After staying up all night with everyone, Mai Xiaoshu was so tired that he fell asleep on his desk. He was awakened by the sound of the alarm on his mobile phone in the early morning.
At this time, colleagues arrived in the office one after another. Qian Lulu was surprised to see Mai Xiaoshu's sleepy appearance, but she didn't care too much. Instead, she walked up to Mai Xiaoshu and gossiped, "Do you know that the Shiku Technology software couldn't be opened last night? I thought the system crashed. I saved a lot of selfies on it and almost thought I couldn't find them back !"
"Really?" Mai Xiaoshu agreed dazedly. At this time, she glanced at her phone and shouted, "It's almost nine o'clock! I have classes in the morning! Let's not talk anymore. I'm going to school first!"
She picked up her schoolbag and ran to school. Her phone kept ringing along the way. It was a classmate complaining in the Shiku Technology group:
"Shiku Technology was hacked last night. I can't open it no matter how hard I try!"
"Isn't it known as the most secure system in the world? Fortunately, I didn't post the nude photos on it. If they were stolen by hackers, I would be too ashamed to go home and see my parents!"
"What 'naked photos' are there upstairs? Send them to everyone for their appreciation!"
"You frivolous people, the homeroom teacher is also in the group, be careful what you say."
"Who's calling me?"
The class teacher, Lao Wang, suddenly spoke up and everyone’s discussion stopped.
It seems that the news of the hacking of Shiku Technology has spread all over the Internet. Now that it has caused a lot of uproar, the hackers will probably hide for a while.
Although he finally arrived at school on time, Mai Xiaoshu was busy reading news on Shiku Technology during class and had no intention of listening to the lecture.
Just as her heart was beating fast following the comments, her phone started vibrating. Fortunately, she had switched it to vibrate mode so the teacher didn't notice. But to her surprise, the caller was actually An Chengye.
She just pressed the answer button and wanted to hide under the table and whisper to him that it was inconvenient for her to answer the phone during class. However, she didn't expect that the noise she made when she squatted down was too loud and she was noticed by the teacher at the podium.
"Mai Xiaoshu, please answer this question!"
When the teacher suddenly called him to answer a question, Mai Xiaoshu seemed flustered: "Well... the answer is..."
"What is it?"
"The answer is leaves, shoots, and vines! Chimpanzees love to eat these!"
"What a mess! It's irrelevant. This is not a biology class. I'm asking you how to spell chimpanzee in English!" The English teacher at the podium pushed his glasses and looked at her angrily.
"What are you looking at? You've been making noises with your head down for the whole morning!" At this time, the English teacher walked up to her angrily and took out a mobile phone from her drawer. The three big words "An Chengye" were clearly displayed on the screen.
"Hello, who are you?" Before Mai Xiaoshu could stop her, the English teacher unexpectedly picked up the phone and yelled into it.
"Who are you?" Hearing a male voice, An Chengye on the other end of the phone asked sternly.
"I'm her teacher! Mai Xiaoshu is in class. What's so urgent that I have to call her during class?"
An Chengye didn't respond. The English teacher looked at the phone screen showing the call ended in silence and said rudely, "An Chengye? Is he your boyfriend? You are so rude. You hung up before I could finish my sentence!"
"No, not my boyfriend!" Mai Xiaoshu explained hurriedly.
But her explanation was obviously ineffective. The classmates around her were in an uproar and started to discuss: "Is An Chengye the An Chengye we know? How could he know Mai Xiaoshu?"
Knowing that further explanation would only make things worse, Mai Xiaoshu sat down awkwardly. However, once the gossip started, it spread uncontrollably throughout the campus.
When school was over, Mai Xiaoshu became the focus of discussion as she walked through the campus: "She is An Chengye's girlfriend, right?"
"I heard that An Chengye called her during class to talk about love, but was intercepted by the strictest and most terrifying English teacher in their grade. The teacher and An Chengye had a quarrel on the phone because of her!"
Hearing the girl in front of her describing the scene vividly to the girl next to her, as if she was there, Mai Xiaoshu quickly stepped forward to explain to them: "It's not what you said! It's a misunderstanding!"
"Ah!!!" When the two girls saw the person involved in the gossip suddenly appear in front of them, they were so scared that they threw the books up and ran away like the wind.
"Oh!" Realizing that he couldn't explain it clearly on his own, Mai Xiaoshu walked to the laboratory with a sigh.
When he looked up again, he saw the other protagonist of the gossip incident - An Chengye with panda eyes.
She was about to say hello, but An Chengye said anxiously: "Take me to your house!"
"Ah?" "Miyamaru Tomo is missing!" Seeing Mai Xiaoshu's confused expression, An Chengye grabbed her and walked towards the elevator, "Take me to your house first, and explain on the way!"
"What? You said that Miyamaru Satoshi might be the traitor who hacked the system last night?" Mai Xiaoshu was sitting in the co-pilot seat and listened to him express his suspicions.
Thinking of Miyamaru Tomo's panicked expression when he went to see him last night, Mai Xiaoshu felt a little uneasy.
An Chengye added as he drove: "I can't tell yet, but what is certain is that, given the hacker's familiarity with system vulnerabilities, he must be someone close to me. He was absent from work without asking for leave during such a sensitive period, so I can't help but be suspicious. When I see him later, I will confront him face to face and will never wrongly accuse a good person!"
The car was speeding on the road, and they soon stopped in front of an old residential building. Because the building was not high, there was no elevator, so the two had to climb up to the 5th floor by stairs.
After reaching the 5th floor, An Chengye walked straight to Door 503 where Miyamaru Tomo was.
"Wait me a moment……"
Mai Xiaoshu followed him panting. Before she could recover from the shock, she heard An Chengye, who was standing in front of Miyamaru Chi's house with his back to her, sneer: "It's him!"
"What's wrong?" Mai Xiaoshu was blocked by his body and couldn't see what was going on inside the door. When she walked to the door and looked inside through the gap, she was surprised to find that Miyamaru Tomo's house was empty!
"Where...where did he go?" Mai Xiaoshu was shocked.
Countless possibilities popped up in Mai Xiaoshu's mind. Although she had known him for a short time, Miyamaru Tomo was the first person in the laboratory to show kindness to her. They and other colleagues in the company had experienced so many twists and turns, and such touching and passionate scenes were still lingering in her mind. How could he be a traitor!
"No, I'll try calling him. Maybe he has his own reasons. The Miyamaru Satoshi I know wouldn't do such a thing!" She took out her cell phone tremblingly and searched for Miyamaru Satoshi's contact number.
But in a flash, her hand was held by An Chengye. He looked at her with red eyes and said word by word: "At this time, you are still speaking for him. Do you have any brains?"
"I believe he didn't mean it. Let me give him a try. Believe me!" She didn't care about the pain in her arm that he was holding. She knew he was disappointed with everything in front of him, but Gongwan Zhi was her friend. She hoped that all this was just a misunderstanding. As she said this, her tears could not be controlled and fell. "Please believe me once."
"Huh..." An Chengye snorted coldly. She felt the disappointment in his eyes. He looked at her steadily without saying anything. He just let go of her hand, turned around and disappeared around the corner.