Hidden identities of the AI Heiress
Chapter 779 - Chapter 779 Chapter 779 Kidnapping People

Chapter 779: Chapter 779: Kidnapping People Chapter 779: Chapter 779: Kidnapping People Lu Shiran was very curious about Tianqi Research Institute and asked, “Sis, is it hard to get into Tianqi Research Institute?”

He had participated in the Star Cup before, and because he won an award, he was fortunate enough to participate in the talent training program at Tianqi Research Institute.

But he still wasn’t qualified enough to enter the institute.

Qiao Yun said, “It’s not hard with me here.”

Lu Shiran’s eyes lit up. “Sis, are you finally going to pull some strings for me?”

Qiao Yun glanced at him. “I’m here to supervise you.”

Lu Shiran: “…”

“Brother, you need to work harder,” Qiao Yun encouraged Lu Shiran.

Lu Shiran felt like crying but had no tears, thinking he couldn’t be any better and feeling that his sister would be especially strict with him.

He wasn’t his sister’s most beloved brother anymore.

Lu Rui wanted to ask Qiao Yun about her teacher, MR.Q, but considering how well hidden MR.Q’s identity was, he still didn’t ask.

Some things are better left unknown.

After finishing the meal, the Lu family sat for a while and then said their goodbyes to head home.

Before leaving, the grandfather pulled Qiao Yun aside, saying kindly, “Dear granddaughter, no matter what decision you make, Grandpa will support you, but there’s just one thing–you must not let yourself be unhappy.”

Qiao Yun looked into her grandfather’s eyes full of concern, felt a warmth in her heart, and nodded gently. “Okay.”

“That’s my good girl.” The grandfather smiled and affectionately ruffled Qiao Yun’s hair.

…

After returning home, Qiao Yun said good night to them and went upstairs. After washing up, she called Li Hanzhou.

As soon as the call connected, Qiao Yun bluntly said, “I told them.”

“What?” Li Hanzhou’s voice was low, tinged with a light chuckle.

Qiao Yun inexplicably felt her ears warm up, touched her earlobe, and said in a soft voice, “Told them about us.”

It was silent on the other end for a while until finally, a sigh came through. “Kid, you really know how to surprise people.”

Qiao Yun narrowed her eyes and hummed in agreement, strongly agreeing with that statement.

On the other end, Li Hanzhou imagined the serious look on Qiao Yun’s face when she disclosed their relationship to the Lu family. His thin lips curved upwards, and in a husky voice, he said, “I’m glad you told them.”

Hearing him say he was happy, Qiao Yun knew her decision was right. “The records say, having no name, no status means sneaking around. We’re not sneaking around; we’re in a legitimate relationship.”

Li Hanzhou chuckled. “Sneaking around can also be quite interesting.”

Qiao Yun: “…”

Although Li Hanzhou now had a recognized status in front of the Lu family, he remained unchanged and did not alter his demeanor towards them at all.

This made the Lu family feel much more comfortable.

Even though Li Hanzhou was dating Qiao Yun, they couldn’t really treat someone like Li Grandpa as an ordinary person.

Old Mr. Li began visiting even more frequently, almost treating the Lu family’s home as his own, which made Lu Rui quite helpless. But, after all, Mr. Li was an elder, and Lu Rui couldn’t just send him away–besides, they might even become relatives by marriage in the future.

Before Li Hanzhou’s father’s birthday banquet, the day for the release of the college entrance examination results quickly arrived.

That day, Qiao Yun came downstairs and saw Su Mian and Lu Rui sitting on the couch, both looking very serious, their eyes fixed on the phone in front of them; one could think something serious had happened.

Qiao Yun asked aloud, “What are you doing?”

When Su Mian heard the voice and looked up, she saw Qiao Yun standing at the top of the stairs, dressed in a T-shirt, wearing a duckbill cap that overshadowed her chilly brows and eyes, revealing only a delicately beautiful face.

Her skin was as white as porcelain.

So beautiful it was hard to look away.

Su Mian felt slightly dazed looking at Qiao Yun before her; it was summer when Qiao Yun had returned last year, and time had flown so fast, it was summer again.

Seeing Su Mian staring at her, Qiao Yun tilted her head in confusion. “What’s up?”

Su Mian snapped back to reality and smiled. “Qiaoqiao, you forgot, today they’re releasing the college entrance exam results. We’re waiting to check the scores.”

“Oh.” Qiao Yun wasn’t really concerned, nodding at them: “I’m heading out.”

She had arranged to meet Pei Ya.

“Go ahead.” Su Mian, watching the computer, raised her hand and waved to Qiao Yun.

Seeing this, Qiao Yun helplessly shook her head.

It wasn’t just the Lu Family couple who were concerned about Qiao Yun’s exam results.

On the other side, Lu Zhanxing had just finished a scene, still in his dirty clothes, squatting in a corner, muttering to his phone.

