Chapter 1: The Light of the Jade Palace Reveals (Ch 1)

Night falls.

In the rental house, Su Yang’s hands were flying on the keyboard, and lines of code were jumping on the computer screen.

“Beep!”

At this moment, the screen of the mobile phone on the table lit up, and the caller ID displayed “Monkey (Zhang Bin)”.

“Lao Su, where are you?” came the monkey’s voice.

“I’m in the rental house. What’s the matter?” Su Yang continued to stare at the code on the screen.

“Brother Meng is heartbroken.”

“Broken heart?”

Su Yang was stunned for a moment, then reacted, “You went to meet the female anchor this afternoon, didn’t you see her?”

Zhang Bin and Gao Meng are Su Yang’s roommates. They made an appointment to meet a female anchor together in the afternoon.

“Come back first. Brother Meng is in a bad mood now. He is waiting for you to come back and comfort him.”

“I’m coming over now.”

After hanging up the phone, Su Yang saved the code, closed his laptop, stuffed it into his backpack, picked up the bag and left the rental house.

The rental house is not far from Xiangnan University. Su Yang is a junior student in the Computer Science Department. In order to facilitate his studies, he rented a house off campus.

More than ten minutes later, Su Yang returned to the dormitory, and Monkey and Gao Meng were there.

Gao Meng was seen sitting on the bed, feeling depressed.

“Brother Meng, what happened? Were you cooked?” Su Yang teased.

Gao Meng said nothing, looking as wilted as an eggplant hit by frost.

“It’s just a broken heart, is it necessary to make such a fuss?” Su Yang couldn’t help but complain.

“It would be nice if I really broke up.” The monkey said quietly.

“Not heartbroken?” Su Yang looked at the monkey in confusion, then at Gao Meng.

The monkey looked at Gao Meng and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

“What’s going on?” Su Yang became even more curious.

“I told you so.”

Monkey sighed, “We saw that female anchor this afternoon. Damn, she was so ugly!”

“Is it ugly?” Su Yang asked.

“It’s not just ugly, it’s extremely ugly!” Gao Meng finally couldn’t help but speak, his tone holding his breath.

“That’s not right. Didn’t you have a live broadcast with her before? Didn’t you say she was very beautiful?” Su Yang became even more confused.

As far as he knew, Gao Meng had been having a heated conversation with a beautiful female anchor over the past half month.

“We were deceived.” Monkey took over the conversation, “She in the live broadcast and the real person are completely two different people.”

“Is it true?” Su Yang was skeptical.

Monkey took out his phone and said, “Look for yourself.”

The photo shows a bloated woman with a bucket waist, strong arms, elephant legs, and fat on her face.

“Oh my god, is this the female anchor?” Su Yang widened his eyes. She was really ugly.

“Are you sure it’s the female anchor you want to meet?” Su Yang asked, “By the way, what’s the name of that female anchor?”

“Your Highness Qiao Biluo.”

“Qiao Biluo…” Su Yang took out his phone and searched for TikTok, “Is this it?”

“That’s her!” The monkey nodded.

Su Yang compared the people in the video on Douyin with the photos in Monkey’s phone. “There is only one possibility, she turned on the beauty filter when she was live streaming,” Su Yang concluded.

Nowadays, many female anchors use beauty filters to attract attention, and even ugly girls can become beautiful.

Moving his gaze to Gao Meng, Su Yang smiled, “I thought you were really heartbroken, so this is what happened, it’s nothing, at most you’ll feel a little disgusted, you won’t lose anything…” At this point, Su Yang noticed that Gao Meng’s face looked strange, “No way, you didn’t give her a gift, did you?”

Gao Meng’s face turned bitter when he heard this.

“Damn, you really swiped it, how much did you swipe?” Su Yang had a look of disappointment on his face.

“Not much…” Gao Meng stammered.

“How much is a little?”

“More than fifteen thousand yuan.”

The monkey answered instead.

“Fuck, more than 15,000, Brother Meng, that’s great, you’re a hidden rich second generation!” Su Yang was heartbroken, “Look at you, it would be great if you had the money to treat your brothers to delicious food and drinks!” After shaking his head and sighing, Su Yang asked, “Can I get this money back?”

Gao Meng and the monkey shook their heads together.

“Just let it go like this?” Su Yang asked back.

“What else can I do?” The monkey spread his hands. “As an adult, you must pay the price for your actions.”

Gao Meng is an adult and he gave the reward voluntarily. If a minor gave the reward to the anchor, he could get some of the money back.

“Old Su.” Gao Meng looked at Su Yang pitifully, “You studied computer science, I know you are an expert, can you expose her?”

“exposure?”

“Yes, expose the fact that she used beauty filters to deceive people!” Gao Meng nodded.

“Turn off her beauty filter during the live broadcast, so that her true colors are exposed!” Monkey echoed, looking at Su Yang expectantly, “Old Su, is this okay for your skills?”

“Do you mean to remotely turn off her beauty filter while she is live streaming?” Su Yang asked.

Monkey and Gao Meng nodded.

That’s what they mean.

“It’s not impossible, it’s just…” Su Yang originally wanted to say that it was a bit difficult and he couldn’t guarantee it, but when the words came to his lips, he suddenly froze.

At this moment, a series of mechanical voices sounded in Su Yang’s mind:

“The God-level hacker system was successfully activated.”

“Binding to host.”

…

What is that sound?

Su Yang turned around and there was no one behind him.

What’s going on?

“Lao Su… Lao Su… say something.” Gao Meng saw Su Yang suddenly stunned and asked in confusion.

“Oh…it’s okay, I’ll go to the bathroom first. Your business is my business, I’ll help you with it.”

As Su Yang spoke, he walked quickly towards the bathroom.

His two roommates did not notice anything unusual about him.

In the bathroom.

Su Yang was stunned again.

He stared blankly at the air… No, a virtual light screen invisible to others appeared in front of him, with words on it:

“Name: Su Yang

Age: 21

School: Department of Computer Science, Shonan University

Hacker ID: LittleBoy (little boy)

Hacker Toolbox: [Newbie Gift Pack]

Popularity points: 1200

…

(Note: Popularity points are related to the hacker’s fame and influence. Points can be exchanged for hacker tools.)

“You have a novice gift pack, do you want to open it?”

…

It took a while for Su Yang to come back to his senses and he let out a long breath.

When the light curtain appeared just now, he almost cried out.

Restraining the surprise in his heart, Su Yang tentatively stretched out his finger and clicked on the “Newbie Gift Pack” on the virtual light screen.

“The newbie gift pack has been opened.”

“Congratulations to the player for obtaining the remote control tool: Glacier Trojan (the tool has been sent to the player’s mailbox in an encrypted email, password: abcfg***************)”

Su Yang quickly opened his mobile phone mailbox and indeed received a new email.

This is so amazing.

“Old Su.”

Gao Meng’s voice came from outside the door, “Qiao Biluo will start broadcasting at 10 o’clock tonight.”

Su Yang turned off the virtual light screen, turned around and walked out of the bathroom.