She Outshines 207


    After dinner, Arthur put on his earbuds and listened to music while washing the dishes. From time to


    time, he would shake his head, sway his hips, and dance on the spot, seeming to enjoy washing


    the dishes.


    The others were all cozied up in the living room.


    Wesley brought water for ire to wash her feet. While ire was squinting and soaking her feet,


    he sat behind her and gave her a shoulder massage.


    Maria was holding Josie, who was sitting on herp. Tliey were tacking while watching a drama.


    From time to time, they would curse together, looking quite engrossed in watching it.


    Jaden sat on a recliner in the corner and read,pletely unaffected by the sound of the television


    or anyone else’s voice at


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    ric sat cross–legged on the sofa, holding a phone and ying a game with an animated


    expressio


    As for Athena, she was sitting at the bar, working on herputer.


    This somewhat messy scene was surprisingly harmonious


    However, Athena kept feeling that someone was watching her, but when she went out to observe,


    that feeling disappeared.


    She thought, ‘Is it just my imagination? I think it’s better to be a little cautious!


    After a night passed, the holiday was over, and the family went back to their own busy routines,


    making it hard to see each other during the day.


    Athena initially wanted to stay at home and be azy bum, but then she remembered that she had


    not been to school in over a month. She thought she should at least show up, or it would be


    embarrassing


    Her appearance caused a stir in the ss.


    A group of ssmates surrounded her. They had lots of things to tell her.


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    “You’re the pride of our ss. You haven’t been here for so long. We even suspected that you


    transferred schools. The teacher said you were on leave, but we weren’t really convinced


    “Athena, this form is tooplicated. No matter how the professor exins it, I just don’t get it.


    Can you exin it to


    “This question is beyond the sybus, but it might be tested at the end of the semester. Help us


    solve it.”


    When the professor walked into the ssroom, he saw Athena exining the tricky points to a


    group of ssmates.


    He stood behind the students and listened for a while. Then, he muttered to himself, “She exins it


    better than I do. I’ll let Athena take over this ss.”


    Then, he left just like that.


    Afterward, he even posted about it in the teacher’s group chat.


    Other professors chimed in. [Young people have amonnguage andmunicate easily. I


    won’t teach today’s ss either. I’ll leave it to Athena.]


    Just like that, Athena helped the professors work for free for the entire day.


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    As soon as the afternoon ss ended, she left decisively. She decided to onlye to school for


    one day a week from then on to avoid continuing to work for the professors.


    However, just as she walked out of the school building, the feeling of being watched returned.


    The recurring feeling can’t be just my imagination,” she said. “Otherwise, I’d have to diagnose


    myself.”


    She bought an ice cream from a stand and observed her surroundings as she ate.


    It was the same situation.


    There were many students around and plenty of hidden spots. She couldn’t spot anyone staring at


    her.


    But she was not antsy at all.


    When she arrived at the parking lot, she sat in the driver’s seat and wound down the windows on


    both sides halfway. Then, she took out a pair of oversized brown–colored sses and ced them


    on the bridge of her nose.


    After that, she picked up her phone and pretended to be on a call, yet she was secretly observing


    her surroundings through her sses, looking for people who tailed after her.


    The sses she was wearing were not ordinary sses. Instead, they were all–purpose sses


    with magnifying sses, binocrs, microscope, night vision goggles, features for sun protection


    and impact resistance, as well as many other functions. They were very powerful.


    She was now in the “binocrs” mode of this pair of sses. She could see everything clearly up


    to 600 feet..


    While observing, she thought, “If I were the stalker, where would I hide to watch me!


    Soon, she identified several spots suitable for hiding and peeping.


    Her gazended on those spots and she observed them carefully.


    Then, she found herself staring into two dark lenses of a pair of binocrs.


    It was so awkward….


    She tried to pretend she hadn’t seen


    n that person,


    but she knew he had also noticed the sses she used to look at him.


    No one could fool anyone.


    “What should I do? she thought.


    Three secondster, Athena yanked off her sses, pushed open the car door, and rushed out.


    Her speed wasparable to the speed of a hungry tiger as it pounced on a sheep.


    However, the other person reacted quickly too.


    By the time she bypassed more than ten cars and a few big trees, she finally spotted his hiding


    ce on the third floor with her naked eye. He had already rushed out of the small building and


    darted into the woods like a rabbit.


    Currently, they were about 100 feet apart


    Under normal circumstances, Athena would definitely be able to catch up to 1


    But he was also quite fast. Besides, the small woods ahead were rtively dense and dimly lit. She


    was not familiar with this area. By the time she rushed into the woods, his figure had already


    disappeared after moving to the other side of the woods.


    Unable to catch up, Athena could only confirm that the person was a young man.


    u BG.


    As she returned to her car, abe muttered, “Reacting so quickly and even peeping at me with


    binocrs. What does he want?” Then, she drove home.


    This time, she finally felt like she wasn’t being watched.


    After dinner, she returned to her room, sat at her desk, and took out the photos and videos she had


    taken at the underwater ruin. Then, she carefully analyzed the words and patterns on them.


    Such ancient andplicated prehistoric information certainly could not bepletely cracked on


    the spot. It would take a long time to figure it out


    As she studied it, she scribbled notes on a draft, trying to find the patterns.


    At midnight, she had unknowingly piled up a thick stack of drafts


    These drafts were the culmination of her hard work and were rted to the secrets of prehistoric


    civilization. She could not lose them or let anyone see them.


    She took out a mathematics sketchbook the size of A3 paper from the top of the bookshelf and


    tapped the many numbers on the hardcover. Then, she opened the book.


    There were no pages in the sketchbook. Instead, three was a hollow box containing photos of Zivi


    This “sketchbook” wasn’t actually a sketchbook. It was a safe disguised as a sketchbook…


    After retrieving Zilvia’s photos from the old house the other day, she ced them in the safe to


    prevent her family from seeing them and feeling sad.


    Now that she saw Zilvia’s photos, she felt a mix of emotions.


    She thought, The Donovan family is happy now. Is it still necessary to seek the truth behind Zilvia’s


    disappearance or to find her at all! Sometimes, letting go might be the best choice…


    After thinking for a moment, Athena took out the photos and put them in her bag. Then, she put the


    drafts into the safe and Jocked it.


    She decided that she would put these photos back under the bed in the old house tomorrow and let


    them be forgotten in


    the corner.


    But she never expected that when she arrived at Viento Court the next morning, the elderly


    residents in the residentialplex saw her and said warmly. “Athena, didn’t your dad and mom


    be rich and rent a big house out there? Why is there still someone staying here at night?”