Chapter 6: Shunned

The black luxury car moved away leaving Li Chen and Murong Mei to deal with the newcomer.

The driver handed Lu Mingyu a device,

"I recorded the entire show Eldest Miss."

"Mhm, let's go to Century, I'm feeling a little peckish."

"Yes Miss,"

Lu Mingyu sent the video to three seperate parties and returned the phone to her purse. A crooked smile formed on her lips but then they started to quiver as a slow stream of tears rolled down both her cheeks catching the at the corners of her mouth.

They were salty and bitter to the taste.

The driver saw this and squeezed the steering wheel tight. He knew no one in the world liked being betrayed especially when it came to the matters of the heart.

"Heartless prick!"

At first he had wondered why the Miss chose Century to have a meal seeing that it was an hour drive away but after seeing the tears he knew it was all because she wanted time to collect her thoughts and readjust her emotions and mindset.

While the car barrelled down the road three phones alerted to receiving messages, they belong to Father Li, Father Lu, and Mingxi.

They all watched the video and the show that transpired, three heads exploded at roughly the same time.

For Li Chen's father, Father Li, he had been hoping for a Heqin, a marriage alliance with the Lu's as that would boost and aid his own businesses and ventures.

For Father Lu, he just wanted the best for his daughter, he didn't care about that persons standing within society as long as he was true of heart towards his daughter, as long as the man in Mingyu's life treated her right, that was all that mattered to him.

As for Lu Mingxi, she was of the same line of thoughts as her father. However because of a skank named Murong Mei these dreams would never be realised.

Qin Qianyu had no idea what had transpired out front the studio, nor did she know of the noise and mess inside the schools forum regarding her shopping at a "secondhand" store. She was oblivious to it all.

Grandpa Wú and Qin Qianyu arrived at the front of a fancy restaurant. Qin Qianyu's lips twitched as she looked inside the restaurant then backdown at her "secondhand" dress,

"Grandpa Wú, I don't think I'm dressed suitably for a place like this, besides the portions would probably be small being a fancy restaurant and all. Come with me, I'll take you to one of my favourite places, we'll definitely get our money's worth there."

With that said Qin Qianyu took grandpa Wú by the hand and led him down several back alleys till they arrived at a bunch of rundown looking stores.

The fowl stench of old foods, garbage and animal excretions wafted through the air.

Grandpa Wú was trying his hardest not to gag from the smell permeating through the air. His saving grace came as he was then pulled into a shabby building by his disciple.

"Aunty Sun! I have money can you feed us your best!?"

A portly middle aged woman turned around at the two new visitors and a huge smile pushed her chubby cheeks up making her eyes squint into two crescent moons.

"Xiaoyu! Hehe, since you have money how about paying your tab first!"

"Tab! What tab!?"

"Here! This tab!"

Aunty Sun opened up a small booklet she fished out from under her left side boob flap unashamedly.

Qin Qianyu went in for a closer look,

"Aunty! how could I even eat 2500 yuan worth of food in one sitting!? Somethings wrong here. If I had done that, then I'd surpass even you in size, three times over!"

"Bah! Nonsense! I even saved the security video from this day just in case."

Aunty Sun states as she taps the entry in her pocket book.

"When we're bored we even play it back on the big screen over there!"

Grandpa Wú, Qin Qianyu and Aunty Sun all look towards the big screen and soon the screen flickered on and the security feed started showing Qin Qianyu going to town on a table filled with food.

The video had been edited at 2.5 speed a whole 45 minutes cut down to just a few minutes of her spent chowing down the entire table.

Grandpa Wú looked at his disciple in utter shame and undisguised disgust,

"You must have expelled plenty of impurities after that session!"

" . . . "

The screen turn off and Qin Qianyu paid her overdue balance then paid for the works.

5000 yuan worth of food for the two of them.

After 15 minutes Aunty Sun brought out the first few dishes. Qin Qianyu started licking her lips in anticipation.

"Master Wú, please,"

Qin Qianyu gestured for grandpa Wú to start off the meal. Her hands that sat on her lap started becoming impatient as all her fingers started tapping rhythmically.

Grandpa Wú glanced at his disciple then took his chopsticks and started eating, as soon as he swallowed, Qin Qianyu already had her chopsticks in hand and ate three big bites.

An hour and a half later the pair had managed to eat their fill.

"How about it, it's so good right Grandpa Wú!?"

"Mhm, very good!"

"Hehe, I knew you'd love it,"

The pair chatted for the longest time, Aunty Sun joined them too until a group on diners entered the shabby eatery.

Grandpa Wú and Qin Qianyu bade their farewells to Aunty Sun and Qin Qianyu led Grandpa Wú back to the studio.

"Grandpa Wú, I still have things to do so I'll see you tomorrow morning."

"Mhm, alright, don't forget to do the breathing exercise in the morning. You can do it at home before coming over."

"Alright, I won't forget."

"Mhm, Good girl!"

Qin Qianyu left grandpa Wú at the studio then made her way towards Neon Alley.

This place was were anything electronic could be found and bought. What Qin Qianyu was looking for and wanted was to rebuild her laptop from her former life.

Although some of the hardware she needed won't be created for a long time yet, she could get a head start now and future proof the laptop first getting it ready for when the time came.

After a few hours she had found most of what was available in this time period that she could use to do the necessary upgrades.

She also brought other miscellaneous components. These will be used for other projects and builds she had up her sleeve.

It was late in the evening as Qin Qianyu happily made her way home. Suddenly her phone started ringing.

