Chapter 1 A Double Life

2023, Jinping City.

Jiang Qian took a nap until he woke up naturally to adjust the side effects of watching movies all night.

Facing the setting sun outside the window, he sat up calmly, and the watch time showed 16:58.

Very good.

This shows that the women in the family are doing their jobs and having fun.

Jiang Qian put on his slippers, moved his shoulders briefly, got up and walked around the big bed, and looked at himself in the mirror when he passed the dressing mirror.

Simple light-colored shirt, dark casual pants, and the fair and handsome facial features are more and more like his father when he was young.

But the deep eyes and the overly sharp eyes when concentrating are far from his father's gentleness.

This real exposure is fleeting.

Before Jiang Qian walked out of the room, he relaxed his demeanor and put on an approachable face.

Push open the bedroom door.

A piece of yoga music with a classical temperament and purifying the soul came from the living room.

Jiang Qian turned around and saw his sister Yu Xuan, a girl of heaven who looked down upon the Beijing entertainment industry with her looks and talents, stretching her body into various amazing poses on the yoga mat.

Her thick, slightly curly long hair was tied behind her head, her limbs were slender, her skin was as delicate as white porcelain, and the flexible and flexible yoga clothing fabric outlined her tight and convex figure.

It seemed that she was showing off her proud body proportions and multiple... possibilities.

Yu Xuan is 26 years old this year. She became popular for playing the second female lead in a popular drama. The whole drama overwhelmed the female lead and won many awards that year.

As a result, this woman quit the circle at the rising stage of her career!

The reason is: the circle is too chaotic, and a girl like my sister who is simple-minded, weak and kind will definitely not be able to play with those fairies.

This makes no sense. Obviously, she is more like the fairies who are difficult to deal with.

But before the family had time to worry about this, Yu Xuan had already registered her own yoga studio brand and started a business... and taught classes in person, using the star effect to make a lot of money!

At present, there are hundreds of branches in first-tier cities (including new first-tier cities) across the country. The "simple and kind" sister finally lived a life of a rich woman who didn't know the high cost of firewood, rice, oil and salt.

By the way, she is still a celibate, a shameful unmarried person who is not prepared to contribute to the reproduction of the race!

At present, Yu Xuan occupies the center of the living room in a dignified manner. The painting of the golden mountain in the sun on the background wall of the sofa complements the fire pattern gold-stamped yoga mat under her.

With her favorite color, it presents a certain visual aggression.

It makes sense... Jiang Qian said secretly.

After all, even the whole house is under the name of this woman.

At this time, there are two other women living in the house.

Jiang Qian glanced at the kitchen filled with mist and could see his aunt Jiang Chuntao busy and hardworking, plump and capable.

This food blogger who lives in her mother's home likes to show off in the kitchen.

However, her cooking skills are very flexible, and she often makes some indescribable dishes that force people to taste them.

As the only man in the family, Jiang Qian is almost immune to all poisons.

On the other side of the house.

The study room, which was lit early, showed that the grandmother, the old Buddha of the Jiang family, who had been teaching and educating people all her life, was reviewing today's newspaper.

Without getting close, Jiang Qian could imagine that the old lady in her seventies was wearing a convex lens and reading the eye-catching paragraphs in the newspaper word by word, concentrating on it.

In this way, at dinner time, she could show her erudition to the whole family with the unique dignity of a middle school teacher in her usual didactic tone.

Well...

At that time, my aunt's dark cuisine will be condemned, and Yu Xuan will be whipped for being out of touch with the world.

And he, the impeccable only son of the family, will be praised.

Jiang Qian's mouth curled up.

He leaned on the porch and refocused on his sister's actions...

At the same time, in his simple and orderly brain, he quickly called up the interaction mode in the corresponding scene.

The occurrence of such a thinking process does not mean that Jiang Qian is an AI without emotions, or a high-dimensional creature lurking in the crowd to observe and study humans.

Jiang Qian is a real human - studying at Jingping University, an undergraduate student in the School of Life Sciences.

