It was late in the evening at The Everglades, one of the most upscale bars in F city. Two men could be seen sitting in a private room on the second floor. They were talking as they drank. The two men were Mu Feng, Vice President of Mu Corporation and Nate Yang, CEO Blaze Conglomerate, another international company on par with Mu Corporation. Both men were best friends who had gone to high school and university together. Together with Franklyn Saunders, a world class hacker, they made an invincible trio. Unfortunately, Franklyn had been called back to the headquarters by the Hacker Lord owing to the return of the Young Master of the Hacker Alliance.
The three men, despite being best friends had vastly different characters.
Nate, was a typical young rich heir. He was basically a sunshine boy as well as a player. He was technically a clown. His love for gossip was unrivalled and his ability to dig for it was as professional as that of the paparazzi. Well what could on
Meanwhile,Under the the cover of the apparently peaceful night, the entire Hacker Alliance was thrown into confusion. In one night, one hacker had suddenly begun infiltrating the defences of the Hacker Alliance. Several hackers were woken up from sleep with the knowledge that the Hacker Alliance System was being hacked into.The annoying thing was that the hacker left images of a red rose with the solar system in the background at every surveillance point in the intranet. There was no name or reason. It was obvious that the other party was just there to catch fun.Lu Xinya had just finished taking a bath. She decided to leave her uncle a big welcome present. Hacking into the Hacker Alliance's firewall and filtering through its sensitive information sounded like fun. Besides, she had always wanted to see how well protected the firewall was.She logged into her system and directly entered the website for the hacker alliance. It was the communication
It was barely 7am, when Lu Xinya walked in through the doors of Lu Corporations. She had a cup of coffee in her hands feeling incredibly sleepy, having stayed up all night to launch an attack on the Hacker Alliance.She smiled recalling what she'd seen in front of her computer when she'd woken up. After an all night attack which her uncle, who she suspected, deliberately did not appear, she woke up to a poppy flower surrounded by badly mutilated red roses with their stalks in front of her computer's desktop. It's warning was obvious. She chuckled. That old guy could still find annoyingly funny ways to threaten someone.'Will that old guy feel annoyed at the massive infiltration of his base?'Lu Xinya shook her head focusing on the documents before her. She had a meeting with a representative of Mu Conglomerates.After the last board meeting, her father had placed her in charge of the Cooperation with Mu Conglomerates.Soon her secretary came to in
In the highest floor of the Hacker Alliance base, the higher-ups were in a meeting. But this did not look anything like a meeting. Most of them were just staring resentfully at the Hacker Lord who looked so at ease while munching on an apple. He totally ignored their stares as he played a very interesting interactive game. The others were either using their phones or typing away at their keyboards. It was quite a funny scene.Franklyn was sitting on the window still, his hands below his jaw looking at the analysis he and other hackers had come up with regarding yesterday's hacking incident. He simply could not believe it.Someone had hacked into their intranet and had left with no traces. There was no evidence of entrance apart from the red roses in several domains and the enterwined rose and poppy. There has never been a known blood red rose as a symbol for any hacker so they all felt the pressure of an unknown hacker.He enlarged the image of th
Today was the day the college entrance examination results were expected to be released. Xinya had woken up very early to head to work. As she as she got into the office, she'd quickly delegated the days work to her subordinates and headed off to school. She was a good student with above average scores so she knew she would definitely pass, and she was confident of gaining a good score, so she wasn't worried about her score being good enough for the school she'd chosen. When she entered the school, she immediately became the centre of gossip because the students in the school did not know anything about her identity. All they knew was that she came on foot or occasionally in a taxi. This led to many students ostracizing her but, the school prince, Aldon Brooks, the only son of Brooks Corporation, which was a partner to Lu Corporation was a tight friend of hers. He had always treated Xinya well, even better than the numerous girlfriends he had. There had always
"The world is such a huge place yet I still run into you."It was another one of those cliche romance male lead and female lead are thrust into an arranged marriage. Soon female lead falls for the heartless male lead but never tells him. Male lead likes female lead but never tells her. Soon they break up and go their separate ways while still thinking of each other. Fate intervenes, they cross paths and finally find out that they are in each other's hearts. So they forgive each other, mend their relationship and live happily ever after. 'Perfect ending' Lu Xinya muses 'except the real world is way crueller'. Love doesn't happen the way everyone hopes it to happen, or does it?.Lu Xinya was currently in her room, bored and with no intention of using any device, she had picked up a paperback she'd gotten from a random shop once when she'd gone shopping with Emma.She was to report to school.She intended to take business management as her major and a mino
The magnificent hall of the Mu Mansion was bubbling with activities. People were rushing around arranging and decorating. The engagement was about to start so they were simply doing the final touchups."Miss Ashley, where's the flowers meant for the stage?""Miss Gu, where's the cake toppings?""Where are the cupcakes for tables 15 and 18?
