Chapter 1264: Who Sent the Text Message?
Since the conversation box was opened, Liu Xiaoyu didn’t hold back, recounting all the initial challenges of starting the company one by one to Zhou Chengchen.
In fact, Xi Siyan was fairly fortunate. Compared to many people, his company had quite a few unique advantages.
The most prominent being his status as a protégé of an esteemed old professor. Although the professor may not have been widely known, anyone who knew him held him in the highest regard.
This status brought many benefits to Xi Siyan, and there was also the professor’s will. Although there wasn’t a formal will due to a sudden illness, the professor’s only son, after settling his father’s affairs, gave all of the professor’s properties, aside from their old family home, a siheyuan, to Xi Siyan.
As he put it, this was something his father mentioned during his lifetime. Although there wasn’t a formal will, he wanted to fulfill his father’s wishes. As for the siheyuan, it was the place where the family of three lived during his childhood, so it held special meaning, and he kept it for himself.
The only son of the professor didn’t follow in his father’s footsteps in academia but ventured into business early on, achieving great success.
Therefore, what mattered to him more was his father’s last wishes rather than material possessions.
Such a prominent figure may not have been exceptionally wealthy, but he certainly had a lot. This unexpected fortune became Xi Siyan’s emergency fund.
To others, it might sound like Xi Siyan had incredible luck, like manna from heaven.
But the more Zhou Chengchen listened, the more his heart ached. Xi Siyan wasn’t the type to easily accept favors from others. It wasn’t that he was pretentious; he just had his own self-respect.
That he accepted it only indicates that the old professor was truly like a father to him. It could be imagined how good the old professor was to him, and how great a blow his departure was to Xi Siyan.
Zhou Chengchen was certain that even the departure of Xi Siyan’s own parents wouldn’t impact him as much.
Zhou Chengchen felt his breath almost stopping, his hand holding the water cup trembling slightly.
Liu Xiaoyu’s words came to an end, and after a while, Zhou Chengchen finally spoke with great difficulty: "Yesterday, I went to Q University with some friends, and... I saw Guo Yue. I heard... she, you have a connection?"
A hint of shyness appeared on Liu Xiaoyu’s face, but he didn’t avoid the question, adjusting his glasses and smiling: "She’s a good girl."
"So, you two...?"
Liu Xiaoyu was still very shy, but he spoke quite frankly: "I don’t want to think about these things right now. I just want to focus on building our company with the greats. I don’t want to be distracted by other things. She’s great, but I can’t bring myself to attend to her right now. I’d rather not delay her."
Liu Xiaoyu’s words sounded like he was making excuses for not liking someone, but Zhou Chengchen understood that he had low emotional intelligence but high rationality, so this wasn’t an excuse, but rather a product of rational analysis.
This also confirmed that what Xiao Rou said was true; the person involved with Guo Yue was Liu Xiaoyu, not Xi Siyan.
Then what was the deal with those two text messages back then?
Weren’t they sent by Xi Siyan? But if not him, then who did?
And what happened to him later? Why was he out of touch for several days? Even if they couldn’t meet in person, surely a phone call was possible?