Chapter 22: Tek Tech

Qin Qianyu had no idea the effect her simple smile was having on the wolf. She was sitting at her desk doing revisions with books about plant mechanics and various strand testing techniques.

At the same time she had made notes on the formulas and other problems that Xiaoling had sent by request of her father.

Qin Qianyu thought about it for a while. With her mother two months pregnant, the funds in the household will be cut in half when it's closer to her due date.

She thought about how to earn some cash in the interim before the due date.

If she can get paid to do some calculation competitions not only will she be soaking up more knowledge she'd be able to provide financially to her family also.

She also had her medicine that she made, she could find a way to market it and on sell to the masses so that her family didn't have to work themselves, especially since they've both been working to the bone. Once she starts to see some dividends it would open the door to other opportunities and avenues for everyone to benefit.

Qin Qianyu took a brake from the books and conducted a property search in the capital.

Because of Ouyang Zihan's current condition, Qin Qianyu started looking for property to buy in the capital. There was one she had her eye on, it was around 500 square meters, it had a main house with 3 levels, which was enough for her, her parents and granny Liu. A servant quarters which she planned to convert into a study come lab, a pool house which she would like to convert into a courtyard for her master and best of all its fully self contained so the ultimate security system, Bai Saan, could live with them also.

After some calculations she estimated that she would need at least 20 Million yuan to cover all the expenses, which also included several high end laboratory equipment and full renovations.

If she could get at least a quarter of that from on selling information, the she was confident that she'd get the rest from her medicine and her newly acquired TCM skills while parading as the Phantom Fox, Healer extraordinaire.

She put it out in the dark web that she was in the area looking for work, and highlighted her skill set for healing under her Phantom Fox account.

After doing as much and leaving her details for contact, she made another account and called it in4mer.

Qin Qianyu would use this handle whenever brokering information.

Under the new pseudonym, she reached out and contacted certain offices and firms she remembered that had gone through some troubles in her former life regarding trade secrets.

Out of the seven companies she had sent a message to, two replied immediately.

She was extremely happy with the two, they will both serve a greater purpose in her own grand schemes later down the track.

One of the two was TEK Tech, it was a small start up that looked normal on the surface but held an incredible secret.

The other one, it just happened to be a real treasure also aptly named Treasure.

A restaurant catered to those that prefer a more discrete meeting spot.

She had hinted to knowing insider information regarding key personnel that have forgone their morals for cash incentives among other things, from rivals and such.

She would "kindly" give them the information she had on them for a small fee and benefits of course.

After a transaction of faith was sent to her ghost bank account she sent them all the relevant information along with sufficient evidence.

As for the others, she only gave it a shot, she wasn't really hoping for any success with the other 5 but she cast the net anyway and hooked the two she deemed important.

So since they didn't respond she blacklisted them from further contact.

Qin Qianyu wouldn't bother how they dealt with their issues. She would leave them to their own devices.

Firstly, Qin Qianyu sent Treasure information regarding a breach in their system and offered a fix. Then she spoke of a particular group that was coming through at a certain date and time for their services and how a certain employee of theirs had struck a deal to place devices for a rival party.

"Miss, can we really trust this persons intel? It's awfully suspicious."

"It's because that it's suspicious that I'm not taking any chances."

A woman sitting behind a large desk says as she readjusted her evening dress.

She cupped her chin and pressed a button on her landline. After it was picked up she asked how the technical staff were going.

The person that answered was really excited. The fix that Qin Qianyu recommended came in handy and worked a treat. This fix closed up many loopholes within the system itself and improved it immensely.

"Call in Astro, tell him to shadow this person. He knows what to do to those that think they can overstep their boundaries."

"Yes Miss, I'll do it now."

The man was surprised when he heard the feedback from the technical staff. He had no doubt about the rest of the information now.

Qin Qianyu sent TEK Tech all the information about a founding member of TEK Tech, Lu Chengyi.

It turned out that he had been faking reports, manipulating the core data on several projects in sabotage, while at the same time selling off company resources and sensitive intel to their competitors which included their design for a new special type of sensor.

Qin Qianyu only knew this because in her former life, Lu Chenyi had a great relationship with Song Zhaoge because Lu Chengyi had sold most of those resources, contracts and connections and most importantly the tech that hadn't been patented yet to the Song Family which helped them out immensely.

Latter, when Song Zhaoge brought Lu Chengyi on board as a director, she heard all about the things he'd done from his own mouth while drunk.

In her former life, when the entire affair came to light, it was a scramble for TEK Tech to try stabilise themselves.

They just managed to hold on long enough

and after many others had laid down all the leg work to acquire a working relationship with other companies it was already too late.

Lu Chengyi's betrayal only caused a minor stir on the news, the entire thing was touted by the media as a few inexperienced young people not knowing how to actually do business.

There was no evidence against Lu Chengyi for the company to use, he got off scott free while the other co-owners and founders took full blame and responsibility.

