The male supporting character was actually myself.

If I were to describe this person based on my experience...

Ordinary; not much money or ability; lacks self-discipline; lacks exercise and conviction.

If you take any part of it, it has nothing to do with your brother.

"Little sister, can you check the security camera footage from my brother's room? See if someone secretly switched him with someone else last night?"

Fourth sister Bai Wei was startled. "A switch? This is... impossible, right? Although it feels different, I've observed that it's definitely my brother's appearance and physical condition, not a bit different!"

"Seeing is not necessarily believing." The third sister, Ye Zhi Qiu, stood there with one hand in her pocket, exuding a heroic and spirited aura, and spoke with a decisive and confident manner.

The younger sister nodded to Ninghua and explained, "With the current level of technology, it is possible to use technical means to completely disguise one person's face as another person's face. This would explain why he looks like my brother, but something is not right."

The sixth sister, Lin Yanran, chimed in, "That's right. Sometimes when I complete a mission, I'll first eliminate the people around the target, pretend to take their place, and then choose the right moment to strike."

I've even impersonated a man before, so I never trust human faces.

I only trust details and intuition.

If someone could really replace such a powerful older brother without anyone noticing, we're in grave danger! Who is this person? Who is their target? What do they want?

To be honest, I think his disguise is very low-level.

He probably hasn't even participated in the most basic simulation training. His attempt to imitate his brother's every move was completely off-key and full of flaws!

"We've confirmed that this brother isn't the real one," the third sister, Ye Zhi Qiu, summarized and issued the mission. "Our primary task is to keep him calm and, if possible, try to get some information out of him to find out what his true intentions are."

Sister, find an opportunity to perform a full-body scan on him and see if you can use technical means to find flaws and expose his true colors.

Second sister, you are in charge of mobilizing the people in the manor to search secretly and see if you can find any clues;

I mobilized my resources to investigate the channels through which this technology could be used, starting from the outside.

Fourth sister, contact any people you can help, preferably professionals in search and rescue, and try to sneak into the manor to track down our tracks and find our brother as soon as possible.

Fifth Sister, you're the best actress, the sweetest-talking, and the prettiest. Go and fool the imposter, buy us some time.

Sixth Sister, act independently in your own way, and report back immediately if anything happens;

Seventh Sister, you're in charge of monitoring all the imposter's activities. If anything happens, post it directly in our new group chat.

As she spoke, she had already pulled her sisters into a new chat group.

After considering for two seconds, Ye Zhi Qiu also pulled Liu Qing Mei in.

“My sister-in-law is preparing for her doctoral entrance exam, so let’s not disturb her for now,” Xiang Ninghua suggested. “Third sister, send some people to protect my sister-in-law secretly, and we’ll figure out the situation before we decide how to talk to her.”

Ye Zhi Qiu nodded and immediately ordered people to secretly protect Liu Qing Mei.

Chapter Seventeen: Getting Closer to the Truth

"You still remember to protect your sister-in-law at this crucial moment. All those years of pampering you have paid off." The semi-transparent Jiang Chen stood behind his sisters, watching with his hands behind his back, nodding and sincerely sighing.

The little white cat perched on his shoulder, licking its paws, its mood unusually low. "Host, we really have to rely on the sisters this time. I'm restricted by the main system and can't do anything. Otherwise, if I could just log onto the website and send them a message to hint at something, wouldn't that be so simple!"

Jiang Chen scratched its chin to comfort it, saying, "The main system definitely won't let us reveal in any way that the protagonist transmigrated and replaced me. Otherwise, if they had told the sisters from the beginning, why would they have needed so much preparation later?"

"Luckily, the sisters are clever and alert enough not to target the protagonist immediately, so they weren't forcibly made less intelligent." The little white cat opened the script with concern, "But the script has started updating. I'm worried that the main system will strengthen the protagonist's halo. Will the sisters be able to handle it?"

Jiang Chen, who passed through the wall, didn't say anything. He floated downstairs and sat down on the sofa opposite Yan Jiangchen, staring at him.

"They were able to bypass my sister's surveillance system and subdue my brother, replacing him silently." Lin Yanran frowned slightly. "What worries me is that the situation is much more serious than we imagined. My brother's safety is probably not optimistic."

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became heavy, with only the sound of Zhou Ruofeng's fingers rapidly tapping on the keyboard audible.

“I’ve checked everything thoroughly, and it’s impossible for anyone to have broken in.” Her classically beautiful face was unusually serious as she explained earnestly, “Even if someone wanted to sneak in, they would have to attack the security system to do so, but my system records have not been attacked or tampered with.”

