Ch. 71..75: My Wife Is A Hacker Chapter 71-75

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After some time, they sent another text message over to Norah, saying, “Someone is helping Nicole. We’ve all gotten punished for what we did yesterday. Let’s stop contacting each other from today onwards.” Norah clenched her phone tightly in her hand as her veins popped out of her slender fingers, which looked exceptionally ugly. “These three idiots could not even finish such a simple task. It is too bad I gave them so much information about Samuel!’

After fretting for some time, Norah was still thinking of ways to take care of Nicole when Celia’s profile picture popped out from her phone screen. Norah’s eyes sparkled as she immediately told Celia Nicole’s whereabouts…

After two hours, Nicole walked out of the library after she was done studying.

The sun was setting, and it was close to dinner time. Nicole decided to have dinner before going back to study again. But when she reached the entrance to the café, she bumped into someone unexpectedly. She looked up and realized that it was a very familiar face.

She smiled, intrigued.

Celia glared at Nicole angrily as she stood before her. Behind her was a group of muscular men. With only one glance, Nicole could tell that they were well trained.

Even Cain had lost to Nicole and was still staying in the hospital. Celia had been taking care of him for so many days, but he did not seem to recover still, which had made Celia heartbroken and angry.

But she could kind of sense that Nicole was no angel, so normal thugs might not be able to handle Nicole. For this reason, Celia spent a large sum of money to hire these professional thugs to teach Nicole a lesson. This could help both her and Cain to let off steam and let Nicole know that she, Celia Rowe, was not someone Nicole could mess with!

When she saw Nicole coming out, Celia waved to the men behind her. “This is the girl. She knows a few martial arts, so you don’t have to go easy on her. Go teach her a lesson!”

The men behind her listened to their boss’ order, so it was only unreasonable for them to not follow through. They warmed themselves up before they surrounded Nicole.

Nicole’s expression remained the same when she looked at them rubbing their fists and palms.

She immediately knew that they were professionals in this field of work, so they must know some martial arts.

Nicole looked at Celia with what seemed like a smile. Celia grew smarter this time as she knew how to get better fighters to mess with Nicole. Nicole was about to put down her bag in her hand, but she suddenly heard a lazy voice saying,

“What are you doing? What party is this?”

Turns out, Jared was going to get his car after leaving the principal’s office. He just passed by and saw a group of big men surrounding a girl. He only noticed that the girl was Nicole after he got closer. “Those men sure have the guts to hit someone in broad daylight.’ The darkness grew in Jared’s usual expressionless eyes as he walked closer to them. Though he had a lazy stance, he was emitting a strong presence, forcing the thugs to retreat instinctively, making way for him.

When Nicole saw that it was Jared, she was surprised for a while, but she immediately put on her indifferent expression again. Jared walked to Nicole and asked, “Are you alright?”

Nicole paused and looked at him. Without words, she was telling him that obviously, those men had not even touched her clothes. Jared understood her look and smiled unconsciously. Everyone in San Joto longed for his attention, but Nicole did not even bother to give him a response. On the other hand, Celia saw what happened and stared at Jared, gaping. Since the Rowe family was one of the powerful families

in San Joto, she had met plenty of bigwigs with her parents. So, she immediately knew that the man before her was the notable helmsman of the Johnston family. Additionally, he was also the unofficial heir to the top consortium in San Joto, the Johnston Group.

She had only seen him once during a charity banquet. Other than being awestruck by his charming appearance, she was also stunned by the way the people treated him.

Her parents could only smile in the company of the managers of the Finley Group and the Ellison Group, who were both extremely courteous and hospitable toward Jared. Celia’s parents were not even in the place to greet Jared, so they could only stare at him from afar.

Just like a peasant, she was asking her parents who Jared was. She would never forget the look in her father’s eyes at that moment. They were filled with fear and aspiration as her father said, “He is someone we can never mess with!”

But now, Jared, who was cold toward all of the women in the banquet, was concerned about Nicole. Not only did he not mind Nicole ignoring him, but he even smiled at Nicole.

