Forever Love

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       "A soulmate is an ongoing connection with another individual that the soul picks up again at various times and places over lifetimes. We are attracted to another person at a soul level not because that person is our unique complement, but because by being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves."

---Edgar Cayce

     At Abhinav's home, Abhinav was working in his laptop in the study room. At the same time, at the opposite side of the desk. Aaradhya was also focusing on her laptop. But instead of working, she was competing. Aaradhya opened the 'You might be the Hacker Challenge' webpage. The competition's homepage was displaying the latest ranking. Yesterday, Aaradhya cleared a total of ten levels. Among those, few levels were done with a shortcut in order to save time. She barely passed and finally only got four points. Her total score yesterday was 45 points, ranking sixth in the latest list.

Originally she could aim a little higher- Aaradhya pondered. Without wasting time, she directly started today's challenges. One and half an hour later. the [level upper limit] prompt popped up again. From ten levels, Aaradhya got a total of 47 points. After reaching the level cap, she saw that time was still early, so she went to browse the competition's forum.

At this time, [Sunshine] has become a hot topic in the forum. Some people were betting on [Sunshine] 's identity that which great hacker was this mysterious [Sunshine]? Others were displaying the record of [Sunshine]'s level clearance yesterday for analysis.

That was still quite normal, but some were not:

[DJFury: @Sunshine. Goddess Sunshine. please look at me! I am your future minion. ]

[o0Angelina0o: Does goddess Sunshine still need a underling?  ]

[ LucyInTheSky: @o0Angelina0o. Goddess Sunshine already have me, no need for other person.]

[Joe_not_exotic: I one-sidedly announcing that goddess Sunshine is my elder sister! ]

Aaradhya was amused by these wonderful comments and clicked on her personal profile. The two huge red dots were very eye-catching: She had hundreds of private messages, and also more than one hundred friend requests.

Aaradhya didn't bother to open all the messages. She only read a few from the high-ranking participants whose names were familiar. The majority of the messages were asking if she was willing to form a team together for the second round. Aaradhya replied all the messages with the same sentence: "For the time being, I'm still not considering forming a team. Thank you."

However, Aaradhya also read the message from [Joe_not_exotic]. The sender's dialog box was filled with extols for [Sunshine].

Aaradhya's eyes twitched. She opened his message, simply because she recognized that it was Ravi. His user avatar was a selfie of Ravi looking ahead, tilting his head. Too recognizable and difficult for Aaradhya to pretend to not know. After all, the relationship between Ravi and her family's Abhi was very good.

Aaradhya considered a bit and sent a friend request to Ravi. As for the others, she directly clicked [Reject]. Most people who sent her friend request were participants who ranked around 1500. Their aim must be soliciting a strong player to pave their way through the second round of the competition. Not only [Sunshine], all the big players in the top rank must have received a similar amount of friend request.