Chapter 25 Don't Be Afraid of Him
"Today we're having rice with mushrooms and braised pork." Ruan Xingmian changed his shoes when he got home, picked up the apron at the door and put it on.
"By the way, let's shoot some footage."
She clamped the tripod and handed the phone to Gu Xing: "I'll call you later. Turn off the camera and help me take a close-up shot."
"good."
Gu Xing looked around and found the house was very tidy.
Things are slowly increasing.
There was no coffee table in the living room. A square bamboo mat was laid on the tatami, and the only three-seater sofa was right next to the bamboo mat.
The sofa cover is a beautiful avocado color.
There is an 80-centimeter-wide square electric heating table in the dining room, and the tablecloth is bright yellow with small floral patterns.
There were only two solid wooden chairs, which were sent by the landlord. One of them had a rainbow cushion on it, and the other was empty.
The semi-finished product was placed in the corner of the sofa.
I think when she has nothing to do, she would sit on a bamboo mat in her socks, listening to songs and crocheting a rainbow cushion.
Gu Xing walked around and found nothing to do. Even the toilet was cleaned. The whole bathroom was dry and tidy, with the scent of oranges.
He heard Ruan Xingmian calling him, so he turned off the camera, picked up his phone and went into the kitchen.
"Luckily, I didn't make too much. Sister Ji Ling ate some at noon, and we ate all of this in the evening. It was just right."
She found two clay pots from somewhere, put cold rice at the bottom, covered it with chopped braised meat, poured a full spoonful of sauce, put the braised eggs cut in half on top, and put a handful of braised tofu strips.
The fire is on low.
Ruan Xingmian cut the mushroom slices and took out a carrot and a cucumber to rinse them.
"I smell the smell of rice crackers."
She sniffed twice, her nose twitched slightly, and her eyes lit up with tiny lights.
The light gently fell into Gu Xing's eyes, and she asked: "Gu Xing, do you smell it?"
Gu Xing pursed his lips and said, "Hmm, I smell it, it smells good."
"I've always been confident in my cooking skills. Ah, how could there be someone who can cook so well?"
As she spoke, she stood on tiptoe and swayed. The loose hair hanging on her shoulders swung back and forth, and even the ends of her hair showed her excitement.
Gu Xing nodded in agreement.
The thin lips that had been pressed into a straight line for years now quietly curled up into a very shallow arc.
The smile in his eyes was deep and affectionate.
"Gu Xing, you've been taking pictures of my face, right?"
Ruan Xingmian was holding a carrot in her hand and smiling faintly in front of the camera.
Not to mention the camera, Gu Xing's eyes were all on her face.
I didn't even look at her delicious casserole.
"Come here, put the camera here and take a picture of my cutting."
"Okay." Gu Xing moved the camera, focusing on Ruan Xingmian's hand, his eyes focused.
She turned her wrist, the knife flashed, and the carrot turned into thin strands in his hand, each one long and even.
He took out another piece of cucumber, and as the blade rose and fell, the emerald green threads piled up like a jade mountain, refreshing and neat.
His cold eyes suddenly became bright and lively. When he looked at Ruan Xingmian's face, there seemed to be a gleam of light, and his eyes were full of admiration and surprise.
The corners of his mouth unconsciously rose slightly.
"Next, let's turn off the heat and blanch the shredded carrots in boiling water."
She started to give instructions, and Gu Xing took pictures in the direction of her fingers without being distracted or making mistakes.
Cover the casserole with the cold-mixed mushroom slices, carrot and cucumber shreds, and finally add two green vegetable leaves.
Ruan Xingmian clapped his hands and said, "Let's eat!"
A heat-proof mat was placed on the table in advance.
Gu Xing brought the casserole.
Ruan Xingmian took a cup and mixed two cups of sour plum juice, one with ice and one without.
She drinks it without ice.
Arrange the dishes, take photos and record videos.
After the footage was shot, we shared the spoons and chopsticks to eat.
"This is our first formal meal at home."
Ruan Xingmian raised the glass first with a smile on his face.
She calls this place home.
Gu Xing raised his glass with her.
The two glasses clinked together, making a crisp sound.
Two pairs of beautiful eyes met in the air, revealing similar smiles, and then shyly looked away at the same time.
Gu Xing ate very seriously, almost wolfing down his food.
"If you move in, we'll eat together every day. I'll definitely correct your bad habit and make you eat slower."
Gu Xing slowed down his pace: "It's a habit I developed in high school. I'm even busier now that I'm in college. Eating quickly can save me time."
Ruan Xingmian nodded.
She admired Gu Xing and the others from the bottom of her heart. Not only were they smart, but they were also very hardworking.
The two of them ate and chatted, and the atmosphere was particularly harmonious.
Ruan Xingmian gradually gained a more comprehensive understanding of Gu Xing's academic journey.
The book is told from Lu Tian's perspective.
Praise him highly.
What? The eldest son of the Lu Group, his mother is a senior executive of the company and holds a high position of power.
The protagonist's mother has a strong personality and is good at management. She is expected to take over the Lu Group from her sickly brother, and the eldest son is the future heir.
My father is a well-known professor of computer big data technology.
He is the dean of the top professional college of University A.
Young Master Lu was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
From the kindergarten affiliated to University A, I went all the way to the top major of University A.
It seems like he was born to be looked up to.
As soon as the male protagonist appears, the author can spend 500 words praising his expensive clothes and family background.