‘Didn’t the school forum say that Nicole had no background? If so, what is going on right now? If Nicole has any connections with Jared…’ Celia did not even dare to think any further as she cursed silently.

‘Those online experts made a fool out of me!’ She immediately ordered the men to go back to her as she asked loudly, “Why are you people surrounding Nicole?” She was busy throwing glances at them while she spoke.

However, those men were not the sharpest tools in the shed, so they completely did not catch her signals. “Miss, didn’t you hire us to beat her up? We’re just doing what we are paid for, so why are you questioning us?” Celia was so pissed to the point that she felt a little lightheaded. All she could do was hope that Jared did not hear what they had said. Celia turned around awkwardly and looked at Jared

with a worried look as she said carefully,” M-Mr. Johnston, what brings you here?” Jared did not spare her a glance as he was still staring at Nicole. “Nicole, what’s going on?” Nicole looked at Celia’s panicked expression and could not help but study Jared again.” Nothing much. She can’t do much to me.”

Jared saw that she did not want to let him know, so he did not bother asking further. Then, he finally lowered his standards to glance at Celia. “Since she doesn’t want to tell me, you can. Speak only the truths.”

Celia was going numb just by being stared down by Jared. A chill ran down her spine as she thought about the things she had done to Nicole. How could she even tell the truth?!

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Celia worked up the nerve to look at Nicole. When she saw Nicole looking indifferent toward her, she thought of how Nicole did not mention that she had bullied her. So, Celia mustered her courage and said, “Nothing much. There’s just a little misunderstanding between Nicole and me.”

Before she could finish, Jared scoffed coldly, “Just a little misunderstanding, and you’ve hired so many thugs to barricade her?”

Jared thought, ‘Do I look that gullible?’ Celia was immediately startled when Jared said that, unable to speak Nicole could not stand Celia’s cowardly look and told Jared flatly, “Let’s go.”

Even without Jared, Nicole could not be harmed by Celia, not even if there were ten of them. It was just that Nicole did not want to waste her energy on Celia.

Jared heard Nicole and shot Celia a glance with a half-smile. “Don’t let me see you ever again.” After all, Nicole was still his fiancée. No one should touch her without his permission! After that, Nicole and Jared left, one behind the other. From far, their leisure footsteps seemed in line with each other.

Celia was left frozen on the spot as if Jared’s last glance had bewitched her to stay at the same spot. She did not move an inch for a period of time.

Celia’s eyes were filled with extreme fear as Jared’s words had pulled her to hell. She knew that Jared was definitely not joking.

Though Nicole knew that Jared was the heir of the Johnston family, she did not know how powerful Jared really was. However, when she saw Celia’s expression just now, she could tell that Jared surely had a high status.

‘I wonder what brings someone as prestigious as him to Royal Creek Institute?’ While she was pondering, she asked Jared suspiciously, “Why are you at Royal Creek Institute?

“Me? I’m obviously here to reminisce with Mr. Ellison.”

Nicole fell silent. Speaking of Mr. Ellison, Nicole suddenly felt guilty as she thought, “This Jared wouldn’t have asked questions that are not meant to be asked, right?”

“Did Mr. Ellison give you a call today?” Jared asked curiously as he thought about Mr. Ellison’s phone call when he walked into his office.

“Yeah.” Nicole nodded instinctively, but she quickly frowned. “What does Mr. Ellison calling me has got to do with you?”

Jared laughed. “I’m just curious. Mr. Ellison… seemed to treat you better than his own grandchild.”

Nicole rolled her eyes at him. “It’s none of your business.”

Jared’s eyes darkened as he watched her walking forward.

‘Who on earth is Nicole?’ She had tasted the coffee beans from his private estate, and Mr. Ellison had a special affinity with her. But after so many days, Jared still could not find out Nicole’s true information. He found it incredibly odd.

When he saw Nicole almost entering the caféteria, she immediately blinked at Nicole. “Do you want to head on over to my café? There’s western food now, and everything is free if you visit the shop.”

