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Chapter 372 Lin Yongzhen: You've fallen in love with me? (6k views, please subscribe)

Wang Shu's mother did not stay in China for very long; she left the country in less than three weeks and returned abroad.

Then Wang Shu called Lü Yao and said that her mother had returned to China.

The meaning is quite clear: they want Lü Yao to go back as soon as possible.

Lu Yao laughed into the phone, "If you let your mother go back so early, she'll probably be sad. Logically, you should let your aunt stay here a little longer."

As for whether it's a holiday or not, that's not really important.

But Wang Shu laughed and said, "My mother and I are not very close. We don't see each other very often throughout the year. I feel uncomfortable if she stays with me all the time. Besides, she is a very career-oriented person. She would be willing to go back sooner."

Lu Yao felt somewhat insincere upon hearing this.

The older people get, the more they cherish the so-called "family bond." This is an innate program ingrained in their bones. When they are young, they live a carefree life, but when they get old, they start to put on the airs of "elders."

Therefore, Wang Shu's mother must have valued her daughter highly and was willing to spend time and energy taking care of her.

But Wang Shu is already a very mature woman with her own ideas, so naturally she can no longer be manipulated by her "elders".

Lu Yao didn't know what the mother and daughter had talked about, but he could guess that it hadn't been a pleasant conversation.

So after a moment of silence, Lü Yao apologized to Wang Shu: "I'm sorry, I caused you all to have a bad time."

Wang Shu's tone on the phone suddenly became anxious: "How could that be! Please don't think like that. It was my oversight. Even if my mother came, she shouldn't have let you have any contact with her."

It's clear that Wang Shu is more anxious.

Just then, Jian Xiaojie's distant voice came through the phone: "Oh my, you're already starting to worry? Sigh, Xiao Shu, I feel like your rebellious phase hasn't passed yet."

Inside the villa, Wang Shu's face immediately darkened, and then Run turned to glare at Jian Xiaojie.

But Jian Xiaojie didn't care at all. She went straight to Wang Shu's side and shouted into the phone, "Lu Yao, you've been out there for so long, have you gotten too wild and don't really want to come back?"

Listening to Jian Xiaojie's mischievous chatter on the phone, Lü Yao laughed and said, "How could that be? When it comes to being wild, who can be wilder than Sister Jian? I'm a junior, so I still have to learn from you."

Wang Shu pushed Jian Xiaojie away: "Okay, I'm not talking to you anymore. Xiaojie's words are getting more and more unreliable."

After saying that, Wang Shu hung up the phone, afraid that Jian Xiaojie would say something else nonsense.

Lu Yao shook his head as he looked at the phone that had just been hung up.

Actually, Jian Xiaojie said that just to provoke Lü Yao to go back; maybe she also missed him.

So after finishing his work today, Lü Yao went back to Lin Yongzhen's place. On his way back, Lü Yao bought some groceries, cooked a delicious meal at home, and then told Lin Yongzhen about Wang Shu's situation.

Lin Yongzhen listened while eating, and when she heard this part, she stopped eating with a laugh, tilted her head to look at Lü Yao, and said with a smile, "I was wondering why this meal was so strange, it felt like a farewell dinner."

Lu Yao also put down his chopsticks, picked up his wine glass, took a sip of his beverage, and laughed, "How should I put it? What does 'farewell dinner' mean?"

He looked at Lin Yongzhen seriously and said, "We can have dinner together anytime you want. If you're not free today, then tomorrow. There's always another meal."

Lin Yongzhen blinked her eyes, which seemed to be forever filled with the deep darkness of night, staring at Lü Yao to determine whether what Lü Yao said was true.

After a long while, Lin Yongzhen smiled strangely and said, "Strange, you're telling the truth."

The truth is not rare.

It's not surprising that people like them tell the truth.

But it's rare for people like them to tell the truth when it comes to emotions.

They are all just drifting duckweed in the mortal world, but in order to be able to sit at the table and have the freedom to be free from fear and shackles, these kinds of people will do anything.

Lin Yongzhen was confident that Lü Yao was just like her.

So Lin Yongzhen asked curiously, "Something's not right with you. Is it because your acting is too good to fool my eyes, or is it that you...?"

As she spoke, Lin Yongzhen leaned forward, propped herself up, and stared at Lü Yao, asking, "You've fallen in love with me?"

Lu Yao's eyes, which were being stared at intently by Lin Yongzhen, remained unwavering, calm, sincere, and even somewhat affectionate. Looking directly into Lin Yongzhen's eyes, Lu Yao said, "People can't always do the right thing; sometimes they have to do things that make them feel good."

He was speaking from the heart, but it wasn't an impulsive act driven by emotion and a loss of reason.

