novelraw Chapter 960 - 474: Computer Hacker? Lurking in the Shadows
Chapter 960 - 474: Computer Hacker? Lurking in the Shadows
"Officer, will this really work? Do you think he might come after me later and cause trouble?"
Huang Anran works as a livestreamer.
It’s a rather special line of work.
The most important thing is to try not to offend your own fans.
Because they’re the ones she relies on for a living.
So when she heard Luo Fei’s suggestion,
she couldn’t help feeling a bit worried.
At this moment, Luo Fei said seriously,
"Miss Huang, I understand what you mean. But you can rest assured."
"We police will keep your personal information strictly confidential. Unless this person is a computer hacker, or already knew your address beforehand, otherwise there’s no way he can trace it back to you."
Hearing Luo Fei’s analysis,
only then did Huang Anran finally breathe a little easier.
"If that’s the case, then I can relax."
"And to be honest, Mr. Luo, I had thought about it before, about standing up for myself. But I was also worried. If he deliberately retaliated, that would be a big problem. So I could only swallow my anger for the time being and didn’t dare call the police lightly."
From Huang Anran’s explanation,
only then did Luo Fei learn that
back when she was streaming,
she would often receive some inexplicable private messages.
At first, she thought
they were enthusiastic fans wanting to thank her by sending her things.
But when she saw the sender was underage and still a student,
Huang Anran refused them all.
She even urged them to study hard, not to spend all their energy on her, and especially not to send her tips.
But later, as time went by,
she got more and more of these messages.
That was when Huang Anran realized something was wrong.
"Because if they had been fans from different regions messaging me, I wouldn’t have paid much attention. The problem is, these students were all from the same area."
"Most of their accounts were newly registered small accounts. Some of the posts they uploaded were obviously stolen from other people. That’s when I gradually realized something was off."
When she said this,
Luo Fei more or less guessed it.
It was probably an obsessive fan who really liked Huang Anran but didn’t know how to express it.
So he resorted to this somewhat extreme approach
to achieve his goal.
Maybe he didn’t intend to do anything else, he just liked Huang Anran, but it still caused her real trouble.
"What happened after that? Did he keep harassing you?"
"Not exactly. It’s just that later, I got a private message. One of those small accounts, after I replied to him, sent me a photo of the area downstairs near my building."
"That was when I realized something was very wrong. It was possible he had already come to my doorstep. I just didn’t know it."
After listening to her explanation,
her beautiful eyes dimmed as she spoke.
Only then did Luo Fei give a firm nod.
"I see. It’s probably that at some point during your stream you accidentally exposed your location and the situation at home, so he managed to track you down. He wanted to use this chance to get closer to you, maybe even meet you in real life?"
"More or less."
Huang Anran sighed as she spoke.
"But the strange thing is, I always keep the curtains drawn when I stream."
"And I specifically reminded my family that when I’m streaming, my door is locked from the inside. No one is allowed to just walk in, and they absolutely can’t reveal my personal information. I really am curious how he figured out who I am."
Huang Anran has been streaming for a few years now, so she’s fairly experienced.
She’s very careful about these details.
After listening to her breakdown,
Luo Fei narrowed his eyes and started thinking it over carefully.
"Miss Huang, did this person ever actually show up at your place later on?"
Huang Anran shook her head.
"I contacted the local police. But they said it was just my own speculation. It was also possible that it was just a few students from the same school. It’s understandable that they might like me. At most, this was a prank."
"So at the time I just asked them for a police report receipt."
"But ever since I took a photo of that receipt and sent it to him, he hasn’t contacted me again. Still, no one can say with one hundred percent certainty that he completely stopped looking into me in secret. So after that, whenever I went out shopping I was extremely cautious, I didn’t even dare go buy groceries alone. It just felt off inside, like someone was secretly following me."
But when he heard this,
Li Yu, who was next to them, couldn’t help but shake his head with a wry smile.
"Calling that a prank is really a bit too irresponsible."
But Luo Fei could understand it.
After all, nothing actually happened, and the other party hadn’t broken into her home.
Huang Anran hadn’t suffered any property loss either.
As for the charge of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, the behavior has to take place in a public setting.
Someone would have to openly provoke, insult, or spit on her.
And there would need to be enough witnesses, and it would have to cause real psychological harm to her for it to be established.
So the local police station not opening a case was, in a way, understandable.
"Miss Huang, you said that later on you started to feel something was off."
"Like someone was secretly following you. What exactly happened? What did you base that feeling on?"
Hearing Luo Fei ask this, his tone a bit curious,
Huang Anran patiently explained,
"Mr. Luo, to be honest, it might all just be my imagination. Because not long after I sent him that photo of the report, he never contacted me again."