Chapter 1 So... You Met Her in High School?

"So... you met her around the second year of high school..." Ruoyu said, propping her cheek with one hand as she looked at Jue Ge across the table.

They were now sitting in a coffee shop. And the first topic they talked about was naturally what had just happened.

"That depends on how you understand the concept of 'met'..." Feng Bujue replied, gently stirring the coffee in his cup with a spoon.

"Tell me about it," Ruoyu continued.

"Well... I knew her before I even entered high school," Feng Bujue said.

"Oh? Is she a celebrity? A school beauty?" Ruoyu asked again.

"No, let's just say she's a class flower... That's not the point..." Jue Ge replied, "The point is, I already knew everyone in the whole school before I even stepped through the gates of high school."

"Huh?" Ruoyu was slightly taken aback when she heard this, but in the next second, she understood what Jue Ge meant by this sentence, "You... did some research beforehand?"

"That's right," Feng Bujue said in a very calm tone. "During the summer vacation after graduating from junior high school, while my peers were running around in cram schools, internet cafes, movie theaters, and swimming pools... I was doing secret and rigorous research." He paused for two seconds, took a sip of coffee and then continued, "First of all, through some connections, I successfully obtained a list of all the students in all three grades of Qingyue High School..."

"Connections?" Ruoyu asked suspiciously.

"Yes, connections," Feng Bujue nodded in response. "I have a lackey in the Education Bureau."

"You have... a lackey... in the Education Bureau," Ruoyu looked at Jue Ge with a half-smile, repeating his sentence and then added, "When you were fifteen years old..."

"Yeah..." Feng Bujue replied, "I just pretended to be a twelve-year-old loli and had a perverse online romance with a married uncle for a few months, thereby gaining possession of some of the explicit photos and a large number of scandalous chat records that he actively sent... From then on, he became my dog."

"You..." Ruoyu really didn't know what to say to him.

"Technically speaking, this is not a very difficult thing," Feng Bujue continued, "Information on many civil servants can be found on the websites of official institutions. Based on this information, you can find their accounts on social networking sites, then add them as friends, and then take further action." He took another sip of coffee, "Hoo... anyway, decent people won't take the bait. As for perverts... they deserve to be threatened and exploited."

"I won't comment on your motives... but your methods are equivalent to blackmail..." Ruoyu continued, "Didn't you consider the consequences when you did it..."

"Hmph... Of course I considered the consequences," Feng Bujue sneered and replied, "That's why I'm very clear that there are no consequences...

Back then, I was fifteen years old, which makes me a person with limited criminal responsibility. According to the Criminal Law, a person who has reached the age of fourteen but not sixteen shall be held criminally liable for intentional homicide, intentional injury causing serious injury or death, rape, robbery, drug trafficking, arson, explosion, or the crime of releasing hazardous substances. Apart from the above eight crimes, people in this age group are not held criminally liable. At the same time, the Criminal Law clearly stipulates that a person who has reached the age of fourteen but not eighteen shall be given a lighter or mitigated punishment if he commits a crime.

Please note that this clause does not include extortion. Furthermore, the definition of extortion is—an act of forcibly demanding public or private property from the victim by means of threats or coercion for the purpose of illegal possession. But in my case, I did not demand any property from the target. I even refused when the other party took the initiative to offer money to buy back those photos and chat records."

Feng Bujue finished this long paragraph in one breath, paused for a moment, and then continued, "To sum up, even if he called the police, he wouldn't be able to convict me. On the contrary... he himself might be sentenced for indecent assault. Even if it's not enough to meet the sentencing standards, his family and career will be ruined; once this kind of thing is exposed, he will definitely be expelled from public office and will never be able to hold his head up in front of others for the rest of his life."

When Ruoyu heard this, she also took a sip of coffee, as if to calm her nerves: "You've been so evil since you were a kid... Does your family know..."

"I don't think so..." Feng Bujue shrugged and replied, "Anyway, I'm saying this just to give you an idea of my style of doing things back then. If you hear words like 'connections' again..."

