Chapter 255 The Wife Behaves Strangely Around Us

• But now he felt powerless. He had loved the IT industry since he was a child and spent a lot of time learning. Although his abilities were unparalleled in the country, he found this job to be extremely frustrating. If this continued, his and Edwin's companies would collapse. The more he thought about it, the paler his face became. His concentration difficulty was causing mistakes with the code he had entered. Preston stood up and threw his headphones aside in frustration. "Damn!" He was mad at himself for making such a low-level mistake. But the moment he turned around, someone sat down in his place.
• Then he heard the crackling of the keyboard. Preston looked back, wide-eyed, to see Nicole sitting in front of his laptop. "Hey! What are you doing?" he yelled. That was his system's terminal, and typing in any piece of code incorrectly would cause massive problems for the entire system. And Nicole, who he thought knew nothing, was messing with it. Nicole stared at the screen and hissed. "Shut up if you don't want your system to crash now."
• Her cocky reply struck Preston dumb. He looked at the computer screen and saw Nicole skillfully enter a string of high-level code that he had never seen before. Watching the code that she compiled take effect and fix the bug that he had failed to patch, Preston was utterly astonished. He never expected that his cousin, who came from the countryside, was actually a hacker master. Moreover, her skill was superior to his. After pressing the last key, Nicole let out a smile as she fixed yet another hidden vulnerability that Preston had not found. "Done! The inability to resolve such a basic issue suggests that this system is mediocre at best.