19 Chapter 19 : Mystery Magic

It's been five days since that embarrassing night and meeting that provocative woman named Zhou Yunru. She was far worse than Gong Yuming but of course Xiulan never encountered Gong Yuming like that yet so she really can't compare.

"Are Hongqi's ex-lovers really bitchy? Do they really have to bully me?" Xiulan can't help but think about it. She shouldn't but she wants to be prepared once she encounters one of them publicly. She doesn't want to taint Hongqi's name just because she can't do her wifey job properly.

She was so engrossed by this issue that it already affects her typing skills. She kept making mistakes while typing codes for her software and now her debugger if full of errors.

"Damn this." She cursed and stops typing. To relieve her stress, she went to the discord group of IT people. To her surprise she was the current topic in the chatroom.

"Has anyone contacted Song Xiulan lately? I wanted to ask her something but her secretary kept saying she was busy." [HackerZhong00] said in the discord chatroom.

"Same. I wanted to ask her about my new game but ever since she started dating Xing Hongqi, she became arrogant and she doesn't take anymore calls. Now that she's married to him, of course she'll become more arrogant." [GitPushEveryday] replied.

"Hey. Don't be harsh to our Xiulan. She's just really busy with a new software and being involved with a man like Xing Hongqi is quite exhausting as well. Imagine he has a harem full of models and actresses before. The stress and pressure for her right now might be unbearable." [TeraDroid] defended Xiulan.

"TeraDroid, is Song Xiulan hacking your account right now? Or are you Song Xiulan, perhaps?" [GitPushEveryday] retorted.

"LOL. I'm just stating a fact. Why are you all so cruel to her? She's getting bullied by Hongqi's women and why do we need to add to her misery just because she's not answering our calls?" [TeraDroid] replied back. Xiulan felt that this TeraDroid is a good friend of hers, but who will that be?

"She deserves it. Now that she's married to him, she became lazy in helping her colleagues." [GitPushEveryday] slandered Xiulan too much.

"Hey, you are rude." [TeraDroid] can't help but scold GitPushEveryday.

"Yes. I heard that sexy starlet Zhou Yunru tried to embarrass her. Good thing Hongqi was there to wipe the kiss mark on his own. Why did she even marry that man? I'm here, why does she need to look for him. lol" [HackerZhong00] playfully said. Xiulan laughed out loud by his statement. She was being slandered but why is she laughing right now.

"Yall are whacked. I'm logging off. Ping me if Xiulan is back and ready to accept some calls." [GitPushEveryday] coldly said before disappearing. Whoever this GitPushEveryday, Xiulan will not help him. "What an arrogant fool." Xiulan cursed.

Because Xiulan's mood became better because of TeraDroid and HackerZhong00 defending her like a noble knight, she decided to reply to the chatroom.

"Please don't be hard on Xiulan. I was able to talk to her a few days ago. She's just having a hard time adjusting as Mrs. Xing. Maybe she's now free to answer some calls today." Xiulan sent the message using the anonymous name [MysteryMagic].

Xiulan has been using this name in discord or any technology related forums for so many years now.

MysteryMagic is known in the internet world as one of the best contributors when it comes to knowledge and IT and CS related information.

No one has ever thought that MysteryMagic is Xiulan due to her fake persona and face she made up named as Xia Shu Ruo.

Xiulan knows how to use 3D software and she can create realistic characters and scenery on her own. She has been using this fake woman named Xia Shu Ruo who is 25 years old and works as a freelancer.

Xiulan designed Shu Ruo as a woman who has thick glasses, very bright red hair and with a small nose and pinkish lips. Shu Ruo would always wear different kinds of tracksuits. No one has ever been suspicious of her Shu Ruo persona. Even if they ask her to do a live video or video chat, she just wears her green screen suit and the video will end up displaying Shu Ruo instead of Xiulan.

"Big sister Shu Ruo! You're back! How was your trip in Hawaii? You were able to talk to Xiulan? So lucky!" [HackerZhong00] enthusiastically greeted Shu Ruo.

As far as Xiulan remembered, she told the discord people that Shu Ruo's in a hiatus for awhile to take care of her relative in Hawaii. Xiulan only said that because she was really busy finishing a software and she doesn't have any time to help anyone in discord or any forums.