“Oh Lord, please bless her…”

Xie Ying almost thought his artist had lost his mind and tentatively said, “Are you really not sick? If you’re sick, you should see a doctor, don’t hide it.”

“I’m not sick.” Lu Zhanxing told Xie Ying to keep his distance so as not to disturb him.

Xie Ying retorted irritably, “You’re not sick yet you’re talking to your phone? Anyone who doesn’t know better might think you’ve got hysteria.”

Lu Zhanxing gave him a glance: “I’m praying my sister scores a double first place.”

Xie Ying: “…” He definitely wouldn’t sign another artist with a sister next time.

At the company, Jingzhi had given up on working altogether, staring at the computer screen, which made the subordinates coming to report their work think he was seriously engaged in his tasks.

…

Qiao Yun arrived at the restaurant she had agreed on with Pei Ya.

Pei Ya poured Qiao Yun a glass of water and casually asked, “Boss, aren’t the results supposed to be released today? Is it really okay for you to run off like this? Aren’t you worried about the results at all?”

Qiao Yun, holding her glass of water, didn’t reply but just silently gave him a look.

Pei Ya immediately raised his hands and said, “Okay, I get it, I’m talking nonsense, I’ll shut up now.”

Qiao Yun nodded, giving him an approving look.

Professor Qiao didn’t need to care about the results, but Pei Ya did, and as a die-hard fan of Professor Qiao, he had to take even a high school exam seriously.

Acting on his thought, Pei Ya took out his phone and opened it: “Let me check for you.”

Qiao Yun didn’t stop him, letting Pei Ya go on with his endeavours.

Pei Ya entered Qiao Yun’s exam ID, and after a while… the page loaded.

He looked at the scores displayed, calmly put down the phone, and heaved a deep sigh: “Well… no suspense at all.”

Qiao Yun turned her head, confused, and uttered, “Hm?”

Pei Ya, with a complex expression, said, “I guess a lot of people are going to be devastated by you again, students in your cohort are just so unlucky.”

Unlucky, indeed very unlucky.

Thoroughly crushed.

Qiao Yun: “Oh.”

“Let’s not dwell on this.” Pei Ya put down his phone and started to discuss serious matters with Qiao Yun, “There’s been some progress on that matter from before.”

Pei Ya had arranged to meet Qiao Yun today specifically to talk about the person intervening in the Qin Family’s affairs.

“I found out that this person used Qin Yuan’s identity to invest in quite a few research institutes.”

Qiao Yun’s brow slightly furrowed.

Pei Ya continued: “Including Li Nanfeng’s underground research institute.”

Qiao Yun raised an eyebrow: “Is Li Nanfeng’s stuff related to him?”

“That’s unclear,” Pei Ya shrugged, “I’ve always found Li Nanfeng’s death very strange, it might relate to this person, perhaps it was his way of eliminating any evidence linked to him.”

Qiao Yun nodded thoughtfully.

“This seems to be a dark industry,” Pei Ya said. “My suggestion is, since neither side has provoked the other, we really don’t need to provoke them.”

Qiao Yun nodded: “This ends here.”

She told Pei Ya not to investigate any further.

She decided to check because the other party wanted to recover Qin Yuan; now that they’ve stopped, there was no need to check anymore.

Qiao Yun did not like creating trouble for herself.

However, she didn’t mind handing over the information she had found to the police. As for what industries it might involve, that was none of her business.

Qiao Yun nodded; she really was a concerned citizen.

Only Li Nanfeng’s target was the Newborn Plan; he just didn’t know if the other party was aware of this project’s existence.

…

After having dinner with Pei Ya, Qiao Yun went home.

Walking through her front door, Qiao Yun’s expression paused for a moment.

Her parents were just the same as when she had left.

The two sat on the sofa, their minds seemingly elsewhere, until they saw Qiao Yun.

Su Mian’s eyes lit up, her voice hardly able to hide her excitement, “Qiaoqiao, do you know your scores yet?”

Before Qiao Yun could answer, Su Mian sprang up from the sofa and rushed over to embrace her. “You are the top scholar in both arts and sciences, and the national top scholar!”

Qiao Yun, the person in question, showed no change in expression. She patted Su Mian on the back, “Calm down, take it easy.”

“I can’t calm down!” Su Mian beamed, “Our family has never had double toppers before!”

Lu Rui coughed lightly, “What’s so exciting about that? You’ve forgotten who Qiaoqiao really is. It’s just being a double topper–no need to get this worked up.”

Su Mian sneered at Lu Rui, “As if you weren’t the one who almost went out to run around in excitement just now.”

Lu Rui: “…”

Ouch, that stings.

Su Mian pulled Qiao Yun to sit on the sofa and discussed with Lu Rui, “Our daughter did so well, we must celebrate, and celebrate grandly, let everyone know the double topper is my daughter.”

