Xia Yu shot a smug glance at Xia Yu, then turned to look at his mother. He had already secured his mother’s promise the day before—she would definitely help him.
This time, he would definitely avenge the previous humiliation!
“Mom, hurry up and teach her a lesson!” An Feixiong shook Luo Yali’s body.
In his expectation, Luo Yali’s voice sounded: “What’s going on?”
An Feixiong thought to himself that before he was beaten by An Tianfeng each time, it always started with this question routine. This time, he was sure it was in the bag!
“You can ask your maid,” Xia Yu didn’t answer directly. After all, answering someone’s question would, to some extent, show submission.
The maid explained: “The young master spilled the young miss’s breakfast on the floor, and then the young miss pressed him onto a chair and hit him a few times.”
An Feixiong showed a pitiful expression, looking at Luo Yali. He thought the questioning was done, so now it was time to start hitting!
In his anticipation, Luo Yali raised her hand—
And slapped his butt.
Covering his butt, An Feixiong looked at his mother in shock.
Although this slap didn’t hurt at all, why was he the one being hit?
“You deserved it!” said Luo Yali.
An Feixiong took a step back, unable to accept the reality.
Didn’t you promise to help me teach An Siyao a lesson? Didn’t you promise to take my side?
You liar!
Feeling too wronged, he cried loudly and ran upstairs. Luo Yali followed him up as well, partly to avoid Xia Yu.
Meanwhile, Xia Yu was completely confused, unable to understand why Luo Yali suddenly changed her attitude.
He had already prepared himself—if Luo Yali and An Feixiong became too annoying, he would act as a villain and drive them both out of the villa.
However, this might somewhat damage An Siyao’s image. Although the girl herself didn’t care, Xia Yu still wanted to maintain her “good girl” reputation.
He decided to investigate why Luo Yali had changed so suddenly.
He took out his phone and opened the maid group chat.
This group was obtained by him from one of the maids after the head maid left. When he first joined, the maids were somewhat reserved, but now they were completely unrestrained.
These maids had no entertainment and gossiped about everything during their spare time. After responding to one of their gossip topics two days ago, Xia Yu had already become part of their gossip circle.
He also actively guided the maids to gossip because it allowed him to obtain more information.
Scrolling through the chat history, he soon found something unusual.
Luo Yali had left for a while in the evening and returned looking somewhat absent-minded.
Scrolling further up, he learned that Luo Yali had gone to a small house outside in the afternoon.
From the maids’ chat, he couldn’t find new clues, so Xia Yu pretended to be curious and asked around, quickly receiving help from the maids.
One of the maids had the security guard’s phone number and asked him, soon finding out that Luo Yali had met An Siyao’s private driver.
Another maid knew Luo Yali’s driver and found out that Luo Yali had gone to Beida Street the previous night.
A third maid said she had asked her friend to inquire about the driver’s wife and found out that the driver had returned home late the previous night.
In other words, Luo Yali had met the driver the previous night, which caused her change.
The mystery was almost solved.
“Amazing,” An Siyao exclaimed.
“This is an application of the six degrees of separation theory in interpersonal relationships,” Xia Yu thought to himself, feeling very satisfied.
“Six degrees of separation?” An Siyao was puzzled, as this theory hadn’t been introduced in this world yet.
“Theoretically, a person only needs to know six people to know anyone in the world,” Xia Yu explained briefly. “Assuming a person can know 25 people or more, after seven introductions through six intermediaries, one can be introduced to 25 to the power of 7, which equals 6,103,515,625 people, more than 6 billion.”
“But isn’t that too magical?” An Siyao was somewhat skeptical.
“In reality, it’s definitely different. For example, not all intermediaries will wholeheartedly introduce people for you, and those intermediaries may not know that the people they can connect to might lead to your target,” Xia Yu replied. “But it’s enough for investigating matters within the villa’s network. These maids are also very willing to help. This is exactly why I told you to treat these maids nicely.”
“In any case, it’s amazing!” An Siyao said playfully.
“Right,” Xia Yu exited the QQ group and called the driver, asking him to wait outside.
Walking out of the villa, he came to the entrance and sat in the back seat of the car.
“Miss, where are we going?” the driver asked.
“Beida Street,” Xia Yu said.
