ATFBETIBM Chapter 557

Zhang Li awkwardly transferred money to the other party’s bank account. Just as she was about to enter the password, her phone suddenly flew out of her hand uncontrollably.

The phone smashed onto the ground, emitting a crisp sound.

The woman’s whole body stiffened suddenly. The next moment, it seemed she couldn’t bear the shock anymore, her eyes rolled back, and she completely fainted.

In the silent hall, the woman’s phone suddenly rang loudly.

A chat message popped up.

Master: [Advanced magic weapons are extremely rare. Act quickly, fate waits for no one.]

Slowly, a few words appeared in the chat input box on the phone: [I have already called the police.]

For a long time, [Typing…] appeared on the other side before finally showing: [Who are you?]

A graceful figure gradually appeared in the air.

He picked up the phone and walked to the woman, checking her breath before helping her onto the sofa.

Then he picked up the phone again and typed in the content: [Aren’t I Zhang Li?]

Master: [You can’t be Zhang Li, who are you?]

Bai Lixin: [Guess.]

Master: [You’re really not Zhang Li, who are you?]

Bai Lixin: [Who are you?]

In his mind, S419M said hurriedly: [Lord Host, hold on for a moment, I’ll catch the other party right away.]

Seeing S419M’s actions, the Escape System was somewhat surprised, [ Brother M, you have this ability?]

S419M followed the signal to trace the identity of the other party, freeing up time to say to the Escape System proudly: [When I accompanied the host, my best skill was information intrusion. If it were in a normal dimension, I would have caught the other party long ago, but after entering this game, my abilities were cut off, and I can only do this much now.]

Escape System: [Cut off? What did they cut off on you?]

S419M: [????]

Bai Lixin: [How did you know I’m not Zhang Li?]

Master: [I understand her.]

Bai Lixin: [It doesn’t seem like the level of understanding a scammer could have.]

Master: [Hehe, I’m not a scammer.]

S419M: [5, 4, 3, 2, 1… Found him, host!]

[Ding! Target person located successfully, projection of information starts below.]

In Bai Lixin’s mind, a blue screen displayed a map, with a teardrop-shaped small red dot blinking on it.

It was on the distant shores of the ocean, not in this country.

At the same time, an introduction of a person appeared next to the map.

A photo of a man around thirty years old with black hair and deep eyes appeared.

On the right side of the photo was the person’s introduction.

[Name: Luo Jack]

[Occupation: Hacker]

[Residence: 218 U District, J City, M Country]

[Age: 35]

[Marital Status: Divorced]

[Lord Host, there is some information that might be useful to you. Ran Jingjing once helped him with a divorce case.]

[S419M, there’s something I want you to do. I can’t do it on my own, but with your help, it’s different.] Upon hearing Bai Lixin’s words, S419M immediately became alert, [Lord Host, tell me! What do you want me to do?!]

Bai Lixin: [Help me investigate a few things… I want to know all the cases and connections Ran Jingjing has been involved in since university… and…]

…

At around two o’clock in the morning, Ran Jingjing finished the final stages of the case. She then stood up and went to the kitchen to get a drink of water.

She walked down the stairs, stopped abruptly after crossing the hall, then looked back toward the sofa warily. “Who are you? How did you get in?”

She subconsciously reached for her phone to call the police, but realized her phone was left in the study. She hadn’t brought it with her.

She looked towards the front door, calculating the feasibility and safety of running from here to the door, returning to the study door and locking the door to call the police, or rushing to the kitchen and grabbing a knife for self-defense.

But after seeing what the person held in their hand, she ultimately did nothing. She just leaned against the wall and looked at the stranger who broke into the house late at night with sharp eyes.

A handsome young man sat on the sofa, so handsome that he didn’t seem real.

The young man sat there quietly, looking at her. The phone in his hand flashed with a faint blue light.

The blue light shone into the young man’s mysterious eyes, making his eyes even more profound and deep.

That was her phone. Wasn’t it in the study? How could it appear in the hands of the young man?

“Ran Jingjing.” The young man opened his lips that were as red as a cherry, his voice clear and pleasant.

Ran Jingjing pursed her lips, staring coldly at the young man. “Who are you? Were you a former client of mine? Or are you a client of the other party? Whoever you are, breaking into a private residence like this is illegal, do you know that? I can call the police right now and arrest you.”

The young man stood up and looked at Ran Jingjing from a distance. “Do you really not recognize me, Ran Jingjing?”

Ran Jingjing struggled to recall in her mind. Her memory was good; if she had seen such a good-looking person before, she wouldn’t easily forget.

“I don’t know you.”

The young man approached.

Seeing the young man approaching, Ran Jingjing instinctively retreated until she was against the wall.

The young man continued to advance and stopped when he was five or six steps away from Ran Jingjing.

As he approached, Ran Jingjing noticed that his enlarged features were not distorted, but rather more attractive.

She was stunned for a second but quickly regained her composure.

“You don’t recognize yourself, Ran Jingjing.”

Ran Jingjing was dumbfounded. “Huh?”

“You take a good look. I am you, Ran Jingjing.”

“… ”

‘Am I crazy or is he crazy?

Or am I dreaming?’

“You once thought about becoming a boy, right? I am your other side, Ran Jingjing. Have you forgotten?”

Ran Jingjing was a little confused at first, and then her eyes became empty, as if she was remembering something. After a moment, she came back to her senses and looked at the young man up and down, her eyes moving over his features one by one.

