You're dumping me, huh? Fine, then I'll just pick up the school beauty and make her my wif

The two sat down at the dining table.

Jiang Che took the food out of the bag one by one and arranged them on the table.

Su Qinghe couldn't wait to pick up her chopsticks, grab a pan-fried bun, take a bite, and the meat juice slurped out from the corner of her mouth.

"Eat slowly." Jiang Che took a tissue and wiped her mouth.

Su Qinghe's cheeks puffed out like a hamster's. She turned to Jiang Che and smiled, her eyebrows curving upwards. "It's just because they're so delicious! The pan-fried buns my husband bought are just so good~"

"It's definitely going to be delicious. I specifically asked the auntie to pick out the ones that were the most browned at the bottom."

How did you know I like my food burnt?

"What do you think? Who was it that put all the non-burnt pan-fried buns into my bowl last time we had them?"

Upon hearing this, Su Qinghe lowered her head somewhat embarrassed and silently went to work on the pan-fried buns in her bowl.

Halfway through the meal, Jiang Che's phone, which was on the table, suddenly vibrated.

He picked it up and glanced at it, and saw a push notification from the app pop up on the screen.

"USB drive encryption has been removed, file reading complete, data has been sent to email."

After reading it, Jiang Che put down his phone and continued drinking his porridge.

Su Qinghe tilted her head to look at him: "Who sent the message?"

"It's not a message, it's a system push notification."

Jiang Che placed a fried egg in her bowl. "Lu Ziang hacked the USB drive and sent out the files inside."

"So fast?"

"Yes, in less than an hour, he, a business administration student, cracked the USB drive."

"Business administration?" Su Qinghe poked at the pan-fried buns in her bowl with her chopsticks and couldn't help but scoff. "It would be strange if someone with this kind of technical skill were a business administration student."

After all, ordinary students don't even have access to encrypted USB drives, let alone know what encryption methods are.

Not to mention brute-force cracking using professional tools.

Since Lu Ziang was able to crack the USB drive in such a short time, either he is a professionally trained hacker or someone was helping him crack it.

But Jiang Che and Su Qinghe both preferred the former.

The main reason is that the USB drive's location is always within the school, and Lu Ziang cannot find outside help to crack it.

One reason is that the school has access control, and outsiders cannot enter at will.

Secondly, even if we could actually get foreign help, it would take time for them to get here, right?

It's definitely impossible to successfully crack the USB drive within an hour.

Even if it's cracked remotely online, it would still take more effort and would never reach the speed it's at now.

In other words, this USB drive could only have been cracked by Lu Ziang alone.

This further confirms that Lu Ziang's identity is not simple.

After dinner, Su Qinghe took the initiative to clean up the dishes and put them in the dishwasher in the kitchen, while Jiang Che went back to his study on the second floor and dialed Liu Anping's number.

"Uncle Liu, can you help me find an email address?"

"What email address?"

Jiang Che reported the target email address captured by the monitoring program.

"This email address received the files that Lu Ziang exported from the USB drive. I need to know the information about this email address."

"Received, young master. I will contact the technical department to investigate immediately and let you know as soon as I have the results."

……

For the next few days, Su Qinghe spent most of her free time in the music club's rehearsal hall.

The preliminary round of the arts festival required a performance video to be submitted. Shen Yue helped her book professional equipment in the school's recording studio and also found a senior student from the music academy to help with the sound tuning.

Su Qinghe ultimately chose Chopin's "Ballade" as her piece for the preliminary round.

This piece is quite difficult and requires a high degree of finger dexterity.

She would sit at the piano in the rehearsal room for three hours at a time.

From scale practice to arpeggios, from slow, segmented practice to full-speed practice.

Jiang Che would accompany her whenever he didn't have classes, sitting in a chair in the corner of the rehearsal hall.

He would either check his phone or read a book, occasionally glancing up at Su Qinghe's back in a daze.

One time, Shen Yue pushed open the door to deliver water and saw Jiang Che standing there like a door god.

He couldn't help but whisper to Su Qinghe, "Your boyfriend doesn't spend every day with you, does he?"

Su Qinghe: "Mm."

"Isn't he bored?"

"It's not boring at all. He said watching me play the piano is much more interesting than playing video games."

"..."

Shen Yue remained silent for two seconds, trying to understand, but failed.

Then he turned around and left.

Besides Shen Yue, there was another person who would often come to observe Su Qinghe in the rehearsal hall.

That was Ye Qingru.

However, Ye Qingru always peeked inside the rehearsal hall through the small glass door at the back.

Watching the two people in the room laughing and joking sweetly from time to time, Ye Qingru unconsciously dug her fingers into her palm.

On what grounds?

From a young age, she was instilled with the idea that girls in the Ye family must be outstanding, exceptional, and marry into a wealthy family.

She lived by this standard for twenty years.

She was admitted to Peking University, became the head of the student union, and won the gold medal in the Beijing University Host Competition.

They're all the same age, so why is it that Su Qinghe, a member of the Ye family who suddenly appeared out of nowhere, can live a carefree life?

Jiang Che was able to provide Su Qinghe with a comfortable life, and Ye Yunjin could do the same after Su Qinghe returned to the Ye family.

Why can Su Qinghe live so freely anywhere, while she can only be manipulated by others and have to be at their mercy?

Ye Qingru's eyes were sinister and venomous. She took out her phone, found Zhou Lei's WeChat, and sent a message—

"Brother Lei, is tonight a convenient time to carry out that thing we talked about last time?"

The other party replied instantly.

"Sure, there won't be any security guards patrolling the stage area after 10 p.m. I have a spare key here. We'll meet at the back door of the auditorium then."

"Okay, thank you for your help, Brother Lei."

Ye Qingru put away her phone, glanced one last time at Su Qinghe who was practicing the piano inside, and then quietly left.

……

10:23 PM.

Dressed neatly, Ye Qingru appeared at the back door of the auditorium.

Zhou Lei was already waiting there, and when he saw her coming, he quickly went to greet her.

Upon meeting, Ye Qingru's first question to Zhou Lei was, "Brother Lei, did you bring the keys?"

"They're all here with me, Qingru. The costume you mentioned should be in one of the dressing rooms. I'll take you there."

"it is good."

Zhou Lei used the key to open the back door, and then the two of them slipped into the empty auditorium one after the other.

The stage was completely dark, except for the emergency exit indicator lights emitting a faint green glow.

Ye Qingru is very familiar with this place.

She had hosted several events here before, and she could find the backstage area with her eyes closed.

Upon arriving backstage, Zhou Lei took out his key, opened the door to one of the dressing rooms, and then turned on the light switch on the wall.

The lights immediately illuminated the entire dressing room.

Inside were hangers filled with costumes of all colors.

Ye Qingru quickly found the row of contestants in the piano group.