"When you drag your enemy down, you have to drag them through the mud also, you keep dragging till even their ghost becomes afraid of themselves."

This was Song Zhaoge's motto, and a part of the way he operated.

Qin Qianyu couldn't believe that she actually thought that he, along with that phrase made Song Zhaoge heroic in her eyes.

She had no idea then that she was cheering for the villain all this time.

"Blindly loving someone is truly dangerous!"

She thought to herself when that thought entered Qin Qianyu's mind.

At that time she saw Song Zhaoge's victory as a victory for the both of them because now they had now secured the means to conduct research into the strain she had discovered.

The small start up eventually went bust, the other co founders found themselves riddled in overwhelming debt, and the sensor they had been working on was made by a competitor of theirs which the Song family had sufficiently invested heavily in. Soon the sensor went on to be used worldwide in various industries related to or within the scientific community.

It was also thanks to this sensor that Qin Qianyu discovered the RTP Strain, a hidden strand within the DNA of a certain aquatic plant.

However, now that Qin Qianyu has been thrown into the mix, Lu Chengyi won't get the chance to ever meet Song Zhaoge.

His future looked very bleak now and so did the the future of the Song family and Song Zhaoge himself.

She provided enough information to have Lu Chenyi sentenced to many years in prison for his role and dodgy affairs.

When Qin Qianyu sent all the information about Lu Chengyi, the other co founders had a closed emergency meeting and after going through, checking and double checking they soon validated all of the evidence that Qin Qianyu had collected.

"Brother Mu, can we really trust this person and the information they've shared?"

"Well we've already paid an honesty fee for it and we'll only know once we've verified all the accusations made, but, so far it's looking true, Chengyi's been playing us all for fools, I don't need to tell you that if we didn't have this person helping us the consequences we'd all face would truly be dyer."

Everyone in the room nodded knowingly then another young man spoke up,

"But it's still suspicious, could it all be a ploy wrapped up within another ploy?"

"Let's just deal with this mess first alright, I have a feeling we'll be hearing more from this person in the future so let's worry about that when that time comes, until then, let's all be vigilant in all our dealings from now onwards."

The co founders came to a quick decision and immediately set out to freeze all Lu Chengyi's accounts he was in charge of, locked him out of all the companies systems and contacted their lawyers while also stopping all of the patents that Lu Chengyi had a hand in to date.

Those that violated the terms of the contract were all sent letters from the lawyers requiring them to pay the compensation for the breach.

Over the weekend the Police arrested and charged Lu Chengyi on espionage charges among other things.

[Thank you for helping us with Lu Chengyi, because of that we were able to stop him in time before he really did some unrepairable damage to us. He have doubled the amount you had originally asked for. Thank you once again.]

Qin Qianyu read it and shook her head. She returned half the payment immediately.

[No need for the extra payment, I'll just take the initial agreed amount, the reason being you'll definitely need it to continue research into the Tek Sensor.]

Qin Qianyu messaged back. She then added a list of companies that they could maybe look into seeing that all of the companies they had worked hard on working with were bribed by Lu Chengyi in the end to make trouble for the start up.

She also expressed her intention to invest in the sensor and company at a later date which was why she only asked for a small amount in return for the information about Lu Chenyi.

The other cofounders read this and became aware that this saviour of theirs, although worrying and mysterious, had faith in and an interest in the sensor they were developing.

Their thoughts were further solidified when they saw the list of partner companies that she had sent them.

They too wanted to work with most of these companies, however, they felt that their little outfit wouldn't be noticed by them.

Qin Qianyu hinted for them to wait a little while longer before making a pitch to them, she told them to clean up properly as Lu Chengyi had a lot of support within TEK Tech so they best be on guard and fully clean house before going further.

"Phew! What a busy evening, time to sleep."

For the next week, she settled into her routine. Breathing exercise, training, cuddles with Bai Saan, school, home, study, sleep and repeat.

The news feeds were all focused on an ex executive from a small tech firm Lu Chengyi.

The reason it stayed in the news so long was because of the other people involved with his actions.

Him being caught red handed had implicated many others from bigger firms and the list kept growing and growing each day with extra charges laid on not only him but also all the others involved.

During this time, the other Cofounders were cooperative with the police and prosecution's requests as they could use this to ferret out any of Lu Chengyi's cohorts still hiding in the company.

Closer to the end of the week Tek Tech had fully cleaned house and were able to start anew and get down to business.

One evening, the three people in Qin Qianyu's household went to bed early.

Qin Qianyu checked her accounts and found a message looking for her medical expertise.

She gave them the details of her conditions which included how the transaction will work and that the client paid whatever they thought the treatment was worth.

She did it this way because if it was something difficult to diagnose and eventually cure, and she only charged a set amount she'd be short changing herself and making a loss.

The client agreed and asked for her to come right away because the matter was urgent.

Qin Qianyu thought for a moment as long as she's back early so she wouldn't miss the next school day it should be fine.

The client sent an address for her to meet and said that a driver would pick her up.