Ruan Xingmian would skip around wherever the male lead was.
She understood the background of this world from the original owner's memories.
Only now did I learn some of his past from Gu Xing.
For example, City A is a municipality directly under the Central Government and is managed in different districts. Gu Xing’s hometown, Ninglong District, is located on the border of City A and is a mountainous area far away from the city.
Gu Xing was the top scorer in the district's high school entrance exam and was specially admitted to the Affiliated High School of University A. He received free tuition, living expenses, and bonuses.
When the conditions for special recruitment were mentioned, his eyes dimmed slightly.
Ruan Xingmian noticed his mood change.
She smiled softly: "It's okay, Gu Xing, we're just chatting casually. If you don't want to talk about it, then we won't talk about it."
Ruan Xingmian is a person who needs personal space, and at the same time, he also respects the personal space of others.
She doesn't think that falling in love means forcing the other person to open their heart in front of her.
"Well, it's not that I don't want to say it, it's just that it's a little difficult to say."
Gu Xing stirred the spoon and stared at the rice in the bowl. "After entering the affiliated high school, there is a special recruitment contract. After signing the contract, all competition results will serve one person."
He looked up: "The people who got the contract that year were your sister and I, and the clients were..."
Ruan Xingmian spoke first: "It's Lu Tian."
Therefore, Lu Tian's reputation as a young genius and all the great honors in the original book were bought.
"There's nothing wrong with saying this. The one who should be ashamed is Lu Tian."
Her indignant defense melted the ice in Gu Xing's eyes.
"The man who was beaten in the car was called Li Wei. He was my undergraduate roommate and one of Lu Tian's lackeys. He secretly filmed private videos of girls and posted them online for profit. He was stopped."
When talking about gossip, Ruan Xingmian put down his chopsticks, held up the cup with both hands, and listened attentively.
Gu Xing is a very straight-forward storyteller.
Narrate in a straightforward manner, the cause, process, and result.
It leaves out a lot of details.
For example, the real cause was that he received an anonymous email for a week in his senior year. A girl he had never met asked him for help - her private video was uploaded to an app called "Dark Pupil"...
In the attached screenshots, against a black background, there are densely packed thumbnails of secretly filmed videos, and the real-time jumping virtual currency price is marked in the lower right corner of each video.
At the same time, Ji Ling also received anonymous requests for help from various girls.
By chance, they discovered that each other was using anonymous accounts to sneak into the dark web, trying to track down clues.
So the two of them started collaborating very early on.
The login interface of "Dark Eyes" was full of garbled characters, and Gu Xing tried three times before he was able to bypass the dynamic encryption protocol.
After entering the software, the scene in front of him made his stomach churn - the secretly filmed videos were classified according to different scenes, and labels such as "back row of the classroom", "girls' dormitory", and "WCN losing virginity" made his eyes red.
What’s even more frightening is that the software uses an intelligent recommendation algorithm that can accurately push similar content based on the user’s browsing history.
Gu Xing discovered that these videos would be automatically cut into fragments when uploaded and transmitted through dozens of node servers around the world, making it impossible to locate the source through conventional tracking.
He worked non-stop for three days, drawing data flow diagrams on the whiteboard in the laboratory, and finally found an anomaly in the metadata of the fragmented videos - each video retained a specific compression algorithm feature code.
These are the server parameters of their college computer room.
Gu Xing stared at the code, cold sweat breaking out on the back of his neck.
The high-performance server specially purchased by the college uses this special video compression algorithm.
He checked the server access log and found that late at night, there was always an account named "Genius" that frequently called the video processing module.
Following this clue, Gu Xing hacked into the cloud disk of "Genius", which contained hundreds of encrypted folders, and the naming method completely corresponded to the video classification of "Dark Eyes".
When he cracked one of the folders, he surprisingly found a backup of Li Wei's thesis - Li Wei, whose undergraduate thesis was as bad as shit, was actually the mastermind behind "Dark Pupil".
"Depend on!"
After cursing, Ruan Xingmian covered her mouth and stole a glance at Gu Xing.
Afraid he'd think I was rude.
Gu Xing looked at her and raised one corner of his mouth: "Damn."
He was agreeing with his girlfriend.
Ruan Xingmian completely let herself go and wanted to curse, but she found that she had no other words except the genital insults used in rural quarrels.
She asked, "Can Li Wei maintain this software by himself? I mean, does he have someone behind him?"
For example, Lu Tian.
After all, Lu Tian has many women and many hobbies that cost him money.
"Lu Tian is a secretive person, always talking but never taking action. The reason he's been suppressing his actions is, first, insufficient evidence, second, insufficient power, and third, a desire to dig deeper."
But Lu Tian had evil intentions towards Ruan Xingmian, and Gu Xing became anxious.
Even if there is insufficient evidence at present, it will not affect public opinion from throwing some dirty water on Lu Tian. After all, he likes to pluck feathers from others and stab himself.
Gu Xing suddenly reached out and held Ruan Xingmian's hands. "Lu Tian is a thunderbolt himself. It's only a matter of time before he falls from a height. Mianmian, don't be afraid of him."
Ruan Xingmian smiled faintly and shook Gu Xing's hand: "Well, I wanted to say it just now."
She gripped him tightly because of her excitement: "Gu Xing, you are so handsome and awesome!"
Then his head buzzed, his face flushed, and his heart beat fast: "Gu Xing...what did you just call me...?"
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