I was exposed for adding my female boss to my group of female friends.

So Chen Ya had no choice but to change today's schedule to shopping.

Fortunately, Gu Yuqing invited Wu Qiutong along. Shopping with one woman is tiring, but shopping with two women is much easier; you can just carry the bags and daydream.

The three of them went from dessert shop to clothing store, and finally Gu Yuqing tossed Chen Ya a Bentley key, saying it was a gift for him running errands.

"The car is parked in the underground garage. You can't drive my car anymore, so I bought a more discreet one. Don't tell anyone it was a gift from me."

Chen Ya looked down at the keys, then looked up and said, "It doesn't seem like you're being very low-key."

"I don't have much money lately. I had a little argument with my family, and several of my cards were frozen. This is the only thing I can afford."

Gu Yuqing didn't understand what Chen Ya was saying, and Chen Ya was too lazy to bother correcting her spending habits.

After finally seeing the two fairies off, Chen Ya went down to the underground parking garage, pressing the car key as he walked. At a dark corner, something suddenly pressed against his back and waist.

"Don't move."

Chen Ya didn't move, but he wasn't panicked either.

Because you can tell from the tone of the voice that the person behind you poses almost no threat.

This is the voice of a young girl.

"Hands up," the girl behind him said.

"We probably don't know each other, right?" Chen Ya smiled.

"Don't you recognize me? Hmph, theoretically you don't. But maybe if I give you a little hint, you'll remember."

The girl paused for a moment, then said, "Mr. X."

Chen Ya was taken aback and asked, "Y?"

The girl behind him exhaled through her nose and said:

"As expected, your name was made up on the spot. I knew I'd never heard of you before. Hmph, Mr. X, ptooey!"

Upon hearing the name X, Chen Ya immediately realized his identity, which meant that he had only used this name on him.

Chen Ya asked, "What is your relationship with Y? Is he your father?"

"Show me some respect when you talk to Y!"

The girl's tone was irritable, with a hint of cuteness and fierceness. Chen Ya took a deep breath, the shock in his heart lingering for a long time.

"I never expected that Y would be a woman, and a child at that..."

Who are you calling a child?

The hard object behind me pushed forward, digging painfully into my bones. The girl's voice, though young, was firm:

"Guess what I have in my hand? I'm not kidding."

Chen Ya didn't intend to guess.

It's not a comfortable thing to have your safety in someone else's hands, even if that person is just a little girl.

"what!"

"Miss Y" exclaimed in surprise. In the blink of an eye, the item in the girl's hand behind her was in Chen Ya's hand.

Chen Ya picked up the object, examined it closely in the dim light of the underground parking garage, and exclaimed in surprise:

"Dr. Pepper?"

In his hand was an empty plastic bottle from an unpopular beverage. The round opening of the bottle did indeed resemble the muzzle of a gun, and it was indistinguishable even through clothing.

Standing in front of him was a petite girl wearing a loose-fitting workwear hoodie on her upper body and shorts on her lower body, revealing her two slender legs.

Rather than saying she's short, it's more accurate to say she hasn't even developed yet.

Seeing that Chen Ya had taken control of the situation, the girl felt an urge to leave immediately.

"Stop right there... Don't be nervous, I won't hurt you." Chen Ya put Dr. Pepper's bottle into his pocket. "Are you really Y? How did you find me?"

The girl took two steps back, leaning against the bottom of the fireproof roller shutter door for easy escape, and answered him:

“I wanted to find you, so I found you. Your little bit of privacy is like sand in a fishing net; it all leaks out with the slightest movement of your fingers.”

After she finished speaking, she wanted to say something sarcastic, but seeing the man just tilting his head and smiling at her in the dim light, she felt a little scared and didn't dare to say anything more.

To be honest, coming to find him was just an "impulsive decision."

I "accidentally" found out he was in Beijing, and I also accidentally discovered his personal network of contacts, some strange money transfer records, and some unusual external website information...

So she came here to wait for Chen Ya, entirely out of "a moment of impulse".

She held a huge secret about the man in front of her, a secret she didn't quite understand, nor did she know how to use it.

All she knew was that the secret she was now carrying was no less than a cultural atomic bomb.

“Your name is Chen Ya, right?” the girl said, observing the other person’s expression. “You returned to China last year and became a librarian at Peking University.”

"How did you know?"

“These websites all have publicly available recruitment information. I also hacked into Kyoto University’s student affairs system, and I saw your resume.”

The girl spoke of these things casually, but Chen Ya knew that she was fully capable of doing what she said.

"You're running a game company now, but I've noticed that you seemed to have had an unusual experience before you returned to China?"

Chen Ya raised his eyebrows and asked, "What are you trying to say?"

Seeing that he had piqued Chen Ya's interest, Y was slightly pleased and licked his lips, saying:

"Revenue from over 50 concerts, general manager income from more than a dozen bands, music copyright revenue exceeding one billion... Why would such enormous wealth flow to you alone?"

Chen Ya asked, "Continue?"

“I found out that although you may seem like just an ordinary small business owner in China, you have another identity abroad,” the girl said, “codename JX, right?”

