The next day.
Yu He slept until past the third watch, waking up with a throbbing headache.
She vaguely remembered going to a bar with Tian Xin to drink last night... and then she seemed to have met a handsome guy... and then, and then she seemed to have gone back with him?!
She sat up abruptly, looking around, and confirmed she was in her room in the courtyard house, letting out a sigh of relief.
Then she realized something was wrong. How did she get back?
Could it be that she brought him back?!
Yu He looked down. Her pajamas had been changed. No way?!
Did she really bring someone back?
She immediately found her phone and called Ruan Tian Xin.
The call rang for a long time. Just as it was about to hang up automatically, a man answered.
"Who is it? Spit it out, don't disturb my sleep!"
The man's voice was thick with the grogginess of just waking up and the annoyance of being disturbed.
Yu He was familiar with this voice. "Shao Chen?"
Shao Chen on the other end hadn't realized he'd picked up the wrong phone. "Sister-in-law? Is something wrong?"
Yu He: "..."
When did these two get together?
She calmly reminded him, "I'm calling Tian Xin's phone."
Shao Chen on the other end paused, looked at his phone, realized he had the wrong one, and tossed it to the woman sleeping beside him. "Woman, your phone."
Ruan Tian Xin was jolted awake by the phone. Dazed, she picked it up and saw the call page displayed 'Little Sprout'. She jolted awake.
"Little Sprout, let me explain..."
Yu He didn't want to hear her explanation. She interrupted her, "How did I get back last night?"
"Master Qin Qi brought you back."
Yu He had a bad feeling. "You called him to pick me up?"
"No..." Ruan Tian Xin told her all the embarrassing things Yu He had done last night.
Yu He coldly hung up the phone and covered her forehead with her hand.
Drinking causes trouble, drinking impairs the mind.
After getting up and washing up, Yu He pricked herself with two needles. The hangover headache instantly subsided. She changed clothes and slowly ate breakfast in the lobby.
"Yu He, a little boy is looking for you in the front hall. He says he's your brother," Qiao Qiao said as she entered.
Yu He put down her chopsticks and wiped her mouth with a napkin. "Bring him in."
"Okay."
Qiao Qiao went out and returned, followed by Ye Zi Zheng, who was carrying a heavy backpack.
"Sister, your computer, I brought it for you. How did you assemble it? Why can't I do it?"
As Ye Zi Zheng spoke, he placed the bag on the coffee table and pulled out a laptop and a partially assembled unfinished product.
As Yu He sat down to inspect the semi-finished product, Qin Bei Ting happened to emerge from the study. He couldn't help but step closer to look at the computer components on the table.
This was clearly a self-assembled laptop, and the chosen configurations were very peculiar. If one wasn't proficient with computers, it would be difficult to put together such a setup.
"Did you choose this configuration?" he asked Yu He.
Yu He suddenly felt the unfinished computer in her hand was like a hot potato.
She hadn't thought of a solution last night and had collapsed first. It was an insult to her intellect.
"That's right, isn't it amazing!" Ye Zi Zheng said proudly. "I used the list my sister wrote to exchange for the components for these two computers with the computer shop owner..."
Yu He interrupted him, "I just copied the list from a hacker website forum."
Ye Zi Zheng: ???
Copied the list?
A pirated list could earn two sets of components?
Is the computer shop owner stupid or am I dumb?
"Hacker network? You want to learn hacking skills?" Qin Bei Ting seized on the key information.
Yu He was about to say no, she didn't. But then she thought, concealing her identity wasn't a sustainable solution.
Since getting together with Qin Bei Ting, they had been spending too much time together, almost without any personal space.
Although they had lived together before, they each had their own room then. Once the door was closed, no one knew what they did inside.
Now, they were in the same room, constantly vigilant about whether he might see her messages.
Rather than struggling to hide it, it would be better to take this opportunity, pretend she was just learning, especially since she was currently banned from her master's account and needed to practice with a new one.
With this thought, Yu He replied, "Mm."
"Then you'll have to learn programming first. You can start with Python, which is a computer programming language. It's quite suitable for beginners," Qin Bei Ting said.
Yu He looked at him in surprise. "You know about this?"
Qin Bei Ting paused, realizing he had spoken too fluently. "I thought about learning it before and looked into it."
"Oh? Did you learn it?"
"...No."
"Why didn't you learn it?"
"Afraid of going bald."
Yu He glanced at his thick short hair. "..."
Qin Bei Ting had already felt guilty last night for not revealing his identity to Yu He and for lying to her. Now, he had inadvertently lied again, making him feel even more uneasy.
Since the young lady wanted to learn hacking, to alleviate his guilt, perhaps he should go along with this opportunity and pretend to learn together?
Then, he could pretend to accidentally become a master and then guide the young lady?
With this thought, he said, "If you want to learn, I can learn with you."
Yu He: "..."
Thank you, but no thank you, I just want to put on a show!
Yu He: "Not afraid of going bald anymore? I'm a visual person, I don't like bald men."
"..."
Qin Bei Ting thought to himself, why wasn't she smarter at this moment? Baldness was just an excuse.
"No, I'm not afraid. I have you," he said.
Yu He: "..."
Since her boyfriend also wanted to learn and work together for mutual progress, she should cooperate.
At worst, she would just review the basic knowledge, then pretend to display the skill of a learning god who could grasp it at a glance, say she had learned it, and then guide her boyfriend to avoid detours.
Thus, the two hacking masters, each with the intention of accompanying the other to learn and improve, happily decided to learn together.
"I want to learn too!" Ye Zi Zheng raised his hand and said.
Hacking was such a cool thing; he wanted to learn it too.
Once he learned it, he would surpass his genius elder brother and his learning god elder sister, and recreate the Ye family's legend in Bei Shi!
As soon as they decided to learn, the three of them immediately went to a bookstore and bought three books.
In the afternoon, the spring sunshine was perfect.
Yu He, Qin Bei Ting, and Ye Zi Zheng, each with a laptop and a book on computer programming languages, sat in the main hall of the west wing and began to study.
Ye Zi Zheng waited for a while and didn't see any teacher arrive, so he couldn't help but ask, "Are we self-studying?"
"Otherwise?" Qin Bei Ting retorted.
Ye Zi Zheng: "...Shouldn't we hire a hacker teacher?"
He recognized every word in the book, but when they were put together, he didn't know what they meant. Shouldn't they hire a teacher for on-site guidance?
"If you can't keep up, then don't learn," Qin Bei Ting sneered.
This basic knowledge, he could recite it with his eyes closed, and he still needed a teacher?
Ye Zi Zheng: "..."
He turned his gaze to Yu He, thinking that even though his sister was a learning god, she was in a different field, so she should also need a teacher, right?
However, he saw Yu He diligently typing code into the computer, following the explanations in the book.
Ye Zi Zheng: ???
Is there something wrong with my intelligence?