"Shu Ruo! You must have some bikini pics in there since you are in Hawaii." [HackerZhong00] blatantly trying to be a pervert in the chatroom.

"I'm just here to check the group. It surprises me that you are all slandering Xiulan." [MysteryMagic] chatted.

"No we are not! It was GitPushEveryday. You know how hateful that person is to women who knows how to code." The two said in unison.

Xiulan find if depressing that some people still looks down on women who knows how to code and program. That's one of the reason why she created Shu Ruo and MysteryMagic, she was so afraid to reveal herself and to be slandered by these elitist like GitPushEveryday.

"By the way, why are there only few people online?" [MysteryMagic] sent. Xiulan found it bizarre that there are only two people who is online in the discord group. There are thousands of members in this group.

"They are all busy with the Wen Bank Security System. You know that very wealthy man named Wen Wuzhou? He put up a hacking competition about whoever can hack the new banking system for Wen company's banks. Everyone has been trying to infiltrate that system for days now. The reward is a hefty ten million yuan." [TeraDroid] explained.

"Wen Wuzhou? Wenyan's big brother… when did he became this super rich?" Xiulan muttered. Also, suddenly involving himself in this community is very suspicious. He was never interested in stuff like this. But since technology is evolving rapidly, he might have become interested.

"Wow, how generous!" [MysteryMagic] replied.

"I know right? You should try to join." [TeraDroid] suggested.

"Nah. I'm in Hawaii right now." [MysteryMagic] replied. Xiulan doesn't want to involve herself with the Wen family. Also this kind of events usually needs the physical presence to get the reward.

"It's fine. As long as someone can infiltrate it, I know they will only send the money thru bank." [TeraDroid] still pushes MysteryMagic to join.

"No, thank you. Not interested. Anyway, I have to go. Chat with all of you soon." Xiulan immediately logs off from the discord group.

Now that Xiulan saw some of the members' impression about being Hongqi's wife was somewhat negative for her.Well she doesn't care about that much but she doesn't want to reach this kind of negativity to her masters and professors.

Xiulan decided to hack into GitPushEveryday's account to get some personal information. Xiulan thought that this person is so stupid to connect his account in Weibo.

When Xiulan got what she wanted. She tried searching 'Guo Li Lok' in her library of China's citizens. Yes, she has a copy of the entire citizens in China. She was able to hack one a few years ago and it kept updating every day.

Apparently, Guo Li Lok is five years younger than her and came from the same university as her. Since Xiulan's former university kept on praising her, most of the new students knew about her and would try to call her office every now and then to ask for tips.

Xiulan doesn't remember if she was able to help him before but she is sure he was one of a rude person to say such bad things about her in the discord group. Doesn't he know that it's her territory?

While reading more of Guo Li Lok's information, Xiulan found out that he's working for Mao Fa Dai's IT Company. Mao Fa Dai is Mao Zhilan's husband. Mao Zhilan or formerly called Li Zhilan. And Zhilan was Xiulan's university foe back then.

That woman was from Business Administration building but would always try to initiate a fight with Xiulan just because her Mao Fa Dai likes Xiulan so much.

Xiulan can't believe that those two are now married and end up together. Mao Fa Dai must have been trapped or blackmailed by Zhilan to even get married.

Now that Xiulan found out about this. She's now suspicious of Mao Fa Dai and Mao Zhilan. If those two are purposely slandering her just to ruin her image then they are both wrong in offending her. She might be aloof and quiet but they don't know how brutal she is in the internet.

But she must make sure that those two are really planning to take her down before she plants something in their company system. She will try to ask her old colleague Mo Dejiang to get more information.

She might have to visit that brat's den soon. She hopes that visiting Mo Dejiang won't affect her image as Xing Hongqi's wife. Dejiang is someone who has a naughty reputation just like Hongqi and involving herself to that man right now that she's married is a big red flag.

Xiulan sighed. She never thought that being Xing Hongqi's wife could be this stressing and she can't move properly. How will she be able to ask Dejiang without creating gossips and malevolent news towards her and Hongqi?