Time Travel: The Queen's Coronation

At the end of last year, Rong Zixuan and I applied to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). We received our response in early April of this year, and as expected, we were successful! After the Spring Festival, temperatures in southern China warmed up quickly. By April, we didn't even need a thick coat anymore. Just a regular coat was enough for morning and evening wear, and we could even wear short sleeves in the afternoon. However, the temperature difference between morning and evening was quite large. While adults can handle it, children are more vulnerable. Jiashu and Jiache fell ill due to the temperature swings. Seeing these two sick babies was heartbreaking. They were so young, yet they had to endure such torture.

"Zixuan, do you think we should take our children with us when we go abroad to study?"

"Take care of the child. He is still too young and cannot leave his mother."

“But how are we going to school?”

"Pregnancy makes a woman stupid for three years! We can hire a nanny! The nanny will take care of us during the day, and we can go to school."

“But I don’t trust the nanny.”

"Do you want to take your mother-in-law to America with you?"

“That’s not impossible!”

"Don't even think about it. Your dad won't agree. He's so dependent on your mom. If he wants to take you, he'll have to take both of you with him."

"If I have to take care of both of them, what will happen to grandma? She's old and needs someone to take care of her. And my sister also needs someone to take care of her when she goes to school. It's impossible to take care of both of them!"

"Then bringing one is impossible!"

I fell into deep thought. It was true that my father was very dependent on my mother. He didn't smoke, drink, or socialize. He would always drag my mother along when he went out for social events. He would never agree to take my mother to the United States.

"Have you found a nanny?"

"I didn't look for him! I don't know anyone in the US, and besides, Senior Brother Wen has already graduated and returned to China."

"Okay, then I'll go ask Li Zhanwen."

"No, why are you asking him?"

"He's in the US, so he should know something about the market. If you don't ask, then I have to ask."

"But why do you have to look for him?"

"Should I ask Shen Junhui?"

"That's even worse! When you were interning at Zero, didn't you have a good chat with those foreigners? Why don't you just ask them?"

"Why don't you ask? Don't you know them?"

“I can’t talk about this kind of thing.”

"Why is it so difficult to ask for a babysitter?"

"I'm not going anyway!"

I really didn't understand why Rong Zixuan didn't ask, but I didn't have time to dwell on it. I just wanted to get this done as soon as possible. There were still many things to do later, and I couldn't waste any time or energy! I asked Zero's former colleague and found out there were Chinese nannies. Based on the business card he gave me, I hired a Chinese nanny, Aunt Wang.

After completing the preparations for studying abroad, we settled into revising our papers. My paper has already been revised for the third time under the guidance of my advisor, Professor Jiang Zhongyi, and this is the fourth. Professor Jiang was still somewhat dissatisfied with the fourth revision, so we spent three hours on the phone last night discussing the details. I'm getting a bit tired of needing to revise it again after four revisions. Liang Yan's paper was approved after just one revision. Although the advisor's standards and topic selection are different, I'm still a little envious of him. Now I can prepare my PPT and practice for the defense.

Just when I was feeling distressed, the dormitory chat room exploded! They were tagging me like crazy, and my phone kept vibrating.

"Wei Qing! How many surprises do you have that we don't know about?"

"You're hiding this from us again! That's too much!"

"You didn't even tell us about such a big thing! How disloyal!"

……

A bunch of messages popped up, all criticizing me. They didn't know where I got the news of my child's birth and were very angry that I didn't tell them.

"How did you know?" I sent a message guiltily. Then Zheng Lan created a chat room and we all entered. As soon as I entered, I was scolded by Zheng Lan.

"How dare you ask? We are the last to know about things like this! And we heard it from other people!"

"I didn't tell anyone at Jinghua! How did you know?"

"Don't worry about how we know this! Just tell us whether it's true or not!"

"it is true"

"Wei Qing! Are we so unworthy of your trust?"

"No, I'm sorry, please don't be angry, listen to my explanation first."

"Explain? You're just making excuses!"

"Lan'er, give her a chance and see what she can say!"

"Thank you Ning'er for saving my life!"

"Say it!"

"This pregnancy was indeed an accident. I accidentally discovered the babies last March. I wanted to abort them, but maternal love took over, and I gave birth to them. I didn't tell you because it's not something worth bragging about, so the fewer people who know, the better. I regretted not telling you, but I know you won't mind, right?"

"We mind very much!" Zheng Lan replied angrily.

"I just don't want you to worry! You guys are a bit hostile towards Rong Zixuan. If you knew I was pregnant, you would definitely skin him alive!"

"That's right! If I had known you were pregnant with his child, I would have strongly opposed it and stopped you from giving birth to his child!"

"Lan'er, he's been very good to me throughout my pregnancy. I can't say for sure whether he's a qualified husband, but he's definitely a qualified new father!"

"What about your studies? Forget about it! I heard from Teacher Jiang that you've been revising your paper for the fifth time! He also said you seemed to have become dumber! Turns out it was pregnancy that made you stupider!"

"No way! Teacher Jiang is strict, so it's normal for him to revise his work many times. Isn't this your fifth time?"

"You're a gifted girl! Now you need to change your mind five times like an ordinary person like me! You're giving birth to a child at the prime of your life! Are you crazy?"

"You can't say that! My child has brought me a lot of happiness!"

"Rong Zixuan is a scumbag! I'm sure of that now!"

