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

Xie Wang used one hand to stir-fry the vegetables in the pan with a spatula.

"Do you cook this many dishes for yourself when you live alone?" Su Qinghe asked, watching his skillful movements.

"If I'm just eating something casually, I'll be fine. What's the motivation to cook?" Xie Wang plated the vegetables.

"We have a distinguished guest here today, aren't we?"

"Stop fooling around, the soup in the pot is almost boiled dry." She gently nudged backward with her elbow.

Xie Wang then let go of his hand and walked over to lift the lid of the black clay pot.

The rich aroma of tomato and beef brisket instantly filled the kitchen with the rising steam.

The two carried two dishes, one meat and one vegetable, to the outdoor table and sat down.

The rice ball smelled the aroma of meat and jumped down from the cat tree.

The calico cat ran to Xie Wang's feet and kept rubbing its head against his trouser leg.

"It was holding a grudge against you just now, but now that it smells delicious food, it's lost all its backbone."

Su Qinghe tore a piece of unseasoned cooked beef into small pieces and put it into the cat's rice ball bowl.

"Were you staying in the villa until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year?" Xie Wang put down his chopsticks.

Su Qinghe took a sip of warm water.

"In a few days, some family friends from our business will be coming to visit for the New Year, and I'll have to help my parents entertain them." She put the cup back on the table.

"Then we won't be able to see each other for several days again." Xie Wang tapped the table with his finger.

Su Qinghe looked at his lazy yet somewhat complaining expression.

"We'll be able to see each other every day when school starts. Have you finished all your winter break homework?"

Xie Wang sighed.

"With Teacher Su organizing such a meticulous review plan, how could I dare not finish it?" Xie Wang stood up to collect the bowls.

in the afternoon.

The two got dressed, changed their shoes, and went out.

On the afternoon of the second day of the Lunar New Year in Jiangcheng, the traffic on the streets gradually increased.

Xie Wang drove his black G63 SUV through the traffic.

Su Qinghe sat in the passenger seat, looking out the window at the roadside trees adorned with red lanterns.

"You really don't need to take me back. It's easy for me to just take a taxi," Su Qinghe said.

Xie Wang looked at the traffic lights ahead.

"It's on my way." He rested one hand on the steering wheel.

The vehicle quickly stopped outside the gate of the residential complex where the Su family villa was located.

Su Qinghe opened the car door and unbuckled his seatbelt.

"Drive carefully, and go to bed early tonight. Don't stay up late again," she reminded her from outside the car.

Xie Wang lowered the car window and nodded.

Xie Wang drove to Xinghuo Network.

The place was brightly lit.

He pushed the door open and went inside, only to find that not only Lu Wen was there, but also Zhou Zixu and Xie Zhengyang, who had returned from their vacation early.

"Were you all kicked out of your homes?"

Xie Wang walked to his workstation and sat down.

Lu Wenzheng, wearing a flashy sweater, twirled around in the boss's chair.

"You've finally arrived, you rascal."

Lu Wen quickly slapped a financial statement in front of Xie Wang.

Zhou Zixu also came over with a stack of printed documents.

"President Xie, it's not that we want to take it all, it's just that the pile of government and corporate protection contracts left over from Tianlong Group are just too tempting."

Zhou Zixu pointed to a string of numbers on the contract.

Xie Zhengyang sat in front of the computer in the far corner, typing away rapidly.

Xie Wang picked up the financial statement and flipped through two pages.

"The server nodes of Jiangnan Heavy Industry and Jiangcheng Water were previously outsourced to Tianlong, but now they are fully managed by us. Have the interface compatibility tests been completed?"

Xie Wang looked in Xie Zhengyang's direction.

Xie Zhengyang said without even turning his head:

"Xiao Wang, I have run the simulation three times using the dynamic sandbox model you wrote before. The compatibility rate is 99.8%, and it can be smoothly transitioned at any time."

Lu Wen rubbed his hands excitedly beside him.