This clearly restrained emotion brought a smile to Lin Yongzhen's face. She leaned back in her chair as if admitting defeat: "Very good—"

"After we finish eating, I'll help you pack your things and then take you home."

During the time Lin Yongzhen lived together, the two communicated much more than before, so even though they were about to part ways, there was not much lingering between them.

Their relationship was that of mentor and friend, and they were also comrades-in-arms who had struggled together on the brink of life and death.

Around 9 p.m., Lin Yongzhen took Lü Yao back to the villa. The two didn't say a word before parting. It was just like two people from the same village walking home together after school. When they were almost at their doorstep, the two waved goodbye after walking together for a while, their emotions perfectly calm.

Because they all knew they would see each other again tomorrow.

But after Lin Yongzhen saw Lü Yao off and returned to the room where they had lived for a while, the quietness emanating from the empty room gradually formed a thick, stuffy atmosphere that made it hard to breathe.

Sitting on the island counter in the room, Lin Yongzhen gradually leaned down, resting her head on her arm, her eyes, filled with the darkness of night, slowly emptied.
empty
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After being away for many days, Lü Yao finally returned to the villa. Jian Xiaojie threw a small party for him, inviting Monica and some of their usual friends over. Everyone had a great time at the villa.

After the excitement subsided, Lü Yao, who had already returned to his room and lay down, suddenly saw Jian Xiaojie push open the door.

As for why it was Jian Xiaojie...
Her figure is so distinctive that it's easy to tell.

The lights in Lü Yao's room were dim, but the lights outside were bright. When Jian Xiaojie opened Lü Yao's door and leaned against the door frame, scrutinizing Lü Yao from the outside with a captivating charm, her figure was voluptuous and graceful against the backlight. The various emotions hidden beneath her figure seemed to flow out like dirty water, mixing with the shadows and turning the room into a "deep pool in the northern borderlands".

Lu Yao looked at Jian Xiaojie at the door and said with a smile, "I remember, I changed the lock."

Jian Xiaojie didn't respond to Lü Yao's words. Her silhouette against the light said in a emotionless tone, "I think you've been out there for too long and have forgotten about home."

"You surnamed Lü, I really need to teach you a lesson."

Lu Yao thought to himself, "Whoa!" He wondered what kind of game this was going to be tonight.
But before Lü Yao could figure it out, Jian Xiaojie slammed the door shut.
The next day, morning.

Lu Yao mumbled something as he arrived in the lobby on the first floor, where he happened to run into Wang Shu, who was undergoing a medical check-up. After the medical team finished their examination, Wang Shu asked them to leave, then looked at Lu Yao, who looked pained, and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

Recalling everything that happened last night, Lü Yao was both amused and exasperated.

Who knew that Jian Xiaojie meant it when she said she would teach someone a lesson? She really didn't leave any room for leniency.

Seeing the expression on Lü Yao's face, Wang Shu guessed what was going on. Thinking of all the things Jian Xiaojie could do, Wang Shu's emotions immediately surged. When Jian Xiaojie came down in her bathrobe with a smug look on her face, Wang Shu began to lecture her.

Jian Xiaojie was completely bewildered. Why was Sister Shu so angry so early in the morning?

By the time Jian Xiaojie's gaze swept around looking for Lü Yao, Lü Yao had already disappeared.

Lu Yao didn't eat breakfast at home. He got up and went to work while Wang Shu was arguing with Jian Xiaojie.

It's already mid-January 2017, and the date of Lu Yao and Rong Nianqing's planned press conference is getting closer and closer. As the date approaches, the details of the press conference are being adjusted.

Meanwhile, the plan proposed by Lü Yao earlier to improve the quality of Guang'an's "Honor of Kings" game is being implemented step by step.

Since Lü Yao proposed the idea, Guang'an's "Honor of Kings" has undergone two quality improvement updates. With these two major updates, the graphics and features of Guang'an's "Honor of Kings" have become better and better. However, the better the graphics and special effects of a game, the higher the performance requirements of the player's mobile phone.

After two updates, many phones with lower performance, or Android phones purchased one or two years ago, can no longer run the game "Honor of Kings" smoothly.

This has led to increasing resentment among many players with phones that have lower performance capabilities, resulting in numerous negative reviews of Guang'an online games online.
"What's wrong with Guang'an's 'Honor of Kings'? Why does it get laggy with every update? How exactly do they optimize it?"

"My phone used to be able to play on low settings, but now, after the update, it's so laggy it's practically a PowerPoint presentation."

"I have a Xiaomi Mi 4 phone. Actually, it's not as laggy as some people say, but it gets extremely hot. It gets very hot after just a few games. Even with a Geek cooler, it can't keep up, and then it starts to lag and crash."

"@Guangan Official, can you please optimize this properly?"

