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After finishing an urgent task assigned by the school, Qin Yi hurried back to her residence. As soon as she pushed open the bathroom door, she found Jiang Yizhou sitting on the toilet, his head drooping, half asleep.
She glanced over and noticed, well, his pants were still down. After looking around, she picked up a brush hanging nearby and tapped it on Jiang Yizhou's head, turning her gaze away while observing his condition out of the corner of her eye.
"Uh?" Jiang Yizhou felt a tap on his head and lifted it up. "Oh, it's you, Qin Yi! You need to use the bathroom, right? I'll be out in a moment..."
Then he realized the situation he was in and awkwardly pulled down his shirt. He waited until Qin Yi left before getting up, feeling a bit numb from squatting for too long, which delayed him for a moment.
"What happened to you?" Qin Yi also felt slightly embarrassed. The two of them had never had any bad habits before and didn't like drinking; their boundaries were clear, so this kind of awkwardness was unusual!
"I get motion sickness. I took a flight and felt uncomfortable everywhere. As soon as I got off the plane, I came here to lie down and rest. I went to the bathroom and somehow fell asleep," Jiang Yizhou admitted honestly. This issue was really troublesome; he wondered if it could be resolved. It wasn't like people who got motion sickness would stop flying altogether.
"I'm going to cook some noodles; do you want some?" Qin Yi nodded in understanding and went to the kitchen, taking out a bundle of noodles and two eggs from the cupboard.
Jiang Yizhou didn't want to go out since there was no delivery service available, so he readily agreed, prompting Qin Yi to make an extra serving for him.
"Delicious~~" The man and woman sat around the pot they brought to the table, eating dinner heartily. Qin Yi casually asked Jiang Yizhou about his situation, "Why are you back again? Didn't you just return for summer vacation?"
"Don't mention it. You know the company I run; I went to America and couldn't keep an eye on things. Now there are many problems. I'm back just to hire some people to get it back on track; it should only take a little over a week. If all goes well, I can leave in four or five days."
Jiang Yizhou slurped up his noodles and wiped his mouth. "Did Li Yue not come with you?"
Qin Yi hesitated slightly. "She did come; I just didn't expect things to be this serious."
Since they stopped living together, their common language had diminished significantly. Although Jiang Yizhou had changed quite a bit, naturally, he found that those who had little relationship with him became less significant compared to those he spent more time with.
After finishing the egg noodles, Qin Yi understood that he was not feeling well and took on the task of washing the dishes, allowing him to go back and rest properly.
Lying on his bed in his room, Jiang Yizhou wondered whether he should buy a house. He had some money now, although his hometown was still under construction. However, that was meant for his parents, who probably would not leave their hometown due to their attachment to it.
His father, Jiang Maoqiang, was already forty-two, and his mother was forty. Due to rural customs, siblings had to marry in order of age. As a result, his Second Uncle had dragged things out for several years. He originally planned to skip ahead and prepare a wedding for his father, but then Second Uncle suddenly had a chance to get married, leaving the family short on money again, and his father had to wait over a year.
Among his peers, his parents were considered late bloomers in marriage and childbearing. Now in their forties, they had little interest in working outside; they stayed home to tend to the fields and do some construction work. Currently, they only needed to support one daughter, and all the expenses were covered by Jiang Yizhou, which further diminished any motivation to leave their hometown.
Friends and relatives lived within a few dozen miles; stability was paramount. Their greatest wish in life was simply to raise their children and support their parents.
Jiang Yizhou also wanted a place to settle down in the capital. Renting always felt like living under someone else's roof, an unstable feeling. In his previous life, due to the despairing housing prices, he never had the opportunity to enjoy such a feeling.
However, now buying ten or eight properties—whether within the third or second ring roads or in school districts near major universities—was not an issue; even villas were within reach. The real question was how many to buy and where.
This was perhaps second only to the joy he felt from securing venture capital twice before. Owning a property in the capital, even if it was already beyond the fifth ring road, felt like an unattainable luxury; now he felt a sense of relief as if he had vented frustration from his past life.
Lost in thought, Jiang Yizhou gradually fell asleep.
...
The next morning, Jiang Yizhou woke up early, powered on his fully charged phone, organized his things, and brought breakfast for Qin Yi as usual. After eating, he set off for the company.
He did not go directly to Zheng Yi's place but instead headed to Universal Software.
Wu Ming had found direction and was practically living at the company, working hard on development. Although the Vast Universe network management software he was developing still had some basic features, it was already quite complete. Several internet cafes in the capital had purchased his software along with dozens of computer rooms; these were the main buyers.
Due to the high cost of internet services, this year, the launch of 169 internet services has significantly reduced online fees, and it is expected that internet cafes will finally experience a true wave of development.
Therefore, Wu Ming has created a targeted version for computer rooms and is currently busy with this matter.
Seeing Jiang Yizhou enter, although he was reluctant, he still greeted him since he was a major shareholder of the company. "Yi Zhou, when did you come back?"
"Just yesterday. I took a rest first, and now I'm here to see you. The idea I gave you is pretty good, right?" Although Jiang Yizhou felt justified in his actions, he still felt he had let Wu Ming down. After all, he had pulled Wu Ming away from a stable job to start a business, only to later feel that Wu Ming's abilities were lacking and left him on the sidelines.
In this company, although Jiang Yizhou held 70% of the shares, the agreement stipulated that any major decision required over 75% voting approval. In other words, both parties needed to reach an agreement. Jiang Yizhou essentially gave Wu Ming free rein with this million.
"Well, we already have a revenue of fifty thousand, and I'm still recruiting sales personnel to expand into other cities..." Listening to Wu Ming becoming more and more enthusiastic, Jiang Yizhou felt relieved.
After discussing for a while longer, he left. Once Jiang Yizhou was gone, the employees at Vast Universe asked Wu Ming, "Wu Zong, that was Jiang Yizhou who secured fifteen million dollars in venture capital, right?"
The newly hired employees were a bit excited; how could they not be thrilled to have such close contact with a benchmark figure in the internet industry? Many people were likely drawn into the tide of the internet by one wealth myth after another—Yahoo, Netscape, and soon Amazon...
The old employees brought by Wu Ming already knew about the relationship between the two but kept it quiet out of respect for Wu Ming. Seeing Wu Ming's complex emotions at that moment, they pulled the newcomers aside to explain the situation.
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