Chapter 13: A Direct Senior Brother?!
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Yet Xu Ruyin, who was always said by the senior students to be conducting experiments, had in fact spent nearly all her time in the laboratory playing games!
The surveillance footage clearly showed her phone held horizontally, its screen filled with a brightly colored game.
Almost every time, before her supervisor and the senior students arrived at the laboratory, Xu Ruyin would send Lin Qiongqiong away, then put on an act and pretend to conduct experiments for a while.
As soon as they left, she would pick up her phone and start playing again.
And Cheng Ziyu, who claimed to have helped Xu Ruyin record the data from beginning to end, had actually stayed by Lin Qiongqiong’s side the entire time, helping her record data!
“This can’t be…”
Xu Ruyin stared in disbelief.
This footage was from a month ago. How could Lin Qiongqiong possibly have recovered it?
Besides, how could a country bumpkin like her possibly know anything about hacking?
Cheng Ziyu was equally horrified. He had been with Lin Qiongqiong for so long, yet he had never known she possessed such a skill!
Zhao Hanyang was also stunned. So everything Lin Qiongqiong had said before was true? Had he really wronged her? Had Xu Ruyin framed her?
The senior students all felt as though they had been deceived terribly.
“Xu Ruyin, you never conducted experiments at all? Then where did your data and papers come from?”
“We trusted you so completely! It turns out you were putting on a show every time!”
Xu Ruyin still tried to argue. “That’s not how it was…”
At that moment, the projection changed again.
The surveillance videos disappeared, replaced by a record of the chat between Xu Ruyin and Cheng Ziyu.
Cheng Ziyu: “Ruyin, these are the raw data and paper from Lin Qiongqiong’s experiment. Make some changes and publish them first.”
Xu Ruyin: “Thank you for your hard work, Senior Brother Cheng!”
Cheng Ziyu: “It’s no trouble! After all, you’re my real girlfriend. All I want now is to be with you openly. Having to stay with Lin Qiongqiong every day and pretend to like her makes me feel sick. She even wanted to get a room with me, yet refused to spend any money. She’s so materialistic, just like someone who sells herself! But Ruyin, I’ll definitely remain faithful to you. I won’t even touch her hand!”
Lin Qiongqiong gave a cold laugh as she read their messages.
Cheng Ziyu truly had no shame.
It had clearly been him who wanted to get a room with her back then. He had even suggested splitting the cost. She had rejected him on the grounds that she did not accept premarital relations, yet he had taken it as proof that she was simply too stingy to go out with him.
She had never expected him to turn around and disparage her to Xu Ruyin in order to prove his loyalty.
Cheng Ziyu glared furiously at Lin Qiongqiong. “You’re violating my privacy!”
Lin Qiongqiong did not flinch. “So you admit that all of this is true?”
Cheng Ziyu was instantly rendered speechless. Only afterward did he recover and stammer, “N-no! None of this is real! It’s all fabricated! Slander and false accusations!”
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However, the irrefutable evidence was right before everyone’s eyes. No matter how he argued, he could not shake the truth.
The senior students looked at Xu Ruyin and Cheng Ziyu differently now, their eyes filled with fury and contempt.
“Lin Qiongqiong was right to curse you! You’re a pair of shameless bastards!”
“Disgusting! Have you no shame?”
Zhao Hanyang also stared at the two of them with a gloomy expression. “How dare you deceive me?”
He felt that the pair had made him lose face in front of all the faculty members in the academy that day. And as for Lin Qiongqiong—if she had been able to uncover the evidence, why had she not dealt with it privately? Why insist on making so many teachers and students witness his humiliation?
Furious, Zhao Hanyang flung back his sleeve and left.
The senior students, meanwhile, bowed to Lin Qiongqiong in remorse.
“Junior Sister, we’re sorry. We were deceived too.”
Lin Qiongqiong glanced at them without the slightest intention of forgiving them. “Now, can you get out of my supervisor’s laboratory?”
Luo Licheng, Wei Haochen, and the others flushed crimson, feeling both embarrassed and resentful.
