Chapter 2441: Another Me 10

Lai Donglai installed a surveillance camera in the living room.

He spent half the night learning about split personality, becoming increasingly convinced that Lai Chi's recent behavior was abnormal, precisely because he had become mentally ill.

That cleverly disguised miniature camera, hidden in the corner of the living room's decorative picture frame, thought itself flawless.

In a blink, Ling Gun Gun reported it to Jin Chen.

Upon hearing, Jin Chen thought, "Isn't this Lai Donglai personally bringing over a handle?"

He exchanged a few simple words with Lai Chi in his sea of consciousness.

Lai Chi had no objection to his brother's plan, only complete trust.

Then after dinner, when only Lai Donglai remained in the living room, absentmindedly staring at his phone screen, Jin Chen walked straight to the sofa and chose a seat.

It happened to allow the hidden camera to capture his frontal view and most of his body.

Lai Donglai heard the movement, lifted his head, saw Lai Chi voluntarily sitting opposite him, and his eyes lit up momentarily.

He couldn't resist his curiosity, cleared his throat, and deliberately brought up an old incident where Lai Chi was bullied.

"Lai Chi, do you still remember that monthly exam in the first semester of senior year three?"

Jin Chen leaned lazily against the sofa back, legs casually crossed, meeting Lai Donglai's probing gaze.

Before Lai Donglai could finish speaking, he slightly raised his eyebrows, eyes drooping, the angle the camera was aimed at was pitiful, even more so than Lai Chi watching the drama in his consciousness.

"Remember, what do you want to say? Idly bringing up past events to bully me? With so many people bullying me alone, are you still human?"

What is called saying the harshest words in the most innocent tone.

This is it.

Lai Donglai: "?"

This person isn't mute after all, yet his words are so inhuman!

Jin Chen wasn't done yet, changed his posture and continued, "I know you've always been arrogant, so……"

He lifted his eyes, the pupils sideways to the camera cold and ruthless.

"Even using my grades, spending my money, you feel no shame at all."

Lai Donglai's prepared words were all useless.

He opened his mouth, voice a little dry, "I…… I don't want this……"

"Not want?" Jin Chen's lips curled with a smile, "Who forced you? That brat Lai Qiang is at least openly wicked, what about you?"

He leaned forward slightly, staring at Lai Donglai's ugly complexion, word by word, "Playing both sides, pretending to be noble."

"You……!" Lai Donglai's face flushed red from that harsh description, he could barely catch his breath.

He was now absolutely certain that the person before him was definitely not the silent, timid Lai Chi.

This icy, oppressively powerful presence was exactly the same as when he held a kitchen knife in the restaurant that day!

It was another personality split off!

"What exactly are you……?" Lai Donglai lowered his voice, wanting to question.

However, Jin Chen gave him no chance at all.

He leaned back against the sofa again, "If you truly don't want to use my money, why spread rumors all over school, saying I'm living off others, relying on your family's charity?"

Lai Donglai, as if his tail had been stepped on, urgently denied, "That…… that wasn't me! Someone else spread it! Besides, my parents…… my parents didn't they take care of you?"

Jin Chen looked at him, lightly uttering a few words with deep meaning, "Even…… without money?"

Lai Donglai blinked, completely failing to grasp the meaning of that sentence.

No money? How could there be no money.

Lai Chi's father's inheritance, and Mother Lin Wan's timely quarterly generous living allowance, had long made him accustomed to a comfortable life, even blurring his memory.

He forgot how his family had originally been aided by Lai Chi's father, enabling them to move from impoverished countryside to the city to make a living.

Jin Chen gave no further explanation.

He glanced furtively toward the decorative picture frame, then walked straight back to his own room.

Until he saw that retreating back leave, Lai Donglai felt ashamed and indignant, fiercely grabbing the glass ashtray on the coffee table and smashing it hard onto the ground.

Bang—!

The crisp shattering sound in the living room was especially piercing, ash and shattered glass scattering everywhere.

All of this was recorded by that hidden camera.

【Oh ho ho, the protagonist's seme has quite a temper.】 Ling Gun Gun leaned beside the camera to steal data, doing so with ease.

In the room, Jin Chen opened his laptop, the screen's cold light reflecting his calm, stern expression.

"Brother is so awesome."

Lai Chi said admiringly and dependently, then asked, "Brother, once the inheritance is…… retrieved, we can leave, right?"

He had been looking forward to this day for a long, long time.

He had looked forward to it to the point of no longer insisting on personally seeing Lai Fendou frail with illness.

Jin Chen hummed, his fingertips rapidly tapping the keyboard.

Ling Gun Gun immediately transmitted the camera's real-time footage and stored records, calling up that complete confrontation scene from just earlier.

Jin Chen carefully checked the clarity of the image and sound, confirming that the key information had been recorded, then sat a little more relaxed,

"Little Chi," his voice in the consciousness became a bit more serious, "The issue with Lai Fendou on this side, we've already been handling it, but there's still your mother's money over there."

"I know you don't want to contact her, but this truth needs to be told to her; only when she knows what kind of people the Lai Fendou family are will she stop sending them money, cutting off their financial source, making our departure more thorough. Okay?"

Lai Chi fell silent for a moment.

He didn't ask how Jin Chen knew Lin Wan's email address; Qiu Juan always guarded this tightly, even harder to deal with than Lai Fendou.

In his mind, his brother was omnipotent.

"Okay," Lai Chi's voice was soft yet firm, "I'll listen to brother."

His voice was so soft and gentle that Jin Chen felt his heart itch a little, "Little Chi, you're so obedient, you listen to everything I say?"

"... Mm." In his consciousness, Li Chi nodded.

In the past, he was always cautious and careful, secretly making plans just to be able to stay in this household; whether it was life or Studies, no one had ever planned things for him.

Li Chi didn't say anything, but he greatly enjoyed the feeling of being controlled by his older brother.

At least it could let him know that he was someone who was cared for.

【Detected Villain Heartthrob Value +7, total now 24!】

Jin Chen chuckled to himself, and sent that surveillance footage, through an anonymous encrypted channel, to the email of Lin Wan, who was far away in Yingguo.

After doing all that, he closed his notebook, and his gaze fell upon the old calendar on the desk.

The day of the grade announcement was drawing ever closer; this family……must be settled quickly and cleanly.