Chapter 132 Reward
Lin Yan's company entered the fast lane and expanded a lot. It even successfully attracted the attention of a visionary angel investor at an industry exchange meeting.
I heard that the other party is very optimistic about their technical direction and team potential, and the preliminary investment intention has been finalized.
This means that once funds are injected, the product can be launched into the market on a larger scale and the prospects are bright.
Although Lin Yan is still busy, the company's management model is gradually taking shape. He needs to do fewer things himself, and he has more time to breathe than during the crazy expansion period a while ago.
And I also ushered in the "harvest period" of scientific research.
Ever since I received advice from Master Ling Xiao last time, my research on the NPC AI plug-in has finally gotten on the right track, as if it had opened up its Ren and Du meridians.
Although we still encounter various strange bugs and problems in the process, the general direction is clear and we have ideas for solving them, instead of rushing around like a headless fly.
The feeling of watching your ideas being realized bit by bit by code and watching the little people in the simulator become more and more "smart" is simply addictive.
So, the style of this summer vacation changed completely.
In the past summer vacations, I basically just hugged a watermelon and played games, doing whatever made me feel comfortable.
But this time, I seemed like a different person. I went to the laboratory every day without fail, and was more active than in class.
What's in my mind is no longer dungeon strategies and equipment attributes, but algorithm logic, parameter optimization, behavior tree construction... Sometimes, in order to overcome a technical difficulty, I can sit in front of the computer for a whole day and forget to eat.
This led to a "serious" problem - Lin Yan, he was not satisfied!
In the past, he was always busy and I was left alone in the empty room.
Now it's the other way around!
His pace slowed down a bit, giving him some time and energy to think about some romantic and intimate things, but he found out - his wife was gone! His wife was living in the laboratory!
This is like a person who has been hungry for a long time, who finally sees a delicious meal in front of him, but finds that the plate is stuck to the table and can only look at it but not eat it!
So, it was as if our family had gone back in time and returned to the state we were in when we first started living together - except that the roles were reversed.
Back then, I was addicted to games, and he harassed me for attention. Now, I am addicted to scientific research, and he harasses me for posts.
At night, I was pondering over a complex conditional statement, my brows furrowed so hard that they could kill a fly.
Lin Yan came over, smelling fragrant after washing, and hugged me from behind, resting his chin on my shoulder. His voice was lazy and suggestive: "Baby~ It's almost eleven o'clock, isn't it time to rest? There's no end to scientific research~"
Without taking my eyes off the screen, I patted his arm perfunctorily: "Yeah, it will be done soon. Let me fix this little bug..."
"What bug is more important than me?"
He grumbled in dissatisfaction, his warm breath spraying on my neck, and his hands began to become dishonest. "You've been ignoring me for several days... Even the company's angel investors don't find it as difficult to see you as I do..."
He made me feel a little itchy, and my concentration was interrupted. I sighed helplessly: "Stop it, Lin Yan, this is a critical moment... This logic doesn't make sense, and the rest of my behavior is a mess..."
"My 'logic' isn't making sense anymore..." He said aggrievedly, even deliberately nudging me with something, "I urgently need my wife to 'adjust' it..."
I:"……"
I pushed his head away, feeling both amused and helpless. "Boss Lin! Can you please be more ambitious? Where's your business empire? Where's your lofty ambitions?"
"A business empire can't match the warmth of a wife!" he said confidently. "My greatest ambition is to be with my wife!"
In the end, he would often half-drag, half-carry me back to the bedroom.
But even when I was lying in bed, my mind was still thinking about the code, and from time to time I would suddenly say: "Hey! Lin Yan! I think I know where the problem is! Should I add a priority queue?"
Lin Yan usually blocked my mouth with a kiss, gritting his teeth and saying, "Mr. Chen, it's time to get off work now, and you are not allowed to think about work! If you think about it again... I will make sure you don't have the energy to think!"
This was especially true during the day. Sometimes when he was free at noon, he would suddenly come to the lab to bring me food (euphemistically saying it was to supervise me eating), and then he would look at me pitifully from the side, his eyes like a large dog that had been forgotten by its owner.
"Wife, please take a look at me..."
"Wife, is the food delicious?"
"Honey, let's go to the movies tonight. There's a new one..."
"Wife..."
I was so annoyed by his nagging that I had to finish my meal in a hurry and looked at him helplessly: "Lin Yan, is your company going to go bankrupt? Why are you so idle?"
He immediately put on a face like a woman who's abandoned her husband: "The company didn't go bankrupt, but I'm about to go bankrupt. Some people forget about their husbands when they get the technology, and just throw it away after using it. What a scumbag."
I was really defeated by him.
Sometimes I can’t help but wonder, who of us has grown up? And who hasn’t changed?
I seem to have changed. From a lazy guy who only knew how to play games, I have become a goal-oriented and dedicated person... a quasi-scientific researcher?
Although the process is painful, the sense of accomplishment is real.
In front of outsiders, he is the increasingly calm and domineering General Lin, whose methods are swift and decisive and his decisions are resolute and resolute.
