Oh no, the aloof school beauty has been reborn too!

Chapter 14 is just a dream.

When Lu Xing woke up, his first thought was that his neck hurt.

It hurts like hell.

It's like someone took advantage of him while he was asleep, twisted his head off, and then casually put it back on.

Lu Xing frowned and groggily raised his head.

The bed in front of me wasn't a dormitory bed.

It wasn't the slightly dilapidated ceiling of a university dormitory either...

Instead, it was a computer screen with a cold white light.

The screen was filled with dense code and error logs, and there was a red dot message popping up from the company's internal chat software in the lower right corner.

There was a cup of coffee that had gone completely cold next to it.

To the side was an open notebook with a few scrawled words written on it:

This issue must be resolved before deployment.

Lu Xing was stunned for a full three seconds.

Then he slowly lowered his head and looked at his hands.

The fingers are long and slender, but there is a stiffness between the knuckles from long hours of typing.

He touched his face again, noticing some unshaven stubble on his chin.

My eyes are sore and my shoulders are stiff.

A familiar scent wafted in the air.

Air conditioning, coffee, and takeout.

And that unhealthy atmosphere unique to programmers' workstations.

Lu Xing's mind went blank.

here it is……

company?

It's the company he works for.

The R&D department of an internet company in Jiangcheng, office area 3.

His seat was in the third row by the window.

Lu Xing remained frozen in his chair, not moving for a long time.

Then suddenly a voice with a sobbing tone came from the side.

"Team leader!"

"Help!"

"This part has another bug report, and I can't fix it no matter what I do!"

Lu Xing slowly turned his head.

At the workstation next to him, a young man wearing black-rimmed glasses was holding his head, looking at him with a completely devastated expression.

This man's name is Zhou Ming.

He was a team member under Lu Xing, and had only recently graduated.

He writes code fairly diligently, but his mental fortitude is somewhat lacking.

Every time an online bug is encountered, his expression looks like he's about to be sacrificed.

At this moment, Zhou Ming's eyes were red, and his voice even carried a hint of despair.

"Team leader, I really don't know where I went wrong."

"It runs fine locally and in the test environment, but it crashes as soon as it's released."

"I've spent ages looking at the logs, checked the database, and cleared the cache."

"But it's just not right!"

His voice cracked by the end.

Lu Xing looked at him, then looked around.

The familiar office, the familiar workstation, the familiar sound of the keyboard.

There's also the suffocating atmosphere of working overtime.

The sky outside the window is grayish-white; it must be early morning.

However, quite a few people were already sitting in the R&D department.

Some people were drinking soy milk while reading requirements documents, while others were eating steamed buns while coding.

Everything was too real.

He sighed deeply, recalling last night...

No.

It should be said that this was what he thought last night was like.

Jiangcheng University, Dormitory 317.

Lin Yuanzhou, Zhao Lin, and Shen Qingyi.

Those images were so clear they were almost unbelievable, but now when I think back on them, it's like looking through a layer of fog.

Lu Xing glanced down at the phone on the table.

The screen lights up.

This time the date is correct...

There was no opening of Jiangcheng University, no turning eighteen, and no rebirth.

Lu Xing stared at his phone for a long time.

Finally, he gave a slight, bitter smile.

"really……"

He murmured softly.

"It was just a dream."

Yes.

How could I wake up one day and be back to being eighteen years old?

How could he possibly meet a girl he should have no connection with?

It's too ridiculous.

It's highly likely that after working overtime for so long, his brain finally couldn't take it anymore and concocted a ridiculous dream for him.

In dreams, there is a life without regrets, and there is a chance to start over.

Lu Xing closed his eyes, and suddenly felt a little empty inside.

Tsk tsk, am I about to die from overwork?

Seeing that he didn't speak, Zhou Ming's expression became even more panicked.

"Team leader?"

"Team leader, don't scare me!"

"Do you also think this bug is beyond fix?"

Lu Xing snapped out of his daze and raised his hand to rub his temples.

"……fine."

His voice was a little hoarse.

"Turn your computer around here, let me take a look."

Zhou Ming immediately moved the chair aside as if grasping at a lifeline.

"Here it is!"

"The data returned by this interface is unstable; sometimes it is empty, and sometimes it has a value."

"Then the page started crashing intermittently."

"The tester said they couldn't reproduce the issue, but the product manager said users have already reported it several times."

Lu Xing stood up.

As soon as he stood up, his knees stiffened slightly, making a crisp sound.

This body...

It's definitely a version ravaged by time.

He scratched his head and sat down next to Zhou Ming.

The IDE is open on the screen, and there are a bunch of log windows next to it.

As Lu Xing stared at the code, his chaotic thoughts were gradually forcibly pulled back to reality.

He quickly scanned the call chain.

"Are you checking the cache first?"

Zhou Ming nodded quickly.

"right."

"If the cache doesn't have a query for the database, then write it back to the cache."

Lu Xing pointed to one of the sections.

"Have you ever considered that the cache might not be storing no data, but rather an empty result?"

Zhou Ming was taken aback.

"what?"

Move the mouse down to the bottom.

"Look here."

"To prevent cache penetration, you wrote empty objects into the cache even when no data could be found."

"That's the right approach, but the problem is, you've misspelled it here."

Zhou Ming took a closer look, and then froze.

Lu Xing continued:

"Normal queries use..."

"When you wrote to the empty cache, you used..."

"In short, there's an extra 's'."

Zhou Ming: "..."

There was a two-second silence in the office.

Zhou Ming's expression went from collapse to confusion, and then from confusion to shock.

In the end, he wanted to bury his shame on the spot.

"Holy crap."

He covered his face.

"this one?"

Lu Xing remained expressionless.

"Many online incidents start with 'that's it'."

Zhou Ming said painfully:

"But why is the test environment fine?"

Lu Xing opened the configuration file.

"The cache expiration time in the test environment is only one minute."

"The pre-release environment was set to two hours to simulate the online environment."

"You just didn't encounter this during your testing. As long as an incorrect key is written on the pre-production side, instability will occur later."

Zhou Ming suddenly realized.

"So it's not that the interface is unstable, but that the empty cache I wrote caused the logic to fork?"

"almost."

Lu Xing pushed the keyboard towards him.

"Change the key, then add a unit test."

"By the way, extract the cache key constants; don't write strings by hand everywhere."

Zhou Ming nodded repeatedly.

"I understand, I understand!"

He hurriedly began making changes.

Lu Xing stood by and watched for a while, then added:

"And here..."

Zhou Ming nodded as he made the changes.