Shen Shi was still holding onto Li You's collar. The two, one tall and one short, stood facing each other. The huge height difference of twenty centimeters made Li You look like a little chick in front of him.

Li You's vehement rebuttal was met with a mocking sneer, "Oh? Really?" But Shen Shi didn't refute him; instead, he tilted his head, as if deep in thought.

Seeing his expression, Li You found a glimmer of hope in his despair. He didn't even care that someone was still grabbing him by the collar, and he leaned forward eagerly, "It's true, of course it's true!"

"As long as you agree to cooperate, the person in charge of Ditong Company will forgive and forget the unpleasant experience before, and the price offered this time is twice that of the last time."

If it were him in Chen Shi's shoes, he wouldn't hesitate at all; he would definitely agree immediately. He sees everything in terms of money; with money, there's nothing he can't do.

"Twice! A full double!" Li You's anxious face was almost touching Shen Shi's.

Through the refraction of the light and through the thick, transparent lenses, Shen Shi had never seen Shen You's face so clearly as he did now, seeing his undisguised anxiety and the look of someone who wished he could take his place.

The similar scenes, as if time were overlapping, gave Shen Shi the illusion of being in the past.

"I don't believe it." Shen Shi shook his head and said slowly, "What if you all team up to lie to me again, like last time?"

Recalling his previous painful experience and the tense two weeks he spent in fear, Shen Shi refused to cooperate with them under any circumstances. "Even a fool should have learned his lesson. If I cooperate with you again, wouldn't I, Shen Shi, be even more foolish than a fool?" He directly rejected the olive branch extended by Li You.

Undeterred, Li You tried to persuade him again, but Shen Shi beat him to it: "What's the point of following someone else around like a lackey? Since the programs I write are so valuable, I might as well go it alone."

"Earning my own money and spending it myself means I don't have to worry about the boss's attitude or share profits with others. Isn't that wonderful?"

Shen Shi happily imagined a bright future. Before him lay vast, untapped gold mines, a blessed land where one shovel could unearth oil. Wealth was within reach, and a wonderful life was just around the corner.

It wasn't until a voice rang out that Shen Shi woke up from his sweet dream.

“That’s true, but the websites you’ve created are all…” As he spoke, Li You’s voice gradually weakened, and his face turned from white to red.

"..." Chen Shi was speechless and looked up at the sky. Did you even need to tell me that?! Who the hell told you to remind me?! That's right, Chen Shi's website is mainly used in the service industry. Through the intelligent development of the online platform, it iterates on traditional entertainment methods and brings customers a different experience in a faster and simpler way.

In simple terms, it's 3D stereoscopic comic book modeling, except that the modeling done by Shen Shi is a tiny bit larger than ordinary modeling...

As the saying goes: It's not the big-brave hooligans you should be afraid of, it's the educated ones. These days, there are all kinds of people!

"That's all ancient history. I was young and ignorant back then." After a moment of silence with a black line on his forehead, Shen Shi finally spoke: "Now I'm determined to turn over a new leaf. I don't care how you make money. Don't come to me with this kind of thing in the future."

"So what are your plans for the future? Will you start your own business?"

To Ling Chenshi's surprise, Li You stopped nagging him about selling the website and instead started asking about his future plans.

"Of course!" Shen Shi answered without hesitation, but at the same time he couldn't help but wonder: Did Li You not hear what I just said? Wasn't he clear enough?

"But..." Perhaps feeling that the next question was too painful, Li You hesitated for a long time before finally organizing his thoughts and asking, "Do you have money?"

This is an extremely simple yet extremely realistic problem. Throughout history, countless entrepreneurs who were full of dreams and fantasies of achieving great things have failed because of money.

Although Shen Shi's family was much better off than his, they were still only middle-class. Starting a business was completely unthinkable for kids like them who came from small towns.

To Li You's surprise, Shen Shi confidently said, "Money is a minor issue. Even if we don't have it now, we will have it soon."

For a well-informed time traveler like him, making money is a piece of cake.

Shen Shi clearly remembers that at the end of this month, something called "Adam Coin" will appear on the market. At first, the price is average, but in just two months, its value will skyrocket to a level that ordinary people can hardly reach.

This will be a great opportunity to make money, and it is also a key step for Shen Shi to obtain start-up funds and change his destiny.

Li You, who was born and raised in the area, naturally had no idea that Chen Shi could predict the future. He thought Chen Shi was talking in his sleep. He moved his lips and tried to say something more, making a final effort to secure his kickback, but Chen Yang, who was drunk in the room, did not give him the chance.

"Uh...uh..."

Upon hearing that sound, Shen Shi immediately sensed something was terribly wrong. His worst fears had come true: that bastard Chen Yang had actually vomited! And he'd vomited on his bed!!!

In an instant, a million grass mud horses galloped through Shen Shi's mind.

Since Chen Yang was in the upper bunk, it was impractical to get him up there while he was drunk, so Chen Shi's lower bunk was temporarily requisitioned. Now Chen Yang was vomiting so badly that you can imagine how miserable Chen Shi's bunk was!

After painstakingly cleaning up Chen Yang's mess, Shen Shi felt like killing Chen Yang. At the same time, he silently blamed himself, saying: I shouldn't have ordered that grilled kidney, really!

First, he experienced a heart-wrenching separation from Jiang Qing, then he spent the entire night with Chen Yang, and also had a heart-to-heart talk with Li You. Shen Shi's day was truly extraordinary.

After a busy day, Master Shen tidied up briefly, but Chen Yang was still lying on his bed, snoring loudly and sleeping like a log. Helpless, Master Shen had no choice but to resign himself to climbing up to the upper bunk.

Then something even worse happened. Exhausted both physically and mentally, Shen Shi had just lain down when he noticed that Li You, on the opposite bed, kept casting probing glances at him. Shen Shi knew perfectly well that Li You wanted to continue probing into his situation.

The campus is a microcosm of society, a statement that Shen Shi, a sophomore, deeply agrees with.

Take his own experience as an example. He has seen all sorts of people in his small dormitory.

If Qi Xiao is an oddball, and he himself is a great oddball, then Li You is the oddball among oddballs.