Ruan Chen has become much more peaceful in recent years and talks less, but that doesn't mean her sharp tongue has diminished.
Her words were barbed and pointed, leaving Ruan Yunhan no face whatsoever.
"Little sister, if I remember correctly, you're still a student."
Ruan Yunhan was actually confident; she wasn't stupid enough to say in public that she wanted Ruan Chen and the Ruan Group to withdraw their investment without conducting any investigation.
She has people in the Ye Group who told her that the Ye Group has not made any payments to Ruan Chen recently, nor has it made any large expenditures.
On the contrary, Su Jin had raised seven or eight hundred million yuan over the first three or four months.
When Ruan Yunhan asked, Su Jin just presented her with a bunch of contracts that looked overwhelming, telling her to take her time to look at them.
Ruan Yunhan deduced that Su Jin must have taken the money and given it to that bitch Ruan Chen; the two of them were conspiring to embezzle her company.
“You’re just a student, how can you casually take out hundreds of millions to invest? You’re young and inexperienced, and in recent years you’ve always been focused on studying. I’m just worried that you might get scammed.”
Ruan Chen looked at her quietly, and only after he finished speaking did she ask slowly, "Are you done? Just because you can't do it doesn't mean others can't. Instead of worrying about how to explain your behavior tonight to the media, you're interfering in my discussions with the Holy Maiden of the Spirit Clan. You're just me meddling in your affairs and causing trouble."
After saying that, Ruan Chen turned around and went back to his seat to get his things and leave. He added, "Chairman Ruan, you must keep your word on the matter of Ruan Group withdrawing its investment. Let's start planning tomorrow."
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"Ruan Chen, I have an idea. Should we take advantage of the buzz surrounding you and Ruan Yunhan to promote our IP?" Mu Xiangrong had probably finished his own business and returned to his temporary office.
Although she chose the path of scientific research, her business acumen is no less than that of Ruan Chen.
"How's the progress at Songcheng?"
“With a professional team of over a hundred people, led by ten top experts, if he still hasn’t achieved anything, he won’t need to stay here,” Mu Xiangrong said, dialing Song Cheng’s number. “Cheng, if we start the first wave of public testing in the next few days, how’s it going on your end?”
“No problem,” Song Cheng answered without even thinking, beaming with pride. “We’ve been waiting for you to ask. Our team previously worked on a framework for a large-scale VR online game, but the previous project manager was blind and rejected it. Now our team has changed the core to Lingtian’s IP, and we currently have seven service areas ready for operation.”
Ruan Chen and his team plan to start with games and then gradually expand into derivative products such as novels, merchandise, and anime.
VR games have been a hot trend in the past two years, and it's easy to open up the market among young people.
After arranging the game's launch and release, it was already late at night, but Ruan Chen and Mu Xiangrong were not sleepy at all; on the contrary, they were quite excited.
We'll see results soon after all the hard work we've put in.
"Ruan Chen, why exactly did you establish Lingtian Culture Media?" Mu Xiangrong tore open a can of beer, clinked it against the one in Ruan Chen's hand, and asked.
The two had already drunk two or three bottles by the sea. Ruan Chen was slightly tipsy, her nerves were relaxed, and she appeared exceptionally soft and relaxed.
They sat by the campfire, their faces glowing slightly red in the firelight.
The waves crashed one after another, and neither of them noticed the sound of shoes stepping on the sand.
Fu Jianzhi sent Ruan Chen more than a dozen messages in a row, from asking if she didn't like the dress he gave her that night to asking what Ruan Chen's next plan was.
But Ruan Chen has not replied.
Fu Jianzhi then started asking about serious work matters, such as whether they should create a public opinion campaign to force Ruan Yunhan to withdraw her investment even if she didn't want to, so that their Fu family's chamber of commerce could naturally expand into the Northern Islands.
Sister, it's better for the cake from the Northern Islands to end up on my plate than on someone else's. At least you know me inside and out.
This was the last thing he said to Ruan Chen, but there was still no reply.
Fu Jianzhi was a little worried, thinking about Ruan Chen and unable to sleep. In the middle of the night, he drove to Lingtian's temporary office. Song Cheng and his R&D team were still working overtime and suggested that Fu Jianzhi look for her at the beach behind the building.
He saw the campfire from afar.
Fu Jianzhi stood on the seawall without going down, and sat down against a rock, listening to the sea breeze carrying Ruan Chen's words.
“I still remember the disbelief I felt when the secrets of this world unfolded before my eyes,” Ruan Chen took another sip and recalled. “Before that, I thought that humanity was the only civilization in the Tri-Star System, and that leaving this system and venturing into the vast universe was what we were destined to do.”
She lay back on the beach, smiling as she looked at the twinkling stars, but raised her hand to cover the tears in her eyes.
“When I was a child, I lived in a slum. There were no neon lights, not even streetlights. It was the darkest place in the whole city, but it also had the most beautiful night sky in the whole city,” Ruan Chen said in a somewhat ethereal tone. “Back then, I often lay on the roof like this in the middle of the night, looking at the stars, fantasizing that one day I would leave this stinking place, leave this small town, see a wider world, and go beyond the atmosphere to see if there are any other civilizations beyond that.”
"That was my only dream and obsession for so many years."
"After returning to Jingzhou for so many years, I have taken my revenge—after all, I can't really kill him; I have the ability to do anything I want and become the kind of person I never dared to dream of before... But even so, that obsession in my heart has only grown deeper."
"I can't imagine humanity being trapped on this tiny planet—in fact, I once told Nan Jing that the extinction of this scourge of humanity would be the end of it, but that was just a momentary outburst. Thinking about it carefully, I really can't accept that we'll be trapped here for the rest of our lives."
"And humanity as a whole will eventually have to know this. Nan and I had a disagreement before. I think all of humanity should know what our civilization is facing, after all, we don't even know what the technology screening is—is it really the law of the universe, or a restriction imposed on us by a higher civilization? But Nan believes that this will only increase panic and will not do any good."
"Lingtian is my chance."
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