"Smack!"
Rainwater exploded across the windshield, like ketchup splattering onto a plate when someone squeezed the bottle.
Lin Yu sat in the passenger seat, and the atmosphere inside the car was a little quiet.
He still hadn't figured out what kind of setting this world had, but...
The Gray Domain had indeed created a Lin Zhao.
The empty lunch box in his schoolbag had already revealed that much—aside from Lin Zhao, who else would prepare lunch for a high school student like Lin Yu?
And unlike the gentle, lively, hardworking Lin Zhao that Lin Yu had created based on the Fragment of Fate and his own memories, this Lin Zhao was more like a version who had truly lived with him for several years.
More mature, steady, and composed—she had even learned to drive and bought a Nissan Mitsubishi sedan.
At that moment, a popular song was playing in the car. This was also Lin Zhao's sudden "new hobby" in this world.
Because in Lin Yu's impression, Lin Zhao rarely listened to songs with lyrics. Most of what she listened to was instrumental music.
This Lin Zhao and the one in his memories... differed in many ways.
Yet for some reason, Lin Yu didn't find any of it jarring. It was as though the real Lin Zhao should have been like this during his high school years.
After exchanging a simple greeting, Lin Zhao and Lin Yu hadn't spoken at all in the car.
After all... once his initial shock had passed, Lin Yu's mood wasn't particularly pleasant.
No matter how real the Lin Zhao before him seemed, she was still fake...
This was the Gray Domain's overt ploy, an emotional card that exploited his weakness—it knew what he cared about most, so it hoped to use this false "Lin