Cultivation Shura Field

Xu Zhe's angry voice rang out from the phone: "You woke me up at four in the morning. You deliberately didn't want me to grow taller, did you?"

Being woken up at this time would make anyone angry. But Shen Lan wanted to be willful just this once because she had something to say.

"I'm sorry, but...thank you."

Xu Zhe was puzzled: "Thank you for what?"

Shen Lan: "I have a lot to thank you for. Because I just dreamed about you."

This was a lie, but Shen Lan felt that it was not a lie in a sense. Because the reason why the dream just now turned out like that was because he was not there. There was no him in the dream, but he was everywhere around the dream.

Xu Zhe was silent for a moment and said, "I didn't dream. I slept soundly."

Shen Lan: "I'm sorry...I'll find a way to make it up to you tomorrow?"

Xu Zhe: "How are you going to compensate me?"

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Hold on, another chapter...

163. Chapter 163 162 Everything is afraid of comparison

163.

2023-09-22

Being woken up by a phone call in the middle of the night was naturally very unpleasant. However, the anger came and went quickly. When Xu Zhe woke up the next morning, he had forgotten about it.

But in the morning, when Shen Lan came to his house again, she really brought a gift.

"Is this... a wallet?"

Xu Zhe carefully looked at the gift that the girl had just handed to him. It was a black wallet that felt smooth in the hand and had a very simple design, with only a string of golden letters on the corner of the trademark. When he opened it, he saw that there were plenty of places for cards and banknotes.

Shen Lan clasped her hands together and said, "I'm sorry for waking you up so late yesterday."

"Why did you call..." Xu Zhe recalled, "Oh yeah, you said you were dreaming, right?"

Shen Lan nodded: "I had a dream."

Xu Zhe: "I appeared in the dream? What role did I play?"

Shen Lan smiled, but only answered with one word: "Secret."

Xu Zhe: "..."

Shen Lan: "Okay, take a look at this wallet. Are you satisfied? I noticed that although you have made a lot of money, you don't carry much cash with you. Is it because you don't have a wallet?"

Of course, it’s because I didn’t need to carry banknotes in my previous life, and as a junior high school student in this life, I usually only spend some change at most, so I don’t need a wallet for a few dollars or tens of dollars.

But at this time Xu Zhe still smiled and said: "This wallet is very good, thank you. But how much is it?"

Shen Lan: "You don't need to know this. It's not expensive anyway."

Xu Zhe: "I'm the boss, you're working for me. It's fine that you don't want to be paid for the trial period, but you're buying things for me? Are you doing charity?"

Shen Lan smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. Anyway, I'll have plenty of opportunities here in the future."

Xu Zhe: "A chance to get money from me?"

Shen Lan shook her head slightly but said nothing more.

The girl's beautiful smile made Xu Zhe want to ask her what she dreamed about last night and what he did in her dream - but seeing her like this, Xu Zhe knew he couldn't ask her, so he shook off the unnecessary thoughts and returned to the computer.

Shen Lan sat down beside him and watched him start working again.

After being busy for an unknown period of time, Xu Zhe suddenly saw a glass of water in front of him.

Xu Zhe turned his head and looked at her.

Shen Lan shrugged: "It's hard to help with programming for now, so I can only serve tea and water."

Xu Zhe picked up the water cup and said, "Thank you."

While he was resting, Shen Lan suddenly asked, "You told me last night that you wanted to create something. So, besides games, what else do you want to create?"

Xu Zhe: "I remember telling you about it at the beginning."

Shen Lan blinked: "Yes, but can I listen to it again?"

Xu Zhe: “Just making games, investing in some apps, and developing AI and so on.”

Shen Lan: "More details?"

Xu Zhe hesitated for a moment and shook his head: "Forget about the details. I feel more and more that it is better to say less before things are done. I don't need to paint a rosy picture for investors, so there is no need to talk about those things in depth all the time."

Shen Lan did not ask any more questions, but just felt a little regretful: "Okay, let's all continue working!"

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Shen Lan wanted to hear Xu Zhe talk about his entrepreneurial blueprint again. It seemed like a completely different future that could drive away the dream she had last night from her mind.

She didn't want to feel that withering loneliness again, even if it was only in her dreams.

But since Xu Zhe didn't want to make empty promises, she certainly didn't want to force him. Moreover, this attitude of "it's better to say less before it's done" made her like him more and more.

If it were another boy, he would be so arrogant if he made a game that could be launched online in his teens and earned hundreds of thousands of dollars. But what about Xu Zhe? Such an amazing achievement seemed like a trivial matter to him. Not only did he not get arrogant, but he became more down-to-earth...

At night, when she finished a day's work and returned home, Shen Lan was still thinking about him.

She had heard that adolescent girls were often more mature than boys of the same age, and she was two years older than Xu Zhe. But now she felt that Xu Zhe was much more mature and stable than she was. She had always looked down on boys of the same age, but now she was completely crushed by him.

Suddenly, the door opened again, and it was my father who came back home.

Father Shen saw his daughter sitting on the sofa in a daze and asked, "What are you doing?"

Shen Lan turned her head and stared at him, asking, "How much money can our billiard hall make in a month at most?"

Father: "One month? The maximum is probably more than 10,000."

Shen Lan: "If one day you make hundreds of thousands a month, what will your reaction be?"

The father shrank his neck back and said, "One hundred thousand a month, I'm worried about the police coming to investigate. If you don't do anything illegal, how can you make hundreds of thousands of yuan a month? Do you think money will fall from the sky?"