"Look how reliable Uncle is. If we can secure this deal, Xinghuo's net profit for the first quarter will triple."

He was already planning to become famous all over the world.

Xie Wang threw the documents back onto the table.

"Their original firewall's underlying logic was too dirty; directly connecting to Xinghuo's backbone network would pose a risk of data contamination," Xie Wang pointed out the core issue.

Zhou Zixu pushed up his glasses.

"We went through this with a physically isolated test server, and there were indeed many redundant backdoor programs." Zhou Zixu agreed with this view.

"I wrote a self-filtering script to reverse-clean all their outgoing traffic, and immediately cut off any handshake packets containing unauthorized identifiers."

Xie Wang translated as he spoke.

Although Lu Wen didn't understand these technical terms, he could still sense that they were very impressive.

"Awesome."

Lu Wen, standing to the side, mindlessly shouted out a slogan.

Xie Wang pressed Enter to push the script to the server backend.

"Alright, have the staff on duty keep an eye on the data feed. If it runs for ten hours without crashing, then we can officially sign the handover contract with them."

Lu Wen picked up his phone, ready to send a message to the legal staff.

"By the way, Wangzi, I delivered the blessed bracelet to Lin Lu yesterday."

Lu Wen put on a smug expression.

Xie Wang picked up the cold water on the table and took a sip.

"Were she kicked out by her parents with a broom?" he bluntly retorted.

Lu Wen scoffed.

"How could that be? She was so touched when she received the bracelet that she almost cried, and she praised me for being thoughtful." Lu Wen's tail was practically wagging in the air.

Xie Wang shook his head.

"That's because Lin Lu is naive and easy to fool. Don't try to fool high school students with these things." Xie Wang leaned back in his chair.

Zhou Zixu listened from the side and couldn't help but laugh.

"President Lu, this is a roundabout way of achieving your goal. We single guys can only eat your dog food in the company," Zhou Zixu said with self-deprecation.

Xie Wang glanced at the clock.

4:30 PM.

"We don't need to keep an eye on it every day for the next few days; the script won't go wrong." Xie Wang stood up.

Xie Zhengyang rubbed his eyes.

"Xiao Wang, are you going back?" Xie Zhengyang stopped what he was doing.

Xie Wang picked up the black coat draped over the back of the chair.

"Okay, I'm going home." He said this and walked out.

……

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's already the seventh day of the Lunar New Year.

As a miserable senior high school student, I started school eight days early.

February 16th.

Because Ms. Su will not return to the Yunding Piano Room until after school today.

So Xie Wang walked alone on the sidewalk covered with fallen leaves, carrying a shoulder bag.

As he walked, a pink car with chopped chili fish head slowly moved up behind him.

"Want to get in, friend?"

Lu Yi had two large dark circles under his eyes.

Xie Wang was a little surprised.

"You drive slower than I walk," Xie Wang said directly.

Lu Yi stepped on the brakes and stopped the car on the side of the road.

"Amen, you have no idea what kind of mental torture I've gone through these past seven days."

Lu Yi slumped over the steering wheel, sighing.

Xie Wang continued walking forward.

"You're being pressured to study? Your parents are just trying to help you."

The two walked side by side into the classroom of Class 1, Grade 12.

The classroom was already full of people.

After a winter break, everyone was unusually excited.

Shen Hao was lying in front of Xu You's desk, gesturing wildly as he described his experience of setting off firecrackers in the countryside during the Spring Festival.

"I was holding that giant firecracker in my hand, and before I could even light it, a big yellow cat came over and snatched it away. I was so angry!" Shen Hao recounted vividly.

Xu You covered her mouth and laughed out loud.

"So you didn't chase after that puppy?"

Shen Hao scratched his head.

"How could I possibly catch it? It runs faster than a rabbit." Shen Hao waved as soon as he saw Xie Wang walk in.

"Brother Wang, where did you go to make your fortune during the Chinese New Year?"