Ex-wife becomes the world's number one hacker

Yu Maolin frowned and looked up at Lu Xun.

Lu Xun understood and quickly walked out.

A moment later, he turned back and whispered, "She's here."

"What's she doing here?" Yu Maolin's face darkened. "Let her in."

Before the words were finished, footsteps were already approaching.

Lin Xiyue, dressed in all black and wearing sneakers, followed Lu Xun in quickly.

Under the light, her face glowed slightly with excitement.

Before Yu Maolin could speak, Lin Xiyue had already tossed the USB drive in her hand over.

"Got it." Her tone was light, as if she were tossing away an insignificant trinket: "It's just a broken system, isn't it? Easy peasy."

Yu Maolin caught the USB drive, but his expression didn't soften; instead, it turned cold.

"Didn't I tell you to send it somewhere else?"

"I did send it," Lin Xiyue said, raising her chin. "My friend sent it for me. I made an extra copy, just so I could throw it in your face and make you look down on me again."

"Who told you about this place?" Yu Maolin frowned and stared at her.

Then, his gaze swept between Lu Xun and Chen Mo.

Chen Mo's expression froze, and he lowered his head.

"Don't scold him." Lin Xiyue crossed her arms and smiled nonchalantly, "I forced him to."

She strolled around slowly for a couple of steps, her tone tinged with smugness:

"I told him that if he didn't tell me, I would expose everything he had done behind my back all these years, as well as his relationship with my mother. Of course, he kept quiet."

Chen Mo's face flushed red as he pointed at Lin Xiyue and angrily said, "I was entrusted by your mother to kindly advise you to leave, why are you repaying kindness with enmity?"

Yu Maolin's face darkened. "Shut up, all of you!"

Then, he turned to Lin Xiyue and said coldly, "Your reckless arrival will get us killed. Leave immediately!"

"What's the rush?" Lin Xiyue turned around nonchalantly, her gaze falling on Jiang Yin, a smile playing on her lips.

"I came to say goodbye to my 'old friends,' and I'll leave after a few words."

Jiang Yin watched her approach step by step.

Just now, the instant Lin Xiyue stepped into the warehouse, her heart sank: Just as she thought. Qin Heming had indeed downloaded the file for her.

Jiang Yin's last glimmer of hope—that "perhaps someone else stole the terminal"—was completely shattered at this moment.

She raised her eyes, her gaze calm.

Lin Xiyue stopped in front of her, bent down to examine her closely, and clicked her tongue:

"Such a beautiful face, what a pity, we'll never see it again."

Jiang Yin kept her lips tightly closed, her eyes frosty, staring directly at her.

Lin Xiyue paused for a moment under that gaze, then her smile widened.

"Don't look at me like that." She straightened up and slowly paced in front of Jiang Yin. "You'll always lose in front of me."

"You think being good at your job is useful?" She laughed. "The husband you tried so hard to get still loves me to death."

Jiang Yin didn't speak, but simply turned her head slightly to the side.

She needed to keep talking, as long as she could buy time.

Sure enough, Lin Xiyue couldn't hold back any longer.

Do you know how much he loves me?

Jiang Yin shifted her gaze elsewhere and let out a soft breath.

It sounded like disdain, but also like exhaustion.

Lin Xiyue's smile froze, and she was immediately enraged.

"What? You don't believe me?" she sneered. "Then let me tell you."

She leaned down again, close to Jiang Yin's ear, and whispered, word by word:

"He secretly encoded my personal information into characters and set it as a password. He used it everywhere; it was everywhere. Every time I typed it, it was as if he was saying—"

"I love you."

She chuckled and looked at Jiang Yin.

Jiang Yin had seen enough of her ugly face, closed her eyes, and let out a soft hum.

Lin Xiyue was completely enraged: "You still don't believe me?"

"Then I'll tell you what the password is. Anyway, you're going to die soon, so it doesn't matter if I tell you."

She straightened up, her tone smug:

"Listen carefully. The password is: yy091699, which means 'monthly,' my birthday, and 'forever.'"

There was a moment of silence in the warehouse.

Jiang Yin opened her eyes, her gaze sharp as a knife:

Say it again.

Lin Xiyue was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter:

"What? You're moved by this earth-shattering love story too, aren't you?"

Then, she deliberately slowed down her speech and repeated it again:

"yy-0916-99".

"How about it? Pretty clever, right?" Lin Xiyue looked at Jiang Yin triumphantly.

Jiang Yin's heartbeat suddenly calmed down at that moment.

She looked up, her voice calm:

"Qin Heming, do I call you Yueyue?"

Lin Xiyue's laughter stopped abruptly.

She was stunned.

In my memory, he always seemed to call her "Xiyue".

Seeing her stunned expression, Jiang Yin suppressed the raging storm in her heart and sneered:

He called me, Yinyin.

Lin Xiyue's face instantly darkened.

"Don't flatter yourself!" she snapped. "My birthday is coming up!"

Jiang Yin looked at her, a hint of pity appearing in her eyes:

"What a coincidence," she said casually. "Me too, September 16th."

"Did I forget that we share the same birthday?"

Lin Xiyue's breath hitched.

"That doesn't prove anything!" She instinctively straightened her back, feigning composure. "There are plenty of people born on the same day! Besides, the whole world knows he hates you!"

Jiang Yin did not refute, but simply added softly:

"The final '99' is not forever."

Lin Xiyue was startled again.

"It's a cat that he and I raised together," Jiang Yin said calmly. "Its name is 'Jiujiu'."

Lin Xiyue could no longer hold back and almost shouted:

"Shut up!"

"You're talking nonsense!"

"Damn it, I should have drowned you when you were seventeen."

She whirled around, her eyes darting rapidly, finally landing on a rusty, empty metal bucket beside her, and reached out to grab it—

"Stop!" Yu Maolin, who had been listening to their conversation, shouted at her.

Then, he coldly asked Lu Xun:

"Did you just scan?"

"Scanned," Lu Xun said in a low voice. "Nothing unusual."

Yu Maolin pressed further, "Did you search by hand?"

"...No." Lu Xun lowered his head.

"They're already wearing thin clothes, it's inconvenient for girls..."

"waste."

Seeing Yu Maolin's anger, Lu Xun hurriedly explained:

"The signal is blocked in this warehouse area. It's an abandoned private dock, messy and chaotic. By the time they find us, we'll all be gone."

"Even on the road, I used intermittent signal processing, so the signal was intermittent and I couldn't catch up."

Yu Maolin snorted coldly, then looked at Lin Xiyue: "Go search her."

"You two, hold her down."

Lu Xun and Chen Mo took steps at the same time.

Lin Xiyue was already furious and was about to pounce.

"Stop right there," Jiang Yin said coldly. "I'll do it myself."

Then, she stood up, reached into the bra lining, took out the communicator, and threw it away.

She sneered inwardly: Anyway, its mission is already accomplished. This place is remote; I discovered it was blocked as soon as I entered.

Yu Maolin held the communicator between his fingers and looked down to examine it carefully.

--despair

A clear sound of a shoe sole hitting the concrete floor came from the shadows of a pile of wooden crates deep inside the warehouse.

It hit everyone's nerves precisely, neither too hard nor too soft.

Yu Maolin abruptly stopped his finger movements, raised his eyes, and his gaze shot like lightning towards the darkness from which the sound was coming from.

"Who?!"

Chen Mo had already taken half a step forward, blocking Yu Maolin to his side and behind, his shout exploding in the suddenly silent warehouse.

"come out!"