Confession of Rebirth

"Is there?" Gu Chen was taken aback for a moment, and cheered up: "Sorry, maybe I've been too tired recently."

Zhongli then smiled: "I ask this, not because I want to hear you apologize to me. I want to know why you are unhappy? You can tell what you are unhappy about."

These words are too familiar, Gu Chen subconsciously answered: "Let me make you happy?"

Zhong Lisui: "..."

A smile spread from his eyes, and Zhong Li said warmly, "I'll try to make you happy."

Probably because Zhong Lisui's smile was too contagious, Gu Chen also smiled: "Thank you, I'm much better now."

Seeing that Gu Chen didn't intend to confide in himself, Zhong Li smiled slightly, and handed over the gift he had prepared: "For you?"

"What is this?" Gu Chen looked at the beautifully packaged gift box and asked suspiciously.

Zhongli then put it off: "You can open it and take a look."

Seeing Zhong Lisui looking at him expectantly, Gu Chen unpacked the package with some doubts, opened the box, and saw a car model laying quietly inside—it was the most classic sports car under the D country XD company, the Charm Magic film.But there are differences in the details.

Gu Chen: "?"

Zhong Li said with a smile: "I went to country D this time and bought XD company. Their company is developing a new generation of Succubus Phantom. They are going to embed an AI vehicle system on this model. I think boys your age, They probably like sports cars. That’s why I chose this gift for you.”

In fact, Zhong Lisui wanted to give Gu Chen a car when this sports car was released in a few months.But considering that Gu Chen might not accept it, Zhong Lisui didn't say anything.Prepare to proceed step by step, and we will talk about it when the time comes.

"I like it very much. Thank you for the gift."

Gu Chen really likes sports cars.He fondly played with the car model in his hand, but his focus was on another matter: "You actually bought XD Company?"

There was no such thing in my previous life.Gu Chen was slightly surprised, could it be the butterfly effect after his rebirth?

Zhong Lisui said with a warm smile: "You mentioned to me before that XD company has mastered more advanced AI technology. And based on this, it has developed a brand new AI vehicle system. I am very interested in this matter .”

"Tiansui Capital has always been keen on investing in high-tech fields. We have also invested in a domestic car brand before. This time we acquired Haoyang Technology. In addition to developing a more advanced AI system in office software, we also hope to be able to Apply this technology to more industrial fields. The innovative technology of XD company in country D is exactly what we need. There was a meeting within the company, and they all believed that this acquisition was profitable."

Now that the target is determined, the rest of the hunting process is more familiar.Zhongli went out in person and offered a very generous offer that the other party could not refuse. A cross-border acquisition project was completed in just over two months.

"Thank you for the news." Zhong Lisui poured a cup of tea for Gu Chen and offered it with both hands: "Respect to my nobleman."

Gu Chen got up, took the teacup with both hands, took a sip, and said with emotion: "I didn't expect that you went to country D to buy XD company. But this acquisition is worth it. The concept version of Succubus Phantom developed by XD company , will definitely set off a new wave of science fiction on a global scale."

Gu Chen remembered that in his previous life, before the launch of this model, XD Company also cooperated with Universal Pictures, one of the eight major Hollywood film industries, to shoot a sci-fi blockbuster about future soldiers.After the film was released, it raked in a box office of 28 billion gold all over the world.The Succubus Phantom concept version of the actor's car in the movie has become popular all over the world and has become a favorite of sports car enthusiasts all over the world.On the first day of the launch of the new model, orders for the global limited edition were placed three years later.Even the stock price of XD company has risen by 50%.

"Accept your good words." Hearing Gu Chen's emotion, Zhong Lisui smiled slightly: "Of course you have to strike at the prey you like as soon as possible. Otherwise, it will be snatched away by others."

Gu Chen nodded: "That's true. The project seeks capital, but capital for a good project is also hard to find. Of course, you have to start early if you like it."

Zhong Li then seconded, "Heroes see the same thing."

