Without any warning, Lu Shan’s Father suddenly froze in place, as if something had tripped his foot, his whole body stretched taut and unable to take another step forward.
But judging from his expression, he showed no sign of surprise; instead, his eyes were blank, as if he’d been bewitched, standing there in a daze.
The look was so unfamiliar that even Lu Shan, who knew him extremely well, was startled.
“Dad, what’s wrong with you?”
“Me? I’m fine, aren’t I?”
The next moment, prompted by Lu Shan’s question, Lu Shan’s Father snapped out of it.
At the same time, the faint thread connecting him seemed to quietly snap, but by then he was already several meters away from the kitchen, and clearly had lost all interest in going there.
“I’ll go check on the electrical problem first.”
As he spoke, Lu Shan’s Father held his head and walked toward the inner room, leaving everyone else utterly baffled.
Ye Wanqing had been maintaining her magical perception this whole time.
In that instant, she sensed the weak connection between Su Mu and Lu Shan’s Father, constructed by magic.
But she didn’t seem surprised—in fact, it confirmed her suspicions.
‘Sure enough, Su Mu, you really are Irina.’
This couldn’t help but make Ye Wanqing trust Su Mu a little more.
She simply shifted all the trust she’d built with Irina in her dream onto Su Mu, though now with a slightly more playful attitude.
But all in all, there wasn’t much difference.
By some strange twist of fate, Su Mu thus gained a trust she hadn’t originally earned.
If not for this, Ye Wanqing wouldn’t have been so obedient and compliant toward her—at least not this much.
As she watched that tall figure disappear, Su Mu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She took out her phone, only to be shocked to see that Justice’s livestream was starting in just ten minutes.
‘Are you kidding me? Lu Shan is right here next to me! Wait a second, what if this Lu Shan had already been swapped out long ago?’
Thinking it through carefully, that did seem possible.
Lu Shan had always been obedient before, but today she was suddenly acting so rebellious.
And come to think of it, wasn’t it strange that she still hadn’t regained her abilities after all this time?
The only possibility was that, maybe since this morning, the Lu Shan she’d seen had already been replaced.
This theory was entirely plausible.
With all sorts of bizarre powers out there, some were definitely able to take someone else’s place.
It might even be possible to fool her completely.
With this in mind, Su Mu pinched Lu Shan’s soft cheeks and tugged hard.
Lu Shan, startled, let out a yelp and tried to escape from Su Mu’s hands, but all she managed to do was let her face get stretched even longer.
“Senbei, you’re summoning gods and demons, mmph mmph…”
“Tell me, where did you hide Lu Shan?”
“Mmph, what are you talking about…”
Lu Shan was angry again.
Even if she wasn’t someone you could just bully!
But no matter how much she flailed her arms, she only managed to scratch Su Mu a little.
Thanks to her persistent training, Su Mu now had a 20% Bu Mo Index, which meant her physical abilities far surpassed ordinary people.
At least, Lu Shan as she was now couldn’t hope to compare.
“The livestream starts in ten minutes. Who knows, maybe the person you’re playing will show up on screen soon.”
Su Mu had finally figured it all out—why she couldn’t detect anyone.
It was because the so-called threat had never really arrived.
In fact, it had come and gone long ago.
“Just wait ten minutes, and everything will be clear. It won’t take long.”
As the two tangled with each other, the pitch-black room was suddenly lit up by a bright fluorescent lamp, making everyone squint to adapt to the sudden glare.
“Found the problem—it was a blown fuse. For some reason, the temperature suddenly spiked, and since the wiring was already old, it burned out just like that. We really should switch to an air circuit breaker.”
Lu Shan’s Father wiped his hands as he walked out from the inner room, his clothes covered in dust as if he’d just crawled out of somewhere filthy.
In fact, the fuse in Lu Shan’s house was under the master bed.
Hearing this, Ye Wanqing scratched her head in embarrassment.
Clearly, that “sudden unexplained temperature spike” was all thanks to her.
“Old wiring, huh… Maybe I’ve just been too paranoid.” Su Mu rubbed her chin and let go of Lu Shan.
After all, messing around like that in front of her father was a bit much.
But she didn’t forget to shoot Lu Shan a warning glare.
Her piercing blue eyes made Lu Shan instinctively shrink her neck and stop herself from speaking.
Snapping out of the surge of anger in her heart, she more or less understood now—Su Mu had obviously misunderstood something.
Was she really that sure that Justice would have her appear on tonight’s livestream?
But looking at her worried face, it seemed Su Mu was genuinely concerned about “Lu Shan’s” safety.
Still, that alone wasn’t enough to resolve the gloom in Lu Shan’s heart.
She’d already been tormented enough by Su Mu today.
One way or another, she’d make her pay for it later.
And if she wanted to prove that Su Mu’s worries were completely unnecessary, there was a simple way.
Lu Shan sat on the sofa and slowly forked a piece of cake.
All she had to do was wait for the livestream to start in ten minutes, and everything would become clear.
So, in the heavy atmosphere that followed, everyone passed the next ten minutes.
Every second felt unusually long, while Su Mu was consumed by gloomy thoughts.
She had already calmed down from her earlier excitement.
Now, she realized something truly serious.
If her guess was right, that meant Lu Shan had already been captured, and it was impossible to change her fate.
At this moment, she desperately hoped the Lu Shan beside her was the real one.
She’d even be willing to apologize for being so rough with her that morning and just now.
But the fateful moment still arrived.
Time would not heed Su Mu’s plea.
In the end, all her worry today had been for nothing.
The livestream started.
In Su Mu’s lifeless eyes, Justice appeared as promised, pushing out the Lu Shan she’d been obsessing over.
It was all over.
Next to her, Lu Shan was also watching the outcome.
She was so shocked by the scene that her eyes nearly popped out—it was her first time seeing herself being pushed forward by someone else.
And tied up so scarily, with a teppanyaki grill?
Was he even human?
“It’s over. Are you satisfied now? She’s about to be executed.”
“Wait, hold on, is it possible that nothing happened to me, that I’m the real one, and that person is the fake, the one imitating me?”
Su Mu was taken aback, reminded by Lu Shan of her previous scan.
That’s right—when she scanned Lu Shan, all the account details were perfectly correct.
That couldn’t have been a mistake.
She’d been fooled!
The next moment, Su Mu opened up her keyboard and entered full flame mode.
The plan she’d set aside earlier was now put into action.
Today, she’d make that guy suffer!