Chapter 573: Xia Jinyu Series of Notes

Chapter 573: Xia Jinyu Series of Notes

Xia Jinyu blinked at Wu Chen, then looked down at the phone in her hand, appearing to think. People like Xia Jinyu had minds that were both simple and complicated. The simple part was that she could instantly think of possibilities ordinary people would never consider. The complicated part was that her mind really did work very quickly.

If she couldn’t come up with an answer immediately…

A whole list of possible solutions would line up in her mind, ready to be tried.

To Wu Chen’s right, Li Ruobing in her sweet-girl persona leaned forward slightly and turned to look toward Xia Jinyu. Neither Wu Chen nor Xia Jinyu had lowered their voices during their conversation, because there was no one else left in the theater.

There was no one they might disturb.

Li Ruobing was also puzzled by Wu Chen’s move. She had willingly agreed to act as his wingwoman this time not only because she was interested in Xia Jinyu, but also because she wanted to see the entire process of Wu Chen winning a woman over.

If everything before this had been preparation—following Wu Chen’s instructions, pretending to be his assistant, deliberately entering the theater late, and acting obedient and sweet—

then Wu Chen now seemed to have moved on to the actual process of winning Xia Jinyu over!

And Li Ruobing couldn’t understand what he was doing right from the start.

She and Xia Jinyu had arrived at the same question: could he know what she was thinking in advance? Li Ruobing knew Wu Chen’s abilities very well and knew that he had studied psychology deeply. He had never said he had formally studied it, but the way he behaved made it clear that he knew how to read people.

But a six-digit passcode! That was far too random!

If Wu Chen had changed his passcode in advance to match whatever Xia Jinyu happened to think of, and she had unlocked it just like that… wouldn’t that be terrifying?

Xia Jinyu remained silent for a full ten seconds.

Then she turned Wu Chen’s phone face down. Without looking at the screen, she rubbed it randomly with the back of her other hand. When she felt the phone vibrate, she turned it over.

Unlock failed!

Of course it wouldn’t unlock. What Xia Jinyu had done had nothing to do with the number she had thought of. She had touched the screen entirely at random. It was no different from a phone rubbing around inside a pocket and repeatedly registering incorrect six-digit passcodes.

“I was just testing whether you’d set it up so that any passcode would unlock it.” Xia Jinyu explained her strange behavior, then shrugged and smiled. “Clearly, you didn’t!”

Having confirmed that Wu Chen wasn’t cheating in that particular way, Xia Jinyu began to take the method he had proposed seriously.

What was this supposed to be? A challenge?

Xia Jinyu didn’t know what Wu Chen had come to see her for. They had started to talk about it earlier, but the movie had interrupted them. Wu Chen had said he had come because of her reputation. What reputation did he mean? Her reputation as a psychologist?

“I can think of any number and enter it?” Xia Jinyu asked again. “You mean that whatever six-digit number I think of right now will unlock the phone?”

“That’s right.” Wu Chen nodded with a smile.

Xia Jinyu was sure now: Wu Chen was challenging her! She couldn’t say whether that was his ultimate purpose, but at least that was what he was doing at the moment.

“Ha.” She laughed as if to say, You’re being naughty again, and gave him a mildly reproachful look.

Having once been a teacher, Xia Jinyu tended to treat men Wu Chen’s age the way she treated students. And her students had challenged her before, such as by doing all sorts of strange psychology tests together.

She looked back at the phone.

This time, Xia Jinyu thought for only three seconds before decisively entering a sequence of numbers.

32!

95!

11!

When she entered the sixth digit, the passcode was correct, so she didn’t even need to tap confirm. The phone unlocked immediately, displaying the time and other information on the home screen.

Xia Jinyu’s eyes flickered. They widened just a little at the moment the phone unlocked, then returned to normal. It wasn’t an especially exaggerated change in expression.

That was because the whole thing was too absurd.

It made her feel that it had to be fake, some kind of trick. If someone performed on a street corner by flying into the air, for example, even if that person really could fly, everyone in the world would assume it was a magic trick. They simply wouldn’t be able to see how it was done.

So Xia Jinyu was surprised for a moment, then looked up at Wu Chen with a smile. “You’re controlling it remotely, aren’t you?”

“You can take the phone and have it examined. It’s a real phone. How could I control it remotely?” Wu Chen replied with a smile.

“Bluetooth, then…” Xia Jinyu tossed out the idea casually. She knew absolutely nothing about that kind of technology, beyond a few basic concepts.

Still, surely remote control by any method would require some kind of connection?

A Bluetooth connection? Or perhaps a phone virus that could be controlled over a 5G network?

She genuinely had no idea.

But she began by switching the phone to airplane mode.

“What interesting thing did you want me to see?” she asked Wu Chen again.

“Notes,” Wu Chen said with a smile.

Xia Jinyu opened the Notes app on Wu Chen’s phone. She saw several notes dated a little after eight that morning. Their titles were arranged in a series: “Xia Jinyu 01,” “Xia Jinyu 02,” “Xia Jinyu 03,” and so on.

They were listed in reverse chronological order.

In other words, the earlier the timestamp, the higher up the note appeared.

Without Wu Chen having to tell her, Xia Jinyu understood what she was supposed to look at. She tapped the note titled “Xia Jinyu 01.”

It contained only one sentence: “Little brother, how old are you?”

Xia Jinyu’s brows immediately drew together. Those were the first words she had said to Wu Chen! She had spoken them at nearly nine thirty, yet the note’s entry time was 8:17:21 a.m.

Had he changed the timestamp?!

It was already past ten. Wu Chen had had plenty of time to type the sentence into his notes while they were watching the movie. If he could change the timestamp, he could pretend he had predicted what someone would say.

The thought stirred something in Xia Jinyu, but not much.

She went back and opened “Xia Jinyu 02.”

“Expensive suit, watch, strand of hair on his shoulder, loosely tied tie; spent the night with a woman; confident; he knows who I am.”

Xia Jinyu glanced over the words, and her pupils suddenly contracted. She had extraordinary control over her expressions and rarely reacted dramatically, but this time a flash of shock crossed her face.

The contents of this “second page” were information no one but Xia Jinyu could truly understand!

They were the key points of her initial thoughts: the details she had noticed about Wu Chen and the preliminary judgments she had made about him.

Just the keywords for each of those thoughts!

This was no longer a question of whether he’d cheated. No matter when Wu Chen had written these notes, it wasn’t cheating! He knew how people would perceive him. He knew everything! He even knew that there was a woman’s hair on his shoulder!

Xia Jinyu held her expression taut and looked up at Wu Chen.

Wu Chen smiled at her and tugged at his tie.

The Wu Chen who had seemed “transparent” to Xia Jinyu suddenly acquired a layer of mist around him! And she’d only read the second page!

Wu Chen gave her a look, signaling her to keep reading.

This was getting interesting!