The Untouchable Ex Wife by Mizuki Sei

Chapter 37

Despite suddenly becoming the target of everyone’s critical gazes, Renee remained perfectly calm.

“Wait,” she chuckled, “surely you guys aren’t suspecting me of being Phoenix, are you?”

“I’d just gone out to the restroom for a few minutes,” she said incredulously, “and in that time, I somehow Jurned into a famous genius hacker! What a magical turn of events! Perhaps I should celebrate it with fireworks!”

“I think it’s all just a coincidence,” Elijah chimed in quickly. “Based on my understanding of Mrs. Hunt’s character, her shrewdness and practicality are more suited for a housewife. Her proficiency with computers is limited to watching movies and videos online. She doesn’t even play any video games… If someone like her is a genius hacker, then I must be the president of this country!”

Although his words were unflattering at Renee’s expense, he had only said that to help get her out of trouble, and it worked well. Everyone thought that Elijah’s words made a lot of sense.

“That’s right,” said Renee with a smile, the picture of innocence. “Everyone knows how much I love Stefan. If I really was Phoenix, I would’ve done everything I could to help him. There’s no way that I would ever sabotage him!

“Is that so?” Stefan, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke up. His pointed gaze was fixed on the woman as he sneered, “I think you’ve sabotaged me quite a few times before.”

Renee laughed awkwardly. ‘What a hateful man,’ she thought bitterly. How could he just pull the rug out from under her feet like that?

towards Renee and reached out to grip her chin, lifting her head to his. His gaze was

“So, are you Phoenix?”

somewhat guilty, and she quickly averted her gaze. She could easily fool the others,

“If you think I am, then I am. If

the right kind of meaningless

emotionless as he demanded,

of anyone’s secret life would surely be hidden on their phone in this day and age. If there really was something suspicious about Renee, he could easily figure it out just by browsing through

way that Renee would ever let him go through her phone, because there were so many things

invading my privacy here,” she told him directly. “Please forgive me, but I won’t

It was as if the two were playing a game of tug-of-war, and neither was prepared to

always been so gentle, well-behaved, and compliant, would have the guts to go against Mr. Hunt. Was she so unafraid because she

which had been partially hidden by the brim

Fascinating’ Extremely fascinating!

it suddenly occurred to me that there really is

to the crowd and laughingly said, “I’m incredibly sorry, everyone. I’ve made a fool of myself! I’ll go