"What?"

Bai Xiao was slightly stunned; she had no such memories.

"My daughter… the homeroom teacher…" Bai Xiao's tone was doubtful as she stared at Lillian for a long time, even suspecting she was being scammed. So, she added, "You..."

"My daughter used to play with your daughter, Mona, remember Mona?"

Before Bai Xiao could continue questioning her, the other woman's reply was like a bolt from the blue!

Mona?!

Bai Xiao wanted to scream like a groundhog inside!

Wasn't Mona the name of the big boss in the game?!

Seriously?! Not just a coincidence, right?

Was she seeing a ghost? Bah! Meeting Mona's mother?

"Wait, we… were neighbors?" Bai Xiao reacted instantly after the initial shock and realized what the other woman had said!

"Yes? What's wrong?" Lillian acted as if she hadn't said anything wrong. "After my ex-husband and I divorced… I moved away with Mona."

As she spoke, Lillian sized Bai Xiao up again, a look of sympathy on her face. "We were deeply sorry for what happened to your daughter, but what exactly has happened to you and your husband this past year…"

Lillian didn't say how they'd ended up this way, but Bai Xiao immediately realized that her character's identity seemed off.

It seemed that the other woman's perception of her was different from how she perceived herself.

The character information she knew was that of a middle-aged couple who had lost their daughter and were impoverished.

But it seemed she wasn't as… poor as she thought?

Otherwise, how could she have been neighbors with Lillian's family?

Although she didn't know the game's plot, Bai Xiao knew Mona's background; her family had always been well-off.

There was no possibility that she had suffered hardship and lived in a poor area in her early years.

So why was her character constantly emphasizing her poverty?

"My husband and I lost the will to live after our daughter passed away… we've had a rough time lately. Unlike you, you seem to be doing well now."

Although she couldn't figure it out for the moment, it didn't stop Bai Xiao from subtly turning the topic to Lillian.

This was the Boss's mother, after all.

She must have a lot of valuable information.

…

"Huh?!"

After Mingmei came back from comparing answers with Zhen Hu, Bai Xiao told her about meeting Lillian.

Mingmei was surprised and felt that Lillian's actions were unusual.

It was as if this woman was deliberately reminding them of something.

"Afang and I didn't think about our memories being scrambled at first, but Lillian spoke so earnestly, saying that I used to be her neighbor, and she even mentioned my character's dead daughter… it didn't seem fake."

Bai Xiao and Yuan Fang started analyzing things, not knowing what Mingmei was thinking. Added to what had happened to Hu Yue, they had already determined that the information about their characters had been twisted somehow.

Just like their previous guess, their memories were likely being affected by the Boss.

However, they weren't sure how much of this information was true and how much was false. And what was Lillian's deal?

Was she unaffected by the Boss, or was she some kind of loophole?

"Lillian mentioned her ex-husband…" Bai Xiao said with some suspicion, "She said her ex-husband was my daughter's homeroom teacher."

"Is there a problem?"

Mingmei heard that another character had been unlocked, Mona's biological father.

"That person… I remember he also died in the middle school fire back then. It's only been a little over a year since the fire…"

"Are you saying Lillian and Zhen Hu seamlessly transitioned?"

Mingmei also noticed this. Lillian told Hu Yue that they had only moved here a year ago, which meant she had remarried at least a year ago.

And she had divorced just over a year ago. She divorced one moment, remarried the next, and not long after she moved away, her ex-husband died in a fire at the school.

That was too much of a coincidence, right?

Divorce, remarry, dead ex—was she a master of time management?

"But these are all Lillian's one-sided statements. I don't have these memories, and I'm not sure how much of what she said is true."

"Then we can just investigate the place she mentioned." At this time, Mu Chen also returned. As if he hadn't told Mingmei before, he brought up what he had discovered yesterday.

This time, he told Bai Xiao and the others that he had found their relevant information by looking through the milk delivery records.

This confirmed that what Lillian said was correct; they really had been neighbors.

"But why is the Boss doing this? Changing everyone's memories? We forgot that Mona and her family had appeared in our past, and at the same time, she changed the memories of our current neighbors, Luming and the others, making them think they were long-time neighbors and had grown up with the children next door. What's the purpose of all this?"

Yuan Fang couldn't figure it out, but he seemed to have a glimmer of an idea, which vanished as quickly as it came.

"Maybe you can find some clues from yourselves. After all, you used to be neighbors. Maybe… your present might be Luming and the others' future."

Mingmei's words were a bit too horrifying.

Their present was Luming and the others' future?

Their children ended up self-destructing, and they didn't know why they were so poor. Could it be that Luming and Julian would also end up like that?!

…

Inside the school,

"They're going too far!"

Mona, looking at Luming, who had just come back from the bathroom with her head soaked in cold water, was furious. She grabbed Luming's arm and glared at the girls who were snickering in the corner of the classroom.

Just now, before Luming came back, those girls were the ones holding buckets of water.

Now, looking at Luming's disheveled appearance, what wasn't clear?

"What right does the daughter of a murderer have to be in school?"

"Oh, it's not just murder. I heard she was caught cheating, and that's why she was killed…"

"Tsk, tsk, what good can come from the child of such a woman?"

Insults and curses constantly entered Luming's ears. Luming stood there quietly, letting the cold water drip down her bangs.

"You can't say that! Aunt Xila isn't Daisy's biological mother! You're not allowed to talk about Daisy like that!"

Mona's words caused another burst of laughter.

"So, Daisy's biological father was cuckolded? Hahaha, it seems this man wasn't very good either, not even able to keep an eye on his own woman, hahaha…"

"That's right, only useless men let their wives cheat…"

"You're talking nonsense!" Mona wanted to say something, but Luming grabbed her arm, telling her not to speak. Then, with cold eyes, she looked at the people who had ambushed her in the bathroom and splashed her with cold water.

"Are you… the ones who splashed water on me?"

Releasing Mona's arm, Luming put her hands in her pockets and walked a few steps to stand in front of them.

It had to be said, Luming was quite intimidating when she didn't speak and just kept a cold face.

"You have no proof, you need evidence to speak, okay? Who can prove it?"

As expected, with such a brazen reply, Luming straightened up and looked around, only to find that everyone present was shaking their heads, as if they had seen nothing.

Luming's lips twitched, seemingly expecting this.

Taking a deep breath, Luming finally reached out to wipe the water from her face, raising a strange smile.

At this moment, she made Mona, who was standing not far away and saw her whole reaction, blush with excitement…