Qiao Ying simply took Qin Hanyue back to the villa with her and had the doctor redress her wounds. She took the chance to change her clothes as well.
Seeing the wound that had just healed rupture open again, Qin Hanyue was silent for a moment. He asked, puzzled, "How did you end up playing basketball?"
He knew clearly that with her arm injury just healed, she shouldn't be exerting herself.
Qiao Ying hooked the corner of her mouth. "It was a friendly match against the neighboring school. As a Capital University student, I fought for the glory of the school out of obligation." She made up some casual excuse again.
Qin Hanyue: "......"
He guessed in his heart that it was probably because of Huo Chengdong.
Seeing that Qiao Ying seemed to feel no pain at all, Qin Hanyue felt distressed yet helpless. After a while, as if accepting such an outcome and her explanation, he went along with her mischief.
He asked, "Did you win?"
Qiao Ying: "Of course, 97 to 13. I scored 90 points."
Qin Hanyue looked at her, smiling helplessly, "That's a very good score. Did you bet on it? Or was there some kind of reward?"
She seemed to quite enjoy making bets with people. If there was no reason for it, Qin Hanyue didn't believe she would really fight for the school's glory, moreover with an injury.
Qiao Ying thought for a moment. "Are you sure you want to know?"
Qin Hanyue: "Hmm?"
She really made another bet? Qin Hanyue couldn't help but think: Although Qiao Ying is mentally mature, she still has the playful nature of people her age.
Qiao Ying didn't tell him.
Meanwhile, Qin Yan, who had just read the Capital University Forum nearby, had a very interesting expression. He silently handed his phone over for Qin Hanyue to see.
He thought to himself: There are so many good things on the Capital University Forum. How come I didn't discover it earlier? No wonder whenever anything happens with Miss Qiao at school, Young Master is always the first to know. Turns out there's an intelligence station!
As Qin Hanyue read through it, his expression gradually turned complicated.
He looked at Qiao Ying for a time without speaking, then finally said in a negotiating tone, "It really isn't worth watching. Bet on something else next time."
Qiao Ying asked deliberately, "What do you mean by not worth watching?"
Qin Hanyue said it straight out. "The figure. In all aspects."
Qin Yan: Oh my! He's jealous, isn't he? Young Master's upbringing and education would absolutely not allow him to assess or criticize another person's figure and looks. Yet now he actually disparaged someone else's figure!
Qiao Ying: "It is indeed quite lacking."
Qin Yan boldly ventured, "Miss Qiao, whether these people have abs or not, have pecs or not, their waists are as thin as mantises, not to mention other places. They can't compare with Young Master's figure at all." After saying this, he gave Qiao Ying a thumbs up enthusiastically, with eyebrows dancing, as if affirming and aggressively promoting.
Qin Hanyue gave Qin Yan an icy look.
Only then did Qin Yan realize - the relationship between the two was not yet intimate enough to talk about such things. Moreover, Qiao Ying was a young girl, yet he, an older man, was saying such things in front of two other men.
It was inappropriate, truly inappropriate, extremely inappropriate!
Qin Yan was instantly ashamed beyond measure. He also blamed himself for always forgetting that despite Miss Qiao's mentality and behavior being way beyond her peers, she was still a student just over ten.
Just as Qin Yan was about to apologize.
Qiao Ying said, "Has Assistant Qin seen it?"
The question was directed at Qin Yan, but her eyes were looking at Qin Hanyue.
These bold words nearly choked Qin Yan to death. He shook his head like a rattle drum: "I d-dare not, I do not have this blessing. This, this is quite obvious!"
Qiao Ying: "Then it seems there is an opportunity to make a bet with Mr. Qin." She turned to Qin Yan, "We can watch together then."
Qin Yan wanted to kneel before her!
Qin Hanyue tilted his head slightly to look at her, with an expression rarely seen on his face - not sure if it was a smile or something else, but certainly the most interesting expression.
