Who am I after all?

  Laurie's brain wasn't very good to begin with, so she usually didn't like to think too much. But now heaven had given her such a big puzzle. Laurie's brain worked for a while, and if she thought any more, she would have a cerebral hemorrhage. She hugged her head and squatted on the ground.

  "Lauryn, what's wrong with you? Are you okay?" Grenn asked anxiously as he looked at her.

  Luolan could no longer hear Green's voice, she struggled for a long time and decided to call Fanlan after all, holding onto a subtle hope, she got up and walked towards the phone booth, dialing the faraway hometown number.

  Fen Lei rarely receives calls from Luo Lian, and suddenly receiving one now made her jump in fright. She hastily asked, "What's wrong?"

  Luo Lian replied: "Nothing happened."

  "Really? You've finally graduated from university and are coming back home? I was looking forward to you getting into college when you were in high school, and then I waited for you to graduate. It's been ten years! I'm so excited. When are you coming home, today or tomorrow?"

  "No, no, it's not that... I just wanted to ask... about my dad... he never mentioned him at all..."

  The phone was silent on the other end, and Loren asked, "Mom? Are you listening? Mom?"

  "What's the point of asking?" was the response from the other side.

  "Nothing."

  "If you're not going to do anything, then stop thinking about useless things all day! How was your graduation exam?" Fan Rui's tone was slightly annoyed, and she changed the subject after half a sentence.

  "I've passed all the graduation exams. Mom, I'm already this old, don't have to hide it from me anymore, right? My mind is full of unsolved puzzles, what's going on with all this?"

  Luolan couldn't see the furious expression on the other end of the phone and was already stunned. After half a day of silence, she shouted: "Luolan, you are simply inexplicable! You went to that ghost place to study for two years and got crazy from reading books! Hurry back home now, pack your things and come back today!"

  Lauryn was getting impatient too and shouted: "I'm not going back! Why? Why is it always so hard for us to communicate! Is it that difficult for you to tell me the truth?"

  "Where is the truth?! You're always thinking of things that don't exist, when can you go back to being a normal person?!"

  "Then why won't you answer me? Who is my father? Is he a Minwan or a Ryukyu person from Fish Island? Who am I? Am I the lost mermaid? And who are you? Are you the fallen goddess of painting or someone else?"

  The phone got cut off again, and hastily said a sentence: "Who's who! I don't know, I don't know! I have something else to do, that's it. You come back to me right away today!" After finishing speaking, the call was hung up.

  Luo Lian held the phone receiver, suppressing a surge of emotions, her tears welling up but refusing to fall, her mind a jumbled mess on the verge of explosion. She was on the brink of suffocating! Her trembling hands hung up the receiver, and her entire body began to shake. Gelin, worried about her, had already dialed Whale King's number for her, asking him to come pick her up.