She squinted, her eyes gleaming with a glint of light that was clearly visible even in the dim underground light.

"So?" Chen Ya was curious about what she was planning to do. "What are you trying to say?"

"Stop pretending," Ms. Y said. "Why did you hide your identity and come to China to be a small business owner? Is it because you committed crimes abroad and fled back to China to launder money by starting a company?"

Chen Ya sighed: "You have quite the imagination."

"You could have been a star abroad, so why did you come back to China? Did you commit a crime? Did your career collapse? Or do you have some incurable disease?"

"Nothing." Chen Ya spread his hands.

"Whether it is true or not, we'll find out in time," Ms. Y blinked. "I've set up a timed email delivery. As long as I don't cancel it, all the information I've found about you will be sent to one of my journalist friends in one hour."

Chen Ya laughed: "What do you want?"

“Join my team,” the girl said. “As an ‘accomplice,’ I might protect you. After all, my team members never ask about backgrounds.”

Chen Ya was stunned.

He had always wanted to recruit this exceptional hacker and bring her to his team.

It turned out that's what she thought too.

Is there anything more coincidental than this?

But... why does it feel different from what I imagined?

Chen Ya said, "Let me correct a misconception of yours. I did not deliberately hide my identity. Threatening me with this is useless. You can send it to your journalist friends right now."

Y looked at him in surprise: "Huh? Do you think I'm an idiot? You went and became a librarian, and you still say you didn't hide your identity?"

“I didn’t hide my identity. I just didn’t advertise it. I’m JX or something,” Chen Ya said. “I simply used my name, simply returned to China, and simply found a job. The day I returned, the airport was a beautiful blue…”

The girl swallowed hard and said, "But why? Why did you do this?"

"Why would you go around saying I'm JX?" Chen Ya said. "Would you go around saying you're Y?"

The girl was completely speechless.

I originally thought that catching this guy offline would throw him into a panic and give me complete victory in this game that I don't even know when it started.

But to my surprise, the feeling I got from this guy offline was exactly the same as the feeling I got from him online.

They're all so frustrating.

However… despite being unwilling to admit it, for Xia You's worldview, built over more than a decade, this person before her, with this philosophy of life, was undoubtedly… extremely…

Cool.

Damn it.

What makes him so cool?

Xia You is in the second year of junior high school this year, or "junior high school" for short.

It's a troublesome age.

Chapter 369 Thai Hot Pants!

From a very long time ago, Xia You has only one motto in life:

In this life, you must do some cool things.

In this world, some people are running around for money; some are scheming for power; and some are blindly foolish for love.

That's not cool.

Being cool means doing things that no one has ever done before.

Xia You used to think that there were some cool people around her, and she had admired others before.

But she later discovered that the underlying logic behind those people's behavior was also very mundane, and thus the brilliance in her eyes faded.

After experiencing this many times, Xia You realized that she hadn't found another truly cool person around her. Including herself.

In Xia You's still immature evaluation system, only the founding elders of this dynasty are considered cool.

She had met most of the descendants of those elders, but they were not as famous as they seemed. They only inherited their status and position from their ancestors, but very few of them could inherit that coolness.

However, after meeting Chen Ya, Xia You regained her original feelings.

“You’re lying,” Xia You said. “I’ve seen plenty of people like you. Most of the people who suddenly return to the country under an assumed name have either offended some political faction they shouldn’t have, slept with some big shot, or committed some taboo. Otherwise, why would you give up the identity you’ve worked so hard to build?”

Hearing the girl use some swear words that seemed out of place for her age, Chen Ya frowned slightly, but also found it a little funny.

When she said those things, it was like a child forcibly wearing adult clothes, pretending to be mature.

Based on her temperament alone, Chen Ya could tell that she was definitely the kind of daughter that only a family with excellent conditions and upbringing could raise.

"Didn't you investigate JX's deeds?" Chen Ya said. "What's your impression of him?"

Xia You felt this was some kind of showing off, and she really wanted to refuse to answer the question, but she still answered it subconsciously:

"Genius? Good luck? Or a lucky genius?"

Chen Ya shrugged: "Do you think this identity is something I 'laboriously' built up?"

"..."

Xia You was asked the question.

Indeed, it only took a year for JX to go from its sudden emergence to its immense popularity and then to its complete disappearance.

“And as I said, I haven’t given up this identity,” Chen Ya said. “I just haven’t been using it.”

The girl's wary gaze swept over his face:

Is there any difference?

“There is a slight difference,” Chen Ya said. “The former is to reduce the difficulty of life, while the latter increases the difficulty of life.”

"Then why did you do that?"

“I already said,” Chen Ya said, “to increase the difficulty of life.”

Xia You was completely defeated.

In her value judgment system, Chen Ya has undoubtedly won the crown.

He has surpassed everyone Xia You has ever met in his life, becoming an existence that looks down on all living beings and is above everyone else.

At this moment, Chen Ya is the supreme coooooooool-boy in Xia You's life!

Chen Ya had no idea that the girl in front of him was going through a phase of chuunibyou (middle school syndrome).