Xi Gu, accompanied by Ye Zhen, drove his assistant’s small SMAT to keep a low profile. Hiding in the alley behind RongCheng’s headquarters, he called Rong Cheng Jue ten times, but the other party hung up mercilessly.

“Grandson, it’s you who forced me!” He took off his mask and kicked the door open as if he was desperate to fight someone.

Ye Zhen hastily stopped him, “Xigu, if he doesn’t have time today, forget it—”

“How can I let it go?” Xi Gu said angrily, “I will be a good person to the end and send you to the Western Paradise.”

“……What you want to say is ‘Send Buddha to the West’, right?”

[TL/N: 送佛送到西, which literally says sending the Buddha to the furthest of the West. It means finishing a task given and not giving up in the middle. Western Paradise is where Buddha resides.]

“It’s all the same!”

What is the same, there is a big difference, okay? She felt sorry for herself. But while she was in a trance, Xi Gu had already rushed into the building. The guards didn’t stop him. It seemed they were not too surprised.

It seemed like this was not the first time the big star had done something like this. Speechless, Ye Zhen pulled out the car key for him and quickly followed him.

Xi Gu rushed to the front desk of the building, ignoring the onlookers, and said to the beautiful girl at the front desk, “I want to see that bastard!”

“Please wait a moment,” the beautiful girl began, without even blinking her eyes, showing great professionalism. After a while, she whispered, “Mr. Xi, the president’s office said the president is in a meeting and it’s not convenient to see you.”

“Let him pick up the phone,” Xi Gu said with a mischievous smile, ” Tell him if he doesn’t pick up the phone, he’ll be responsible for the consequences.”

The girl’s cheeks flushed at his flirtation. She lowered her head to make a phone call, then handed the phone to him. But Xi Gu didn’t answer it. He directly pressed the speaker and said, “Grandson, let me go upstairs!”

“Bastard, I warn you,” said Rong Cheng Jue, who had a stronger momentum than him. “Don’t always threaten brother with stuff from our childhood. In the worst case, we can just die together!”

“Tch, you are still so childish. Thank me for bringing your woman here.”

“Haha, my woman, why don’t I know that I have a woman?” said Rong Cheng Jue, bursting into laughter. “Grandson, did someone cheat you? Did she tell you that she is pregnant with my child? Hahaha, if you want to take care of it, I can only congratulate you on becoming a father. Hahahaha—”

Rong Cheng Jue’s attitude made Xi Gu a little confused. He looked at Ye Zhen with uncertainty. Ye Zhen cleared her throat, picked up the microphone and turned off the speaker, “Hello, President. I’m Ye Zhen.”

The person on the other side was stunned for five seconds and then said, “Why are you here? Didn’t the appointment letter from Hua University say that you would start in a week?”

No wonder the person on the other end of the phone seemed to know her from yesterday. It turned out that he had read the letter of appointment beforehand. Ye Zhen wanted to find out the cause and effect. As she was about to express her predicament, the person on the other end of the phone continued, “Since you are here, just come upstairs. Um, wait. Come up in five minutes. I’ll need to prepare something.” Then he hung up.

Ye Zhen hung up the phone and said to Xi Gu, “He said he had to prepare something and asked us to wait for five minutes.

Xi Gu didn’t understand, “What is he going to prepare? Wait five minutes?”

Ye Zhen shook her head.

So the two of them foolishly waited for five minutes, and when the receptionist led them to Rong Cheng Jue’s special elevator, Xi Gu suddenly said, “Do you think that grandson asked us to wait for him because there was another woman upstairs just now? Now he asked us to go through this elevator, maybe that woman is coming down from the other side… Hmph!”

Ye Zhen: Top star Xi, do you usually take female-driven scripts?

However, the extent of Ye Zhen’s surprise was yet to come. When the elevator reached the top floor, two rows of people on either side greeted them as the door opened. Dressed in black, Rong Cheng Jue stood in the middle with a few red plum blossoms in his hands.

Xi Guo was so scared that he almost fell back into the elevator, “What’s going on?” 

Was this the scene of the legendary domineering CEO receiving his secretary? I’m so scared!

However, to his surprise, Rong Cheng Jue walked over to Ye Zhen and slowly extended his right hand. He said in an almost gentle and affectionate tone, “Welcome Dr. Ye Zhen to our company for cooperative research. It’s my honor to cooperate with the best teaching and research institute in China like the Academy of Sciences of Hua University.”

Xi Gu: …..

Two rows of people: …..

“President Rong Cheng is too polite, you can just call me Ye Zhen,” Ye Zhen extended her hand and shook it with him, showing a polite smile. “I am also honored to come to RongCheng as a representative of the Academy of Science of Hua University.”