The girl he liked and his subordinate were curious about his figure and even discussing it together, moreover wanting to find an opportunity to make a bet with him to take his clothes off, and even wanting to bring Qin Yan along to watch.
Qin Hanyue only had one thought in his heart: Qin Yan doesn't have to watch.
The private doctor secretly glanced at Qiao Ying. Without needing to think, he knew how extremely excited the doctor must be feeling right then.
The wound was quickly treated.
Just as Qiao Ying was about to go upstairs to change, her phone in her pocket vibrated. It was Bai Xiao's call. Qiao Ying had a bad premonition in her heart.
"Boss, Qiao Yi has gone missing. He just disappeared from the school. His watch location can't be tracked. Sack and I are looking for him now." Bai Xiao sounded anxious.
"Let me take a look." Qiao Ying sat back down on the sofa and took out a spare laptop from the coffee table, opening it to start searching for Qiao Yi's location.
Qin Hanyue asked, "What happened?"
Qiao Ying: "Bai Xiao said they can't find Qiao Yi."
Hearing this, Qin Hanyue got up and moved from the single seat sofa to sit next to Qiao Ying.
"You just had your wound dressed. Shall I do it?"
Qiao Ying: "I set up the locator in his watch myself and am familiar with the system."
Qin Yan also came up behind Qiao Ying.
At the same time, Qin Yan also received a call from his subordinate that Qiao Yi had gone missing.
While Qin Yan covertly directed his subordinate to find people, he looked on curiously as Qiao Ying operated.
Qiao Ying re-located Qiao Yi's watch and phone, discovering no traces of intrusion into the system, only coverage by a signal jammer.
The watch and phone were together, but it was uncertain whether these items were on Qiao Yi's person.
Qiao Ying asked Bai Xiao and Sack to hurry over to check out the situation first, then continued to hack into the school's surveillance footage to look for people.
The private school Qiao Yi attended charged annual fees of several hundred thousand. Naturally its conditions didn't need elaboration. The surveillance was well set up and all switched on.
Qin Yan watched dumbfounded at the side, phone still held to his ear as if mid-call even after already hanging up.
His gaze kept shifting between the changing screens and Qiao Ying's calm face.
This, this method...
It was class time then. Students were all in the classrooms so it shouldn't be difficult to spot a few suspicious people.
Soon, a figure appeared on the screen - well-defined features, dark complexion.
"Instructor Hou?"
Instructor Hou had just walked out of a teacher's office on the screen.
Qin Hanyue recognized the man in the picture as Qiao Ying's military instructor during her training.
Clearly this was just coincidence; it was impossible for him to be involved.
Qiao Ying only looked twice before switching screens.
Soon, Bai Xiao called to say they had found the person.
Qiao Yi was passed out unconscious inside a storage room. Bai Xiao quickly broke down the door to get him out and checked that he was fine.
Bringing Qiao Yi downstairs and catching a teacher about to come over, Bai Xiao put him down before leaving.
The passing teacher discovered Qiao Yi and sent him to the infirmary.
And the surveillance footage of the infirmary soon appeared on Qiao Ying's computer screen...
"He looks to be without major issues," Qin Hanyue consoled, then asked, "Could it be Shadow?"
Qiao Ying didn't answer, only said, "Wait until Qiao Yi wakes up and ask him."
Qin Yan held his breath, staring at Qiao Ying intently in disbelief.
This was impossible. Miss Qiao wasn't even nineteen yet. His idol had made the rankings eight years ago when Qiao Ying was still how old?
Yet that familiar method, he couldn't have seen wrongly!
In a flash, Qin Yan suddenly thought of something and finally dared ask, "You... are you Hacker X?"
He recalled he had crossed hands with Hacker X before.
Just a few months ago over that mathematics question; the mysterious person whose methods across the screen were so similar to Hacker X - with an extremely high chance of being the exam taker themself.
Young Master had also crossed hands against the other party without gaining any advantage.
And wasn't that exam taker precisely Qiao Ying?!