Lu Rui, long accustomed to Su Mian’s dreams of showing off her daughter, agreed, “Indeed, we should.”

“It’s not necessary,” Qiao Yun didn’t want them to fuss so much.

Su Mian said, “Qiaoqiao, listen to mum this time.”

Although Qiao Yun was Professor Qiao, not everyone knew.

Externally, she was just the girl brought back from the countryside, and people had always looked down on Qiao Yun’s background in secret.

Su Mian wanted to squarely slap those people in the face with this opportunity.

Seeing them happy, Qiao Yun no longer obstructed them.

Su Mian and Lu Rui excitedly began discussing who to invite.

Seeing this, Qiao Yun told them and went back upstairs.

…

The next day after the results were released, Qiao Yun’s regularly used phone rang early in the morning.

She didn’t think twice before answering, and before she could even speak, she heard the person on the other end ask, “Hello, may I speak to student Qiao Yun?”

Qiao Yun, still not fully awake, slowly said, “Yes.”

The person’s voice grew enthusiastic, “Hello, this is from the admissions office of Ocean University, I was wondering if you might be interested…”

Qiao Yun, still groggy, listened to the other side babble on. Finally, she yawned, “Not interested.”

Then she hung up the phone.

Very cold and merciless.

Admissions officer: “…”

Good, very aware of a top scholar’s demeanor.

Having been woken up by the call, Qiao Yun didn’t plan on going back to sleep, but before she could get out of bed, the phone rang again.

She hesitated for a moment but answered the call.

“Hello, may I speak to Qiao Yun?”

Qiao Yun: “…”

“No.” Qiao Yun said and then hung up the phone.

The phone rang again right after she hung up.

But this time, Qiao Yun didn’t continue to answer.

She felt today was rather bizarre, with so many admissions offices contacting her.

After some thought, Qiao Yun simply set her phone to block incoming calls before heading downstairs.

Su Mian and Lu Rui also received many calls, all asking about Qiao Yun’s intentions.

Back in their days, their two sons never received such treatment.

It was the first time Su Mian and Lu Rui experienced the joy of being parents.

Seeing Qiao Yun come downstairs, they asked, “Qiaoqiao, do you have a school in mind?”

Qiao Yun shook her head, “Not yet.”

“No hurry, no hurry, take your time.” After all, with a daughter so outstanding, she could go anywhere.

Qiao Yun nodded.

The phone rang again.

She frowned slightly in irritation, but upon looking down and seeing it was from Lu Shiran, the emotion in Qiao Yun’s eyes returned to calm.

[Sister, I hear many schools are betting on who can scoop you up first, you truly are amazing, sis.]

Qiao Yun replied with softened eyes and brows: [Brother, you are amazing too.]

Lu Shiran’s performance was very steady this time; if the top scholar title hadn’t been taken by Qiao Yun, it would have been his.

[No, it’s you who’s amazing, sis.]

[You’re amazing.]

[No no no, you’re amazing.]

The siblings exchanged compliments for a while, eventually concluding on Qiao Yun’s “everyone’s amazing.”

Lu Shiran was indeed right, many schools were indeed vying for Qiao Yun, and failing to reach her, they contacted Shengyang High School.

Wu Xianfeng even made a special call to Qiao Yun: “Congratulations, Qiao, I knew you could do it!”

“Thank you,” Qiao Yun politely thanked.

“You don’t know, these past couple of days, my phone has nearly exploded with calls, hahaha…” Wu Xianfeng laughed heartily, “I’ve taught for so many years and it’s the first time I’ve received such treatment.”

Being a head teacher for so many years, it was the first time Wu Xianfeng received so many calls from admissions offices, each from prestigious universities, after all, having two top scholars was indeed rare.

Having two top scholars under him really straightened his back; lately, even walking felt breezy.

He wished he could shout to everyone that the national top scholars were from his class.

Qiao Yun frowned, “Did I cause any trouble for you?”

“Not at all, how can this be called trouble? This is an honor!”

Qiao Yun: “…okay.”

Wu Xianfeng then asked, “Have you decided which university you want to attend yet?”

Qiao Yun answered truthfully, “Not yet.”

“No rush, take your time to think about it; you have plenty of choices.”

Wu Xianfeng’s mouth almost curled up to the sky, he had been quite tired these past few days, worn out from answering calls but mostly he was excited and exhilarated.

“You wouldn’t believe it, this time it’s not just Beijing University and Qing University, but also South University, Tech University, basically all the prestigious universities nationwide want you. The last top scholar didn’t receive this treatment. There are so many people envious of our school now, for having a double top scholar like you. As your teacher, I feel proud too.”

Qiao Yun really didn’t care about the college entrance examination, but seeing them so happy softened her eyes slightly.

It seemed contagious, and she too felt a bit of joy in her heart.