Confused, Chi Wan opened the app.

She saw that Lili had sent a short video. The thumbnail was clearly of the place she was currently living.

Chi Wan instinctively glanced up at Xiahou Yu before playing the video.

Lili’s voice quietly chimed in, synced with the video: "Alert! Master, an unidentified person is attempting to break into the house! Should Lili call the police?"

Xiahou Yu’s relaxed expression tightened when he heard Lili’s words. He leaned over to watch the video on Chi Wan’s phone.

In the video, there was a constant commotion at the front door, interspersed with phrases like, "Damn it," and "What kind of lock is this? It’s so hard to pick."

Meanwhile, the electronic lock on the door kept announcing, "Password incorrect."

The scene would have been terrifying if Chi Wan had been home.

Fortunately, she was just watching it all unfold on her phone.

Chi Wan’s expression turned grim. "Lili, call the police."

"Okay, Master~ I recommend installing a smart peephole with a camera. That way, Lili can identify the bad guys’ faces for you next time~"

It wasn’t that Chi Wan hadn’t wanted to install a camera. However, her building had private elevator access for each unit—without a key card, it was impossible to reach her floor. That’s why she hadn’t bothered altering the original door.

She had no idea how these people had managed to get up to her floor.

But one thing was certain: this was undoubtedly He Lingfeng’s doing.

’What on earth is he trying to do?’

She was suddenly grateful that Xiahou Yu had told her that Lili could connect to all the smart devices in her home, even the electronic door lock.

At the time, she’d just thought of Lili as a little smart home manager. Figuring a double layer of security couldn’t hurt, she had given Lili access permissions to the front door as well.

She never expected that thanks to Lili’s layer of protection, these people were kept out of her home.

Beside her, Xiahou Yu suppressed his rage and tapped out a few messages on his phone. Then he turned to comfort Chi Wan. "Wanwan, even if this is He Lingfeng’s work, those guys won’t rat him out at the station. He’s getting more and more audacious. Have you considered..."

But Chi Wan shook her head. "But I have Lili, thanks to you, right? I never expected her to be so capable—she actually stopped them from picking the lock. I can handle the rest myself. Don’t worry about it~"

In a direct confrontation, as long as she had the Amulet from Li Xingye, there was no way Chi Wan would come out on the losing end.

’Right now, I just want to know what He Lingfeng hopes to achieve with this stunt.’

After confirming that Lili had called the police, the two of them boarded their flight home.

* 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

Meanwhile, He Lingfeng was in a foul mood.

He’d been trying to cause trouble for Chi Wan, but she was proving to be slippery as an eel.

He had tried to use his old tricks to set a trap for Chi Yuanshan and swindle him out of a large sum of money. That way, Chi Wan would have no choice but to fall into his hands.

But to his surprise, Chi Wan had simply sent her parents abroad.

He Lingfeng had even considered hiring people to kidnap them. After all, it was much easier to operate overseas than it was domestically.

However, the investigation into the He Family wasn’t over yet, and he had no connections in Europe. Forget kidnapping Chi Yuanshan and his wife—he couldn’t even track their itinerary easily.

He didn’t know that Chi Wan had anticipated this exact scenario and arranged for them to have a different tour guide at every stop. Forget him—even Chi Yuanshan and his wife didn’t know who their next guide would be until they arrived at their destination.

Because of this, they’d joked to Chi Wan that "it feels like we’re undercover agents," but the couple was thoroughly enjoying themselves.

In truth, even if He Lingfeng had managed to find them, he wouldn’t have been able to kidnap them thanks to the protection Chi Wan had provided from the Apocalypse System.

In any case, unable to target Chi Yuanshan and his wife, He Lingfeng naturally turned his attention to Qi Youyou.

In He Lingfeng’s mind, manipulating an ordinary girl like Qi Youyou should have been child’s play.

He had already investigated the coffee shop where Qi Youyou frequently worked part-time. He figured he could just do to her what he did to Qin Shi—saddle her with a massive debt and then use her to bait Chi Wan.

But the results of his investigation only infuriated him further.

The men he sent out reported that, for some reason, Qi Youyou had quit all of her part-time jobs this semester.

Forget the coffee shop; she wasn’t even taking tutoring jobs anymore. Her daily routine was a straight line between four points: the dorm, the academic building, the cafeteria, and the library.

The most she did was go to the athletic field for a couple of laps to get her daily exercise in.

He thought Qi Youyou was a freak. ’What’s the point of living like that?’

Someone like He Lingfeng could never understand that for the Qi Youyou of today, this kind of life was no different from paradise.

She wasn’t very materialistic to begin with; she had only worked so hard at her part-time jobs to lessen the burden on her parents.

But now that she no longer had to waste time on all those miscellaneous part-time jobs, she could finally focus on her studies, enter more competitions, win more scholarships, and build a more solid foundation for her future. What could possibly be better?

As for her other two roommates, one was outside his sphere of influence, and the other’s family worked within the government system, making her an even more difficult target.

In short, He Lingfeng was temporarily at a loss, unable to find any of Chi Wan’s weaknesses.

Left with no other options, he could only resort to an even more despicable plan.

However, He Lingfeng, still sitting in his study, drinking and fantasizing about Chi Wan’s future misery, had no idea that the men he’d sent out were already in police custody.

*

The moment Chi Wan got off the plane and turned on her phone, she received a text message.

"You’d better not stay at your off-campus place for a while. He Lingfeng hired someone to install cameras there. He probably wants to get some kind of blackmail material on you."

Although it was unsigned, Chi Wan knew it was from Qin Shi.

She didn’t reply, lest she cause trouble for Qin Shi.

But combined with the earlier break-in attempt, Chi Wan had a good idea of his plan.

’How disgusting.’

He Lingfeng probably thought that if he could just get a so-called "indecent" video of her, he could force her to submit.

Too bad for him. Not only would he never get that video, but even if he did, Chi Wan would only choose to fight him to the very end.

Soon enough, Chi Wan received a call from the Public Security Bureau. It was, of course, about the men who had tried to pick her lock.

Chi Wan was actually a little confused. A minor case like this should have been handled by the local precinct, so why was it transferred to the Public Security Bureau?

But when she glanced at Xiahou Yu beside her, she had her answer.

Xiahou Yu didn’t explain, but he very naturally accompanied Chi Wan.

Meanwhile, Li Xingye, who had finally finished up his work and was looking to recharge his batteries by seeing Chi Wan, also found out about He Lingfeng’s little stunt.

He didn’t say much, but Chi Wan could tell from his tone and expression that his desire to kill He Lingfeng was growing more urgent by the day.

Chi Wan, in turn, had to spend some time calming him down.

It wasn’t convenient to enter her space on the plane, but Li Xingye said he had given her a few things that might come in handy.