Chapter 181 — The Secret in the Computer

Wei Zhao strode up the stairs and, sure enough, found a hidden data box in the wall between the first and second floors, papered over with wallpaper so that no one would notice it without looking closely.

He opened it. He knew little about networking, but the labels inside were perfectly clear. The people who lived in this villa district were all rich, and few of them understood wiring, a fact the developer had taken into account when the houses were built. The control switch for every room was marked plainly, and all one had to do was follow the instructions.

Sure enough, his own room was listed, with both the telephone and the network ports shut off. Wei Zhao switched the network on and left the telephone alone. He had his cell phone and had no use for the indoor line.

When he had finished, he closed the box and went back downstairs. Gu Mengyao only glanced at him. Seeing how quickly he came down, and seeing nothing unusual about Mighty General, she concluded he had never gone up to the second floor and paid him no more attention. Her eyes returned to the television, where she and Shen Yushu were excitedly swaying along with Xu Shilan on the screen...

Wei Zhao had no interest in it and went back to his room to examine Shen Yushu's computer.

It was a brand-name machine with good specs and a handsome look, only a little too feminine. The case and the monitor were both done in a bright, flashy style, and even the mouse and keyboard were fashionable, the sort of thing girls liked.

Wei Zhao was not picky and was willing to make do. He plugged the computer in, turned it on, and in no time at all the system came up.

Shen Yushu's desktop was very clean, with almost no software installed, only QQ and Fetion, a video player, and a few other everyday programs, and practically nothing professional.

Wei Zhao opened the D drive, which held two folders, one called "video" and the other called "album".

At the sight of those two names his heart gave an excited thump. Could Shen Yushu have been amusing herself at home by taking some steamy selfies... He glanced back at the locked door, then with a trembling hand clicked open the "video" folder first.

Toward Shen Yushu, Wei Zhao had always felt an easy affection. She was the kind of girl people could not help liking, who looked scatterbrained and thoughtless but was in fact very shrewd.

Compared with Gu Mengyao's pride, Shen Yushu was far more approachable, and she served as the bridge for almost all his communication with Miss Chu. It was only natural that he had come to feel something for her without quite noticing it.

At the thought of Shen Yushu's rather explosive figure, Wei Zhao could almost feel himself drooling.

Hee hee, little Shen, so you have finally left a little secret in my hands?

Wei Zhao peered lecherously into the open "video" folder and was instantly disappointed. Damn it, it was all downloaded MVs and concerts by the big star Xu Shilan. There were no self-shot videos at all.

His interest gone, he clicked two of them at random, and they were exactly like the show that had just been on television. The girl who sang was pretty enough, but Wei Zhao had no wish to waste his fine feelings on some distant, untouchable idol. That time would be better spent on something solid... like teasing Tang Yun, trading glances with Shen Yushu, trading barbs with Qiu Lingshan, or even watching Miss Chu glare at him. Ha, any of that beat watching an idol video, if only because those were real people standing right in front of him...

He closed the "video" folder and placed all his hopes on the "album" folder, though he no longer dared hope for much after his first disappointment. Going by the contents of the "video" folder, nine times out of ten this "album" would also hold nothing but pictures of the big star Xu Shilan.

Wei Zhao opened the "album" folder without the excitement he had felt before. But the moment it opened, his eyes went wide!

Inside "album" were two folders, one called "Xu Shilan" and the other called "My Album"!

The disappointment vanished and excitement surged back. Filtering out the "Xu Shilan" folder automatically, Wei Zhao clicked open "My Album"!

Inside were indeed a scattering of image files, and from the file names alone he could tell they had been taken with a digital camera or a phone. His heart pounded with excitement...

He quickly double-clicked the first image and waited anxiously for the computer to respond. It was only a matter of a second, but Wei Zhao stared fixedly at the screen. In his heart he was, after all, just like any normal boy his age... a little lustful.

The picture came up, and it was not the "selfie" style he had been hoping for, but an ordinary snapshot from daily life. Shen Yushu sat on a sofa, looking lazy and a little childish, yet just as lovely. Judging by the date on the photo, it had been taken three years before, when Shen Yushu had just started her first year of high school.

Wei Zhao flipped through the album. Besides Shen Yushu there was Gu Mengyao, and there were pictures of the two together. A few showed them in pajamas, but none of them crossed the line. They might count as private photos, but they were a long way from the kind of selfies he had imagined.

Even so, Wei Zhao pored over them with delight. Living under the same roof with the two beauties, he was usually too embarrassed to look at them closely. With photographs, he could look to his heart's content.

The dates made it easy to see Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu grow from two slightly awkward little girls into the graceful young women they were now. These pictures were a record of their growth and their friendship, and they were truly precious.

Pictures of their trips together made up the largest share. Every winter and summer vacation they had gone traveling, though there was no telling who had taken the pictures. Surely not Uncle Qing? Wei Zhao pictured him spitefully, huffing and puffing behind the two girls with a camera on his back, playing the lackey...

Uh, had not part of Uncle Qing's job already been handed over to him? Was he now the young miss's lackey? At that thought Wei Zhao stopped laughing. The next time, the one trotting along with a camera on his back would probably be himself.

Wei Zhao shuddered. Here he was laughing at Uncle Qing, when he was no better off himself!

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