Chapter 18
<strong>Chapter 18 – Recognition (ii)</strong>
The birth of the Alpha Prince was not only celebrated by His Majesty and the Queen, but it was also good news for the entire empire.
That night, the headlines of major news outlets in the empire all covered the birth of the Fourth Prince. His Majesty Trent also held a banquet in the pce, inviting a number of military officials and friends of the royal family to celebrate this happy event.
General Byron and Mrs Grace were also among those invited, but they attended with their little omega son, without bringing ire.
As soon as Mrs Grace came to see Queen Anna in her pce, Xi Wei asked her questioningly, “Madame, where is ire?”
Grace answered with a smile, “He did so bad on the exam so he has to review his lessons at home and can’te tonight. ”
Xi Wei of course, did not believe that thatzy, sleeping-every-day boy could sit still obediently reading at home. Back to the pce, he directly asked the AI butler to contact ire, but strangely enough he did not answer.
***
At this moment, ire was sneaking out from the back door to find someone.
He found out that there was a beta boy who was born at June 21st with a record of psychology treatment in the hospital. The boy’s experience was very simr with him, so ire naturally thought that this person might have Ji Ran’s memory. Because the memory began to awaken, he was mistaken as having schizophrenia and had to go to the hospital.
As a result, when he ran to the boy’s home, he found out that the boy was totally different from what he had imagined.
The boy’s father, the battalionmander of the Stars Corps, was guarding Admiral Byron’s security in the vicinity of the pce tonight, and the little beta boy was at home with his mum. After ire knocked on the door,it was opened by the boy. As soon as ire saw the blonde haired boy who looked the same as in the database’s photo, he asked, “Are you Jamie?”
The boy looked at him with suspicion and asked, “How do you know my name? What’s your name? Where did youe from? How did you find me? What did you find me for? What school did you study at? I have never seen you at my school.”
ire:”...”
<i>This boy is actually a chatterbox.</i> He had only asked one question, but was bombarded with a bunch of questions in return,pletely unlike Ji Ran’s character...
ire pressed down the ufortable feeling in his heart, then asked: “You have been to the psychologist ward in the hospital before, right? Did you cure itter?”
Jamie smiled, and whispered secretly, "I’ll tell you, I was actually faking. The old man who teaches math in our school is very boring, and he also always asked me to answer questions every day, so I just pretended to be sick. I’m not really sick, you don’t tell others ah!”
ire: “.....”
Chatterbox character would never be the nature of Ji Ran’s reincarnation, and this guy actually only pretended to be sick.
ire did not want to bother himself with this little madman anymore and turned away.
Jamie chased after him, shouting, “Hey, what is your name? Why are you looking for me? Why don’t you say it clearly ah?”
ire just walked faster and faster while rubbing his temple, feeling a headacheing - he finally found a probable target from hundreds of children with same birth as him, and as a result, this little guy was actually a mischievous fe pretending to be sick. Obviously the little boy’s character was different from Ji Ran, so to say, all of his previous hard work was in vain.
Thinking of this, ire could not help but feel depressed.
<i>In this case, I don’t even know what year I can find him...</i>
By the time he got home, ire finally saw that hismunicator was lit up.
ire opened themunicator and the image of little Xi Wei immediately appeared in front of him. Xi Wei clearly had juste out of the shower, he was wearing pure white pyjamas and his ck hair was dripping wet past his ears. He sat on one of the high sofas in the pce, his short legs couldn’t even reach the ground, looking particrly lovely as they dangled slightly over the edge.
However this child, who looked so angelic, immediately exposed his true nature once he opened his mouth, “ire! Where have you been? You did not answer my calls, you didn’t evene to the pce today to celebrate the birth of my brother. Your parents said you are reading at home, who are you lying to?”
” ... “As an Omega, his voice was actually louder than an Alphas.
ire rubbed his ear and exined, “Tonight, there are surely many people at the pce for the Fourth Prince’s birth day banquet; I do not like noisy ces, so I didn’t go.”
Xi Wei said in agreement,"That’s true, there are so many people in the ce today, your parents included. Say, your mom came to see my mother with your omega brother today, it was my first time seeing your brother, he looks cute. What’s his name again?”
"He is called Kevin, four years old this year."
“Oh.” Xi Wei nodded. “He seemed to be particrly interested in painting. I gave him the set of painting tools I used to use. He was hiding in the lounge silently drawing today, and really, his drawing is much more attractive than yours.”
Suddenly remembering that previously he had drawn a painting of the two of them holding hands and then gave it to this little sweetheart of his, ire felt extremely embarassed. He quickly changed the topic, “Why were you looking for me?”
Xi Wei said with a smile, “I just wanted to tell you that my brother was born. His name is Caesar, an alpha prince. When he grows up, if he needs help, you must help him for me."
ire did not expect Xi Wei to make this request, but he soon understood Xi Wei’s intentions—Xi Wei is used to his role as a big brother in recent years. Since childhood he has always tried his best to look after his two little sisters, always giving them delicious foods, and leaving all his toys to Alicia and Xi Lin while he himself rarely ever touched those toys. The two princesses also loved to hang around him all day, calling him Wang Xiong<sup>[1]</sup>. And now that his younger brother was born, Xi Wei began to worry about what would happen to Caesar once he grew up. This showed just how responsible a big brother he was.
