A Replacement Bride

Chapter 132
"Darn it! Why does my wound hurt so badly?" Joaquin cursed, his face full of frustration.
Ever since he took the shot that Katherine brought over, his wound had been hurting, and even the painkillers and analgesia
pumps he took were not effective at all.
Ben looked at him cautiously. After a moment of hesitation, he said, "Mr. Levisay, that's because you reopened your wound, and
the new injury caused the pain to increase. Even painkillers would be of little use. Besides, you've never felt any pain before, so
now that you've suddenly recovered..."
"Enough. Get lost," Joaquin berated mercilessly.
He didn't want to know the reason at all. As he tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep, he could now be sure that Katherine was
doing it on purpose and deliberately made him experience what it was like to be in pain.
Unfortunately, no matter how angry he was, she wouldn't be able to see it as she had gone back to Soulin International and
enjoyed a hot bath before heading to bed. When she got up early the next morning, she received a phone call from a courier.
Katherine asked the other party in confusion after answering the phone, "I didn't buy anything. What is the delivery for?"
"I'm sorry, Miss Cornell, but we're not sure either. However, outsiders are not allowed to enter your neighborhood. I'm currently at
the entrance. Can you come out and take the parcel?" The person on the phone sounded courteous and polite.
After racking her brain, she still did not know what it was. There were not many people who knew her address here, and she
usually had her things delivered to the research institute.
"Alright, give me a minute." After a long silence, she agreed and hung up the phone.
She rummaged through her closet for a shirt and put it on before she headed downstairs to retrieve the parcel at the entrance.
At the entrance, a young man in a postal uniform was waiting. Upon seeing Katherine, he stepped forward with a smile and
handed her an exquisite box. "Miss Cornell, here's your parcel. Please sign over here."
Katherine weighed the small parcel in her hand; it was very light. Taking the pen from the mailman, she signed the courier slip
before accepting the box.

As he watched her walk away with the box in her hand, the corners of the mailman's lips curled up into a playful smile.
Katherine walked home while unpacking the parcel. After removing the outer packaging, she found a small black box inside,
which made her frown in impatience.
Am I being pranked?
Inside the box was another box. It was only after dismantling six boxes that she finally saw an exquisite flash drive with the
letters 'NSL' on it. Katherine scowled at the sight. Just then, the elevator arrived, and she walked inside. When the doors closed,
she looked at the flash drive in her hand, unable to figure out what could be inside.
Once she returned home, she turned on her laptop and clicked on a red spider icon within a hidden folder. Then, she logged in
and sent a message to a group chat.
Q asked, 'Which one of you delivered something to me?'
A Funny Guy replied, 'Boss, did someone send you something? Who dared to do that before me? This is too much, boss. Just
give me a minute. I'll make arrangements for you right away.'
Taking a Trip to Heaven denied, 'Boss, I didn't do it. It wasn't me.'
An Escaping Wave asked, 'Boss, what did you receive? Hurry up and entertain us. It's not a prank, is it?'
The group chat was filled with messages, but none of them admitted to it.
Katherine frowned. If it wasn't from them, something was off about the flash drive. Thinking that, she played with it in her hand for
a long time before she went to get a new laptop and plugged it in. Just as the flash drive was plugged into the laptop, the screen
turned black. Seeing that, she frowned. How dare someone try to hack my computer?
She typed a series of commands on the keyboard, and the laptop soon returned to normal, but she did not stop there. Instead,
she proceeded to counter the malware and hacked into the opponent's computer, transferring all the information from theirs to
her own, and implanting a Trojan horse virus as she went.
After doing so, she rolled her eyes. How brave of them to get up to no good with these mediocre skills. They're messing with the
wrong person.

After removing the flash drive and throwing it into the trash can, Katherine took a look at the information on the laptop. Instantly,
her expression changed, and she only reached out and rubbed her temples after a long time. If any of this information was
leaked out, it would spell disaster.
She switched off the laptop, then got up and left the house. Two hours later, she arrived at the door of Ben's clinic.
"Miss Cornell? What brings you here?" Ben asked, his face full of surprise when he saw Katherine.
She gave him a nod and walked into the clinic without saying anything, heading straight to Joaquin's ward.
Joaquin was extremely cranky from the pain, and when he saw Katherine walking over, he looked at her with a displeased
expression. "Did you come to make fun of me?"
"I have something important to tell you," Katherine said, her face extremely solemn without a trace of a smile.
Seeing her expression, Joaquin took a deep breath and suppressed his stormy temper, struggling to remain calm. "Speak."
However, Katherine remained silent and walked over to raise the overbed table, then reached out and helped him to sit up, even
tucking a pillow behind his back while she was at it.
Joaquin looked at her in confusion, but she didn't even look at him and quickly switched on the laptop she had brought over, then
clicked on a folder and played one of the videos inside.
At first, Joaquin's face was full of disinterest, but after he saw the contents of the video clearly, the air around him turned heavy,
and his face turned terribly cold. The duration of the video was not long, a mere forty seconds, but the atmosphere inside the
entire ward was oppressive and terrifying, as if a storm was about to come.
"What do you think?" Katherine asked after he had finished watching the video.
"Where did you get this?" His eyes were grim as he looked at her.
As there was nothing to hide, Katherine told him about everything that had happened. "That about sums it up. I hacked the other
party's computer, and all of this data was from their computer."
"Please give me a copy of it. Thank you." Joaquin pursed his lips for a long time before he spoke with some difficulty.

The impact the video had on him was too much. Even now, he wasn't able to get over it, and his mind was steeped in a huge
amount of shock that he couldn't get out of.
Katherine nodded and didn't say much. She compressed the files and sent them to Joaquin. He didn't ask how she knew his
email address either as he was extremely conflicted and didn't have the heart to think about anything else.