Ex-wife becomes the world's number one hacker

Outside the corridor, Sun Shini clung tightly to Sun Lifeng's waist, her face buried deep in his chest, her frail body trembling uncontrollably.

Her feet seemed frozen in place, unable to move.

In mid-September, when the weather was still warm, she wrapped herself up tightly in a thick hooded sweatshirt, the hood pulled up high, looking like a cocoon of fear, trying to completely isolate herself from the outside world.

Sun Lifeng gripped his sister's thin shoulders tightly, his voice low but firm:

"Don't be afraid, your brother's here, come on!"

He practically carried Sun Shini in his arms, slowly moving her into the ward.

When Gu Tingfeng saw the siblings enter, his pupils contracted sharply, and the color drained from his face instantly.

"Lifeng? What...what are you doing here?!"

Sun Lifeng ignored his questioning and took his sister directly to Shen Lan's bedside.

He steadied his sister's trembling shoulders with one hand, and gently turned her face away from his chest with the other, forcing her to face the dying woman on the bed.

"Nini, don't be afraid." His voice was soft, yet unusually firm.

"Look closely at what this madwoman looks like now. She can't get up anymore, and she can't hurt you anymore. Lift your head and look at her."

"You...you guys..." Shen Lan's cloudy eyes stared intently at the two people who had suddenly appeared, then abruptly turned to Gu Tingfeng, her withered fingers trembling as she raised them.

"What...what's going on with them?!"

Gu Tingfeng's lips moved a few times, his face was ashen, and his throat felt blocked, unable to utter a single word.

Jiang Yin chuckled softly from the side, her laughter chilling: "They are your husband's children he's keeping outside the marriage. A son and a daughter."

"You...you bastard!" Shen Lan's face flushed a purplish-red with extreme shock and anger, and her breathing suddenly became rapid.

"No...no...didn't you only have one daughter?! How come...you also have a son?!"

Her eyes widened as she stared intently at Sun Lifeng. He had removed his thick-rimmed glasses, revealing his face clearly in the light. His features bore a striking resemblance to those of a young Gu Tingfeng.

"Okay...okay...Gu Tingfeng...you're so good at hiding things." Shen Lan felt as if all her strength had been drained away in an instant, and she collapsed, her face drained of all color.

She stared blankly at the ceiling, muttering those two names to herself:

"Sun...Li...Feng. Liqi, Lifeng...Feng, Feng..."

She suddenly laughed softly and nervously, her laughter dry and strained.

"If it's not the first character of the surname, then it's the last character... Gu Tingfeng, you really are... feudal to the extreme, even the name of your illegitimate child has to bear your mark."

"So...you and Sun Yuanyuan were already sleeping together..." She closed her eyes, and hot tears welled up in her eyes.

"And I... I've been a complete fool, played by you all for so many years. It's like killing someone... it's like destroying their spirit..."

At this moment, with the silent support of her brother and Jiang Yin, Sun Shini's tense body seemed to relax slightly. Finally, very slowly, she turned her gaze to the hospital bed.

When she saw the old woman on the bed, so thin she was practically just skin and bones, struggling to breathe, her fingers, which had been gripping her brother's clothes tightly, loosened slightly. The deep-seated, reflexive trembling seemed to lessen as well.

Sun Lifeng keenly noticed this subtle change in his younger sister, his heart skipped a beat, and his voice became even more steady:

"Look, Nini, she's dying. She doesn't have the strength to hurt anyone anymore."

"It's you...?!" Shen Lan's unfocused gaze focused on Sun Shini's face, her cloudy eyes suddenly flashing with a fierce light, her finger trembling as she pointed at her.

"I've been looking for you... for eight or nine years... So I wasn't mistaken that day... You really are... you really are that damned bastard!"

Jiang Yin took half a step forward, looked at Shen Lan, and said in an icy voice:

"Why did you search for her like a madman? Wasn't it because she looks extremely similar to me? When you saw her, you assumed she was your husband's illegitimate child. You grabbed a butcher's cleaver and chased after her, an eleven-year-old girl, running around the market three times. If a passerby hadn't stopped you, you would have stabbed her to death that day."