Gu Chen looked at Zhong Lisui's smooth manner, and suddenly thought of an interesting incident before his rebirth - due to the relaxation of financial policies, the domestic capital market became more and more liquid, private equity was rampant, and the pool of funds was getting bigger and bigger.A lot of capital is targeting foreign advanced technologies.A sweeping frenzy of acquisitions has been launched on a global scale.Whether it is a well-established industry with a long history and a good reputation, or an emerging technology with excellent technology and amazing creativity, only you can't develop it, and there is no Huaxia Capital that can't buy it.Wherever the eyes go, there must be a wave of acquisitions.

Among them, Tiansui Capital is the most important.According to the statistics of the good people, when Tiansui Capital was at its craziest, it once launched 23 acquisition projects targeting internationally renowned brands and emerging technology fields within one year.Because of this, Zhong Lisui was dubbed "the most gentle barbarian" and "merger maniac".

The crazy purchases of Huaxia Capital on a global scale have also caused panic among governments of various countries.In particular, country D, which is the hardest-hit area for the takeover of established companies, has even introduced a new policy by the government to directly restrict the acquisition of companies in country D by non-EU companies.

After the introduction of that policy, Zhong Li, who had always been gentle and refined in front of the public, rarely showed a trace of dissatisfaction.In an interview with the media, he accused the government of country D of not interfering with market freedom, and believed that the actions of the government of country D were self-preservation, limiting the opportunities for capital and technology to freely play and make progress together.

Netizens commented that Zhong Lisui's performance was like a child whose favorite toy was taken away.

Gu Chen still remembered Zhong Lisui's slightly innocent and aggrieved expression during the interview, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.

Zhong Lisui looked at Gu Chen who was finally happy, and was a little relieved: "It seems that boys like toys."

Even if you are not happy, you will become happy when you receive a gift.

"So what have you been doing for the past two months?"

After the dishes were ready, Zhong Lisui asked while filling soup for Gu Chen.

Gu Chen took the soup bowl: "It's just studying, doing part-time jobs, stock trading, and drawing maps. Nothing else."

Zhong Lisui took the initiative to mention: "I saw that you published an article on "The Economist". The content is very novel and practical."

"That's not my credit either." Gu Chen said: "I'm a data analyst at best, plus the level of business planning. The main reason is that Professor Xing has a profound idea. He directly reported my data to Bagao."

"You can see the whole leopard at a glance. If Mr. Xing can write such an amazing article, your data analysis and industry reports are not far behind." Zhong Li said with a smile: "Why underestimate yourself."

"It's not self-deprecating. It's because I have a clear understanding of myself." Gu Chen laughed at himself.

It's like going to Zhou's for dinner yesterday.Everyone thinks that he is smart, knows how to advance and retreat, and has a sense of propriety.What he didn't know was that Gu Chen had experienced the same scene too many times in his previous life, and he didn't want to humiliate himself, and he didn't want to hear those people's seemingly polite remarks, but deep down they were so lofty that they wanted to step people into the mud. Immediately when the atmosphere was not right, he quickly exited.

Zhong Lisui looked at Gu Chen, and suddenly asked, "Are you up for a while?"

Gu Chen was puzzled: "What's wrong?"

"I want you to accompany me to a place." Zhong Lisui asked with a smile, "I wonder if you would spare some time to accompany me."

Just received a gift from someone else.Gu Chen: "...Where are you going?"

Zhong Lisui had a serious face: "The playground."

Gu Chen: "..."

Gu Chen's expression was a little subtle.Zhong Li smiled and said, "Look. You also find it incredible, so I am even more embarrassed to ask my colleagues or my partners to accompany me."

"Only you can help me with this." Zhong Lisui looked at Gu Chen and asked eagerly, "Are you going to reject me?"

Gu Chen thought about it.Anyway, I also submitted my resignation to the sales office.Even a little indulgence is no big deal.He simply answered Zhong Lisui with practical actions - he called Liao Chunhua and asked for half a day off.

Zhong Lisui smiled complacently: "Then let's eat quickly and go after eating."

