Chapter 3 True Young Talent

After Lin Ruoyan finished communicating with the system, she began to plan the future of her own son.

She planned to devote some of her energy to planning her adopted son's future academic and development path. She'd even arranged for a Beijing hukou and school-district apartment, and she wanted to instill in him the habit of independent learning from elementary school onward. She hoped to ensure that after she left, he wouldn't need anyone else to worry about him, and that he could grow up on his own, becoming a high-end talent with a legitimate degree, helping to relieve some of Lin Ruxu's career pressures.

Any one of the above could be achieved in eight months, which would have been more than enough. Due to her limited knowledge and imagination, there was really nothing else she could think of.

She secretly rubbed her ankle. She was wearing expensive designer clothes and jewelry, but she didn't dare move. Standing in those sky-high heels was too tiring. Sitting on the soft sofa in the corner, she had to concentrate on planning how to spend money to prolong her life in the future. She didn't intend to initiate conversation with anyone.

But even if she doesn't take the initiative, there are always people who take the initiative to find her.

A middle-aged man in a high-end brand-name suit walked straight towards her and spoke in a Hong Kong accent: "This lady looks unfamiliar. May I ask who you are?"

Of course, Lin Ruoyan didn't know this middle-aged man, but judging from his figure and hair, he should be over 30 years old.

"I'm Lin Ruoyan." She answered simply. Her mind was not on the man. All she was thinking about was going around the city tomorrow, buying a house in the school district, and then finding someone to help her start a company.

The smile on Wu Chenghao's face became more obvious. He took out his business card and introduced himself in a gentle manner. He was not too flattering. He just said that he and Lin Ruxu were business friends and that he had his own company.

Lin Ruoyan saw that the other party was holding a crocodile leather men's bag. When he took the business card, the bag was open, and the Maserati car key was lying inside. She took the business card. One side was pure English with gold letters on a white background, which looked very fashionable.

Before Lin Ruoyan traveled through time and space, she graduated from a prestigious university and was naturally proficient in English. She also studied French as a second foreign language, so she didn't look at the traditional Chinese characters on the back of the business card. She just glanced at the English characters and, combined with Wu Chenghao's English name, finally remembered the other party's identity.

The president of xx Technology Company, one of Lin Ruoyan's suitors in the book, and also one of the men that Lin Ruoyan can spend money on.

The prodigal system introduced Wu Chenghao's background more excitedly than Lin Ruoyan herself.

This character is truly a young talent. In the book's time, Wu Chenghao listed a technology company in Country M and pioneered a partnership with the telecommunications department of Province Z in China to introduce the Xiaolingtong (Phase-based) system to the country, enjoying a period of considerable success. The book describes Xiaolingtong as having over 80 million users nationwide at its peak, suggesting he would be reaping the rewards of his future.

Unfortunately, the Xiaolingtong (PhS) was a short-lived substitute that exploited a policy loophole. It gradually faded into obscurity after the widespread adoption of 3G networks, and within a decade, it was completely delisted. Those who followed suit and hoarded large quantities of Xiaolingtongs were left with nothing. Only those who stopped buying in time escaped the disaster.

No matter what, President Wu is a man of real talent and is the blind date invited by her brother.

The prodigal system said seriously: [You accepted Wu Chenghao's pursuit and, to save face, agreed to help him get PHS into Beijing, spending a lot of money on it.]

This incident is actually in the plot. In the book, Beijing and Shanghai are currently closed to PHS services due to policy restrictions. Now, she's going against the rules, wasting money, and definitely failing to get things done, and she's also been criticized. Why bother?

She can spend money on Wu Chenghao, but she will feel comfortable only if the money is spent on things that she thinks are reasonable.

Furthermore, Lin Ruoyan's vulgar dreams hadn't yet been realized. What if she ended up spending over 100 million yuan a month? Wouldn't she be sacrificing her life to help others? So even if she invested in this ambitious young man, she would have to finish her own business first and carefully choose a project when she had some extra money.

As for the tedious and time-consuming pursuit of men she didn't like, she might as well go abroad and buy luxury goods. She wouldn't be fooled by the money-losing system.

Seeing Lin Ruoyan staring blankly at the English on the business card, Wu Chenghao said considerately, "There's Chinese on the back. Our company is listed in the United States, but our core business will be developed domestically. We also made the PHS system that's already being promoted in southern China."

Wu Chenghao knew that she had a low level of education and had lived in the south for a period of time, so he tried to bring the topic closer. Lin Ruoyan could feel his kindness, but kindness could not arouse her love.

She naturally believed in her brother's judgment. Even if she didn't want to have any emotional involvement with this young talent, she could first be an ordinary friend and chat with him to broaden her horizons. In short, she just had to avoid ruining her brother's connections.

In fact, the era and economic development in the book have many similarities with the reality of Lin Ruoyan's growth around the millennium.

It is still in the initial stage of Xiaolingtong, and she is familiar with the plot of the book and knows about its disadvantages and limitations, as well as the future development trends of mobile phones, the Internet, etc. Combined with her real-life experience, she can talk about it with Wu Chenghao in a pretty clear and logical manner without any stage fright.

So Wu Chenghao soon discovered that Lin Ruoyan, who was rumored to have only a junior high school education, was actually very familiar with the development of the telecommunications industry.

Lin Ruoyan not only sees the pros and cons of Xiaolingtong, but is also full of innovative imagination about the application scenarios of mobile phones in the future. She bluntly says that mobile phones will become multifunctional products that combine cameras, personal terminals and even online payment tools. This is surprisingly close to his thoughts and judgments, and is far beyond the level of ordinary people.

Where did she get so much knowledge? Far from being superficial, she had a clear mind. Although the two of them didn't use any technical vocabulary, she was able to grasp various trendy concepts accurately. She pointed out the current difficulties of Xiaolingtong and proposed that developing mobile phone software and hardware businesses had more prospects.

This is not an ignorant country girl.

She had only been brought back to Beijing for less than a month. Did she already have such knowledge? Even if Lin Ruxu had someone temporarily indoctrinate her with this idea, she must be very smart to understand it and apply it to her own thinking and talk to him.

Wu Chenghao naturally admired the beautiful and intelligent woman, and immediately felt that he had come to the right place. He originally thought that Lin Ruxu was looking for a husband for the girl, and he came to go through the motions out of courtesy, saying that he agreed to a blind date, but in fact he didn't want to be liked by the other party.

Now he was getting serious. After all, he was single and had yet to meet his ideal partner.

Little did she know that as early as when she took the business card, Lin Ruoyan had already made it clear that she could invest the money, but it was impossible for her to fall in love with Wu Chenghao.

At this moment, a lady in an evening gown and with a dignified demeanor came over. She looked like an acquaintance of Wu Chenghao, and the two greeted each other in English.

Lin Ruoyan remembered that this lady had just whispered about the original owner's part-time job as a factory girl in a bar, and it sounded like she didn't like the real rich girl. Seeing that this lady seemed to have something to say to Wu Chenghao, she wanted to find an excuse to leave.

Who knew that the other party was coming for her.