■What's the matter?
Who is this baby?'
Looking at the baby with a pale face that seemed to have no vital signs in the photo, Sydney couldn't help clenching her hands. Her eyes were full of shock, confusion, puzzlement, and even a trace of unspeakable strange feeling.
The time in the lower right corner of the photo showed that she was four months and five days old at that time, but Sydney found that the baby in the photo was not her.
She had seen all her photos except when she was a month and two months old.
When she was four months old, she didn’t look like this at all!
So the baby in the photo was definitely not her.
If it was not her, then why was the time in the lower right corner consistent with the previous photo?
And not only was the date consistent but also the appearance of the baby was consistent.
In the first month of life, babies's specific appearances could not be seen.
But from the second month onwards, the baby's appearance began to look distinctive.
The four-month-old baby in the photo looked similar to the two-month-old baby.
It meant it was not her birth record album at all, and the baby in the photo was not her from the beginning.
She thought the baby was her and those photos were hers, but she was wrong.
That was why she didn’t have a sense of intimacy.
Sydney thought, 'Right. If it's me in the photo, how can I not have a sense of intimacy?
Because it's not me, that's the reason.
But why is this baby born on the same date as me?'
Sydney bit her lower lip with an unspeakable sense of complexity and confusion.
Just then, there was a knock at the door of the study.
Sydney looked up, seeing that Luke was standing outside the open door and smiling at her. "Darling, haven't you found the notebook yet? My bed is already made."
"I have found it." Sydney rubbed her brow and replied.
Luke blinked, "Then why don't you come out? And you don't look well. Is something wrong?"
He stepped into the room.
Sydney pursed her lips and replied, "I found a photo album."
"Then what?" Luke asked.
Sydney pinched her hand. "I thought the baby in the album was me, but finally I found out it wasn't." "What do you mean?" Luke didn't understand.
Sydney stood up, opened the album, turned to the first page, and pointed to the newborn baby, "Luke, do you think this is me?"
Luke looked down and nodded, "I think so. There’s your birthday down there."
Sydney said, "Right, I thought the baby was me because of this date, but you can keep looking at the rest of the photos."
"The rest of the photos?" Luke asked curiously while flipping photos one by one.
When he saw the photo of a one-month-old baby, his expression did not change much, but when he saw the photo of a two-month-old, he frowned and then looked at the rest of the photos quickly.
Sydney knew that he obviously saw the problem, so she took a breath and asked," Luke, do you still think this baby is me?" "It’s not you.” Luke replied seriously, "I'm four years older than you. I know better than yourself what you looked like when you were a child. It's okay to say the one-month-old baby in the photo is you, but from the second month, the baby's appearance begins to look distinctive. I can tell at a glance that it's not you, and I know who the baby is."
"You know who she is?" Sydney looked at him in surprise.
Luke nodded and turned the photo to one of the photos of the four-month-old baby, " Actually, you also know this baby. I told you before. This baby is the baby I first saw at the Raines family when I was four years old. I thought that baby was you at that time."
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