Chapter 362 Turning Point
It was a rare trip to Beijing, and Li Yan should have met employees No. 2 to 5 who were studying at Hua University, but he was busy until the evening, and Li Yan had no intention of staying here overnight, so he just said hello and left.

When Li Yan fell into a light sleep on the plane back home, many people in New Taipei were missing him.

Sun Miao from Future Technology was taking the newly sorted questions to discuss with his boss. He worked overtime until 8 o'clock and didn't see Li Yan come back. When he asked, he found out that she "went to Beijing for a book signing event"...

Su Siqing heard about the grand signing event of Li Yan and had mixed feelings. He was pleased that his good pen pal had achieved such success, but he was also worried that Li Yan had no intention of continuing the urban prose series. Isn't this a pity?

Yang Chengzhang was drinking with Cao Xinshuo, looking at the moon in the sky, and sighed:
"I didn't expect that after such a short time, and without him painting anything new, the Red Dragon would invite him to dinner and ask him to paint for him."

Cao Xinshuo took a breath for five seconds and exhaled for seven seconds.

"Master, it turns out that stress smells like alcohol."

"I don't know how to tell you. I can't see through this guy now." Yang Chengzhang sipped slowly, "But at least he seems to be very trustworthy at the moment. There's no need to argue with you about the copyright issue..."

"Master, I'm not worried about this." Cao Xinshuo said in a deep voice, "I just feel an inexplicable pressure that forces me to draw the comics of "Nangong Youth" as soon as possible..."

"Who urged you?"

"No one is urging me..." Cao Xinshuo looked dazed, and it was obvious that he was really overdrawn. "I'm just worried that when Li Yan joins the game and starts drawing, she will be better than me. Then what will be my position in this comic?"

"You..." Yang Chengzhang wanted to say that Cao Xinshuo was overthinking, but when he realized that this shitty thing could really happen to Li Yan, he could only comfort her with a few words, "Relax."

"So I even thought, while Li Yan is busy with other things, I should get the results out first, then at least I can feel at ease with the copyright income."

"You've put the cart before the horse, Xinshuo." Yang Chengzhang murmured.

"I know that," Cao Xinshuo sighed, "The goal is to create good works. I am just confused."

"Draw well, and believe that you are excellent after all."

Cao Xinshuo nodded.

Yang Chengzhang slowly finished the wine in his glass, then said leisurely: "Don't compare yourself with Li Yan."

Wang Zi was lying on the sofa, letting her child chatter beside her while she kept complaining to her husband.

"I can't believe it. The most common phrase I said today changed from 'Mr. Li went to class' to 'Mr. Li went to a book signing event'... I don't know why so many people come to him every day, and how can he be so willful."

Wang Zi's husband was riding a spinning bike. "Just hearing you say that makes me very interested in him. I'm curious about what kind of trouble a minor can cause."

He is the tycoon of Linjiang's catering industry, and he owns two of the top ten restaurant chains in Linjiang Province.

In particular, the "Bazhou Restaurants" have sprung up everywhere, from New Taipei City to Lincheng City. With their affordable and freshly cooked dishes and timely updated menus, they have become an excellent canteen for working people.

He focuses on small profits but quick turnover and makes a lot of money, and has always been regarded as a leader among Linjiang's young entrepreneurs.

"I thought I had found an easy job this time, but I didn't expect the boss to be so elusive, and the requests for cooperation from outside kept coming in waves."

“A lot of cooperation needs?”

"Well, there are also some reporters and research teams. Anyway, it seems that everyone is interested in future technology. Some of them even rejected me repeatedly and came to me again and again. The questions they asked were getting more and more professional, and I couldn't answer them at all."

"They can only go through you to find future technology?"

"Yes." Wang Zi also heard that her husband's question was a bit strange, "Wait, you mean, these calls have ulterior motives?"

"Hmm, something's not right."

"...I've been trying it out these past two days." Wang Zi sat up from the sofa. "No wonder they asked me a lot of questions about personnel matters."

"No answer?"

"Of course not. I was once a housekeeper, so I'm not that stupid."

Wang Zi's husband suddenly stopped riding his bicycle. "Future Technology only communicates with the outside world through you, and doesn't provide a direct link for technical personnel. Just like you said, you can't answer many professional questions at all...but it also keeps a lot of things out. Is this Li Yan's request?"

"Correct."

"Didn't I complain to you last time about why such a small company needs a housekeeping manager? Your boss is quite interesting."

"What? I'll recommend you to Mr. Li later."

Wang Zi’s husband laughed and waved his hands, then started riding the exercise bike again.

"He and I are in completely different fields. I'll just listen to you talk about it. Besides, men are always competitive. Your husband is a very proud man. It's not good for him to work under a minor."

