The CEO’s Substitute Wife Is A Genius
Chapter 282: Blowing My Cover, I am the Red Alliance Hierarch

Chapter 282: Chapter 282: Blowing My Cover, I am the Red Alliance Hierarch

Mrs. Lan Xiang didn’t speak but gently touched her chest.

At the time, she hadn’t given it much thought; she just felt that the necklace suited Jiang Man perfectly.

Now that she had calmed down, she realized her action was indeed somewhat bizarre.

Had she really given an item she had treasured for years to a stranger?

"She saved my life; it’s just a necklace, nothing more,"

Madame Lan Xiang said indifferently.

The butler said no more.

After thinking it over, he agreed.

The situation just now was extremely serious; one person held a knife to the lady’s throat, while another attacked from behind.

If it hadn’t been for Jiang Man and Lu Xingzhou, the lady’s chances of survival would have been slim.

...

When Jiang Man found Lu Xingzhou, he was walking out of a room, leisurely wiping his hands and tossing a used hot towel into the trash.

His movements were graceful and unhurried.

Jiang Man glanced at the towel in the trash; it had blood on it.

She immediately understood, knowing that Lu Xingzhou must have used forceful means, probably getting something out of it.

"How did it go?" she asked lazily, hands in her pockets.

Lu Xingzhou looked at her with an air of composure, "It involves some political issues; it’s not good for me to interfere too much."

After a pause, he said gravely, "However, the other party claims to be an assassin sent by the Red Alliance."

"Red Alliance?" Jiang Man raised an eyebrow, her gaze sharp, "Impossible!"

Her categorical tone made Lu Xingzhou suspicious, "Why couldn’t it be the Red Alliance?"

Because she was the Alliance Hierarch!

The Red Alliance never got involved in international disputes; they were knights-errant, always engaging in acts of chivalry.

Most importantly, without her permission, members wouldn’t dare to act on their own.

"I heard the Red Alliance doesn’t engage in assassinations." Jiang Man shifted her stance, returning to her casual demeanor, "Besides, the members of the Red Alliance wouldn’t be as trashy as him."

"It seems you know a lot about the Red Alliance?" Lu Xingzhou’s eyes suddenly blazed.

With a teasing smile, he asked, "Could it be you hold some position within the Red Alliance?"

"Mhm, I’m the Alliance Hierarch, do you believe me?" Jiang Man raised her eyebrows with a devil-may-care look.

The way she spoke left it unclear whether she was telling the truth or joking.

This time, Lu Xingzhou didn’t believe her.

Past experiences had taught him that Jiang Man’s disguises were always well hidden, and she would never reveal them unless absolutely necessary.

Revealing her true identity casually was unheard of.

"I believe you, my wife is the most amazing," Lu Xingzhou responded, his voice filled with affection.

Jiang Man knew he didn’t believe her and didn’t bother to explain further.

"Let’s go." She checked her watch, "Let’s visit grandpa in the hospital; we need to get back to North City."

Despite wanting to stay a few more days, the research institute couldn’t wait.

...

The next day.

Lu Xingzhou chartered a plane, and together with Jiang Man, they returned to North City.

Although they had only been away for ten days, it felt like a year.

"Do you want to go back to Rong Mansion to rest?"

Lu Xingzhou, with his laptop in his arms, dealt with the work that had piled up over the days while inquiring to Jiang Man.

Jiang Man, leaning her head on her hand, gazed out the car window with an eagerness to be home.

"No need, the school is just ahead. You can stop the car here."

"You still want to attend that crappy school?" Lu Xingzhou finally took his eyes off his computer to look at Jiang Man.

Jiang Man was serious as she slightly raised an eyebrow, "Yes, why not? Next semester I want to learn about Warring States musical instruments, I’m quite interested in bianzhong and bianqing."

Lu Xingzhou was surprised but didn’t say more, "If you can learn something, then the school is worth attending."

"Don’t worry, I won’t just be killing time," Jiang Man said as the car came to a steady stop.

She opened the door and got out with a cool, brisk air about her.

The car had been parked by the side of the road for quite a while, not until Jiang Man’s figure disappeared did Lu Xingzhou reluctantly tell the driver to head to the company.

As the car started moving again, he took out his phone and sent Jiang Man a message.

Lu Xingzhou: How do you want to spend your birthday this year?

Jiang Man walked down the street, sending a message to Major Xia, asking the research institute to send a car to pick her up.

After sending the message, she received Lu Xingzhou’s message.

Jiang Man: It doesn’t matter, I’ll just spend it at Rong Mansion, a cake will do.

In the past ten years, each of her birthdays had been more lavish than the last.

She didn’t actually look forward to celebrating her birthday that much.

After all, she had been abandoned by her parents at birth, so her birthday was not a day for celebration.

She cooperated every year with the birthday arrangements because her foster father went to great lengths for her, and she didn’t want to dampen his spirits.

After thinking it over, she quickly typed a reply with one hand: I won’t celebrate my birthday, I won’t be in Beicheng that day, I’ll be back with my foster father.

Lu Xingzhou stared at the message for a long time, unfazed.

He wanted to come clean to Jiang Man, to tell her that he knew her true identity.

But he would write a message, delete it, write another, then delete it again.

In the end, he was left with one word: Okay.

He wasn’t in a hurry.

He would wait for the day Jiang Man was willing to be honest about her identity, then he would meet her father and explain everything properly.

For now, his strategy was simple — wait.

...

Jiang Man didn’t arrive at the research institute until the afternoon.

"Dr. Jiang, the first phase has ended perfectly, and we’re now just waiting for the clinical trials of the second phase!"

Jiang Man nodded, looking at the various data displayed on the large screen.

All kinds of machines simulating brain instruments were performing tasks.

There were over a hundred evaluations.

"This is just the beginning. Currently, it’s only used in artificial intelligence, and binary digits are still different from life; we can’t take it lightly."

...

Meanwhile, the president’s office at Lu Corporation received a phone call.

Zhao Huai printed a stack of documents, bursting with excitement as he knocked on the door of the president’s office.

"Come in," said Lu Xingzhou, who had just finished the contract with Parna.

Thanks to Jiang Man, his trip to Thailand had saved the company billions.

"BOSS, there’s news from the research institute! The first phase of the development is completed smoothly!"

"Quick! Show me!" Lu Xingzhou said excitedly, standing up.

The collaboration between Lu Corporation and the research institute was something he had been looking forward to the most.

The brain instrument project was not only about making money for Lu Corporation but more importantly, he saw it as a technological revolution.

Once the brain instruments came into existence, they would bring a variety of benefits.

Take Jiang Man’s grandfather, for instance; if a brain instrument were used on a patient, even if they were in a vegetative state, the outside world could still perceive the patient’s thoughts clearly through the instrument, which they couldn’t express verbally.

It wasn’t just for use in the field of vegetative state patients, but also for those with nerve damage, completely paralyzed but mentally alert. They could use the brain instrument to operate their limbs, achieving a simulation of nerve function.

"Great! That’s excellent!" Lu Xingzhou said, looking over the data with excitement.

His eyes lingered on Dr. M’s handwritten signature, filled with anticipation.

He looked forward to the day of the brain instrument’s launch, where he could witness Dr. M’s elegance in person!

Suddenly, a thought struck him.

Jiang Man was working at the research institute.

Initially, he thought Jiang Man might be doing menial tasks like cleaning, but now he wondered if she was one of the researchers there.

Could it be a huge coincidence that she was part of Dr. M’s team, one of the members of the brain instrument project?

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