"I know you want to stand up for your lady, but if you don’t mind, how about entrusting this glorious task to me?" Jiang Chen, watching the TV, turned his head slightly. Mao Tu’s soft lips moved a little. "Your lady has helped me a lot, and last time when the Tokyo police took me away, wasn’t it you guys who saved me?" "Jiang Chen, I admit I despised you before, but from now on, you are a friend of mine, Mao Tu." What a great honor it is. Jiang Chen glanced at the pink handgun. Mao Tu immediately put it away, someone like her wouldn’t resort to grand statements, so she simply said, "Call me when you fight in the future." All the camaraderie was contained in those six words. If it’s solo, it’s pretty unbeatable. The grateful Boss Jiang lifted his head and gently patted Mao Tu’s head. Mao Tu just stared at him without moving. "You guys continue watching." Jiang Chen stood up, exhaled slightly as he turned, then nodded to Tanki Liuli as he walked out. Inside the luxury sedan. Bai Zheli and Fang Qing led the Tianci team, having just finished a "meeting" with Jiuding Group, and were on their way to the Peninsula Hotel. "Your Brother Chen’s business is getting bigger and bigger." Fang Qing remarked softly. The scale of Jiuding Group is something, even if not in Shenzhou, that anyone with some worldly experience on earth is well aware of. "Back in university, I knew someone like Brother Chen was bound to succeed." Bai Zheli declared firmly, appearing like a fanboy with complete confidence in someone. Someone like Brother Chen. Back during university, what exactly was his Brother Chen "like"? "Why don’t you say you thought he was extraordinary the first day you saw him at school, like a dragon in a pond?" Fang Qing teased. Bai Zheli adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, "Sister Fang Qing, you’ve known Brother Chen since childhood, so you must have known he’d make a name for himself, right?" Fang Qing smiled, "I never thought that far. I just felt that with his abilities, it wouldn’t be difficult to establish himself in society, but his current achievements..." It couldn’t be described as just surprising anymore. It was way beyond her imagination. The biggest space she imagined was that through persistent effort, maybe in eight or ten years, he could buy a house in a city like East Sea, live comfortably, and be seen as a successful person by Shacheng people. "Sister Fang Qing, you don’t seem very happy?" Bai Zheli looked at the serene face. Having a friend with such dazzling achievements would surely make one proud, but pride and happiness are two different things. He could sense that Jiang Chen’s childhood friend didn’t have strong feelings of delight. "The greater the achievement, the greater the responsibility. Who do you think is more tired, an office worker from nine to five in a skyscraper or your Brother Chen?" Bai Zheli was slightly taken aback, not expecting the other person to consider this issue. Not even childhood friends. Not to mention parents, they mostly just hope their children become successful. What kind of relationship would care not about how high you fly, but about whether flying is tiring? After a moment of silence, Bai Zheli softly said, "Office workers in skyscrapers are also very tired. Some of the junior employees in the company even have other side jobs besides work, although the form of exhaustion may be different." Fang Qing nodded, "You’ve got a point too." "Is it your first time dealing with a company like Jiuding Group?" Fang Qing then changed the topic. "Yeah, of course it’s the first time, after all, there aren’t many companies like Jiuding Group in the country." "But why do I feel like you don’t seem pressured?" "Why should I feel pressured?" Bai Zheli smiled, "Our Tianci is not bad either." He used to be shy, but not all shyness equates to inferiority. On the contrary, maybe only dormmates like Jiang Chen, Luo Peng, and Li Shao, who slept in the same room, know that this youngest who seems shyer than girls is actually quite confident, if not arrogant, on the inside! Back in university, besides his infamous reputation, Boss Jiang also had a label: academic genius. After all, if he relied solely on charm, without other traits, how could he attract the best-looking girl in the class back then? But even Boss Jiang, in university, would always speak humbly when mentioning the youngest, Xiao Bai. Poverty indeed makes it hard to hold one’s head up, but go to those top-notch universities, and perhaps some students may dress simply, but their postures are always straight and confident. "Sister Fang Qing, Jiuding Group is indeed much bigger than us, but think about it, how long have we just started?" Fang Qing’s eyes showed surprise. She met him once in Dong University, and now as colleagues, she just realized how ambitious he is. "As long as we have enough time, I believe Tianci can definitely become a company like Jiuding." Fortunately, he only said like Jiuding, not surpass. She now understands that Jiang Chen’s dormitory is filled with uniquely talented individuals... "Maybe your Brother Chen doesn’t have as much confidence as you do." Fang Qing smiled, "Jiuding Group’s development model isn’t something that can be easily replicated." Even though she studied law, it doesn’t mean she’s clueless about business. Besides, the gap between state-owned and private enterprises is obvious. "Of course Jiuding’s model can’t be copied, but there isn’t just one path to success; all roads lead to Rome." Bai Zheli adjusted his glasses, "I want to build a company that truly relies on its own strength, so I don’t envy Jiuding Group at all." Fang Qing’s smile widened, "So you think Jiuding Group doesn’t rely on its own strength?" Bai Zheli pursed his lips, "Sister Fang Qing, you know what I mean." "But I’m not a business major, how would I know?" Fang Qing said with a smile, "How about enlightening me?" Bai Zheli deliberated, probably considering how to phrase it appropriately. "Sister Fang Qing, have you ever taken a high-speed train?" "Yeah, I’ve taken it." "A new conductor selling ice cream on a high-speed train walked from the front to the back three times without selling a single ice cream. So he had no choice but to find the train conductor to explain the reason, saying they couldn’t set the price too high even in summer. After hearing this, the train conductor didn’t say anything, he just turned off all the air conditioning in the car, and let the conductor sell the ice cream again; this time not even a full round, all the ice creams were sold out." Fang Qing seemed to be pondering. "The second time, the train conductor told the conductor to sell instant noodles, with the price still set high. This time, the train conductor turned the car’s temperature to the lowest, and sure enough, before long, all the instant noodles were sold out." Having said that, Bai Zheli paused. "If the high-speed train was stopped, couldn’t you sell the passengers anything and they’d buy it?" Fang Qing extrapolated. "Sister Fang Qing, don’t overthink, I’m just talking about a macroeconomic problem." Bai Zheli said seriously. Fang Qing nodded, "Easy to understand, no wonder your Brother Chen always praises you, saying you’re indeed more capable than him." Bai Zheli couldn’t help but laugh, "Brother Chen taught you too?" Fang Qing immediately shook her head, "He wouldn’t teach me this stuff." "Then what would Brother Chen teach Sister Fang Qing?" Bai Zheli was curious and asked an additional question inadvertently. Fang Qing stayed silent, but didn’t share the little anecdotes between her and someone, and after a while, laughed lightly for some unknown reason and said. "Tie Sheng, let’s go play soccer." If not mistaken, that afternoon at the East University Library, what she seemed to be reading was "I and the Earth Temple." An extensively well-read Bai Zheli froze, then couldn’t stop himself from bursting into laughter.