The other Renmin University students who came to Harvard as an exchange student with Su Yingxue were already preparing to return, but Su Yingxue had not yet started packing all her luggage.
Her classmates already knew that she was retained by Harvard and was equivalent to being admitted to the Harvard Business School MBA. Although everyone was envious, they also understood that Su Yingxue was able to receive such generous treatment because it was probably Li Mu who was helping behind the scenes. After all, Li Mu was there. Harvard has unparalleled influence. It is difficult for ordinary people to solve Su Yingxue's undergraduate and MBA affairs, but it is easy for Li Mu.
The reason why Su Yingxue did not pack all her luggage was not because she had decided to stay at Harvard, but because she was still undecided. She still had not figured out which force was affecting Harvard, but she had basically ruled out the reason. Li Mu intended to do this, so whether he should leave or stay, he should listen to Li Mu's advice before making a decision.
Li Mu's visit to Harvard this time was quite low-key. Apart from Su Yingxue and Mark Zuckerberg, only Harvard's senior officials knew about it. Originally, Li Mu planned to come to meet Su Yingxue first, and then meet with Harvard senior officials and Mark Zuckerberg tomorrow. We met with Mark Zuckerberg, but we didn’t expect Mark Zuckerberg to be so anxious, so we first chatted with him about Facebook’s subsequent development.
After seeing off Mark Zuckerberg, Li Mu called Su Yingxue and told her that he had arrived at Harvard. He also told her his room number in the Harvard on-campus hotel.
After receiving the call, Su Yingxue left the dormitory happily. The female classmates in the same dormitory asked her what she was going to do in a hurry. Su Yingxue only said that she was going to see a friend. After all, Li Mu's identity was sensitive and she was at Harvard. He also has extraordinary influence. If Harvard students knew that he was coming, the whole school would probably explode.
As a senior executive at Harvard, Xie Huairu naturally knew that Li Mu had arrived at Harvard. He had been waiting for Su Yingxue's reply on whether to stay at Harvard these days, but Su Yingxue never gave a clear feedback.
Both Xie Huairu and Xie Yun hope that through this internal operation of Harvard, Su Yingxue will decide to stay in the United States. In this way, whether Li Mu spends more time in China or the United States in the future, Su Yingxue will spend more time with Li Mu. discount.
After all, Li Mu's activity center in the United States is in Silicon Valley on the west coast, while Harvard is on the east coast of the United States. The distance between the two places is extremely long, and the flight time is almost six hours. If Su Yingxue stays at Harvard, Li Mu can come three times a year. Five times would be overwhelming.
In addition, Xie Huairu himself works at Harvard, and he has many ways to increase Su Yingxue's academic arrangements at Harvard in the future. If Li Mu happens to come to the United States, he can secretly arrange for Su Yingxue to participate in activities between Harvard and overseas universities. Every year, Harvard meets with European academic There are countless contacts, and Su Yingxue can be away from Harvard for a while by randomly arranging a European country, just enough to miss the time when Li Mu goes to the United States.
For Xie Huairu, most of the time he is an upright person, so he goes out of his way to a little girl behind his back, which makes him feel very unfulfilled and even a little dirty, but when he thinks about it, it concerns his niece. A lifetime of happiness will make you less repulsive.
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Since leaving the United States last time, and through the entire SARS epidemic, Li Mu has never seen Su Yingxue. After seeing each other for many days, Su Yingxue looks more beautiful and mature than when they last met. This is consistent with the fact that young people in the West are generally more mature than those in the East. The environment in which young people dress more maturely also has something to do with it.
When Su Yingxue saw Li Mu, she was naturally filled with joy. As soon as Li Mu opened the door, Su Yingxue threw herself into his arms, which caught Li Mu off guard.
This girl who has always been too reserved has undergone subtle changes in her heart after coming to the United States for more than half a year. She has been influenced by the environment. In the past, she would have kept her emotions introverted, not showing them or showing them as little as possible. But after these six months of exchanges, Through life experience, she saw how Western young people expressed their emotions freely and highly respected them. She also realized that hiding true emotions seemed to be more in line with China’s so-called ladylike values, but for the feelings themselves, it was An outright strangulation.
Boys and girls in the West are both in their early twenties. When they fall in love on campus, they are never as secretive as Chinese college students. Here, couples always hold hands or hold each other's arms. Hugging and kissing are also very natural. Girls Even if I only parted with my boyfriend for one class, when I met after class, I would excitedly throw myself into each other's arms. I would never hide my feelings, let alone stifle my emotional expression.
However, in the Chinese campus at the beginning of the 21st century, such scenes were extremely rare. Most couples avoided teachers and school leaders while avoiding their classmates. It was rare to see boys and girls holding hands on campus during the day. At night, these young lovers gather together in the small park in the school or in the woods.
