I Heard the Echo of "Good Luck" The President Finally Got Lucky for Once

“It still turns on?”

Su Su was astonished.

In weather this cold and snowy, a phone would usually freeze and die on the spot. Batteries couldn’t handle it, and neither could the various electronic components inside the phone. Low temperatures shut them down immediately, while high temperatures were at least somewhat bearable.

And yet the phone in front of her had actually survived the blizzard and still turned on normally?

Su Su glanced at the battery level and discovered that more than half of it remained.

In other words, this phone had probably been snatched and brought here by the little golden eagle only recently—no more than two days ago…

Su Su had calculated that timeframe based on her own phone.

She recognized the phone in front of her. It was an iPhone. She herself didn’t use that brand, since no one in her family—or among the younger generation—used foreign brands.

If she had to name someone who did…

That would be her Zhixia?

After getting married, Dongfang Zhixia still had half of Su Su’s blood flowing through her veins, but the other half belonged to the Dongfang family. Her way of thinking had consequently undergone a certain degree of evolution and replacement.

Clearly, Dongfang Zhixia had chosen the former path instead of continuing down the old one.

Based on the battery level of her daughter’s phone, Su Su estimated when it had been taken away…

“Hm?”

Su Su quickly realized that something seemed off. Why did this phone feel so heavy in her hand?

It was sturdier than a brick, and…

It seemed thicker, too.

Had it been modified?

Su Su’s expression turned strange. She picked up her own phone, which was still charging, unplugged it, and compared the two phones. She discovered that the one in her hand was nearly half again as thick.

Su Su: “…”

No wonder it was so heavy…

This kind of modified phone… Surely it hadn’t been stolen from someone in a military district, had it?

She instinctively began making a few connections. Who would modify a phone for no reason? People who modified their phones usually had special needs. Either they wanted better security, or they needed more practical functions…

An iPhone was already the most advanced phone money could buy on the market. If even a top-of-the-line model wasn’t enough to satisfy its owner, one could imagine how demanding that person’s requirements were. There was a very good chance they worked in some sort of specialized field…

To avoid unnecessary trouble, the best course of action would be to throw the phone away. Phones like this usually had tracking devices installed. If that happened…

“Throw it away. Take it somewhere far off,” Su Su said casually. She handed the brick-heavy phone to the bodyguard outside, preparing to close the tent and continue persuading her daughter to leave.

“What is it? Let me see.”

Dongfang Zhixia stood up behind her and walked toward the entrance. The phone that had just been handed to the bodyguard was passed back to her.

Dongfang Zhixia picked it up. There was still snow on it that had yet to melt completely, and the entire device was painfully cold to the touch. The instant her fingers made contact with it, she frowned.

“Why is this phone so heavy?”

Her hand dipped slightly under its weight. It felt as though a brick had suddenly appeared in her palm.

“Zhixia, this phone seems to have been modified. It might even have a tracker or something installed, which would make it troublesome. Mom thinks we should just throw it away. We still have to find someone, after all.”

Seeing that her daughter had taken an interest, Su Su immediately sensed danger and hurriedly brought up Ye Cheng to draw her attention away from the phone.

The tactic worked perfectly. The moment she heard that they still had someone to find, Dongfang Zhixia made her decision and stopped concerning herself with the phone.

A phone of unknown origin was very likely connected to something serious. And if it was connected to something serious, trouble was unavoidable.

Trouble would delay her search and interfere with her progress…

After a simple comparison between Ye Cheng and the phone in terms of importance, the phone was instantly defeated and abandoned.

“Mm. Throw it away.”

Dongfang Zhixia was about to hand the phone back to the bodyguard. She had no intention of wasting any more energy on it. She still had to figure out where that bastard might have gone.

Earlier, she had received a few scattered bits of information from Xiao Chun.

Those scattered bits weren’t last words or anything like that. They were merely a few casual mutterings, things like…

“Being rich sure is nice. If you can’t finish your food, you can feed it to the dog. Unlike us—we’re so hungry we’d probably eat the dog…”

“The world is so big, but I don’t want to see it. I just want to slack off and live off the system, become a parasite in a government job, and mooch off someone if I have to…”

“Damn it, why wasn’t I born a capitalist? Why wasn’t I…”

Dongfang Zhixia: “…”

They were all meaningless remarks, but they really were the sort of things Ye Cheng would say. In fact, whenever Dongfang Zhixia heard them, she would almost see Ye Cheng standing right in front of her, muttering one pointless thing after another…

Unfortunately…

Sigh…

Dongfang Zhixia secretly let out a sigh. Her eyes dimmed again, and an indescribable sense of defeat deepened with every moment Ye Cheng remained missing. If only she had caught up with him back at the rear mountain.

No, wait—she probably couldn’t have caught him anyway?

Dongfang Zhixia thought about the speed Ye Cheng had shown when he went berserk like a bullfrog. She probably would have needed a car to catch him. Besides, this wasn’t the first time the two of them had competed in terms of speed.

They had done the same thing at the beginning of the semester, chasing each other for ages. She had even been bitten by a snake, and that bastard had actually tried to leave her behind…

Remembering what had happened before, Dongfang Zhixia once again ground her teeth in anger. The gloom in her eyes was swept away, replaced by hope, and she pulled herself together.