In one corner of the room, dark and lonely, sat a girl, her hands gripping her champagne flute with force. Her beautiful face contorted so scarily "Ha, Ah Feng I'll never let you get married to that vixen. You are mine" Rose Wilde, a beautiful 19-year old girl of European descent. She was the daughter of the Wilde family, another family with a force considered as strong as that of the Gu Family. However people did not know that even five Wilde families could not compare with one Gu family. This was because the ties accumulated after years of being the top hacker family in the world had left them holding secrets capable of destroying entire families and goverenrs in the space of hours. Rose had always considered herself the best young lady in the country despite the fact that she was not actually from the Huaxia Empire. The Wilde family had ties across the world from China to Japan to America to Russia to England to Africa. They were practically all over the world. Even though t
Mu Feng headed towards the balcony, his face set in an intimidating frown.He was conflicted.Yes, he'd known that she wasn't aboard the idea of the both of them being together but he hadn't expected that she was so against it. Her words kept ringing in his ears,"You would have gotten married to whoever it was your parents chose for you"But would he?He didn't know, but he was sure that his parents would not have chosen just about anyone for him.Was he upset about her evaluation of him?Yes, very.But why?He couldn't figure it out but he knew that he hated the fact that she saw him in a negative light.Maybe, that was what liking someone felt like.You hate it when they had a negative evaluation of you and you loved it if they had a positive impression of you. It was his first time liking someone and he hated that she didn't like him back. But he knew that if the other party had taken in to him like a fish to wate
The hall was rowdy as the guests danced. Xinya walked in, watching the crowd was quite fun as there were different characters to be seen. The arrogant young men who felt the world was theirs, the elderly men who had spent their lives in servitude being yes men. There were the young women caked in make-up who were seeking their next catch, the elderly women scouring the grounds for their potential sons and daughters- in-law not to mention the celebrities who felt like they were on top of the world because they had found themselves in a gathering of the cream of the crop. They swished around in their in season gowns and competed with who had the most sought after jewelry and who glittered the most. Maybe it was this glitter that made them similar to the noveau rich and quite different from the true daughters of nobility. The real daughters of nobility who prided themselves in outrageously expensive gowns which looked low-key yet luxurious. Simple jewelries whose costs could maybe buy c
The hall was rowdy as the guests danced. Xinya walked in, watching the crowd was quite fun as there were different characters to be seen. The arrogant young men who felt the world was theirs, the elderly men who had spent their lives in servitude being yes men. There were the young women caked in make-up who were seeking their next catch, the elderly women scouring the grounds for their potential sons and daughters- in-law not to mention the celebrities who felt like they were on top of the world because they had found themselves in a gathering of the cream of the crop. They swished around in their in season gowns and competed with who had the most sought after jewelry and who glittered the most. Maybe it was this glitter that made them similar to the noveau rich and quite different from the true daughters of nobility.She smiled, this
Mu Feng gritted his teeth. He really didn't know what had possessed him to call that annoying girl.He would have kept his sanity by simply staying on his own but no, he'd allowed the snippets of conversation he'd overheard this morning get to him.He sighed.She was obviously fine, at least she still had the strength to scold him.With those thoughts he focused back in his work.But focusing on his work was easier said than done. His mind kept returning to what he'd heard this morning.Mu Feng dropped the pen in his hand and picked up his phone. He sent a text to Lu Xinya asking if she was free and if she could accompany him to a charity event.He didn't want to call because he didn't know if she was busy or if she had gone for the meeting she told him she had.After waiting for a few minutes and there was no reply he turned his attention to the documents in front of him. He'd call
Mu Feng dropped the pen in his hand and picked up his phone. He sent a text to Lu Xinya asking if she was free and if she could accompany him to a charity event.He didn't want to call because he didn't know if she was busy or if she had gone for the meeting she told him she had.After waiting for a few minutes and there was no reply he turned his attention to the documents in front of him. He'd call her later, he decided.Meanwhile, a certain person was sitting in the boardroom with the majority of the board members and the department heads.Projects after projects were discussed and conclusions where reached for most of the projects when someone mentioned the fact that Xinya had been asked to go through old files and check if anything had been missed.Xinya stared at the middle aged man who suddenly called her out. It didn't take extraordinary intelligence to tell that the man had been quite intentional about his act.She