"Dad? . . "

"Oh Yu'er, were are you right now?"

"I'm on my way home, do you need me to pick up something for you?"

"Ah no, it's not that, it's, I'm at the police station."

"What! What happened are you and mother alright?"

"Mhm, we're both fine, we're here because of you!"

Qin Haoran explained that they had come to the police station to lodge a complaint of slander on behalf of Qin Qianyu herself.

When Qin Qianyu heard her father say this, a frown formed as she tried to understand the situation.

He then told her about the post on the schools forum, and that the likely person behind it was Murong Meimei.

"Just head home for now we're just leaving the police station now. We'll talk more then."

"Ah, okay. See you soon then."

At home Qin Qianyu put away her buys from Neon alley and sat at the dining table phone in hand waiting for her parents to return and wondering what the post her father was talking about as when she checked there was nothing.

She realised that the OP must had removed the post. Qin Haoran and Ouyang Zihan returned with flustered expressions.

The trio sat around the dining table and Qin Haoran detailed what had happened and showed her screen shots taken of the post before it was deleted.

He told her what the police found and how they had been in that area where her photo was taken earlier for a fight involving three people.

One of those people were closely known to Qin Haoran and Ouyang Zihan. It was Meimei, they had no idea who the other two people were so it made it easy for them to draw a conclusion.

After mentioning Meimei, Qin Qianyu's phone started ringing. It was Murong Mei. Qin Qianyu answered the call putting it on speaker.

"Yuyu, can you let me sleep at your place for a few days? I had an argument with my family I don't want to go home."

"I don't think that's a good idea, you may end up in a post with the title"you know you're poor when you have to sleep at a poor persons home!" You don't want that right?"

"You . . You've seen the post!?"

"My parents did, they took screenshots of everything and filed a slandering case against the perpetrator,"

"Yuyu, I have nothing to do with that,"

"Meimei, did you know that the police were really surprised? Well, let me tell you, apparently that was the second time they were called to the same area and when they started investigating my parents case, it seemed from the time I had walked into that secondhand store to when I left there were only two people in the area that could have taken that photo, they also said that, two of those people where they reason they were called to that area on another unrelated incident. Apparently it was a fight between two men and a girl."

"Uh . . I . . I,"

"Save it Murong Mei, out of those two people I only knew one of them. I have no relationship whatsoever with the guy, but the girl, I knew her, I knew her well. Well at least I thought I did. Listen, I don't care why you've been doing all these things to me but no more."

" . . . "

"From now on stay away from me, I'll definitely do the same."

With that said Qin Qianyu hung up the call, she then blacklisted the number and associated weibo and other social media accounts.

"You bitch! Who the hell do you think you are!?"

Murong Meimei was seething in an alleyway close to Qin Qianyu's home. With a backpack in hand she left the area.

Because of what had happened she lost the support of both the two guys she had been bouncing between.

She went back to her own home, it was in a worst condition than the shops where Aunty Sun's restaurant is located.

Qin Qianyu's parents sat around the table with her. The atmosphere from listening to the call along with Qianyu was heavy and dark. When they heard about what Meimei had done again to Qianyu they were both angry at her.

That anger stemmed from how they had taken care of her on many occasions since both she and Qianyu were kids. They had never seen such a two faced person in their life.

"Yu'er,"

"I'm fine, I'm glad I got that off my chest,"

Qin Qianyu responded to her father to which he replied,

"Hmph! Just when you think you know someone."

"Mhm, go wash up and have a good rest."

"Mhm, these are for you, I brought them today from that shop those photos came from. But seeing that this place is a high end store there may have been a problem because I only paid 1400 yuan."

The couple looked at the bags of clothes Qin Qianyu had purchased.

"It's the thought that counts, take it back and see if there was a mistake when they rang up the clothing and calculated the cost."

"I'll do just that."

Qin Qianyu smiled a smile that wasn't a smile as she left for her room. The couple watched as the teen left the dining table. Worry still apparent in their eyes.

As Qin Qianyu closed the door she clenched her fist and her face twisted something awful.

"This is just the beginning Murong Mei, I'll let you experience a pain worst than death. The same as what you and Song Zhaoge gave me."

She sat down at her desk and with the newly bought laptop and components, Qin Qianyu started reconfiguring the machine.

She made the upgrades and made the necessary changes to the systems os.

She created a ghost drive only accessible to her hidden beneath the original system. This will be for all the research and other activities she had planned for the future.

After some light browsing on the web, Qin Qianyu turned in for the night.

"Another day, another step closer, I won't make you wait too long Zhaoge gege!"

The next morning Qin Qianyu got up at 5am and started her breathing exercise at the end of her session she quickly washed up changed into active wear packed a backpack with clean clothes and underwear, and the clothes she brought from secondhand and headed out the door.

She made her way to the joggers park close to the studio and started her laps. This time she was more alert than she was yesterday she had that sinking feeling that someone was watching her.

Qin Qianyu picked up her pace and found a group of joggers and slipped herself within their group. She broke away from them once they neared the exit.

After getting out of the park, Qin Qianyu made her way towards the studio. It was only once she entered and locked the door behind her did her heart settle as well as her nerves.

The feeling she had while at joggers park felt yuck to her, at first she thought that maybe she was being a little paranoid, but for some reason that yuck feeling didn't go away.

"Grandpa Wú are you awake?"

She went throughout the studio but found nothing. Qin Qianyu decided to go through the gifts she got from grandpa Wú since he wasn't around to teach her any fighting moves or techniques.