Pu Luo: "Your contempt and ridicule towards him became the motivation for Guan Yue to keep fighting."
Tianhe: "It seems that I should mock him more often."
Pro: "Of course it doesn't have to be this way. Guan Yue's values are sometimes divided. While he hopes to create a better future for you, he also has lingering fears about your ridicule... Re-establishing a romantic relationship can obviously give His drive to fight, and to be a little softer."
Tianhe: "So I am both a whip and a carrot."
Pro: "This metaphor is not appropriate, because the professional ethics of carrots is that they can never be eaten by donkeys, and you are not."
On the 37th floor of the HSBC Building, Qingsong China Fund, at five o'clock in the evening.
Tianhe's things had already been taken away and sent home, at this moment he put his hands in the pockets of the black windbreaker, watching Guan Yue pack his things. Guan Yue's personal belongings are very few, only a few books, a notebook, and a pen for signing contracts, which were given to him by Tianhe before.
Then, Guan Yue took out a golden rice bowl from the bookshelf.
Tianhe: "..."
Guan Yue put the golden rice bowl into a cardboard box, and Tianhe looked at the golden rice bowl with shocked eyes during the whole process.
Guan Yue: "Is it necessary?"
"It's so shocking! It's so Dubai!" Tianhe couldn't help admiring, "The moment I saw it, I had the urge to kneel down and sing hymns to it."
Guan Yue: "I knew you were going to mock."
Guan Yue put it away a long time ago, but it was still seen by Tianhe in the end.
Tianhe walked up to the carton and looked inside, and said, "I'm sorry, my investor, I know I shouldn't be disappointed at this time, but this job made of pure gold really shocked me. It should be as good as a thousand pieces of gold. Well, in terms of weight... um... It's obviously impolite to use 'grams' to measure it, it weighs about three to five catties?"
Guan Yue: "Your eyes look a lot like that dragon named Smaug, take it if you want."
"No no." Tianhe said, "Let me take the liberty to speculate, it must be an entry gift."
Guan Yue: "You guessed it." Immediately, he forcibly closed the cardboard box, but Tianhe reached out his hand first, took the bowl and weighed it, and shook his head helplessly, knowing that it was definitely Guan Yue's family who called him. , There will always be sky and thunder in some strange places.
Guan Yue put the packed cartons on a large wooden box.
"Preparing to move," Guan Yue said, "borrow a place to put these two things."
Tianhe opened the carton again, and took Guan Yue's pen away.
Guan Yue's face immediately turned dark. He has used this pen for five years and has hardly left it by his side.
Tianhe looked at him protestingly.
Tianhe: "I gave it to you, and now I want to take it back, you don't even want to grab a pen from me, do you?"
Guan Yue: "Take the watch too? All right, I'll return the car to you too." As he said that, he was about to take off the watch.
Tianhe: "That's not necessary."
Guan Yue got a little angry, turned his face away, and calmed down after a while.
Tianhe remembered that Guan Yue's current house was signed in the name of the company. Those buildings were only leased to executives of multinational companies, not to private individuals. Guan Yue could live there until April 1st, the first quarter When it ends.
Tianhe took out the key of the old house and handed it to Guan Yue, Guan Yue was silent for a moment, and finally took it, Tianhe pressed the printed address list on the wooden box.
"Going to eat?" Tianhe knew that all the procedures for Guan Yue had been completed, but the matter between them was not over yet. Tianhe wanted him to save some money, so he didn't have to borrow such a high amount from Epeus, and the capital injection wouldn't cost that much, and he could even consider finding another way to share it, so that Guan Yue's financial pressure would be less.
Guan Yue: "You decide the place."
Tianhe: "Fink?"
Guan Yue didn't speak, put on his sunglasses, and followed Tianhe out of the office.
At half past five in the evening, all the employees of Qingsong were there, and they all stood up, waiting for Guan Yue in the aisle, as if they wanted to shake hands with him. Guan Yue didn't stretch out his hands, but put his hands in the pockets of his windbreaker, his eyes swept over his employees, and his eyes became gentle.
"Have fun with the team building, there will be a period later." In the end, Guan Yue only said so.
Tianhe suddenly said: "Hey! Hey! The one named Ma! Patek Philippe! Why don't you come and say goodbye?"
