The oh so casual meeting

Lixue soon reached the Library. She entered and saw there was not a soul inside. She picked up her eyebrows in surprise but figured out that classes were starting so it was quite reasonable. She saw that there was a door inside the library. She was about to open it but soon realized Teacher Lan's words and knocked three times softly.

"Coming!" came a voice from inside. A man in bright pink shirt opened the door. Lixue squinted at the sight of him and recognized him as Shixie, the friend of Yue Tingfeng. He looked at Lixue and asked her to come inside. She nodded and followed him inside the office.

The office looked very simple and was furnished well. There was a table, on which a computer was placed and a leather chair behind the table. There was also a round table in the middle of the room which she thought was for eating and a sofa on which a man was lying down. He opened his eyes at the sound of the door opening and twitched his eyebrows a little at Lixue and then looked away. Lixue also looked away from him calmy. 'So this is the young master Yue. I don't recall myself being related to him. So why is he…' the thought went on in her mind. 'Forget it' she sighed and went forward with Shixie inside the room.

Shixie asked her to sit on a chair. "Student, haven't your classes already begun? Why are you here? Don't tell me you're bunking your classes? Even if we are not teachers we will still report you to the principal okay? You'd better think about the consequences." Shixie said mimicking the tone of a strict teacher.

Lixue did not reply and asked calmy,"Do you have a job?" Hearing this Tingfeng who was originally lying on the sofa sat up straight suddenly and looked at her. "Say that again." Lixue blinked her eyes and asked again, "Do you or do you not?"

"What's your name?" He asked trying to calm down. For a split second he felt like she was the voice that he had been searching forever. But then it still did not feel possible. For heaven's sake Linqin was renown throughout the world but the girl in front of him was a normal high school student. It just couldn't be possible. But there was a voice in his heart that said, 'what if it is possible.'

"Jin Lixue. I'm new in this school." She replied calmly.

"Oh. I see. What kind of work can you do?" Tingfeng asked again.

"Anything. As long as you pay me. I'm new to Luoyang too so I'm a bit short of money." Lixue answered half truly and half lying.

"Fine then. You can come to the library every day to sort the books on the shelf and then help us to clean up after your classes get over. You will be paid 1000 yuan per week. The price is negotiable. What do you think?"

"Thank you 1000 yuan a week is too high for just sorting and cleaning. But if you say so that's also fine. I'll start from today then."

Shixie looked over to the both of them surprised. He couldn't believe that young master Yue who did not like getting close to girls was hiring this small girl for a job that to in the library? Hahahaa the world is too confusing. Wasn't Butler Lu coming every evening to help them? Was he not doing his job good enough that Tingfeng had to hire someone else too?? Forget it he would never understand how the wires in his friend's brain were assembled. How could a normal person like him understand this robot?

Lixue still did not leave the office and kept looking around as if searching for something and Tingfeng too did not remove his eyes away from her. Lixue finally asked them, "Do you have the original copy of any novels in English?"

Shixie was about to refuse but Tingfeng spoke up, "Which one?"

Lixue replied, "Any one will do."

"Ok. Come and take it tomorrow."

Lixue thanked him and bowed a little towards Shixie and left.

Tingfeng looked at her leaving and felt something surging in his heart though he was not sure of what it was.

Shixie asked Tingfeng,"Since when did we have any original book?"

"We don't but there will be tomorrow."

"How?"

"You will search for it. And mind me I want it in front of me before the sun rises tomorrow." Tingfeng replied looking at him.

Shixie looked at his dearest friend in shock. "You!!!!! How dare you Tingfeng? Am I no longer your good friend?"

Shixie asked looking at him but Tingfeng's gaze already answered.

'Okay he was not. Dammit when we go back to Beijing i will surely tell the old man at home about you. Humph! let's see what you will be able to do then!' Shixie thought in his heart but still replied:

"Okay big boss as you say."

Tingfeng thought about something and asked Shixie to call Butler Lu and tell him not to come to help today. And you too go back home and help Butler Lu. He is old and needs someone to help him"

Shixie was shell-shocked at his friend's shameless behaviour. 'Just say so that you want to be alone with that girl, Lixue. Why act so shameless?'

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On the other hand when Lixue was going back to the classroom, she received a call from a number. She went to the playground bleachers instead of classroom and picked up the phone. "Hello" she said.

The person on the other side was stunned after hearing a girl's voice that too so beautiful. He suddenly downed on the fact that he had called wrongly so he cut the call. Lixue was speechless. This time she was not using a voice changer through her headphones as they were in her classroom.

Soon the phone rang again. This time it was a video call. She picked up again.

Cheng shui who had called twice in a row was once again stupefied to see a girl. He was about to cut the call again when Lixue said, "If you really cut off the call again I swear I'll join one of the other factions."

Cheng Shui received a blow. "No no no god please! How can you do this? I just thought that I'd called the wrong person twice. After all who would have guessed that you were a girl? Wow others need to know this. You are a girl and a beautiful one over that. But wait you are wearing a school uniform?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!??!?!!!!" (Lol I can only show surprise in the form of these exclamation marks and question marks¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

"Any problem with me being a school student?"

"No no problem at all." Cheng shui replied speechlessly. He knew that she was person who defied norms but looking at her capabilities he knew that she would become a sensation in her life to come. He was proud of her. After all he was already 47 years old and had still not been married. So he took care of his close underlings in the hacker alliance like his own children.

The people who were closest to him consisted of three powerful hackers in the world.

No.1 being SH4D0W. Although she came later than others but she was still the top most hacker.

No.2 being Rose. She was also a women in her early 30s and was married once but divorced.

And No. 3 being 'The anonymous'. He was a young man in his late 30s too.

These three people made his family. A happy-to-go but very disobedient family.