Falling Dreams, Rising Hopes: Saving Mr. Boyfriend

The vacation got over a week after Mei Qingyang came to this school. It had been around five days after the school tour and she did not see the trio or Yu Rong or Zhang Shi again. She did receive curious, threatening and most of the times, hostile glares from everyone wherever she went. She had no idea what shape the rumors had taken though.

Based on the events on first two days, she was expecting Yu Rong to cause trouble for her for getting closer to her nephew once again. Or perhaps an encounter with Zhang Shi's goons? But there was nothing these past few days. Guess everyone was busy preparing for new school session which was starting today.

Mei Qingyang did not have much to do these days, so she had been visiting the library often. Library in this school was a separate huge building secluded from other areas. It was past a big greenhouse and students were allowed to bring the books out and enjoy studying near the greenhouse and the garden. There were many chairs and tables available for the students to enjoy the nature while reading.

Since it was a secluded building, and open to kids of all ages, there was a higher chance of finding bullying instances in here. She had scoped the whole area and now was familiar with the concealed areas in and out of the building where she could find some evidence for herself in the future.

It was commendable that this was the only building in the whole which was open to kids off both spectra, mostly thanks the unbiased librarian. The old man was very adamant about keeping the library open and equally accessible to all. There were no separate spaces for rich and poor kids. Anyone could come here and read whenever. It was also accessible 24*7. Library never closed, not even on major holidays like New Years etc.

It had become one of her favorite places to hang out at. She had become so accustomed to leaving her room early in the morning for the library that she once again wandered off towards the library subconsciously.

"Hey, you! Don't you have classes starting today? What are you doing here?" Su Lang spotted Mei Qingyang early in the morning. After coming to know that this girl was his adoptive cousin, he was awkward about how to call her.

The three boys had long discussion in last five days and had come to a conclusion that they would conceal her identity as his cousin. Otherwise, it might affect her in a negative way. Even their association with her would affect her, and hence, although they saw her a couple of times in past five days, they never took the initiative to talk to her.

"Oh, it's senior Su Lang!" Mei Qingyang had investigated a bit from her end too and it turned out that all the three guys were in the same class. That made all three of them her senior. There was no way she did not know her own relation with Su Lang. But to maintain a distance and keep a low profile in front of others, she decided to address him as such. She also knew about his phone call to her adoptive father.

"How are you doing? How was your call with my father?" She continued in a teasing tone.

"Hmph! Sure, he didn't reveal much about you. Doesn't mean I don't have my means." Not only Su Lang but even Feng Yue had failed to obtain any information on her, apart from what Yu Bufan had told them. What kind of special background this girl had? She had no records of leaving or entering the country. So even though they had enlisted the help of international agencies, none of them came back with any information about her.

It was like Uncle Jiang had suddenly found some power source and were blocking each and every inquiry of theirs into this girl. How they wished they could just make this girl spill the beans. But there was a problem, her amnesia as Uncle Jiang stated. It seemed that she herself could not tell them much. She had become an unsolvable puzzle for them, whose key was not even with herself nor her father.

Mei Qingyang took two steps towards him, put her right hand on his left shoulder and whispered in his ear, "Oh, I see. Which means you don't have any information. It's okay. You will know in time. Don't worry cou…sin… Su…Lang." She then walked away, laughing over his shocked expression.

"You… You…" Her sudden action made Su Lang speechless, frozen at one place for a few seconds. She was the first woman to render him unable to utter any word. This meant she had all the information. But she was definitely not allowed to use a smart phone. She was categorized as poor and poor people did not have many privileges here. A privilege they did not have was having a smartphone.

He had also come to know from his sources that her laptop was confiscated the next day after that swimming pool incident and she was given an old laptop by Yu Rong with restricted access to everything. He had tried hacking into her 'new' laptop and was pretty sure that Yu Rong was monitoring the whole thing without Qingyang's knowledge.

How did she know about the call then? Who was the supplier of information? She had not made any contact with anyone in these days, she was just sitting and reading the whole day, about the school, about various engineering fields. Her choice of books made him think that she might have been interested in computer engineering, but she was reading all the basic books. A high school student would not know anything, so her inquisitiveness was quite normal. She also needed to know about the school for her job. There was nothing out of ordinary.

Then, when did she get time to investigate about their matters? Was there some mole in their team who was giving away her information? He needed to discuss this with other two.

He sighed internally. He wanted to chase after her to warn her about her computer being monitored, but she was fresh out of high school. What could she do about it anyway? Su Lang left the library to attend his first class of the semester. It was finally their second year after all. Life was passing too fast suddenly but now he finally had some form of entertainment in the form of this cousin of his.