Classmate Li Zhuangsheng doesn’t want to be reborn

Chapter 620 Fake show
"In that case, I won't go either!"

After learning that Hu Mengdie could not participate in the study tour, Li Xiuyu said seriously.

"Get lost! It's tens of thousands of dollars. It must have been blown by the wind!" Li Zhuangsheng glanced at Li Xiuyu, "Xie Jiangqing and I have already agreed. She is also in Mazhua. You two can go together!"

"Hu Mengdie is really... why didn't she say it earlier..." Li Xiuyu said lazily while lying on the bed.

"She shouldn't know about this kind of thing in advance, right? If she knew, why would she sign up?" Li Zhuangsheng stretched lazily. "By the way, I'm treating the entire company to a seafood buffet tomorrow. It's over 400 per person, with king crabs, Australian lobsters, and everything else. I've already made the reservation, so you can come too."

"I'm treating you to such a good meal?" Li Xiuyu frowned, "Have you made a fortune again?"

"Well, thank you British people." Li Zhuangsheng sat upright, "I wanted to treat you to British food, but there don't seem to be many British restaurants in Nanjing. Besides, the animation will be released soon, and treating you to British food at this time may affect morale. After all, British food is famous for being unpalatable."

"What did the British people do to you? Did they send you money?"

"Almost. Thanks to their decision to leave the EU, the pound plummeted. And I shorted the pound in advance. This is the biggest profit I have made this year!" Li Zhuangsheng was beaming with joy.

"How much did you make?"

"A lot, a lot...I'll tell you later!"

Li Zhuang was afraid of scaring Li Xiuyu so he didn't say it explicitly. If inflation is not taken into account, the studio can sustain losses for decades.

Even when he speculated, he was relatively conservative, especially when it came to shorting the pound. Because the original ratio of the UK referendum to leave the EU was 51:49, a very small gap. Before shorting the pound this time, Li Zhuangsheng checked a lot of information and news, flipping through the BBC, the Times and other media, and determined that the public opinion in the UK about leaving the EU was still very strong, the immigration problem was quite serious, the economic situation had not improved compared to the original, and even the time of the Brexit referendum had not changed. So he took a gamble.

Fortunately, he won the bet.

However, he estimated that even if Brexit did not happen, he would not be completely wiped out, at most he would suffer some serious damage, after all, his leverage was not particularly high. Moreover, as a last resort, he spent one million to buy Nvidia shares last year, which would make him a wealthy man in the future.

"Hehe, the UK can earn so much by leaving the EU. I really hope Germany and France can follow suit." Li Xiu Yu hummed.

She could tell from Li Zhuangsheng's expression that he must have made a fortune, but since Li Zhuangsheng kept the amount a secret from her for the time being, she had no interest in further exploring it because he would tell her anyway.

"What have you thought about Hu Mengdie's matter?" Li Xiuyu said.

Li Zhuangsheng was slightly stunned, but remained silent. He actually thought it was okay, but he also felt that this seemed... not quite appropriate.

"Hmph... forget it then." Seeing this, Li Xiuyu couldn't help but snort, "You don't even want to help her, so let Hu Mengdie worry about it herself! Or just stay with Lu Qian. There's a saying that love grows over time, maybe you'll fall in love with him after being together for a while!"

Her eyes were like a mirror. Li Zhuangsheng was not unwilling to help Hu Mengdie, but there was only Zhu Zhixue between them. But the more Li Zhuangsheng said so, the more unhappy Li Xiuyu was, and she insisted that Li Zhuangsheng help her.

Otherwise, what would happen if Li Zhuangsheng and Zhu Zhixue got back together during the month when she couldn't see them?
She knew the little slut Zhu Zhixue's mind too well. During this year, Li Zhuangsheng and Zhu Zhixue often took classes together, and sometimes did homework in the same group. Although Li Zhuangsheng approached her with a shameless face, Zhu Zhixue did not firmly object, right? Damn, you are still enjoying this dog-licking ambiguity!

"Please don't provoke me like that." Li Zhuangsheng smiled bitterly, "It's almost summer vacation now!"

"What's wrong with summer vacation? Lu Qian's home is in Nanjing!" Li Xiuyu glared.

Li Zhuangsheng licked his lips, stood up and took a bottle of iced mineral water. Of course he knew.

He also knew that Lu Qian was still clinging to Hu Mengdie and would not give up even when he was about to take a vacation. Moreover, Hu Mengdie's roommate was also bribed by Lu Qian and often spoke for Lu Qian.

He had already heard this information from Xie Jiangqing.

There are some things Hu Mengdie will not tell him, but she will confide in Xie Jiangqing.