"Who said you should work for him?" Wang Zi was very surprised. "I meant cooperation! He even developed the software for his mobile phone project this time. The concept of takeaway at the press conference is very good. Isn't this an opportunity for cooperation?"

"...Now that I put it that way, it seems like I'm showing my weakness." Wang Zi's husband smiled and shook his head, tapping his head, "Let's wait and see, I feel like there's still some chance of fate."

Huang Zhan was listening to a vinyl record at home, swaying an empty red wine glass in his hand from side to side, like a music conductor.

He closed his eyes and swayed his head gently to the rhythm of the music.

He looked relaxed, but inside he was feeling like a storm.

He suddenly found that he had a bit of a grasp on the research and development direction of Chuangzu W9.

After watching and participating in Li Yan's Jiaolong mobile phone project, his mentality changed a lot.

No matter how you look at it, W9 seems to be lacking in some aspects. If you want to gather the whole company's strength to develop the areas that Li Yan inspired him to, it would be really not fair.

Even if they can save face, it is still unclear whether the founding clan has the capital and confidence to do so.

Look at the resources that Li Yan can leverage. This is only the system development stage. If the system is ready, everyone will truly feel that "Jiaolong mobile phones can be made"...

It’s incredible.

When it comes to financing, he might even want to rush to give money to Li Yan.

How much resources and support could Li Yan mobilize at that time? This was something that the Chuang Clan could not withstand.

But it's just a thought. Chuangzu is now a partner of Future Technology and we are on the same front.

So he had to face a choice, or a decision - whether to continue to devote all his energy to the development of w9.

Pineapple's sanctions on Chuangzu W8 have been attached with a thick layer of national sentiment against the background of expectations brought by Jiaolong mobile phone.

The mainstream voice is that what Pineapple is doing is disgusting, and it is focused on using "shameless appearance patents" to suppress all companies that may threaten it.

In the face of overwhelming emotions, even an objective analysis of whether the appearance of the Chuangzu W8 copied the Pineapple Phone was not allowed.

"Joe is ultimately a speculative businessman who has decisively abandoned technological progress in the face of capital interests. He does not represent the future of smartphones at all."

This is an opinion that has received over 10,000 likes on Weibo, which clearly illustrates the current situation.

Everyone even thought that it was a very "ambitious" thing for Chuangzu to be willing to support Li Yan's project after being suppressed.

When someone swung a whip at him, he would catch it and hit it back hard.

Some people even gave Chuangzu the title of "national enterprise", which made Huang Zhan sweat profusely.

He is just a businessman with a bit of idealism.

In 2010, which Li Yan had experienced before his rebirth, the public opinion that Chuangzu W8 faced was not like this.

Although some users have collectively written to question the operations of Pineapple Company CEO Joe, he was ignored.

Even after the owner's wave of emotions passed, many people still made a fuss about the gap between domestic and foreign countries, which made Huang Zhan anxious and unable to sleep.

Then the Pineapple Phone 4 came out, proving that it was the future of smartphones. Huang Zhan had to stop producing W8 and tried his best to launch W9 to make up for the loss.

Although w9's results were not bad, they were totally incompatible with the starting point of w8, and also laid the groundwork for the subsequent decline of the founding clan.

Now this foreshadowing has been crushed by Li Yan.

"My fate has been changed by a... young man."

The music ended, but Huang Zhan held the cup in his hand for a long time, unwilling to put it down.

After returning to New Taipei City, Li Yan finally attended her first high school class on September 2010, 9.

There is no class teacher. The person in charge of the class affairs of these twenty-one students is He Jimin, whose position is "Dean of Education".

The dean of studies is often associated with strictness and intimidation, but not He Jimin. He is a relatively easy-going young lecturer.

Of course, the main influencing factor is the "Excellence Class" itself.

Even Class Zero of New Taipei No. 1 High School has no disciplinary issues to deal with.

Not to mention an excellent class that brings together the best twenty-one students from the entire South China region?
Coupled with this extremely free class system, there is no reason to be angry or pressured.

Just like Principal Cai said, after arriving here, all students are responsible for themselves.

If you are in an excellence class and need to use "discipline" and "system" to put pressure on you and force you to study, then you have already lost completely.

These children are all first-rate in talent, enthusiasm for learning and self-awareness.

They are all examples of “people who are more talented than you work harder than you.”

So He Jimin is more like a housekeeper, responsible for solving problems other than studying for the children.

For example, when I saw Li Yan leaving the basic physics class, I would go up to her and ask:

"Student Li Yan, what's wrong?"

"Go to the next class."

"Huh?" Hasn't the physics class even started ten minutes ago?

"I'm going to go find Professor Meng, who started the project, and ask him some questions."

“Then this way…” He Jimin wore round glasses and had a bit of the scholarly temperament of the last era.

