As soon as Qiao Ying spoke, her classmates immediately started heatedly discussing and guessing about the relationship between the two.
Xiao He looked towards Qiao Ying who had just walked over.
The class president didn't know whether he didn't believe her or was unwilling to lose face by being refuted in public, but his face was flushed red, yet he didn't dare to loudly argue with Qiao Ying.
"You were the one who gave it to him, so why didn't he say so earlier?"
Qiao Ying reached out her hand to turn the computer screen around and operated it single-handedly on the keyboard, asking as she did so, "Is the classroom monitor not switched on?"
Several classmates eagerly told Qiao Ying, "It's not switched on."
Qiao Ying brought up the electronic invoice stored on the computer and showed everyone. Printed clearly on the electronic invoice was Qiao Ying's name.
The class president still wouldn't give up. "How do you prove whether this invoice is real or fake? How do you prove this invoice belongs to this computer?"
Qiao Ying also didn't bother to argue with him and simply turned the computer screen back around.
She said, "Report a Microsoft account registered on your computer."
Class President: "No use. I've set up a firewall on my computer, it was done by a hacker I found online. You won't be able to trace it."
A classmate asked: "Don't you have your phone registered to an account?"
The class president's expression was a little ugly. "No... that would have cost extra."
The classmate said exasperatedly: "What kind of hacker did you find that would scam you like this? They don't even have basic professional ethics. What kind of garbage dares to call themselves a hacker!"
Qiao Ying repeated coldly: "Account."
The class president had no choice but to report one to her.
Qiao Ying operated the keyboard single-handedly. A stream of code jumped out onto the screen and the curious classmates all squeezed in behind Qiao Ying to watch.
Having heard the continuous sounds of astonishment coming from the classroom, the students crowded outside the door couldn’t resist peeking in out of curiosity.
"Wow, this is beyond what we've learned!"
"Are we even studying the same major?"
"The teacher didn't teach us this!"
"Damn, too awesome, I don't understand any of it."
"Such fast typing speed, she must be some kind of monster from the internet!"
Qiao Ying’s hands moved extremely fast. The firewall the so-called hacker had set up was no match for her at all. Before everyone could even get a clear look, the location and map were already displayed.
"The location is tracked already? That fast? Isn't she a bit too incredible!"
"I didn't understand anything she did, how did she do it?"
Qiao Ying looked at the moving location marker, raising her eyebrows slightly.
"Why is this location marker so close, just outside the door?"
"Uh... Did school beauty Qiao get it wrong?"
"What's going on in your class? It's so lively." A boy walked in hugging a computer identical to the one Qiao Ying had gifted Xiao He.
Upon seeing it, the class president exclaimed: "Why do you have my computer?"
The boy returned the computer to the class president, "I borrowed it to use for a bit. Didn't you get my message?"
Holding his own computer, the class president swore quietly under his breath, wanting to beat up the boy.
The boy was puzzled, "What's wrong?"
"Good lord, what a huge misunderstanding. And it was all because he is poor that Xiao He was accused of stealing. Thank goodness the computer wasn't actually stolen. Thank goodness school beauty Qiao was here to help, otherwise even if he jumped into the Yellow River he wouldn't have been able to clear his name."
"I already feel so indignant on behalf of this handsome guy. If it were me wrongly accused of stealing something out of nowhere, I really would have cried to death!"
"Being judged just because of family circumstances, it must feel awful."
The teacher advisor sighed, "Since it was just a misunderstanding, class president you should apologize to student Xiao He."
Knowing he was in the wrong, the abashed class president didn't try to defend or excuse his rash accusations either. After struggling for a bit, he solemnly said to Xiao He: "...I'm sorry."
Xiao He ignored him and sat down.
Qiao Ying said: "I was poor before too." She turned the computer screen to face Xiao He, then returned to her own seat.
Qiao Ying's words left the class president completely ashamed.
The teacher advisor felt somewhat tired. "Alright alright, everyone return to your own classes. Stop watching the spectacle, it's time to start class."
"As expected of my goddess, that line was said so cool!"
"Does school beauty Qiao understand hacker technology?"
"Is there really nothing school beauty Qiao can't do?! It's too unfair to have her attending school with us commoners!"
"You guys, do you think school beauty Qiao might have some hacker friends? Like lawyer Cheng or something."
