"Where did this woman with all those sweet talk tricks learn them from?"

Ye Zhou tucked one eye into his arm; he was so big, yet he was embarrassed by a little girl's teasing.

An Youhe smiled but didn't say anything.

Ye Zhou lay there, and before he knew it, he had slept through the night. When he opened his eyes, he saw a beautiful angel sitting by the bedside, smiling at him.

But the angel was holding a bottle of "shit".

Ye Zhou's beautiful mood instantly soured early in the morning.

What are you going to do?

An Youhe chuckled, her hair still a little messy from just waking up.

"You can apply the medicine during the day and not at night, so you can get a good night's sleep!"

Ye Zhou's stomach churned again. "You're something else. I won't do it. Do you want everyone to stay away from me because of my smell?"

An Youhe, unwilling to give up, leaned closer and said, "It's okay, I won't do it anyway. I actually think this smells quite nice."

Ye Zhou was shirtless, utterly despondent.

An Youhe applied the herbs to her back and covered it with plastic wrap.

An Youhe looked at her masterpiece, a crooked green centipede, and was very proud. "This way it won't stick to my clothes, and the smell isn't too strong either!"

...

Ye Zhou started work, and the place he went to inspect was relatively remote, so he didn't let An Youhe come with him. He also told An Youhe that he would be back at noon, and the inspection would only last for two or three hours.

Hu Lai's first words to Ye Zhou were, "Team leader, did you eat shit?"

Ye Zhou grinned dryly, "If you can't speak, just keep it to yourself."

The place they went to this time was in a dangerous location. This was the last pilot test to prove to their peers that 5G signals could be successfully used even in locations with poor terrain and altitude.

Hu Lai drove the SUV along the winding mountain road, with Ye Zhou in the back and Zou Yun in the passenger seat.

However, the woman in the passenger seat still didn't give up talking to Ye Zhou.

“An Youhe didn’t go home all night yesterday. The team leader seems to have exhausted a lot of energy. You have dark circles under your eyes. And why are you always holding your back today? Is the team leader just a good-looking guy who can’t actually withstand the strain?”

Hu Lai couldn't hold back anymore. He hadn't expected Zou Yun to be so interested in the team leader's private life, asking such offensive questions.

Ye Zhou calmly asked, "What, you want to give it a try?"

Zou Yun shut up completely.

Hu Lai: "Hahahaha!"

Hu Lai, always eager for drama, asked Zou Yun, "Miss Zou, why are you sitting in the passenger seat with me? Why don't you sit with the team leader? He's tall and handsome; can't you even take advantage of him?"

There was an indescribable smell permeating the SUV, and that smell was coming from Ye Zhou's back.

Ye Zhou suddenly understood his girlfriend's good intentions.

Could it be that An Youhe had already noticed that he had too many suitors and was spreading them around for him?

It's true that you can't be too handsome; if you are, your girlfriend won't feel at ease.

Ye Zhou smiled and then covered his nose.

Around noon, I was too busy to get back to the hotel, and for some reason, the cell tower malfunctioned and stopped receiving a signal!

If it's not fixed, it would be a slap in the face for Ye Zhou himself.

That's just how Ye Zhou is; he can't eat or sleep until he does something right. So he decided not to go back and called An Youhe.

"What happened?" A soft, worried voice came through the phone.

"It's nothing, just a small work-related issue that needs to be resolved. You should eat well; I'll check if you've gained weight when I get back."

"Okay, then be careful and eat well."

Ye Zhou hung up the phone, and a worried look returned to his brow.

Hu Lai was already sighing beside him, "We spent the whole morning trying to find out what the problem was, but there was no signal. This is just terrible. In such a dangerous and high-altitude place, there shouldn't be any signal at all. If you ask me, 2G is still the most reliable network."

Zou Yun didn't say anything, crossed his arms, put one foot on the mound of earth, and looked up at the signal tower.

After all, this last pilot project is crucial to the success or failure of the entire project.

It's also directly linked to the stocks of the Forty Thieves.

Ye Zhou's project team is the one that has invested the most manpower and resources, and it is also the team that Decoding Cloud has the highest hopes for.

If the last pilot program fails and the stock market crashes, the consequences will be unimaginable.

This could even lead to Gitee's bankruptcy.

Having not smoked for many years, Ye Zhou wanted to put a cigarette to his lips for the first time.

"Alright, let's keep going. But it's only the first day, so don't think I'm incapable of anything. There's always a solution to every problem, so what's there to be afraid of?"

Hu Lai plopped down under the signal tower. "Team leader, you're right. You're only nineteen, younger than any of us. You have plenty of opportunities to try and fail. We only have this one job."

With morale low, Ye Zhou had no choice but to find a clean place to sit down.

"Okay, let me tell you a story. I have a friend who went to a third-tier university. Compared to students from top universities like 958 and 112, he has no competitiveness in the job market. In the first round of interviews, the interviewer sees his resume and immediately rejects him. He only needs to look at his degree and doesn't need to look at anything else."

This severely damaged his self-esteem because he wasn't a student at a prestigious university. Even if he possessed far more knowledge than students from top universities, it wouldn't help. In the end, he came up with a solution: he still needed to study, and he needed to study even more thoroughly. In every interview, he mastered the knowledge that the interviewer required and even those that weren't required.

He let the interviewer know that he wasn't begging for the job, but rather that the job and the project needed him; it wasn't the interviewer choosing him, but him choosing the job. Ultimately, he ended up working at the same company as students from prestigious universities.

After Ye Zhou finished speaking, Hu Lai squinted at him and asked, "Team leader, how do you know so many details?"

Ye Zhou smiled helplessly, "Like I said, she's a very good friend of mine."

"Your friend is such a hot-blooded person! What happened to him later?"

Ye Zhou laughed, "Later, I don't know, but I heard that he passed the doctoral entrance exam, but the research direction was different from his original direction. His supervisor was very disappointed in him because he knew nothing about this research direction. He himself was also very unwilling because he never liked failure and did not want to disappoint people. He kept learning and asking others for advice, day and night, even dreaming about learning."