Fate Trading System – Chapter 318

Plan A

Running with the Ball 22

“Master Fourteen, composite photo.”

【No problem at all.】

Su Xin was already prepared to see their surprised expressions.

This move used to plant the stolen goods and frame the innocent¹ was truly very effective, but it was something that had actually happened.

Feng Linhan felt it was necessary to find someone who could provide him with an alibi. He had already taken the photo to the internet, asking some relatively famous online great gods² to appraise whether this photo had been ps’d³, but he still wasn’t reassured.

After finishing a meal with his colleagues in the school cafeteria, he strolled to the school gate and chatted idly⁴ with the guard uncle⁵.

Those colleagues were all heading home; some remained at the school, but his relationship with them wasn’t very close.

Night fell successfully again, and nothing happened today.

Feng Linhan breathed a sigh of relief and called He Qin to ask how He Qin’s wound was.

Fourteen had already monitored the movements of the two of them, so Su Xin of course knew what Feng Linhan had done today, and would not choose to release that composite photo today.

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Bai Jianglan was in the kitchen cooking when she received a call.

It was her older sister, Bai Jiangxi.

Bai Jiangxi was currently in a car on her way back from out of town. She had originally decided to pay a surprise visit to Bai Jianglan’s company that day, but unexpectedly, other matters had held her up, so she had never made it to the company to find her.

Now that Bai Jiangxi had finally finished her business, this matter was still on her mind.

“Little sister~ Long time no see.”

Bai Jianglan turned off the stove and plated the food before she started speaking.

“If you have something to say, say it. Don’t be so disgusting.”

“You actually talk to your cute older sister like that! I just wanted to ask when you’re coming back so our family can have a meal together. After all, the Mid-Autumn Festival⁶ is coming soon.”

“Go look at a calendar.”

It was clearly still a long time until the Mid-Autumn Festival.

“When you have time, come back for a meal.”

“The day after tomorrow is fine.”

The day after tomorrow was Saturday. Bai Jianglan thought about her schedule and felt it should be possible.

“Then I’ll notify everyone to eat together. It’s rare for you to be able to spare the time.”

Bai Jiangxi was very helpless. Sometimes she even suspected whether she and Bai Jianglan were born from the same mother.

Bai Jiangxi liked freedom, was a well-known painter and photographer, loved to travel, and always found inspiration in it. She disliked rigid work, and her thinking was free-spirited and emotional.

Bai Jianglan seemed to be the extreme opposite of her personality. She had little artistic talent or thinking, had loved math and physics problems since childhood instead of singing and drawing, cherished words like gold⁷, disliked smiling, and was a workaholic.

Their older brother, Bai Jianghe, was relatively normal. He had a romantic spirit and his emotional intelligence was online, his IQ was also high, he was diligent in his work, and knew how to live well.

“Okay.”

Bai Jianglan nodded.

She didn’t much like group gatherings; she had been like this since she was little.

Her thresholds for laughter and tears were higher than some people’s. She didn’t know why some things she found very average and ordinary could make others cry and laugh.

Until that person came to her side.

Actually, it was very strange. During their previous collaboration, Bai Jianglan knew she clearly didn’t feel much of anything, just an ordinary person, but when she received that phone call and saw that person, something began to lose control.

Bai Jianglan hung up the phone and asked Su Xin to come eat.

Su Xin put down her phone, washed her hands, and walked over.

“You’re going home on Saturday?”

“Mhm, do you want to go back with me?”

“Hm?”

This fast to meet the parents?

“They should be very happy to see I have a friend like this.”

If they knew it was a future partner, they probably wouldn’t be happy, Su Xin complained internally⁸.

“Is it convenient?”

“Mhm,” Bai Jianglan nodded, paused for a moment, then continued, “I’ve never brought a friend home before.”

So you are the first one, you are the most special one.

“Then should I bring any gifts?”

“I’ll go with you to buy them when the time comes.”

“Okay.”

Wen Linlang’s side also received the notice from Bai Jiangxi about the meal and immediately contacted Bai Jianglan.

“Cousin, cousin, are you bringing Dajie back?”

“Mhm.”

“Wow, that’s so cool. Don’t worry, I’ll help.”

“Okay.”

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Tonight, everyone was relaxed, including Feng Linhan and He Qin, who thought they were safe.

That evening, Feng Linhan received a reply from the great god.

The great god said this photo had no traces of being ps’d.

How is this possible!

Feng Linhan followed up with a question. The great god’s attitude was quite good, saying that he indeed hadn’t identified any problems, and if he didn’t believe it, he could find someone else.

Feng Linhan had no choice but to find someone else. After waiting for an hour, that great god’s reply was the same.

How could this be…

Feng Linhan quickly called He Qin and told her about this matter.

He Qin had just finished applying medicine to herself. She hadn’t dared to go out for the past two days. After finally enduring the pain to get the medicine on, her face was black and blue, covered in large patches of lotion, as ugly as a malevolent ghost.

