Chapter 38: Is This Trashy Woman Insane!?

Chapter 38: Chapter 38: Is This Trashy Woman Insane!?

With the Empress present, retrieving the surveillance footage from Imperial Hospital was much easier.

The surveillance footage was from April 6th, between 1:10 PM and 1:30 PM, a total of twenty minutes.

The video’s contents were very clear. It captured the moment Shu Yao parted ways with Qin Shiwei, who was wearing a disguise device. Only after receiving a super-sized hug from her did the man reluctantly depart in a Flying Machine.

Afterwards, Shu Yao lingered for a moment where she had parted with the man, then loitered at the hospital entrance for a while, muttering to the air by herself like a lunatic, though it was impossible to tell what she was saying. After about two or three minutes, her figure finally disappeared from the surveillance feed.

From the beginning of the video to the end, the mother-daughter duo of Zhen Zhen and Lin Zhenxiang never appeared.

Not even for a second!

"You’re from the Lower Star District. What else do you have to say?" Zhen Zhen snorted, a triumphant, cold smile playing on her lips. She maintained a semblance of composure for the reporters’ cameras, but the sharp tilt of her chin still betrayed her arrogant and unbridled nature.

Lin Zhenxiang said innocently, "Sister Shu, you must have misremembered. My mother and I never went to the hospital that day. Even if you were to suggest we investigate the Heavenly Eye surveillance from other time periods, I would be willing to accept it."

With that, she bit her lower lip, putting on the aggrieved expression of someone who had been bullied.

Her shoulders trembling with restraint, as if holding something back, Shu Yao buried her face in her hands, hiding her expression from view.

Seeing this, Lin Zhenxiang’s eyes filled with pity.

’This piece of trash from the Lower Star District is just pathetic!’

’Sitting here all by herself, utterly alone and helpless, being bullied at will by the full force of my Lin Family.’

’What does an abandoned girl who grew up in a dumpster have to fight me with?!’

In this situation, Shu Yao appeared pathetic and lonely in Lin Zhenxiang’s eyes.

"Sister Shu..." Lin Zhenxiang’s voice dripped with thick sympathy. "You really don’t have to be like this."

"PFFT... HAHAHAHA!" Shu Yao could no longer hold it in. She slammed her hand on the table and burst out laughing, completely disregarding her image.

Everyone present was completely dumbfounded. ℴ

’Has that piece of trash gone crazy!?’

Wiping the tears of laughter from the corners of her eyes, Shu Yao looked at Lin Zhenxiang as if she were watching a ridiculous buffoon.

Lin Zhenxiang asked with feigned innocence, "Sister Shu, what are you laughing at?"

’To be able to laugh in a situation like this... that piece of trash must have some serious issues!’

Shu Yao patted her chest to catch her breath. "You know, to be honest, the moment you all so confidently suggested checking the surveillance footage, I knew it would turn out this way."

"Don’t tell me you suspect the video is fake!" Zhen Zhen’s face turned ashen as she invoked Yudola’s name. "This video was retrieved by the Empress herself, through the master brain, from the Imperial Hospital’s surveillance system! Doubting us is the same as doubting the Empress!"

Shu Yao raised her hand and gave a few listless waves, suppressing the urge to burst out laughing again. "I have a suggestion for you. Next time, why don’t you hire a more skilled hacker?"

Lin Zhenxiang subconsciously glanced at the video screen. Her eyes inadvertently met Yudola’s scrutinizing gaze, and she guiltily looked away.

’Is there a problem with the video?’

’Impossible!’

’She’d hired *the* interstellar hacker, the one hailed as being worth half the Federation’s master brain!’

’He’s not like some run-of-the-mill hacker!’

’That piece of trash couldn’t possibly have noticed anything!’

’She must just be grasping at straws!’

At this thought, Lin Zhenxiang’s composure returned, and she resumed her act of the innocent, kind-hearted damsel.

Shu Yao’s gaze swept over the crowd, and then she said:

"Are you all blind?"

Lin Yaodong’s expression instantly turned cold. He bellowed, "You insolent brat, watch your attitude! How dare you be so disrespectful in front of the Empress! Who gave you the nerve?!"