Chapter 10. Huang Shiyu sat on the bed, face...
Huang Shiyu sat on the bed with a folding table in front of her. Snow-white documents were scattered all over the bed. On the folding table was an inconspicuous bucket of instant noodles, with a red oil ring around the edge, indicating that she had just finished eating.
Huang Shiyu shook her neck and stretched, feeling as if she had been living with this pile of tattered paper for a long time.
She took the AI team's design proposal home to review during her day off. Her work ethic was so impressive that even Wang Ping, who was in charge of the AI project, tacitly agreed that she was a workaholic.
Actually, it's not that she doesn't want to rest, but that she can't rest, or rather, she's never given time to rest.
Huang Shiyu leaned forward and slumped onto the table, muttering, "So tired!"
Just as my eyelids were about to close, I thought of the medical terminal products launched by Sunac, which had taken away most of their customers just a few days ago.
Sunac is a medium-sized enterprise acquired by Li Xingzhou. It also manufactures artificial intelligence medical products and has invented many products suitable for home use, such as smart blood pressure monitors, multi-functional smart electric beds, and smart physiotherapy lamps.
Li Xingzhou offered a high acquisition price, which was welcomed by Sunac's shareholders. Although Sunac is an established company, it is now in decline, with only nationalistic sentiment remaining.
After the agreement was signed, this century-old company was transformed into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
Shenzhen-Hong Kong Group was founded in March 1989 by Li Xingzhou's father. It started by making medical devices. Later, with more capital, it expanded into other business areas besides medical devices and eventually went public in Hong Kong.
Her phone, which was on the bedding, buzzed a few times. She glanced at it and saw it was a message popping up from WeChat for business. She tapped it casually.
[Xiang Zhinan: Are you free today? Want to go to the fencing club together?]
[Xiang Zhinan: What I told you last time, that I'm really good at fencing, is true!]
Huang Shiyu glanced at it, and the corners of her mouth turned up slightly, clearly indicating that she was in a good mood at the moment.
[Huang Shiyu: Sorry, I was busy with work. Next time.]
After replying to the message, Huang Shiyu didn't put her phone aside. She opened Douyin, which she hadn't used in a long time, but the anonymous user wasn't online.
Huang Shiyu thought back for a moment, and realized that the anonymous user hadn't appeared since that day. She had been so busy lately that she had only just remembered.
She glanced at the text message page again; Li Xingzhou hadn't sent her any messages since that day.
Huang Shiyu thought about it and agreed. If someone ignored you like that, and you still tried to win them over, then there was really something wrong with them.
Moreover, Li Xingzhou must have known perfectly well that she was the former Huang Shiyu. He recognized her from the very beginning and was still willing to act with her. That's something else.
The phone vibrated, and Huang Shiyu snapped out of her reverie, glancing at the message Xiang Zhinan had sent her.
[Xiang Zhinan: That's such a pity. Your job requires you to work weekends. Why don't you quit and come work for my company?]
[Xiang Zhinan: Let me tell you, you won't be at a disadvantage working for my company. How about I pay you double your salary?]
Huang Shiyu had been smiling faintly, but as she read the message he posted, her eyes filled with laughter, a smile that seemed to freeze on her face.
[Huang Shiyu: Okay, Mr. Xiang, I'll think about it.]
She has two WeChat accounts, one for WeChat business accounts and the other for her personal WeChat account, which contains only a few people, including Lu Xiao and a few of her close classmates from the past.
It's just deserted and quiet.
She gave Xiang Zhinan a WeChat enterprise account. For Huang Shiyu, people are only divided into two categories: customers and friends. Obviously, Xiang Zhinan is the first category.
After replying to the message, Huang Shiyu didn't care what Xiang Zhinan replied with. He threw his phone on the bed, got up, and went to the window.
She opened the window. It was raining outside, but not heavily, so the rain didn't splash inside. Everything outside was foggy, and the wind blowing in carried a faint fishy smell. She felt wet and sticky all over.
The crisp, pleasant sound of the pocket brushing against the fabric of his clothes did nothing to distract Huang Shiyu from his daydreaming.
She brushed aside her wind-blown hair and took out a palm-sized, speaker-like object from her pocket.
Huang Shiyu gently shook the thing in his hand a few times, and the melodious singing stopped.
She must have accidentally pressed one of the buttons inside.
This tiny gadget, no bigger than the palm of your hand, is an AI-powered medical product launched by Sunac for use in the mental health field. It is a program that combines the patient's past medical history with AI big data classification, and it has already passed clinical testing and is allowed to be sold nationwide.
She looked at the little trinket in her hand, feeling troubled.
Just a few days ago, Li Xingzhou officially announced on Weibo that within five minutes of the product launch, orders exceeded 30,000 units. What does that mean?
Huang Shiyu's sales figures are truly terrifying, especially compared to other AI-powered medical products; such sales volume is unimaginable.
After all, Sunac has the backing of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, which is incomparable to Speed Technology.
She stared at the small words "Made by Sunac" engraved on the item and fell into deep thought.
Huang Shiyu raised his hand, slightly bent his index finger, and gently scratched the little thing. The movement was very light. He thought to himself, "Li Xingzhou, why did you choose to study finance? Didn't you want to study music in the first place?"
She didn't want to run into Li Xingzhou in the business world.
She always remembered.
In June of 2018, on a similar rainy night, the city streets were illuminated by neon lights, resembling an ink wash painting.