Majoring in plants and animals, and minoring in evolution and ecology. Now a junior, he is still single at the age of twenty.

But he is not a complete human.

12 years ago, an accident caused him to suffer from a complex and rare emotional disorder.

In layman's terms, it means that he has almost lost the perception of some emotions and cannot make normal feedback - that is of course, because he can't feel it, so he can't give feedback.

Including but not limited to: guilt, fear, sadness.

The overall diagnosis process is very complicated. The high-end medical institution commissioned by the Jiang family once proposed the following assumptions:

1 Weak guilt perception, which means that when the patient makes excessive actions beyond common sense (such as harm or aggression), he lacks the proper sense of guilt - the doctor has highlighted this item*.

2 Weak fear perception means that the patient's personality will gradually turn into unruly, authority will no longer make him awed, weirdness and violence will not deter him, and those seemingly insurmountable boundaries will no longer have an effective constraint on him.

3 Weak sadness perception means that when facing negative stimuli such as loss and failure, the patient may have a calm and tenacious attitude that is different from ordinary people.

Note: Due to the lack of the above empathy, the patient may not be able to build a deeper intimate relationship with others. Such people are very likely to go to extremes, and may become mainstream elites, or go to the opposite side of society - it is recommended to be hospitalized for observation. But this suggestion was vetoed by the old Buddha of the Jiang family.

Good and bad are interdependent, and what Jiang Qian "lost" was compensated in another way:

His observation and memory seem to have broken through some limitations and become extremely sharp.

His super observation ability gives him a different thinking mode from ordinary people. The vision filled with a lot of vivid details and the trajectory of the development and change of things has opened the door to a new world for him.

What's even more exaggerated is that as long as Jiang Qian is willing, any information that can be captured by any sense organ can be recorded clearly and accurately in a way that he understands.

This part of memory is not "eroded" by the forgetting curve. Like a well-protected crime scene, it is stored in the archives of his memory palace in a simple and orderly manner, ready for exploration and retrieval at any time.

The comprehensive manifestation of the above "gains and losses" is: compared with his peers, he is more and more ruthless, despises rules, and is good at using tricks to achieve his goals.

Such "symptoms" almost made Jiang Qian lose the opportunity to receive education.

And facing such a rare patient, even the brain experts in Beijing are very troubled.

It is necessary to mention here that Jiang Qian's grandfather, who died in an air crash, was a famous brain expert in Jinping City. It was precisely because of this relationship that the Jiang family found the best expert in Beijing for consultation.

It can be seen that the whole family did not abandon or give up Jiang Qian, and did their best.

However, just when the whole family racked their brains and went to soup, Jiang Qian was miraculously ... It returned to normal. Reduction is indeed changed. No one can explain the reason for this change. Interactive models with people, combined with their own characteristics, add some creative play, summarize and establish a set of basic "security" behavior models. In this way, Jiang Qian mastered the skills of playing a normal person at an astonishing speed.

After a transfer and a move, his previous abnormality was completely covered up.

Later, almost everyone who came into contact with him would praise him and his family for being smart, humorous, reasonable and moderate, and that he would definitely have a great future.

His family also gradually got used to his "normality"...well, maybe except for his mother.

After all, that accident caused his mother to lose her husband.

In fact, since Jiang Qian's initial abnormal performance, his mother's attitude towards him has changed.

As a well-known contemporary painter, she has been drawing materials from all over the world for many years, willing to give up her small family and devote herself to art.

This reason is barely justified.

But only Jiang Qian knew that his mother was afraid of him.

When they occasionally reunited, his mother always tried to avoid being alone with him, even if he was just a boy in his teens at that time.

Fortunately, Jiang Qian did not feel sad because of this, and he lost the relevant emotions.

...

Jiang Qian happened to be standing in Yu Xuan's visual blind spot at this moment.

But Yu Xuan was seen kneeling gracefully on the yoga mat, bending over and lifting her hips, with her round chest against the yoga mat, and her hands stretched forward... slowly and carefully, stopping at the limit.