Nicole stopped instantly as she was very fond of the coffee from his café. If she could order some western food, it would be even better.

“Sure, but it doesn’t have to be free.” It did not cost much to her, so she could still afford it.

“Oh?” Jared could not help but arch his brows. His café only had high spenders. Even some wealthy kids were reluctant to pay. But Nicole did not even bat an eye… For whatever reason, Jason felt that Nicole was filthy rich. The both of them arrived at the café in a short time. Max was not around, so the cashier saw them. He was stunned for a while before he went up to welcome them warmly. “Mr. Johnston, Miss Riddle.”

Nicole nodded and was about to go make an order when Jared suddenly extended his arm to stop her. When he saw Nicole looking at him with confusion, he smiled provokingly. “Do you want to see what I can do?” Nicole looked at him and nodded nonchalantly before she turned and walked toward her usual seat to sit down.

The cashier gaped bewilderedly as he looked at Jared. Jared was a top international barista. The presidents of other countries paid him a handsome amount of money for him to make them coffee, but he had rejected them mercilessly.

Now, Jared was personally making coffee for a mere student!

The way the cashier looked at Nicole instantly became full of admiration as he finally understood how important Miss Riddle was to Jared.

Nicole was oblivious to these as she pulled out two high-level Math Olympiad practice questions from her bag. Though she was spinning her pencil in her hand, she did not write anything down. All Nicole did was look at the questions. She then flipped to the next page after some time.

This was her unique way of studying. She would do the calculations in her head after she looked at the question. Not only did this approach save time, but it also saved her the energy from writing down the formulas.

If her schoolmates saw the way she looked now, they would probably start looking down on her again.

They might think that she was pretending since she was not writing anything down, nor did she do any calculations. They would doubt whether she was actually studying and deem her ” pretense” ridiculous.

When Jared walked out with two cups of coffee, he saw Nicole resting her oval chin on her palm as she looked at the practice questions with expressionless eyes. She had a set of faint navy blue eyes, and her slightly pursed lips were bright red. Her sleeves rolled down her arm, and she had a red string as her bracelet around her fair, slim wrist, which further accentuated her porcelain white skin.

Her other hand was busy fidgeting with her pen as she performed pen spinning tricks from time to time. Though she had a flat expression on her face, Jared could somehow tell that she was happy.

It was like she could get comfort when she studied at the café.

Jared smiled lightly when he saw this as he walked toward her and placed the cup of coffee on her table.

“What are you looking at? You look so serious.” Nicole did not even look at him when she answered him flatly, “Math Olympiad questions.” After she spoke, she picked up the coffee in front of her and took a sip. Jared did not seem to expect that answer, so he could not help but chuckle nonchalantly, “I didn’t think you would sit here and do Math Olympiad questions. How surprising.” Nicole glared at him. “There’s plenty more things for you to be surprised about.”

She put back the coffee at the table, and Jared spoke after some time, “This is a new product that was personally made by me. It isn’t too much for me to ask for your opinion on this, right?”

Nicole’s eyes stayed at the practice question as she responded half-heartedly, “This is the best coffee I’ve had. Give me a minute.”

Then…. Nicole just blatantly ignored him and started doing her Math Olympiad questions seriously!

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Five minutes had passed in the blink of an eye, and the look on Jared’s face got worse. When she came to the café last time, she had also ignored him. Now, she was actually ignoring him for some math questions? This was a feeling that Jared was experiencing for the first time in his life. At that moment, the food he ordered for Nicole was served, and that was when Nicole finally put down her book as she got ready to eat.

Then she noticed Jared was not looking too good. “What’s up with you?” Nicole wondered why Jared who looked fine back then became so upset now. “I’m still waiting for your opinion,” said Jared. In his mind, he muttered, ‘I don’t mind that you ignored me, but did you actually forget what I’m waiting for?’ “Haven’t I told you already? It was the best coffee I’ve had.” She looked serious.

Jared frowned. “That’s all?”