"Just pretend..." After hesitating for a long time, Li Zhuangsheng slowly nodded.

It was nothing more than pretending in front of Lu Qian, and at most involving Hu Mengdie's social circle at school. It wasn't like they were really in love.

Besides, he was indeed a little worried about a man with extreme emotions like Lu Qian, so it would be best to help Hu Mengdie get rid of Lu Qian's entanglement as soon as possible.

Not to mention the relationship between Hu Mengdie and him in the future, just in this life, he owes Hu Mengdie a lot.

No matter what his underlying thoughts were, as long as his actions were just to help Hu Mengdie, that would be enough.

Li Xiuyu raised his eyebrows. Li Zhuangsheng answered reluctantly. His eyes rolled slightly and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The next day, Li Zhuangsheng invited the entire studio to dinner as promised. Everyone attended.

"Follow the boss and eat nine meals a day!"

In the restaurant, Qian Feishu's eyes were filled with tears... he choked while eating Australian lobster.

"Eat slowly, don't be in a hurry." Li Zhuangsheng stroked Qian Feishu's back.

"Boss, it looks like your sister doesn't have a boyfriend?" Qian Feishu glanced at Li Xiuyu and whispered, even using honorifics, which was rare.

"No, that's right..." Li Zhuangsheng knew what he was thinking.

"Do you have a girlfriend?"

“That’s not available at the moment.”

"Then I can..."

"No!" Li Zhuangsheng refused immediately.

"Why?" Qian Feishu was sad, "Because I'm poor?"

"No, because she will never agree. You are really not her type. If you are really rejected cruelly, it will affect our relationship, the atmosphere in the office, and your work efficiency." Li Zhuangsheng sighed softly, "To tell you the truth, there was another girl in the company who was also interested in her and kept asking me about Li Xiuyu's sexual orientation."

"So, may I ask, is her sexual orientation male or female?"

Generally speaking, this is not really a problem. Firstly, it is people's privacy, and secondly, gays are a very small minority after all.

But as long as it has nothing to do with the content of the animation, Li Zhuangsheng is very easy to talk to, without any airs, and is no different from his roommates. Moreover, Li Xiuyu's appearance is so beautiful that ordinary people can't help but be curious about her sexual orientation when they see her for the first time.

"For now, it should be a man."

Li Zhuangsheng is not sure either...at least not a woman yet. Although Li Zhuangsheng usually assumes that Li Xiuyu has a normal sexual orientation and Li Xiuyu has no objection to this, in Li Zhuangsheng's heart, Li Xiuyu is more of an "asexual" person at the moment. She does not love anyone or any gender. Even when EXO, TFBOYS, and the returning four boys were at their peak in recent years, she did not show any interest in this.

"That……"

"Then you have no chance either." Li Xiuyu stared into Qian Feishu's eyes, very sincerely, "Believe me, don't be fooled by her goddess-like appearance. You can't control her. She is actually very sloppy and lazy at home!"

Let's not talk about the common situation. Li Xiuyu often went to the toilet without a sanitary napkin, and then shouted in the toilet for Li Zhuangsheng to hand it to her. For example, Li Zhuangsheng had a cold before and asked Li Xiuyu to give him a piece of paper. Li Xiuyu was lying on the bed playing with her phone and was too lazy to move, so she stretched out her leg to pick up a piece of paper and handed it to Li Zhuangsheng.

Li Zhuangsheng's attitude was so obvious that Qian Feishu lowered his head helplessly, and knowing his own limitations, he stopped thinking about it.

In fact, Qian Feishu could also feel that Li Xiuyu was very cold towards his courtesy.

The other party would also follow Li Zhuangsheng to the company to play on weekends. Most people would be very attentive to her because of her status and appearance, but the other party always ignored them and only had Li Zhuangsheng in her eyes. Apart from that, she only had a good relationship with Hu Mengdie.

This also further established Hu Mengdie's status as the "boss lady" in everyone's minds.

Forget it... We are not on the same level.

If it weren't for Li Zhuangsheng's friendly attitude, Qian Feishu wouldn't have dared to think like this. He adjusted his mood, turned his grief into appetite, and turned around to eat seafood again.

After dinner, Li Zhuangsheng and Li Xiuyu sent Hu Mengdie back to school, and then expressed their willingness to help Hu Mengdie.

"Anyway, it's just pretend. I'll do whatever you say!" Li Zhuangsheng coughed and looked at Hu Mengdie's face with a vague look in his eyes.

"Thank you so much!" Hu Mengdie happily held Li Xiuyu's hand, "Xiuyu, I will borrow your brother for a while!"

"Well, feel free to use him." Li Xiuyu said, "When are you going to take him out to meet people?"

