Lu Xuan remained calm on the surface, his fingertip lightly tapping the screen.
“Black Material Generating… Please wait…”
The Black Material APP’s notification sound was like a celestial melody, quietly echoing in Lu Xuan’s consciousness.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze seemingly casually sweeping over Jiang Shuyi, who was smiling amiably on the podium, explaining the course arrangements, but his heart was filled with a cold anticipation.
What exactly was Teacher Jiang up to? That evaluation of “extremely jealous, willing to do anything to achieve her goals” was not a label for someone easy to deal with.
Time passed minute by minute, and Jiang Shuyi on the podium had already begun to explain the course syllabus, her voice clear and pleasant, and her logic quite clear.
But Lu Xuan’s thoughts were clearly not on those yellowed ancient texts.
Finally—
“Black Material Generation Complete!”
Lu Xuan’s spirits lifted.
Immediately after, a new prompt popped up:
“Standalone Option: Three Black Material PPT backups can be exchanged for a complete Black Material Pack.”
“Oh?” Lu Xuan’s eyebrows subtly arched.
It’s not for money anymore? It’s changed to exchanging Black Material PPT backups?
This Black Material APP was getting more and more playful. However, for him, none of this was an issue.
To be safe, he had kept all those Black Material PPTs he generated well-backed up.
“Exchange,” Lu Xuan silently recited in his mind.
“Exchange Complete!”
Almost at the instant the command was given, a torrent of explosive information drilled deep into his consciousness, and on the Black Material APP’s interface, it quickly materialized into a specially encrypted PPT document.
And when the title of that core Black Material entered his mind, even Lu Xuan, who prided himself on being accustomed to all sorts of dirty business, couldn’t help but have his pupils suddenly constrict!
“Black Material Core Details: Jiang Shuyi, a Chinese Classical Literature teacher at Yanjing University, intentionally abandoned her twin younger siblings when she was young!”
Lu Xuan’s knuckles, holding his phone, unconsciously tightened, and a chill shot from the soles of his feet straight to his head.
Abandon her own biological younger siblings? And they were even twins?
He took a deep breath, forcing down the turmoil in his heart.
Looks can be deceiving, and the ocean’s depth cannot be measured.
Who would have thought that the beautiful teacher on the podium, with her bright smile, fashionable attire, and who seemed at most a bit unconventional, had actually committed such a heinous act!
What kind of deep-seated hatred, or rather, what kind of twisted psychology, could make a little girl inflict such a cruel hand on her blood-related younger siblings?
Lu Xuan eagerly delved deeper into the specific description.
“Specific Description: The target, Jiang Shuyi, comes from a commercial family in Ice City. Her father is Jiang Tianzheng, the well-known richest man in Ice City and chairman of Tianzheng Group. Her mother, Li Ranbing, was once a locally famous TV host. Jiang Shuyi is not Jiang Tianzheng’s biological daughter, but his adopted daughter. In his early years, Jiang Tianzheng was diagnosed with infertility due to health reasons. After achieving success in his career and seeking famous doctors without success, the couple became disheartened and adopted Jiang Shuyi, who was three years old at the time. They treated her as their own and loved her dearly.
However, fate played a trick. When Jiang Shuyi was six years old, three years after her adoption, Jiang Tianzheng’s body miraculously recovered its fertility. Soon after, his wife, Li Ranbing, gave birth to a pair of twins.
The birth of her younger siblings cast a huge shadow over Jiang Shuyi’s young heart. As her younger siblings gradually grew up, Jiang Shuyi keenly felt that her adoptive parents’ love was no longer hers alone; most of their energy and care were poured into their younger, more needy biological children. This disparity caused her to feel a great sense of imbalance and intense jealousy, even gradually evolving into a pathological persecution delusion, always feeling that these younger siblings would take away everything that belonged to her—the favor that wasn’t entirely hers to begin with, the family property, and even the entire family.
Thus, when Jiang Shuyi was nine years old, a wicked thought took root in her heart. She took advantage of her adoptive parents’ busy work schedules and lack of supervision, and twice, meticulously and unknowingly, lured her then three-year-old, innocent twin younger brother and sister away from home, abandoning them separately on busy, unfamiliar streets. Afterward, Jiang Tianzheng and his wife were heartbroken. They used all their connections and financial resources to frantically search for them and never gave up over the years, but they always remained without a trace, neither alive nor dead, becoming a cold case and the Jiang Family’s eternal pain.”
“Hiss—” Lu Xuan gasped.
Nine years old! Only nine years old! She could plan and execute such a meticulous abandonment plan, and it was twice, targeting two three-year-old children! This cunning and maliciousness were simply outrageous!
Just because of that ridiculous jealousy, worried that her younger siblings would take away the so-called “love”?
She seemed to have completely forgotten that everything she possessed was a gift from her adoptive parents.
Lu Xuan suppressed the discomfort in his heart and opened the encrypted PPT.
Unexpectedly, the content of this PPT was not much, only two thin pages, plus two not-so-short videos.
The text part of the PPT meticulously recorded the time and location of Jiang Shuyi’s two crimes, and how she sweet-talked and lured the innocent twin younger siblings out of the house step by step, and finally abandoned them at a specific street corner or market corner. Every detail was crystal clear, as if yesterday had reappeared.
And those two videos were even more chilling!
The power of the Black Material APP was once again evident; it seemed to transcend the limitations of time and space, clearly recording Jiang Shuyi’s crimes from a bystander’s perspective in an era when surveillance cameras were far from widespread.
In the first video, little Jiang Shuyi held the hand of a delicate little boy, who clearly trusted her and skipped along the way.
Upon reaching a bustling market intersection, Jiang Shuyi took advantage of the crowd, coaxed the little boy to stand still and wait for her to buy candy, and then quickly blended into the crowd, disappearing without looking back.
The little boy went from obediently waiting at first, to later looking around in confusion, and finally to crying helplessly, his weak sobs seeming to penetrate the screen and strike at people’s hearts.
The scene of the second video changed to a relatively secluded street park.
This time it was the equally adorable little girl. Jiang Shuyi used a similar method, leaving the little girl alone on a park bench, and then quietly leaving.
At the end of the video, the little girl sat alone on the bench, looking blankly at the passing strangers, her small face filled with fear and helplessness.
The two videos, without gore, were more chilling than any bloody scene.
Lu Xuan’s face was ashen, his fingers unconsciously tapping lightly on the phone screen.
This Teacher Jiang Shuyi was truly good at hiding. If it weren’t for the Black Material APP, who could connect this beautiful lecturer, who was smiling so charmingly, with the nine-year-old girl who personally pushed her younger siblings into the abyss back then?
“Looks can be deceiving, indeed…” Lu Xuan sneered inwardly, then looked up again at Jiang Shuyi, who was enthusiastically lecturing on the podium, his eyes as deep as an ancient well, showing no ripples, yet harboring a vortex capable of swallowing people whole.
This Teacher Jiang not only taught “vividly,” but her life story was even more “marvelously” brilliant.
So, what’s next? How should he “make good use” of this brilliance?
The corners of Lu Xuan’s mouth slowly curved into a cold and cruel arc.