Intimate Trial Chapter 29

Chapter 29

Penthouse, study.

In the early morning, everything is silent.Only the three screens side by side on the desk emitted a faint cold light.

The middle screen displays the final version of the “Xinghui Mining Internal Pre-Evaluation Report” that has just completed final calibration and encryption.The screen on the right is the encrypted chat record between “Insomnia” and Shen Silin, stopping at the last sentence “last chance”.The screen on the left is a more complex monitoring interface, which displays in real time the operation logs and file modification traces of Shen Shen Lin’s office computer, including the delayed records of keyboard keystrokes and possible psychological fluctuation analysis models when she finally added the “risk supplementary reminder”.

Ye Chang was sitting in a large leather chair, wearing a dark silk nightgown. His long hair was draped loosely behind his shoulders, and there was no trace of sleepiness on his face.The eyes behind the gold-rimmed glasses were as calm as an ancient well, moving slowly between the three screens.

She looked at the complete report on the middle screen, and then at the instructions given by “Insomnia” on the right, which were as detailed as the specific data nodes and modification directions.Finally, her eyes fell on the left screen, Shen Shen Lin’s last period of operation records – the cursor hovering over the key data column for a long time, the traces of deletion and input, the whole process of finally giving up the modification and adding that supplementary explanation…

The corners of Chang’s mouth, very slowly, curved upward in a cold, devoid of any warmth.

In that arc, there was no surprise, no anger, or even disappointment.

There is only one kind of deep play… where everything is under control and is even more “interesting” than expected.

As expected, Silin did not fully follow Insomnia’s instructions.

She backed down at the last moment, or responded in a more circuitous and personal way, trying to maintain some kind of “professionalism” and “moral bottom line.”

The “additional risk warning” she added, in Ye Chang’s eyes, was so childish that it was almost cute, but also… so sad that it made people palpitate.It was like the last straw a drowning man grasped, trying to stir up the underwater undercurrent without getting his hands wet.

Unfortunately, she didn’t know that the depth of this water area and the direction of the undercurrent had already been mapped by the hunter.

Ye Chang moved the mouse and clicked on the editing permissions of the report on the middle screen – the highest level of administrator permissions, overriding all encryption and process locks.For this plan that she personally supervised and regarded as the cornerstone of the future, she naturally left the last and most hidden backdoor.

Her fingertips tapped on the keyboard, her movements steady and precise, without any hesitation.

She called up the key data nodes that “Insomnia” indicated needed to be modified.

Associated metal content… mining depth influence coefficient… environmental risk potential level adjustment weight…

She modified every data according to the wrong values provided by “Insomnia” that should have been entered by Shen Silin.Her operation was even more subtle than “Insomnia” expected. Not only did she make adjustments to the numerical values, she also made extremely hidden and logically consistent matching changes in the relevant calculation formula references and auxiliary instructions, making the entire tampering seamless. Even if the most stringent technical audit is conducted in the future, it will be extremely difficult to detect traces of human intervention.

She is not simply “destroying”, but is performing a sophisticated “surgery” to implant a time bomb into the core of her own strategy in the most perfect way.

After doing all this, she saved the modified version, overwriting the file originally uploaded by Shen Shenlin that contained the supplementary prompt.She then cleared all background operation logs and closed the backdoor.

On the screen, there was still the eye-catching title “Final version of Xinghui Mining’s internal pre-evaluation report”, which looked exactly the same as a moment ago.

Only Ye Chang knew that its core was completely different.

She leaned back in her chair, took off her glasses, and gently rubbed her eyebrows with her fingertips.A trace of very real fatigue finally showed on his face, but the eyes that he reopened were astonishingly bright, filled with a complex and unspeakable emotion – coldness, determination, and a trace of crazy joy that was almost like martyrdom.

She picked up another encrypted phone next to her that had never been shown to Shen Silin, quickly entered a message, and sent it to a contact who had no stored name, only a code name.

The content of the information is an “early warning” and “response suggestions” for the “potential loopholes” of the “Xinghui” plan. The direction is clear, but the wording is cautious enough to guide the “right people” to discover the “right problems” at the critical moment.

After doing all this, she truly relaxed and turned her attention back to the chat interface between “Insomnia” and Shen Silin on the right screen.

Silin did not reply “Insomnia” in the end.

She is struggling, suffering, and trying to find a thorny road that neither betrays hatred nor completely annihilates her conscience.

Ye Chang looked at the silent portrait quietly.

She knew what Shen Shenlin was probably going through at the moment.Guilt?disturbed?Fear of the future?Perhaps there is also a trace of sad, self-deceptive “gladness” – glad that I “didn’t do it” in the end.

How naive.

She would never know that what she thought was a “conscience discovery” and a “detour warning” were nothing more than a chess piece on a chessboard whose landing point had already been predicted in front of a real hunter.She would not even know that the “direct destruction” she desperately wanted to avoid had already been completed by the person she most wanted to take revenge on, and it had been completed more thoroughly and irreparably.

Ye Chang turned off all the screens.

The study fell into darkness.

She walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling windows and looked out at the sleeping city.Her own shadow was vaguely reflected on the glass, lonely and upright, like a sharp blade destined to be stained with blood after being unsheathed, coldly reflecting its own cold light.

“Sister…” She moved her lips silently facing the empty night outside the window, “Just wait…it will be better soon.”

“Everything that has hurt you and made you miserable and desperate…including this twisted world itself, derived from hatred and mistakes…”

“I will let it happen and pay the price.”

“Even if… the price includes myself.”

She turned around and left the study.

At the end of the corridor, Su Yu’s door was closed.

Ye Chang stood quietly at the door for a moment, but did not go in after all.He just stretched out his hand and touched the cold door panel very gently, as if he was afraid of disturbing anything.

Then she walked back to her bedroom.

In the darkness, she lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling with her eyes open.

There seemed to be a phantom pain coming from the break on the lip that had long since healed, leaving only slight traces.

The pain was clear and cold, reminding her of how dark and decisive the road she was walking on was.

Shen Shenlin thought she was fighting a difficult defense in an “intimate trial.”

Little did he know that the real chief judge had already put himself on the altar.

This destruction, from the beginning, was a two-way street.