"You are the person in the painting," Tang Yu said.
"How is that possible? I've lived in the Qiao family for twenty years. You can ask around—the Qiao family in Haishi," Shen Yunyun replied.
"This is indeed quite baffling. Before I saw the jade bracelet, I also thought the family precept was just a delusion." Tang Yu handed her another journal. "This is a later copy; the original was worn out from being read so much."
Shen Yunyun took it and looked it over, growing more and more incredulous. The journal detailed the circumstances of their ancestor Tang Yuan's birth, identical to the baby she had saved last time at the Myriad Worlds Trading Center.
Tang Yuan, Tang Yuan.
Shen Yunyun felt a bit disoriented.
How could this be?
But thinking about her bizarre Myriad Worlds Trading Center and her own experience of being reborn, she suddenly wasn't so sure.
Could it be that she saved that baby and ended up marrying him and having children?
So this Tang Yu before her was her descendant with that little Tang Yuan?
Oh heavens, just strike me dead with lightning.
Her mind really couldn't wrap around this. What was going on?
Was it some kind of temporal chaos from a certain period, or some other reason?
Recalling how she had carried the baby around the hospital and returned to find time there seemingly unchanged, she felt like she understood something, yet had no clear leads.
"We can do a kinship test," Tang Yu said.
"Human DNA is already very similar. What kinship test could prove we're blood-related? Even if everything you say is true, how many generations has it been?"
Tang Yu had no response.
"To be honest, even I find it hard to accept that our ancestor is so young."
Shen Yunyun: "..."
Two hours later, they reached a consensus, and Shen Yunyun transformed into Tang Yu's great-aunt by marriage.
Tang Yu generously offered to give her a car and a house, but Shen Yunyun refused.
"I live at 666 Yaxia Village. My house is being renovated right now."
Tang Yu slipped the jade bracelet back onto her wrist and said, "This is yours. Now it's returned to its rightful owner."
"Ah, this?" Shen Yunyun was shocked.
She had just sold this jade bracelet for a million, and now it was coming back to her in another way?
"How much did you spend on this jade bracelet?"
Tang Yu smiled and said, "Twenty million."
Shen Yunyun: "..."
She felt a pang of regret. What should she do?
Looking at her newly acquired great-grandson, her emotions were mixed.
"I'll pay you back the extra money you spent."
"Great-aunt, no need. Finding you is my honor."
Shen Yunyun: "..."
Was she really being put on a pedestal like this?
"Great-aunt, are you sure you won't move in with us?"
"No, no, no. I'm more comfortable living alone."
"Then should I hire a nanny to take care of you?"
"No need. I'm only twenty; I don't need anyone to take care of me."
Tang Yu only knew that the family precept required every generation to find the ancestor and take good care of her once found.
But looking at the ancestor before him, who was younger than him, it seemed she didn't need his care either.
He suggested installing surveillance cameras at her home connected to an alarm system, but Shen Yunyun refused again.
She didn't want anyone to know her secrets.
Finally shaking off Tang Yu, Shen Yunyun went home.
The shock she received today was no less than when she first saw the Myriad Worlds Trading Center.
But no matter how much she thought about it, she couldn't figure out what was going on.
That night, the Myriad Worlds Trading Center opened again.