After lunch, Zhong Li then drove Gu Chen to the largest water park in City A.The first project went straight to the rapids.Two big men sat directly on the bow of the first row.Gu Chen looked at Zhong Lisui's expensive three-piece suit, and hesitated: "Do you really want to sit in this? Your suit will be useless after sitting. How about we wear a raincoat?"

"Then it's boring." Zhong Li said with a smile: "This is the excitement that I'm playing with."

While speaking, the boat started slowly.Climbing slowly at first, and then getting faster and faster, climbing directly to the highest peak, and rushing down with a "boom".The screams of the tourists broke through the sky accompanied by splashes of water. Affected by the atmosphere, Gu Chen couldn't help shouting.He was hit all over his head and face by the splash of water.

When the boat returned to the tunnel, Gu Chen took off his seat belt and was about to go down.Then Zhong Lisui stopped him: "I haven't sat down enough yet, let's play again."

Gu Chen looked at Zhong Lisui who was sitting there without moving, smiled, sat back in his original position, and fastened his seat belt.

A few minutes later, another wave of tourists fills up.The boat started slowly.Once again climbed to the top and rushed down.This time, Gu Chen was more relaxed than the previous time. When the boat climbed up, he shouted with the tourists, and when the boat rushed down, he shouted louder, as if he wanted to vent. When the water splashed on his face, Gu Chen My eyes feel hot.

That afternoon, Gu Chen and Zhong Lisui sat on the bow of the boat and played for more than an hour, but they didn't remember how many rounds they played in total.All I know is that when the two of them got off the boat, they were soaked like soaked rats.Zhong Lisui's handmade calfskin shoes were filled with water.

"Go take a hot bath."

Zhong Li suggested with a smile.After the two of them took a shower and changed their clothes, Zhong Li then asked Gu Chen, "Do you feel that you are not enjoying yourself?"

While wiping his hair, Gu Chen said, "No. I had a great time today."

Zhong Lisui said: "I originally wanted to take you to bungee jumping. But I'm afraid of heights. I can only ride the torrent."

"Thank you." Gu Chen looked at Zhong Lisui and asked curiously: "So when you are unhappy, do you choose to come to the playground to vent your emotions?"

"Under normal circumstances, I can punch." Zhong Li said with a smile: "If you are interested, I can teach you."

Gu Chen looked at the gentle-looking Zhong Lisui in surprise: "Do you box?"

"I have learned fighting, shooting, and fencing." Zhong Lisui smiled: "Can't you see it?"

Gu Chen nodded: "It really doesn't look like it."

No wonder in his previous life, when Gu Chen was watching interviews, he never saw Zhong Lisui mention his way of coping with stress.

Gu Chen thought for a while, and found that it was also difficult for him to imagine Zhong Lisui punching and fighting with someone.

Zhong Lisui said: "If you are interested, I can teach you."

Gu Chen smiled: "Let's talk about it when we have a chance."

When the two came out of the playground, the sky was already getting dark.

Zhong Li then looked at the time, it was still a bit early for dinner.He asked Gu Chen, "Is there any place you want to go in particular?"

Gu Chen thought about it, but he didn't expect it.

"Then I'll arrange it." Zhong Lisui seemed to have already thought about what to do, and when he heard Gu Chen's words, he immediately said, "Let's go."

Zhong Li then took Gu Chen to a pottery workshop.The two received aprons and tools at the bar, and entered a studio under the guidance of the front desk staff.

Gu Chen was a little surprised: "You brought me to do pottery?"

Zhong Li smiled gently and elegantly, but his words suddenly came down to earth: "I heard that children like to play with mud and water. Just now we ride the torrent, which can be regarded as teasing. Now come to the craft workshop to do pottery, it's considered fun. Mud?"

Gu Chen laughed dumbly: "I'm not a child."

Zhong Li then picked a workbench and sat down: "Just come and accompany me to find my childhood."

Gu Chen smiled and shook his head, but sat down helplessly.

Some potters took the initiative to ask if they needed technical guidance.Zhong Li smiled and said, "No need, I'll teach him."

As he said that, Zhong Lisui brought over a ball of mud skillfully.

