Redemption from the Abyss: The School Beauty Insists on Pulling Me Out of the Mire

When Su Qinghe went out, she changed into a cream-colored turtleneck sweater and paired it with gray straight-leg casual pants. Her long hair was pinned behind her ear with a simple silver hair clip.

Uncle Zhong parked the car downstairs at Galaxy Science and Technology Park. She told Uncle Zhong and then, carrying a bag of teaching materials, pushed open the glass revolving door of the lobby.

When the elevator doors opened, there was already someone standing inside.

He was a young man in a plaid shirt, who looked to be around twenty-four or twenty-five years old. He was carrying a stack of folders and exuded a sense of unease, like someone who had just started working.

Su Qinghe stepped into the elevator and pressed the button for the twelfth floor.

The man in the plaid shirt kept his head down, clutching his folder tightly, but his eyes inadvertently glanced at the person next to him.

Then he blushed.

"How come this colleague looks so young?"

"And it seems to be especially beautiful."

The man in the plaid shirt looked away, staring at the reflective stainless steel plate on the elevator door, his heart starting to race.

"No, buddy, calm down."

He secretly observed his colleague on the reflective steel plate for two seconds and found that not only were his features exquisite, but his temperament was also ridiculously good. The aloofness that emanated from his bones reminded him of the top student who always sat in the first row in the library during his university days.

"But she looks so young, maybe seventeen or eighteen at most, like a high school student."

The floor numbers were slowly changing, from three to four, and then from four to five.

The man in the plaid shirt engaged in a heated internal debate during this brief rise in his mind.

On the one hand, he felt he should be braver, since the HR had said during the onboarding training that the company encouraged colleagues to communicate actively.

On the other hand, he felt that his colleague was a bit too good-looking. The fact that such a level of attractiveness appeared in a cybersecurity company always gave him a somewhat unreal feeling.

The elevator jumped from the seventh floor to the eighth floor.

Su Qinghe noticed the strange behavior of the young man next to him.

She didn't speak, but just turned her head slightly to look at him before looking away, a very faint smile appearing on her lips.

She took her phone out of her coat pocket, typed a message, and sent it.

"I'm here, Xie."

The elevator jumped from the ninth floor to the tenth floor.

The man in the plaid shirt took a deep breath, mentally boosting his confidence.

No, I'm naturally introverted, and I have to toughen myself up this time. If I don't even dare to greet my colleagues, then my life is over.

He swallowed hard, turned around in what he thought was the most natural posture, but in reality, he was as stiff as a robot, and gave Su Qinghe a nervous smile.

"Hello, my name is Zhao Ming. I just started working here two days ago. Are you also with our company? I think you're quite pretty. Could we add each other on WeChat?"

Su Qinghe looked at him, her eyes filled with a faint smile.

"I'm sorry, I have a boyfriend."

Zhao Minghong warmed it up.

"Oh, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean anything by it."

The elevator stopped on the twelfth floor.

Su Qinghe stepped out of the elevator and strode over. Under Zhao Ming's dumbfounded gaze, he hugged Xie Wang, who was waiting at the door.

She buried her face in his chest, her voice tinged with a touch of coquettishness.

"miss you."

Xie Wang was stunned for a moment, then instinctively wrapped his arm around her shoulder.

"Does Teacher Su miss me that much? We've only been apart for one night."

Su Qinghe looked up at him, her earlobes tinged with a thin layer of pink.

"Who was thinking of you? I just walked too fast and lost my balance."

Zhao Ming stood at the elevator entrance, his mind blank.

"no."

"Xie, Mr. Xie's girlfriend?"

"Oh no, oh no, oh no, I hope I won't get fired tomorrow for stepping into the company with my left foot first."

Su Qinghe chuckled, and the two sat down in the lounge.

At the other end of the sofa, Lu Yi was lying on the coffee table, with a half-finished math test paper spread out in front of him, exuding a sense of emptiness as if his soul had left his body.

Su Qinghe looked at him, her eyes crinkling into a smile.

"Oh, Lu is here too."

Lu Yi slowly raised her head, and her eyes, which were always filled with melancholy, shone with a rescue-like light the moment she saw Su Qinghe.

"Su Qinghe, you've arrived."

Lu Yi's voice trembled with the tremor of someone who had survived a catastrophe.

"Please tell me, did he force you to come?"

Su Qinghe shook his head.

"I came by myself."

Lu Yi's expression shattered.

"Then why did you come to this place? This is hell, not an office."

"He forced me to do math problems." Lu Yi looked at Xie Wang, who was standing in front of the desk organizing documents, with an accusing gaze.

"From eight o'clock in the morning until now, a full three hours, even going to the toilet is limited to five minutes."

Su Qinghe suppressed a laugh and spoke in a reassuring tone.

"So, how many questions did you do?"

Lu Yi was silent for two seconds.

"Seven Paths".

"Seven questions in three hours," Su Qinghe repeated.

Lu Yi raised his chin confidently.

"I poured my soul into every problem; speed is never the measure of art."

"Having seen the ocean, one finds it hard to be impressed by mere rivers; doing so many practice problems breaks one's heart."

Lu picked up the pen, feeling extremely aggrieved.

At 11:00 a.m., the door to Xinghuo Network's CTO's office was pushed open one after another.

Shen Hao and Xu You arrived first.

As soon as Shen Hao entered the room, he threw his backpack onto the sofa, looked around the office layout, and let out a sincere exclamation.

"This office is bigger than my living room. I'll come here every day from now on."

Xu You followed behind him and placed her schoolbag next to the coffee table.

Lin Lu was the last to arrive.

She pushed open the door carrying a large bag of snacks, paused for a moment when she saw the room full of people, and then smiled, revealing two small tiger teeth.