I dare say that the person who can do this hasn't been born yet.

Moreover, my sisters saw me pull up this surveillance footage; it was taken by the night-vision camera in my brother's room.

Zhou Ruofeng's slender, delicate hands tapped on the keyboard, zooming in on the surveillance video to its maximum. In night vision mode, the camera clearly captured the doorway and corridor directly in front of her.

The time is 3:05 AM.

My brother has a habit of preparing his clothes for the next day and hanging them on the clothes rack in the hallway. One second his specially made casual outfit was hanging there steadily, and the next second the clothes suddenly disappeared without any wind, as if an invisible hand was trying to take them down. The clothes shook a few times and then disappeared completely!

"This is already considered a paranormal event, isn't it?" Fifth sister Wang Mengtian gasped and lowered her voice, "Don't you believe me? I've encountered many strange and inexplicable things on film sets. Even now, various film crews still choose auspicious days and hold sacrificial ceremonies for their opening ceremonies."

Xiang Ninghua's expression was somewhat conflicted. "I'll go check if this video is possibly fake. Actually, there are many things that science can't explain, which is why I'm so obsessed with it."

If the video isn't fake... could this be related to the fake brother?

“When I was on a mission in a foreign country, I heard a true story.” Lin Yanran, the sixth sister, lowered her voice. “I met the person involved, and I felt that there was indeed something unusual about it.”

At the time, I was collecting information about the target when I overheard someone saying that his landlady was a spirit who had returned from the dead.

The old lady died of a serious illness when she was eighty years old. According to custom, her body was kept at home. Unexpectedly, she came back to life the next day! She was completely cured of her illness, but everything about her changed except for her original appearance, including her accent and behavior.

According to the old lady, she grew up on the east coast.

After being robbed and murdered by villains at the age of 65, he wandered around as a ghost. Later, he saw this body and felt that it was still usable, so he crawled into it.

The authorities also conducted an investigation, and the newspapers published this sensational news. The area described by the old woman did indeed have an old woman who had died many years ago, and she could even recognize the people in the village and tell them many things that the old woman had experienced.

The old woman who was resurrected never left her area in her entire life.

Since her soul was swapped, she didn't even recognize her own son anymore. Her way of speaking, her gait, everything about her was exactly the same as the old woman from the East Coast!

Xiang Ninghua tilted her head and thought, "In that case, it feels more like she's had a mechanical core replaced, so her memories and everything else have been replaced. Her body is just a shell that she can drive."

My brother's situation seems more complicated; the imposter clearly knows something about us.

"Suppose our brother still has the same body but a different core, where did his soul go?"

"Will I be swallowed up?" Wang Mengtian was so frightened that she covered her cherry-like mouth with both hands. "I got a script before, which was about a time-travel story. A man from the modern era travels into the body of an ancient prince and then uses his modern knowledge to seize power and build a country."

In the script, I fall in love with the protagonist after he travels through time. Before he dies, he tells me the truth and then tells me how to travel through time so that I can find him in the modern world.

That's roughly the story. The male protagonist in the script is someone who has the memories of the original owner of the body.

After the director gave me the script, I also read the original novel. When the author wrote about the protagonist transmigrating and fighting for control of the original body, he gradually devoured the other's soul!

Ye Zhi Qiu frowned slightly. "Don't scare yourself. Have you forgotten what your brother taught us? When faced with a situation, analyze calmly, make bold guesses, verify carefully, and act decisively. Now we need to verify. I think I'll have Sixth Sister try. A little provocation might make the other side reveal more clues."

"Then I'll have to have a proper spar with 'brother' as usual!" Lin Yanran stretched her hands, her smile turning wicked.

Bai Wei whispered, "I have a friend who is extremely popular in high-level circles; his nickname is 'Flower Half-Immortal.'"

He was different from those fortune tellers who studied Yin and Yang and the Five Elements to calculate fate. It is said that he had the ability to see things that others could not see since he was a child. I studied traditional Chinese medicine and researched the Five Elements more, so I didn't have much interaction with him.

But with such a strange situation in my brother's bedroom, shouldn't we ask him to come and take a look? Maybe he can discover something we can't see?"

The second sister, Leng Yueshuang, immediately made the decision, "Then what are we waiting for? Quickly contact him and find out where he is, and I'll send a private jet to pick him up right away! As long as he's not a con artist and can actually give us some information, I'll give him whatever money he asks for!"

