"I've made up my mind." Xiao Ke said suddenly.

Shao Ya was puzzled, "What decision?"

"I decided to apply to Kyoto University."

Shao Ya chuckled and said, "You have great ambitions, but with your current grades, it might be difficult for you to get into Beijing University."

Xiao Ke tilted his head back and said, "Shao Mo can go to Beijing University, so why can't I? I don't believe I am worse than her."

Shao Ya did not comment.

The teacher often said in class that a person’s success is 1% talent + 99% hard work.

But what the teacher didn’t say is that 1% of talent can easily kill 99% of the efforts of ordinary people.

People who are born with talent are outstanding and can easily stand out in every field. If these people work a little harder, other people will never be able to catch up even if they spend their entire lives.

And obviously, Shao Mo is the one who is both talented and hardworking.

She was afraid that she would never be able to catch up in her lifetime, but so what? If she didn't try, who knew what the result would be? It was not until the banquet officially started that Shao Mo learned that Zeng Fang was drunk. She said hello to Mrs. Zheng, went to the guest room upstairs, and made sure that Zeng Fang was fine before returning to the venue to continue attending the banquet.

On the contrary, Zeng Fang was so drunk that she lost all memory. When she woke up the next day, she forgot everything and couldn't even remember who sent her to the guest room.

The next day was Saturday. There was no class and Zeng Fang had nothing else to do, so she went out to the apartment after lunch, planning to take Fak out for a walk while the weather was good.

When I opened the door of the apartment, I was surprised to find Shen Zhen at home, dressed for going out, holding Fak's hand, as if he was about to go out.

"You want to take Falk out?"

"Well, we're going to go ice skating at Baihe Reservoir in the afternoon, and then camp and have a barbecue in the evening. Do you want to join us?"

Plop, plop.

Ever since she lost weight, Zeng Fang has become a popular girl in the department. Men often invite her out to dinner or to the movies and try to please her, but she always refuses them without hesitation.

But when faced with Shen Zhen's invitation, she couldn't say no, and her heart even beat faster.

It was not until she sat in Shen Zhen's jeep in a daze that Zeng Fang came to her senses as if awakened from a dream.

"I, I still don't want to go, right?"

Facing Shen Zhen's puzzled eyes, she felt inexplicably flustered and short of breath, "I'm not prepared at all."

"What do you want to prepare?"

Zeng Fang counted on her fingers one by one, "It's so cold now, if you go camping you must bring a tent, a blanket, a cotton coat, and outdoor supplies..."

"I have everything you mentioned ready. It's in the trunk of the car."

Zeng Fang looked at him and couldn't help muttering, "What you prepared is yours, not mine..."

"Yours are ready too."

Shen Zhen interrupted her impatiently, "If you don't want to go, just say so. There's no need to beat around the bush."

Zeng Fang could not stand being provoked. When provoked by Shen Zhen, she immediately pulled up the seat belt and buckled it.

"Let's go, then."

Shen Zhen curled his lips imperceptibly, then immediately returned to his cold expression, started the car and set off.

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Shao Mo decided to go all out and planned to convert the small villa into a fitness and weight loss center, so that she could accommodate multiple members to lose weight together at the same time.

After all, the villa was located halfway up the mountain. To ensure its safety, Shao Mo hired several bodyguards to guard the villa 24 hours a day.

In addition, the front yard of the villa was turned into a garden and planted with various rare flowers and plants, and the backyard was expanded into a lawn the size of a basketball court for everyone to jog in the morning.

The renovation of the fitness center cannot be completed overnight. In addition, it is the end of the year, so Shao Mo directly scheduled the weight loss time to March next year, and used the nearly two months in between to renovate the fitness center.

Just when Shao Mo was busy preparing for the final exams and the renovation of the fitness center, she received a call from Bai Xue in Jiang City.

After the Yuan family fell from power, the beauty salon that Mrs. Yuan had previously worked with Yun Yao on was transferred to Mrs. Yan.

After running the beauty salon for a few months, Mrs. Yan saw that the business was going from bad to worse. In addition, many other beauty salons had sprung up in the provincial capital, so Mrs. Yan didn't want to run the salon anymore and wanted to transfer it.

Due to poor business and the fact that both entrepreneurs, Yun Yao and Mrs. Yuan, had bad endings, the beauty salon had a very bad reputation, customers were unwilling to come, and the transfer fee was unprecedentedly low.

"…Because it has never been sold, Mrs. Yan is afraid of losing money, so the price has been lowered again and again. Now it only costs 30,000 to get the remaining four years of the lease. At the beginning, Mrs. Yuan spent tens of thousands of yuan on decoration alone, and paid the rent for five years in one lump sum. Now there are only four years left. I think this is a rare opportunity, and I want to ask your opinion."

Shao Mo had never seen the beauty salon in person, but judging from Bai Xue's praise of it and her understanding of Yun Yao, it must be a good place.

Although Yun Yao is not a good person, she is honest and has a good eye for business.

If Yun Shixian had not forcibly taken over the clothing store and failed to manage it properly, the current situation would have been very different.

Besides, it is not a loss even if you rent a three-story commercial building for 30,000.

Bai Xue had some money in her hand, but it was still far from 30,000. This time she went to Shao Mo to ask for advice and to borrow money from her.

Shao Mo lent the money to Bai Xue, let her take over the place first, and then developed a marketing plan for Bai Xue.

The reason why he helps Bai Xue is because of the old saying: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Cultivating Bai Xue is equivalent to placing a "bomb" next to Yun Shixian.

Besides, she still admired Snow White very much. It was really not easy for a woman to raise a baby and take care of a disabled brother at the same time.

For the following period of time, Bai Xue kept in touch with her via phone calls every day, mainly to report on the progress of the beauty salon and also to tell her about the Yun family.

After Jiang Yu took care of Yun Yao's funeral alone, she went through the procedures for going abroad and went abroad to accompany her son Yun Cong to study.

The Yun family was completely empty. Not sure if it was because it was too lonely or because he was fond of his youngest son, Yun Shixian took the initiative to suggest that Bai Xue and her son move into the Yun family, but Bai Xue did not agree immediately.

"Xiaomo, do you think I should move in?"

"What do you think?"

"I don't want to, and I don't want to, move into the Yun family."

"Why?"

"Although Mrs. Yun has gone abroad, she and Yun Shixian have not divorced, and Yun Shixian has never promised me marriage and family. What's the point of me moving in like this? The happier I am to move in now, the more embarrassed I will be when I move out when Mrs. Yun returns with her son.

What's more, I'm not sure if Yun Shixian has anything to do with my father's death. Before I figure this out, I don't want to get too close to him."

Hearing Bai Xue say such sobering words, Shao Mo on the other end of the phone felt very comforted.

She doesn't want to support and cultivate a love-brained person.

(End of this chapter)