Universal Key

Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong entered the classroom together. Although people might think they were dating when they came in together every time and left together at night, Xue Yuantong did not care.

Even if people suspected them, it did not matter. Once the Monthly Exam came around, she would crush all the rumors with her grades.

Xue Yuantong had already made up her mind. After the Monthly Exam, when the class rearranged seats, she would sit beside Jiang Ning and properly tutor him.

Thinking of this, she subconsciously glanced at Jiang Ning's seat. He sat in the corner by the window, silently watching the campus outside.

Beside him, Ma Shicheng held his phone in a strange posture, twisting and shifting his body from time to time.

"What are you doing?" Jiang Ning asked.

Ma Shicheng's face was full of excitement. "Our class actually has Wi-Fi! I unlocked it with Universal Key, and I'm looking for a signal! But there's only one bar right now."

As he spoke, he swayed his body and pressed his phone against the wall. The Wi-Fi signal immediately rose to two bars, and the speed reached 200 KB/s. Ma Shicheng was overjoyed and hurriedly opened Wandoujia to download a game.

The game he downloaded was the cracked Android version of Asphalt 7.

"Damn, there's Wi-Fi?" Hu Jun passed by, glanced at Ma Shicheng's phone, saw the Wi-Fi icon, and quickly pulled out his Oppo phone to search.

"Ma Shicheng, what's the password?" he asked.

Seeing someone trying to share his connection, Ma Shicheng was a little unhappy. But he could not exactly refuse, so he said, "Use Universal Key to crack the password."

In 2013, Universal Key had an astonishing number of installations. Most students had it on their phones so they could crack Wi-Fi passwords anytime, anywhere.

What they did not know was that Universal Key was actually quite weak at cracking Wi-Fi passwords. However, it had a very interesting feature: once you installed it and connected to any Wi-Fi network, it secretly uploaded the password to the cloud.

If you had Wi-Fi at home and happened to have Universal Key installed on your phone, others could easily connect to your home Wi-Fi using Universal Key as well.

You might think you were taking advantage of someone else's Wi-Fi, never realizing that your own Wi-Fi password would also be exposed. Combined with the app's massive installation base, the number of Wi-Fi networks it could unlock was quite considerable.

After Hu Jun connected to the Wi-Fi, he immediately opened Youku to play a video. While his video was loading, Ma Shicheng's network speed instantly plummeted from 200 KB/s to 50 KB/s.

Ma Shicheng was furious, but he could not say anything. His phone could not compete with someone else's for bandwidth—who could he blame? He could only leave his seat and start searching the entire classroom for a Wi-Fi signal.

After connecting to the Wi-Fi, Hu Jun found the speed decent, so he called over his friends and told them to connect as well. Soon, not just the boys, but even some girls were pulling out their phones to look for Wi-Fi.

Jiang Ning found it amusing. Those days really were interesting. People could do all kinds of ridiculous things just to freeload off a Wi-Fi connection.

Geng Lu, who sat in front of him, was bored to death. Seeing everyone else playing on their phones made her feel restless.

She turned around and saw that Jiang Ning remained unmoved, so she asked curiously, "Jiang Ning, why aren't you connecting to the Wi-Fi?"

"I don't feel like there's anything I need to download." Jiang Ning glanced at her. She was not especially skinny like Shen Qing'e. Her face still had a bit of baby fat, and she wore a blue T-shirt. From Jiang Ning's angle, her chest looked quite full beneath it.

"Can I borrow your phone to log into QQ? I'll give it right back, thank you!" Geng Lu said awkwardly.

Jiang Ning took out his phone and handed it to her. When Geng Lu saw the model, she froze for a moment. She recognized an iPhone 5.

She had not expected Jiang Ning to be so well-off. Then again, she remembered that at the start of school, he had worn a full Adidas outfit. His family was probably doing pretty well.

What surprised her even more was that Jiang Ning's iPhone had no case and apparently no screen protector either. Was he not afraid of breaking it if he dropped it?

She felt a little nervous, worried that it would be disastrous if she accidentally dropped it.

She waved her hand. "Never mind, never mind."

Jiang Ning found that strange, but he did not ask further.

After this, Geng Lu's impression of Jiang Ning improved considerably. He had a sense of justice, was generous, and was kind of Little Handsome. He was so much better than that narcissistic Ma Shicheng.

"Jiang Ning, Shan Qingrong said we're choosing the Class Monitor and Study Committee Member tonight. Are you going to give it a try?"

Geng Lu asked because girls tended to care more about these things.

Jiang Ning said, "Forget it. I'm not really suited for it."

"How could that be? If you ran, I think a lot of people would definitely vote for you."

Geng Lu was telling the truth. After that day, some girls had discussed Jiang Ning in private, saying he was handsome, though a little short. But when Geng Lu saw him today, she realized he was not short at all. He was nearly as tall as the 175-centimeter Ma Shicheng.

"I think Huang Zhongfei is more suitable," Jiang Ning said. In his previous life, Huang Zhongfei had been the Class Monitor and was well-liked by the class.

Geng Lu said nothing. Although Jiang Ning was pretty good, there was indeed a gap between him and the incredibly handsome Huang Zhongfei. If Class 8's handsome points were divided into ten measures, it would not be an exaggeration to say Huang Zhongfei alone took nine.

The two continued chatting. Though Jiang Ning was not particularly talkative, he did not spoil the mood when facing a cute girl with a nice figure. Every now and then, he offered a unique insight.

As a result, Geng Lu found chatting with Jiang Ning especially comfortable. It seemed as though he understood everything she said, and he never interrupted her. So Geng Lu grew bolder, speaking more and more naturally. Most of the time, she was the one talking.

Many girls were like that. Once they felt you were someone suitable to talk to, they would chatter on endlessly about countless trivial things—like a teacher they had hated in elementary school, or some little thing they liked. They would tell you everything, one thing after another, expressing their joys, anger, sorrows, and happiness until you could not get a word in edgewise.

After Shen Qing'e arrived in the classroom, she subconsciously looked toward Jiang Ning's seat and saw exactly that scene.

The faint smile on her face instantly turned cold.

She had sent Jiang Ning a message on QQ that afternoon, but he had not replied at all, which had made her very unhappy.

Now she finally understood. So he was ignoring her because he had found himself a new girl.

Fine. Fine!

He had only been in Yuzhou for a few days, and he was already hitting on a new woman. How had she never realized he was so wild before?

She gave the two of them a cold look, her gaze lingering on Geng Lu's face for several seconds in particular.

Shen Qing'e knew all the pretty girls in the class well. She remembered Geng Lu. She belonged to the fairly attractive type, but she was not as pretty as Shen Qing'e.

She could not understand why Jiang Ning had changed his affections so quickly. Ever since coming to Yuzhou, she seemed to have lost all control over him.

That sense of losing control made her feel especially miserable, even giving her a sense of defeat.

Fine, Jiang Ning. Since you're heartless, don't blame me for being ruthless!

Shen Qing'e was truly angry this time. She swore she would never speak to Jiang Ning again! Not until the bell for Evening Self-Study rang did Geng Lu reluctantly end their conversation. After turning back around, she realized she had actually talked to Jiang Ning for so long, even though they had only known each other for a few days!

But talking with Jiang Ning had felt so comfortable. He was clean and fresh, with a pleasant fragrance about him that made her feel relaxed and happy.

Being friends with him must feel especially nice, right? Geng Lu let her imagination run wild.