The Overnight Chosen Wife: darling, kiss me deeper

"Are you out of your mind?" Xiehan scolded. "What are you even thinking, suggesting to go into such a dangerous place?"

"This is the only thing I can do, my love. I know it will be dangerous but I will take care of myself. It’s the fastest way."

"That doesn’t make it the right way, nor is it the only way to handle this." Xiehan chided. Why did she always only think of methods that put her life in danger?

"We can get an employee to go to your home. The employee doesn’t necessarily have to gain Li Xiyan’s trust and whatnot. He just has to carefully gather information. We will help him from the outside."

"What are you talking about?" Lanni didn’t understand. Wasn’t this similar to the initial suggestion?

"Let’s go to my mansion and I’ll show you." Xiehan said and headed for his mansion.

When they arrived, they went straight to his study.

"Have a seat." Xiehan signalled as he nodded towards a chair. Lanni sat silently, wondering what he was up to.

Wordlessly, he turned on his laptop and started typing some of those codes that she had only seen Luna type before. Out of curiosity, she stood to watch him, standing some distance away so she wouldn’t distract him. His fingers were almost a blur as they flew over the keys and she could only stand aside and watch him.

He was done in less than three minutes. He grabbed a small USB flash drive and inserted it in the laptop. When he was done with whatever he was doing, he took out the USB flash drive and held it between his thumb and the side of his forefinger, waving it. "Who needs trust when they have this?"

Lanni gasped. If it wasn’t for this incident, she would have forgotten that Xiehan knew a thing or two about programming. She inched closer and took the USB drive from his hand. It was smaller than half of a thumb. "What’s in here?"

Xiehan looked up at her with a lopsided grin. "A virus."

Lanni was surprised. He could even create viruses? Was this the so-called knowing a thing or two? After the initial shock, she asked, "what does it do?"

"It copies everything." He responded.

Lanni frowned. "I don’t understand. Why do you need a virus to copy information from a computer? That is something that can be done solely using a USB flash drive, right? You only need to hack the password if there’s any."

"That’s one reason why we need a virus." He swung in his chair so his elbows were on the desk and the back of his hands under his chin. "The other reason is, this will help us find more information than you can imagine. All her deleted information will be retrieved and copied here." He explained.

Lanni recalled something and thought that she was indeed impulsive. "If getting information from Li Xiyan’s computer was as easy as copying it, someone would have done so already. There must be ways to secure it."

"Now you get it." Xiehan’s lips twitched, his expression proud as though his little disciple was starting to learn.

"You created it just now?" She asked curiously.

"Not exactly. I had started making it for fun when I was still learning. However, I didn’t complete it in the end because it’s a virus that could invade people’s privacy. I didn’t want it to exist but now that we need it, I only recreated it as I remember."

No wonder he had taken such a short time to create it.

Lanni threw her arms around him and kissed his neck. "You are awesome!"

After listening as he explained what else the virus could do, Lanni sat opposite him as she contemplated. "We already have a way to get information and now we only need someone who will do it. Someone on our side that we can trust..."

She racked her brains as she thought about the people close to her. Cheng Yu?

Cheng Yu was her best friend so it was natural that she would think about her first. Besides, she was among the few people who knew what was going on. However, she dismissed the idea. Li Xiyan already knew Cheng Yu so that would never work. Aside from her, she didn’t know anyone else she could trust.

A name suddenly crossed her mind. Ruby...

A frown formed on her forehead. Although Ruby hadn’t sought trouble with her, she had not given her any reason to trust her either. It was still not clear, after all this time, whether she was an ally or an enemy. So that was a no. She couldn’t possibly work with someone she didn’t trust.

Served her right for keeping to herself too much and not trying to make friends...

"We can get random people and look into their background. When we find the perfect candidate, we will pay them a hefty sum to complete the task and when it’s done, we will never see each other again." As soon as Lanni finished this statement, a thought struck her. But before she could shout it out, a better one surfaced in her mind. "An Zichen!"

Xiehan was also considering the best person from his side who they could send to Li Xiyan’s residence. He had just thought of the best candidate when he heard her yell "An Zichen!"

He tilted his head and looked at her. "Who?"

"Oh, An Zichen is the man who helped us get the contract from Ji Feifei. Do you remember him?"

"Hm." Obviously, he would never forget. At the time, the Feng family had teamed up with the Gu family and they were trying to take over Feng Ji International. It had taken him a lot of effort to get the higher-ups on the side of the Ji family. While he was busy dealing with the shareholders and the higher-ups, Lanni helped him trick Ji Feifei into giving her shares to him.