Seeing this, the potter tactfully withdrew.Only Gu Chen and Zhong Lisui were left in the huge studio.

"So how do you want to teach me?" Gu Chen looked at the lump of mud on the workbench and wanted to laugh.

"I think boys should be born with the talent to play with mud." Zhong Lisui also laughed: "No need to teach."

Gu Chen looked at Zhong Lisui skillfully rounding and flattening the ball of mud, and asked, "Then what do you want to do now?"

This time, Zhong Lisui's usual easy-going smile showed a little more embarrassment: "I can only make dishes."

Gu Chen: "..."

Looking at Gu Chen's expression of wanting to laugh but also embarrassed, Zhong Lisui explained: "For amateurs like us, what kind of crafts we can make is actually not important. The important thing is to enjoy the process... "

Gu Chen complained: "You can't make it up soon, can you?"

Zhong Lisui just smiled and said nothing.

"Let me try it!" Gu Chen sighed, and went to get a ball of mud.

Zhong Lisui looked at Gu Chen, who was more proficient in movements than him, and raised his eyebrows: "So you know pottery?"

"Didn't you just say it! Playing with mud is a boy's innate talent." Gu Chen joked, and then explained seriously: "My father is a carpenter. Do some bricklayer work. I have been eating and drinking with my dad in the village since I was a child, and occasionally I have to help."

"So you know how to do carpentry?" Zhong Li Sui asked with a thought.

Gu Chen nodded casually.Most of the attention has been immersed in his own mud: "It will be a little bit."

Zhong Lisui asked: "Then what do you know?"

"I will use a plane to beat wood and give light to the wood." Gu Chen said.

Zhong Li then continued to ask: "What else?"

Gu Chen's ears were slightly red: "No more."

The answer to this topic is similar to what Zhong Lisui said just now.Zhong Li then smiled.Gu Chen also used Zhong Lisui's words to block his own mouth: "Didn't you just say that. We are amateurs like us, so don't care too much about what happens. The important thing is to enjoy the process."

"You're right." Zhong Li then nodded, and added: "I'm right."

Gu Chen smiled and rubbed the lump of mud into the shape of a bottle.Zhong Li was a little surprised: "Excellent."

Gu Chen smiled, exerted a little force on his hands, and the neck of the bottle was immediately crooked.Gu Chen broke up the bottles with a smile and made new embryos.He said with a little embarrassment in his mouth: "Then do you know the clay figurine Zhang?"

Zhong Li then nodded: "Very powerful folk art."

Gu Chen said: "I can use dough to make roses."

Zhong Li was curious: "Use dough?"

Gu Chen explained: "When we were in elementary school, we had handicraft classes, which were taught by Zhang, a clay figurine in the village. We used dough to make roses and mice. But most of the students couldn't do it well. They would be scolded by their parents when they got home."

After a pause, Gu Chen said again: "But I can learn it as soon as I learn it. The master said that I inherited my father's talent as a carpenter."

Zhong Lisui asked him: "Then can you make clay figurines?"

Gu Chen hesitated for a moment: "It's okay."

Zhong Lisui looked at Gu Chen with a gentle smile: "Then when can you pinch me?"

Gu Chen said embarrassingly: "...not to that extent."

Zhong Lisui suddenly put down what he was doing, wiped his hands, took out his phone, took a selfie of himself, and sent it to Gu Chen's WeChat.He smiled and said, "It's okay, you can practice more. You can give it to me on my birthday."

Gu Chen just laughed.The whole person leaned on the back of the chair, feeling very helpless: "You are embarrassing me."

"I believe in you." Zhong Lisui said, the phone camera suddenly pointed at Gu Chen, and took a picture of Gu Chen's face.

Gu Chen raised his head in astonishment: "Why are you photographing me?"

"I'm going to practice pottery hard." Zhong Lisui said solemnly, "When it's your birthday, I'll make a plate with your face on it."

"I don't think this plate is easy to see." Gu Chen imagined in his mind for a while, and complained about Zhong Lisui's aesthetics with his real name: "Why do you print your face on the plate? Does it look big?"