Another classmate chimed in: "Recruited by the state, then someday another Su Qingyu appears and makes a bet with school beauty Qiao, and then some expert comes to give us lessons. Please follow my script!"
"Speaking of hackers, I've heard quite a bit of inside information lately..."
"My point of interest is probably stranger. I was wondering, why did school beauty Qiao give Xiao He a computer? Weren't they just acquainted?"
"Let's ship this school romance too! When is Third Master coming to tour the school again to deepen the 'QingYing' CP? Otherwise I might start climbing the wall!"
"We can't compare with the likes of Third Master Qin and Master Huo. Just because this Xiao He is slightly more handsome than us, what gives him the right?"
The matter with the computer was just a small interlude, but Qiao Ying’s computer skills that seemed like hacking sparked heated discussion among the students, as well as speculation about the relationship between Qiao Ying and Xiao He.
In the afternoon, a boy from the back row tentatively called out, "...School beauty Qiao."
Qiao Ying turned her head back.
The boy held up his phone nervously and asked: "I'd like to ask about this..."
The first thing Qiao Ying noticed on his phone screen was Qin Hanyue's name. Further down were Cheng Jinyan, basketball, White-Haired Handsome Guy, Huo Chengdong, Xiao He, Xu Zhiyi.
Some bored person had set up a vote.
- Vote for the male god with the best CP chemistry with school beauty Qiao -
The white-haired handsome guy was probably Ye Si. What was this basketball option? But it had quite a number of votes.
The top vote-getter was Qin Hanyue with 800 votes, and it had only been half an hour.
Boy: "The girls in our class set this up. School beauty Qiao, I haven't voted yet, do you have someone you want to vote for?"
He posed the question rather tactfully.
Seeing Qiao Ying not answering,
The boy said: "Then I'll vote for the basketball option, most of the guys voted for basketball."
As more and more people participated in the vote, riding on his personal fame as the top dog in Beijing, Qin Hanyue's number of votes raced ahead.
After one class period, it was already over 2000 votes.
It quickly spread throughout the whole Beijing University campus. Everyone shared it with people around them, rallying votes for their preferred CPs.
People kept taking screenshots of the vote tallies to post on forums, constantly updating the voting situation, and attaching photos of some of the people involved.
There were photos of Qiao Ying hugging Cheng Jinyan, Qin Hanyue out for a walk, Ye Si at the freshman welcome party, and Qiao Ying playing basketball.
These couple photos were undoubtedly the best vote-drivers.
Even students from neighboring schools came to join in the fun.
Qin Yan was running around the company with documents in hand when he suddenly received a message from Qin Hanyue.
Qin Yan: "Vote? What is this?"
He clicked in to take a look: "Compete for the male god with the best CP chemistry with school beauty Qiao?"
Qin Yan was dumbfounded.
He scrolled down further.
Qin Hanyue: 3023 votes
Basketball: 2100 votes
Cheng Jinyan: 1655 votes
Qin Yan reacted: "Is Third Master trying to... rally votes?"
It was a bit undignified.
Qin Yan hugged the pile of documents, replying to the message was a bit difficult.
He had wanted to simply reply "Received", but his finger accidentally touched the screen and he sent the wrong thing.
Qin Yan looked closely.
What he had sent was a middle finger panda emoji, caption: 【Do you deserve it?】
"Oh no!" Qin Yan was so frightened he dropped all his documents and hurriedly tried to recall the message.
Third Master: 【Come to my office】
After another class period,
The vote count suddenly reversed.
Ye Si who had been trailing behind Basketball and Cheng Jinyan abruptly shot up to first place, surpassing previous front runner Qin Hanyue.
"One hundred thousand votes? You kidding? Even if we combined all the students from our school and the neighboring school there aren't that many people! This is clearly vote manipulation!"
"Who manipulated it? Which crazy CP fan did this? Tell me so I can beat the crap out of them."
"It doesn't seem like it can be vote manipulation, these are all real people voting."
"Then was it hacked? Who's so bored that they cleared all the votes? Can it be restored back?"
Huo Chengdong forwarded the voting link to Qiao Ying.
Upon opening it and seeing the arrogant 100,000 votes behind Ye Si's name, she was rendered completely speechless.
"This guy, too bored."
Far away in Country M, after seeing the voting results Ye Si satisfyingly tossed his phone aside.
Speaking in M-style English, he instructed his assistant beside him: "Clear all the votes for that guy surnamed Qin."
