CHAPTER 832: CHAPTER 733: DISLOCATED LIVES 31

But upon closer inspection, Fang Zhijin smiled lightly, her eyes bright and soft as she looked at him, as if it was just a casual remark. Zhu Shihao felt he must have been mistaken. After all, without the interaction during this period, Zhu Shihao would also have had doubts. Wen Shuangshuang’s performance was simply extraordinary.

Thinking he’d understood, Zhu Shihao didn’t dwell on it further, but seriously explained: "Little Zhi, don’t think like those foolish people. The world of geniuses is different from that of ordinary people. What we can’t achieve, some geniuses find as easy as child’s play.

Ever since my uncle bought this game, I’ve been at the company. All the technical staff in my uncle’s company have been learning from Wen Shuangshuang how to master the game’s various data, so they can maintain it at any time in the future. If you didn’t research it yourself, you wouldn’t be able to master every data segment in the game as proficiently as Wen Shuangshuang. So the idea of someone else helping with the research is simply nonexistent.

People who say such things are either judging others by themselves, thinking that what they can’t do, no one else in the world should be able to do, or they’re simply parroting others, believing something to be fake just because others say so.

Another possibility is the sour grapes mentality. They know someone else can do what they can’t, but they’re jealous and purposely slander others to feel psychologically balanced.

Little Zhi, I know you’re not malicious. If others say Wen Shuangshuang is fake, you might also feel suspicious. But don’t blindly follow the crowd; this could easily wrong a good person. Remember, verbal violence is violence too, and it can be more destructively invisible than a knife."

"Okay, okay, it was just a sentence. You gave me a whole lecture. I admit I’m shallow; I follow the crowd; I judge others by myself. I think I’m not that exceptional, so when someone else is, I question it. I didn’t mean it that way. If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have said something so impolite. Do you see me gossiping behind people’s backs any other time?"

Actually, when Fang Zhijin spoke, she realized she had slipped up. The character she portrayed shouldn’t say such harsh words, so she immediately pretended to have spoken casually, showing she only acted this way in front of Zhu Shihao, pointing out his special treatment of her.

Sure enough, after a moment of doubt, Zhu Shihao let go of his suspicion and felt a bit embarrassed about his harsh words earlier. He leaned closer and whispered seductively in Fang Zhijin’s ear: "Okay, I was wrong, it wasn’t intentional. Don’t be angry at me. I said that because Wen Shuangshuang really is exceptional, she’s even someone I idolize. You know how people are with their idols."

Zhu Shihao’s words carried no special meaning. He truly idolized Wen Shuangshuang, an idol always being exalted. People love idolizing, but never fantasize about anything with idols.

But to Fang Zhijin, these words sounded different. Hearing Zhu Shihao praise Wen Shuangshuang so much, she felt Zhu Shihao had fallen for Wen Shuangshuang, because, in her memory, Zhu Shihao and Wen Shuangshuang were originally a pair.

Fang Zhijin felt a surge of resentment. She dared not reveal the matter, knowing Zhu Shihao might not yet understand it. She could only verbally agree with Zhu Shihao, but internally felt quite upset, thinking what Zhu Shihao said earlier was sarcastic.

Fang Zhijin cast a shadowed glance at Wen Shuangshuang, still basking in the spotlight during the interview, determined to bring her down from her high status and trample her.

Originally calm about returning to the Wen Family, Fang Zhijin suddenly felt anxious. The unexpected shift made her suspect Wen Shuangshuang had also been reincarnated, thus living a more glamorous life this time around.

Later, Zhu Shihao mentioned introducing Fang Zhijin to Wen Shuangshuang, but Fang Zhijin instinctively refused. She didn’t want to face Wen Shuangshuang until she was either equally exceptional or able to look down on her.

After the conference ended, Wen Shuangshuang was already plotting how to switch identities back with Fang Zhijin. She couldn’t wait to find out if Fang Zhijin was the person who changed Wen Jianyun and Liu Yun’s attitude towards her.

Unexpectedly, just as Wen Shuangshuang was planning, the police arrived to discuss the issue of swapped children. Wen Shuangshuang immediately suspected Fang Zhijin was the source of the change.

This was because the police explained that Fang Zhijin discovered her blood type didn’t match her parents during a donation, revealing she wasn’t a Fang Family child. Fang Zhijin insisted on reporting it to find her biological parents, against her parents’ wishes, leading to the police investigation.

Wen Shuangshuang watched as the police left, and Wen Jianyun and Liu Yun sat on the sofa, gloom filling the room. Wen Shuangshuang was now certain Fang Zhijin was problematic. From her past reincarnation experiences, every failure involved a change impacting her life this way.

This lifetime’s change for Wen Shuangshuang was Fang Zhijin. Though she couldn’t sense if Fang Zhijin’s soul bore reincarnation traces, Wen Shuangshuang knew for sure from this incident that Fang Zhijin had reincarnated.

Wen Shuangshuang remembered Zhu Shihao’s previous mention of introducing his girlfriend at the conference, yet nothing came of it. Wen Shuangshuang already knew Zhu Shihao’s girlfriend was Fang Zhijin.

If Fang Zhijin was reincarnated, seeing a life that completely differed from the previous trajectory could lead to doubts or even suspicion that Wen Shuangshuang herself was reincarnated too. Should this be true, to avoid issues reclaiming the Wen Family, proactive measures would be expected from Fang Zhijin.

Indeed, Wen Shuangshuang wanted to see how Fang Zhijin planned to deal with her. What means was Fang Zhijin using to make Wen Jianyun and Liu Yun so disappointed in their foster daughter that they wouldn’t even meet her?

Black-hat skills were something Shuangshuang had long mastered, more intricate than Array knowledge. Wen Shuangshuang hacked Fang Zhijin’s phone directly, transforming it into a mini surveillance device.

Downstairs Wen Jianyun and Liu Yun were still fretting over the swapped children matter, Wen Jianyun unconsciously clutching his jaw—a familiar habit when distressed. However, Wen Jianyun’s mental resilience meant he’d rarely get worked up enough for toothache.

From childhood on, Wen Shuangshuang recalls Wen Jianyun suffering toothaches twice—when his grandfather died and when his grandmother passed away. Even a near bankruptcy crisis couldn’t cause Wen Jianyun toothache.