But as soon as she came in front of me, her clingy, childish and jealous nature was fully exposed, and even tended to get worse because of the recent "neglect".
Is this considered a kind of... alternative way of "not forgetting the original intention"?
Of course, seeing him like that, I am not without mercy.
Occasionally, I would put down the code, lean over to kiss him, and comfort him: "Okay, okay, when I finish this version, I will definitely accompany you, okay?"
His eyes would light up at this point, and he'd push even harder, "It's a deal! I'll book you in for three full days! No one else! Just the two of us!"
Looking at his well-planned look, I felt both angry and amused.
Alas, sweet burden!
The candlelight flickered, and the dining table was filled with carefully selected Western food (but indeed ordered from a takeaway platform), and even a bottle of red wine that looked quite decent.
I rarely left my laptop in the study and even changed into comfortable home clothes, intending to temporarily put the torturous priority queue behind me and comfort Mr. Lin, the "wife-waiting stone" in my family.
He said he had something to deal with at the company and would be back later.
I calculated the time, reheated the steak, arranged it on a plate, lit the candles, created a good atmosphere, and waited for him to push the door open and give him a surprise.
As a result, after waiting for a long time, the message alert sound rang first.
Lin Yan: "Baby, I have an urgent document to process. The other party is pressing for it, so it may take another half an hour to forty minutes. You eat first, don't wait for me. I will be sad if you starve. [Hug]"
Me: "It's okay, you're busy. I just happened to have some finishing work to do, so there's no rush."
After replying the message, I looked at the table full of food and the flickering candlelight and sighed.
The sense of surprise was discounted.
Half an hour... I was just waiting in vain. The idea of judging abnormal NPC behavior suddenly popped up again, and I felt itchy.
"Just take a look, just debug it for a while..." I said to myself, tiptoed back to the study, and turned on the computer.
I thought I would just do it for a while and then turn it off when he was almost there.
As a result, this "little step" made him completely trapped.
My fingers were flying on the keyboard and my brain was working at high speed. I completely forgot the passage of time and the candlelight dinner in the living room that was slowly getting cold.
After an unknown amount of time, there were very slight sounds of a door opening and footsteps coming from the entrance.
Lin Yan is back.
He took off his suit jacket and loosened his tie, his first sight being the meticulously set yet empty dining table in the living room.
The candlelight illuminated two untouched meals, and the atmosphere was romantic and... lonely.
His eyes softened, apparently receiving the surprise signal I had prepared.
But then, his eyes swept towards the study with the door half-open, from which the dim light of the screen and the subtle sound of keyboard tapping could be heard.
He raised his eyebrows in understanding, and that softness was immediately replaced by a feeling of anger, amusement, and helplessness mixed with "as I expected".
He walked lightly towards the study.
When he opened the door, the scene he saw was just as he expected:
I leaned on the computer chair, my head nodding, my eyelids drooping heavily, and my fingers unconsciously resting on the keyboard.
The screen was filled with dense code, and the cursor was blinking stubbornly at the end of a loop statement.
It was obvious that he was physically exhausted from using his brain so intensively that he was defeated by sleepiness.
He sighed helplessly, his eyes surprisingly soft. He walked over, carefully saved the file I was editing (God knows when he learned these basic operations), and then turned off the monitor.
The room was plunged into darkness, with only the faint light of candles from the living room seeping in.
He leaned over, put his arms around my knees and back, and tried to carry me back to the bedroom.
Perhaps it was because of the movement, or perhaps it was the familiar scent of aftershave on him, but I half woke up in a daze. Before I was fully awake, I subconsciously mumbled, "Hmm... Lin Yan? You're back... I was waiting for you to eat..."
"Well, I'm back." His voice was low and gentle, and it was particularly clear in the darkness.
Then, warm lips with a hint of night coolness covered mine with precision.
It was a kiss that was extremely gentle yet carried an irresistible force, rolling gently and sucking carefully, as if tasting some long-desired sweet spring water.
Our breaths intertwined, carrying his scent and a hint of tiredness, completely dispelling the remaining sleepiness in me.
I felt dizzy from his kiss, and my hands subconsciously climbed up his shoulders and slowly responded.
He didn't move away until I was almost out of breath, his nose touching mine, his breath hot.
"Where's my candlelight dinner, Mr. Chen?"
There was a smile in his voice, and a hint of dangerous hoarseness. "Also, you promised to reward me... by exhausting yourself in front of the computer, huh?"
In the dim light, I looked at his handsome features so close to me and blinked guiltily. "Um... I said it was the code that started it. Do you believe me?"
He chuckled, then leaned over and bit my lower lip lightly as if to punish me.
"I don't believe it. So, the punishment is..."
He picked me up and carried me sideways, walking steadily towards the bedroom. When he passed by the dining table in the living room, he didn't even glance at the bleak dinner on the table.
"Dinner won't taste good if it's cold. I'll have something...hot first."
Well, it seems that tonight's "optimization" schedule has to be brought forward. As for my code... I'll talk about it tomorrow.
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