"I've read the teaching content and questions, and I know them all, so I'll spend my time on other things."

He Jimin was a lecturer at Hua University after all. He had met many outstanding talents from all over the country, and this was not the first time he had heard such words, so he just nodded and let Li Yan leave.

In fact, what Li Yan meant was that his current physics level of 60 was enough to cope with the current learning progress, so there was no need to study further.

Of course, I can't say this to anyone.

Meng Changge has two subjects, one is computer architecture and performance optimization in the first half of the semester, and the other is Internet of Things and embedded systems in the second half of the semester.

He was having a preliminary exchange with his classmates when he caught a glimpse of Li Yan coming in from the back door. He actually felt a little nervous.

Is this brat going to come directly to me with some difficult question?

Fortunately, Li Yan was polite and knew how to behave. He waited until Meng Changge finished the first section and allowed everyone to enter the free discussion session before he found him with his notebook.

While listening to the lecture in the audience, Qiu Shuli, who was in the same classroom, was confused for a moment - Professor Meng was talking about very basic things, just throwing out some ideas, so why was Li Yan taking notes so fast?
He actually wanted to talk to Li Yan, but seeing that Li Yan seemed immersed in something, he didn't want to disturb her.

"Is this difficult thing difficult for Li Yan?"

Later he saw Li Yan hand the notebook to Meng Changge, and Meng Changge quickly showed the same immersive expression.

And his brows became more and more furrowed.

Qiu Shuli couldn't help but move closer, "Teacher Meng, Li Yan, what are you researching? I can take a look..."

Li Yan generously gave it to him and said, "Let's brainstorm. If you have any ideas, please feel free to share them."

Qiu Shuli didn't understand it at first glance, and he still didn't understand it after a second glance.

So calm down and take a good look.

What↓what↓what↓what is written here↓?
It is normal that you don’t understand. These questions of Li Yan are all obtained from practical operation. They are difficult to deal with and have intricate causes.

He simply distilled it into specific requirements and even code implementation problems.

It is true that Qiu Shuli also won the first prize in the junior high school group of the Youth Information Olympiad National Competition, but at best he is at the level of Chen Fan. Having never followed this project before, it is a blessing for him to understand what Li Yan is saying.

After all, even Chen Fan, who had been following the project and occasionally went to Future Technology for further studies at night, found it extremely painful.

Li Yan's thinking was too fast, and when he communicated, he didn't care whether others understood or not. Sometimes, even Meng Changge was still thinking about Li Yan's first question, but he had already solved it himself and raised the second question.

Chen Fan sat next to them, listening and taking notes. Whenever he made a mistake while writing, he would correct it.

In such a moment of distraction, he could not understand the divine book that Li Yan was saying.

It’s just like when you are in math class. At the beginning, you can understand every step on the blackboard, but when you yawn, you see it’s all mysterious symbols. It’s the same thing.

So when Li Yan saw him walking back to his seat like he had lost half his soul after being hit hard, she really wanted to go up to him and comfort him, "This is not your problem."

But when I thought that it would probably be interpreted as the strong showing pity to the weak, I gave up.

Soon it was time for lunch, and all the students in the Excellence Class were actually a little excited.

They were wearing white shirts and black pants, which was a symbol of honor. They ate in the cafeteria on the first floor with their classmates who were wearing the blue New Taipei Middle School uniforms, and they were very conspicuous.

Isn't this a passive aura of pretentiousness?
So when faced with the two choices of having meals delivered to the dormitory door of the Excellence Class and running to the cafeteria to eat, everyone basically chose the more troublesome latter.

Sima Zhao's intention.

At the same time, they were also guessing whether Li Yan would have dinner with Wei Yunzhi. Gossip is always refreshing. They even began to imagine how conspicuous it would be if two people in different school uniforms stood together.

As a result, Li Yan returned to the company...

Even Chen Fan couldn't hold back and kept asking on the way downstairs, "Why don't you eat with your senior sister?"

"First, we are not in a relationship, so eating together is not a necessity. Second, she is not a senior. Third, she is a day student and goes home at noon."

"Oh! After all this time, Senior Sister doesn't want to eat. I understand." Chen Fan clapped his hands. "You want to go to Senior Sister for dinner. I understand. I won't disturb you. I'll go to the cafeteria."

...If young people could use their energy instead of gossiping about love affairs to study, human technology would be advanced by one step.

I really don't know how the news spread behind his back, but suddenly everyone around him knew that he and Wei Yunzhi had a good relationship.

So everyone knows that they are in love, but they are the only ones who don’t know?

Li Yan shook her head, opened QQ on her mobile phone, and saw the message sent by Wei Yunzhi...wait.

There are some more eye-catching messages from Lin Zhiyuan:
Mr. Yan, can you lend me some money? I will definitely pay it back!

(End of this chapter)