Don't Mess with the Girl with Candy novel Chapter 704

“Please don’t make me…” Tucker pleaded, sitting on the edge of the sofa with his hands resting primly on his knees. “Me teaching you would be like trying to teach a fish to swim.”

Seeing him so worked up, Juniper pinched the bridge of her nose. “Alright, how about this,” she said seriously. “At school, we’ll maintain our professor-student relationship for appearance’s sake. But in private, I’ll teach you.”

“That sounds perfect!” Tucker immediately sat up straight and nodded without hesitation. “Master, we’ll do it just as you say.”

A faint smile touched Juniper’s lips as she narrowed her eyes. “You were just waiting for me to say that, weren’t you, you old fox?”

“You have to keep your word!” Tucker stood up and started backing toward the door. “In private, you’ll be my teacher. You get some rest now. I won’t disturb you any longer.”

The door clicked shut behind him.

“Tsk.” Juniper chuckled softly and settled back onto the sofa.

A few moments later, the door opened again, and Shanley walked in.

“I saw the video from the competition,” Shanley said, setting a small cake and a smoothie down next to her. He sat beside her, his deep eyes fixed on her as a smile played on his lips. “You’re really something, Miss Null.”

“It was alright,” Juniper mumbled through a mouthful of cake, glancing up at the man beside her.

“Hah,” Shanley let out a soft laugh, his gaze intensely focused on her. His voice was husky as he asked, “I heard Cybernetic Shadows once sent you an invitation with an astronomical salary. Why didn’t you accept?”

As far as he could remember, he hadn't had any contact with Juniper in those years, so he couldn't have possibly offended her.

Juniper wanted to explain, but the leader of Sigma Network—that old bastard—had done so many things to anger her that she didn’t even know where to begin.

“Forget it,” she grumbled, picking up her fork to resume eating her cake. “I don’t like Cybernetic Shadows, so the Schwartz Group is forbidden from working with them.”

“What if…” Shanley leaned closer, testing the waters. “What if we absolutely have to work with them for something?”

“Isn’t there Binary Oracle?” Juniper shot back immediately. “They’re the two biggest hacker organizations in the world. Binary Oracle has won the World Hacker Competition for three years in a row. Wouldn’t it be better to work with them than Cybernetic Shadows?”