While the family of three were plotting downstairs, Zhao Xinyi was seated in a corner of the room in a lotus position.
Despite not having any Qi force in her or having any of her meridians open, a large part of her was already used to sitting in this position anytime she wanted to meditate on something.
"Whew! The energy around their house is so foul," she mumbled, her lips curling upwards in displeasure.
She had spent the last twenty minutes running through all the memory that belonged to this body, and she could say to some extent that it was almost like she lived Zhao Mei's life.
Earlier, as she wasn't certain about the full story, she had challenged Zhu Fan to buy some more time and see if she could do some research.
Thankfully, she had been lucky to have Zhao Mei's memories.
She was also shocked by how cruel the Zhu Fan was!
After being challenged by Zhao Mei to confess, he had sneaked into the female toilet after her and banged Zhao Mei's head against the wall, sending her to the afterlife.
Not only was he a cheat, but he was also a vile murderer!
The more Xinyi thought about it, the more angry she got on behalf of the host.
Eventually, she made up her mind to show Zhu Fan a life that was straight from hell.
Since she was alive and well in the eyes of others, she couldn't pin murder on him, so she had to think of other ways to punish him.
After sorting all of Zhao Mei's thoughts, Zhao Xinyi now thought about her own self.
How were things going on in the 4th District where she had died?
However, as Zhao Mei, the original owner of this body, had lived in the 1st district all her life, she didn't have enough valuable knowledge for Zhao Xinyi.
While there was enough knowledge about how things happened here, it was not enough for her to catch up on all the big activities that could have happened in the last five years.
She was curious to know what had happened to their team after the death of her and Fang Yijun.
Were they still able to stay in the government house, or had all of them been sent away? After all, even though they were all smart, without her and Fang Yijun, competing with the other talents that were under the government would certainly be difficult for them.
Thinking up to this point, Zhao Xinyi sighed with a rueful smile. Perhaps if she had thought of them, she might not have acted so decisively.
But the deed was already done. And somehow, she was given another chance five years later.
Even now, she didn't know how that had happened. However, she was not one to dwell on matters as she believed that the longer she was here, the easier it would be to know what had brought her here in the first place.
Zhao Xinyi's room was simple. With a work table that took up close to half of the room space. There was barely anything else in her room, and with one glance, anyone could easily see the kind of life that Zhao Mei used to live.
Xinyi walked to the study table, wanting to use the computer to check on evidence about the work and to also check about her team.
Back then, they had the biggest prestige. After all, they held the groundbreaking research on brainwaves in their hands. As such, there was not a person that didn't know about Trek. She had no doubt that she would find information about them on the Internet.
However, the moment she sat down at the work table, the door to her room opened, and Father Yu walked in with a broad smile on his face.
If the man had managed to fool her with his act in the car, after combing through memories, he was now on Zhao Xinyi's blacklist.
In Zhao Mei's memories, one could see that she genuinely trusted this man in front of her, always listening to him and thinking he had her best interests at heart.
But from an outsider's perspective, Zhao Xinyi could see that this man didn't care about her in any way.
As far as she was concerned, he was even more dangerous than the other two in the family! Seeing him, she became guarded and got up from her seat.
With a small bow and her voice stiff and cold, she greeted him, "Father,"
Father Yu didn't notice any change in her mood. The original Zhao Mei was a detached person and wasn't good with emotions. While her actions today seemed too much.
It wasn't out of line for someone that had been pushed too much.
"Zhao Mei, I have talked to your sister, and she is going to testify against that scum on your behalf," Father Yu said as he walked towards the bed and sat down.
Zhao Xinyi instinctively frowned, not used to people invading her space. What was this man planning?
"However, just Yu Lan testifying won't be enough. After all, Zhu Fan was the one that made the submission. So do you have anything else that would ensure that we get your work back?"
Father Yu's words were careful and calculated. And if it was Zhao Mei, she might have been fooled by him.
However, Xinyi just sneered at his petty tricks. With her IQ she had quickly discovered the loopholes and traps he was trying to set for her.
Instead of calling him out, Xinyi decided to play along with him. In this district, being in the 1st level like her was the most dangerous.
They were not only going to have to do the lowest level of work, but they would also be unable to protect themselves from being taken by the traffickers that used them for experiments and other dirty purposes.
So even though she knew that he was trying to steal whatever evidence she had, Xinyi didn't say anything because she still needed the protection that Father Yu, who was in level 3, could offer her.
"Father, there's no evidence yet. Sister had borrowed my laptop back then, and by the time they returned it, the folder that contained the work had been deleted." She closed her eyes, looking like she was in misery just thinking about it.
Father Yu's eyes gleamed with satisfaction when he heard her reply, however, he controlled his emotions quickly enough so that when Zhao Xinyi opened her eyes, his face was back to looking at her with sympathy.
"I'll go over to the Zhu family now and talk to his father, don't worry. Father will fight for you!" He told her as he stood up.
Zhao Xinyi nodded, eager for him to leave so she could finally get something done about finding the work again.
For other people, it might be difficult, but for her own skills that was a hundred times better than what Zhao Mei had. She didn't think that she would have any trouble finding the first folder that contained the work.
After some small talk, Father Yu left, and Zhao Xinyi rolled her eyes at his hypocrisy.
If she didn't have Zhao Mei's memory and were able to analyse things properly, she would have been fooled by his Oscar acting.
But now that she knew that for the last six years that Zhao Mei had helped their family, none of the things she did was credited to her.
In those six years, Father Yu had moved from level 2 to level 3 while Yu Lan, who did nothing but spend money, also moved into level 2 from level 1.
However, the main person that did all the work was still stuck in level one!
She pushed those thoughts out as she turned on the computer, her lips curling upwards in distaste at the terrible computer.
Even when she had been in the 2nd District, she had never used a computer model of this type.
However, it was more than enough for her to do what she wanted.
She cracked her fingers in anticipation as the computer finished booting and then got to work.
She searched around for close to five minutes, her hands flying over the keyboard as she went to the source code to find the original copy.
However, after searching for more than a while and not finding anything, Zhao Xinyi used another approach.
Annoyance rushed through her mind as she realised what had happened.
Perhaps, even Zhao Mei had not realised that the computer she borrowed was not the same computer that was returned to her.
One had to understand that Zhu Fan was just as crafty. Even though he knew that he had swapped out the laptop, he didn't show any smugness, making one think he was a normal person being accused.
But in his mind, he was certainly waiting for her to search and come up with no evidence, thus cleaning his name out perfectly!
Now that she knew that the laptop in front of her wasn't the same one, Zhao Xinyi focused on trying to hack into Zhu Fan's computer.
However, despite her skills, she was stumped when she saw the screen go blank with three words.
"Inter-level Access Denied!"
"Damn!"