Under the pedestrian overpass, two transparent umbrellas swayed in the rain, raindrops falling from them and splashing onto the ground, creating a layer of white smoke.
Huang Shiyu stood on the steps, his gaze level with Li Xingzhou's. His expression was empty, and his voice was cold.
"Come find me again if things don't go your way in the future."
Suddenly, the rain intensified, and the two transparent umbrellas were blown away by the rain, catching them off guard and soaking them completely.
Huang Shiyu felt like she couldn't breathe.
She felt it was both a curse and a favor, and she would never let it happen, never give him the chance to say those words, and she would never bow her head.
As she finished speaking, a familiar piano piece flowed from her trembling fingertips, taking her back to her first encounter with Li Xingzhou.
Their meeting was not complicated, nor was it a melodramatic soap opera plot.
It's the tranquil sunlight of midsummer, the captivating melody of a song, and a girl in the piano room wearing headphones, eyes closed, swaying her head.
Huang Shiyu was engrossed in the music when he heard a clear and loud knock on the door behind him.
She took off her headphones, turned around, and looked up. Their eyes met directly. The bright white light from the piano room shone on him, making the young man stand tall and straight, like a young poplar tree untouched by the wind and frost, exuding a faint sense of youthful naiveté.
Wearing a cotton long-sleeved shirt that looks like it's made of high-quality material, I look energetic and vibrant.
Huang Shiyu asked, "Hello, do you have an appointment?"
The boy stood at the door, his dark eyes looking at her. The light from the piano room shimmered on his sharply defined face, making him appear both handsome and gentle. His voice was clear and lively, a voice unique to a young man.
"I was just passing by when I heard the music, so I came in to take a look."
The boy's voice dispelled her slight drowsiness. Huang Shiyu said, "Oh, this shop is closing tomorrow. Feel free to look around."
Huang Shiyu merely glanced at him indifferently, then, clutching her unfinished exam paper, she planned to go to another small room, leaving the piano room space to the boy in front of her.
This 24-hour self-service piano room is where Huang Shiyu works. She comes here part-time on weekends, but the owners are planning to move to Shanghai, and today is the last day of operation.
"Can I go in and play a song? I'll pay the market price."
Huang Shiyu had noticed from the beginning that the boy's eyes had been secretly glancing at the piano next to her several times, and his gaze clearly showed a strong desire.
Huang Shiyu said, "It's alright, the instrument is just sitting there anyway, go ahead and play it. The shop manager isn't coming to the shop today."
The boy thanked her and finally stepped into the piano room. As he passed Huang Shiyu, Huang Shiyu stopped, paused for a few seconds, and then said, "Could you leave the door open?"
Huang Shiyu glanced at him and said, "We're closing the shop tomorrow, so let the people outside hear this last song."
Huang Shiyu felt that this request shouldn't be too much to ask.
The boy simply glanced down at her and replied, "Okay."
Before I even reached the small room, a piano piece, a blend of melancholy and optimism, drifted from behind me.
That piano piece was like a thin rope, pulling her forward step by step, as if she were walking through the countryside, through alleys without streetlights, through cities with towering buildings, through the sea breeze in the wilderness, until she arrived at that door.
Huang Shiyu sat with his back against the wall, holding a pen, listening to piano music, looking out the window, and murmuring, "I really want you to hear it."
The next day, at the Sunac office.
Li Xingzhou held a cup of coffee in his hand, his gaze focused on the large screen in front of him. There were several people on the screen, and after glancing at them, his eyes settled on Song Chaoye.
On the screen, Song Chaoye and Silas, investment manager of Black Tower Group, are announcing that Speed Technology has officially become a subsidiary brand of Black Tower Group.
Li Xingzhou had to admit that Huang Shiyu had some connections, but not many.
He has a rather dashing appearance, but he does the opposite of what others do: make ramen.
Standing to the side, Xiang Zhinan, who had been looking rather uninterested, seemed to notice Li Xingzhou's unusual gaze. He, who had been listless, now looked at Li Xingzhou with great interest.
"You know, this attempt to raise one's social standing hasn't actually increased it."
Li Xingzhou put down his coffee, staring intently at the screen, his long eyelashes unmoving, his gaze extremely focused.
Just when Xiang Zhinan thought Li Xingzhou wouldn't reply, Li Xingzhou lazily said, "That's because Jiang Taigong got tricked."
Xiang Zhinan turned his head, and the most exciting scene had already appeared on the screen.
Silas glanced at Song Chaoye, pointed to the rotating graphic on the large electronic screen, and said in a calm and unhurried tone: "In the future, we will work together with Speed Technology to develop new projects. Yes, it's Lightning. Customers can play games available on the market directly in it without installation. Although this is a challenging and risky project, as our core project, I believe that Lightning will be available to everyone soon."
Thunderous applause erupted from below. Huang Shiyu, who was sitting in the first row, joined in the applause.
Song Chaoye stepped down first, leaving Silas on stage to continue passionately describing how magnificent and amazing the project was.
Huang Shiyu seemed to notice Song Chaoye's undisguised gaze and looked over.
He sat down two seats to Huang Shiyu's left, his face turned to the side, his eyes deep and unfathomable. Then, with a slight upturn of his lips, he extended two fingers to his lips, and slowly blew her a kiss.
Huang Shiyu didn't believe that this person still had feelings for her and wanted to get back together. However, Song Chaoye's action did leave her completely bewildered for a moment, her mind going blank. And then, no matter how much she didn't understand...
She also knew that she had been tricked.
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