After being reborn, my sister insisted on marrying me.

UN General Assembly

College of Applied Arts and Sciences.

Startup base.

After the meeting ended, Liu Yang sent a WeChat message to Zhao Min, Senior Sister Li, and Senior Sister Wang.

"Don't go yet, there's a sweet ice cream shop across from the school, it's on me."

The four of them occupied a corner booth at the Sweet Ice Cream shop opposite the main gate of the university.

The store was quite busy on a weekend afternoon, mostly with students staying on campus, sitting in small groups around a few cups of lemonade and scrolling through their phones.

Liu Yang ordered four full cups of grapefruit wine and waited until the waiter had walked away before speaking.

"Before we get down to business, let me confirm something. Did any of you notice the change in Director Sun's expression during today's meeting?"

"I noticed." Zhao Min stuck the straw into the cup. "When Ta Ge was in a meeting, he had a straight face the whole time and didn't even open his laptop. When Xin Yi was in a meeting, he seemed to want to break the computer screen in half to use it."

Senior Wang adjusted her glasses. "IDG invests in TMT, and they basically don't touch the tea beverage sector before. There are only two possibilities for Director Sun's initiative to lead the investment today. Either he received a last-minute instruction from Lin Donghe, or he saw someone in the meeting room who made him change his mind."

"Wu Zhenhe," Senior Sister Li said succinctly.

"Yes." Liu Yang put down his cup. "IDG's overall size consistently ranks among the top five investment institutions nationwide, and they just raised a five billion US dollar pan-Asian fund last year. Who exactly is this Mr. Wu, the investment director of an institution of this caliber, to change his mind?"

The four people looked at each other and fell silent.

All I know is that she used to be a customer of Xinyi Beauty Salon.

Zhao Min tried hard to recall, "Later, I don't know how I got close to Xin Yi, and then I directly became a shareholder of Xin Yi. I invested 40 million, but only got 30%, without even discussing any performance-based clauses. This isn't an investment, this is practically giving out freebies."

"And that Sulei."

Senior Wang chimed in, "The general manager of Tage. I used to think she was just an ordinary vice president of the student union at the university, but today I heard her talking to people from IDG about valuation models, and she talked even more fluently than Director Sun. Thank goodness that round face gave her the opportunity to be down-to-earth, otherwise I doubt she could be the CEO at an office building management meeting."

"These two women seem to be connected to Xinyi's brother." As soon as Senior Sister Li said this, the four of them fell silent again.

Liu Yang leaned back in his chair and slowly traced a circle with his finger along the rim of the cup.

"Two months ago in Zhichun Dongli, Wei Yi stood in front of the coffee table and talked to us about the tea beverage industry. That's when I realized that this guy really seems to have some talent. Later, when Tage raised funds and Heytea expanded, I just watched from afar and thought he was lucky to have a good older sister leading the charge."

"Sigh..." she sighed deeply, "But today, when Wu Zhenhe sat down in the conference room, the IDG people immediately turned around, and I suddenly realized something."

She paused. "Xinyi was able to achieve this scale so quickly because she has someone by her side whom we've never truly understood."

Zhao Min flattened the straw. "You mean, we're falling behind them now?"

"It's not just a matter of not being able to keep up anymore," Liu Yang shook his head, a hint of emotion in his voice. "It's that we can barely see their taillights anymore."

The booth remained quiet for a while.

A catchy Korean song was playing in the ice cream shop. Students were coming and going with their cups in hand, and no one noticed the complex expressions on the faces of the four girls in the corner.

"Alright, meeting adjourned."

Liu Yang stood up and threw the empty cup into the trash can. "I just wanted to make sure I wasn't the only one who felt like I was being crushed."

"Now that everything's confirmed, let's get back to work. Whether we can keep up or not is another matter, but we can't let our work drop. At least we're still at the table."

at the same time.

Chen Xinyi had just driven her Porsche Cayman out of the United University parking lot.

Her phone vibrated.

She parked her car on the side of the road, took out her phone, and saw a message pop up on WeChat. The contact name was "Dear Little Siyan". Clicking on it revealed a short video.

She tapped the video.

In the video, Lin Siyan is sitting in the passenger seat of a BMW X5.

The camera was pointed directly at her own leg and the hand with its distinct knuckles.

The hand belonged to Wei Yi, because it was wearing the same ring as hers.

His hand was resting on her thigh in a very natural manner.

Touch, knead, pinch, slide...

No sound.

Only actions.

Chen Xinyi watched the video twice, her lips curling into an uncontrollable smile.

"What are you laughing at on your phone all by yourself?" Kim Se-rin leaned over from the passenger seat and immediately noticed the image on the screen.

Jin Jie's eyes widened instantly. "Wait a minute. This is Si Yan? Si Yan took this picture on her own initiative? Who's touching her leg? Wei Yi?"

"uh-huh."

Chen Xinyi handed her the phone so she could see for herself. "You've made great progress. You've evolved from secretly taking pictures of others to taking pictures of yourself, and the angles are much better than last time. Yesterday you were secretly taking pictures, but now you dare to take pictures openly."

Kim Se-rin took the phone and watched the video, her expression as complicated as if she had just taken a bite of wasabi-flavored ice cream.

"Your Lin Siyan, wasn't she the most aloof one before? Now she's actually..." She wanted to say, "How could you have turned her into this?"

But I didn't dare say it.

Because she felt she had also been transferred.

"What do you mean by 'your family'? It's our family."

After correcting her tone, Chen Xinyi suddenly became very emotional, "My Siyan has finally gotten the hang of it. It wasn't easy to take this step. I'll have to ask Aunt Zheng to cook some of her favorite dishes to celebrate."

Jin Shilin rolled her eyes and was about to return the phone to her.

But my thumb accidentally swiped into the WeChat chat list.

Just as she was about to close the app, she caught a glimpse of several nicknames out of the corner of her eye.

These nicknames all have a very consistent format, starting with "To be investigated".

It is followed by a number.

Number one, number two, number three, number four, number five...

They were lined up neatly in a row.

At that moment, Kim Se-rin's curiosity overcame her reason.

She turned her phone back and looked at it again to make sure she hadn't miscounted.

One, two, three, four, five... at least twenty more to be investigated.

What is this thing?

Kim Se-rin endured it for a long time after the car started moving.

She was still holding back when the car turned onto Chaoyang Park West Road, but she couldn't hold it in any longer when the car reached the entrance of the Palm Springs community.

"Xinyi".

"Um?"

"What do you mean by those 'friends to be evaluated' in your phone?"

"Sister Se-rin, you're looking at my phone!"

"I didn't! I saw it by accident when you showed it to me!"

"Haha, I don't have any secrets, I'm not afraid to tell you."

Chen Xinyi spoke casually, her smile relaxed and at ease, "It's just what it sounds like."

"Who is number one?"

"It used to be Sister Wu."

Kim Se-rin was silent for a moment. "So, what's it now?"

Chen Xinyi smiled, her peach blossom eyes sparkling. "A doctor."