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Chapter 55 Landing in Taiwan
"Shen Huaizhou is your senior brother, so why is he now delivering takeout to supplement the studio's income? It can't be that working on AI is too expensive, right?" Jiang Guier asked casually, rubbing her temples.

"Haha, Miss Jiang, if you're interested, why don't you ask my senior brother directly after you get off the plane and let him tell you himself?"

Yu Luqing smiled and took out the tablet again. "The diagram I just showed you is actually the system my senior brother made back then. He was the trendsetter in our team. We followed his orders in everything, and even our mentor had to step aside."

Jiang Guier slammed the bottled water with the airline's name printed on it onto the table with a thud. Her eyes widened slightly, but she quickly regained her composure.

She stared at Lu Qing for a moment, but Lu Qing, who was slow to react, didn't notice that Jiang Gui'er's gaze was now scrutinizing him, completely different from her previous friendliness.

"Then why doesn't he continue to delve deeper into the AI ​​industry? Is there some difficulty he's facing?"

Lu Qing paused, realizing the problem was a bit complicated. He gave an awkward laugh, "My senior brother is incredibly stubborn. Something did happen that led to him leaving the team. He's just inflexible. Sometimes, all he needs to do is lower his head a little..."

Lu Qing's tone was one of regret and confusion. Back then, when his senior brother and mentor had a fight, his senior brother left. The mentor was helpless, and the ones who stayed behind suffered the most. All the large models had to be redone, which was too painful.

“I feel that Shen Huaizhou is a very principled person. If he was forced to leave, then it must not be his fault.” Although Jiang Guier and Shen Huaizhou were not very familiar with each other and had not known each other for very long.

In their brief encounter, she went from misunderstanding to acceptance and then to admiration, and she trusted Shen Huaizhou's character very much.

She felt that Shen Huaizhou was being bullied, or that his mentor was jealous of his talent and tried every means to drive him away. Just now, Lu Qing said that the things they were using now were all based on what Shen Huaizhou had done before.

Isn't this proof?

He got ripped off.

“My senior is a top student in our department. Back then, our advisor wanted to merge a project with the company, but he was unwilling. The advisor respected his opinion and didn’t supervise his project, hoping he could continue to pursue a doctorate. But he didn’t want to be tied down, so he came out on his own.” Lu Qing said, sounding a little embarrassed.

There's no way to determine who was right and who was wrong about what happened back then.

Anyway, he felt that his senior had the right to choose his own life, so why should he be tied to his mentor?

Jiang Guier's fingers grabbed her pants, and a wave of surprise surged in her eyes, which she forcibly suppressed.

what?
Shen Huaizhou, that mentor, is shameless. He's like a prostitute trying to have his cake and eat it too, wanting to have all the benefits.

She couldn't help but sarcastically remark, "Shen Huaizhou is such a respectable person. If it were me, we would probably be arguing non-stop by now. I was wondering why someone as capable as him was struggling to run a studio and deliver food. Turns out he was being taken advantage of. How pitiful. He probably doesn't have the funds to develop AI."

Her tentative question made Lu Qing's expression freeze for a moment. "No, my senior brother is now the 'King of Hired Managers,' and his appearance fee is very high."

He thought about this time; he had gone to great lengths to invite Shen Huaizhou out, and it had cost him a lot of money, but it was definitely worth it.

Jiang Guier's inquisitive interest instantly faded. She leaned back in her chair. Everyone has constraints. Even someone like Shen Huaizhou would bow to reality when he was young. She didn't believe that the tutor would let Shen Huaizhou off so easily.

He left in the end, and now he's not involved in AI, so he must have been threatened and forced to leave.

"Shen Huaizhou is quite impressive, but I'm not very interested in other people's private affairs, and I don't know anything about AI, so I'm just asking casually," Jiang Guier said nonchalantly, twisting her water bottle.

Lu Qing's lips moved, wanting to explain more, but seeing the other person's unwillingness to talk, he could only give an awkward smile. "Yes, the plane is about to take off. Miss Jiang, why don't you close your eyes and rest for a while?" As he spoke, he turned around and discussed a few calculation parameters with the team members behind him. Behind Jiang Gui'er's back, he took out his phone and sent a WeChat message to Shen Huaizhou: [Senior brother, the road ahead is long and arduous; your task is heavy and the journey is far from over.]

Shen Huaizhou saw the WeChat message and replied with a 【。】

That killed the conversation.

Lu Qing pursed his lips, genuinely worried that his senior brother's enthusiasm for shaving lice would ultimately amount to nothing.

Simps get nothing!
As the plane passed through the clouds, Jiang Guier pulled the blanket up to cover half her face, leaving only her closed eyes visible. The sound of Lu Qing flipping through a magazine drifted over every few seconds, but she didn't even flinch.

The conversation had exhausted her patience, and she didn't want to be asked about her relationship with Shen Huaizhou anymore.

She only slowly opened her eyes when the flight attendant pushed the food cart over. She took the food box and started eating, wiping away the rice grains that fell onto the edge of the box with a tissue.

"Taiwanese braised pork rice is different from Shanghai's," Lu Qing commented after a few bites. "It's a bit salty."

Jiang Guier had already put down her spoon, picked up the mineral water bottle and gulped down two mouthfuls, then tightened the cap with a "click". "You're wrong. This plane took off from Shanghai. The crew's meals must have been prepared locally. It's just that the meals prepared this time weren't very good."

After saying that, he pulled the blanket back, leaving no room for further conversation.

Lu Qing looked at the top of her hair that was sticking out, smiled helplessly, and swallowed back the words that were about to come out.

It wasn't until the plane landed at Taipei Airport and the cabin door opened, letting in a humid breeze carrying the sweet scent of phoenix flowers, that Jiang Guier truly snapped out of her daze.

She followed the crowd, walking down the corridor bridge with Lu Qing. The signs in front of them were all in traditional Chinese characters, with the four characters "Immigration Hall" written in a rounded style.

The airport's announcements alternated between Mandarin and Taiwanese Hokkien, and staff in short sleeves smiled and said, "Welcome to Taiwan." Even the air had a lazy feel to it, a stark contrast to the fast pace of Shanghai.

So this is Taiwan.

As she followed the crowd toward the exit, she suddenly caught a glimpse of the words, "Welcome to the Republic of Taiwan."

She paused for half a second, her brows furrowing slightly. The words "Taiwan is an inseparable part of China" from her textbook collided with the text before her eyes, and she felt a slight prick in her heart, an indescribable awkwardness.

“When I first came to Taiwan, I was also annoyed by those words,” Lu Qing said from the side.

Jiang Guier nodded, "That's true." She was about to say something when her phone suddenly rang, and the words 'biological mother' on the screen sounded like a death knell.

Why come again!

Jiang Guier suddenly had a bad feeling. Her mother was not the type of person who would get deeply entangled in a problem.

(End of this chapter)