Lu Wanqing took Cui Cui to wash her hands.
Zhang Qiong also took Sisi to wash her hands.
Cui Cui was proud, and Sisi was a little nervous, but both children finished washing quickly.
Everyone returned to the dining room, finished breakfast, and then it was time for school.
Sisi had already completed her enrollment procedures yesterday and could also go to school today.
The hovercar was waiting at the door. Their whole family got into the hovercar together and then took the two children to school.
Sisi and Cui Cui were in the same grade, but to avoid awkwardness, the school had placed them in different classes. They could study separately once they got to school.
After dropping the children off at school, the adults had to go back.
In the hovercar, the atmosphere became awkward again, and no one knew what to say.
Back home, Wei Xingzhou contacted the director of the film crew to discuss Lu Wanqing designing costumes for the crew.
When the director heard that Lu Wanqing could design ancient Earth costumes, he immediately became excited and said, "Yes, absolutely!" No one in the Federation was better than Lu Wanqing. Lu Wanqing was a true ancient Earthling and was most familiar with what clothes were needed in the ancient Earth era and what they looked like.
However, a contract was needed, and Lu Wanqing still had to negotiate with the director. She also needed to look at the script to know what clothes were needed for which scenes, how many clothes were needed, and the budget of the crew, which would determine the quality of the costumes.
The quality of the lead actors' costumes would definitely be different from those of the supporting actors, especially the main leads and the male and female supporting roles, whose costumes needed to be of better quality. For other minor characters and extras, the costumes could be simpler.
Lu Wanqing discussed with the director for a long time, and finally, they reached an agreement and signed the contract.
Meanwhile, Wei Xingzhou and Zhang Qiong were having a private talk in the living room on the first floor. The investigation into the children's swapped genes had not yet concluded, but Wei Xingzhou wanted to get some details from Zhang Qiong.
Zhang Qiong had already been interviewed by Wei Xingzhou's parents when she was at the Wei family's house. Now, she was just repeating the information to Wei Xingzhou, speaking very seriously and recounting everything she knew from nine years ago.
Nine years ago, she had just graduated from university and was working in her uncle's company.
But one day, her uncle suddenly asked her to go out with him to handle something. Since he was her uncle, Zhang Qiong didn't think much of it, assuming it was just a business trip. She packed a few things and left with her uncle.
That day, they traveled directly by flying vehicle. They flew a long distance, almost from one end of the planet to the other. When they landed, she was still confused. Even more confusing was that her uncle took her to a hospital.
She had no idea why her uncle brought her to the hospital, but after entering an office, someone quickly covered her mouth and nose from behind and injected her with something. She quickly lost her strength.
Her mind was still lucid, but her body couldn't move.
It was then that Zhang Qiong realized her uncle had malicious intentions and that she was in danger.
Then, another doctor came and extracted her genes. Using her genes and Wei Xingzhou's genes, they cultivated an embryo and implanted it into her body from the outside.
When her uncle was on the phone with those people, he made no effort to hide anything from her. She heard their entire conversation, so she also knew that the child she was carrying was cultivated from the genes of Wei Xingzhou, the young master of the Wei family, and her own genes.
Those people gave her uncle a large sum of money and promised to take better care of his business in the future, allowing him to expand his family business.
Her uncle locked her up and constantly brainwashed her, telling her to carry the child well and give birth to it. Just one child, he said, would bring the Zhang family their most glorious moment.
At first, Zhang Qiong didn't even know that Wei Xingzhou had applied for Lu Wanqing's genes. She even suspected that the people her uncle was dealing with were from the Wei family, perhaps Wei Xingzhou himself.
The other party wanted a child, so they used such coercive means to force someone to help the Wei family have a child.
She had argued with her uncle countless times, but he was completely unreasonable and wouldn't listen to her.
Initially, she didn't want this child. However, as time went by and she felt the child growing inside her, she couldn't help but develop feelings for it. She... gradually couldn't bear to abort the child.
Because she had developed feelings for the child, she realized she couldn't stay trapped there. She had to escape, otherwise, given her situation at the time, the child would surely be taken away after birth.
The Wei family used such methods to make her give birth, probably intending to take the child and leave the mother, right?
She even speculated about Wei Xingzhou's motives. Perhaps because Wei Xingzhou was a big star, it was inconvenient for him to announce news of marriage and having children. After all, marriage and childbirth could very well mark the end of a celebrity's career. So, Wei Xingzhou used this method to find someone privately to have a child for him, taking the child and leaving the mother?
If it was to take the child and leave the mother, it would mean she might never see her child again.
Although the interstellar law for the protection of minors was very strict, she was just an ordinary, weak woman. People of the Wei family's status and position, if they really wanted to snatch the child, she definitely wouldn't be able to compete.
Zhang Qiong thought about it a lot and finally escaped when her uncle wasn't paying attention.
She fled a long distance and gave birth to the child on a remote planet.
After the child was born, she saw the news of Wei Xingzhou having a daughter on the star network. At that time, Zhang Qiong's mind was in chaos. She even worried that her child had been snatched away, but after confirming it several times, the child was still by her side.
Did Wei Xingzhou not only find her?
Did Wei Xingzhou also find other women to have children for him?
With the seed of doubt planted in her heart, Zhang Qiong couldn't help but pay attention to Wei Xingzhou's life.
Wei Xingzhou was a celebrity, and his daily life was not low-key at all. Zhang Qiong could find a lot of information about him, even watch his various movies, TV series, and variety shows.
The more she learned, the more Zhang Qiong felt that Wei Xingzhou might not be the kind of person she had imagined.
And the love Wei Xingzhou had for his daughter Cui Cui also shocked her. The extent of his doting on his daughter was even greater than her doting on Sisi. Sometimes, seeing it, she couldn't help but envy Cui Cui for having such a good father.
Zhang Qiong even began to suspect if Sisi was Wei Xingzhou's daughter and if she had been deceived by her uncle.
This idea lingered for many years until Sisi gradually grew up, and her face began to resemble Wei Xingzhou's more and more. She could no longer deceive herself. Her uncle might not have lied to her; her daughter was indeed Wei Xingzhou's child.
But who was the child beside Wei Xingzhou?
Did Wei Xingzhou have other women give birth to children for him?
That child was born very close to Sisi's birth date. This meant that while making her pregnant, Wei Xingzhou also fused his genes with Lu Wanqing's genes and cultivated Cui Cui together?
Zhang Qiong didn't know.
She was just a very ordinary woman. After leaving the Zhang family, she didn't even have a chance to get close to the Wei family, let alone find an opportunity to investigate the truth privately.
She also didn't dare to return to the Zhang family. If her uncle found her, she didn't know how the past events would be settled.