The sight of the little boy dangling his little short legs over the sofa while possesing a solemn and concerned look on his face regarding his brother’s future made ire unable to hold back his smile. He said,”I know, I’ll help him once he grows up. And how is your Royal Uncle anyway?”
“He did note today." Xi Wei answered, “Wang Shu’s baby will be born in a few days, the doctor said it is a boy, and although they still don’t whether he will be an alpha, beta, or omega, his name has been prepared in advance. He will be called Brian, a bit simr with your name<sup>[2]</sup>, right?”
ire nodded and said, “Your uncle’s son will be the same age as your brother Caesar, they can bepanions.”
Xi Weiughed, “Yes ah, just like the two of us, it was nice to have a partner to y with when you were a kid.”
” ... “<i>Have you ever yed with me? Didn’t you always push my head away everytime I tried to take a look at those books you were reading? </i>
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ire held back the urge to curse at Xi Wei,and said instead, “I’m going to sleep first, good night.”
***
That night, ire once again had a nightmare, he dreamed of the car ident from his previous life, of him hurriedly moving to his side the moment he discovered therge truck, rushing over to protect Ji Ran with his body, but also ended up wittnessing Ji Ran’s bloody look at the same time. That scene was too shocking, and ire was immediately awoke, soaked with sweats in the middle of the night.
After waking up, he could not sleep anymore. ire turned on his opticalputer and looked over the information of the more than 100 children for the rest of the night.
His initial inference was that if Ji Ran was still alive, he was likely to have nightmares like him during his childhood, and should be diagnosed with schizophrenia by the hospital. Using this theory as a starting point, he found a child called Jamie. He thought that the child was probably Ji Ran, but after seeing Jamie today, he realized that perhaps he had made a mistake from the beginning.
Jamie’s chatterbox character did not fit with Ji Ran’s nature, and besides, when he saw Jamie, he did not feel a shred of Ji Ran’s aura from him.
From this point of view, his initial inference was wrong. It was more likely that as a child, Ji Ran never received his memories in parts like he did, so he was never diagnosed as having schizophrenia, and never received treatment either.
In other words, even if Ji Ran lost all his memories after he was reincarnated, he may not have recalled them, therefore he did not need to go to the hospital for treatment. Or, Ji Ran was reincarnated with all of his past memory intact, and in order to avoid being discovered, Ji Ran continued to disguise himself. With Ji Ran’s cleverness and his genius-level acting, it would be very difficult for the people around him to find out that something was wrong.
Both of these possibilities added a great level of difficulty to ire’s intention of finding him.
In the case Ji Ran did not have his memory, ire could only use the man’s character as his base for searching, but he himself wasn’t famr with Ji Ran’s character as a child, so it was simply a case of looking for a needle in the haystack.
On the other hand, if Ji Ran was reincarnated with his memory, the movie star’s acting skill was superb; acting as a child would be so easy for him. For ire to find him among hundreds of children would certainly be no easy task. Moreover, many of the born-on-the-same-day children lived in distant gxies, ire had no chance of reaching them.
It was not until dawn that ire turned off his opticalputer and came to the dining room for breakfast with a splitting headache.
General Byron was drinking milk there when he saw his soning downstairs, he asked nkly, “ire, what did you do at Sam’s housest night?”
Obviously, Jamie’s mom recognized ire and told her husband about the incident, and then Captain Sam informed General Byron about it.
ire had known his actions must be concealed from his father and immediately uttered a long-thought up excuse, “I heard that Captain Sam’s son is my age and has good grades. So, I wanted to meet him and see if he can help me review my lessons.”
Byron frowned and said: “Don’t go visiting the members of Star Corps without permission.”
ire immediately agreed, “Yes, Father.”
ire had almost forgotten about his barely thought-out excuse when in the afternoon, Lord Byron unexpectadly invited Battalion Commander Sam and his son to his own home.
“ire and Jamie are exactly the same age, and since it’s the school’s holiday, let’s just leave the two children to review their lessons together,” said General Byron.
Sam naturally could not defy an order from the general and immediately pulled his son over to salute the general.
The two children were then sent to study in the study room, and Jamie immediately bounced in front of ire, “You’re ire? Are you also born on June 21st, son of general? Too amazing! Don’t worry, I’ll protect you like my father protect yours. Is this study room yours? It’s so big! What book is in this row, have you read it?
ire: “...... ”
<i>Help, I don’t want to be stuck with this chatterbox, I much prefer staying with Xi Wei instead.</i>
ire, who had been tortured for a day by Jamie’s presence, suddenly missed the days he spent with Xi Wei—at least, Xi Wei would not be as annoying as this kid. Except for his habit of rubbing ire’s head, he actually got along quite well with Xi Wei’s character.
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<strong>T/N:</strong>
[1] Wang Xiong = Royal (older) Brother
[2] Xi Wei was talking about the pinyin
ire’s name is克莱尔 or Kè lái’ěr
Brian’s name is 布莱恩 or Bù lái’ēn
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