Chapter 1 So... You Met Her in the Second Year of High School?

"So... you met her in the second year of high school, then..." Ruoyu said, resting her chin in her hand and looking at Jue-ge across the table.

At this moment, they were 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 already knew her before I entered high school," Feng Bujue said.

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

"No, let's just say she was a class beauty... That's not the point..." Jue-ge replied, "The point is, I already knew everyone in the school before I even stepped through the high school gate."

"Huh?" Ruoyu was slightly stunned when she heard this, but a second later, she understood what Jue-ge meant by this, "You... did some research beforehand?"

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

"Connections?" Ruoyu asked, puzzled.

"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 smile that was not a smile, repeating his words, and added, "When you were fifteen..."

"Yes..." Feng Bujue replied, "I just pretended to be a twelve-year-old lolita and had a net romance with a married uncle for a few months, thereby gaining some indecent photos and a large number of outrageous chat records that he actively sent... From then on, he became my lackey."

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

"Technically speaking, this is not a very difficult thing," Feng Bujue continued, "A lot of civil servants' information 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, "Hah... 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, "Therefore, I know very well that there are no consequences...

Back then, I was fifteen years old, 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 responsible for committing intentional homicide, intentionally causing serious injury or death, rape, robbery, drug trafficking, arson, explosion, or putting dangerous substances into use. Apart from the above eight crimes, people in this age group are not criminally responsible. 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 reduced punishment for committing a crime.

Please note that this clause does not include the crime of extortion. Furthermore, the definition of extortion is – the act of forcibly demanding public or private property from the victim by using threats or coercion for the purpose of illegal possession. But in my case, I didn't ask the target for any money, and I even refused when the other party offered to buy back those photos and chat records."

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

Hearing this, Ruoyu also took a sip of coffee, as if to calm her nerves: "You've been so evil since you were a child... does your family know..."

"Probably not..." Feng Bujue shrugged and replied, "Anyway, I'm saying all this just to give you an idea of my style back then. If you hear words like 'connections' again..."

"I won't ask about those details anymore..." Ruoyu directly cut him off.

"Yeah," Feng Bujue nodded, paused for two seconds, and brought the topic back to the part he hadn't finished earlier, "That... in addition to the basic student list, I also took a look at their past academic performance, family situation, and other information." He raised his eyes, thoughtfully, "A summer vacation is enough to remember all this. As for the teachers and school leaders' information, 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, just to make campus life safer and more comfortable," Feng Bujue tapped his temple lightly with his finger, "Information, or rather intelligence, is one of the most valuable resources in this world. Whoever controls the information controls the initiative." He licked his lips, "People are good at disguising themselves, especially in unfamiliar environments, when facing a group of unfamiliar people of the same kind... At this time, it is not enough to have calm judgment, you must have enough information to expose those who wear masks." He smiled, "Because I understand this, I was able to see on the first day of school... which students were bad teenagers, which were good students, which were green tea bitches, and which were potential violent killers..."

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

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

"I don't know why, but I didn't feel strange at all after hearing the names of these two organizations..." Ruoyu's tone had gradually become infected with Jue-ge's style of complaining.

"Okay, let's talk about that person's matter..." Jue-ge continued, "As I said, I knew 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 gave a dry laugh. She was too lazy to pick up on the flaws in this sentence and just asked calmly, "And then... did you take the initiative to pursue her? Or..."

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

In every sense, this sentence, with a little thought... reveals a very bad message.

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

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

"Then what do you mean?" Ruoyu asked.

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

"I know," Ruoyu replied.

"You don't need me to say more about Xiao Tan's family situation, right?"

"No need."

"Before junior high school, the situation was okay, after all, everyone was still young," Feng Bujue continued, "But when we got to the second and third years of junior high school, trouble came... Girls with impure motives appeared in the class, the school, and even outside the school to pursue Xiao Tan. Please note that I said impure motives, all with evidence... I had 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 others are good people. Of course, there are also people who are touched by his Christ-like feelings, unable to take action, 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 take care of those guys with ulterior motives."

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

"Don't worry, I'll get to it soon," Jue-ge continued, "Later... we went to high school. Xiao Tan's conditions were there... handsome, rich, and innocent... These days, you know, many girls are very casual... There are many fallen young women in high school. If I were to record all the attacks these people launched on Xiao Tan, I could probably write a campus action science fiction love thriller suspense palace intrigue novel."

"Then you were stimulated and pushed down the class beauty 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, I have Xiao Tan under my watch," Feng Bujue continued, "In the first year of high school, in addition to pacifying the first-year bad boy factions, developing internal agents 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 avoided at least three cases of syphilis, six cases of honey traps, and fifteen cases of being tricked into raising someone else's child," Jue-ge continued.

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

"It's okay, I don't have many friends, this is what I should do," Feng Bujue finished the remaining coffee in his cup and then said, "However, because of this, I have many enemies... In the second year of high school, those bitches (Jue-ge swore here, please comprehend the original English word yourself) joined forces to come up with a bad idea and spread rumors in the school that I was a homosexual."

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

In fact, the misunderstanding had already been resolved at this point, and Ruoyu's expression suddenly 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 rumors appeared, I dug out my 'girlfriend candidate list'..."

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

"That's just a table I categorized when I was doing research, out of boredom," Feng Bujue replied calmly, "I also have a 'friend candidate list', a 'lackey candidate list', a 'list of classmates who can be killed if necessary', and a 'buddy candidate list in case I find out I'm a homosexual', etc..." He paused, "Oh, right, I also have a list called 'If I have a child with my girlfriend and have to give birth to it, let's give it a name', which records what each of their sons and daughters should be called..."

*Splash*

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

"Although I know that your behavior is just a manifestation of a quirk..." Ruoyu said as she put down the cup, "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, 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 I succeeded."

"Eh--" Ruoyu turned her head and squinted at Jue-ge, "I think her conditions are pretty good, how did she agree to you..."

"At first glance, I'm not bad either," Feng Bujue said as he wiped his face, "But after getting to know me, ninety-odd out of a hundred people will be scared away. And the few remaining people might become my friends."

"Then later... how did you break up?" Ruoyu asked again, "Because of the third year of high school? Or did you naturally..."

"There was no break-up or anything, we weren't even 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 cinema, which made me very depressed... Later, when the rumors died down, I stopped paying attention to her." He said, tearing open another pack of tissues, "If we're talking about an official breakup... it should have been half a year later. She couldn't stand my indifferent attitude anymore and wanted me to say something clearly, so I said, 'A man only says the words I love you once in his life, and I'll say it when you're 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..."