00:00What if your future self started messaging you, and at first it made your life perfect?
00:05He thought some hacker was helping him, but the truth was far more terrifying.
00:10Every message made him successful, until one told him to do something unforgivable.
00:16Story, The Anonymous Hacker
00:18Hassan was an ordinary student at a university in Lahore.
00:23Bright but painfully shy, he loved coding but hated attention.
00:27During VIVE exams, his voice would shake, and teachers often sighed,
00:31Hassan, you understand the theory, but you panic in practice.
00:34It was his final semester in BS computer science, and placement season was near.
00:38His friends had internships, projects, and confidence.
00:41Hassan had only self-doubt and sleepless nights.
00:45One humid night in August.
00:46While revising for his midterms, his laptop pinged.
00:49A new email appeared.
00:51Anonymous at futuremail.io
00:53Tomorrow's DSA paper.
00:54Question 3.
00:55Binary tweet reversal.
00:57Use iterative method.
00:59Hassan froze.
01:00He untold anyone that was his weak topic.
01:03The next day, that exact question appeared in the exam.
01:06He solved it perfectly, and topped the class.
01:09Laughed it off as coincidence, until another message came.
01:13Aptitude test for job drive.
01:14Focus on number series patterns.
01:16Formula attached.
01:17Trust me.
01:18He followed the tip, and once again aced the test.
01:20From that day, messages kept coming.
01:23Always short, precise, and eerily accurate.
01:26Each helped him dominate quizzes, hackathons, and interviews.
01:29His classmates started calling him Lungska Einstein.
01:32But deep down, Hassan knew.
01:34He wasn't the genius everyone thought.
01:36Someone was guiding him.
01:37Within months, he became a campus hero.
01:40Professors praised his brilliance.
01:42Recruiters wanted his resume.
01:44He stopped worrying about anything.
01:45Because whenever a problem appeared, the anonymous hacker solved it.
01:51Before a coding competition, he even got a message with the entire project solution.
01:56He used it, won first prize, and smiled when the crowd cheered.
02:00His roommate, Bilal, wasn't convinced.
02:03My friend, are you sure?
02:05Is it safe?
02:06What if someone's using you?
02:07Hassan shrugged.
02:09Maybe it's just a kind soul, or someone testing their AI.
02:12Bilal frowned.
02:14Or maybe it's testing you.
02:15But Hassan didn't listen.
02:17He was finally special.
02:19Then one night, a new message arrived.
02:22Delete the AI ethics dataset in Lab 3 tomorrow.
02:25It's a trap.
02:26If you don't, you'll lose everything.
02:29Hassan's stomach twisted.
02:30That dataset was part of his professor's research project.
02:34Why delete it?
02:35It's Ipe back.
02:36Who are you?
02:36Why should I believe this?
02:38No reply.
02:40All night he couldn't sleep.
02:41The next day, curiosity won.
02:43He slipped into the lab when no one was around and deleted the entire dataset.
02:49Thousands of files.
02:50Gone.
02:51A few days later, the university went into chaos.
02:55The professor's project data had vanished.
02:57An investigation began.
02:59People whispered, someone hacked the system.
03:02Hassan's palms sweated as he erased his chat history.
03:05Moments later, a new message popped up.
03:08Good.
03:08You did the right thing.
03:09Trust me.
03:10You'll understand later.
03:12He felt sick.
03:13What had he done?
03:14The breakdown.
03:15The next few weeks were torture.
03:17His reputation collapsed.
03:19Professors stopped trusting him.
03:21Rumors spread.
03:22Friends avoided him.
03:24But the messages kept coming.
03:26Creepy.
03:26Manipulative.
03:27You'll be questioned tomorrow.
03:29Deny everything.
03:31Bilal will betray you.
03:32Don't talk to him.
03:34Hassan started avoiding everyone.
03:36He barely ate.
03:37Barely slept.
03:38Finally, he decided to track this hacker.
03:40He set up a trace on his system, determined to find the source.
03:44When he finally got the IP, his heart froze.
03:46It was his own laptop.
03:48He dug deeper and realized the messages were routed through an old project.
03:52He himself had built months ago, an experimental AI model using quantum tunneling to send small
03:58data packets backward in time.
04:00He had called it EchoNet.
04:02It was supposed to be a theory.
04:04Impossible to make work.
04:05But somehow it had.
04:06His hands trembled as he opened the latest message.
04:09You finally know.
04:10I'm you.
04:11The messages are from your future.
04:13Every success you had was a mistake I tried to prevent.
04:16The more I interfered, the worse things got.
04:18You were never supposed to take shortcuts, Hassan.
04:20The truth hit him like a storm.
04:23The hacker wasn't helping him.
04:24It was his future self, trying to stop him from destroying his own future.
04:29But each helpful message had only pushed him closer to disaster.
04:34Another message appeared immediately.
04:36There's one way to stop the loop.
04:38Delete the prototype.
04:39End this.
04:40Hassan stared at the folder on his desktop.
04:42EchoNet.exe.
04:44That code had made him a hero.
04:46Without it, he'd be average again.
04:48Then the final message appeared.
04:49Average is better than broken.
04:52He pressed delete.
04:53And for the first time in months, silence filled the room.
04:57Epilogue.
04:58Hassan graduated quietly that year.
05:00No flashy placements.
05:02No interviews.
05:02He worked small freelance jobs.
05:04Learning and toting from scratch.
05:06Without shortcuts.
05:07Without help.
05:08It took a year.
05:09But he rebuilt himself.
05:11He found peace and effort.
05:12Not results.
05:13Sometimes late at night, he'd open his inbox, half expecting another anonymous message.
05:17But none came.
05:19He smiled and whispered to himself.
05:21Shortcuts make you faster.
05:23But they also make you hollow.
05:25And somewhere, maybe in another timeline, his future self finally stopped trying to fix the past.
05:31Moral.
05:32Shortcuts may bring temporary success, but only genuine effort builds true character.
05:36True success isn't about knowing the right answers.
05:40It's about earning them.
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