Chapter 345: Her Identity Is Not Just A Simple Foster Daughter
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Hearing Gu Yanzhe’s voice, Wen Xin and Mu Chengxi stopped and waited for him to catch up. Wen Xin looked at him with a faint gleam in her eyes.
“Is something the matter?”
“Miss Wen, my sister… she’s been spoiled by us, which led to her rudeness towards you. I’ll discipline her properly. I’m sorry for her hiring people to harm you. I had planned to send her abroad, but with the current situation, I…”
Gu Yanzhe lowered his head, unable to meet the eyes of Mu Chengxi and Wen Xin, struggling to find more to say.
“Your family’s issues are your own to resolve; they don’t concern me. There’s no need to explain so much to me. It’s getting late; we should be heading back.”
Wen Xin, holding Mu Chengxi’s hand, left the hospital together.
Gu Yanzhe watched Wen Xin’s retreating figure, wondering if he had understood her intentions correctly.
Mrs. Gu told Gu Xiang everything that she had done. When Mrs. Gu said that she had spent ten million to hire someone to attack Wen Xin, she was shocked and could not believe it. “It’s impossible. I couldn’t have done such a thing. Although I dislike her, I never thought about crippling her. How could I possibly do such a thing?”
Gu Xiang couldn’t believe she had committed such actions, only remembering dining with Wei Shisheng and then nothing else until waking uD in the hospital.
Returning from outside, Gu Yanzhe heard Gu Xiang’s confession and approached her with a level gaze, “Before you fell into a coma, you mentioned Wei Shisheng had brainwashed you into taking certain actions.”
Gu Xiang looked up sharply, as if recalling something.
“Yes, it was her. She said that Wen Xin humiliated me, and I couldn’t let Wen Xin get away with it. She suggested hiring someone to cripple Wen Xin so I could maintain my status in the capital, saying I couldn’t allow someone better at computer skills than me to exist…”
“After hearing her, I felt dazed, and I don’t remember anything that followed!”
Gu Xiang held her head, unable to recall further details, only remembering her casual mention of Wen Xin’s name made Wei Shisheng extremely agitated.
Looking at Gu Xiang, Gu Yanzhe was even more certain that Wei Shisheng was the one who started this matter. Wei Shisheng wanted to use Gu Xiang to get rid of Wen Xin.
Back home, Wen Xin was in no hurry to rest but instead went to her computer, accessing the dark web’s backend to search for deleted posts about hypnosis.
If Wei Shisheng’s hypnosis was that advanced, she posed a significant danger.
Mu Chengxi wrapped his arms around Wen Xin from behind, lightly blowing on her neck and nibbling her earlobe.
“Wei Shisheng majored in physics, but she also studied psychology, which allowed her to easily manipulate Ling Xuer into admitting to odd fetishes. A person without psychological knowledge couldn’t have convinced a normal girl she was a fetishist,” Mu Chengxi whispered, sharing information Ling Yichen had told him earlier.
Wen Xin paused her mouse clicks, turning to look at Mu Chengxi, surprised at the realization that Wei Shisheng was not as easy to deal with as she thought.
“What exactly is her identity, and why can’t I find any information on her? The subjects she studied aren’t commonly taught here.”
Wen Xin frowned, recalling Wei Shisheng’s appearance at the piano competition, realizing she wasn’t as simple as she seemed. Being adopted by the Wei family might have been to conceal her identity.
Even after using Truth Listener’s information network, Wen Xin had failed to uncover Wei Shisheng’s background, sensing something was amiss but had been too preoccupied to dwell on it.
Mu Chengxi, embracing Wen Xin, moved away from the computer desk to the sofa, enveloping her in his arms.
“Wei Shisheng was brought home by my grandfather when she was three, and her original name or surname, Payten, was foreign. She attended regular schools but would disappear periodically. My grandfather only mentioned she was visiting relatives.”
“I’ve always wondered, if she had relatives, why was she adopted by the Wei family? But my grandfather never gave an answer.”
Wen Xin, after a moment of contemplation, rested her head on Mu Chengxi’s shoulder, “Let’s investigate her slowly. Be careful not to look into her eyes when facing her; I suspect her hypnosis involves visual cues.”
“Right, it’s getting late. Do you have any plans for tomorrow?” Mu Chengxi, already immune to Wei Shisheng, doubted her hypnosis would work on him. Although he did not know under what circumstances the hypnosis would work, he knew that he was not interested in Wei Shisheng at all. It would not work.
“Nothing much tomorrow. I’ve mostly settled things today, and the equipment I need hasn’t arrived yet.”
Yawning lazily in Mu Chengxi’s arms, Wen Xin hugged his neck and nuzzled his chest.
“I’m a bit tired. I’ll change into my pajamas, and then we can go to sleep.”
“Okay.” Mu Chengxi kissed her gently on the lips, his gaze lingering on the phone in Wen Xin’s hand with a light smile, admiring how she played coy in his presence.
Wen Xin, phone in hand, headed to the dressing room, the first thing she did was call Chu Yunxuan. Hearing the surname Payten triggered her suspicion that Wei Shisheng might be from the Independent State.
Chu Yunxuan, currently in Continent M where it was morning, was surprised to receive a call from Wen Xin at this hour.
“Aren’t you supposed to be asleep? Are you having insomnia again?”
“It’s not that. There’s been some trouble here in the capital, just settled. Can you help me look into something? Seventeen years ago, did the Payten family have a young girl sent to Z Nation? I suspect Wei Shisheng is from the Independent States.”
Wen Xin had intended to investigate this herself, but probing into the Independent State from here would likely draw their attention, something she wasn’t ready to face. Asking Chu Yunxuan was the best course of action.
Chu Yunxuan, surprised by Wei Shisheng’s potential background, was more curious about Wen Xin’s familiarity with the Independent State, noting many aspects of Wen Xin’s life were intricately linked to it..