Last time, she would guess the type of coffee or the way the coffee was processed after she tasted the coffee. But now she did not even bother to elaborate her comment when it came to him.

“What else?” She had an innocent look on her face.

Jared was immediately at a loss for words. “Okay, nice.” He was completely defeated at that moment, so he just lowered his head and got ready to eat with her as he picked up his fork.

However, Nicole suddenly furrowed her brows. “What are you doing?”

Jared paused whatever he was doing. “Eat.” He thought, ‘Do I have to inform you about this too?’

“Why are you eating with me?” Nicole’s brows knitted further. Jared and Nicole had only met a few times, so they were not close at all. She wondered why did he have to have meal with her.

Jared was so exasperated that he almost burst out laughing when Nicole rejected him with her distant expression. Countless women in local and abroad were heartlessly rejected by him when they asked him out for dinner. But now that he took the initiative to dine in with Nicole, yet she gave her a disdainful look.

“I was the one who ordered these for you, yet I couldn’t eat them?” Jared fought back his anger to keep himself rational. But Nicole responded, “Though you’re the one who ordered it, I’m the one who’s going to pay, and I am not planning to treat anyone.”

She had never dined in a stranger before.

“You…” Jared was completely baffled, and he could not help but clap his hands. “Okay… Very

well, Miss Riddle. You are a very interesting person. I’ll get the bill this time, alright?” But Nicole arched her brows. “It’s okay. I don’t want to be indebted to you, so let’s have own meals.” She then looked down and started eating, not forgetting to pull her salad bowl closer to her. It was obvious that she wanted to draw a clear line between the both of them.

It was the first time Jared was embarrassed like that, and some people were starting to look over at them. He had no choice but to say through gritted teeth, “Is this how you treat your fiancé?”

“Ptui!” Nicole had almost spat out her coffee as she immediately took some tissue paper to wipe her mouth.

She then shot him a glare. “Stop joking around, okay? We’ve already settled on breaking off the engagement.”

The moment when Jared saw her disdainful expression, he started to regret… “Do you want to break it off so badly?” He wondered, ‘Do you really not miss me, your charming fiancé, the heir to the Johnston Group, one bit?’ “Yeah. Isn’t it the same for you?” After all, he was the one who had personally visited her house for it. Her question immediately made Jared choke.

 

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Jared did not respond and called the server in angrily, “Get me a steak.”

“Sure.” The server turned and left.

Nicole stared at him as if she wanted to ask him what was wrong. Jared frowned. “I’ll pay for it myself, okay?” Nicole finally gave in to eating with him at the same table, so she continued eating. Jared looked at her. It was his first time feeling defeated and resigned.

This fiancée of his was so unique that she was driving him nuts…

After Nicole bid Jared farewell, the sky was already dark when she left the café. Gloria gave Nicole a call to tell her that their driver was already at the school’s entrance to pick her up.

It turned out that everyone was going home this weekend as Mr. Riddle Sr. had arranged for a family dinner. Nicole was a little reluctant, but Mr. Riddle Sr. was rather nice to her. She had not seen her parents for a few days either, so she agreed to go home. When she walked out of school, the driver, who was sent by her family, was standing upright next to the car. When he saw Nicole walking out, he immediately opened the car door for her. “Miss Nicole, the misters have already gone home, and they ordered me to wait for you before they left.”

Nicole nodded as a response. She had seen the driver before, but he did not really talk much to her. However, he was really attentive toward Snow and Raine. After all, Dillion had a higher status in the Riddle Corporation.

At that moment, Nicole could not help but look at him twice as he was suddenly behaving extra hospitable toward her.

The driver flashed Nicole a toady smile when he saw her walking over. It seemed like he did not dare to snub her after seeing Mr. Riddle Sr. sending her to school personally,

After twenty minutes, their car arrived back home. The driver hurried over to open Nicole’s car door when she was getting down of the car. Nicole arched her brows when she saw him sweating profusely, but she remained silent. Nicole got down the car and suddenly realized an extremely cool motorcycle parked right next to the entrance to their house!