“Junior Sister, we’ve already apologized. What more do you want? Xu Ruyin and Cheng Ziyu deceived us too. We’re victims as well!”
“Exactly. I was even thinking of inviting you back. Why are you being so hostile? Don’t think you’re so impressive just because you have a little money now.”
“You ought to reflect on yourself too. Why did Xu Ruyin and Cheng Ziyu target you instead of anyone else…?”
Hearing them once again resort to blaming the victim, Lin Qiongqiong curled the corner of her mouth.
Gu Xizhu coldly said, “Get out.”
Luo Licheng and the others had no choice but to leave.
Yet the moment they stepped outside, they saw someone.
“Professor Ye! What brings you here?”
Standing in the corridor was a young man wearing headphones and black-rimmed glasses, a lollipop between his lips.
He looked carefree and undisciplined, but he was Ye Luochuan, a renowned computer prodigy who had graduated from Tsinghua University, a key technical expert at the Qin Group, and an honorary professor at Jiangcheng University’s School of Computer Science.
They had seen Ye Luochuan when they accompanied Zhao Hanyang to the Qin Group.
Even Zhao Hanyang treated him with great respect and did not dare slight him merely because of his youth.
Ye Luochuan removed the lollipop from his mouth and raised his brows as he looked past them. “I’m here to see an old friend.”
Luo Licheng immediately said, “Professor Ye, are you looking for our supervisor? I can take you to his laboratory.”
“Your supervisor? Who?”
Luo Licheng had assumed Ye Luochuan remembered him, and he felt somewhat disappointed. “My supervisor is Professor Zhao Hanyang.”
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A hint of impatience appeared in Ye Luochuan’s refined features. “Oh. Never heard of him.”
Luo Licheng stood frozen in place.
Never heard of him?!
“Our supervisor has a partnership with the Qin Group…”
However, Ye Luochuan did not pay the slightest attention to what he was saying. He walked straight toward Gu Xizhu instead.
Looking the handsome man in the white lab coat up and down, he gave a soft tut. “Professor Gu, how did you end up like this after leaving the Imperial Capital? When did you come to Jiangcheng? You didn’t even tell me.”
Gu Xizhu merely regarded him with an indifferent expression. “There’s nothing I need you for anymore. Go back wherever you came from.”
Ye Luochuan gave another soft tut. “We were teacher and student once, at least. You’re being awfully heartless, Professor.”
His gaze shifted to Lin Qiongqiong beside Gu Xizhu, and his brows lifted slightly. “This is our junior sister, right?”
Lin Qiongqiong glanced at Gu Xizhu, then hesitantly addressed the young man. “Senior Brother?”
Luo Licheng, Wei Haochen, and the others beside them were utterly shattered.
Senior Brother?!
Ye Luochuan was actually Gu Xizhu’s student—and Lin Qiongqiong’s direct senior!
In an instant, they felt as though they had been reduced to dust beneath his feet.
“Our little junior sister has excellent judgment.”
Ye Luochuan pulled a lollipop from his pocket and handed it to her. When she accepted it, he leaned closer and lowered his voice, looking as though he were about to impart some grave secret.
“Little junior sister, chemistry is a dead-end pit. Run while you can!”
Lin Qiongqiong: “…”
Ye Luochuan continued, “I took a look just now. You have a real talent for computer science. Forget this miserable graduate program. Transfer directly to Jiangcheng University and let’s conquer both the legitimate and underworld sides together! Being a hacker is so much cooler!”
“Ye Luochuan.”
Gu Xizhu’s voice drifted over, icy and cool.
Ye Luochuan pushed Lin Qiongqiong forward.
Lin Qiongqiong: “…”
Gu Xizhu said coolly, “Qiongqiong’s computer skills are better than yours. Unlike you, she genuinely loves chemistry.”
Ye Luochuan sighed. “With a better future right in front of her, yet still stubbornly clinging to chemistry—she must truly love it.”
Lin Qiongqiong was too embarrassed to admit that she had entered the program through academic reassignment. She was even more embarrassed to say that, before this, she had not even passed the Level Two Computer Examination.
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