novelraw Chapter 168 : My Mom Is Actually This Awesome
Chapter 168 : My Mom Is Actually This Awesome
Volume 4: High School Arc - “I” Come to Find You~
Five times the speed difference—Shao He might get suspicious, but she probably wouldn't dig too deep.
The moment the Evil Spirit Form returned to the body, a strong wave of weakness surged through my heart.
Charging... was it really this draining?
No... it was just a feeling.
Rationally speaking, charging hadn’t caused any real damage to the Evil Spirit Form, just made it hungrier.
As soon as I returned to the body, I immediately felt something cold pressed to my forehead, which greatly eased my migraine.
No, I still couldn’t open my eyes yet, or it would arouse Shao He's suspicion.
Controlling my breathing, controlling my heartbeat, I began to recall the phone numbers I had just seen.
After comparing them, I couldn’t help but feel a trace of doubt.
Something’s off...
Among the four people's phones, Bai Yao and Lili had the most overlapping contacts, but Old Zhang and the other three had no repeated numbers.
The strangest thing was... in both Lili’s and Zhang Yang’s phones, there was one repeated contact number.
It made sense for Bai Yao and Lili’s numbers to overlap—they were best friends, very close, so that wasn’t surprising.
Old Zhang was just a baozi seller, having no overlap with the others was also reasonable.
But Zhang Yang—someone completely unrelated to Lili—how could his phone have the same number that was stored in Lili’s phone?
I recalled that moment just now.
The contact saved in Zhang Yang’s phone was labeled “Brother Wang,” and in Lili’s phone, it was also labeled “Brother Wang.”
This...
Wait a second, I remember in the DV recorder, the second customer Old Zhang seemed to serve was also surnamed Wang, and he lived right across from Old Zhang’s baozi shop.
That team captain had just seen all this.
He would definitely notice those details.
The difference was just the timing.
I couldn't wait any longer.
I took a deep breath, slowly opened my eyes, and lifted my head, pretending to be confused.
As soon as I sat up, I sensed a complicated gaze sizing me up from head to toe.
“Ojou-sama, are you feeling better?”
Seeing me sit up, Reina turned around with a slightly worried look, but the look in Shao He’s eyes—sitting in the driver’s seat—was even more complex.
That scrutinizing gaze was coming from her.
“Mm... much better. Who put this ice pack on me?”
“It was Sister Shao He, she—”
“That’s enough. You’re awake, no need to talk about it.”
Shao He suddenly interrupted Reina’s words, then turned her head back and looked me straight in the eyes, her gaze carrying a sense of scrutiny as she asked:
“Yunyan, feeling better?”
She had intentionally emphasized the name Yunyan—I knew... she was suspicious.
“I’m fine. But Sister Shao He, what’s wrong with you? Your tone... sounds kinda weird?”
My heart was panicking like crazy, but on the surface I had to stay as calm as an old dog.
Absolutely couldn’t show a hint of weakness.
Shao He was silent for a moment, sizing me up.
I didn’t avoid her gaze either, meeting her eyes directly.
For a long while...
“It’s nothing... I probably just felt wrong. Maybe I’ve been too tense lately.”
In the end, Shao He shook her head.
The gaze that had once scrutinized me now held a trace of doubt.
“Lately... Sister Shao He, why don’t you take a few days off?”
Since she brought up “lately,” of course I knew—Shao He knew I’d been going out at night.
All my recent contact with Lu Haochen had been done avoiding her, so she might have already guessed something.
I had no idea how much she had found out through her investigations behind my back.
So it was natural for her to feel tense, to feel exhausted.
After all... the world I was involved with was something she could never imagine.
“No need, it’s nothing serious.”
Shao He shook her head, turning down my suggestion to “take a break.”
Reina, hearing this, asked with slight confusion.
“Sister Shao He, you’ve been staying cooped up in your room lately. Have you been sleeping too much?”
Sleeping too much?
The surveillance in the villa was never under my control, and I’d never bothered with it.
All the cameras were connected to Shao He’s room, and there was a computer in her room too.
She... wasn’t sleeping too much.
She was digging too much!
At the very least, I believed she had already finished investigating the hospital incident.
I didn’t know whether she had looked into the “Manager Liu” incident.
That day when she drove back and passed the bridge, she specifically glanced at it.
I had no idea what her exact position was within the authorities.
After all, if she weren’t affiliated with them, getting a gun permit would be extremely difficult.
But on the other hand, Shao He seemed to act as a kind of liaison between the authorities and Gong Lianyu.
I had also looked into the company that Gong Lianyu was in charge of.
Several of her subsidiaries had been tackling projects that were previously monopolized by foreign companies—large precision machine tools, semiconductors, and other cutting-edge technologies.
When I found out about all this, I was genuinely surprised.
Never expected... that Liu Yunyan’s mom actually had this kind of capability.
Well... I guess now I should say, my mom actually had this kind of capability.
At the very least, for the time being, Gong Lianyu’s identity was something the authorities had no choice but to take seriously.
If anything were to happen to Gong Lianyu, it could very well affect the research and development of these high-end technologies.
In other words, I believed... Shao He had at least some kind of connection with the authorities.
Carrying a gun within China’s borders was no small matter.
I just didn’t know if Shao He was officially listed with them.
If she really was, then she would indeed be one of their people.
“Sister Shao He, if you’re really not feeling well, how about we just cancel this afternoon’s plans? We can head back and get some proper rest. We’ve got plenty of time to go out and have fun anyway.”
Although I felt a bit bad for Reina, I was also secretly relieved.
If I kept staying with the two of them, I’d have no chance to make any calls.
Right now, I could only count on Jiang Yulong and Xu Han to go check out that Brother Wang.
And... what exactly was the relationship between Lili and this Brother Wang?
“I’m fine. Reina doesn’t get to come out often, let’s not ruin the mood because of me.”
Shao He smiled.
Although there was still a trace of doubt in her eyes, at least her current expression didn’t look like anything was seriously wrong.
“Really? Sister Shao He, your health comes first. If not today, there’s always next time.”
Reina looked at Shao He with concern.
Shao He shook her head again.
After denying it, she added:
“Don’t worry about me. I’m fine, really. Oh right... Yunyan, didn’t you say this morning you were going to buy clothes for me? Does that still count?”
The moment I heard that, I knew that going home was probably out of the question.
If I insisted on returning, Shao He and Reina wouldn’t refuse, but Shao He would definitely start noticing some suspicious signs.
So... I had no choice but to go along with it.
“It counts, of course it counts. But Sister Shao He, please go easy on my wallet... It’s the end of the month already—I probably can’t afford many brand names right now.”