Lu Yao stared at the message in silence for a long, long time. At that moment, she truly felt as if she had lost her memory. She even forgot when she had ever had the name Wang Wei...
This name just felt so familiar. It seemed as if she had heard it somewhere before.
Lu Yao was completely dumbfounded, and this state of confusion persisted until evening when her second cousin, Lu Nanjing, returned from the police station.
As soon as Lu Nanjing got back, he sat on the sofa and chatted with Lu Shun. No one knew what they were talking about, but somehow the topic veered towards games. Lu Nanjing complained, "Last time in the game, I was tricked by a third - party player into logging on. Then he and his wife ganged up and killed me right at the respawn point."
Coincidentally, Lu Yao was coming downstairs and heard this. She had an intuition that this matter was important and must be related to all the strange things that had happened to her that day.
So her intuition prompted her to sit over and, within a few minutes, she managed to get Lu Zhihang's in - game ID.
She was shocked when she found out! The Lin Shen Jian Lu whom she had hated so much turned out to be her third cousin, Lu Zhihang!
This was really eye - opening. A cousin trying to steal his own cousin's love interest!
Lu Yao was so furious that she immediately rushed back to her room and logged into a rather unfamiliar software. As a graduate, Lu Yao had another identity. She was a hacker with decent skills, especially when it came to hacking accounts.
The first thing she did after logging in was to hack into Lu Zhihang's game account and check the IP addresses that the account had frequently used recently. This was a piece of cake for her.
Right away, she found out where Lu Zhihang had been staying during this period. Without hesitation, she grabbed a knife and rushed there.
By the time she reached Lin Wan's house, it was almost dinner time. Lin Wan, who rarely had a day off, had been playing games at home all day, waiting for the take - out that Lu Zhihang had ordered for her.
So when Lu Yao rang the doorbell, Lin Wan always thought it was the delivery guy.
When she opened the door and saw a pretty little girl standing outside, a faint look of disappointment clearly flashed across her eyes.
Lu Yao's expression was not much different. She had thought that it would definitely be Lu Zhihang who opened the door. Her anger had been building up to her throat, ready to burst out as soon as the door opened. But unexpectedly, it was a woman.
The woman looked somewhat familiar. Lu Yao always felt that she had seen this person somewhere.
Lin Wan noticed that Lu Yao was staring at her face all the time. She was a bit helpless, frowned, and suppressed her dissatisfaction as she asked indifferently, "Who are you looking for?"
"Is Lu Zhihang here?" Lu Yao was a bit stunned before she asked.
The moment the words left her mouth, a light bulb went off in her head. She finally remembered who the woman in front of her was.
Lin Wan was taken aback when she heard this. A look of confusion flashed across her eyes. "Who are you?"
"I'm his cousin!" Lu Yao raised her head and looked down at Lin Wan. She was the very image of an overbearing young lady, looking down her nose at Lin Wan.
Lin Wan's expression blanked for a moment. Then a look of panic flashed across her eyes. She tightened her grip on the doorknob and couldn't find the right words to reply for a moment.
After all, this was his family coming to the door. It was impossible for her to proudly introduce herself after this.
"Don't say anything. I know who you are!" Lu Yao snorted and pointed at Lin Wan.
Lin Wan was taken aback. Well, there was no need for self - introduction now.
"You..." Lin Wan was about to speak when Lu Yao interrupted her. "I'm here to find my brother."
Lin Wan's words got stuck in her throat. Seeing Lu Yao's expression, she felt that the girl probably didn't want to talk to her. She just slightly raised her eyebrows, shrugged, let go of the doorknob, and walked back into the room.
Seeing this, Lu Yao thought this was Lu Zhihang's house and swaggered in.
She saw Lin Wan going upstairs. Lu Yao raised her eyebrows, thought for a moment, and a look of disdain flashed across her eyes. She followed her up. She wanted to see what this woman was up to.
Actually, when she had read about Lu Zhihang's scandal online before, she hadn't had any particular feelings. But when she saw Lin Wan, she suddenly felt a bit angry. Maybe she hadn't expected that her elder brother would be living with the woman involved in a scandal with him.
Her elder brother was such a fool. He probably didn't even know that the woman just wanted to gain popularity by using him!
Thinking like this, Lu Yao disliked Lin Wan and thought she had ulterior motives.
She followed Lin Wan all the way to the study. Lu Yao saw two computers side by side on the desk. She recognized one of them as her elder brother's and immediately walked over and sat down without hesitation.
Lin Wan had known that the girl had been following her up. She didn't really care. Seeing her sitting in front of Lu Zhihang's computer, she didn't pay much attention either. She just refocused on her own computer game.
"Where's my brother?" Lu Yao didn't really observe what Lin Wan was doing. Maybe out of disdain, she asked casually.
"At work. He'll be back around eight o'clock tonight," Lin Wan replied.
Lu Yao nodded, turned on Lu Zhihang's computer, and took out her phone to check the time.
It was 18:57.
There was still more than an hour until eight o'clock. Lu Yao felt relieved and finally spared a glance at Lin Wan. She snorted disdainfully. "You're the woman my brother confessed to at the concert, right?"
Lin Wan just let out a non - committal grunt and kept operating on her computer.
"Then you must know how popular my brother is now," Lu Yao continued.
Lin Wan still didn't respond.
"So, a big star like my brother is going to go international in the future. He'll never be with someone like you. Even if my brother wants to, my aunt won't agree. So I advise you not to try to climb up the social ladder. My brother is just using you to gain popularity. Once the hype is over, your relationship will be over, and it'll be time to break up!" Lu Yao said these words with great disdain and a bit of mockery in her tone.
Lin Wan had gotten tired of hearing such words these days. Moreover, she had thought about what Lu Yao said. She knew there was such a possibility. But love was never something that could be avoided by being vigilant. All Lin Wan could do was not to think too much, stay happily when she could, and leave without any regrets when the time came.
So she didn't care about Lu Yao's words at all and continued to operate her character in the game as usual.
Since Lin Wan showed no reaction, Lu Yao got annoyed. She was a bit puzzled. She had said so much, but this woman showed no reaction at all. Whether she liked Lu Zhihang or not, she should have shown some reaction. This was just too calm.
So finally, for the first time since entering the house, Lu Yao looked at Lin Wan's computer screen.