Chapter 524 He only ordered a pot of tea.
Xiao Lin frowned, already somewhat displeased. "Didn't I tell you? Put aside what you're doing until you've investigated things thoroughly. What, are you afraid I'll investigate you?"
He Yu froze, her voice trembling slightly, "No, I understand."
She dared not continue, fearing she would completely enrage Xiao Lin, at which point she would not only lose her job, but perhaps even...
The more He Yu thought about it, the more frightened she became, and she silently retreated.
The atmosphere in the Big Bad Wolf's apartment was also gloomy; they had already given up hope that Li Ya would be able to pay the remaining balance.
Shen Boyan had gotten tired of looking for He Yu recently and had no intention of going to see her anymore.
He Yu once said, "If you want to make money, don't think about saving face. Face is worthless. Even the boss of a listed company can't necessarily achieve both face and money."
There are always people better than you, and there will always be mountains beyond mountains. If you can't stand at the top of the pyramid, there will always be people you need to bow down to.
On the contrary, the more successful people are, the more they know how to be humble. On the contrary, it is only a fledgling entrepreneur like Shen Boyan who naively believes that backbone can put food on the table.
It must be said that these words provoked Shen Boyan.
So he chose not to ask for the money back.
It wasn't that he was unwilling to humble himself, but he couldn't bring himself to use his looks to please others, especially since he was a man.
That time, the two of them had a complete falling out. He Yu is definitely trying every means to block him now, but he didn't tell Tao Yang and the others about it.
When he saw that they still wanted him to go find He Yu, he slammed his fist on the keyboard, grabbed his bag, and left without saying a word.
The punch made a loud noise, so loud that Tao Yang was too scared to speak.
He watched Shen Boyan leave nervously, thinking he would come and beat him up, but Shen Boyan did nothing and walked past them.
"What's wrong with him?" Sun Miao blinked, somewhat confused about what had happened.
"I don't know."
Tao Yang scratched his head, wondering which sentence he had said wrong.
Shen Boyan rarely gets this angry. The last time I saw him get angry was two years ago when his team disbanded.
Qiao Xing was unaware of all this, but Xiao Lin replied to her message at 5 p.m.
[He Yu is in charge of this; let me ask her what's going on.]
Qiao Xing breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her reply. However, she hadn't looked at the software after it was completed, but she trusted Shen Boyan's skills.
Before any results were available, Qiao Xing didn't dare to make any promises to them that the final payment would definitely be made.
She typed back: Okay, thank you.
Xiao Lin didn't reply, but Shen Boyan sent her a message instead.
Qiao Xing opened the message and saw the text it had sent; her brows furrowed imperceptibly.
Shen Boyan posted: Am I really not suited to start a business?
Qiao Xing was stunned for a long time. He clicked on Shen Boyan's profile picture to confirm whether he had mistaken him for someone else. But the profile picture was him, and the information was also his.
Could my account have been hacked?
He actually asked himself that kind of question.
Qiao Xing replied carefully: "Were you... by Shen Boyan? Was your account hacked?"
Shen Boyan did not reply. Qiao Xing waited for about ten minutes, but he still did not reply, so Qiao Xing sent a question mark.
She sensed something was wrong, so she called Tao Yang to ask.
Tao Yang was also confused, so he told Qiao Xing what had happened that afternoon.
Then she complained, "Is he going through menopause? We've joked about him so many times and he's never gotten angry. I don't know what's wrong with him today. Could it be that he just broke up with his girlfriend?"
Qiao Xing was speechless. "You're with him every day, has he ever gone out on a date?"
"No, then what happened?"
Qiao Xing hung up the phone and then called Shen Boyan.
Shen Boyan answered the call, and Qiao Xing asked him where it was. "It's in the music bar across from your neighborhood."
"A music bar?"
Qiao Xing remembered, "Oh, I see."
She simply went out and walked there; it wasn't far anyway, just across a zebra crossing.
This bar isn't a noisy one; it's not very big, and there are live singers at regular times. You can not only drink alcohol but also have tea here, and the overall atmosphere is quite quiet.
After she went inside, she looked around and found Shen Boyan in a corner.
He leaned slumped on the sofa, with a large pot of oolong tea, a pack of cigarettes, and a lighter in front of him.
Qiao Xing sat down opposite him and couldn't help but say, "I thought you were drinking alone here. You only ordered a pot of tea?"
Shen Boyan glanced at her. "I have no money."
"..."
Good grief, I came to the bar broke, so I ordered a pot of tea.
Because the tea is cheap, a pot costs just over a hundred yuan, and you can get more when you finish it.
Qiao Xing glanced at the wine list on the table. "The wine isn't expensive. We have beer, a dozen for only 120 yuan. Your pot of tea is 198 yuan."
Shen Boyan twitched the corner of his mouth. "I still have to write code tonight. How can I write it if I'm drunk?"
"All right."
She also ordered herself a glass of lemonade, and seeing Shen Boyan's listless expression, asked, "What did you mean by the message you just sent me?"
"Typo, sent to the wrong person."
"You're kidding me. We haven't chatted in ages. You probably had to scroll down for ages to find my WeChat, right?"
"..."
Having been exposed, Shen Boyan looked a little awkward. "Let's not talk about this anymore."
"I'm already here. If it weren't for you, I would be cooking at home right now."
"Then go back and cook."
Qiao Xing's anger flared up instantly. She glared at Shen Boyan with eyes that looked like she wanted to kill him.
Shen Boyan avoided her gaze, picked up the teacup on the table, and took a big gulp.
"Fine, don't say anything then. You wasted my 20 yuan." Qiao Xing also grabbed a lemonade and took a big gulp. This glass of water cost 20 yuan. He was furious.
Shen Boyan sighed, "I was a little impulsive just now. I wanted to find someone to chat with, but I couldn't find anyone. Now I'm fine."
"Was it because Tao Yang was joking?"
Shen Boyan shook his head slightly, "It has nothing to do with him. I just thought of some things."
"What?"
He instinctively reached for a cigarette, took one out and put it in his mouth, but when he saw Qiao Xing across from him, he took the cigarette off and threw it back on the table.
“Back then, I refused the school my parents arranged and went to study in another city. When I left, my dad told me that if I left, it would be as if I didn’t have a son. I left without thinking.”
“After that, I didn’t take a single penny from my family. I wanted to prove that even without them, I could make a name for myself. I was determined to prove them wrong.”
"Later, I won second place in the competition and thought I had made the right choice. I even bragged to my family, but all I got in return was ridicule. My dad said that if I was capable, I should earn 100 million yuan outside so he could apologize to me personally. Otherwise, I should never come home in this lifetime."
Shen Boyan chuckled self-deprecatingly at this point, "I said okay, we'll see."
“I started trying to start my own business in college, but look at it now, four years later, it’s still a disaster. Then someone said something to me the other day, and I’ve been thinking about it for the past few days. Am I really too arrogant?”
"I thought I had learned from my previous failure and made some changes, but it seems..."
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