"You scared her so much that she developed serious mental problems. She hasn't dared to step out of the house for nine years. Of course you can't find her." Sun Lifeng's gaze was like a knife fixed on Shen Lan's face.

At this moment, Sun Shini completely loosened her grip on her brother's clothes.

She stared at Shen Lan quietly and intently, as if she were overlapping and replacing the frail old woman in front of her with the madwoman wielding a butcher's knife in her memory, and then... peeling her away little by little from her mind.

After a moment, she turned her face and nodded very slightly to Sun Lifeng, her voice soft but clear:

"Brother, I'm done, I don't want to watch anymore."

Sun Lifeng put his arm around his sister's shoulder, nodded to Jiang Yin, and turned to walk out the door.

Jiang Yin watched them leave before slowly turning around to look at Shen Lan, who was lying on the hospital bed, gasping for breath and almost passing out due to intense emotional turmoil.

Her voice was unusually calm, as if she were recounting an old story that had nothing to do with her:

"When I was little, I always wondered why you disliked me so much. We only saw each other a few times a year, but every time we did, you never had a nice look on your face."

"Later I understood. You blamed all the unhappiness in your life, caused by your husband's infidelity, on me. You thought it was because you gave birth to me that things turned out this way. But open your eyes and look," she pointed to the door in the direction Sun Lifeng had left,

"Sun Lifeng is two years older than me. Your husband has been cheating on you both emotionally and physically for a long time, and your marriage is completely rotten."

"You don't want to admit that you were blind and chose the wrong person, and you're even more afraid to get a divorce. You need a scapegoat, a perfect excuse, so that you can continue to deceive yourself and eke out a living in this broken marriage."

"And I am the target for you to vent all your resentment and feelings of failure."

"Ding Meiyu fabricated a lie to deceive Lin Rongsen. In order to seize the trust fund, you readily accepted this lie. Gu Tingfeng, in order to divert your attention from tracking Sun Shini, indulged your madness. Lin Rongsen, under Ding Meiyu's half-control and half-coercion, cowardly chose to run away."

"The four of you, each with your own filthy desires, tacitly orchestrated that absurd 'swap' farce. And in the end, the one who bore all the consequences was me, who was only seventeen years old at the time, the most innocent and helpless."

"A couple of days ago, during an interrogation, I asked Ding Meiyu. She said that she had already prepared to poison Lin Rongsen to silence him. She never expected that you would so smoothly accept her lie and cooperate so seamlessly."

"You all know perfectly well that none of you can afford the cost of the truth being revealed. That's why your alliance, bound together by selfishness and fear, is so strong: you all prosper together and you all suffer together."

"You think of me now, and the title 'daughter,' not because you regret it, but because you've finally realized you have no other bargaining chips. You want to use your moral high ground to blackmail me before you die, hoping that I'll help you find your son, or even support him for the rest of his life, because of our blood ties."

"But just a few months ago, you were plotting to kill me. You planned to kill me and then, as a 'grieving mother,' apply to become the heir to that fund so you could use the money to save your 'pharmaceutical' son."

Shen Lan's chest heaved violently as she mustered her last bit of strength and hissed:

"That...that's a huge sum of money! Especially ten years ago! Why should it all go to you alone?!"

"They say even tigers don't eat their cubs." Jiang Yin shook her head, her eyes calm. "For that ten billion, you've tried to kill me time and time again."

"Don't worry," she said, each word clear and distinct.

"If I get any news about Gu Liqi, I will not hesitate to send him to prison. He must bear the legal consequences for everything he has done."

"You...you can't!" Hearing her son's name, tears welled up in Shen Lan's cloudy eyes again.

"He...he's your brother!"

"I...I had no choice..." Her voice suddenly softened, trembling with sobs.

"Your dad's a womanizer, what kind of life am I living? We're both women, can't you... have some understanding of me?"

"You always have an excuse." Jiang Yin's tone was completely flat. "You, it's because of 'an unhappy marriage.' Ding Meiyu, it's because of 'her family of origin.' You use these reasons as excuses to do evil and hurt the weak with a clear conscience."

