Chapter 435 - The First Song of Qin (8) (2/2)

Divine Fantasy had been running for nearly 5 years already and was still very popular. How could it be easy to crack the source code of a game like this?

The sun slowly rose to its zenith, and then gradually set in the west.

Shi Sheng’s speed slowed down. She went from typing with both hands to typing with one. She also no longer typed quickly, instead tapping a few keys here and there every so often.

“Senior, is there anything to eat?” Shi Sheng shut her laptop and turned to ask the person who had been staring at the two of them all this while.

The senior who was addressed immediately nodded and turned to get some of the takeaway they’d just ordered. After heating it up, he handed it to Shi Sheng.

Shi Sheng ate as she watched Qin Ge.

He was staring at his monitor with a serious expression, his fingers still flying across the keyboard rapidly.

Just as she was finishing her last few mouthfuls, Qin Ge slowed down. His gaze turned to sweep over her. Seeing her calm manner, Qin Ge instinctively knew. He’d lost.

“It’s a deal, yeah? Don’t bug me to come to your classes anymore.” Shi Sheng let Qin Ge see her laptop before immediately deleting all the code.

Qin Ge followed suit on his. He silently got up and walked to the door, stopping to speak when he got to the doorway, “I’ll keep my word.”

“Bye Professor Qin!” Shi Sheng waved him goodbye with a handkerchief she’d gotten from who-knows-where.

Qin Ge’s figure soon vanished from the doorway.

He gazed off into the distance, feeling rather unhappy.

It seemed like…he didn’t have a reason to see her anymore.

Qin Ge felt like there was something off with him. His thoughts seemed to be breaking free from his control—something that had never happened before.

‘Qiao Chu…

Qiao Chu…’

He silently repeated her name in her mind. It was very foreign. But every time his eyes met hers, he felt an odd sense of familiarity.

……

Shi Sheng didn’t even have time to feel happy about Qin Ge leaving before System’s voice suddenly rang in her head.

[Hidden Quest: Universal Equality.]

Shi Sheng, “…”

‘Hidden Quest = Feng Ci.

Calm down! Calm down!’

Shi Sheng waited for System to continue.

After roughly 30 seconds, System spoke once more.

[Quest Target: Qin Ge. Objective: As it says in the wording. Please comprehend it on your own.]

‘Is it someone else called Qin Ge?’

[……]

‘So the person I offended just now was the quest target this time? And he might be my Feng Ci?’

‘Calm down! Calm down! …Calm down my arse! I(lz) offended him just now!!!

System, you did that on fucking purpose, didn’t ya?! Where’s my(lz) sword?!’

Her sword was still levelling up…

“Chu-Chu, why is your expression so bad?” Chen Xi felt her forehead in concern. “Are you tired? I’ll send you back to your dorms.”

Shi Sheng despondently walked out. Chen Xi shook his head and grabbed her belongings before catching up.

Shi Sheng still wore an expression of despair even after reaching her dormitory.

“Chu-Chu…” Chen Xi handed the stuff he was carrying to her. “Hurry up and go to bed.”

Chen Xi really wanted to ask her when she’d learned all her skills, but upon thinking that she’d exhausted herself today, he suppressed his curiosity and merely expressed his concern a bit.

“Thanks. You can go back too.” Shi Sheng carried her stuff and slowly made her way upstairs.

Right now, she just wanted to chop System up to vent.

‘For fuck’s sakes! Why didn’t it issue the quest when I first met Qin Ge?!’

Qin Ge had gone completely unmentioned in the plot and wasn’t present in Qiao Chu’s memories either. But such an influential person should have been in Qiao Chu’s memories, if not the plot.

Since he was missing from both, it could only mean that System had wiped out information about him.

How could she have forgotten this?! She’d miscalculated!

‘System actually dares to play me like this!’

Shi Sheng returned to her dorm room to begin cultivation.

Attend class? Shut it, she wasn’t going there to lose face.

[1] I’m pretty sure this is meant to be a poke at his age/seniority.

[2] Raws are “我单独给你上” where the last word “上” can be a colloquial term for “fuck”. I think the wording here conveyed it okay-ish, but this is just to clarify.