Zhong Li laughed out loud.I didn't expect Gu Chen's brain circuit to be so strange.

The two talked and laughed happily in the pottery workshop for more than an hour, and finally successfully made a plate and a bottle.

Zhong Li then glanced at the time: "Let's put the things here first. Next time I have a chance, come and glaze this plate and bottle."

Gu Chen nodded.After playing all afternoon, he was also a little hungry.

Coming out of the pottery workshop, it was already completely dark.Zhong Li asked Gu Chen, "What do you want to eat?"

Gu Chen put away his collar that was a bit windy: "Let's eat hot pot."

Zhong Lisui carefully noticed Gu Chen's movements, and when he got into the car, he took a black scarf and handed it to Gu Chen: "It's a bit cold, put it on."

Gu Chen shook his head: "No need. There is an air conditioner in the car, so you can go to the hotpot restaurant right after getting off the car."

"There is still a long way from the school gate to your dormitory." Zhong Lisui couldn't help but stuff the scarf into Gu Chen's hand: "I borrowed it from you, and I will return it when we meet next time."

Gu Chen looked at the scarf in his hand, thought about it, and put it on anyway.

Zhongli then took Gu Chen to a famous Sichuan style hot pot in City A.However, after the two entered the store, they ordered the mandarin duck pot bottoms, both of which were clear soup pots.One for tomato and one for mushroom soup, which caught the helpless eyes of the waitress from Chuanmeizi.It is probably impossible to imagine why the two guests who don't eat spicy food insist on coming to the Sichuan style hot pot restaurant.

After the waiter left, Gu Chen said to Zhong Lisui, "I think I'm probably the kind of customer that the store doesn't welcome."

Zhong Li then raised his eyebrows: "Why do you think so?"

"It's just that they don't respect food." Gu Chen has heard many related remarks in his previous life, and he can already skillfully laugh at himself: "Each of the eight major cuisines has its own character and spirit permeated in it. People like me People who can’t eat spicy food in hot pot, and don’t put chili in Hunan cuisine. It should be very annoying.”

"I actually think that the only customer that the store will hate when opening the door for business is probably the one who doesn't give money for free." Zhong Li smiled and said: "Since there are choices on the menu, it proves that the store is ready to welcome such customers .And welcome customers with different tastes to eat in the store. If it is really not welcome, it can be reflected in the menu.”

Gu Chen was thoughtful.

Zhong Lisui said, "Is this the day you talk the most?"

Gu Chen was slightly taken aback, and subconsciously apologized: "Sorry, did I talk too much——"

"I'm very happy."

The voices of the two people sounded at the same time, and Zhong Li said with a smile: "Some things, buried in the heart for a long time, will become a thorn. If you can't pierce others, you will sting yourself."

"So we need to find opportunities to speak out. Some bad emotions must also be found to vent." Zhong Li then looked into Gu Chen's eyes firmly: "Don't let negative emotions stay in your body for too long."

Gu Chen didn't know what to say.

Zhong Lisui continued: "I am very honored to be your decompression tool. If you are not happy next time, you can come to me. I will find a way to make you happy."

Before Gu Chen could react, Zhong Li smiled and said, "Otherwise, what should I do! You have done me such a favor with Haoyang Technology and the acquisition of XD Company, but you are unwilling to accept anything in return. I have been thinking about it all the time. I don’t know how to repay the great favor I owe you.”

"It's all right now. I found a way to repay you, and you also found a channel to relieve pressure. Do you think it's a win-win situation for the two of us?" Zhong Lisui looked at Gu Chen with a deep smile, and said warmly.

Gu Chen lowered his head, looked at himself reflected in the light yellow tea, and was stunned for a while.It suddenly occurred to him that he insisted on not accepting Zhong Lisui's thank you because he felt that a casual sentence was not worthy of Zhong Lisui's serious thanks.But from Zhong Lisui's point of view, is this kind of aimless debt of favor more troublesome than a thank you gift with a clearly marked price?