Actually there are a few fanfics out there suggesting Ching and Zara faked the Jor El projection to coerce Clark into helping them. I remember one in which Lois finds this out and tells Clark. Although I think this was Alt Clark and Alt Lois (I just don't remember which ones).

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If she had to move heaven and Earth, perhaps come back to haunt Perry and explain the story after they'd killed her, she would do it.

Waking a Miracle by Aria