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The top floor of the Gao Group headquarters, the chairman's office.

Gao Tianxiong had just finished a multinational video conference. Rubbing his throbbing temples, he casually opened his private email.

Normally, this place is filled with greetings from old friends or bills from that good-for-nothing son, but today, an email with a glaring title made him stop what he was doing.

Stock price fluctuations?

Out of professional instinct, he opened the email.

The first picture that catches the eye is a transfer receipt for a staggering 1.6 million.

Payee: Lin Ruyu. Remarks: None.

This was followed by several screenshots from the forum.

"Young Master Gao is so generous! He's definitely the one who'll take over!"

"That school beauty Lin is quite cunning. She dumped Bai Jingyou, and now someone's bringing her money right after."

"The Gao family has paid a bit too much of a 'stupidity tax,' spending 1.6 million just for a smile?"

The further down Gao Tianxiong looked, the darker his face became.

There's even a photo of Gao Beining hugging a giant blue rose in the classroom, fawning over a girl like a fool, while the girl's eyes held little affection, only the smug satisfaction of having succeeded in her scheme.

"You bastard!"

Gao Tianxiong slammed his hand on the solid wood table, causing the valuable purple clay teapot to bounce.

The family fortune he worked so hard to build is not meant for this fool to use to pay for the mistakes of this kind of woman!

It even caused a huge uproar, making the Gao family the laughingstock of the town!

He grabbed the intercom on the table, but slammed it down before even dialing. He then pulled out his personal cell phone and dialed the number that had sent his blood pressure soaring.

At this moment, in a high-end digital mall.

Gao Beining pointed to the top-of-the-line laptop in the counter, looking quite smug: "This one, no need for a screen protector, just put it in a bag."

Lin Ruyu stood beside him, linking her arm with his, her face beaming with undisguised joy: "Beining, this is too expensive. I don't really need something this nice..."

"What are you saying? Your stuff has to be the best." Gao Beining was about to take out his card when his phone vibrated in his pocket.

Upon seeing it was the old man, his heart skipped a beat. He gestured for Lin Ruyu to be quiet, then answered the phone, adopting a docile tone: "Hello, Dad, it's so late and you're still..."

"You wicked child! Shut up!"

The roar coming from the receiver was so loud that even the sales assistant next to him was startled.

"Dad? What's wrong?" Gao Beining looked completely bewildered.

"You still have the nerve to ask what happened? 1.6 million! Are you rich and have nothing better to do? Settling accounts for that woman surnamed Lin? Do you think you're a savior, or do you think my money comes from thin air?"

Gao Beining's mind went blank, and cold sweat instantly broke out.

How did the old man find out so quickly?

"Dad, please let me explain, it was a loan..."

"Borrow my ass! I think you've got shit in your head!" Gao Tianxiong didn't give him a chance to speak. "Gao Beining, let me tell you, from this second onwards, all your credit cards and supplementary cards are frozen! All your allowance will be stopped!"

"Dad! No! I'm outside..."

"Either you get back to the company right now, start as a security guard, and cut all ties with that woman! Or you get out of the Gao family. Don't even mention being my son, Gao Tianxiong's son! I can't afford to lose face like that!"

beep...

The phone hangs up.

Gao Beining's hand was shaking as she held her phone.

He knew the old man's temper all too well; if he said he would suspend the card, he was absolutely not joking.

"Sir?" The sales assistant had already packed up the computer and handed it to the POS machine with both hands. "That'll be 36,800 in total. Will you be paying by card?"

The air suddenly became quiet.

Lin Ruyu looked at Gao Beining, and the admiration and expectation in her eyes gradually cooled as Gao Beining's movements became stiff.

"Um..." Gao Beining swallowed, not daring to look Lin Ruyu in the eye, "Ruyu, it seems like there's something wrong with my card. It's reached its spending limit."

"A spending limit?" Lin Ruyu raised an eyebrow. "Don't you have a black card? Black cards also have spending limits?"

"No, it's my dad... He might have misunderstood something and suspended the card." Gao Beining tried to salvage the situation, "How about this, we buy it another day? I'll go back and explain to the old man, and I'll definitely buy it for you tomorrow."

Lin Ruyu let go of his hand.

She took a half step back and looked Gao Beining up and down as if she were seeing him for the first time.

"Gao Beining, do you think I have a lot of free time?" Lin Ruyu's voice was cold, lacking its usual softness. "You called me out, had a meal at that ridiculously expensive restaurant that I didn't even like, then brought me here to look at computers, and now you're telling me you have no money?"

"It's not that we don't have the money! It's just temporarily frozen!" Gao Beining exclaimed anxiously, "You know how I feel about you, I even have that 1.6 million..."

"That 1.6 million was your own choice; I didn't force you," Lin Ruyu interrupted him, smoothing her hair. "Besides, it was something you offered to show off your strength. Now you can't even afford a computer; it seems your Gao family isn't all that great after all."

"Ruyu, how can you say that?" Gao Beining said in disbelief.

"Then what am I supposed to say? Should I praise you for being a good boy who listens to his father?" Lin Ruyu scoffed, her contempt undisguised. "I thought you were different from Bai Jingyou, but it turns out you men are all the same. All you do is make empty promises and then fail when it matters."

After saying that, she turned and walked away, her high heels clicking crisply and resolutely on the marble floor.

"Ruyu! Listen to me!"

Gao Beining wanted to pursue her, but her phone received a WeChat notification.

The message has been sent, but the recipient has rejected it.

Red exclamation mark.

blocked.

