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Ye Wenyu pulled her thoughts back from their flight like a kite. Let bygones be bygones. She composed herself and realized that Jiang Zhiming was still standing in front of her like a pillar.

Jiang Zhiming felt his voice trembling. He gazed at Ye Wenyu and said softly, "Well, I found you a new job and I was determined to find you, but all I know is your name and that you are a freshman like me. That's all I know."

When he was looking for her, he was only driven by the belief that "he must find her" and didn't feel any pain or distress. But now, when he thinks about it, he is shocked. Wow, he actually went to such lengths to find a girl.

His voice trembled as he said, "I could only ask around among the freshmen, one by one. There are so many students at Q University, finding someone is like finding a needle in a haystack. I've been looking for you these past few days. Later, I found your class, and the class monitor said you were working. She gave me your phone number, and she probably thought—" At this point, Jiang Zhiming smiled happily, the image of the female class monitor's winking smile flashing through his mind. He added in his heart, "She probably thought I was your boyfriend."

He was a man of few words, and this was the first time in his life he had spoken so much to a girl.

Ye Wenyu was both touched and bewildered. She was touched because Jiang Zhiming was so good to her, but bewildered because she didn't like him, and because of the Lin family, she didn't want to have too much contact with him. She wondered what Jiang Zhiming meant; did he have feelings for her? But she—

She looked at Jiang Zhiming, thought it over carefully, and said to him, "Jiang Zhiming, thank you, but I have really found a job, so I don't need you to find one for me."

Ye Wenyu was initially hesitant about whether to take the job, but after understanding Jiang Zhiming's intentions, she immediately made up her mind to refuse it.

If you don't want to owe someone anything, the best way is to refuse all their kindness and help.

Jiang Zhiming felt a pang of disappointment and stammered after a long pause, "No, it's okay." He was confused; she clearly needed the job, so why had she refused him time and time again?

Ye Wenyu nodded, looked at Jiang Zhiming, pondered for a moment, and then slowly said to him, "Look at yourself, then look at me. You should understand that we are the same kind of people—"

Jiang Zhiming was stunned. The same kind of person? What kind of person?

Ye Wenyu looked into the distance with a bitter smile on her face. It was as if she had swallowed bitter herbs, and a bitter taste was spreading in her mouth. She said softly, "People who are just as poor struggle in the mud and do their best, but they can only live an ordinary life."

Jiang Zhiming was stunned. On the surface, he appeared dumbfounded, but inside, his heart was pounding like an overturned truck. It turned out she understood his feelings. Despite her young age, she seemed to possess keen insight; she was rejecting him, reminding him, and persuading him.

Jiang Zhiming was shocked and pained. He was shocked by her intelligence and maturity, her far-sighted and insightful perspective. He was pained because she didn't like him, and he was pained because everything she said was the stark truth: he was a poor boy from deep in the mountains, and if he married a girl from a poor urban slum whose parents had divorced, he would be stuck at the bottom of society for the rest of his life, like a salted fish—no, they would both be like two salted fish, never to rise again.

She's right, but emotions are like lions unleashed from their cages; how can reason prevail over them?

These days, when he's lucid, he's been thinking about these issues. Rationally speaking, he shouldn't like Ye Wenyu, because her family is even poorer than his. But feelings are always uncontrollable, like tender grass sprouting in spring; he just likes her, even though she's so poor.

Seeing Jiang Zhiming remain silent, Ye Wenyu suddenly smiled and said to him in a cheerful tone, "Jiang Zhiming, don't worry, you won't be poor forever. Soon, you will have a bright future."

She thought to herself, "You will meet the beautiful and wealthy Lin Tingyue, become her boyfriend, and then you will get married. After graduating from university, you will enter the management of the Lin Group and become Lin Tingfeng's right-hand man. You are an outstanding talent, and soon you will become a senior executive of the Lin Group with your intelligence and pragmatic nature, get rid of your original family, and live a life of luxury."

Hearing Ye Wenyu's words, Jiang Zhiming had a big question mark in his mind. He smiled bitterly and said, "Are you a fortune teller? How do you know that I will soon have a bright future? College students are not rare these days. Maybe after four years of college, I won't even be able to find a job." The breakup made him very painful and disheartened.

He thought to himself that she rejected him because he was poor. If he had been born into a wealthy family in S City, perhaps she would have accepted his advances.

Ye Wenyu sighed and said to him, "Heavenly secrets cannot be revealed. You will understand my words in time." After saying that, she turned and went back to the girls' dormitory.

Jiang Zhiming stood there, like a telephone pole, feeling as if his soul had left with Ye Wenyu.

He didn't know how much time had passed before he regained consciousness. He sighed inwardly, lowered his head, gently clutched the black umbrella, and went back to his dormitory.

Ever since meeting Jiang Zhiming, Lin Tingyue had been haunted by him, determined to get his phone number no matter what. She recalled trying to get Ye Wenyu's number from an airline, but back then, she and Ye Wenyu were on the same flight, while Jiang Zhiming was just a student at Q University and had never flown before. Without his number, would she be like a headless fly, repeatedly searching the Q University campus? No, that wouldn't work. Q University was as big as a city; how could she possibly find Jiang Zhiming?

Lin Tingyue frowned as she pondered.

what to do--

Lin Tingyue lay on her bed, staring wide-eyed at the ceiling, tossing and turning like a pancake, unable to sleep. She pondered and searched for a solution, remaining awake all night until the first light of dawn appeared in the east the next day.

Got it!

An idea flashed through her mind like a summer lightning bolt: Yes, go find her brother! Her eldest brother, Lin Tingfeng, was incredibly resourceful; she could easily arrange for people to obtain all of Jiang Zhiming's information within half an hour.

With this thought in mind, Lin Tingyue perked up, immediately got up to wash and dress, and drove her sports car at breakneck speed towards Lin Tingfeng's office.

Although her brother had explicitly forbidden her from going to his office, she remembered that her older brother had once suggested that she find a top student as a boyfriend, so she was sure he wouldn't be angry if she went to see him this time.

After parking her car in the underground garage of the Lin Group, Lin Tingyue smiled and went to find Lin Tingfeng in her high heels.

At the time, Lin Tingfeng was smoking and holding Ye Wenyu's student ID in his hand. He squinted and looked at it quietly. When his sister knocked on the door and came in, he immediately put the student ID into the drawer and pretended to be doing his job.