In early 2017, there was a significant performance difference between foreign and domestic mobile phones, especially compared to Apple phones. The iPhone 6s Plus, released two or three years earlier, could still compete even in 2020, especially with Tencent's MOBA mobile games, where it could run relatively smoothly.

In terms of durability, it is better than the later iPhone 7 and iPhone 8.

Even disregarding the factor of "periodic obsolescence", Apple phones far surpass domestic Android phones in terms of durability and ease of use.

Especially the Blue-Green Coarse Grain Factory No. 3, which is known for generating heat.

This is the inevitable result of the combined effects of technology, ecosystem, and software development ecosystem; the gap lies here, and that must be acknowledged. However...

The Geek Phone, jointly created by Lü Yao and Xiaomi, features a specially tuned system and games optimized specifically for Geek Phones. This allows Geek Phone users to experience the increasingly severe "lag issues" that have been circulating online when playing mobile games on Guang'an.

Therefore, online opinions on the gaming experience of Guangan's "Honor of Kings" are divided into two camps: one camp believes that Guangan's optimization is getting worse and worse.

However, a considerable number of high-end gamers also stepped forward to post sarcastic remarks:

"I didn't experience the lag you guys mentioned. Could it be because our phone systems are different? -- From iPhone 7 Plus"

"I haven't noticed any lag issues you guys mentioned. I'm using an Android phone too—from geek1pro max"

As more and more tech-savvy mobile phone users no longer experienced lag during the lag crisis, the sense of pride that they could finally rival Apple users made many Android users unconsciously stand tall.

This has also raised everyone's expectations for Xiaomi.

"Isn't Geek Phone supposed to be Xiaomi's high-end sub-brand? OK, many of the patents and accessories of the high-end models are not worthy of the flagship models, but can you please release the operating system to the lower-end models sooner?"

"I actually tried the Geek Phone's system, and damn, it's so smooth! It looks really high-end, and that damn high-end feel is really tempting."

"Don't even mention it, bro, I've already seamlessly switched to a tech phone—from a long-time Apple user."

It's pretty ridiculous to say you've been an Apple phone user for many years at this point.

After all, Apple has only released the iPhone 7 series so far, and the first time Apple appeared in China was with the iPhone 4, but it really became a hit with the iPhone 6.

Moreover, the reason why the iPhone 6 became so popular was also due to the efforts of women who were overly interested in women and men who were overly devoted to their idols.

After the iPhone 4 made a splash in the Chinese market, news began circulating online that giving an iPhone to your goddess was the most prestigious thing to do. In the early days, the story of Ga Yaozi buying an iPhone spread like wildfire online, becoming an almost indelible label on the iPhone.

But this label also successfully helped Apple phones break out of their niche and become high-end phones sought after by countless fashionable men and women.

It's as if not holding an iPhone would lower one's status.

Of course, if this person is overseas, then they are indeed likely a long-time Apple user.

As more and more tech-savvy phone users begin to boast about their phones' superior performance online, many also use the built-in screen recording function of their phones to showcase their gameplay.

Gradually.

Aside from these netizens' boasting, another voice has begun to emerge online:
"So, all this upgrade to the game's graphics and features was just to sell phones, huh? Do I have to spend almost ten thousand yuan to play this crappy game?"

"To put it bluntly, they're looking down on us ordinary players, right? That's disgusting!"

"I knew Guang'an Lu was no good. He even started a game company just to sell phones, right? If it weren't for the netizens' intelligence, they would have really fallen for this bastard's trap!"

"Are we low-spec mobile gamers even human? I'm asking you, am I even human?!"

"I feel disgusted to the point of vomiting just looking at the faces of those high-end mobile phone users. Lu Ze is indeed a speculator who climbs to the top by clinging to rich women. His way of sucking up to rich men is truly unparalleled."

"Damn it, you even come online to brag. You're happy to have that scoundrel Lu act as your grandson, aren't you? Aren't you afraid of tarnishing your family tree?"

As more and more aggressive comments appeared, gamers with high-end mobile phones also joined in with sarcastic remarks:

"What's wrong with upgrading a game to bring players a better gaming experience? Our phones are so old, shouldn't we put mobile games aside for now and focus on making money?"

"Why are you blaming the rich? If you can't earn enough money to buy a better phone, shouldn't you reflect on whether it's your own problem?"

"No way, no way, there are still people who can't afford a phone that costs several thousand yuan? Don't we high-end phone gamers deserve a better gaming experience?"

While the poor and the rich were arguing online, some rational and objective people calmly commented: "Actually, what people are angry about is not that Guangan improved the game's graphics and effects, nor do they think it's wrong. It's just that while Guangan is improving the game's quality, shouldn't it also consider the conditions of the majority of users in the market?"

