I am weak and friendly

Chapter 227 Ze Ge's Dao Heart Shattered
"Ugh, I'm so tired, I'm off work... Brother Ze, aren't you leaving today?"

It was already past midnight. Gao Yuxiang finished his work, yawned, and was about to go home when he saw Ze Ge still busy at his workstation.

She turned to the side, supporting her cheek with one hand, her brows furrowed tightly.

Gao Yuxiang glanced at it and thought it was very good. He glanced at it again and decided not to leave. He sat down and continued to look at it.

In the past two days, Linghai Technology has experienced a surge in traffic from [Diting]. After discussing with several senior executives and core programmers, we all felt that we should take advantage of this opportunity to quickly complete the full launch of [Diting]. So, basically everyone is working overtime.

However, this time there were fewer complaints about working overtime, and Bao Ge's superb PUA skills were rendered useless.

The company isn't going bankrupt; it's about to take off, and might even go public. At times like this, working overtime isn't just being a beast of burden; it's the path to the pinnacle of life and financial freedom.

Who says our Linghai Technology can't go public overnight and create many billionaires?
We can do it!
Of course, more importantly...

These past two days, all the bonuses that were owed from a while have been paid out, and now all sorts of investments are pouring in, making Lu Mingyuan quite picky.

Bao Ge hasn't had time to use PUA tactics lately; he's been busy rearranging the company's workstations to prepare for the upcoming recruitment drive.

“No… I wrote a PR for Pingzi’s new project,” Ze said without looking up.

"Pingzi has launched a new project again? Is this kid full of energy? Does that mean our company will be getting another wave of reporters tomorrow?"

Gao Yuxiang was shocked.

[Diting] The author has released a new work? The traffic hasn't gone down yet, so won't it explode next?!

Stop coming! Stop coming! I can't take it anymore! I really can't take it anymore!

Before, when I went out and said I was from Linghai Technology, hardly anyone knew me. Now, when I go out and say I'm from Linghai Technology, I immediately get covered in sweat.

Within his circle of classmates and colleagues, eight hundred people have already asked Gao Yuxiang if they are still hiring. Many classmates he hasn't contacted in ages want to invite Gao Yuxiang to dinner, but he has declined all of them, using overtime as an excuse.

Would you have dared to imagine that in the past?
It's good enough that they don't ask you why you haven't resigned yet.

After all, the industry is in a bad state right now, and everyone is unemployed. Seeing a unicorn company rising, who wouldn't want to quickly secure a good position?

"It wasn't posted by his real account, it was posted by his alternate account, the one with the name Hirako. He's really afraid that people will find out his identity right now."

"Oh...I see. So he's not making any noise. He's probably hiding somewhere crying right now. Are you planning to divert his attention?"

Ze-ge really loves Pingzi!
As Gao Yuxiang pondered this, he took out his phone.

He and Tang Yiping were kindred spirits. Ever since Tang Yiping sent him the photos of Ze Ge that he had taken, the two of them often secretly exchanged various photos of Ze Ge.

Emmm, to be precise, it's a little sleazy.

But Gao Yuxiang assured that he was only doing it to appreciate beauty!

The way Ze Ge looked with his brows slightly furrowed just now was so adorable. Should I send it to Ping Zi to comfort him?

“No… his project is already very popular,” Ze Ge said. “I submitted a PR to him, but he rejected it.”

"What?" Gao Yuxiang exclaimed in surprise.

He put his phone away.

Such a rebellious person as Hirako is not worthy of comfort!

"What exactly did Pingzi post that made you contribute code to it?! And then it got rejected?! Is it some amazing algorithm?"

Is Hirako a genius? Yes, he is! An absolute genius. But this genius has a slight imbalance in his academic strengths.

He's an absolute genius when it comes to algorithms, but in other areas...

It's hard to say.

While Gao Yuxiang wouldn't say everyone in the company could easily beat him, he certainly felt confident that he could.

"No, it's a program with a rather unique use case, without any advanced features... I refactored some of its functions using Ink... and then it was rejected... because of bugs."