Guan Yue wanted to press the elevator, but stopped, pulled down his sunglasses slightly, and glanced over.
"Wen Tianhe," Mario said seriously as he walked along the aisle, "walk slowly."
Tianhe smiled and said, "It's a pleasure to meet you."
Guan Yue wanted to signal to forget it, but he knew that with Tianhe's temper, he would try every means to get back the situation, so he didn't stop him.
Tianhe: "Is there anything you want to say to Mr. Guan?"
Mario glanced at Guan Yue and said, "Boss, it's better to leave."
Guan Yue just nodded, and Mario said to the sky, "Wen Tianhe, I have a few words to say to you."
Tianhe raised his eyebrows, signaling to listen attentively.
Mario said: "Do you know that when God created man, the total value is constant. You think you have everything, money, talent, IQ, and you think you are God's favorite. But you don't know, In other places, you will lose more things, and every gift given to you by fate has a hidden price."
"Smart people will never have good luck. Be stupid, and there are advantages to being stupid. This is called feng shui, which is the conservation of all things. Sooner or later, you will remember what I said."
Everyone looked at Tianhe and Guan Yue behind him, Guan Yue suddenly said:
"Mario, you have misunderstood the meaning of the conservation of all things. This kind of conservation is not the conservation of one person. It should be said that Tianhe is both smart and lucky, and you are stupid and unlucky. When you add the two together, the total value remains the same. , this is the conservation of all things.”
The entire staff of Qingsong Company was shocked at first, and then they all smiled bitterly, and Mario's face became extremely ugly. Guan Yue and Tianhe got into the elevator, Tianhe waved to Mario, and said, "Have fun in North Korea, and give Sanpang a voice, although I'm not sure if he's still alive, bye!"
As the elevator doors closed, Mario cursed angrily.
Guan Yue shook his head and remained silent.
Tianhe looked at him with a smile, and Guan Yue also had a little smile in his eyes.
Funk restaurant.
"It's quite astonishing." Tianhe was still holding a golden rice bowl and holding the details, "Is this an entry-level gift from your family?"
After Guan Yue answered the phone, he went back to the dining table and asked displeasedly, "Are you finished?"
Lucy came over to serve the pre-dinner wine, Tianhe put the rice bowl on the table, looked at the golden rice bowl, and then looked at Guan Yue.
"After the Lunar New Year, I will register a new company." Guan Yue said in a deep voice, "Tong Kai is going through the process, and then I will poach some of Qingsong's employees and re-establish my private team... Can you put the bowl Put it down, listen to me?"
"Tell me," Tianhe said, "I'm listening. I'm looking for the seal on this heirloom. Can you give me this bowl? I want to exchange a bowl for Oda."
"Take it, take it," Guan Yue said, fed up with Tianhe's ridicule, "it can't be used for cats, be careful of gold poisoning."
Tianhe said: "I can't stand your PPE masters. Gold won't react with digestive juices. Otherwise, people who eat gold leaf would have died long ago."
"Whatever," Guan Yue said, "I can't say no to you, I was born as a master of PPE, I'm sorry."
Tianhe confiscated Guan Yue's golden job and said, "Private team, what next?"
Guan Yue: "Between the new company and Epeus, I propose to do an equal equity exchange."
Tianhe thought for a while and said, "I thought you were going to say something."
Guan Yue: "Epeus is expected to be successfully listed in five years, provided you don't mess around. The cross-shareholding between the two companies will help..."
Tianhe: "Okay, okay, you have the final say."
Guan Yue said displeased: "This is a business matter."
Tianhe originally thought that Guan Yue wanted to talk about other things, such as the feeling of leaving Qingsong, or his thoughts on the future, and planned to give him some encouragement, and leave a little memory on the first night after he officially left the company. But I didn't expect that the dinner was actually about the issue of equity.
"Okay," Tianhe said, "let's talk about work. Guan Yue, let me ask you this, how far do you think Epeus can go?"
Guan Yue said: "It is listed on NASDAQ, with a market value of trillions and US dollars."
Tianhe: "Trillions."
Guan Yue said seriously: "Trillions."
Tianhe: "Do you know what a market value of trillions of dollars is?"
Guan Yue took it for granted and started eating salad, Tianhe was speechless.
Guan Yue: "You have to believe in yourself and do your best."