She loved these, so she could immediately tell that it was the latest model of Lightning. Be it the specs, the speed, the comfort, or safety, this motorcycle was of top quality. Needless to say, it was extremely expensive. Nicole squinted to look at its specifications and noticed that everything was the highest spec. This motorcycle definitely cost at least nine million dollars!

Nicole’s eyes dwelled on the motorcycle as she wondered who was its owner.

After a few minutes, Nicole opened the front door to her house and saw everyone sitting in the living hall as soon as she entered. Her second and third uncles were all here, and her second uncle even brought his children over. When she went in, everyone looked at her, and a hint of displeasure flashed in Karen’s eyes. Daniel and his wife arrived rather early, so Nicole was the only one who was late. She was from the younger generation, yet she made her elderlies wait for her to begin their meal. How unmannered.

Karen said in sarcastic tone, “Nicole, though it’s normal for you to be unmannered since you are from the countryside, you already belong to the Riddle family in San Joto now. Don’t you think you should learn some manners? How could you let all of us sit here and wait for you?” Last time, Nicole’s family was the ones who made them wait. Now, it was Nicole alone, and she made them wait for a very long time.

The worst thing was Mr. Riddle Sr. insisted on waiting for Nicole before they started eating. Karen really did not know what was so special about Nicole. Gloria was embarrassed and was about to defend Nicole, but Daniel shook his head as he did not want her to go against Karen. As for Norah, she was

gloating next to them. So what if Nicole got all the spotlight in school? She was nothing but a country bumpkin in her family’s eyes! Every one of them looked down on her! They all thought Nicole would apologize to Karen, but Nicole did not respond and looked at her watch instead. It had just hit 6:00 p.m., and the Riddle family had always eaten their dinner around 6:15 p.m. She passed her bag to the servant and said flatly, “I didn’t make you wait; the kitchen is the one that’s making you wait.”

Indeed, the kitchen only started to serve their food now. The dishes weren’t fully served yet, so how were they waiting for her? After Nicole said that, Karen could not find anything to refute. She got so angry she smacked the table and stood up as she pointed at Nicole. “Is this the way you talk to your elder?”

 

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Mr. Riddle Sr., who was sitting in the head seat, frowned when he saw Karen’s behavior. He said coldly, “Karen, sit down.” Dillion knew Mr. Riddle Sr. hated people arguing during mealtime the most, so he quickly pulled the unwilling Karen to sit down. Nicole sat down next to Norah, and both Samuel and Spencer looked past Norah to greet Nicole.

When Norah saw her brothers being so affectionate to Nicole, she intentionally said in a low voice to Nicole, “Honestly, you are a little late. Didn’t we finish class hours ago?”

Though her voice was not loud, it was not soft either. So everyone at the table could hear her condemning Nicole. Nicole arched her eyebrows as she was already used to Norah setting her up.

She then smiled menacingly, “I bumped into Jared after school, and he treated me to a meal.”

Though she had paid for her food, Jared did not accept a cent from her as if he was waiting for her to show a guilty depression. But she did not see anything wrong with how she had rejected eating with him, so she just accepted his treat and left. She thought back about Jared’s expression and found him rather interesting. Nicole smiled playfully, unaware that everyone was already stunned after listening to what she had said.

“What? Jared…treated you to a meal?” Karen was extremely surprised.

Though they were all aware that Mr. Riddle Sr. told Nicole about the engagement with Jared, they did not expect Jared to be interested in a country bumpkin like her! Snow, who was sitting across from her, said bitterly, “Nicole, no one is blaming you for being late. You don’t have to say such a far-fetched excuse.”

Snow seemed soft and gentle, but she was actually insulting Nicole, saying that she was lying. Nicole smiled and took a sip of her juice. “You can ask Jared if you don’t believe me.” At that moment, everyone’s face went pale. Where could they get the courage to ask Jared? It was said that Mr. Johnston

Sr.’s dear grandson was making high demands as soon as he returned from overseas. Everyone in the Johnston Group followed his orders, and his position in San Joto was untouchable. Although Mr. Johnston Sr. and Mr. Riddle Sr. were friends, the Riddle family was not close to Jared. How could they have the right to ask him about his personal matters? Mr. Riddle Sr. was ecstatic at that moment. He already knew that Nicole was a truthful person, so he smiled warmly at her. “It seems like Jared is really into you. You’ve got to get along well with him, okay?”

