Chapter Thirty-Three: Surveillance

  （1）

  Zhen's aunt sat on the floor, her hair disheveled and her face deathly pale like a female ghost. Her eyes were wide with fear, and in the pure black pupils of the Dreamweaver family, there seemed to be a huge black hole with swirling vortex that was devouring everything in the world, including herself.

  Like SS433, the mysterious celestial body, the endless black night contains many secrets. The girl stands in front of her bedroom, gazing down at her mother's deathly stillness, a faint smile spreading across her lips, containing what emotions we do not know, but only from her equally pure black eyes can we see a certain ripple called "hate".

  Such a pure black night, such a pure black color, such a rapidly rotating black whirlpool, such deep black hatred.

  Ge Tianyu is still alive. She thought.

  Sister is still alive, of course. She thought.

  A woman who knows too many secrets, a woman no longer controlled by her dreams, a woman who may have woken up to reality, is still alive.

  "Ge Tianyu is here." The mechanical male voice said.

  Then there was the soft and gentle female voice on the other end of the phone, laughing so happily, a melodious sound like a silver bell, coming out from the receiver in the dark night without any restraint. Aunt Zhen felt that the voice still lingered in her ears.

  "Mom," she said, "are you doing okay?"

  Zhen Tianqi raised a smile, and that smile on her pale face looked even more radiant and cunning.

  "Mom," she said, "are you okay?"

  Zhen's aunt lifted her head, with scattered hair half covering her face. Zhen Tianqi could feel the tremble in her eyes.

  "Xiao Qi... Ge Tianyu is still alive, she's still alive, she shouldn't be still alive."

  Why shouldn't she live? Mother, just because she's not your biological daughter, just because she's not a member of the Dreamweaver family, just because she can help you take everything from the Yu family, does that mean she doesn't deserve to live? But she hasn't done anything wrong, she loves you and me deeply, in her dreams she's moving forward for our sake. So, of course, she should live, because she's my sister but no longer your daughter.

  Zhen Tianqi revealed a mixture of what seemed to be a smile of surprise, "Really? How is that possible?"

  However, I don't think this love is a superficial feeling, I need her love.

  （2）

  The sky was already bright, although it was still very dark in the room due to the thick blackout curtains. However, the darkness of night had finally passed. Aunt Zhen came out of the bathroom and had regained her usual refined appearance.

  "Xiao Qi, come here for a moment."

  Zhen Tianqi slowly walked out of the bedroom, expressionless, and looked at Zhen Aunt sitting there applying a large amount of skincare products, then walked into the bathroom.

  "Uh-huh."

  The mirror in the bathroom still had a thin layer of water vapor attached to it, she reached out and gently wiped it off, and her slightly blurry face appeared in the mirror, she smiled at herself in the mirror.

  What was bound to happen will still happen, and can't be escaped.

  "Mom." She walked over and sat down beside Auntie Zhen.

  Zhen Yi put down the things in her hand, glanced at the monitor above the entrance of An's house and said, "Someone must have known about our plan, so they saved Ge Tianyu on the day she attempted suicide."

  "But I didn't find anyone following me," said Zhen Tianqi. "I was very cautious all the way."

  "Silly girl, if others already know about our plan, then they must also know the location of Ge Tianyu's suicide. What are they doing following you? Of course, they're waiting for you by the river."

  "So, where is sister exactly? How did those people find out about our plan? We clearly didn't tell anyone else, nor did we discuss it with others over the phone, so it's also impossible that they tapped into our calls."

  Auntie Zhen glanced at the monitor again, "That means someone has been in our house installing a bug."

  （3）

  "I'm usually at home," said Zhen Tianqi, "no one strange has come over."

  "It's possible that it came in when you occasionally went out to buy things, this period was too peaceful and I also lost my due vigilance. The surveillance video wasn't checked carefully, otherwise it would have been discovered early." Zhen Yi's eyes were fixed on the computer screen, the monitor was installed directly above the entrance hall, with a good view, which could see as much as possible of each corner of the living room and part of two bedrooms.

  After fast-forwarding through several days' worth of surveillance footage without finding anyone entering or exiting, Aunt Zhen furrowed her brow and opened the next day's footage.

  It was yesterday's recording.

  At 10:12. The doorbell rang, and Zhen's eyes narrowed. In the video footage, Zhen Tianqi appeared, followed by another person wearing a hat entering the surveillance camera's range.

  "Who is this?" Aunt Zhen asked.

  Zhen Tianqi looked puzzled and walked up to take a look, then thought for half a day before suddenly realizing, "Oh, it's a courier. A pretty but silly-looking girl. Shouldn't be any problem, right?"

  Zhen's aunt didn't respond and continued staring at the screen.

  The girl who delivered the express said after Zhen Tianqi signed, "Excuse me, can you trouble your little sister to pour me a glass of water? I've been running for a whole morning and I'm really tired and thirsty."

  Zhen's aunt smiled and tapped her hand on the table, "It was her."

  The girl quietly walked to the TV after Zhen Tianqi turned around and entered the kitchen, took out a small box from her pocket, removed the shell of the power strip behind the TV, and put something inside.

  "Is... is this a bug?" Zhen Tianqi asked.

  "Hmm." Zhen's aunt nodded, "We all thought that even if they were installing a bug, they would choose a time when no one was around. Unexpectedly, the other party came in so openly and brazenly. Using such a lame excuse to get you out of the way, it seems that girls are really easy to deal with, not even you had any guard against it."

  Zhen Tianqi lowered her head, "I really didn't think that a girl like that would be..."

  "Hmph." Aunt Zhen let out a cold snort, not looking at Zhen Tianqi, her gaze icy and fixed on the girl who had just stood up.

  The girl took the water handed over by Zhen Tianqi, said a thank you, and then walked towards the gate. Just before leaving the monitoring range, she slightly raised her head, exposing her cheek under the hat that was pressed very low in front of the monitor.

  "Is it her?" The video paused at the moment when the girl looked up, and Aunt Zhen's eyebrows were tightly furrowed. "It's actually her."

  Zhen Yi still had a faint impression of this girl, whose name seemed to be Xiao Ke. On the day Yu Chen returned to the Yu residence, after she came out of Yu Chen's room, it was this girl who went upstairs half an hour later to deliver milk to Yu Chen, but how did she get involved in this matter?

  Who is behind all this? Since he can find Xiao Ke, it means that everything that happened in the Yu residence was watched by him from behind the scenes.

  Who is that person?