After hearing Feng Linhan’s words, she felt her face hurt even more.

“How could this be? Could it be that I really remembered wrong? But I bought this dress this year, we absolutely did not go to this place this year, and if that person took the photo long ago, how could they only release it now?”

He Qin’s voice was a bit muffled because her face was swollen.

“That’s right, what on earth is going on…”

Feng Linhan was somewhat dejected and anxious. Who on earth was targeting him like this.

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The next morning, as per Su Xin’s words before bed last night, Fourteen anonymously sent another photo to the class monitor.

The background of this picture was at night. Perhaps a night light was on, so the photo was relatively clear. The woman’s face was half-exposed, but it was covered in injuries, and she was nestled in Feng Linhan’s arms, looking exceptionally miserable.

The class monitor woke up drowsy in the morning, his whole person very groggy. He habitually glanced at his phone before getting up, and then his eyes widened, and he became fully awake.

Who on earth is this big shot, this is just boundlessly amazing, so explosive this early in the morning.

The class monitor quickly forwarded it and went to wash up and go to school in high spirits.

Feng Linhan received the photo and looked at his phone as if he’d seen a ghost.

He looked around him somewhat neurotically, wanting to throw his phone out, but he held back.

He Qin had already gotten a new phone, having the flower shop employee go to a phone store to buy it and deliver it to her home.

In her sleep, she was awakened by the ringing. She answered the phone very irritably, and upon hearing Feng Linhan’s words, she felt as if she had been plunged into an ice cellar.

Upon receiving that photo, He Qin rushed to the bathroom in terror, looking at the wounds on her face.

She had applied medicinal lotion, which wasn’t on the photo, but her appearance in it was exactly how she looked yesterday without the lotion; the appearance of the wounds was identical.

How could this be?

How is that possible!

They hadn’t met at all yesterday.

He Qin quietly lifted the curtain of her bedroom window, looking outside with suspicion and paranoia.

What kind of ghostly person is targeting them.

“Linhan, what do we do… I’m scared… The wounds in this photo are identical to the ones on my face… What do we do… Is someone following us? But I didn’t leave the house at all yesterday, how did they manage to photograph me?”

And that superb photo composition technique, even those masters online couldn’t identify it, yet that photo was clearly fake.

Feng Linhan felt like he was now a bomb under high pressure that could explode at any moment, and moreover, this bomb couldn’t harm others, it would only blow himself to smithereens.

“I don’t know what to do right now either. Let me think about it.”

Feng Linhan hung up the phone. He suddenly had no desire to hear He Qin’s voice, and even less desire to see He Qin in person.

I must stabilize the situation first, I can’t let it collapse.

This photo pushed the incident to a climax. Everyone was speculating that the injuries on the face of that little three were very likely inflicted by Feng Linhan, but this view didn’t have much support. If she had been beaten, it was unlikely she would still have this kind of posture, so everyone leaned toward another theory: someone couldn’t stand the sight of this little three, so the little three was beaten by someone.

In short, it was greatly satisfying.

Feng Linhan stayed in the office as much as possible instead of wandering around the classroom. He didn’t want to observe anything, his mind a chaotic mess.

He was being targeted, targeted by a very formidable, unknown person in the shadows.

He didn’t even know the reason, but he felt it probably wasn’t his student.

If there was such a formidable figure among this group of students, then why would they still be studying.

And there was absolutely no need to deal with him; Feng Linhan had never severely punished any student.

What on earth does that person want? Do they want him to lose this job, to have his body defeated and name split⁹?

He couldn’t figure it out. Fear, terror. On his way to school today, Feng Linhan kept feeling like someone was following him.

But when he repeatedly turned his head to look, there was nothing there.

Su Xin saw their fear and struggle and found it extremely interesting.

Some things must be pushed to the extreme before they erupt with their original face. Humans, sometimes, simply don’t know how selfish and ugly they are.

Master Fourteen was simply an unsolvable existence. With current technology, there was no one who could discover that the picture was a composite.

Su Xin had already finished handling the things she needed to deal with today and was now sitting on the sofa playing a game, in a very good mood.

“This was a gift from someone today. Do you want to eat it?”

It was an exquisite pastry, a small gift from a business partner. It looked very delicious. Bai Jianglan felt indifferent about this kind of sweet thing, but she thought Su Xin would probably like it.

“I’ll eat. You feed me.”

Su Xin was busy playing her game, her eyes fixed on her phone screen.

Bai Jianglan’s heart trembled! Feeding play!

Ahhhhhhh how can she be so cute!

Bai Jiangxi made a hushing gesture to the secretary and, after confirming there were no important guests or subordinates inside, pushed open the door.

“surprise!”

The air suddenly fell silent.

Bai Jiangxi had a look on her face like she’d seen a ghost. Bai Jianglan was feeding someone?

???!!!

Bai Jiangxi suddenly thought of the status update Bai Jianglan had posted.

Petite joie.

This was French. Bai Jiangxi had looked it up; it meant “small joy.”

Or in other words, a little happiness.

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