Then she slowly moved her center of gravity forward, rolling her waist lazily like a cat.

Finally, she raised her swan neck and pulled her abdominal muscles.

This is a classic ending move in yoga, which stretches the limbs, making the muscles symmetrical and the body beautiful.

"What do you think after watching for so long?"

When Yu Xuan said this, she had her back to Jiang Qian, and she didn't know how she noticed him behind her.

She was not embarrassed to show off her figure in front of her brother.

If I tell you, you will beat me to death... Jiang Qian coughed lightly: "Don't worry, I won't have any thoughts even if you are naked."

"You wish."

Yu Xuan casually untied the tie that tied her hair, and her fluffy long hair cascaded like a waterfall.

She stood up proudly, like the sun blooming...

Yu Xuan is the kind of woman who is always full of energy. It is difficult for such a person to be ignored in the crowd. Her every move, frown and smile will become the focus of people's attention.

Jiang Qian still leaned on the porch, lying calmly: "Watching you display your talents is essentially the same as watching a cabbage take off."

Yu Xuan looked at her brother with some worry: "This won't work. After all, you are the only child of the Jiang family now, and I have to be responsible for your physical and mental health."

"Well, if you care so much about continuing the Jiang family's lineage..."

Jiang Qian was halfway through his words, and a hint of danger flashed in his intuition.

Before he could retreat, his sister climbed up his shoulder with one hand and pinched his cheek with the other hand. The clear face without makeup was instantly brought closer, revealing a meaningful smile:

"Look, your little thoughts are exposed~ and you still say you don't have any thoughts?"

At this distance, Jiang Qian could even smell the unique body fragrance of his sister.

"Is it planned already... huh?"

Jiang Qian resisted the tug of his face: "I mean, you have contact with many girls, can you help me keep an eye out for suitable ones?"

Yu Xuan was startled when he heard this, and his expression was slightly stiff.

At this time, thanks to an external call, this one-sided violence was ended. In front of career, activities like bullying his brother seemed less attractive.

...

"... OK, see you later."

After hanging up the phone, Yu Xuan's smile gradually became kind, and she gently helped her brother smooth out the wrinkles on his clothes.

Amazing acting skills are ready to explode: "Good brother, sister has a social event tonight, can you help sister ask Teacher Tang for leave~"

Teacher Tang refers to Jiang Qian's grandmother. The old lady strictly forbids the younger generation in the family to stay out at night.

Even if it is a 26-year-old unmarried young woman.

"Go by yourself if you have the guts." Jiang Qian had just been bullied, and he put on a face that would rather break than bend.

"I'm a coward, but I have a good brother~" Yu Xuan is best at using both soft and hard tactics.

"My good brother is a little tight on money recently."

Under the family tradition of Lao Foye's diligence and thrift, Jiang Qian's cash flow has always been difficult to exceed five figures. Even Yu Xuan, who has already achieved financial freedom, still dares not break the rules, lest he be punished by the family law.

"Really? Why didn't you say so earlier!"

Yu Xuan raised his mobile phone and operated it smoothly.

Jiang Qian's mobile phone immediately received a text message reminder, which read: 1,000 yuan has been credited to your account.

"Sister, how are you going? Do you want to drive or call a taxi? Do you need me to call one for you?"

"No, dear~"

So Yu Xuan winked at Jiang Qian, turned around and slipped back to her room. After a while, she changed into a light golden suit with a full sense of design and walked out of the room with delicate makeup.

She stepped on high heels and slipped to the door lightly.

When she opened the door, she lowered her sunglasses and lip-synced with Jiang Qian: Handsome guy, I leave it to you!

The response she got was: For Athena.

Jiang Qian sent his sister out, then went to the bathroom, and when he returned to the living room, the doorbell suddenly rang.

Did this woman forget to bring her car keys again?

"Here I come!"

Jiang Qian came to the door, glanced at the surveillance monitor at the door... His hand holding the door handle stopped.

The new car took off, thanks to all the book friends for their attention!