Gao Beining stood there, watching the departing figure, feeling a burning pain on his face, even more painful than when the old man had scolded him earlier.

……

In an old office building on the outskirts of the city.

This is Fengqi Technology's temporary office, with tangled wires and leftover instant noodle boxes scattered all over the floor.

The air was filled with the distinctive stench of someone who had been staying up all night.

Bai Jingyou sat in the only clean chair, opposite a young man with messy hair and thick-rimmed glasses.

"Mr. Bai...you're not joking, are you?" The young man, Zhao Feng, the founder of Fengqi Technology, was staring intently at the contract on the table, his hands trembling slightly.

"I never joke around." Bai Jingyou pointed to the terms in the contract, "Three million for 70% of your company's shares. Plus, I'll become your chief strategic advisor."

Zhao Feng swallowed hard. "But... Blue Ocean Intelligence has already secured funding from Hongye Capital, and their product is about to enter mass production. Our current technology is still stuck on the navigation algorithm. Aren't you worried about wasting your investment?"

Bai Jingyou smiled and leaned forward: "Zhao Feng, Blue Ocean Intelligence is indeed moving fast, but they've taken the wrong path. They rely too much on LiDAR navigation, which prevents them from reducing costs. The visual navigation solution you're developing, while currently lacking in accuracy, can be improved when combined with this..."

He took a folded piece of paper out of his pocket and pushed it over.

The paper contains a simple architecture diagram, which represents a certain idea about a multi-sensor fusion algorithm.

This is the core technical point that Bai Jingyou extracted from the later plot of the original work, and it is also the key to Fengqi Technology's later turnaround.

Zhao Feng pushed up his glasses and leaned closer to take a look.

A minute later, he suddenly looked up, his dejection vanishing and replaced by fervor: "This...this idea! Genius! Absolutely genius! If this is the case, we can completely bypass the patent barriers of the blue ocean market and reduce costs by half!"

He was so excited he was incoherent, looking at Bai Jingyou as if he were a god: "Mr. Bai, are you also in the tech field?"

"I know a little." Bai Jingyou didn't want to explain too much. "So, are you signing?"

"Sign! Sign it now!" Zhao Feng didn't even bother to read the breach of contract clauses carefully before grabbing the pen and signing his name.

With money and such god-like technical guidance, only a fool wouldn't sign.

Bai Jingyou put away the contract and walked out of the dilapidated building.

The night breeze was cool, dispelling the smell of smoke from my clothes.

My phone vibrated. It was a message from Li Yan: "[Boss, someone just saw Gao Beining arguing with Lin Ruyu at the electronics mall. It seems Lin Ruyu dumped him; Gao Beining's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. It's hilarious.]"

Bai Jingyou smiled slightly, replied with an emoji, and then tossed his phone back into the passenger seat.

Meanwhile, at the Gao family villa.

Gao Beining sat on the sofa, dejected, like a defeated rooster.

He didn't dare to confront the old man head-on, so he could only resort to roundabout tactics.

"Dad, calm down." Gao Beining poured Gao Tianxiong a cup of tea, smiling apologetically. "Actually, it's not what you think. I lent that money to a classmate in an emergency, and I'm not dating that Lin Ruyu. We just had a meal together as ordinary friends..."

He was thinking that as long as he could appease the old man and unfreeze the card, he could buy an even more expensive bag to appease Lin Ruyu and then this matter could be put behind him.

After all, the old man is usually busy and doesn't have time to care about such trivial matters. He must have heard some gossip.

"Just friends?"

Gao Tianxiong sneered, and his gaze made Gao Beining feel uneasy.

"Would you spend 1.6 million for a regular friend? Would you get into a fight with someone outside the school gate for a regular friend?"

"Dad, it's just a rumor..." Gao Beining was still stubbornly insisting.

Gao Tianxiong was too lazy to waste words with him, so he simply threw the printed email content in his face.

With a clatter, the papers scattered all over the floor.

Gao Beining looked down and saw the photo of herself delivering flowers in the classroom, as well as the crystal-clear bank transfer slip.

Especially considering the email was sent just two hours ago.

His face turned deathly pale instantly.

This is not just idle gossip; someone is targeting him!

And they're using solid evidence to destroy him!

"Dad, who...who sent this?" Gao Beining's voice was trembling.

"Does that matter?" Gao Tianxiong pointed at his nose. "What matters is the stupid things you've done! You were used as a pawn and you were even enjoying it! How could I, Gao Tianxiong, with such a stellar reputation, have given birth to such a pig-brain like you!"

Gao Beining slumped to the ground, his mind a jumbled mess.

He couldn't figure it out.

Only he and Lin Ruyu knew the transfer records, and at most the bank.

As for the forum incident, it only happened in the afternoon, so how come it was summarized on the old man's desk in the evening?

who is it?

Bai Jingyou?

Impossible. Bai Jingyou doesn't plan to pursue Lin Ruyu anymore, so why would he mess with himself?

"Starting tomorrow, you'll be reporting to the logistics department." Gao Tianxiong issued his ultimatum, then got up and went upstairs. "If I find out you dare contact that woman again, or dare to use a single penny of the family's money, you're getting out of the country and never coming back!"

Gao Beining was left alone in the living room, his fists clenched tightly as he looked at the evidence scattered on the floor.

No money, dumped, scolded, grounded.

Overnight, everything changed.

Meanwhile, Bai Jingyou was driving along the coastal highway, humming an unknown tune, in a rather pleasant mood.

Some people will never know pain unless they are made to fall hard.

But this is not enough.

Bai Jingyou glanced at the city night view in the rearview mirror.

This is nothing.