“When I was young, I did think about becoming a boy,” Ran Jingjing murmured softly, “but it was just for a short period of time.”

The young man smiled. “Exactly, I am your former fantasy.”

“A mysterious, tall and handsome guy.” Ran Jingjing rested her chin on her hand, looking at the young man. “Indeed, it fits my aesthetic.”

“So am I dreaming now?”

“Wasn’t our dream to become a benchmark in the legal world? But why are things changing?” The young man sighed, “Using loopholes to destroy the Cao family’s business, inciting prisoners to bully Cao Ji’an in prison, secretly sabotaging Cao Jiyun’s work and leaving her with only delivery jobs, tricking Su Hong into a money losing business amd leaving him with millions of yuan in debt, pretending to be a master to trick Zhang Li and making her anxious all day. Instructing two girls to spread rumors that Shen Shukuang had molested them, ruining his career… ”

“Ran Jingjing, how did we end up like this?”

“Don’t you think they all deserve it?” Ran Jingjing’s eyes turned cold, and her lips curved but without a hint of smile, “When they trampled on Xiaohua at will, who was there whispering in their ears, ‘How did you become like this’?”

“Xiaohua is the best girl we’ve ever met and our best friend.”

“For her, are these actions not worth it?”

“When I was young and ignorant, I thought that as long as I learned the law, I could use its authority to defend justice and punish evil. But I was wrong. Some evils are like stagnant water in a rock crevice. Even though the law holds up strict defenses, these dirty waters can still easily seep through the cracks and flow into clear lakes, making it foul and repulsive.”

“Since the law can’t punish them, why can’t I punish them my way?”

“After all, besides us, who else in this world can help Xiaohua achieve these things?”

“Shouldn’t Su Hong die? That beast, Xiaohua was his niece, yet he played with her for his disgusting desires.”

“Su Hong should die, and so should his wife. His wife knew everything, yet she turned a blind eye just because he is her husband. If the knife doesn’t fall on herself, she’ll never know the pain.”

“Shouldn’t Shen Shukuang die? Don’t you know what he did to Xiaohua back then? And his wife.”

“I don’t know what these women are thinking. Is it that as long as they form a family with a man, everything can be tolerated without limits?”

The young man: “…”

Ran Jingjing’s eyes reddened as she spoke. This was perhaps the first time in so many years that she had expressed her emotions, “Your appearance reminded me of some things I was about to forget. I remembered, I once had the idea of becoming a boy, it was Xiaohua who mentioned her boyfriend Cao Jian. I asked her if Cao Jian treated her well, and she said he did. At that time, I didn’t know anything and said a lot of bad things about him to her. I knew him, he was just a playboy, I didn’t understand why Xiaohua liked him. He was simply not worthy of Xiaohua.”

“Not only did I feel like the flower I was raising was uprooted, it was also snatched by a pig. There was a moment when I thought, if I were a boy, could Xiaohua be with me forever?”

“At that time, I only thought about these shallow intrigues and didn’t see her reluctance then.”

“If I had found out earlier, if I had stubbornly stopped her, she wouldn’t have suffered like that.”

“I called the police and frantically looked for Xiaohua. She disappeared for a month as if she had evaporated from this world. I even fantasized that she was just hiding to take a break. The more anxious I was, the less I dared to think, the less I dared to search for Xiaohua. I cowardly believed that as long as I didn’t find Xiaohua, she was still here. But in the end, we found her severed leg.”

“I had no idea about all the terrible things Xiaohua went through. If I had known earlier, maybe Xiaohua wouldn’t have been killed by Cao Jian. She would still be with us…”

“What I did to them is nothing compared to what they did to Xiaohua.”

“Don’t you remember? The phone call Xiaohua made to us before she died.”

The young man: “…I should have been asleep at that time, I don’t know about that phone call.”

“Really?” Ran Jingjing smiled bitterly, “Then let me help you and myself remember. She said she might not hold on anymore, so she made one last call. She didn’t want to worry her parents, so she thought of us first.”

“That’s when I found out that Xiaohua had been filmed by Su Hong and the videos sold, and beaten by Cao Jian to blackmail her… She said she lived her whole life in filth and felt meaningless, and she hoped everything about herself could disappear from the world.”

The young man: “…So you erased all traces of Xiaohua that could be erased in this world. Those videos and photos.”

Ran Jingjing nodded, “Yes, only this way, the world’s impression of Xiaohua is just a victim of the paranoid, violent rich second generation, not the protagonist of adult films.”

The young man: “But what you destroyed could also be evidence to convict those people.”

Ran Jingjing’s eyes filled with sorrow, “Do you think I don’t know? I didn’t want those pieces of evidence destroyed more than anyone else. I even blamed Xiaohua before, mourning her misfortune and resenting her weakness.”

“But that was Xiaohua’s last wish before she died. It was like she grabbed a lifeline and called me. How could I not help her achieve it?”

“She wanted to leave this world with a clear conscience, and I helped her achieve that.”

“But I will also judge those evildoers in my own way. How could I spare those who hurt her?”

“She was our best friend in this life.”

The young man looked at Ran Jingjing for a long time, and all the words he wanted to say eventually turned into a helpless sigh…

The phone rang.

The woman sitting at the desk rubbed her eyes and opened them.

As she straightened up, a soft blanket slipped from her back.

Ran Jingjing picked up the blanket from the ground in confusion.

Was she asleep?

Did she wrap this blanket around herself? Why does she have no memory at all?

She seemed to have had a dream, dreaming of a male version of herself?