Falling For The Contract Bride

Chapter 290

Chapter 290 Mom, Do You Know Lu Jinye?

The boy was wearing a baseball top. Despite his young age, he was extraordinarily poised to face adults. Lu Jinye threw his gaze behind the little boy, only to notice that he came without adult supervision. It was evident that he came alone.

Lu Jinye found it difficult to believe. He had to take a second look to make sure he wasn’t mistaken. Eric interrupted him out of the blue by saying, “There’s nothing to see. I came alone, my family doesn’t know this.”

If his family found out about what he was doing behind their backs, they would never let him come.

Eric brought up his laptop and gestured to show it to Lu Jinye. His screen showed a well-organized program to the first step of Lu Jinye’s problem, and it was spot on.

Along with the blinking blue indicator’s light, rows of codes swept across the screen like a foreign language. They were incomprehensible to the common eye and looked like a string of digits and alphabets thrown together to form a file.

Lu Jinye could tell that Eric was troubled by the second layer of the firewall. But his abilities as a five- year-old were astounding enough to Lu Jinye.

“So, what would you like to ask?”

Lu Jinye sized up Eric with an impressed frown.

The kid had similar features as him when he was younger, except the boy had a few dashes of elegance and composure as opposed to his cool distance aura.

“Over here, I used almost a hundred different types of computation methods. Why do I always miss the solution by a decimal place?”

Eric steered the laptop to face Lu Jinye.

Lu Jinye barely took a glance before pointing at a line of the code. Then it instantly dawned on the little boy. He reiterated his solutions with a different approach, but to no avail.

The boy became annoyed. This content belongs to Nô/velDra/ma.Org .

“You’re not sincere at all.”

“What do I receive by teaching you?”

Lu Jinye looked at the boy, thinking to himself that the boy’s resilience towards looking for a solution was commendable.

“Why don’t you tell me?” Eric raised his head to look at Lu Jinye. Instead of addressing the question, Eric threw the question back at him.

Lu Jinye then glimpsed at Eric. Although the boy was negotiating with him strong-headedly, Lu Jinye could not help but feel a type of familiar admiration for him. Thus, he took out a photo and handed it to Eric, saying, “Find me this woman. I want all information you know about her. It should be a piece of cake for you.”

Eric was not in a hurry to receive the photo. He did not bat an eye at the aforementioned woman as he asked, “Looking for a person is indeed an easy task for me, but it should be even easier for you. Why don’t you do it yourself?”

Eric was carefully observing the expression on Lu Jinye’s face, hoping to get some information from him.

“I never waste my time on easy tasks. The reward shall be the solution to my firewall. What do you say?”

Lu Jinye smiled across his face and into his eyes. He continued to size up the boy to spot any changes in his expression.

The boy was seemingly troubled at first. He just need to run her photo in the facial recognition software to find the woman, then hack into her personal account and key profiles to extract information about her.

This was an easy task for Eric.

Lu Jinye was smart in that he used something that Eric truly cared about as a reward.

Eric contemplated for some moment before saying, “Okay, sure. Deal.”

Upon finishing his words, he stretched out his hand to receive the photo from Lu Jinye.

However, as soon as he touched the photo, he suddenly stunned…

Because… Because the woman he was supposed to look for – was his mommy.

Eric managed to bring himself back to his senses to hide the astonishment and did not show any emotion on his face.

All he did was frown adorably and pretended to be troubled. “Although it’s an easy task, I need some time to get it done. Please let me bring it home.”

Lu Jinye was unaware of Eric’s relationship with the woman in the photo. Thus, he did not notice what the implications were behind Eric’s remark and nodded artlessly.

“You may go. You can come and see me anytime.”

“I’ll be back for sure.”

Eric packed up his belongings and scuttled out of Lu Jinye’s office. He could still feel the lingering bewilderment in him and forgot to ask Lu Jinye who the woman was to him.

What does he want to do with mommy?

He thought to himself as he hurriedly left.

When he arrived at home, Eric returned to his room, staring at Mu Zhi’s photo for a long while but he could not work out the pieces. Why does the man want mommy’s information?

Do they know each other? What is their relationship?

However, he knew clearly that he shouldn’t call Lu Jinye to clear the flurry of questions he had. Eric was afraid that he would unintentionally reveal his identity.

After all, Lu Jinye was too intelligent. He could feel himself losing courage when he spoke to Lu Jinye.

So… He decided to talk to mom first.

At night, Eric finally went to knock on Mu Zhi’s door.

Mu Zhi answered the door only to see the little boy tilting his head upwards, looking at her with his watery eyes. She immediately invited Eric into the room and then asked, “What’s the matter?”

She realized the flash of uncertainty in Eric’s eyes.

“Mom, I’d like to ask you something.”

Eric spoke softly in his little boy’s voice.

But he was calm and collected.

It was rare of Eric to be hesitant to ask her anything. He was a genius and would never care to consult Mu Zhi if he ran into any issues.

Mu Zhi responded light-heartedly, “Sure.”

She brought Eric to her bed and sat him down before handing him a bottle of Yakult.

“Mom, do you know someone who goes by Lu Jinye?”

Eric asked as he held the Yakult in his hand without drinking it.

The name sounded unfamiliar to Mu Zhi. She pondered for a moment but did not ring a bell, so she surmised that she didn’t know him.

“Lu Jinye? Who is that?”

She could not help but frown.

Eric promptly took out his phone and searched for his photo, then handed it to Mu Zhi, “He looks like this.”

Mu Zhi nonchalantly glanced at the photo Eric handed her and instantly froze.

Then, Mu Zhi tried to suppress her emotions, not allowing her anxiousness to show.

“I don’t know him, how do get to know this man?”

Mu Zhi asked as she was worried that Eric would have too much interaction with the man.

“I’m just asking.”

Eric responded casually without realizing Mu Zhi’s abnormally.

However, Mu Zhi’s anxiousness continued to whip violently in her heart.

She hesitated briefly, then said all of a sudden, “Eric, let’s go back to the States tomorrow, alright?”