"The real lover is a man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."

---Marilyn Monroe

Aaradhya didn't have any classes to attend that afternoon, so she was replying to her company mails and came across a mail sent by her brother Anirudh. It was about the 'You might be the Hacker!! Challenge' which is going to start in three days.

She click on the official website of the 'You might be the Hacker Challenge'. However, after she pressed 'enter', the result that popped up wasn't a homepage interface Aaradhya expected.

Staring at the blank page with a message displaying [Error 404: This webpage does not exist]. Aaradhya was puzzled. She carefully rechecked the information in the mail to confirm that she had opened the right address.

"Is the page broken? No, it's probably..."

Aaradhya had a guess, so she tried to crack the webpage, and it turned out that she was right. The error message at the homepage was just a security wall. After Aaradhya broke this wall, the official competition page appeared with a pop-up message;  [You are the 1017 th person who broke this website's security system. Congratulations! You passed the first challenge and successfully obtained the qualifications to participate in the competition.]

Looking at the pop-up message, Aaradhya was excited, but also somewhat speechless; ' making the participants broke a website's security wall for the first challenge, which frantic designed this competition?'

After venting up her annoyance. Aaradhya moved the mouse to continue reading. The rest of the content was pretty normal. It merely explained more about the competition; [The 7 digits number obtained after successfully accessing this site will be used as the participant's id during the competition. After the participant completed the registration process. the next challenge will be opened!]

[This competition will officially start in 3 days. The pre-final matches will be divided into three stages, with the total time of 30 days. The first stage is...]

Before Aaradhya finished reading the information, she received a phone call from Abhinav. "Aadhya. are you free?"

"Yeah, what's wrong, Professor?"

"Go to the main entrance of the campus and Ravi will bring some documents, help me receive them." Abhinav instructed on the phone.

"OK." After Aaradhya was done talking, she headed towards the entrance to receive Abhinav's documents along with a pack of dark chocolate from Ravi and deliver the documents to Abhi.

At that time, Abhinav was preparing for his class. As soon as he saw Aaradhya, he stretched out his hand to receive the documents from her. "Are you free this afternoon?"

"Yes."

"In that case, sit here and read some books. We can have dinner together later."

Aaradhya was suspicious of Abhinav's reason for calling her out, but now that temptation was before her, she didn't mind so much. Besides, Abhinav was obviously testing her. With such a handsome face before her, how was she able to concentrate?

Aaradhya nodded and sat down on the sofa. Abhinav didn't pay any more attention to her, opening his computer to do his own work.

Aaradhya held her book, but couldn't focus on it.

Her gaze drifted here and there but still ended up resting on Abhinav’s face.From Aaradhya’s angle, the contours of Abhinav’s side profile was very bewitching. As he was typing, Abhinav’s fine eyelashes were lowered and appeared even longer. Below his tall and straight nose, there was also a pair of sexy, thin lips.

Staring steadily at Abhinav, Aaradhya’s lips unconsciously rose.

Sensing the scorching gaze of certain someone infront him, Abhinav’s hands stopped and he suddenly looked into her eyes.

Facing his deep black eyes, Aaradhya immediately turned her head and pretended to look into her book.

A small smile come over Abhinav's face but he did not speak up, resuming his work.

Aaradhya managed to focus for a little while, but not long after, possibly because a certain someone’s charm was truly too great and caused people to be unable to ignore, she wandered off again and didn't realize that again, her gaze had moved from the textbook in her hand to the person behind the desk and she once again turned into the fan girl mode, and obsessively admired Abhinav’s face.

The office was still quiet, only the light click-and-clack of the keyboard. But gradually, the keyboard sound disappeared. Abhinav suddenly stopped, his head not moving up, though helpless in his heart; " Aadhya, if you keep on looking... I can't stand it."

Because of her lack of focus, Aaradhya heard his voice but didn't understand what he meant. It took a long while for her to understand and then faint pink dusted on her cheeks ... She bowed her head to hide her face and silently turned on her laptop and opened the webpage of the You might be the Hacker Challenge.

Last time, she had passed the initial challenge, so Aaradhya directly logged into the homepage. After quickly browsed the information that she didn't manage to properly read at dormitory. Aaradhya clicked the link to the registration page.

[Nickname]: Aaradhya looked at Abhinav infront of her and just typed 'Sunshine' into the box.

[Age]: 23

[Gender]: Female

After filling in the necessary information. Aaradhya clicked on the next step.

Identity Verification! Aaradhya moved the cursor to see a row of instructions: [To ensure the authenticity of the participants identity and the security of this competition, the organizer will verify the personal information of the participants and it is end to end encrypted and participants details will not be disclosed to any third party]

Aaradhya entered the data for real identity verification.

After completing the registration, the competition finally started. This competition was divided into three stages. The first stage was a points based ranked challenge. For a total of ten days, participants could log into the competition's website and earn points by breaking through the security levels set by the organizers.

Afterward, all the participants would be ranked by their points. The ranking was published on the website's homepage and would be updated at midnight every day. Ten days later, the top thirty percent of the total ranked participants would automatically advance to the next stage of the challenge.

After carefully reading the rules, Aaradhya clicked the 'Start' button. The first task given was to break the security wall of a website. This wasn't difficult. Aaradhya quickly typed out strings of code. Soon, she found the loop in the website's security system and used it to directly collapse the security wall.

[Dingdong]

A prompt window popped out: [Congratulations to 'Sunshine' for successfully clearing the level. Completion Rate: 100%, Time: 2 minutes, Technical Analysis: 98, Points Earned: 10]

Points given for each level were on the range of 0-10. The system would automatically give points according to the end result for each clearance, with 10 points as the full score.

Seeing the 10 points, Aaradhya raised her lips and immediately clicked 'Continue' . Her second task was slightly more complicated than the previous one, but it wasn't too difficult. Aaradhya quickly went through data that showed the other party's control system, modified the security data. and directly destroyed their security wall.

[Dingdong]

[Congratulations to 'Sunshine'.....Completion Rate: 100%,.... Points Earned: 10]

After completing each level, she immediately opened the next one. After a while, Aaradhya lost track of the number of levels she had passed. Until a prompt popped up: [Dear contestant 'Sunshine', you will reach your upper limit for level passed today if you complete this level. Please click 'Continue' to complete the last level of the day.]

Soon, it was time to finish work.

"You can leave first. The driver was waiting in the car downstairs, I'll follow behind." Abhinav was thoughtful. He knew that Aaradhya would feel awkward, so he asked her to wait for him in the car.

Aaradhya packed her things and left the office. She then waited in the car which was quite low-key beside the gates of the campus.

After Abhinav got into the car, he ruffled her hair and asked "I have a lot of classes, but I wanted to see you, so I asked you to run some small errands for me. You didn't mind, did you?"

Aaradhya quickly shook her head.

Due to the fact she didn't complete the total number of tasks in the afternoon. Aaradhya wanted to return to her dormitory after dinner and then complete the remaining last task. But before this desire could be acted upon, it was destroyed by the incident...

19/09/21

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