Travelling through the interstellar world, starting with the real and fake daughter

After receiving Prince Arthur’s message, Mai Dongzi and her brother Mai Zixuan used the information’s flying message code to contact their father. Once they learned about their mother’s situation, all their thoughts were consumed by their parents.

Mai Dongzi, eager to find her father, was too preoccupied to think too much. She felt it might not be good for Vice Commander Chen to see the contents of the message, but since Prince Arthur saw it without much reaction, she directly reached out to him.

She hadn’t anticipated that Prince Arthur, after investigating the information, would form any particular thoughts or deduce anything from her reaching out to him.

A year ago, when Mai Zixuan appeared by Mai Dongzi’s side, Prince Arthur had investigated Mai Zixuan’s identity and confirmed that he was indeed Mai Dongzi’s cousin. The two had always referred to each other as cousins in public.

Mai Dongzi not only treated this cousin well but also treated another cousin, Zhuang Huaiya, even better.

At the time, Prince Arthur had speculated that Mai Dongzi was likely projecting the affection she had for her younger brother in her past life onto these two cousins, which was why she was so close to them.

After confirming there was no issue with Jiang Zixuan, and fearing that focusing too much on Mai Dongzi’s personal matters might make her uncomfortable, Prince Arthur decided not to investigate further. Although he felt that Mai Dongzi and Jiang Zixuan were unusually close, he chose not to probe deeper.

It wasn’t until he received Mai Dongzi’s plea for help through a flying message and reviewed the relevant information that Prince Arthur suddenly realized Jiang Zixuan might very well be Mai Dongzi’s younger brother from her previous life.

No wonder he had felt that Mai Dongzi and Jiang Zixuan’s relationship seemed more like that of biological siblings rather than cousins when he saw them together.

In his past life, Prince Arthur had never known much about Mai Dongzi’s real family. The only person he had met was her younger brother. However, at that time, his attention had been focused on Mai Dongzi, and he hadn’t paid much attention to her younger brother.

If Jiang Zixuan is Mai Dongzi’s younger brother from her previous life, then Mr. Atom’s identity can be deduced from this.

The content of the message Mr. Atom sent to Jiang Zixuan was clearly copied from that strange book that he and Mai Dongzi had once read in their past life.

This proves that Mr. Atom must have also visited that world; otherwise, how could he have seen that same strange book?

There is also the question of why Mr. Atom sent this information to Jiang Zixuan instead of Mai Dongzi. After all, Mai Dongzi’s identity in this world is Mr. Atom’s biological daughter.

So, if Jiang Zixuan is Mai Dongzi’s younger brother from her previous life, then it is highly likely that Mr. Atom is the father of both Mai Dongzi and Jiang Zixuan in their previous life.

Only this explanation can clarify Mr. Atom’s actions.

Prince Arthur also discovered another issue from Mai Dongzi’s request for him to investigate this matter.

Based on Mai Dongzi’s usual behavior in both her past and present lives, she would only approach him in extreme situations. Even if she needed to contact him, she would usually send a message. This was the first time she directly contacted him via flying message.

Normally, when something came up, she would first approach Vice Commander Chen. She would only turn to him if Vice Commander Chen could not handle the issue.

The problem is this: Why didn’t she ask Vice Commander Chen for help and instead contacted him directly, explicitly requesting that no one else see the contents of the message?

Because of that one sentence, Prince Arthur personally took charge of the matter.

So, could it be that Mai Dongzi has already suspected his identity?

At the very least, she was certain that after reading the message from Mr. Atom, he wouldn’t have any negative reactions.

If she knew who he was, what kind of reaction would she have? Would she, like in her past life, leave without hesitation, leaving him standing in place, watching her back grow further and further away?

Prince Arthur closed his eyes, his expression indifferent as if he had fallen asleep. Only the slight movement of his throat betrayed a hint of unrest.

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After learning of their parents’ existence, the siblings eagerly waited each day, feeling as though time was moving too slowly.

In reality, however, Mai Father returned to Capital Star quite quickly. On the seventeenth day after contacting him, Mai Dongzi received a flying message from Uncle Mu, saying that her father had brought her mother to her small villa.

Mai Father had been on the Edge Star for many years, with no roots on Capital Star, not even a house. Mai Dongzi and Mai Zixuan both wanted their parents to stay at their own homes, but in this world, Mai Dongzi was the legitimate daughter of Atom and Zhuang Yuelan. Moreover, Mai Zixuan’s house was left to him by his biological mother, whereas Mai Dongzi had purchased hers herself. Therefore, Mai Father naturally chose to stay at Mai Dongzi’s villa.

The advantage of legitimacy was that Mai Dongzi could take leave because of Atom and Zhuang Yuelan, but Mai Zixuan could not. Mai Zixuan could only sadly watch as Mai Dongzi left the school.

Uncle Mu knew about the young master’s background, and Mai Dongzi had informed him beforehand. Although he was surprised to see the father who had long been presumed dead suddenly appear, genetic verification made it impossible for this to be a fake.

Thus, after Mai Father arrived at Mai Dongzi’s villa, Uncle Mu and his wife provided excellent service.

Having experienced life-and-death separation and reunited after one lifetime, seeing a father who appeared even younger and stronger than before, both father and daughter had red eyes, remembering their last meeting.

However, Mai Dongzi was more concerned about her mother, and Mai Father likely felt the same. Neither of them had the mood to talk about the past life’s separation and death. They went straight to the treatment room to see Mai Mother, Zhuang Yuelan.

In this world, Mai Mother looked much younger than Mai Dongzi remembered. However, due to the long period of unconsciousness, Mai Mother’s appearance wasn’t ugly, but she had become so thin that it broke Mai Dongzi’s heart.

Her mother, who had always been elegant and graceful, had never looked so frail except in death.

Mai Dongzi held her mother’s hand and was about to probe her body with her spiritual power when she sensed the flow of wood-type ability.

Mai Dongzi froze for a moment, then used her wood-type ability to carefully sense it. She discovered that the wood-type ability was continuously nourishing her mother’s body.

Over the years, her mother had appeared to become thinner, but her body’s bones hadn’t been harmed at all, and even the wood-type ability had reached level six.

However, despite the wood-type ability continuously nourishing her body, her mother remained so thin and still in a deep coma. This was highly abnormal.

After all, level-six wood-type ability should be able to heal even severe injuries. No matter how serious the brain injury, after so many years of self-healing, it should have been cured by now.

Mai Dongzi used her spiritual power like an X-ray to “scan” her mother’s entire body. In the end, she found something unusual in her mother’s brain.

Mai Father had been paying attention to his daughter’s expression, using it to judge his wife’s condition.

As soon as Mai Dongzi opened her eyes, Mai Father immediately asked, “How is your mother?”

“No wonder Mom hasn’t woken up after all this time,” Mai Dongzi said angrily.