A Substitute Bride With Multiple Identities
Chapter 407: That Person is Me

Chapter 407: Chapter 407: That Person is Me

Underlings, with faces full of shock, pointed at the computer: "Boss Ba Fang! You have to see this!"

Ba Fang’s pupils shrank sharply, and he abruptly stopped his actions.

The progress bar was decreasing!

Shen Yanhe looked at the computer with a deep gaze, not speaking, not knowing what he was thinking.

At the same time.

In a shabby little house across the ocean.

A teenager had just finished a bucket of instant noodles, and when he looked up, he saw the computer screen, which had been cracking steadily, flicker with a burst of static before going abruptly black.

"Huh?" The teenager tossed the empty bucket of noodles into the trash can and put his hands back on the keyboard to type a string of code.

But the screen remained black, unresponsive.

The teenager quickly realized what was happening: he had been counter-hacked.

A slight eagerness for battle appeared on the young face as he muttered to himself, "The high-level hacker that the Net has found this time is quite interesting, able to easily take down my computer. There’s some meaning in fighting against them."

He wanted to see how many rounds this expert from the Net could last against him.

The youngster rubbed his hands and his fingers danced across the keyboard, rapidly typing one string of code after another.

The blackened computer screen lit up once again.

The progress bar that had been retreating at high speed began to rise again!

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Inside the manor, an underling pointed at the screen with a face full of amazement, shouting, "It’s moving! The progress bar is moving again!"

"Stop yelling! I can see it!" Ba Fang snapped irritably at his subordinate, his gaze fixed nervously on the continuously fluctuating progress bar, with sweat beading on his forehead.

Only Shen Yanhe’s eyes narrowed slightly.

That familiar method of cracking...

Was it that kid?

Shen Yanhe reigned in his thoughts, casually typing in a string of code.

The progress bar stalled once more.

And a new progress bar appeared.

[Tracing opponent’s ID now...]

"Damn it, damn it!" the teenager in the tiny run-down house exclaimed in shock, his young face full of astonishment: "That person so easily blocked my virus? And they’re freaking tracing me?"

Where on earth did the Net find this hacker expert??

"No, no, can’t keep playing." The teenager, covered in cold sweat, typed even faster.

If he kept going, his location was going to be exposed.

That would be troublesome.

He rapidly withdrew from the manor’s system and cleaned up his tracks thoroughly, additionally layering his own computer with several layers of protection.

Only after ensuring that nothing could penetrate his computer did the teenager let out a sigh of relief, his back drenched in cold sweat.

The expert from the Net reacted too quickly, with a very sharp attack; he had nearly capsized in the gutter.

"This one billion, damn, it’s not easy to earn." The teenager collapsed onto the computer chair, murmuring to himself and after some thought, he took out his phone and canceled the job.

Money was useless if he didn’t live to spend it.

Inside the manor.

Shen Yanhe, watching the progress bar rapidly drop to zero, hummed with an ambiguous smile, "Pretty fast runner."

That slippery technique, it was definitely that kid.

The exchange had been so fast that the underlings hadn’t reacted, just staring dumbfounded at the computer screen as it slowly returned to normal.

Was this...

The mistress had driven away the hacker?

Ba Fang wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked cautiously, "Mistress, did the defense succeed?"

"It did." Shen Yanhe nodded lazily, tapping lightly on the keyboard: "But the firewall of your manor is too weak, I’ve upgraded it for you. No need to thank me."

Upon hearing this, Ba Fang let out a heavy sigh of relief.

Remembering how he had treated Shen Yanhe, his face showed a bit of shame: "I apologize, Mistress, for my attitude towards you earlier... it was too disrespectful."

The underlings also spoke with faces full of shame.

"And me, I was a bit hasty earlier, and even looked down on the Mistress, I’m sorry."

"I was also..."

"And I..."

"No worries, it’s perfectly normal for you guys to have been in a panic at such a critical moment," Shen Yanhe said nonchalantly, waving her hand lazily as she stood up and stretched, "I’ll leave the cleanup to you all, I’m heading back now."

Ba Fang made a slight turn of his body, "Madam, let me escort you back."

Shen Yanhe hummed an acknowledgment and walked out.

On the way.

Ba Fang looked at Shen Yanhe and, after deliberating for a moment, cautiously asked, "Madam, are you also proficient in computer technology?"

Shen Yanhe replied indifferently, "A little."

Ba Fang: "..."

Effortlessly hacking into the manor’s system, leaving him utterly helpless, and forcing the hacker that had him at his wits’ end to flee in a panic.

Is this what you call ’a little’?

What does that make him then?

Ignorant??

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Back in the study, Fu Yanhe was still busy with official business. His computer video was on, conversing in German with the person on the other end.

Shen Yanhe didn’t interrupt him; she comfortably took a seat on the study’s single sofa, took out her phone, and logged into the TNC website, which she hadn’t visited in a long time.

She didn’t log into the admin account but her personal one instead.

As soon as she logged in, private messages popped up incessantly like a flood.

There were 999+ messages in the inbox.

Luckily, her phone was custom-modified by herself; otherwise, it would have been utterly frozen by all these messages.

Shen Yanhe lightly furrowed her brows and opened the message inbox.

The person who had sent the most was [G].

There were 99+ messages from them.

The latest one even asked if she was dead, telling her to press 1 for a mourning paper offering.

Shen Yanhe: "..."

Shen Yanhe dialed a 1 and sent it with a faint sense of deep thought.

[G]: !!!

[G]: Holy crap, she’s back from the dead!

Shen Yanhe’s lips curved slightly. Her fingers swiftly moved.

[HM]: Have you taken a job from Luo Wang recently?

The young man on the other end of the phone was startled when he saw her message.

Holy crap.

Did she install a monitoring device on his phone this week?

How in the world would she know that?

[G]: How did you get hold of this news? Did they approach you as well?

[G]: But I’ve got to say, Luo Wang is kind of capable. I’d just hacked into their system, and everything was going smoothly when suddenly I got counter-hacked. I almost got traced back, damn close call.

[G]: Tsk tsk, but compared to you, they are still not up to par. If it were you, you would have uncovered all my secrets long ago.

Shen Yanhe looked at the flurry of messages he sent and responded with a detached comment.

[HM]: That person was me.

[G]: ...

[G]: !!!

[G]: It was you?! How could you have regressed so much? This is the end, you’re going to fall from your pedestal?

Shen Yanhe’s lip twitched.

This kid, he’s eager for her to fall from the top spot at TNC, isn’t he?

[HM]: You’re overthinking it, I didn’t continue the trace to leave you some dignity.

[HM]: Back to the point, who are ’they’ you mentioned?

[G]: An organization called immortal. They approached me with a billion to crack Luo Wang’s system.

Shen Yanhe’s gaze suddenly fixed on that string of letters.

immortal.

Have they finally started making moves?

[HM]: Send me their contact information.

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