"Shouldn't Guang'an cater to the performance limits of most devices? While providing a better gaming experience for high-end players, shouldn't we low-end players be able to improve the smoothness of the game by lowering the graphics settings or effects?"

However, such rational comments have no effect on the internet. When netizens get emotional, they no longer care whether their ideas are correct. To put it bluntly, players who engage in keyboard battles online are simply looking for a sense of superiority.

A large part of human happiness comes from a sense of superiority.

A sense of superiority can only be derived through comparison.

So when the poor guys saw the rich guys' comments, they all started making sarcastic remarks:

"You guys are making a big fuss over playing a mobile game! Why don't you let Guang'an bring AAA games to mobile phones?"

The wealthy guys weren't to be outdone, showing off their home computer configurations one after another—

Those rich guys who own computers costing tens of thousands of dollars, and even have dedicated gaming rooms, have finally seized the opportunity to show off their fulfilling real-life lives on the internet.

When a rich guy starts flaunting his wealth, the internet's gossipers will follow.

In short.

Because of Guang'an's actions, the online uproar over this matter has intensified, and from the planning that began two months ago to the present, it has almost become a wave of heated discussion across the entire internet.

With such high popularity, the entire team of Guang'an's "Honor of Kings" project felt like they were on the hot seat. They had actually worked very hard and really optimized the game to the extreme under the current conditions. So, most phones with slightly higher configurations and decent systems can run it smoothly at medium settings.

However, the performance of current chips is what it is, especially given the open-source nature of the Android camp, which allows many software manufacturers to seize the chip's RAM.

Without restrictions, mid-to-low-end models are particularly prone to overheating, lag, crashes, and even black or white screens.

Even after pushing the software optimization to its limits, Yao Qiguang continued to utilize the wisdom of the project team to find ways to satisfy users of more device models.

Yao Qiguang certainly knew that Lü Yao had his reasons for improving the game's performance at all costs, but as the person in charge of the project, Yao Qiguang was responsible not only to Lü Yao, the boss, but also to the hundreds of people in the project team.

Caught in the middle, Yao Qiguang wanted everyone – the boss, the employees, and the game users!
Having finally come to a company like Guang'an, where he could finally unleash his full potential and burn brightly, Yao Qiguang was determined not to let this opportunity slip away unnoticed.

If we can solve the dilemma of high quality but low performance!
Even just a little bit!

This will allow them to accumulate sufficient technological advantages.

As for the online comments that Guang'an is clinging to the coattails of Tencent and encouraging everyone to play games from other companies... Yao Qiguang, who came from Tencent, knows better than anyone that there must be some dark forces behind this.

But it's pointless to get into a public opinion battle with those behind the scenes.

Technological prowess!

The primary competitive advantage of internet technology companies will always be their core competitiveness!
Yao Qiguang is under immense pressure and is even prepared to directly confront Lü Yao to further improve the game's quality and squeeze more out of the phone's performance.

Meanwhile, Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi, also called, hoping that Lü Yao could represent the game company to resolve the current public opinion crisis.

This online battle of wits between the poor and the rich is already starting to have a real impact on Xiaomi's sales.

Before Xiaomi phones could compete with Geek phones, the large number of users acquired by Geek phones in the early stages became a sharp weapon that forced Xiaomi to retreat.

Faced with pressure from both himself and Xiaomi, Lü Yao remained calm and composed.

The current situation was deliberately created by him.

As for the game and mobile phone competitors taking the opportunity to attack and kick each other when they're down, Lü Yao had long anticipated it. After all, domestic competitors are capable of anything to smear their peers.

They're capable of clownish behavior like pulling out power to stage a scene and frame competitors, deliberately conducting targeted tests to discredit rivals, and bringing up competitors' products to denigrate them, only to find that their own similar products are not only more expensive but also inferior to those of their competitors, and then stubbornly arguing their way out of it.

The current act of kicking someone when they're down is just something they're doing on a whim.

The reason why there are so many negative comments about Guang'an Networks, Geek Phones, and Xiaomi phones on the internet is largely due to the efforts of competitors.

From the perspective of competitors, this might be because Lü Yao has become too arrogant and has forgotten who his core supporters are.

perhaps.

In the eyes of those CEOs of competing companies, Lü Yao was just like the person who said, "Brother, I'm having such a great time."

Given their backgrounds as mobile phone accessory movers and game development imitators, how could they have predicted what Lü Yao would do next?

Whether it's making games or making mobile phones, these are just appetizers that Lü Yao uses as a prelude.

After reassuring Yao Qiguang and Lei Zong, Lü Yao gained a deeper understanding of the optimization progress of the Guang'an "Honor of Kings" project team. After confirming that everything was ready, Lü Yao sent a text message to Rong Nianqing: "President Rong, I think the time is about right."

Rong Nianqing replied instantly: "I will fully cooperate with you."

(End of this chapter)