"I won't ask about these details again..." Ruoyu directly interrupted.

"Yeah," Feng Bujue nodded, paused for two seconds, and turned the topic back to the part he hadn't finished speaking before. "That... in addition to the basic student list, I also took a look at their past academic performance, family situation and other information, by the way." He raised his eyes and said thoughtfully, "One summer vacation is enough to remember all this. As for the information on the teachers and school leaders, I had already investigated it thoroughly when I applied to this high school... Everything is under control."

"What did you do all this for?" Ruoyu continued, "To become the man who dominates Qingyue?"

"No, it's just to make school life safer and more comfortable," Feng Bujue tapped his temple lightly with his finger, "Information, or intelligence, is one of the most valuable resources in this world. Whoever controls the intelligence controls the initiative." He licked his lips, "People are good at disguising themselves, especially in unfamiliar environments, when facing a group of unfamiliar peers... At this time, it is not enough to have calm judgment, you must have enough information to expose those people who are wearing masks." He smiled, "It's because I understand this that I was able to see on the first day of school... which students were delinquents, which were good students, which were green tea b*tches, and which were potential homicidal maniacs..."

"Did anyone see that you were a high-IQ antisocial maniac..." Ruoyu squinted her eyes.

"Yes," Feng Bujue said, "But that was a year later, when the 'Feng Bujue Annihilation Plan Committee' and the 'Avengers Alliance' were established."

"I don't know why, but I didn't find the names of these two organizations strange at all..." Ruoyu's tone gradually became like Jue Ge's complaining style.

"Okay, let's talk about that girl..." Jue Ge continued, "As I said, I met her when I first entered school. And she knew me... it should have been in the second year of high school, when my reputation in the school's underground world had reached its peak... so she, as a backbone member of the student council, also learned of my name."

"Hehe..." Ruoyu laughed dryly. She was too lazy to pick up on the flaws in this sentence, so she just asked indifferently, "And then... did you take the initiative to pursue her? Or..."

"It was indeed my initiative," Feng Bujue interrupted Ruoyu, "But I didn't like her. I just needed a girlfriend."

In every sense of the word, this sentence, if you think about it a little... reveals a very bad message.

"You scum..." Ruoyu's expression suddenly turned cold.

"Don't get me wrong," Feng Bujue also realized that what he had just said was easy to cause misunderstanding, "That's not what I meant."

"Then what do you mean?" Ruoyu asked.

"Uh... the thing is like this..." Feng Bujue said, "You know that Xiao Tan and I have been classmates since elementary school, right?"

"I know," Ruoyu responded.

"I don't need to say much about Xiao Tan's family situation, right?"

"No need."

"Before junior high school, the situation was okay, because everyone was still young," Feng Bujue continued, "But in the second and third years of junior high school, the trouble came... There were girls in the class, in the school, and even outside the school... who were chasing after Xiao Tan with impure motives. Please note that I said impure motives, all of which are based on evidence... I thoroughly investigated their family backgrounds and lifestyles..."

"Okay... get to the point," Ruoyu really didn't want to hear those details.

"Yeah..." Feng Bujue nodded and continued, "And Xiao Tan, you know... he's not stupid, but he's too kind. It's not that he doesn't have the ability to see through liars, but most of the time, he's more willing to believe that other people are good people. Of course, there are also people who are moved by his Jesus-like feelings and can't bear to do it, and even really fall in love with him, but that's a minority after all... In most cases, I still have to come forward and deal with those sinister guys."

"Does this have anything to do with your situation?" Ruoyu asked.

"Don't worry, I'll get to it soon," Jue Ge continued, "Later... we went to high school. Xiao Tan's conditions are there... He's handsome, his family is super rich, and he's very innocent... These days, you know, many young girls are very casual... There are quite a few fallen young women in high school, and if I recorded all the attacks these people launched on Xiao Tan, I could probably write a campus action science fiction romance thriller suspenseful palace intrigue novel."