"???"

“He’s right,” Ze Ge said. “I overlooked it.” “!!!”

She paused, then frowned and said, "I didn't notice at all."

"No, who am I kidding? Hirako actually discovered a bug in my Ink... This bug may have existed for many years..." Ze Ge said dejectedly, frantically rubbing his hair, turning his already messy hair into a bird's nest.

"Aaaaaah, how could I be so stupid! How could I not have noticed!" she wailed, turning back to Gao Yuxiang and asking, "Xiangzi, am I getting old?"

As the developer and maintainer of the project, I had something bugged in my code and it was rejected by someone else, who even pointed out the bug in my core code...

Ze Ge's feelings right now are a little complicated.

"Uh……"

In that instant, a scene inexplicably flashed through Gao Yuxiang's mind.

The bright moon hangs high, the mountain gate stands solemnly. On the side of the spirit pool behind the sect, the sect elder, the signboard lady, and Ze Ge, a peerless master who has made a great name for himself in the martial arts world, stands facing the moon, draped in a light veil and surrounded by ethereal clouds. He is desolate and lonely, like a daffodil blooming by the spirit pool.

Before she dipped her bare feet into the water, she turned around and asked the man behind her, "Junior brother, am I getting old? Otherwise... why doesn't he even glance at me?"

No, no, no, this isn't Ze Ge's style.

It should be: "Junior brother, am I getting old? Otherwise... why didn't I catch that sword strike?"

Having said that, a drop of blood fell into the spirit pool, blooming like a red lotus.

That sword pierced her skin and also her Dao heart.

“He shouldn’t have thrust out that sword…” Gao Yuxiang said.

"What are you saying?" Brother Ze looked completely bewildered.

"Oh, no, I mean, let me see what open-source project this is, it's so awesome!" Gao Yuxiang stopped moving, wiggling the mouse. "Where is it? Let me see!"

Holy crap, he managed to shatter Brother Ze's Dao Heart! That's awesome! Pingzi!
A few minutes later, Gao Yuxiang frowned as he looked at the project in front of him.

"Ah... so it's a project like this." Gao Yuxiang's tone made Ze Ge feel a little strange. "No wonder even you, Ze Ge, are planning to contribute code to it."

"Actually, I always felt that many of the open-source projects by Pingzi had nothing to do with me."

“I’m not a brain injury patient, I don’t own a dog, and I don’t need FORK… but this…” Gao Yuxiang said, “I remember when I was in high school… if there were such a program, many days would be much easier.”

Ze looked at Gao Yuxiang, opened his mouth as if to say something, but ultimately closed it.

Although she and Gao Yuxiang had been colleagues for many years, and she had always known that Gao Yuxiang was actually a rich second-generation heir who was working there purely as a paid job to help others, she had never imagined that Gao Yuxiang had such a past. She discovered that she didn't know Gao Yuxiang as well as she thought.

At this moment, an image flashed through her mind: the bright moon hung high, the mountain gate stood imposingly, and her reliable junior brother from the sect, who always stood silently behind her, suddenly stood with his hands behind his back, looking up at the moon. The spiritual spring at the mountain gate reflected his green robe, like a solitary, imposing mountain. His thoughts, like the sound of the spring, dissipated, reflecting the unbearable past...

"I should be able to do something... I should be able to do something," Gao Yuxiang murmured to himself, then turned around and started typing away, seemingly writing something.

A few hours later.

"User: SoaringGao submitted Pull Request #7: feat: Added community mutual assistance map module."

"Heh—" Gao Yuxiang looked up at the window.

I guess I've done something meaningful...

I never thought I, Gao Yuxiang, would be so sentimental.

Has that boy who used to fight rats for food in the alley grown up to be what he is today?
What a terrible future!
Memories were like a surging sea, engulfing him and leaving him silent for a very long time.

Then--

"Ding dong!"

"Damn it! That bastard Pingzi, he beat me back too!" Gao Yuxiang wailed, his eyes bloodshot from staying up all night.

"I think he wants to die!"

(End of this chapter)