"This is Chu Shanhe's daughter?!" Lin Xian said in disbelief.

Zhao Yingjun looked at Lin Xian like he was an idiot:

"What are you surprised about? Didn't you draw this yourself?"

"No, no... I didn't draw her!"

Lin Xian waved his hand and explained:

"I don't even know Chu Shanhe's daughter, I've never even met her. I have no idea what she looks like... How could I draw her? Why would I draw her for no reason?"

Thinking of unnecessary misunderstandings, Lin Xian quickly turned the drawing paper 90 degrees so that Zhao Yingjun could see it clearly.

Pointing to the girl's left eye in the painting:

"Look, this left eye, there's a beauty mark."

"Yeah."

Zhao Yingjun nodded blankly:

"Chu Anqing does have a small beauty mark on the corner of her eye... What are you trying to say?"

"..."

"..."

Lin Xian was speechless.

Why did it feel like the more he explained, the worse it got?

"Director Zhao, I really don't know Chu Shanhe's daughter. Today is the first time I've even heard her name from you."

"You mentioned it once at the science fundraising gala last time, but his daughter didn't come that day. I've really never seen her, I have no idea what she looks like."

Zhao Yingjun lowered her head and smiled:

"Alright, I misunderstood."

She pointed to the invitation letter in Lin Xian's hand and instructed:

"This is an invitation to the celebration banquet on Saturday night. Please deliver it to Professor Xu Yun later."

"It's best to ask Professor Xu Yun if he wants to come. If he decides to come, we need to arrange a special car to pick him up."

Lin Xian nodded and looked through the invitation letter in his hand.

It was very high-end, and the MX company logo was printed on the back:

"Okay, I'll send it to him later."

Zhao Yingjun turned to leave.

But she stopped again:

"Also..."

She turned her head and looked at Lin Xian:

"Although I don't advocate office romances, there are indeed many good girls in our company. If you really plan to fall in love... you can consider someone more realistic."

Lin Xian was speechless.

So Zhao Yingjun thought he had taken a liking to Chu Shanhe's daughter.

He quickly folded up the drawing paper and stuffed it into the black notebook on the desk:

"I really didn't mean that, Director Zhao. I just drew a sketch, thinking I haven't drawn in a long time, so I wanted to practice."

"If you think they look alike, it's purely coincidental."

Zhao Yingjun didn't speak anymore, she just closed her eyes and nodded:

"Alright, work hard, Lin Xian."

She took one last look at Lin Xian, walked out of the office, and closed the door.

"Sigh..."

Lin Xian sat on the sofa, covering his forehead.

When Zhao Yingjun left just now, although she said "Work hard, Lin Xian," the unspoken meaning in her eyes... obviously included "Don't think about unrealistic things."

"Do they really look that alike?"

Lin Xian couldn't believe it.

He was 100% sure that he had never met Chu Shanhe's daughter.

Oh.

The only time.

Was a glimpse from afar at the school gate some time ago, but apart from the bouncy, full high ponytail, he basically didn't see anything clearly.

"They're not identical twins, how could they look exactly the same? CC and that Chu Anqing, their lives are 600 years apart, separated by dozens of generations."

Lin Xian pondered for a moment.

He thought of the possibility of the hibernation pod.

"But, there isn't such a thing as a hibernation pod in that future world where CC is... Logically speaking, Chu Shanhe's daughter couldn't have boarded a hibernation pod and lived for 600 years."

Before he renamed Coco Cat to Rhine Cat, there was no such thing as Rhine Cat in the dream, only Coco Cat.

So, even if Professor Xu Yun invented the hibernation pod tomorrow, it wouldn't explain why CC appeared in yesterday's dream.

[The butterfly effect caused by the space-time shift cannot appear in the future before the space-time shift.]

But...

There are no absolutes.

"I should confirm it first before drawing a conclusion."

Whether it was confirming with CC, or confirming with Chu Shanhe's daughter... in short, Lin Xian felt that this matter was not that simple.

Perhaps those "unbelonging" and "fragmented" memories in CC's mouth were the key to unlocking the answer.

He stood up.

He picked up the invitation letter to be given to Professor Xu Yun.

This invitation letter for the celebration banquet was not sealed with wax, and could be opened directly.

Lin Xian opened the folded page.

Inside was a template invitation, with Professor Xu Yun's name at the beginning, and the time and location of the celebration banquet marked in bold font.

8:30 p.m. the day after tomorrow, Victoria Clubhouse, Donghai City.

"I should hurry and send it to Professor Xu Yun, I don't know if he will attend."

...

He took a taxi to Donghai University.

Because of Xu Yun's popularity, the gatekeepers no longer allowed outsiders to enter casually, especially reporters and the media, for fear of affecting Professor Xu Yun's work.

Lin Xian still relied on a face no different from that of a college student to sneak in.

After entering the laboratory building.

Lin Xian arrived at Professor Xu Yun's laboratory.

But Xu Yun was not here...

After contacting him by phone, he learned that Xu Yun was in the hospital with his daughter.

Lin Xian looked at the invitation letter in his hand...

He felt it would be impolite and informal to say it on the phone, so he decided to take another trip and deliver it in person.

Thinking about it, it made sense.

Xu Yun was now famous and successful, and the hibernation pod filling liquid had already been researched, so there was no need to stay in the laboratory every day.

With this time, he definitely wanted to spend more time with his comatose daughter.

Lin Xian took another taxi to the Affiliated Hospital of Donghai University and came to Xu Yiyi's ward.

The ward was very clean.

Xu Yun was doing muscle stretching exercises for Xu Yiyi, while chatting with his daughter with a beaming smile.

He talked about his research results,

He told his daughter that the first generation of simple hibernation pods would be available soon.

When the time came, she could hibernate into the future for treatment, and could wake up and spend her life.

Seeing Lin Xian come in, Xu Yun smiled and waved, asking Lin Xian to come over.

Then he held his daughter's hand and said with a smile:

"Yiyi, this is the benefactor we should both be most grateful to, Lin Xian. Whether it's Dad's research results, or your hope of waking up, it's actually all thanks to Lin Xian."

"Yiyi... when you wake up, stand up, and start a new life, maybe Dad will no longer be here. You must remember to visit Brother Lin Xian often. Or when you wake up from hibernation... maybe you will have to call Lin Xian Uncle."

After saying that.

Both Xu Yun and Lin Xian couldn't help laughing.

It depended on how long Xu Yiyi would hibernate. If she had to hibernate for fifty or sixty years before thawing and getting treatment... then she could call Lin Xian Grandpa; if she hibernated for two or three hundred years before thawing, then they could burn some paper money and offer incense to Lin Xian.

"Professor Xu, actually you can hibernate together with Xu Yiyi at that time, so that in the future when Yiyi wakes up, you can still live happily together."

However...

Xu Yun shook his head with a kind smile:

"Actually, there is something that I have not announced to the world so far. But secrets don't stay secret forever. When my paper is completed and published, scientists and research institutes will discover this sooner or later..."

He looked up at Lin Xian, his eyes a little lonely:

"Do you know..."

"What is the biggest side effect of hibernation?"