The driver’s body stiffened, cold sweat appearing on his forehead.
No, he had been extremely careful. No one should have noticed his meeting with Luo Yali on Beida Street. It was just a coincidence!
As he started the engine, Xia Yu added calmly: “We need to arrive before 6 PM yesterday.”
The driver turned off the engine, knowing that his secret was out. He wiped the sweat from his forehead.
“Tell me, what did you talk about with Luo Yali?” Xia Yu crossed his legs, looking at the driver.
Through the rearview mirror in the center, meeting Xia Yu’s sharp gaze, the driver clenched and then relaxed his hands.
His spirit suddenly waned, as if he had aged ten years.
“Please, Miss, spare my family.”
“What?”
“As long as you agree, Miss, I can leave a suicide note to save you the trouble of wrapping things up,” the driver continued.
“What the hell is going on? What’s happening? Did I cross over into another world?”
Although completely confused, Xia Yu maintained a calm expression. His voice was cold: “Talk.”
The driver then revealed everything he had said to Luo Yali the previous night.
After analyzing, Xia Yu understood that the driver had developed a strange misunderstanding.
This driver was also a bit of a drama queen, and it seemed he had even unknowingly infected Luo Yali with his theatrics.
To confirm his suspicions, the driver had even secretly investigated the former head maid’s whereabouts, but naturally couldn’t find anything since the former head maid had been arrested for corruption.
It seemed quite amusing, so Xia Yu decided to let him keep his delusions.
“Miss, can I choose my own way to die?” the driver’s voice trembled.
Xia Yu didn’t answer. He opened the car door and got out.
His final words echoed in the driver’s ears: “Don’t let it happen again.”
The driver’s tense body relaxed instantly. He lay on the seat, regretting his rashness while also fearing the young miss’s powerful information-gathering ability.
Indeed, the water in the aristocratic family was deeper than he had imagined. Even a driver who had just started working there a few months ago was being followed!
In his opinion, his actions were extremely covert. Unless someone had been watching and following him from the beginning, it would have been impossible for him to be exposed.
He took out his phone and deleted the email associated with Luo Yali’s contact information.
Meanwhile, Luo Yali thought for a while in the room and gradually felt something was off.
She had been in the An family for so long without discovering any dark secrets. The aristocratic family was still subject to the law; how could it be so dark?
She took out her phone and dialed An Tianfeng’s number. The specific information she had heard from the driver was about the disappearance of the former head maid. As long as she could clarify this matter, she would understand.
Although she indeed couldn’t reach the former head maid by phone, maybe there was some other issue.
When the call connected, Luo Yali asked directly: “Tianfeng, do you know about the former head maid who was fired?”
“I heard she was taken away by the police. I didn’t pay much attention to this matter,” An Tianfeng said. However, because he didn’t clarify, Luo Yali misunderstood.
She really was taken away by the police, and An Tianfeng didn’t even pay attention to this matter?
Wasn’t this matter worth attention at all!
“Don’t worry, there’s no one like that in our family,” An Tianfeng thought Luo Yali had heard about the head maid’s corruption and told her she could rest assured about the maids in their family.
However, since he didn’t clarify again, Luo Yali understood it as An family not having people who would abduct others, not engaging in such evil deeds, which explained why she didn’t know.
Right, the An family had only recently risen to prominence, while the Yu family was the real aristocratic family!
An Siyao was also a daughter of the Yu family! This villa was controlled by the Yu family!
After hanging up the phone, although she still felt somewhat doubtful, recalling what the driver had said about her being too naive, Luo Yali decided to keep a low profile for now.
At dinner, she even actively served Xia Yu some dishes.
Xia Yu glanced at her, his mood complicated.
A good aristocratic family feud had been turned into this absurd situation by that drama queen driver.
Well, at least the trouble was resolved.
After dinner, he returned to his own body.
He continued with his plans.
Yu Ningmeng had said that the female programmer had already been found and that she could start teaching tomorrow, so he could continue improving his programming skills with Xu Youxiang tomorrow.
He should also try to recruit that female programmer to his team.
It was time to consider what the first app should be. It should be simple and profitable.
As he was thinking, his door was knocked.
“Come in.”
The door opened to reveal You Xue, her face filled with excitement.
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