"Then you were stimulated and pushed down the class flower next door?" Ruoyu asked again.

"Why do you like to interrupt so much?" Feng Bujue said, "Let me finish..."

"Okay..." Ruoyu took a sip of coffee with an unhappy expression.

"Fortunately, Xiao Tan has me watching over him," Feng Bujue continued, "In the first year of high school, in addition to pacifying the factional disputes among the first-year delinquents, developing an internal line in the student council, transforming the storage room next to the principal's office into a club activity room for the 'Detective Club', and forcing the lackey in the Education Bureau to hang himself... I also didn't forget to care about my childhood friend."

"If you're so busy, then just forget about it..." Ruoyu finally couldn't help but complain again.

"Under my secret protection, he has at least avoided three cases of syphilis, six cases of honeypots, and fifteen cases of accidentally becoming a father," Jue Ge continued.

Ruoyu was sweating profusely: "You've really worked hard..."

"It's okay, I don't have many friends, so this is what I should do," Feng Bujue finished the remaining coffee in his cup and then continued, "However, precisely because of this, I have many enemies... In the second year of high school, those b*tches (Jue Ge swore here, please understand the original English word yourself) joined forces and came up with a bad idea, spreading rumors in the school that I was gay."

"Pfft..." Ruoyu spat out a mouthful of coffee. She quickly covered her mouth with a tissue to avoid losing her composure.

In fact, the misunderstanding had already been resolved when she heard this, and Ruoyu's expression relaxed a lot.

"Hmph... how naive," Feng Bujue raised an eyebrow, "I had already prepared countermeasures for this kind of low-down trick. On the day the rumor appeared, I pulled out my 'girlfriend candidate list'..."

"Hey!" Ruoyu rarely widened her eyes and whispered, "What is that!"

"That's just a table I compiled and classified when I was doing research and was bored," Feng Bujue replied calmly, "I also have 'friend candidate list', 'lackey candidate list', 'list of classmates who can be killed if necessary' and 'list of gay friends if I ever find out I'm gay' etc..." He paused for a moment, "Oh, right, I also have a list called 'Let's think of a name in case I have a child with my girlfriend and have to give birth', which records what each of their sons and daughters should be called..."

Whoosh—

Ruoyu casually splashed the remaining half cup of coffee in her cup on Jue Ge's face.

"Although I know that your behavior is simply a manifestation of being a weirdo..." Ruoyu said as she put down the cup, "But objectively speaking, I think you deserve to be splashed like this."

Jue Ge was not angry about this. He calmly wiped his face with his hand, and then picked up the tissue on the table and slowly wiped it: "In short... I filtered that list and picked a suitable one..." He actually continued as if nothing had happened, "The next day, I went directly to her and asked her if she would be willing to go out with me, and it was successful."

"Eh—" Ruoyu turned her head and squinted at Jue Ge, "I think her conditions are pretty good, why did she agree to you..."

"At first glance, I'm not bad either," Feng Bujue said as he wiped his face, "But after learning about me, more than ninety out of a hundred people will be scared away. And the few remaining ones may become my friends."

"Then later... how did you break up?" Ruoyu asked again, "Because of the studies in the third year of high school? Or did it just happen naturally after graduation..."

"There was no breakup, we weren't together much in the first place," Feng Bujue replied, "In the first few weeks, I went out with her to see a few movies... Half a month's living expenses disappeared instantly in the dark movie theater, which made me very depressed... Later, after the rumors subsided, I didn't pay much attention to her." As he said this, he tore open another pack of tissues, "If you want to talk about a formal breakup... it should have been half a year later, she couldn't stand my indifference and wanted me to make a clear statement, so I said 'A man only says I love you once in his life, and I will say it when you are about to die'... and then..."

"There was no then, right," Ruoyu continued.

"Yes, there was no then," Jue Ge spread his hands and smiled.

"Ha..." Ruoyu breathed a sigh of relief, "What a sad story..."