Mu Feng gritted his teeth. He really didn't know what had possessed him to call that annoying girl. He would have kept his sanity by simply staying on his own but no, he'd allowed the snippets of conversation he'd overheard this morning get to him. He sighed. She was obviously fine, at least she still had the strength to scold him. With those thoughts he focused back in his work. But focusing on his work was easier said than done. His mind kept returning to what he'd heard this morning. His mom had implied that Lu Xinya was having issues with her work and other related issues and from what he'd heard it sounded like her dad didn't care about her so he'd wanted to ask her if she needed any help from him but she'd snubbed him completely. 'Damn, he must be a fool to attempt helping that annoying girl'He tried to focus his attention back on his work.But, his mother's words were still hunting his memory.
Lu Xinya watched the man, her expression neutral. She'd seen plenty like him, arrogant and annoying old men who thought they were better than everyone, and refused to consider the opinions of young people, especially younger people such as herself. Lu Xinya was about to question him when she realized she didn't even know his name. Not wanting to be overly harsh, she asked sweetly, "What do you call yourself again?" The man blanched, at the end, he was still a company executive, yet she had calmly disrespected him, but despite the anger burning through him he could do nothing. Years of being overly cautious had thought him to do anything he wasn't sure of and so he would swallow that day's humiliation. But he would mark today, the humiliation was one he would return a hundred folds.over the moment he got the chance to. A moment Lu Xinya would never give anyone. " My name is Song Fang" " Okay, Mr Song, I have a question on these proposal
Meanwhile in a huge mansion in another part of the city, a man stood by the window, watching the distant waves as he listened to the reports presented by the men who stood in front of him. That man was the current Head of the Hidden Gu family. The colossus who had ruled the entire T city for generations and who's name alone struck fear into the hearts of many countries across the world. Xanfeng Gu, the current Head of the Gu family and elder brother to Max, was known in the hacker world as Fade. he was the only one in the world who could operate using the Gu family's insignia. However at that moment, he looked nothing like the stern family head, instead he had the demeanor of a father looking out for his young daughter. "You mean to tell me that she agreed to marrying the brat from the Feng family?" He spoke up, his dipleasure showing."Yes master" one of men responded.Xanfeng Gu sighed,
It was another busy morning in A university, new students walked around completing their registration. Many students milled around the admission offices, doing what should be done. Lu Xinya walked into the admissions office with her files. She had an admission into a double major in the school thanks to her father. She would study Business Management as her first major and Computer Science as her second major. Because A university had a strict no double major in first year, she was expected to meet up with the Deans of the two departments to convince them of her ability to handle the two courses. 'Convince them', Lu Xinya smirked, how about she tell them that she had signed deals with some of the biggest companies in Country T and Country H or that she'd hacked into one of the most secure databases in the world to play a game of cat and mice with the members of the Hacker Alliance but unfortunately, she did not want to draw much attention to herse
It was another busy morning in A university, new students walked around completing their registration. Many students milled around the admission offices, doing what should be done. Lu Xinya walked into the admissions office with her files. She had an admission into a double major in the school thanks to her father. She would study Business Management as her first major and Computer Science as her second major. Because A university had a strict no double major in first year, she was expected to meet up with the Deans of the two departments to convince them of her ability to handle the two courses. 'Convince them', Lu Xinya smirked, how about she tell them that she had signed deals with some of the biggest companies in Country T and Country H or that she'd hacked into one of the most secure databases in the world to play a game of cat and mice with the members of the Hacker Alliance but unfortunately, she did not want to draw much attention to herse