Dongfang Zhixia’s strength had never come from the opinions of others. It came from within herself. She believed that she would definitely find Ye Cheng. It was only a matter of time.

She believed that the heavens favored him. And if they didn’t…

“Hm?”

Dongfang Zhixia handed the phone to the bodyguard. The bodyguard held it and was preparing to run somewhere farther away to throw it out when, by pure coincidence, the phone flipped over in his hand.

The sight of the back of the phone—identical to Ye Cheng’s—instantly stirred Dongfang Zhixia’s memories!

“Wait! Give me the phone!”

Dongfang Zhixia shouted sharply. Before the bodyguard outside could even return, she rushed out of the tent herself and snatched the phone back.

The screen was still lit, and the unlock screen made Dongfang Zhixia’s heart clench. Her pupils contracted sharply…

Wasn’t this that bastard’s forty-eight-character mixed password lock?!

Dongfang Zhixia seemed to want to verify something. She hurriedly wiped the snow from the front of the phone and tried face recognition again and again. But…

The phone completely ignored her.

Dongfang Zhixia grew even more agitated!

That was right. That was right!

That bastard’s phone had been the same. He didn’t use face recognition at all!

He claimed it was because he didn’t want an enemy to be able to use his phone immediately after seeing it…

That kind of idiotic, pointless, overcomplicated behavior—like taking off your pants just to fart—was something only that bastard could do!

And on top of that, the phone model was exactly the same…

“Where did this phone come from?” Dongfang Zhixia asked, her voice full of excitement.

“Zhixia, did you discover something?” Su Su, who had been watching from the side, noticed something was off. Her daughter had suddenly become unusually agitated after seeing the phone. Could it be that she had found something?

Or was there some kind of secret hidden in the phone?

What were the odds?

“This phone belongs to that bastard,” Dongfang Zhixia said with certainty.

Su Su: “...”

Honey, I think you’ve lost it.

Are you saying that after we were tricked into coming to this godforsaken place, drove around aimlessly looking for someone, and finally set up camp in a relatively flat area, the phone belonging to the person we’re looking for was delivered to us?

By a bird, no less?

Su Su wanted to complain, wanted to say something, but seeing how her daughter had been acting these past two days, she simply didn’t dare open her mouth.

Instead, cold sweat broke out across her forehead.

If this kept up... would something happen to her daughter?

So lovesickness really did exist. It was just that... it could apparently make someone lose their mind.

Over the past two days, whenever Su Su went to sleep, she could hear her daughter muttering the names of several people—idiot, problem child, and... bastard.

“Bastard” was by far the most frequently repeated...

Su Su: “...”

Honey, you’ve lost it. Do you know that?

Naturally, Su Su could only mutter that to herself. She didn’t dare say it out loud. The last time she had merely suggested that they go back and wait for the person to be found, her daughter had flown into a rage and even tried to send her home.

It had taken quite a bit of coaxing to get her to stay. Sigh...

There was nothing for it. The poor mother steeled herself and, after a moment of awkward silence, finally spoke.

“Then... Zhixia, how did you determine that this is Xiao Cheng’s phone?”

“I bought this phone for him,” Dongfang Zhixia replied.

Su Su: “...”

“Um... is it possible that this model is just popular, and lots of people use it?”

Su Su had been as tactful as possible, afraid that her daughter might start hissing at her the next second. That was what had happened before...

Dongfang Zhixia nodded. To Su Su’s surprise, she didn’t argue irrationally or fly into a rage. Instead, she began explaining her conclusion with sound reasoning.

“That’s true. If it were merely the same model, then it could easily be a coincidence. But this phone has been modified, Face ID has been disabled, and it uses a forty-eight-character alphanumeric passcode. With all those factors combined, can this still be a coincidence?”

Dongfang Zhixia’s words rang with conviction.

Su Su: “...”

Honey, you’ve lost your mind. Do you know that?

The fact that Face ID didn’t work only proved that it was broken at worst. The fact that the phone had been modified merely suggested that its owner’s identity might be troublesome. And a forty-eight-character alphanumeric lock? Where did an Apple phone even get a forty-eight-character lock?

Su Su: “...”

There were far too many things she wanted to complain about. But seeing how certain her daughter was, she hesitated several times before finally nodding.

“Mm-hmm, yes, that makes perfect sense, Zhixia... Then let’s hurry up and unlock it. We might be able to find some clues that way...”

Su Su looked as though she understood and was being perfectly reasonable. In reality, she simply had no other choice.

Dongfang Zhixia nodded and prepared to enter the password she had memorized from Ye Cheng. Her finger stopped in midair...

“What’s wrong, Zhixia?” Su Su asked, puzzled.

“I can’t remember it. The password,” Dongfang Zhixia said in a very subdued voice.

Forty-eight characters... Was that even something a human being could come up with?

If she failed ten times, the phone would automatically lock. Dongfang Zhixia didn’t dare try at random...

Aside from her, who else knew that bastard’s phone password?

And who could actually remember it?

The answer was obvious.

A moment later...

The President made a phone call to the young lady, spanning thousands of kilometers!

“Beep... beep...”

“Beep... beep...”

“Sorry, the number you have dialed is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later...”

Dongfang Zhixia: “???”