Even after the phone call ended, Chen Lu remained wide awake, staring blankly at Liang Zhirou.
Liang Zhirou woke up a few seconds earlier than Chen Lu and hadn't fully recovered yet.
How did I fall asleep on him...?
"Jiang Chao is coming over, but I don't know why."
As Chen Lu spoke, he swayed as he stood up and walked to the bathroom, turning on the tap to wash his face and clear his head.
It must be no small matter to make an unserious person become serious.
When he came out, he found that the ostrich that had been sitting on the sofa was gone. He turned around and saw the closed door of Liang Zhirou's room.
Chen Lu pursed his lips. So what if they slept together?
Why such a big reaction?
"What are you doing?" he asked with a smile.
"I...I'll change my clothes."
Chen Lu tilted his head. "Your pajamas are more conservative than the clothes you wear when you go out. Is it really necessary to change?"
How come it's like they're actually living together?
He remembered that when guests came to his house when he was a child, Wang Xiaoxia would have the same reaction.
A few minutes later, Jiang Chao knocked on the door and came in. He was stunned when he saw Liang Zhirou.
All the words he wanted to say were stuck in his throat and he swallowed them back down.
His eyes were wide open as he stared intently at Chen Lu.
Seeing that Chen Lu and Liang Zhirou both looked sleepy and extremely tired, his eyes widened even more.
Chen Lu could tell from Jiang Chao's eyes what he wanted to say, so he could only say helplessly:
"Let's talk in my room."
......
Jiang Chao slowly closed the bedroom door, then looked at Chen Lu with a ghost-like expression.
"What the hell is your progress? I'm not even as fast as you!"
He couldn't help but shout loudly, and his hands were already gripping Chen Lu's neck.
It's not good for brothers to live a hard life, but it's also not good for brothers to drive Land Rovers.
Chen Lu slapped his hand away dismissively. "You've misunderstood. She just takes a nap here when she has class. She doesn't have a dormitory, and her home is far away."
Jiang Chao still looked at him with a dark expression, "You're not living together?"
We didn't live together.
"Didn't you do anything?"
"We really just took a nap together." Chen Lu yawned and gave him a smirk.
Do you think I'd believe your nonsense?
Jiang Chao didn't believe a word of it. He plopped down on the edge of the bed and asked seriously, "What if your mom comes for a surprise inspection one day?"
"Impossible." Chen Lu was too lazy to deal with this. The more he explained, the worse it would get. He was too lazy to explain seriously and just let Jiang Chao fill in the blanks himself.
My power is entirely based on your imagination.
"What is it that you have to tell me in person?" Chen Lu asked.
Jiang Chao breathed a deep sigh of relief. "Someone from Tencent came over in person, but you weren't at the company at the time. So I just gave them a quick tour."
Chen Lu raised an eyebrow. This was quite novel. If you said the other party was being serious, they didn't even give you a heads-up beforehand. But if you said they weren't serious, they still sent someone over directly.
What's up?
"To put it simply, they want to take over our studio," Jiang Chao said in a deep voice, "especially you."
"We can discuss future investment, but nothing else."
Chen Lu said directly, "We were proceeding step by step according to plan, how could we possibly change our minds and go work for someone else?"
Jiang Chao seemed relieved to see Chen Lu's reaction, but he still continued, "Let me finish... The conditions they offered you are ridiculously good."
"Even if it were great, I wouldn't go." Chen Lu stopped him from continuing. "It's fine as it is now."
A smile finally appeared on Jiang Chao's previously solemn face. He stood up and said softly, "Then I'll just cancel this matter. Those two seem to be staying at a hotel nearby."
Although he would support whatever choice Chen Lu made, he was actually quite afraid that Chen Lu would agree to it.
After all, while his dream of making games would be realized, he would also be unable to make the game of his dreams in the future.
When you work for someone else, you have to consider profits. But if you work for yourself, you won't need to think about that so much once you've made your fortune.
Chen Lu shook his head. "Since we've refused, we need to talk to them about investment cooperation."
"What do you mean?" Jiang Chao was a little confused.
"If you don't let them get some benefits, they might just bleed you dry."
The saying "the business world is like a battlefield" is no joke; it's a classic case of the big fish eating the small fish.
Small fish must have the self-awareness and survival wisdom of small fish in order to have a chance to make a name for themselves.
Chen Lu was confident that if they managed to get away empty-handed this time, a competing game with higher quality and more investment would soon be entering the testing phase.
What will your small studio have to compete with then?
Jiang Chao vaguely understood something. "So they can just come here and take a piece of our flesh as they please? Do they have no sense of reason?"
Chen Lu looked at him as if he were an idiot, and said with a wicked smile, "How could I let them take advantage of us like this? We'll need their help soon."
Seeing Chen Lu's expression, Jiang Chao felt a huge weight lifted from his heart and slapped him hard. "Are you like Zhuge Liang?"
"You didn't tell them what I was doing, did you?" Chen Lu asked again.
"No, I felt it wouldn't be good to tell them that you, as the leader, were slacking off, so I said you were still busy. I just made up a lie to find time to come and see you."
"That's good. You can treat them to dinner tonight and tell them that I'm out of town discussing cooperation with another company. Then I'll tell them tomorrow that I just got back and we'll start discussing cooperation again. That'll do the trick."
"...You're fucking cunning."
Jiang Chao left those words behind, closed the door, and left.
Chen Lu walked slowly into the living room, looked at the tightly closed door in the entryway, and let out a deep sigh.
Liang Zhirou walked to his side, looking at him with some curiosity. It seemed as if the two of them had really discussed something very important.
"I never imagined that I would have no connection with a peaceful life in the future," Chen Lu suddenly said, even though he was someone who loved to slack off.
Although he couldn't help but sigh, he had actually decided to stick with Xiao Xunfang to the bitter end the moment Jiang Chao gave up all his share of the profits without hesitation when Xiao Xunfang offered to pay for her surgery.
"Don't you like things as they are now?" Liang Zhirou asked softly.
Chen Lu gently grasped her hand, feeling the calluses on it, and his resolve hardened instantly. "I didn't like messing around before, but I do now."
Liang Zhirou pursed her lips and pulled Chen Lu to the bathroom mirror. "Look at your dark circles..."
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