“No, wait, is it that a doctor really mixed up your genetic cells and escaped to our outer star systems? Do Pei Yan and Pei Shen really exist on the Federation Star?”
Over the past few days, Audrey, as Kane’s sister, also experienced a rather “eventful” time at school.
After all, Kane’s simple remark, “nonsense”, had made countless people increasingly curious about Fish Soup Noodles’ true identity.
Most people had no way of approaching Kane, a company president, but his younger sister Audrey, who was still a student in the music department, naturally became a center of attention among her peers.
That alone would have been manageable. However, Audrey, being the head of the student council, also served as a language partner for exchange students from outer star systems.
She had thought that spending time with outer star exchange students might give her some peace. But, she forgot one important detail…Fish Soup Noodles’ works had recently become extremely popular in the outer star systems!
Her language partner, Delia, who was once quite clumsy with Federation language, reportedly developed a strong interest in the Federation after reading the translated version of “Contract Marriage”. As a result, she worked her way through the application process and became an exchange student.
After arriving at the Federation Star, Delia began fervently learning the Federation language day and night upon discovering that Fish Soup Noodles had numerous novels and ongoing serialized works besides “Contract Marriage”, just to be able to read the latest updates firsthand.
Her language skills improved dramatically!
However, her questions grew increasingly strange and bizarre.
“Is it true that the Federation Star has many caves with souls of ancient soldiers? Where can one find secret treasures?” Or, “Is it really common in the Federation to mix up children?”
“Delia, those are our Federation novels; they’re not real. Also, both my brother and I are my parents’ biological children. My mother didn’t choose to use an incubator to incubate the paired genetic cells.”
Audrey let out a deep sigh as she debunked the rumors for the nth time.
Although if Yu Mian knew about this, he would have simply told Audrey that it wasn’t all that surprising.
After all, just as Earth once had international students enamored with cultivation fantasy novels, they often asked their peers profound questions like, “How many people in China have reached the Nascent Soul stage?” or “With so many cultivators in China, why don’t they rule the world?”
It could only be said that, across time and space, the power of culture was always infinite!
“And I don’t think “Eternal Night Rose” has premiered in the Empire, nor is there an Imperial language version of “Reborn”. So, why are you so interested in these books and their content?”
What puzzled Audrey the most was that her language partner Delia was a rare Imperial exchange student on Federation Star.
If there were any interstellar powers still mutually wary of each other in this era, the Federation and the Empire would undoubtedly be at the top of the list, they were two nations where undercurrents always surged.
Much of their resources and culture remained inaccessible to each other.
“Of course, it hasn’t premiered. Teacher Fish Soup Noodles’ books are banned in the Empire, and “Reborn” was directly blacklisted.”
Delia’s next answer left Audrey both curious and shocked.
“What? Teacher Fish Soup Noodles books are banned in your star systems?”
This was truly surprising. Fish Soup Noodles’s books were extraordinarily popular in the Federation star systems; who would have thought they’d be outright banned in the Empire?
“Because these books from the Federation spread too fast, like a virus spreading wildly, and they contained so many elements of the Federation that the Empire’s authorities initially suspected it to be a conspiracy.”
Delia’s explanation was unusually frank.
“Oh… Well, I suppose that makes sense.”
After all, readers like Delia, after reading such novels, tended to form many peculiar ideas about the Federation Star…
“Wait a minute! If they’re banned, how did you manage to read them?”
As Audrey was lost in thought, she suddenly realized another critical point.
“Ah, well, the more something is banned, the faster it spreads! Initially, not many people were interested, but once it was banned, everyone started asking what kind of book it was. As a result, more and more people began secretly reading it!”
Delia looked at Audrey as though surprised that she didn’t already know this.
“Well, uh, that’s really something,” Audrey said.
“But the main reason lies with “Reborn”.”
“Oh? Why is that?”
“Because our king happens to have a pair of sons…. So, after flipping through “Reborn”, the king immediately contacted the Council overnight and demanded all of Fish Soup Noodles’ books be banned.”
“…Ah…”
Audrey was overwhelmed by Delia’s response, feeling like her brain was about to explode.
Still, why did she suddenly feel a little sorry for those princes?
