The Stranger in the Rental

“You’ve set your Wi-Fi password to your birthday, and your security camera points at your bed. How is that any different from running around naked?” Cheng Mo nudges his reflective glasses up his nose. Lu Wanqing never imagined that this seemingly shy programmer renting a room from her would hack into all her electronic devices on his third day there.

To ease her financial strain, freelance writer Lu Wanqing rents out her spare bedroom to an eccentric programmer with twelve suitcases. When she discovers that the tenant, who spends every night coding until dawn, is spying on her, an even more horrifying truth emerges: the “accident” car crash she suffered three months ago was connected to a leak of a tech company’s core data.

Now they must contend with an unseen enemy in their forty-square-meter rental apartment. When Cheng Mo pulls a stun gun from a hidden compartment in one of his suitcases, Lu Wanqing finally realizes that this man, who can solve any problem with a keyboard, probably isn’t an ordinary programmer at all...