The head waiter came over to serve the dishes, Guan Yue took the plate and began to skillfully cut the steak for Tianhe.
Tianhe said, "You haven't apologized for what you said that day yet."
Guan Yue: "I thought Aunt Fang told you."
Tianhe: "?"
Guan Yue also realized it, and looked up at Tianhe: "The next day she came to the company in person and explained to me."
Tianhe said: "That's Aunt Fang apologizing to you, not you apologizing to me!"
The sky was on fire, and he threw down the napkin and wanted to leave, but the foreman immediately backed away, but Guan Yue said, "Wait!"
Guan Yue stretched out his hand to pull Tianhe, Tianhe turned to look at him angrily, Guan Yue said, "I have something to say, sit down."
Tianhe: "I've changed my mind now. I don't want to have this meal with you. I thought we could sit together tonight and talk about other topics."
"I thought that you would want someone to listen to your feelings after resignation and chat with you about life and life! What did I hear? Equity replacement? Okay, I don't understand capital operations, you are my investor, Epeus It’s all up to you to bring the dead back to life, of course I listen to you, what do you want from me? Now I agree, OK? I’m leaving!”
"Leave after dinner!" Guan Yue said, "I admit, I was impulsive that day, but you gave me wrong information. Tianhe! Baby! Listen to me!"
Tianhe struggled to free his wrist, but Guan Yue's hand was locked tightly. There was resentment between Tianhe's brows and eyes: "Then you promise me one thing first."
Guan Yue: "Okay! I promise you!"
Tianhe: "Anything is fine?"
Guan Yue: "Yes, sit down."
Tianhe sat down immediately, a contract appeared in his hand, and he pressed it on the table in front of Guan Yue with a "slap".
"It's so happily agreed."
Guan Yue: "..."
"Now I officially hire you as the CEO of our company." Tianhe opened Guan Yue's pen that he forcibly confiscated from the office earlier, handed it to him, and said sincerely, "Tong Kai helped me make the contract, Lucy, you just heard Yes, Mr. Guan said 30 seconds ago, anything is fine, and the pen will be returned to you by the way."
The foreman laughed, not daring to interrupt.
Pu Luo: "Tianhe, your trap is absolutely impeccable. Neither he nor Tong Kai was on guard at all."
Guan Yue: "………………"
"Zijian gave me an idea." Tianhe said sincerely, "Originally we wanted to fold the contract into a small piece, revealing a small part of the signature, and find a passerby to pretend to be your fan, please give him Sign it. After it's done, I'll show you the contract and say 'yeah, I got scammed!' But it's never a good idea to cheat on the CEO, so it's up to you, I know you need to read it first Make a contract... ”
Guan Yue didn't look at the contract either, but only stared at Tianhe.
"If I sign it," Guan Yue said, "will you sit here and listen to what I have to say?"
Tianhe: "You just have to promise me to think about it seriously. My purpose is indeed to simply come out and have a meal with you. It was you who forced me first to talk about equity replacement with me. Otherwise, who would care..."
Guan Yue opened the contract and signed it without looking at it.
Tianhe: "..."
"There is no non-compete clause." Tianhe said anxiously, "You only need to spend a little time to make some decisions for me, and leave the rest to the administration. You don't need to do it yourself. I promise it won't take too much of your time. You are also completely free to open your investment company. Externally, you have all strategic decision-making powers; internally, you have all administrative decision-making powers. On the capital and strategic level, my only veto power is also transferred Here it is, you will exercise almost all rights for me."
Guan Yue handed the contract back to Tianhe. Tianhe was just teasing him as a joke, but he didn't expect Guan Yue to sign it just like that, and suddenly he was very moved.
"It doesn't matter." Guan Yue said, "The big deal is that my company won't open, and I will work for the Wen family for the rest of my life."
"I didn't mean that." Tianhe said helplessly, "Why did it start again?"
Guan Yue said seriously: "It's not irony. I do have the idea of making Epeus bigger. It would be even better if you allow me to take care of the investment company at the same time. Anyway, after the equity replacement, under the premise of cross-shareholding, the two companies It doesn’t make much difference who they belong to.”
He didn't pick up the sky and handed back the contract that belonged to him: "It's all for you."
Tianhe: "..."
