After the kiss, the two leaned their foreheads against each other, their breaths slightly uneven.
Qin Moyuan's eyes were filled with a gentle smile. "To avoid suffocating, it seems we'll need to practice more in the future."
Li Yueshu smiled, playfully punching his chest. She didn't say much more.
After the sweet moment, Li Yueshu turned to clean up the aftermath of tending to their wounds.
Qin Moyuan also got up, but he acted like an affectionate puppy, hugging Li Yueshu from behind and resting his chin on her shoulder.
Li Yueshu glanced at him sideways, not refusing. She calmly continued with her task.
But Qin Moyuan was like a Siamese twin, determined to follow her wherever she moved.
Li Yueshu's fists clenched.
Qin Moyuan, who had been sniffing the delicate fragrance near his nose, suddenly felt his embrace empty and instinctively stumbled forward.
Fortunately, he reacted quickly and steadied himself.
However, upon seeing his surroundings, he was stunned.
Ah Shu had thrown him out?
On the very first day, he was already disliked?!
Qin Moyuan pouted and sat down with a wronged expression.
After an unknown amount of time, Li Yueshu finally emerged from her space and immediately saw Qin Moyuan, his head drooping.
Li Yueshu's mouth twitched. "If you have so much free time, why don't you help me with something."
Qin Moyuan's spirits immediately lifted. "What does Ah Shu want me to do?"
Seeing him about to cling to her again, Li Yueshu quickly pushed him away. "Go get a few hairs from Gu Hexuan for me."
Qin Moyuan, having been pushed away, felt a little wronged but didn't try to get closer.
But... hair?
Qin Moyuan suddenly remembered what Ah Shu had done for Wei Zimiao and Wei Ling in Hongning City.
A guess formed in his mind. "Ah Shu suspects Li Xiangru has stolen your identity?"
Li Yueshu pursed her lips and nodded, then shook her head. "I'm not entirely sure."
Logically, Li Xiangru was the heroine of this world, and her assigned background story shouldn't have any issues.
However, the stark difference in attitude between Li father and mother towards the original body and Li Xiangru was too obvious. The scar on the original body's back was also too coincidental, making one suspect.
Moreover, she also wanted to know if the red crescent moon birthmark she had in her past life was a coincidence.
After thinking, Li Yueshu recounted her birthmark in her previous life and the words of the drunken Taoist at the Royal Temple.
"Drunken Taoist?" Qin Moyuan frowned. "I have heard of such a person."
He explained, "The abbot of the Royal Temple is a highly accomplished monk. Even the Emperor rarely appears, but he has a close friend, a Taoist who is said to love drinking, named Xuan Chenzi."
Li Yueshu frowned in confusion.
Xuan Chenzi?
That name didn't seem to appear in the original novel.
Instead, the abbot of the Royal Temple had appeared a few times in the original novel, and always for Li Xiangru.
The accomplished monks in novels always had eyes that could see through everything. Therefore, the abbot knew Li Xiangru was reborn the moment he saw her, and also knew she was destined for greatness, so he spoke highly of her to the Emperor.
It seemed that after returning to Chongzhou, she had to visit the Royal Temple again.
Especially to meet that Xuan Chenzi and carefully ask him the meaning of his words.
...
Having agreed to get Gu Hexuan's hair, Qin Moyuan went to chat with Gu Hexuan that very day.
Qin Moyuan acted quickly and got the hair back that night without arousing Gu Hexuan's suspicion.
Once she had the samples, Li Yueshu disregarded Qin Moyuan's desire to continue clinging to her, sent him off to sleep, and entered her space to perform two tests.
One was with her current body, and the other was a sample from her past life.
Although her body from that life might have been blown to pieces, leaving no bones, the laboratory had her DNA data, so it wasn't difficult to conduct the tests.
After the tests, Li Yueshu waited for the results.
...
The next day.
As soon as Li Yueshu woke up, Chai Yang brought her some good news.
The court had sent three waves of people to Guanzhou for disaster relief, so the situation in Guanzhou quickly stabilized.
Qin Moyuan and Gu Hexuan didn't need to gain a good reputation, so the main effort fell on Qin Yexiu.
This would have been a good thing for Qin Yexiu, but he happened to have "bad luck." Either the porridge was snatched and overturned, splashing him, or he was hugged by refugees who hadn't bathed in months, crying with gratitude, and he couldn't shake them off.
According to Chai Yang, the Crown Prince, who had always been gentle and amiable in public, wore an expression so terrible that it was beyond words.
Li Yueshu was quite pleased with this and personally went to watch the spectacle after breakfast.
Qin Moyuan, being a qualified cling-on, naturally followed along.
He had finally managed to win her over, and he had dreamt of her laughing last night. Of course, he had to keep a close eye on her!
Seeing Ah Shu laugh so happily at Qin Yexiu's misfortune, Qin Moyuan was also happy.
When they returned, he would give Qin Yexiu a grand gift, a reward for amusing Ah Shu!
...
After watching the show for a whole day, Li Yueshu even ate an extra bowl of rice.
That night.
After everyone had fallen asleep, Li Yueshu entered her space to check the test results.
However, upon seeing the two results, Li Yueshu was completely dumbfounded.
In her two lifetimes, she had never seen anything so outrageous.
The results of both tests indicated that she and Gu Hexuan were related!
How could this be!
The bodies she had used in her two lives belonged to two different people. Even if they looked identical, how could their DNA be the same!
Li Yueshu quickly used the remaining hair from Gu Hexuan to perform several more tests, watching the results intently each time.
But each time, the results were the same: both showed a familial relationship!
Li Yueshu stared blankly at the results in her hand, sitting at the table for an entire night without moving.
When Qin Moyuan came in with hot porridge, he saw her, her body damp, looking as if she hadn't slept all night.
Qin Moyuan frowned, quickly closed the door, and walked over. "Ah Shu, what happened?"
Li Yueshu opened her mouth but didn't know how to begin.
She had thought about it all night, her brain almost burning out, and she still couldn't figure out the reason.
Qin Moyuan took the test results from her hand, but he couldn't understand a single word or the strange symbols on them.
However, he could tell that Ah Shu had been preoccupied lately and was in a bad mood today, which must be because of these two pieces of paper.
After some thought, he changed his question. "Ah Shu, what do these say?"
Li Yueshu pursed her lips and slowly said, "This one is the test result between my past life's body and Gu Hexuan's. This one is the test result between my current body and Gu Hexuan's."
She took a deep breath. "Both results are the same; they show a familial relationship."
Hearing this, even the usually calm Qin Moyuan was startled. "How is that possible!"
It was indeed impossible, but the evidence was right before her eyes. Li Yueshu didn't know how to explain it.