Mr. Riddle Sr. still had no idea about Nicole wanting to break off the engagement, but Nicole did not want to mention it either.

When Nicole saw the complicated expressions on their faces, as well as the proud expression on her parents’ and her brothers’ faces, she smiled playfully and kept quiet. “Alright, let’s start eating. Though you’ve already eaten, Nicole, please stay back and eat some food with us,” Mr. Riddle Sr. welcomed Nicole happily.

“Sure.” Nicole nodded.

Norah’s eyes were filled with loath when she saw that Nicole was getting the spotlight once again.

She had gotten even more jealous when she thought of Jared treating Nicole to a meal… Ever since the day she knew that the café belonged to Jared, she had been an avid customer in hopes of bumping into Jared. However, she had not even seen him once! Today was the day Norah did not visit the shop, and Jared treated Nicole to a meal on this same day! Nicole was heartbroken whenever she thought of the possible changes to the cancellation of their engagement.

The engagement with Jared should have belonged to her! She would not let Nicole take it away from her!

Everyone started to eat happily, and her third uncle and his wife were sitting across from Nicole. They would have small talk with Nicole from time to time, so Nicole had quite a good impression of them. When Karen saw them and Nicole’s parents treating Nicole so well, she was filled with resentment.

Back then, everyone would praise her son and daughters whenever the whole family gathered together. Now, everyone’s attention was on Nicole.

When they were almost done with their meal, Karen purposely turned to ask, “I heard Nicole went to stay on campus to pay attention to her studies. How is she performing in school?”

When Nicole’s academic performance was brought up, Mr. Riddle Sr. was slightly curious as well, so he did not interrupt her.

Snow saw the chance and grabbed it as she smiled and glanced at Nicole. “Norah is in Class B, junior year. She should know Nicole’s performance better than anyone else.” Norah was taken aback as she did not expect Snow to throw the question back to her.

She could feel her parents and her brothers were all looking at her. Norah bit her lips as she knew she could not talk ill about Nicole in front of them, so she could only sneak a few glances at Raine. Then, she put up a wronged expression and said, “Nicole… I don’t know what to say.” Raine sneered when she looked at Norah, who did not dare to speak. “If you’re afraid to say it, I’ll say it. Nicole got famous as soon as she got into school and was always a hot topic on the school forum. They were saying that she was in a relationship with multiple guys and had even

beaten a boy to the point where he got admitted into the hospital!” Her voice was sonorous, as if she was desperate to expose Nicole in front of everybody! When Mr. Riddle Sr. heard her, his eyes immediately turned cold as he looked at Nicole.” Nicole, is Raine telling the truth?”

But Nicole’s face remained still as she fearlessly stared right back at him. “Grandpa, all of these came from nowhere. The people in school have nothing to do, so they’ll just fabricate stories to spread rumors.”

Raine saw Nicole looking at herself, and Nicole’s eyes showed that she had already seen through Raine. But how could Raine admit that Nicole had startled her with her eyes? She then yelled, “Are you still defending yourself? Everyone in the school forum is saying that you’re bullying my sister after you’re crowned the beauty queen. Not only this, you’re even bullying people because you have Austin’s help. Celia’s boyfriend is in the hospital because he was beaten up by you! You even hit the seniors who were inspecting your dorm! Grandpa, Nicole’s name is tarnished in school. She has completely humiliated the Riddle family!” Raine was getting excited as she spoke, desperate to list out every bad thing that Nicole did!

Norah was elated when she heard Raine shouting! Who asked Nicole to be so cocky? Great, now every single thing she did was exposed! Let’s see how Nicole could still stand in the Riddle family!