Hopefully, the Empire hadn’t started circulating fanfiction CP articles about them as a couple?
Audrey couldn’t help but recall the time when “Contract Marriage” was wildly popular, and her older brother was “tormented” by readers.
Back then, she even suspected her brother might secretly have someone he liked.
Even now, her brother’s StarBlog remains flooded with readers of “Contract Marriage” leaving comments, checking in on the real-life CEO “Caesar”.
After all, anyone reading Fish Soup Noodles’ wildly imaginative stories for the first time would likely find it hard not to get completely obsessed with the plots!
Recently, “Reborn” has been gaining immense popularity. With Pei Yan and Pei Shen’s intense and thrilling story of mistaken identities, more and more readers were falling into the pit. And their first reaction was always shock: How could a blood relationship be fake?
The younger brother was not the younger brother, and the older brother was not the older brother?!
Upon closer inspection, it turned out that Fish Soup Noodles had “fabricated” such a transportation ship mishap in the novel.
A doctor named Clayton had accidentally mixed up the matched genetic cell groups of an entire transportation ship and then concealed the major accident before fleeing to another star system.
As a result, couples who chose to have children years later would end up raising offspring with no blood relation one after another due to the wrong genetic cells!
In this regard, the Federation Medical Bureau was actually grappling with whether to issue a public clarification.
“This is truly unbearable. The DNA testing department has been overwhelmed, but the problem is, we’ve never even had a so-called Doctor Clayton in our history!”
“Young people these days are far too impulsive. A single novel has triggered a crisis of trust in bloodlines. This is really unimaginable.”
“Still, I hope the Federation Medical Bureau can release a clarification as soon as possible. We’ve always maintained the strictest protocols for preserving genetic cell groups. How could such a ‘wrong child’ phenomenon occur?”
Hospital directors attending the meeting were venting their frustrations in the conference room.
Doctors working in the DNA testing departments of various hospitals hadn’t slept for days, thanks to countless honest readers who, after finishing the novel, had rushed to the hospitals to test their DNAs.
Perhaps, if the Empire’s officials saw this scene, they would finally be reassured that Fish Soup Noodles’ novels were far from any kind of political conspiracy.
After all, Fish Soup Noodles’ novels always managed to “persecute” the Federation officials just as much!
“Just because my brother and I are both very handsome, people are looking at us strangely. This is too devastating. Today I must ask the hospital to prove our innocence!”
The ever-honest and action-oriented interstellar readers were now gathered in hospital waiting rooms, sharing experiences or lamenting their woes.
Yet without exception, their conversations eventually returned to the plot of “Reborn”.
“Of course, I won’t deny it…I am really curious to see how Pei Yan’s new life unfolds in this lifetime…”
“Me too. But having a younger brother really takes courage to continue following Fish Soup Noodles’ new book!”
This slightly exasperated remark earned unanimous agreement from all the twins present.
Meanwhile, Yu Mian, the culprit behind all this, was sitting in the study, watching the emergency news and paying no mind to the various speculations about his identity on star network.
After all, as a former Earth-based author who had once gained explosive fame amidst storms of controversy, Yu Mian found the interstellar era’s critics surprisingly mild…
Even those trying to attack him couldn’t come up with any harsh words.
Calling him ugly? Well, so be it. He didn’t particularly care as a fish.
Besides, the more wild the guesses, the less likely he would get exposed, right?
What really made him nervous was Kane stepping in to clarify for him. Yu Mian feared Kane might accidentally reveal too much.
Fortunately, Kane ultimately stayed silent.
[The recent period is the peak of stellar activity, and there will be stronger magnetic storms and magnetic storms. Related communications and signal waves will also be temporarily unstable. Citizens are advised to take precautions for their safety…]
“This could actually be dangerous. If the signal on the star network becomes unstable during an update, wouldn’t that mean I’d miss an upload?”
As a non-native of this era, it was Yu Mian’s first time experiencing these unique weather phenomena, though they sounded somewhat like solar flares on Earth.
However, as someone who rarely went out, the only thing likely to be affected was his novel updates.
After double-checking his draft box and ensuring that a few extra chapters had been uploaded with scheduled automatic release times, Yu Mian dismissed the weather alert entirely.
After all, what could this possibly have to do with him?