In the first two or three months after she came to Harvard, Su Yingxue was not able to adapt to the passionate and indifferent love style of Western campus couples. However, in the next few months, she often reflected on herself. She became more and more envious of these Western girls who dared to express their emotions generously. , Love is love, never secretive, like is just like, never take it back when it comes to your lips. Looking back on every bit of her relationship with Li Mu, Su Yingxue also feels more and more that she has been in love throughout the whole process. She acted a little too reserved, so she secretly made up her mind that she would never stifle her emotions because of the reserve in her heart like before.
Li Mu was caught off guard by Su Yingxue's active hug, but he quickly came to his senses, hugging her with one hand and closing the door with her.
Su Yingxue held Li Mu's waist with both hands, put her face against his chest, and said seriously: "I miss you! During SARS, I especially wanted to secretly buy a plane ticket to go back to see you, but I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to help. You cause trouble."
Apart from speaking his hometown dialect to his parents recently, Li Mu had never heard the local dialect from anyone else. Suddenly, when he heard Su Yingxue thinking about himself in his hometown dialect, Li Mu felt an extraordinarily kind and at ease feeling in his heart.
With a mental age in his thirties, he has no particular desire for love. The rapid development of his career after his rebirth has almost taken away most of his energy, leaving him with very little energy to invest in the love of his children. But Su Yingxue can still touch the softest part of his heart at an inadvertent moment. From the perspective of intimacy with herself, she is not as good as Zhao Ziqiu, nor as good as Chen Wan and Wei Lan, but from the depth of her soul, The two emotions with Su Yingxue in the past life and this life still make her occupy a very special position in Li Mu's heart, and she is also the woman who makes Li Mu feel the most real.
Li Mu kissed her lips passionately and said, "I miss you too. I always had a lot of things to do in the United States, and I wanted to come over to see you as soon as possible. But during SARS, there were so many things, so I wasn't suitable." Leave Yanjing before SARS has eased."
Su Yingxue nodded, stood up on tiptoes and kissed Li Mu, suppressing the shyness in her heart, making herself look as natural as possible, and said: "I understand, you have always been so concerned about SARS, and you have such a strong sense of social responsibility, you must not You will leave Yanjing at that time, I am just worried about your health, after all, you have been staying in the epidemic area."
Li Mu took Su Yingxue and sat down on the sofa in the reception room, and said, "It's okay now. SARS has passed. I don't need to stay in Yanjing forever. I should be in the United States most of the time in the future."
Su Yingxue asked happily: "Really? Will you stay in the United States most of the time in the future?"
Li Mu nodded and said: "The development of Makino Technology and Taobao Technology in China is already very stable. All they need is a competent CEO to take charge and stabilize the pace. For me, the top priority right now is to establish a presence in the United States. To establish a firm foothold and then rely on the U.S. market to radiate around the world, Makino Technology has many new business plans in the future, starting from the United States."
Su Yingxue hesitated for a moment and said, "I still want to wait for you to come and discuss my affairs with you. Harvard is urging me to reply as soon as possible. Should I accept their invitation or choose to return to China?"
Speaking of this, Su Yingxue looked at Li Mu and said very seriously: "I can't make up my mind, so I want to hear your advice. If you let me stay, I will stay. If you let me go back, then I will go back." .”
Li Mu said very frankly: "I know that Harvard Business School is your dream, so before you came to Harvard as an exchange, I had considered letting you go to Harvard for further study in the future, but what I considered at that time was to wait until you graduate from undergraduate degree. After that, I will help you realize your dream of getting an MBA from Harvard Business School, but you didn’t expect that there would be such an opportunity to come to Harvard as an exchange, and you didn’t expect that Harvard would be willing to let you directly study for a bachelor’s degree at Harvard. Now the conditions provided by Harvard are basically good for you. It’s all in one step, with undergraduate + MBA guaranteed admission and full scholarship. The only drawback is that you may have to study and live in the United States for several years, so if you can accept this, then I suggest you accept this opportunity from Harvard.”
Su Yingxue nodded. She knew that Li Mu had not lied to her. She was also sure that the favorable conditions offered to her by Harvard were not deliberately done by Li Mu. In this way, her biggest worry was dispelled.
Su Yingxue felt much relieved and said to Li Mu: "Studying and living in the United States for several years is not a problem for me, and my family will definitely accept it. Even if I study at the National People's Congress, I can only go home two or three times a year. At Harvard, the annual vacation time is no shorter than at home. The only trouble is the transoceanic flight, which is not a problem. What I am most worried about is that if I stay at Harvard, I may have fewer opportunities to see you in the future."
Li Mu smiled and said: "Fool, if you stay in the United States, we will have more opportunities to meet in the future. My overall strategy now is to expand externally on the one hand, and on the other hand, bring the resources obtained from overseas to build a strategic big country. On the home front, external expansion and finding relevant resources overseas must rely on the U.S. market, and have a higher priority in the entire strategy. Therefore, I will spend most of my time in the United States in the future. At other times, I will return to China to participate in the construction of the home front. I am definitely very busy with related work.”
Su Yingxue immediately said excitedly: "In this case, then I will stay!"
(End of chapter)