We agreed not to date, so why are you crying now that I've become the richest man?

Ye Chen casually flipped through two pages.

"You can if you're interested."

"Define the requirements clearly first, so you don't end up adding a feature today and then changing your mind tomorrow."

Having worked as a programmer for over a decade in his previous life, he knew all too well what made this kind of project so troublesome.

Writing code is difficult, but that's not the most troublesome part.

The most troublesome thing is that the demand changes three times a day.

Even after all the revisions, the other party will still say something.

Isn't this something you can just add easily?

The things that are free are often the most expensive.

Professor Zhou understood his meaning and gave him a disapproving look.

"The project hasn't even started, and you're already taking precautions?"

"A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit."

"You're only eighteen, where did all these mistakes come from?"

Ye Chen smiled but didn't reply.

Professor Zhou put the test report into a file bag, but showed no sign of leaving.

He pulled over a chair and pointed to the chair opposite Ye Chen.

"sit down."

Ye Chen didn't stand on ceremony and casually dragged the chair closer.

"Is there another test?"

"Are you treating the academy like an exam hall?"

Professor Zhou glared at him.

"Passing the retest only proves that the program is currently usable."

"How to improve it, who gets the results, and how the school will use them all need to be discussed in advance."

Ye Chen nodded.

This is the important thing.

If the school only treats it as a class assignment, it's fine for him to hand it in casually.

However, once officially connected to the experimental center, subsequent maintenance, data security, and functional expansion will follow.

Then it can no longer be counted as classroom assignments.

We can discuss the amount of money.

The rules must be clearly written down first.

Footsteps sounded outside the door.

Xu Man, who had just left, turned back.

Ye Chen looked up and smiled:

"Is Teacher Xu reluctant to part with me?"

"I'm afraid you'll turn around and disappear again."

Xu Man walked to the table and sat down.

"You talk, I'm listening."

Professor Zhou did not ask them to leave.

"The college will not take the students' work for nothing."

"If the program is decided to be officially used, funding will be applied for according to the project process."

"Intellectual property rights, attribution, and scope of use will also be written into the agreement in advance."

Ye Chen looked at him.

"Does the school only want the right to use it?"

"That's the only decision we can make for now."

Professor Zhou tapped the file bag.

"Your program is not yet complete, and the college's project has not been approved."

"We'll discuss specific solutions after the leadership has reviewed the test results."

"Can."

Ye Chen agreed readily.

If the school is willing to follow the rules, he is naturally willing to cooperate.

Professor Zhou's expression softened when he saw that the man wasn't making exorbitant demands.

"You can mention any requests you have in advance."

This was exactly what Ye Chen was waiting for.

"I can continue to improve the program."

"Mobile web pages, appointments, permissions, and message notifications can also be added."

"If the school needs it, we can grant it priority authorization."

Xu Man glanced at him.

"and then?"

Ye Chen sat up a little straighter.

"Since the college is willing to discuss the project, I would also like to apply for a more flexible study arrangement."

The lab was silent for two seconds.

Xu Man's brows immediately furrowed.

"What do you mean?"

"Some courses allow me to not attend regularly."

Ye Chen explained:

"But I participated in all assignments, experiments, exams, and periodic assessments."

"If the grades are below the college's standards, the special arrangements will be cancelled immediately."

Xu Man closed the attendance book.

"You've only been enrolled for a few days, and you're already planning to skip classes for an extended period?"

"It's not that there are no classes, it's that classes are flexible."

"Does changing the wording alter the nature of the issue?"

Xu Man stared at him.

"Ye Chen, did you come to Jiaotong University to study, or do you just want a diploma?"

Her tone wasn't harsh, but it left Ye Chen no room to fool her.

Ye Chen also stopped joking.

"I came to Jiaotong University, of course, to study."

"But learning outcomes should not be judged solely by how many hours I spend in the classroom."

Xu Man directly retorted:

"Is university just about textbooks?"

"Are group activities, teamwork, and normal management all unimportant?"

"If every student has a special talent and is entitled to free access, what's the point of maintaining the college's rules?"

Ye Chen didn't rush to retort.

Xu Man was right.

The school cannot issue him a pass to skip classes at will just because he wrote a program.

If we do that, special training will turn into special care.

"Therefore, I did not demand unconditional freedom."

Ye Chen turned the test report on the table toward Xu Man.

"I can accept the additional assessments arranged by the college."

"If they don't meet the requirements, they will be managed like ordinary students."

"No matter how many classes you miss, we'll handle it accordingly."

Xu Man did not speak immediately.

This is not about using procedures to force the school to make concessions.

On the contrary, the conditions Ye Chen set for himself were even stricter than those for ordinary students.

Professor Zhou took off his glasses and asked the key question.

Why did you insist on arranging it this way?

Ye Chen remained silent for a moment.

There's no point in continuing to use "personal matters" as an excuse.

"I'm actually starting my own business right now, so I might be a little busy in the future."

Xu Man was clearly taken aback.

She took a closer look at the student in front of her.

Eighteen years old.

Freshman.

They probably haven't even memorized the course schedule yet, but they've already started talking to the college about the free time they need for starting a business.

"What are you doing?"

"The Internet".

Xu Man asked:

"Rent a room outside the school, how many people can build a website?"

She wasn't being sarcastic.

Because most of the student entrepreneurship she has seen is like this.

The project plan is to write several dozen pages.

The slogans were shouted loudly.

Three months later, they couldn't even afford the rent.

Ye Chen smiled.

"It's not convenient to disclose the scale at the moment."

"The company is just starting out. Although we have achieved some success, many things are still not stable."

Xu Man frowned even more deeply.

"If you want to apply for special arrangements, you should at least let the college know what you're actually doing, right?"

"You'll know when the time is right."

Ye Chen spoke calmly.

"The project is currently at a critical stage, and it is not convenient to disclose details about the product, business, and operations."

"Besides, there's no need to bring these things into the classroom to prove that I'm better than anyone else."

He showed no sign of being in a hurry to show off.

Xu Man stopped asking the follow-up questions she had prepared.

If it's just young people having wild ideas, they might as well try to make an international corporation out of a name that hasn't even been registered yet.

Ye Chen, however, was different.

He seemed to be deliberately suppressing something.

Professor Zhou couldn't help but recall the scene of Ye Chen writing the program yesterday.

Throughout the entire process, he never looked at the materials, never tried and failed repeatedly, and never wrote down whatever came to mind.

From feature implementation to user needs, permission allocation, and subsequent maintenance and practical application, he considered almost every detail.

Such sophistication should never be found in a young person who has just entered university.

"Entrepreneurship is also a direction encouraged by the school."

Professor Zhou put his glasses back on.

"If the situation is true, the college is not incapable of developing special training programs."