"Lan'er, you can be angry, but you don't have to say that," Hu Ning comforted Zheng Lan.

"My cousin was in a similar situation to you. He cheated on his wife many times and even tricked his first love into giving birth to a child. In the end, they got married because she was pregnant. He was very kind to his wife during the pregnancy, but his true colors showed after marriage. He continued to have affairs with other women and abandoned his wife and children. In the end, my cousin's wife wanted to divorce, but she endured it for the sake of the children. If she didn't have the children, my cousin's wife could have ended her bad relationship with my cousin and lived a brighter life. You can't just have children whenever you want. Once you have children, you have to be responsible for them! Women can have children, but they should also choose the father of their children carefully!"

"It's not as serious as you say! Rong Zixuan did let me down in the Zhu Yinyin incident, but he has changed and cut off contact with Zhu Yinyin."

"Can you see a dog that eats shit change? Don't you wonder where this news came from?"

"Where? I only told Shen Junhui and Xiao Yuan. They don't know you and have no connection with you. Where did you hear that?"

"It came from Zhu Yinyin!"

"What? How would she know?"

"You definitely wouldn't tell her, and Shen Junhui and her have no connection, so how do you think she knew?"

"How did you know?"

"It's true that pregnancy makes people stupid for three years!" Liu Xiu sighed.

"She's not stupid, she's become dumb!"

"Lan'er, don't be too excited!" Hu Ning continued to comfort Zheng Lan.

"You, Rong Zixuan, and your friends and relatives in Qingzhou know about this. Shen Junhui and Xiao Yuan from the Hong Kong circle also know about it, but Li Zhanwen doesn't know. This means it wasn't them who spread it, otherwise Li Zhanwen from the Hong Kong circle would have known about it long ago. And the only person Zhu Yinyin has any connection with among you who know about it is Rong Zixuan!"

"I'll go check out Rong Zixuan's circle of friends!"

"I told you you're stupid, and you're really stupid! This means Rong Zixuan is very likely still in contact with Zhu Yinyin! Wei Qing, wake up!"

"This, this, this is impossible..."

"Don't ask him directly. Observe him! Observe him secretly! Don't alert him!"

"Lan'er, you really worry about Qing'er so much."

"Xiu'er, your boyfriend is no good! He is irresponsible! Find a better one as soon as possible."

"Why did it involve me?"

"I'm just giving advice!"

"Lan'er, you've become a master of love!"

"I really can't bear to see my sisters fall into this trap!"

"My boyfriend is okay!"

"You've found the best boyfriend in our dorm!"

"Really?" Hu Ning smiled shyly.

"Qing'er, I'm not angry that you didn't tell us the truth. I'm angry that you're blind and you're covering it up from us!"

"Lan'er, I know! But Rong Zixuan isn't as bad as you say, right?"

"Look, look! Love-sick people should be taken out and shot!"

"Let me ask you, was Rong Zixuan a billionaire when he was with you?"

"No"

"Then the answer is out, right? Men will become bad when they have money! Do you think the saying 'getting promoted, getting rich, and your wife dying' was said by a man or a woman?"

“But we don’t have much money!”

"Billionaires aren't considered rich, are they? People who get millions of dollars in demolition are so excited that they want to be on their tails. Do you think this ordinary person will feel any different when suddenly he has billions of dollars?"

"He looks quite normal to me!"

"Yeah, that's because I didn't meet Zhu Yinyin!"

"Don't exaggerate. There's really nothing between him and Zhu Yinyin!"

"There's nothing wrong with them, they just didn't have sex, but Rong Zixuan's heart has already been unfaithful. If your actions hadn't frustrated him, he wouldn't have turned back!"

"He's just possessed."

"It seems that he was really good to you during your pregnancy, otherwise you wouldn't be like a completely different person now, losing your rationality and letting your emotions take over."

"He was super nice to me during my pregnancy, he..."

Zheng Lan interrupted me, "Hey, stop it! I don't want to hear his hypocritical behavior. Let me ask you, has the rich second generation in Hong Kong ever taken him out to play? And when you were not around?"

I thought about it and said, "Yes, when we were in Shenzhou, Xiao Yuan would take him to social events from time to time. He had originally invited me, but I didn't like those kinds of occasions so I didn't go."

"Here comes the question! Xiao Yuan is a playboy, right? He must be a playboy!"

"Needless to say, I thought Xiao Yuan was quite elegant at first sight, but I didn't expect him to be so philandering."

"Hey! The answer is out! Rong Zixuan has followed Xiao Yuan and witnessed the extravagant and dissolute lives of the rich second generation, surrounded by women. Now he has become a billionaire, so do you think he wants to be surrounded by women like Xiao Yuan? And he wants to throw himself into the arms of a beauty like Zhu Yinyin! Don't underestimate men's desire to conquer and possess beautiful women of the opposite sex!"

"They're really broken!"

"I told you my boyfriend is the FBI, and you believed him when he said he was going to cut it off? Have you looked at his phone? So what? We all know how to program, and it's not difficult to create a small program to hide the chat history."

"Now you can have a private cell phone!" Hu Ning interrupted.

"Or multiple accounts are fine," Liu Xiu also interjected.

"You're talking more and more nonsense, but there's no evidence, right?"

"There may be no evidence for many things, but you should be more careful. When the evidence is in front of you, it's already too late!"

The more Zheng Lan talked, the more uneasy I felt. I found an excuse and hurriedly left the chat room.