Pursuing Her novel (Sophie and Tristan) novel Chapter 6

Chapter 6 Who Did I Offend This Time

Sophie looked through the information Butterfly sent and learned that hackers from Anglandur were trying to break through Chanaea’s firewall.

If the hackers succeeded, they could steal government information from Chanaea and plunge the country into a huge crisis.

Sophie promptly deleted the information and took a taxi back to the Tanner residence.

The moment she arrived, she heard Charmaine say, “I hope you don’t cause any trouble now that you’re in Jipsdale Premier High, Sophie. Since you’re in the same school as your sister now, you can ask her for help.”

Regardless of how much Charmaine despised Sophie, she was her daughter at the end of the day, and that was a fact she could not change. To that end, Charmaine could only hope that Sophie would not make things difficult for Willow.

Willow piped up, “Don’t worry, Mom. I’ll take care of Soph and keep her from repeating her old mistakes.”

She ruined Sophie’s reputation five years ago, and she was confident that her younger sister was still not her match today.

Irritated by their pretentious acts, Sophie drawled, “Are you done with your little act? It’s disgusting. Keep your hands out of my matters; they have nothing to do with you. If you love acting so much, why not become an actress?”

Sophie headed upstairs without sparing the two one last look.

Charmaine was infuriated. “Look at her attitude! Who does she think she is? She’s still not remorseful after what she did years ago!”

Willow secretly scoffed to herself before coaxing, “Don’t be angry, Mom. You still have me. I won’t disappoint you.”

“Yes! Thank goodness! You’ve never disappointed your mother. Willa, you know the Tanner family’s situation now. It’s even more imperative that you succeed.”

As long as Willow married into a wealthy family, the Tanner family would have hope of reviving their fortunes.

Sophie ignored the duo downstairs and whipped out her laptop once she was back in her room.

She switched on the nondescript laptop, which started up faster than an Apple computer.

It was booted up and ready to use in under three seconds.

The interface did not look different from an average computer, either.

Sophie sat on her bed and placed the laptop on her lap. She rapidly tapped out a string of code.

“Aha!”

She immediately had a measure of the Anglanduran hackers’ skills after a minute of work.

“Idiots.” I can’t believe they’re messing with the Chanaean government. I need to teach them a harsh lesson before they think they can continue picking on us.

Her fingers flew across the keyboard. Lines of code materialized on her laptop screen.

An Anglanduran hacker had been hired to steal Chanaea’s confidential information on military defense. His employer asked, “How is it going? Did you get it?”

“F*ck!” The hacker was about to access the information when someone blocked his hack and added an impenetrable firewall to the program.

“What happened?”

“We’re doomed.” Before the Anglanduran hacker could do a thing, his adversary had hacked into Anglandur’s firewall. His computer froze for ten whole seconds while he tried desperately to encrypt the firewall. Within that brief time frame, Anglandur’s confidential information had been stolen.

“What on earth happened?”

“The other party stole our confidential documents.”

“What? Who did this? Didn’t you say you were unbeatable?”

“It must be Phantom from Wings of Light. No one but that hacker can compete with me.”

“I cannot stress how important those confidential documents are. You’d better think about how to explain this to the President!”

The Anglanduran hacker swore, “Just you wait, Phantom!”

Back at the Tanner residence, Sophie sent the information she stole to Butterfly. Then, she entered a few lines of code and removed all traces of her past activity before shutting down her laptop.