While Bai Wei was calling Hua Banxian, Jiang Chen sat on the sofa in the living room watching Yan Jiangchen cross his legs, swinging his slippers, trying to imitate his tone but unable to hide his sleazy manner as he called Liu Qingmei.

"It's just a doctoral entrance exam. My Qingmei is so smart, how could she not pass? Today is my birthday, I'll be so sad if you don't come..."

If looks could kill, the little white cat would have killed the protagonist Yan Jiangchen countless times over.

Jiang Chen listened calmly to his greasy phone call, occasionally flashing a faint smile. Contacting a psychology expert preparing for doctoral entrance exams with that tone and manner—are you sure you're not just asking for trouble?

Chapter Eighteen: The Rules of the Manor Will Change

It seems that the protagonist had a very ordinary background before he transmigrated; at least he was not highly educated and had little experience.

He likely gets most of his information from the internet.

Otherwise, it's impossible for them not to know the weight of the word "psychology".

Real psychology experts are not the kind of people who fool others online. They can discover things that ordinary people cannot by looking at the subtle details of their tone of voice, word choice, body language, and responses.

Even the butler, who stood at the door and couldn't help but frown slightly upon seeing this scene, could see something was amiss. Would Liu Qingmei fall for it so easily? What a joke!

Faced with a group of sisters and staff whose average IQ is above average, even if the protagonist's halo lowers their IQ, it can only bring them down to the level of ordinary people. A dozen elites are more than enough to deal with him.

"Sir, you haven't prepared breakfast for the ladies yet." The assistant in charge of daily management walked up to him and reminded him, "Usually you would have breakfast ready by this time, and the ladies should be coming downstairs soon."

The little white cat watched as the protagonist Yan Jiangchen's face quickly turned liver-colored, then laughed so hard it doubled over, clapping its fluffy little paws and exclaiming, "Host, I finally understand why you were so strict in selecting staff back then! You're such a helpful wingman!"

He's already a billionaire with hundreds of billions, and he still has to cook for himself?

Yan Jiangchen cursed inwardly whether the original owner of this body was mentally ill.

He thought about it carefully and sure enough, that guy made all sorts of different dishes for every meal, and his cooking skills seemed pretty good. His sisters all loved eating his cooking.

This is fucking painful!

Yan Jiangchen didn't want to cook. After all, he had never set foot in the kitchen in his previous life for twenty-four years, and he had never even made fried rice with eggs by himself.

If you're reborn as a billionaire, you should enjoy life in all sorts of ways. Why should you spend all your time busy in the kitchen?

Besides, even after receiving the memories, all I would know is the steps involved in the other person's cooking process.

Do you think you can watch a chef's cooking video online and expect to make the exact same dish on your first try? Absolutely not!

Yan Jiangchen was very self-aware; he didn't have the patience or the ability.

Rather than clumsily cooking and giving myself away, I'd rather use my overwhelming position to make a decision—the rules of this manor are going to change.

"Listen, now go buy breakfast according to the ladies' preferred tastes." Yan Jiangchen cleared her throat and tried to imitate the original owner's indifferent tone, saying, "I'm tired and don't want to cook."

Today is my birthday again, how can I let the birthday person work hard in the kitchen?

I selected a few restaurants that suited my taste and booked all the dishes for lunch and dinner in advance.

Oh, and also, arrange to recruit a few more chefs, specializing in all major cuisines. As long as their skills are up to par, salary and benefits won't be a problem.

The assistant paused slightly upon hearing this, and tentatively asked, "Sir, you've always been against ordering food from restaurants, saying it doesn't feel like home. The ladies have traveled a long way back just to taste your cooking and experience the warmth of home."

I brought the recipes you promised them yesterday; isn't it a bit inappropriate to just order food directly?

"Who do you think is in charge in this family?" Yan Jiangchen's face showed impatience, and her eyes also revealed a hint of displeasure as she looked at the other person. "You just take the money and do your job. It's none of your business how I decide, understand?"

"Understood, sir. I'll arrange it right away." The assistant replied and pushed open the door to leave. He made eye contact with the butler at the door, and both of them could see the deep doubt in each other's eyes.

The butler shrugged, shook his head at him, and waved his finger.

The assistant said he understood, and would go out to arrange for someone to handle the matter first, and then call the young lady directly to report the situation.

At the same time, Liu Qingmei hung up the phone and immediately opened the communication app on her phone. She found that she had been added to a small group chat full of her younger sisters. She typed directly and asked, "Are you all home? Do you think your brother is acting a little strange?"

Leng Yueshuang: "How did you know, sister-in-law? My brother might have been switched at birth. We're investigating. Don't fall for his tricks!"