Shen Lan shook her head slightly: "I just want you to imagine how you would react if you could make so much money."

My father thought for a moment and said with a smile, "We'll have two tables for the Manchu-Han banquet. We'll eat at one table and watch at the other."

Shen Lan: “?”

Father: "Buy two sets of Pierre Cardin, tear one and patch the hole in the other!"

Shen Lan: "..."

My father waved his hand and said, "Don't take it seriously. I'm just kidding."

Shen Lan: "I know you are joking, I just want to ask, if you have so much money, what would you do?"

The father said matter-of-factly, "What else can we do? We have to spend money! Buy a new motorcycle, go out to eat something we couldn't afford before. Isn't that what we do when we have money?"

Shen Lan: "Don't you want to make more money?"

Father: "You have to know clearly that there are ways to make money. As for education, I have a very high education in our generation, and I have seen a lot of the world. But if you don't have connections and family background, you are really lucky to make hundreds of thousands of yuan a month. Don't think too much, buy a house when you should buy a house, buy a car when you should buy a car."

Shen Lan murmured: "Connections, family background..."

She knew very well that Xu Zhe had nothing to do with these things. He made hundreds of thousands of dollars a month by himself. And compared to the blueprint Xu Zhe had drawn at the beginning, this was just the beginning.

Thinking of this, the girl suddenly felt that no one in the world could compare to Xu Zhe.

Father Shen suddenly realized something was wrong and asked, "What are you thinking about? Why do you look like you've been drugged?"

"What kind of love potion?" Shen Lan curled her lips. "Okay, I'm going to bed. You should get some rest too."

Father Shen: "Can you help me look after the store tomorrow——"

"No, I have something important to do!"

Shen Lan stood up, quickly returned to her room and closed the door again.

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"What is Xu Zhe doing recently?"

That night, Song Xingye suddenly asked this question while talking to her best friend on the phone.

Tang Lingfei: "He seems to be making games. I called him twice and he said he was busy making games and had no time to play with me."

Song Xingye realized a blind spot: "You just called him and asked him, didn't you go to his house to check?"

Tang Lingfei said as a matter of course: "It doesn't make any difference. He said he doesn't have time, so he doesn't have time. I asked him more than once, but he said he was busy and had no time at all."

Song Xingye asked, "But you used to go to his house to see him often, why didn't you go these two days?"

Tang Lingfei: "Because he gave me a cell phone, I wanted to use it more often. Besides you, he's the only person I can contact with my cell phone, so I called him..."

Song Xingye was speechless for a moment.

She asked herself, if she were in Tang Lingfei's position, as Xu Zhe's childhood sweetheart, she would definitely seize every opportunity to do small things. Since she would be rejected if she called him, she should go to his house and spend more time with him under the pretext of playing PSP or something like that!

But then Tang Lingfei added: "And he also lent me his PSP, which is now on my bedside!"

Song Xingye sighed silently. She really didn't know whether she should criticize Feifei harshly or be thankful for her competitor's slowness.

She said, "Have you ever considered that it's summer vacation now and someone will come back?"

Tang Lingfei: "Who is it... Oh, Senior Sister Shen Lan!!!"

Song Xingye couldn't help but cover her face: "Did you just think of this? I thought you would be on guard against her!"

Tang Lingfei finally understood: "When Xu Zhe said he was busy, could it be that Senior Sister Shen Lan asked him out to play?"

Song Xingye: "That's why I told you to go to his house and take a look..."

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164. Chapter 164 163 A little shock to the senior sister

164.

2023-09-22

Xu Zhe is very satisfied recently.

The game development went smoothly. With the experience from the last time, he now knew better how to avoid pitfalls and how to use tools to improve efficiency. Although Shen Lan lacked experience, she was gradually able to help with some technical difficulties.

Their life outside of work soon became a fixed pattern. He was responsible for cooking, including lunch and dinner, while Shen Lan was responsible for washing vegetables before cooking and washing dishes after meals.

Boiled beef, boiled fish fillet, spicy chicken... There are always at least two spicy dishes in every meal. Shen Lan is quite satisfied with the food.

But on this afternoon, two uninvited little guests came to the house.

When the doorbell rang, Xu Zhe paused his work and got up to open the door. Then, he saw Tang Lingfei and Song Xingye standing at the door.

"Why are you here?" he asked subconsciously.

Tang Lingfei said with a smile: "I came to play with you! My parents bought me a new kite, do you want to fly it?"

Xu Zhe shook his head slightly: "Forget it, I have something else to do."

Tang Lingfei looked at Song Xingye, and Song Xingye shook his head very slightly, and moved his little mouth a few times, as if to say 'I said no' or something like that.

Then, it was Song Xingye's turn to speak: "Actually, Feifei and I were a little bored, so I wanted to find you. It doesn't matter if you are busy with work. Can we watch TV at your house?"

Xu Zhe was a little confused: "Feifei's family also has a TV, and the PSP is in Feifei's hand."

Song Xingye pursed her lips, lowered her head slightly and stared at him: "We both feel a little lonely, so we want to be with you... It's okay, you continue to be busy, we will turn down the TV volume, and we will just check on you occasionally, so as not to disturb your work."

These words were said so pitifully that Xu Zhe had no way of refusing.

So he said, "Come in then."

Song Xingye and Tang Lingfei looked at each other again, with a hint of smug smile in their eyes.

But once they entered the door, no one was proud anymore.

Because when I entered the room and changed my shoes, that dangerous senior schoolmate suddenly came out from the study!

Shen Lan came out of the study and waved: "Hello."