"Thanks to you all, I have suffered so much at such a young age. But I will always yearn for the light." She gave Shen Lan one last look, a gaze like a final judgment.

"And you deserve only to be forever mired in the abyss you dug with your own hands."

After saying that, she turned away without looking back.

Gu Tingfeng, who had been cowering in the corner with a pale face, seemed to be startled awake at this moment. He staggered forward, his voice hoarse:

"Yinyin! Daddy was wrong... Please give Daddy another chance..."

Jiang Yin didn't pause at all, as if she hadn't heard anything, and walked straight out.

She thought Lin Rongsen was right.

She had to let herself go, because some people didn't even deserve her hatred.

In a coffee shop next to the hospital, Jiang Yin sat opposite Sun Lifeng and his sister.

Sun Shini appeared much more relaxed.

She nestled against her brother, her eyes still darting away timidly, but her face was no longer filled with fear.

She secretly tugged at Sun Lifeng's sleeve, leaned close to his ear, and whispered:

"Sister...is very pretty."

Sun Lifeng ruffled his sister's hair and gave Jiang Yin a tired but relieved smile.

Jiang Yin looked at the girl's face, which resembled her own by six or seven points, and felt a mix of emotions.

She asked Sun Lifeng softly, "What are your plans for the future?"

Sun Lifeng, without his thick glasses, has clear and bright eyes; he is a very handsome young man.

He habitually raised his hand to touch the bridge of his nose, but found nothing. His hand paused in mid-air for a moment before he awkwardly lowered it.

"Take Nini away from here," he said in a deep voice, his gaze resolute. "First, go abroad and get her illness treated. Then we'll find a new city to live in."

Jiang Yin took a bank card out of her bag, placed it on the table, and gently pushed it over.

"Take this; you'll need it for medical treatment and daily life."

Sun Lifeng quickly waved his hand: "No, no need! We can't take your money!"

"Take it." Jiang Yin's tone left no room for argument. "This is what you deserve. Without the information you provided about Xingxin's financial fraud, things wouldn't have gone so smoothly."

Sun Lifeng remained silent for a moment, looking at his sister's quiet profile, before finally nodding and carefully putting the card away. He couldn't refuse; treating his sister's illness would indeed require a lot of money.

A moment later, Jiang Yin finally asked the question that had been lingering in her mind for so long: "Why...why did you do that?"

A suppressed resentment flashed across Sun Lifeng's face:

"We are born with 'original sin,' we are beings who cannot be seen in the light, but this is never something we can choose. Yet... my mother was happy with it."

He took a deep breath: "After I graduated from university, I talked to her. I said I could earn money, I could support you and your sister, and we could leave here, go to another city, and start over with dignity."

"But she refused. She said this was the best life she could ever have, and whether she had a formal title or not didn't matter." He forced a bitter smile.

"So I thought, let's destroy all that rotten stuff that makes people spend their whole lives scheming and fighting for things."

He paused for a moment, his Adam's apple bobbing violently a few times, before adding with difficulty:

"Besides... Shen Lan has ruined my sister like this, I... want revenge."

"Qin Heming and I tested each other for a long time, and later I realized that he was the person who could help me achieve my goal, so... I gave him the information."

After seeing off the brother and sister who were half her blood relatives, Jiang Yin felt heavy-hearted all day. Especially Sun Shini, a young girl who should have been blossoming in her prime, was ravaged by an undeserved disaster, which was truly heartbreaking.

But in any case, the card she left behind had enough money to ensure that the siblings would be worry-free for the rest of their lives.

When she got home from get off work, she stopped at the door, took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled, carefully concealing all the fatigue and heaviness on her face.

Sister Hui and Se Se should be back by now.

As I pushed open the door, the familiar aroma of food wafted in.

A smile unconsciously crept onto her lips as she raised her voice towards the kitchen:

"Sister Hui, I'm back."

"It's not sis, it's bro." Qin Heming's smiling face appeared at the kitchen doorway.