“Sure, Ye Zhen,” Rong Cheng Jue said her name with a touch of spring. “These red plum blossoms are very suitable for you.” He said and handed her the flowers in his left hand. “Here you are, Ye Zhen.”

Xi Gu: …..

Two rows of people: …..

“Thank you,” Ye Zhen said politely. “I like it very much.”

Perhaps because Ye Zhen’s serious attitude was too good, Rong Cheng Jue finally remembered the feelings of the onlookers. He briefly introduced the two rows of executives beside him and then said, “About the following cooperation, let us go to my place to talk about it in detail.”

“Very well.”

Following him through the rest area, Ye Zhen entered a Chinese-style office. The office was large, luxurious, and inconspicuous, and the layout was somewhat scholarly. Except for the red plum blossom bonsai in front of the screen, which had been stripped bare. It was a bit miserable.

“Pfft hahahaha—” Xi Gu pointed at the bonsai and then at the plum blossoms in Ye Zhen’s hand, laughing almost to death on the couch.

When he heard this, Rong Cheng Jue’s forehead twitched for a moment, but then he said as if nothing had happened, “What would you like to drink?”

Ye Zhen looked at the coffee table and said, “Mineral water is fine.”

Hearing what she said, Rong Cheng Jue also sat down and got down to business. “From what your Academy of Sciences told me, Ye Zhen, you came to Rong Cheng for a specific research topic. But I don’t know what exactly it is?”

“My major is applied mathematics, and my research direction is naturally related to that.”

“Applied mathematics? That’s great!” Rong Cheng Jue clapped his hands. “Our company is a comprehensive company, but generally speaking, it is guided by internet thinking. We attach great importance to big data and cloud advertising. Our group also has a data center and a research and development center. You can see their business content in detail and give your opinions. It will be best if we can work together.”

“I’m sorry, President Rong Cheng. I want to work in the IP Expansion department of your group’s entertainment division,” Ye Zhen reminded him. “You just met me at the interview yesterday, didn’t you?”

“I thought you were just going to the interview for fun,” Rong Cheng Jue said. “But there is no data-related work in the company…”

“Do students who have studied mathematics need to deal with data? 

“Aren’t mathematics students supposed to work with data?”

“Well, according to your theory,” Ye Zhen tilted her head and said playfully, “shouldn’t a student who has studied law have to learn magic?”

“…”

“Just kidding,” Ye Zhen returned to the subject, “I think you might have some misunderstanding about applied mathematics. Applied mathematics is about using mathematical knowledge to solve real-world problems. More specifically, it means going deeper into reality, understanding the market, users, products, technological innovations and other variables, and then building a mathematical model based on that to solve problems. 

With my experience from Hua University, you don’t have to worry about the mathematical model. But the practical problem is that if you don’t allow me to go to the front, how can I know what RongCheng Entertainment needs?”

“Then you don’t have to go to RongCheng Entertainment. It’s too unworthy of your talents to go to a subsidiary.”

It never occurred to her that Ye Zhen would waste her time arguing with Rong Cheng Jue about such matters. She could only be patient and said, “Mr. Rong, isn’t the purpose of President Rong Cheng’s establishment of the IP Development Department to occupy the market and capture the source of content? This will also lead to a series of products such as games and peripherals. This is the future direction of development. How can I be inferior to such an important thing?”

“Well, you’re right,” Rong Cheng Jue seemed convinced, but there was some emotion in his words, “It’s hard for Dr Ye Zhen to think so much of RongCheng.”

“President Rong Cheng is joking, I came here out of my own selfishness.”

Rong Cheng Jue raised his eyes, “Oh? Tell me about it.”

“I hope to gain some skills and become a producer in the future. I want to make at least one film.”

“You want to be a producer and make a movie,” Rong Cheng Jue said with a bad feeling, ” Don’t tell me you want to make a film based on the book about the domineering CEO?”

“Maybe,” Ye Zhen said. She unconsciously put her hand in her pocket and stroked the old poker card, imagining the strange smile of the clown on it and the words ‘JOKER’. “Someone likes it.”

Haha, what kind of brain-damaged person likes this and makes Ye Zhen stoop so low?

Translator Ramblings^^

I actually don’t understand the relation between law and magic, so don’t ask me to explain it^^ Just go search it and try to learn about in your own time because it is showing me a bunch of big articles that I don’t want to read…

But guess what… TODAY IS A DOUBLE RELEASE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I decided to release two chapters because I suprisingly finished this chapter pretty fast today^^

Well, this chapter was also a delight and Xi Gu is quickly becoming my fav character lol.