Stefan

Lately, Mel is rarely seen in group chats. She doesn't have much time to chat with her friends.

But, today, she had a lot of free time before meeting Andrew. She took her time to open the group chat and was taken aback when she found out that there were 1205 unread chats. Suddenly, she became too lazy to scroll to read old messages.

As always, the quickest way to find out what chat they're talking about is to ask for a summary.

Mel lightly smiles while typing in a group chat...

[MT] Hi Guys, what's hot on the news recently? (smile icons)

[AnnaCuteFromBirth] (roll eyes icon)

[FakePrinceHarry] Thank God. Look who's online?!

[Sammy] Welcome back, boss.

[MT] Cut to the chase, please. I don't have much time.

[AnnaCuteFromBirth] Damn! Mel... what are you busy with? Why are you rarely online now... (angry icon)

[Windy] typing...

[FakePrinceHarry] @AnnaCuteFromBirth Our boss is busy taking care of MT Group. You are too much time to slack off, you know. Do you need more cases? I can give you. (Grinned icon)

[AnnaCuteFromBirth] I thought Hiro did all the work? (Grin icon)

[MT] @FakePrinceHarry this month, you will get a bonus (thumb Icon)

[AnnaCuteFromBirth] @FakePrinceHarry, you're getting good at licking your boss, huh! (shake head icon)

[FakePrinceHarry] I learn from you @AnnaCuteFromBirth

[AnnaCuteFromBirth] Well then..... don't forget to share with me your earn money, transfer to me 50% okay. Consider it my teaching fees (Grin icon)

Mel laughed out loud, reading her friend's silly chat. Luckily, she was in her apartment. If she still at the restaurant, people might think she was crazy, laughing and giggling all the time.

[Windy] typing...

[Windy] @MT we discussed earlier. Next Sunday we choose to eat seafood. So, we will go to the port district. There is a seafood restaurant that just opened there.

[Windy] @MT, can you join?

[MT] Of course. Well, I hope so. I mean, I have no plan this week. Send the full address, I'll be there on time.

[MT] Guys, I have to go. (bye icon)

[Sammy] Goodbye, boss.

[AnnaCuteFromBirth] Mel is offline again? Seriously ask, what is she busy with?

[Windy] typing...

[Windy] Launching digital bank and establishing a new company, entertainment company. You should know about this, right?

[AnnaCuteFromBirth] Damn! That Young Lady, her company is getting bigger. @Windy, pls make sure I get a part of the new company (Grin Icon & Wink Icon)

[FakePrinceHarry] @AnnaCuteFromBirth, you are physically qualified to be an artist, and your acting talent is also decent. You can make a lot of money like Mel if you want, right? (smile icon)

[AnnaCuteFromBirth] What the hell are you talking about @FakePrinceHarry? Of course, I'm talented as an artist, but the money is too little for me dear while the work is a lot. I choose to be the Public Relations Director of the company, I can relax while money will come to me every month (roll eyes icon)

[Sammy] (shake head icon)

[Windy] typing...

[FakePrinceHarry] Damn! Windy, why are you still slow when typing?

[Sammy] She types while working.

[FakePrinceHarry] Are you guys in the same room?

[Windy] typing...

[Windy] Guys... I have to work again. Bye!

[Sammy] Bye all.

[FakePrinceHarry] These two...!!

[AnnaCuteFromBirth] (LOL Icon) Bye Harry

After getting the information she wanted, she finally closed the group chat tab and opened a new tab, the Hacker Community website. It's been a long time since she opened the web. Because, in the last few weeks, she had not accepted any job offer from Hacker Community, she was too busy with her own business.

After all, now she had just earned a lot of money from the dividends her mother left for her.

A few days ago, Mel and Aunt Bela went to the bank to see the contents of the safe deposit box left by her mother.

The contents of the save deposit box surprised her. It turns out her mother was a rich woman. She left a lot of stock of large companies. Her mother bought the store at a low price. After more than ten years, the price escalated, and it became a multi-bagger, multiplying her mother's assets' value.

So, for a while, she no longer accepts jobs from the hacker community.

For a while, she read an email in her hacker community account. There was one email that surprised her.

'What? Stefan... coming to X? Why did he tell me? Does he know that I'm currently in X?'

She immediately contacts GrimReaper. Not long after, on her computer screen displayed Stefan's face, a.k.a. the GrimReaper, appeared. Mel has set so only she could see Stefan while Stefan only sees her avatar.

"Queen... Have you read my message?" He asks.

"Yes. Why did you tell me?" She asks in her electronic voice.

"Aren't you at X now?" He raised his eyebrows.

"How did you know?"

"You forgot that I'm a hacker too?" His tone sounded arrogant but in friendly manners.

Mel frowned.

She couldn't believe this kid was developing so fast, such a talented hacker.

Now, this kid can trace her position, even though she already erased her traces. Mel made a note in her mind to update Max's system so that Max can be more careful not to let this happen again.

"Can we meet?" He asks with his pleading-looking eyes.

"Stefan, I don't meet offline with my colleagues from the hacker community."

"But we're not just colleagues, right? I consider you like my big sister." He blinks several times.

"Since when did I become a woman?" She asks casually.

His eyes open wide, shock. With his starter voice, he said, "You are a man? But... your nickname is Queen. You supposed to be a woman, right?"

"No woman in the Queen Band, Stefan." Mel was mocking Stefan, and she giggled silently at the seemingly shocked Stefan.

"Queen, please, I really want to meet you, it doesn't matter you, woman or man. I happen to have a job in a country near X, so I wanted to meet you. Can I?" His eyes were full of hope.

When he first time knows the world of hackers, Queen became one of his mentors. Since then, he started to idolize her, or him now that Mel pretends as a man. Stefan had waited for this opportunity to meet her. Now is his chance.

His green eyes glow with hope. It has successfully melted Mel's heart. She finally decided to meet him.

And, this is the first time she would meet a member of the Hacker Community, and that person would be Grim Reaper.

"Stefan, contact me after you arrive." She said, then turned off the connection.

Just as she was about to turn off her computer, a new message came in. Her face suddenly turned stiff.