Falling Dreams, Rising Hopes: Saving Mr. Boyfriend

"Ah young lady! You are going to make this old man work. Really!" the old librarian complained but he still did not want to turn her down. "How about you teach this to the driver? That could solve the whole problem."

"But, he is my dad's man. If I give him away the code, not only will he tell my dad, he will also end up decoding the messages I send to senior Yu. I don't think I would want that," Mei Qingyang surmised. This was a tricky thing.

"Fine, I will have to use my weapon then," the old man pulled out an old brick phone from his back pocket.

"This? Is this one of the first cell phones ever made? How do you have this?" Mei Qingyang was surprised. She knew this man was resourceful, but he had an ancient device and he was calling it a weapon?

"These ah! I have a bunch of these with me. I used to love to fiddle with them, I wanted to be an engineer after all. But it never happened, so I just kept all my tools and toys with me," he touched them tenderly, as if an old memory was tugging his heart. A beautiful smile appeared on his face.

Mei Qingyang's eyes lit up with excitement on seeing the two phones.

"What is in your mind?" she asked.

"Haiyya," he pulled out another one from his drawer.

"Wait a minute, you're not saying…," Mei Qingyang looked at him. He nodded. Such a simple solution! Given the old technology, it would be so hard to hack into this device unless the people knew the stuff behind it.

"You know it right? You can program them however you want!" he handed her both the mobile phones.

"But how are you going to make sure it reaches him?" You do not want to go out and you do not want to personally teach him anything," Mei Qingyang was confused. How the heck was he thinking to transport one of them to him, all the way, somewhere unknown.

"I have way more freedom than you young lady," the old man laughed. "I can always parcel it out."

"This old man ah, is a harmless person to Yu Rong. I have been diligently doing my duty for past fifty years. You do not need to worry," he calmed her down.

"Okay. But old man, I am telling you all this assuming you are not involved with my dad and are working independently. I know I cannot give you anything, and I shall be forever grateful to you for your help," Mei Qingyang held his hands in hers. He was truly like a grandfather to her, becoming partner in crime all the way.

"What are you talking about? I am getting such an entertainment out of all this. Life had been pretty boring before you. Now I see changes everywhere. And I don't think I want anything more than that before dying. My child, you are the one who is going to change this place. And yes, the beginning will be from the scion of the one who is responsible for all this mess," the old man dabbed his old wrinkly eyes with his hands.

He had been here for years, observing, taking in all the injustices, writhing in pain when his favorite people left for heaven and just praying that someday, someone would come and let Yu Rong taste her own medicine.

Mei Qingyang also got emotional just thinking about what all this old man would have witnessed in his life. She herself had seen so much in her six months here, he was talking about half a century.

"Old man, I can't promise you that your intended outcome will occur. But I will try my best to give you best possible show," she grinned through her tears. She had hopes of so many people riding on her shoulders. How could she not give it her all?

"Thank you, old man. Let me take these with me. I will program them in an hour and keep one with me," she got up from her seat and took the two heavy mobile phones with her and the packet of doc.u.ments her agent had sent. She had much to do. With the added load from classes, it was going to be really hard. These were going to be a few sleepless nights.

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Mei Qingyang entered the secret place and headed directly to Yu Tian's room. At least she could feel his presence here. It had been almost a week since she even heard his voice. Was she missing his this much? Every moment was spent thinking about him these days. Unexpectedly, her whole life had started revolving around him. She still had her freedom which was good. So, this was what a true relationship was like?

"Hoho, so the girl has really fallen for the guy," the very familiar crisp sound came from the door. She abruptly got up and found the three people standing on the door, Su Lang having a teasing expression on his face. The other two were neutral as usual.

"Elder brother!" she got up and jumped out of bed to hide the things on the table behind herself.

"Sorry for hearing your rant, it was quite cute," he teased her again. Everyone noticed her action but did not say anything.

"What are you guys doing here?" she asked, rubbing her eyes. She had not realized but she really had almost drifted to sleep.

"Well, we were just discussing some usual stuff, how are you doing? Missing your bae?"

"Can you stop it already? It's been a while since you have known," Mei Qingyang rolled her eyes. Why was her cousin so childish? A mischievous smile appeared on her brother's face.

"I can do whatever I want," he crossed his arms to show domination.

"Now that we are here, I would like to congratulate you. You have conquered the heart of one of the most difficult people I personally know of. It's a great feat," Fan Ruyi smiled behind and stepped ahead to give Mei Qingyang a hug.

Mei Qingyang did not reject it this time, she knew Fan Ruyi was sincerely congratulating her, although her remark did seem a bit sarcastic.

"Let us help you out. We know you are doing something big. We want some piece of action too," after observing for quite a while, Feng Yue finally broke his silence. He really needed to leave behind the shadow of Li Sibao, by hook or by crook.

"Haha, what are you talking about? Something big? Nothing like that?" Mei Qingyang shook her head sideways. Guess, one could not really hide anything from these rich brats.

"Oh come on, do you think you being this secretive will do anything? What about whatever was on the table earlier?" Feng Yue called out.

Mei Qingyang stared at the handsome guy for a moment. She had known him since childhood, right? He had never spoken a full sentence before her, ever. His cold monosyllable answers were very frustrating to her, always. How come he was demanding an explanation like this when he was in normal mood? Did he really change?

Fan Ruyi and Su Lang gave each other look and then burst out laughing. They knew Mei Qingyang was as shocked as they were when they heard a full proper sentence from Feng Yue's mouth.

"Ahem," realizing that he was becoming center of attention in the room, Feng Yue cleared his throat.

"So?" he asked Mei Qingyang once again.

"Fine, I need help from brother Z," Mei Qingyang looked at Fan Ruyi first. The girl nodded readily, calling her assistant from outside.

"He will be at your disposal from now on," Fan Ruyi declared. In reality, they all knew what the girl was up to and wanted to help as much as they could, since they could not really contribute directly.

"Done!"

"As from senior Feng…," Mei Qingyang thought about it hard, "ah yes! I should be getting a few doc.u.ments from Wang Hao soon, like within next two days. I need you to check their authenticity, if possible." Feng Yue was in entertainment business. He would have the biggest circle out of the four. She could definitely get much more information via him than anyone else, although she did not have doubts about capabilities of other people.

"Okay."

"So then, Brother Z, please help me out with these," Mei Qingyang took out the two cell phones from behind her and waved them in front of the audience.