian found a relatively clear photo.
Although he still hadn't captured the girl's face head-on.
But... those bright, clear eyes, like blue light bulbs, shone from the darkness of the hood like spotlights, watching Lin Xian's phone camera with fierce eyes.
Zoom in.
Zoom in again.
No, it's too dark; you can't see anything clearly.
The beach itself was very dim, with no light source other than moonlight. In addition, the hood of the girl's sweatshirt was tightly covered, making it impossible to see her facial features clearly.
However...
"Her hair is black."
Lin Xian widened the photo with two fingers, looking at a strand of black hair that peeked out from the collar of the hood.
Was that the girl's sideburns?
Many teenage girls these days like to keep long sideburns, the catfish whiskers hairstyle. Would this aesthetic still be fashionable in the future?
This trend wasn't surprising.
When Lin Xian was in junior high school, the girls in his class generally had thick bangs and large sideburns. Trends are just a cycle.
At this point, all the photos taken in rapid succession had been viewed.
Unfortunately...
He obtained very little information about the time-space assassin from these photos—
Age 15-16 years old,
Height 155-160 cm,
Both eyes are crystal blue, bright as light bulbs,
Hair is black, length unknown,
"These characteristics are too vague."
Lin Xian shook his head.
It was definitely unrealistic to try to locate or find this little girl through these characteristics.
Unless he saw these eyes in a crowd and then compared the height and hair color, he could recognize her again.
But...
Would the other party reappear and give him this opportunity?
According to the previous reasoning.
This time-space assassin couldn't kill him, so theoretically, he shouldn't be her target.
"In any case, it's better to be careful. And..."
He lowered his head again, looking at the clothes that Huang Que had left on the ground:
"This revenge must be taken."
Even if Huang Que only had two days left to live.
But the fact that the other party had killed Huang Que so brazenly in front of him, this blood debt could only be paid with blood!
Lin Xian squatted down and picked up Huang Que's belongings, one by one: the clothes, high heels, phone... He folded them neatly.
When he folded the coat, he unexpectedly felt a hard card in the inner pocket of the coat.
This size and thickness...
It should be Huang Que's ID card.
Recalling when the two of them boarded the plane at Pudong International Airport, he had peeked at it at the ticket gate.
The ID card had Huang Que's photo, and the name column there was written with the two characters Huang Que.
Of course, he knew that this ID card was fake.
Although from the perspective of structure and authenticity, it must be real, otherwise it wouldn't have passed the ticket gate. However, Lin Xian knew in his heart that Huang Que was a time-space traveler, not native to this time-space.
So, where did she get an ID card from?
No birth certificate, no household registration, almost like popping out of a stone... How could she possibly have an ID card?
Therefore, the information on this ID card must be fake; it must have been a card that Huang Que commissioned the relevant national departments to create for her.
At the ticket gate at the time, Lin Xian had stated bluntly:
"Anyway, the age on this document is definitely fake, just like the name."
But Huang Que at that time had only smiled slightly and said casually:
"That's not necessarily the case."
Lin Xian hadn't cared about this matter afterward.
Whether the information on the ID card was true or false didn't mean anything to him.
Huang Que was Huang Que.
No matter what era she came from, what time-space she came from, she was Huang Que, the unique Huang Que in this world, in every world.
But at this time...
Lin Xian still couldn't help but care about what Huang Que meant by "That's not necessarily the case."
Holding curiosity.
Lin Xian pulled out Huang Que's ID card from the inner pocket of this brown coat.
He flipped it over from the back to the front and held it in his hand.
On the right was a photo of Huang Que, no different from reality.
On the left, in the name column, was written Huang Que's name, which was the information Lin Xian had already seen at the airport.
He looked directly at the bottom row of ID numbers—
33012719990115……
Lin Xian couldn't help but close his eyes; his heart felt like it had suddenly been grasped... He didn't continue to look at the last four digits.
19990115
This was Zhao Yingjun's birthday.
After that late Disneyland fireworks show, he would never forget Zhao Yingjun's birthday again.
But he never thought that today, at this moment, by the shallow sea in Copenhagen, this eternal memory had been deepened once again.
So...
What Huang Que meant by "That's not necessarily the case" referred to this matter.
There was no doubt that the name Huang Que on the ID card was fake, but the date of birth she wrote was real.
Of course.
If it was just this matter.
It wouldn't be enough to make Lin Xian feel so mixed emotions and unable to breathe at this time.
Because this was something that was expected, and Lin Xian had long guessed that Huang Que was Zhao Yingjun from a certain timeline in the future, a certain possible time-space.
What truly made him speechless...
Was the ID number, the first six digits.
Zhao Yingjun was born in the capital, Beijing.
Lin Xian knew very well that the ID card of Beijing should start with 110.
Even if there were many districts and counties under Beijing, the first few digits of the ID card number would have some slight differences.
But no matter what! The ID number of Beijing could definitely not start with 330127!
Lin Xian knew this better than anyone else.
330127.
This was the ID number of Chun'an County, which belongs to Hangzhou City!
Lin Xian knew better than anyone else.
Because...
Chun'an County, Hangzhou City...
Was Lin Xian's hometown.
It was where he was born and grew up.