"I'm not particularly interested in your past. I'm just curious how you met Levi and the others. You seem so close." Chen Si finally voiced the question that had been on his mind for so long.
"I suppose fate had something to do with it..." Zhang Surou lowered her eyes slightly, a faint smile curving her lips as memories filled her gaze.
Zhang Surou, the third transmigrator, had come from South Korea in her previous life. Her father was South Korean, and her mother was Chinese.
Her parents had divorced when she was young. Her father had died in a struggle between South Korean conglomerates, his death in a hotel written off as an unexpected suicide. After he died, her mother returned to China and stopped taking any interest in her life.
Disheartened, she had long since lost much interest in her world. By chance, during a drunken night at a bar, she met an American military officer.
To survive, she changed her name to Chris Vineyard and joined a United States military base in South Korea. Chris Vineyard was her favorite fictional female spy. Eventually, she became an American citizen and an operative monitoring South Korea for the United States.
One special assignment required her to gain control over the chairman of a South Korean conglomerate. She needed to approach his only son to secure a private meeting with him. By chance, she learned that the chairman's son liked an anime called "Attack on Titan" and planned to attend a fan event held by its creator, Hajime Isayama, in New York.
She had never cared about anime, but she began staying up all night analyzing the series so she could approach him at the fan event. At first, she watched only because her assignment required it, but to her