Seeing that Guan Yue was so serious, Tianhe felt a little guilty.
Guan Yue remained silent and finished cutting the steak, as if his task today was only to cut the steak.
The foreman took it and put it in front of Tianhe.
Pro: "It's a little embarrassing."
Tianhe: "I said..."
Guan Yue: "How are you recruiting?"
Tianhe took a deep breath: "I don't need so much borrowing, and there is only a shortfall of about 200 million in funds. If you are willing to be the CEO, I can ask Zijian to register a company, and then take a stake in Epeus to complete the F round of financing. In this way, you only need to pay 100 million... "
Guan Yue: "You don't have to worry about the money. You are the CTO, so the funding structure has nothing to do with you. Let me ask, how is the recruitment?"
Tianhe suddenly felt that it didn't seem like a good idea to ask Guan Yuelai to be the president of Epeus, and then he would definitely "manage" me in a fair and just manner! !
"I haven't recruited a single one." Tianhe said, "Now there is a shortage of product managers, heads of R&D Team 1 and R&D Team 2, as well as vice presidents in charge of business and public relations, and vice presidents of administration. I want to select the R&D personnel first. , Divided into two project teams. There is a shortage of people, I will lead one group first, and the person in charge of the other group is to choose one of the two, which is very difficult. But as long as the other party is willing to come, the team members can let him decide on his own."
"I'll accompany you from the day after tomorrow." Guan Yue said, "At ten o'clock in the morning, make an appointment for coffee, and give me their names."
Tianhe: "No, I want to sleep! I finally left from Qingsong, and I don't have to clock in for work, yet you let me get up so early?!"
Guan Yue: "I'll go by myself, you just need to tell me your name."
"No, no, no..." Tianhe said, "Don't mess around, Boss, you must recruit Quant step by step... To convince them, I will try to catch them in the poker game."
Guan Yue: "Don't talk about ideals. Talk about money, talk about the company's prospects. Your innate advantage is to lead the team members to success. In addition, give enough money and allocate project shares in place..."
Tianhe said: "Many programmers are not short of money, what they want is..."
Guan Yue: "Everyone has to support their families. Raise your salary and reduce overtime hours to prove your confidence in technology and products. Apart from that, don't talk nonsense."
Tianhe felt that just because of the reconstruction of the company, the two of them quarreled enough to drink a pot, so they could only say: "Forget it, let's not talk about work, let's change the topic and drink some wine? Lucy, open a bottle of wine .”
Tianhe ate some steak. Surprisingly, Fink's taste was pretty good today, with ups and downs, sometimes good and sometimes bad.
"Aunt Fang came to the company that night and told me many things." Guan Yue drank some wine, "I specifically mentioned that when you were four years old, once you took a bath and felt that the water was too cold..."
"Let's talk about work," Tianhe said sincerely, "I was wrong. How to allocate stock options better?"
Guan Yue thought for a while, and then said: "It's a small thing about options. Epeus plans to go public in five years. Do you think it's feasible? I don't want to backdoor the company. Do you prefer listing in the US or A-shares? Or Hong Kong stocks?"
"What else did Aunt Fang say?" Tianhe changed his tune again.
Guan Yue: "What exactly do you want to talk about?"
Tianhe: "Can't we talk about something easy and not embarrassing?"
Guan Yue: "Okay, you start."
Tianhe: "Where do you plan to live in your new home? Do you need to ask for help?"
Guan Yue: "I thought that being the CEO of your company would include food and lodging, and you would give me the keys to the house."
Tianhe: "That belongs to my elder brother. You can live as long as you want. If you don't dislike it, you can..."
Tianhe wanted Guan Yue to come and live in his own home, but he had said this for the third time, Guan Yue would come naturally if he wanted to, but he always said that in a brazen manner, so he changed his words: "Then Xiao Yi is temporarily fostering me here? When will it be delivered to you?"
Guan Yue said "hmm": "Leave it alone, I'll go and see it some other day."
Tianhe: "I still like to pick things up so much, I always feel that there is a dog's soul living in its body."
Guan Yue glanced absently at the first floor, where the musicians downstairs were playing the violin table by table.
Guan Yue: "When the tortoise is in a strange environment, the first thing it does is to build a new nest for itself. Animals want a mate, it's natural."