"Wow, you're all here."

She dumped the snack bag onto the coffee table, scattering potato chips and chocolates all over the place. A bag of Want Want Rice Crackers landed squarely on Lu Yi's test paper, which she was working on.

"Have a seat." Xie Wang looked up from behind his desk and glanced at everyone in the room.

The entire office fell silent.

Lu Yi huddled in the corner of the sofa and silently took a picture with his camera.

In the video, the pre-noon sunlight streams in through the gaps in the blinds, casting a warm glow on everyone's shoulders and hair.

He named the photo "Boy and Light".

At 12:30 pm, Xie Wang put down his pen and picked up his phone.

"What do you want to eat? I'll order takeout."

Shen Hao raised his hand faster than anyone else.

Braised Chicken.

Lin Lu immediately objected.

"I'm tired of this, I want a spicy stir-fry."

Lu Yi published his literary views.

"The essence of food is carbohydrates giving to the body; it doesn't matter what you eat."

Xie Wang replied without even looking up.

"Then I'll order you a plate of boiled cabbage."

"Spicy hot pot, please." Lu Yi's literary beliefs shattered completely in the face of food.

After the takeout arrived, everyone gathered around the coffee table to eat, and the office was filled with the strong aroma of spicy hot pot.

Lin Lu slurped up a mouthful of wide rice noodles and pointed with her chopsticks at Xie Wang and Su Qinghe across from her.

"I've always wanted to ask you a question."

Xie Wang picked up a piece of beef and put it into Su Qinghe's bowl without looking up.

"ask."

"Who pursued whom between you two?"

Su Qinghe paused for a moment as he picked up some food, and a blush of pink appeared on his earlobes, a blush that was not easily noticed by others but was definitely noticed by Xie Wang.

With his mouth full of food, Shen Hao mumbled his opinion.

"It must have been Wangzi who pursued her. Look at his behavior; he's like a lapdog whenever he sees Qinghe."

Xie Wang precisely tapped Shen Hao's hand with his chopsticks.

"Who are you calling a simp?"

"No, you're a hunting dog, a hunting dog," Shen Hao immediately corrected himself.

Xu You added quietly from the side.

"Susu, how did you two meet?"

At this moment, Lu Yi put down his chopsticks and looked at Xie Wang with the eyes of a gossip reporter.

"Yeah, I'm curious too. Did you fall in love at first sight in the school cafeteria, or did your eyes meet in the library?"

He paused for a moment, then added what he considered a romantic guess.

"Or sharing an umbrella under the eaves on a rainy day."

Lin Lu suddenly got excited and almost spat out the powder in her mouth.

"I know, I know."

She swallowed the food in her mouth, her eyes shining brightly.

"They first met at school in the attic on the top floor of the library. I went in to look for a book, and as soon as I opened the door, I saw two handsome men sitting face to face, very close to each other."

She used her chopsticks to indicate the distance in the air.

"We were so close, face to face, the air between us was sweet, and my legs went weak on the spot."

Shen Hao stopped chewing.

"Then what."

"Then Xie Wang confronted Jiang Yue in front of Qinghe, slapping the student council president in the face so hard that he immediately applied to transfer to our class."

Lin Lu sighed with a nostalgic tone, reminiscing about the past.

"From that day on, I knew that these two would end up together sooner or later."

Lu Yi heard an unfamiliar keyword.

"Wait a minute, should I switch classes?"

He put down his chopsticks and looked at Xie Wang with an expression that suggested he had been deceived by the world.

"Weren't you in the same class before?"

Xie Wang leaned back in his chair, a slight smile playing on his lips.

"I was in another class before."

Lu Yi's expression underwent a complex process of change.

"You mean you transferred classes for Su Qinghe?"

Xie Wang did not deny it.

Lu Yi closed his eyes.

"Love is a long-planned prison break, and you are the most successful fugitive."

Su Qinghe smiled and shook his head.

Xie Wang glanced around at the people at the table and then spoke.

"Actually, you've all got it wrong."

All eyes were on him.

"The first time I met Teacher Su was not at school."

He paused for a moment.

"It's at my house."

Shen Hao almost spat out the food in his mouth and stared wide-eyed at Xie Wang.

"Holy crap, could it be that you guys...?"

Before he could finish speaking, Xu You reached out and slapped him hard across the back of the head.

"I told you not to talk nonsense."

Another slap.

"I told you not to talk nonsense."

Shen Hao curled up in a ball, covering his head.

"I haven't said anything yet."

"Your eyes said it all."

Xu You's usually gentle tone was unusually stern.

Lin Lu couldn't hold back any longer and leaned forward.

"And then what? What exactly happened?"

Xie Wang glanced at Su Qinghe.

Su Qinghe put down his chopsticks and wiped the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand.

"It was pouring rain that day. I was being chased by a few thugs and ran into an old residential building in a panic."

Her voice was very soft, as if she were telling a story from long ago.

"Then I pushed open his door."

Xie Wang lowered his head and fiddled with the rice in his bowl, his ear tips turning slightly red.

Su Qinghe continued speaking.

"After the thugs left, I was about to leave, but I found that although the house was dilapidated, it made me feel very safe inside."

She turned her head to look at Xie Wang.

"Although he was pretending to be a big bad guy at the time..."

"At that time, I felt that this person was a hero."

There was a two-second silence.

Then the whole office erupted.

"Aaaaaah, can you guys please stop showing off your love?" Lin Lu clutched her chest and fell backward.

Lu Yi remained quiet in the corner for a long time before slowly raising his camera.

He pointed the camera at Xie Wang and Su Qinghe, who were smiling at each other, and pressed the shutter.

"I won't name this one." He put down the camera, his voice so soft it was as if he were talking to himself.

"Some images don't need titles."