Falling Dreams, Rising Hopes: Saving Mr. Boyfriend

After stumbling upon Su Lang unexpectedly and scandalizing him with her actions, Mei Qingyang headed to the classrooms. She was in a good mood and Su Lang's fl.u.s.tered expression was making her laugh again and again.

At least the beginning of the day was good. She was excited to be studying with other people and experience the atmosphere of an actual school. What she was not sure of was if her to be professors even knew that a poor person was joining the college. If they did, would they help her at all when in need?

It was going to be first year for all the students but since all her new classmates would have just graduated from the high school here in the same campus itself, they would already know the professors. The campus was open for wealthy students to take admission at college level.

However, most of the wealthy kids had been enrolled in the school already, so they just advanced to the college. Every year, there were maximum of three-four admissions from the outside for the students who either came from international schools and were originally citizens of M nation or students whose parents had just become rich enough to afford the fee of the college.

So, it would still feel like transferring to a new school in the middle of a semester, where she did not know anyone. On the top of that, she was a poor person here. Bracing herself for whatever misfortune was to befall her once again, she finally reached the college building.

She had gotten a schedule of classes from Wang Hao last night, detailing the professors, classrooms and courses she was to take. Suspicious of any childish schemes Yu Rong might be playing with her, she had double checked everything with the college's database for this semester. The old laptop they gave her was really an ancient device. They gave her a 7-year-old model with one of the oldest Windows operating system.

Qingyang did cry a little inside when they took her latest laptop, customized for gaming and coding. It looked like an ordinary laptop but it was very powerful. Her dad had secretly asked his army friends for help and had them install latest technologies in it. It had taken even Qingyang a few days to understand how capable her laptop was. It would be impossible for Yu Rong and her helpers to get into that laptop, unless she took help from some famous hackers or programmers. Even people from big tech companies would not be able to crack it open.

She smiled to herself once again. No one knew that she was the second-best hacker of M nation, just behind another anonymous person who was her online friend, but she never got to know their identity. They were that good. That person would never help Yu Rong with the laptop unless she convinced them with a good motive. But then, Qingyang had already alerted them in advance about the happenings here and Yu Rong had already lost her chance with them.

Unfortunately for Yu family, the only place they did not have connections was the most secret and advanced department of the army, the IT department. Because it concerned the latest technologies, defense and deep secrets of the nation, this department really worked under complete confidentiality. Now she wondered, the fact that her dad had connections in there, good enough to help and teach her, was mind-blowing to her.

Qingyang was waiting for the moment they would come back to her to ask for help with her own laptop. The scenario itself was hilarious for Qingyang.

In the few days she had been here, she had cracked open all the monitoring schemes and bugs they had put in her new old laptop. Similar to the two cameras in her room, she had made sure Yu Rong only got the information that Qingyang wanted her to see.

It seemed they had not tampered with the timetable she was given. There was still some time in the first class starting and people had just beginning to arrive in the respective classrooms. She had seen the building with Yu Tian before, but it was her first time seeing everything up close. She was also aware of the stares she was getting throughout. Some were perhaps familiar with her adventure with

Yu Tian, and some were just disgusted with her plain clothes.

Speaking of clothes, she was looking at all types of colorful stuff, from clothes to make-up to accessories. All the girls here were donning very high-end dresses and bags. Nothing less than Gucci. Such a waste of money ah! Guys were also giving tough competition to girls in terms of brands. Designer shoes and backpacks apart from expensive clothing. Even if they would not look pretty and handsome in ordinary circ.u.mstances, the make-up really dolled them up. She had never seen such a gathering of beautiful men and women.

She entered the class among all the stares and murmurs outside. She should have covered her face or something before leaving the home today. But of course, her not so expensive clothes would have given away her identity anyway.

Keeping her head lowered, she tried to look for an empty seat. This room was an auditorium type lecture hall. The floor was pitched to have students at the back sit higher than the students in the front. There were long tables on either side of the hall and a partition in the middle. There were eight chairs on each table.

The students in the class were all in groups, gossiping about the happenings of summer vacations. Mei Qingyang tried to be as quiet and invisible as possible, in order not to attract any attention of these elite kids.

Unfortunately for her, she had gained too much attention because of whole school tour thing by now. Zhang Shi and his family had disappeared overnight. The whole swimming pool incident had become the hot topic of discussion for any gathering. Surely, most of the people did not know her face apart from people who had actually seen her with Yu Tian. But people who she had already had encounters with all knew her too well by now.

Also, she was too extraordinary for a person roaming into the engineering building like she was going to attend the classes here. People internally guffawed at their sill thoughts. A poor student studying with them?

Thus, she caught the eye of someone as soon as she entered the classroom.

"You! What are you doing here?", she heard someone calling out to her.