Time Traveling to 23 Years Later with My Ex-Boyfriend

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Chapter 4
Seeing the foolish expression on his lackey's face, Qi Muyang moved further away in disgust: "I told you that you wouldn't understand, so stop asking!"

"...No, who could understand this?" The lackey came to his senses, staring at him in disbelief. After a long moment, he finally managed to say, "Didn't you say your parents had a great relationship and were the envy of the whole county?"

"Yes." Mentioning his parents, Qi Muyang's eyes filled with even more gloom.

Lackey: "Then isn't that enough? If their relationship is so good, how could they both be cheating? Maybe you've misunderstood."

Qi Muyang opened his phone's photo album with a tense face, scrolled for a bit, then clicked on a somewhat blurry photo. "This was taken when my parents were 21. Do you think I'm misunderstanding?"

The lackey craned his neck to look. When he saw the two people holding hands in the photo, his mouth dropped open in shock: "This... this... Even twins don't look this alike!" Except for not being as mature as the two in the photo, the pair in the classroom looked exactly the same.

"You see it too, right?" Qi Muyang took a deep breath, barely resisting the urge to throw his phone.

The lackey pondered for three seconds: "Could they be your parents' younger siblings? I heard that when they opened up the two-child policy over twenty years ago, many people had second children at an older age. Is it possible..."

"It's not possible. Would you give your second child the same name as your first?" Qi Muyang cut him off.

The lackey was stunned for a moment: "What do you mean?"

"Those two from earlier, the girl is called Chu Qing, and the boy is Qi Weichen," Qi Muyang said, then paused before adding with a disgusted face, "The same as my parents' names."

After he said this, silence fell over the rooftop. The sun at noon had already started to show its power, baking the air and the concrete surface.

"...You mean your parents gave their illegitimate children the same names as themselves," the lackey tried to summarize, then asked with a sincere face, "What were your parents thinking?"

"How would I know what they were thinking," Qi Muyang said impatiently. "I guess they felt guilty about their illegitimate children, so they gave them their own names. Doesn't this happen often in foreign countries?"

"Your parents are really something... But it's also possible they just wanted to annoy each other," the lackey added, but quickly backtracked when he received a dissatisfied look from Qi Muyang, "Of course, your parents' relationship is already so good that they don't mind each other's affairs, so we can rule that out."

Qi Muyang gave him a sidelong glance.

The lackey smiled sheepishly, trying to lighten the mood: "Actually, there's another possibility."

"What?" Qi Muyang frowned.

The lackey gathered his courage: "Your parents didn't have affairs, they just became young again, and now they're waiting for you in the classroom. I mean, look how similar they are..."

Noticing Qi Muyang's death glare, his voice got quieter and quieter until it disappeared completely. In his heart, he silently declared—

Attempt to lighten the mood: Failed.

Qi Muyang's face was wooden. Not only did he not want to talk, but he also wanted to throw the lackey off the rooftop.

Unaware of how many times he had died in Qi Muyang's mind, the lackey kept sighing beside him. After a while, he suddenly thought of a question: "They sent their illegitimate children here at the same time, so they must have planned it together, right? They've been hiding it from you all your life, why suddenly be so high-profile?"

"They just happened to send them here while they're in quarantine. I don't believe for a second this is a coincidence." Qi Muyang felt stifled, with a sense of being set up. These two must have calculated that he wouldn't be able to confront them, so they chose this time to reveal everything. They probably wanted him to figure it out himself and then voluntarily acknowledge the relationship.

The lackey looked at him sympathetically: "So what are you going to do?"

"Until they give me an explanation, don't even think about me acknowledging those two. From now on, I'll just pretend I don't know anything and treat them as ordinary classmates. When my parents explain it to me, we'll talk about it then." Qi Muyang gritted his teeth, feeling increasingly angry the more he thought about it.

The lackey nodded repeatedly, not knowing what else to say. He just sat with him on the rooftop, but as the sun got higher and hotter, Qi Muyang's face grew darker. Finally, he couldn't take it anymore: "Boss, why don't we go back to the classroom?"

"No." Qi Muyang flatly refused.

The lackey wailed inwardly: "If we stay out here any longer, we'll be dried up like jerky. Besides, they're the newcomers. Why should we be the ones hiding from them?"

"Who said I'm hiding?!" Qi Muyang frowned.

The lackey immediately said: "That's right! We're not hiding. We should go back and enjoy the air conditioning. We need to let them know who's really in charge here!"

Qi Muyang looked at him thoughtfully for a moment, causing the lackey to instantly become timid: "W-what's wrong?"

"You have a point. Let's go." With that, Qi Muyang stood up and headed downstairs.

The lackey: "..." If he had known it would be this easy to persuade him, he would have used this tactic from the beginning.

Qi Muyang walked quickly back, and as soon as he reached the classroom door, he locked eyes with Qi Weichen. He let out a barely audible snort, strode past him, and went straight to the back row, sitting down brazenly next to Chu Qing.

Chu Qing glanced at his wilted rooster-like hair from the sun, then at his handsome, sunny face with well-defined features. She thought to herself that it was a waste for someone so good-looking to have such a poor mind and bad taste.

Qi Muyang had actually noticed her looking at him, but to stick to his decision, he kept a cold face and didn't even give her a glance. Chu Qing couldn't be bothered to deal with this non-mainstream guy either, so the result was that the two of them didn't speak all morning.

When it was time for lunch break, Qi Muyang immediately swung his backpack over his shoulder and left. Chu Qing gave him a disdainful look and waited until almost everyone had left before slowly walking out. However, after just a few steps, she saw Qi Weichen. She paused, feeling a sense of foreboding.

"Let's go," Qi Weichen looked at her.

Her premonition came true. Chu Qing smiled awkwardly: "I'm not going to the cafeteria. You can go by yourself."

Qi Weichen just kept looking at her silently, showing no intention of leaving.

Chu Qing felt overwhelmed by his gaze. She glanced around to see that everyone else had left, then walked over with her head lowered: "Um... Although we're in the same situation now and need to help each other, we've broken up after all. I think unless there's a special circumstance, we shouldn't be together often."