"There's no rush." ​​Hu Mengdie smiled and shook her head. "Maybe in a few days. Your brother is busy with the animation right now. We can talk about it after the animation is released and everything is on track!"

"Well, whatever you want." Li Xiuyu didn't care, and suddenly said, "But you have to pretend to be more convincing. Then you can announce it on WeChat Moments and let your friends see it. Then they won't pester you to match you up with other people!"

Li Zhuangsheng was stunned and looked at Li Xiuyu deeply. "Okay, okay, you want to play like this, right? You want me to die!"

If Hu Mengdie officially announced it, would it not reach Zhu Zhixue's ears?
Forget it, let's not argue with her for now. Anyway, she's going to Europe soon, and when she comes back, everything will be over! Now that the dust has settled, there's no need to worry about her doing anything else!

The day of animation release finally arrived. Li Zhuangsheng came to the studio early and sat in his personal office nervously.

Compared to speculating in the financial market, he was not so sure about animation. For him, this was a completely unfamiliar field, and he might fail, or it might just be his enthusiasm.

Although he does not value profits and can fully afford losses, the premise for his open-mindedness is the "success" of the animation in terms of fame. If no one is interested in the animation, it will be a huge blow to his morale.

Just like when he first wrote a novel, he published it with full confidence, refreshing the writer's backend hundreds of times a day, and then staring in a daze at the stagnant number of collections.

That long-forgotten feeling of suffocation was coming back.

"What's wrong with you? Why do you look so serious?" Someone put a piece of Want Want crushed ice cream on Li Zhuangsheng's neck.

"Ouch!" Li Zhuangsheng screamed and turned to see Li Xiuyu's smug face.

"You scared me to death!" Li Zhuangsheng said angrily.

"What are you daydreaming about?" Li Xiuyu broke the shattered ice in half. "Which side do you want?"

"I haven't eaten this for a long time!" Li Zhuangsheng smiled and took the pointed half. "I want this."

Li Xiuyu snorted twice: "I just tested you, but I didn't expect you to be so unconscious and choose the big one."

Li Zhuangsheng was annoyed: "You are stupid, the pointed one looks a little longer, but it is actually less than the other half! You are a science student, the volume of a cone is only one-third of that of a cylinder! If you think mine is too much, then let's switch!"

"Oh, then I won't change it!" Li Xiuyu refused with confidence.

Li Zhuangsheng laughed.

"Are you worried that no one will watch your animation?" Li Xiuyu sat on Li Zhuangsheng's desk, eating a popsicle and fanning himself by the collar.

"A little bit. I'm not worried about word of mouth, but I'm afraid the subject matter is too niche and won't make any waves."

"What's there to be afraid of now?" Li Xiuyu stepped on each other to take off his shoes, then gently kicked Li Zhuangsheng in the chest, "Don't be afraid, if you stick your head out you'll get stabbed, and if you hide your head you'll get stabbed, too!"

"How can you comfort people like that? You should say, don't be afraid, there will be a lot of people watching!"

Li Zhuangsheng grabbed Li Xiuyu's feet angrily and threw him aside.

"How can I dare to say something that you are not sure of?" Li Xiuyu grinned, and raised her flawless toes to Li Zhuangsheng's shoulders again. "But anyway, I like it very much. If it is too long, I might feel bored, but at this length, I think anyone with normal aesthetic taste will not mind stopping to watch it for a minute."

"Now that you put it that way, I feel a little more confident."

Li Zhuangsheng felt relieved, then he grabbed Li Xiuyu's foot again and threw it aside, "Take your foot. Can you be more feminine? And wear more skirts in the future? You only wear casual pants and sandals when you go out in this weather. Someone in the company just asked me about your sexual orientation again!"

"I'm wearing a skirt, so you can see me now!" Li Xiuyu deliberately crossed her legs and looked shy.

"I haven't seen enough at home? If you're really embarrassed, please don't hang around the house in just your underwear next time. And put your underwear on after taking a shower, okay? What would it look like if there were guests?"

Li Zhuang laughed angrily.

"You are talking without any pain in your waist. If you have the guts, why don't you try wearing a bra all day and see how it feels!" Li Xiuyu glared and said in a loud voice, "Bras are the foot bindings of the 21st century!"

"No, this is different from foot binding..." Li Zhuangsheng's mouth twitched slightly.

Having said that, Li Xiuyu was still quite clean at this time. Looking at the wet sandals on the ground, Li Xiuyu should have just washed his feet in the bathroom.

After chatting with Li Xiu Yu for a few words, Li Zhuangsheng's originally nervous mood completely calmed down.

(End of this chapter)