Once that realization struck, he had gathered every scrap of information available about Elena Zhang.
It wasn't enough. So he turned to channels he knew far too well, slipping back into the shadows of the underworld and hiring a black-hat hacker to dig deeper into Elena Zhang's past and the people surrounding her.
The hacker was talented—far beyond someone like Hou Liang—but still nowhere near Veronika's former level.
Even so, the results shocked him.
The hacker had hesitated before sending the final file, demanding extra payment.
"This one was buried deep," the hacker had said. "Someone erased it almost perfectly. Almost. There's a trace left—tiny, deliberate. Only someone at my level or higher would catch it."
That trace pointed straight at Jin Di.
At first, Lu Zihao had found it absurd. Almost funny. The man responsible for covering up Elena Zhang's accident was now madly in love with her. The irony was delicious.
Then he remembered that Elena was his sister.
