Chapter 23: The Crazy Sister Returns, and I Smashed Her Computer!
Lu Family Manor.
The morning mist hadn't fully dissipated when a black MPV silently stopped by the fountain square.
Lu Shixuan was slumped on the sofa, clutching a meat bun in his hand, his gaze fixed on the red countdown in his mind.
Time until the Sixth Young Lady, Lu Anran, arrives home: 30 seconds.
Current Task: When the Sixth Sister enters, show extreme contempt for her "lack of proper ambition" and personally destroy her most cherished electronic device.
Task Reward: God-level Hacking Technique (Advanced Edition), 15 million in cash.
Lu Shixuan swallowed the last bite of the bun, his eyes instantly turning cold and gloomy.
Finally, she's here—the most difficult "little lunatic" in this family.
In the original novel, Lu Anran was a severe social recluse and a hacking genius whose personality became extremely twisted because she never received attention from the family for years.
She was the sharpest electronic butcher knife in Ye Chen's hand, ultimately hacking the Lu Group's financial system herself and sending the whole family to prison.
Lu Shixuan sneered and pulled a heavy golf club from under the coffee table.
He dragged the club across the floor, making a piercing sound, every step he took oozing arrogance and overbearingness.
However, his anxious inner voice was already vibrating wildly in the air.
This task is practically tailor-made for me.
An Ran's old computer has long-aged motherboard capacitors, and the radiator is full of dust.
When I hacked into her system last night, I found that the battery of that crappy computer had already swollen like a steamed bun.
If it's turned on again to run high-load programs, it's clearly a face-exploding bomb.
I have to smash it and, while I'm at it, stuff that top-tier Workstation I just assembled—the one with "liquid nitrogen cooling + quantum encryption"—to her.
I'll just say it's trash This Young Master threw away because it was too laggy for gaming.
Lu Anran, who had just pushed open the door, suddenly paused in her tracks.
She wore massive noise-canceling headphones and tightly held an old laptop covered in anime stickers in her arms.
Her eyes, which were originally gloomy and even carried a hint of murderous intent, were now filled with confusion.
Who was speaking just now?
That voice skipped past her top-tier headphones and echoed deep within her consciousness.
That was A Xuan's voice.
Battery swelling?
Face-exploding bomb?
Lu Anran subconsciously looked down at the old computer in her arms; her palms indeed felt an abnormal heat.
Seeing this, Lu Shixuan thought she was still gathering her emotions and decided to strike first.
He swung the golf club violently, pointing it at the tip of Lu Anran's nose.
"Yo, isn't this our Lu family's 'electronic beggar' back?"
Lu Shixuan squinted, his tone mean to the extreme.
"Studied abroad for a few years only to bring back this piece of scrap metal?"
"You've completely disgraced the Lu family!"
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly exerted force.
Bang!
A loud crash.
The laptop in Lu Anran's arms was precisely struck and sent flying, drawing an arc in the air before crashing heavily into a corner, parts scattering everywhere.
Lu Anran stood frozen in place, her pupils shrinking.
"Lu Shixuan!"
She let out a scream, her voice trembling.
That was her only companion, her fortress for escaping reality in a foreign land.
However, just as she was about to go berserk and hack all of Lu Shixuan's accounts.
Lu Shixuan's inner voice flooded in again like a tide.
Phew, that was a precise hit; the battery didn't explode, and it didn't hurt her hands.
This little lunatic, her hair has grown long again, almost covering her eyes; she must often stay up late and not wash her hair.
Looking at those dark circles, she probably stayed up for several nights in a row just to write code for that green tea bitch man, Ye Chen, right?
What a little fool starved for love. Ye Chen is just using you; he doesn't care whether you live or die at all.
If the computer really exploded, would you still want these beautiful hands?
No, I have to be even meaner, make her cry, and give her a lesson so she doesn't touch such dangerous things casually in the future.
Lu Shixuan snorted coldly and kicked away the wreckage on the floor.
"What are you crying for? You useless thing!"
"Butler! Bring over that set of 'trash' I got tired of playing with yesterday and throw it to her!"
"Don't say the Lu family mistreats you. This kind of outdated stuff is only fit for a nobody like you to play with."
Several bodyguards struggled to carry in two massive computer cases shimmering with a cold blue light.
Those were limited-edition, custom-made top-tier Workstations; the price of the graphics cards alone was enough to buy a house in The Capital.
Lu Anran looked at those two dreamlike machines, then at Lu Shixuan's face which practically screamed "I'm a bad person."
Her heart suddenly skipped a beat.
So, he did it to save me.
He knew the computer was going to explode, so he smashed it.
He scolded me and humiliated me just to give me the best things.
Lu Anran's perpetually frozen heart felt as if it were being squeezed hard by a warm hand.
It was sour, yet filled with a warmth she had never felt before.
"Lu Shixuan..."
She lowered her head, her bangs hiding the flickering tears in her eyes.
"You... big idiot."
Lu Shixuan was stunned.
Huh?
She's scolding me?
Great!
She finally hates me!
Quick, scold me even harder!
It would be best if she rushed up and bit me right now!
However.
Lu Anran suddenly looked up and gave him an extremely brilliant yet somewhat morbidly obsessed smile.
"Thank you, Big Brother."
"I like this 'trash' very much."
Lu Anran stepped forward and, in front of the whole family, suddenly grabbed Lu Shixuan's collar.
She leaned close to Lu Shixuan's ear, her voice so soft only the two of them could hear.
"Since Big Brother gave me such a wonderful gift..."
"...then as a return gift, how about I send all those 'provocative texts' Ye Chen-gege sent me to Big Sister to see?"
Lu Shixuan froze completely.
Holy crap?
An Ran, wake up!
You're on Ye Chen's side!
You're backstabbing your dearest Ye Chen-gege!
It's over. Not only has the plot collapsed, it's freaking starting to go off the rails!
Lu Shixuan looked at the ceiling in despair.
Only Ye Chen, currently hiding behind the rockery in the Lu family garden, looked at the message on his phone that had gone unanswered for a long time, an ominous premonition rising in his heart.
He didn't know that his last trump card had already turned into Lu Shixuan's number one fangirl.
And a crazy fangirl with hacking skills, at that.