"Even if the nest is set up, it won't be able to attract a spouse." Tianhe thought for a while, indeed, the Jintianyi pet detective team at home should also have a spouse, otherwise he would feel a little lonely if he was alone.
Tianhe wanted to talk about looking for a chance to buy a wife for the snapping turtle first.
Guan Yue said casually: "It doesn't understand, but has been looking forward to it all the time, so ignorance also has the joy of ignorance. Be sure not to tell the truth to it, otherwise Xiaoyi will be very sad if he knows the truth."
Tianhe: "I'm really fed up with your metaphors."
Guan Yue: "I didn't make any metaphors. You are overthinking. How can I compare myself to a turtle?"
"Lucy, serve dessert, I want to go home."
"Yes, even if you quarrel, you must eat dessert, and you can leave after eating."
Tianhe said solemnly: "You signed the contract, so I will fulfill my promise and finish my dinner. I am a person who keeps my promise and is punctual. This is a respect for each other."
Guan Yue: "That's right, I'm the only one who doesn't know how to respect people. For example, how many hours have people been waiting in the metropolis?"
Tianhe: "I know you didn't do it on purpose that day. Now I can fully understand your difficulties. With the burden of 3.3 billion pounds, you struggled to climb from Wall Street to the metropolis, looking left and right, always on guard not to be stepped on , I have to wait for the red light on the road, and it takes seven hours, which is normal."
Guan Yue: "..."
Lucy served two servings of ice cream, topped with Belgian chocolate, and sprinkled with gold leaf to form a beautiful heart shape. The musician came over, played the violin, and just came to this table, and started Labach's Canon Variations.
Tianhe picked up the spoon and said, "Change to Beethoven's Ode to Joy, and celebrate this unforgettable night."
The musician played the Ode to Joy.
Guan Yue: "Bach, today we have to follow the boss's taste."
The musicians changed to Canon Variations.
Tianhe: "Beethoven, Mr. Guan is the boss."
The music stopped, the violinist looked at the two, Guan Yue and Tianhe looked at each other for a moment. Suddenly the music sounded and became "Canon and Ode to Joy".
Tianhe thought that the two songs could be seamlessly connected in this way, what a miscalculation. I had to eat a mouthful of ice cream resentfully.
Tianhe: "..."
Guan Yue was on the opposite side of the table, looking at him amidst the music of "Ode to Joy in Kanon".
"Lucy, please help me carry the dripping Guanyin pot downstairs." Guan Yue said.
Lucy laughed so hard that she stood aside and took out her phone.
Tianhe spat out a gold ring in the spoon. It was the ring that Guan Yue took back when he teased Guan Yue and the Ukrainian supermodel. Guan Yue had obviously sent it to a jewelry store for cleaning. The color shimmers.
Tianhe was silent.
Guan Yue took a sip of coffee, and said in a deep voice, "It's better to have the ring on the dessert session, so that the other party doesn't want to pay the bill and leave, and there is a buffer. Otherwise, if you are rejected, you have to finish the meal together. Awkward."
Changing Tianhe didn't want to talk anymore, he put the spoon on the table lightly, poured the ring into the small plate, and picked it up.
Guan Yue's middle and second fingers holding the coffee cup trembled slightly.
Finally, Tianhe put the ring in his palm and looked up at Guan Yue—his eyebrows and eyes were so familiar, just like the countless moments they had looked at each other.
"I will seriously consider it," Tianhe said softly, "I will reply you in a while. Let's go, see you later."
Guan Yue gestured to pay the bill, and said, "Okay, I'll wait for your offer anytime." Then he picked up Tianhe's windbreaker, left Fink, and sent him to the door. The driver was waiting, and Guan Yue sent Tianhe to the car.
Tianhe was already in chaos, he didn't look at Guan Yue again, he just subconsciously lowered his head to look at the ring on his hand after getting in the car, the car window was rolled up to block his profile. When leaving Guan Yue standing at the door, Tian He looked back at a loss, and saw his lonely figure standing by the roadside.
Tianhe raised the back of his hand and wiped his tears with difficulty like a child.
Guan Yue whistled lightly towards Bentley who was going away, turned back to Fink, held the credit card between his fingers, and tapped briskly in front of the cash register, beckoning to Lucy.
"I treat all the consumption in the store today."