Evening self-study

"Fangting, this Universal Technology is quite impressive; they've established a branch in the Shenzhen market."

"In addition, they've hired five employees from the Wuhan University."

"I have two students who have been given prominent roles in their company. One is in charge of operations, essentially the second-in-command, and the other handles planning, ranking fifth in the company."

Zhang Xin excitedly told Liu Fangting.

In recent days, Huatian Vocational School had sent some teachers and students to visit Universal Technology's new office space. It was surprising how rapidly Universal Technology had expanded.

However, Liu Fangting kept her head down, lost in thought.

"Fangting, what's wrong?"

"Um, nothing."

"What do you mean, 'nothing'? Are you still thinking about your student skipping class?"

"More or less."

"Weren't you on a home visit last time? What was the outcome?"

"Well..."

Liu Fangting felt somewhat awkward and didn't know how to respond.

"What do you mean 'well'? Is it that difficult?"

"It is indeed challenging."

"Really? How can parents let their students skip class like this? You're from a prestigious school, and we at Huatian don't have such issues."

"It's not the parents' fault; it's mainly because my student, sigh, also works at Universal Technology."

"Also works at Universal Technology?"

"Yes."

Liu Fangting nodded.

Thinking about the time she met with the Education Bureau leaders, she felt even more embarrassed.

Today, at noon, the school principal asked Liu Fangting for more details about Chen Yu's situation. Finally, the principal told Liu Fangting that the school was aware of Chen Yu's situation.

What else could be said?

In such a situation, should she really bring him back to class?

"Is it possible that I know your student? Maybe I recognize him."

"You probably do."

"Oh, really? Who is it?"

"Chen Yu."

"Pfft..."

Zhang Xin sprayed water out of her mouth.

"My goodness, Chen Yu is your student?"

"What do you think?"

"I... I... I understand how you feel now."

As teachers, Zhang Xin couldn't help but empathize with Liu Fangting.

She remembered how she had gone on a home visit herself.

Now, by some twist of fate, he had discovered that his student had become a big boss.

"What do we do now?"

"What can we do? Should I go and call him back to attend class again?"

"Well, um, the thing is, attending class is still necessary."

While Zhang Xin spoke, she herself couldn't fully believe her own words.

Why do students attend class?

To acquire knowledge.

Right.

And why do you acquire knowledge?

To get into a good university.

And what's the purpose of getting into a good university?

To find a good job.

Well, he was already a big shot, so why bother looking for a job?

...

"Sis, the advertising fees on those web portals are outrageous."

"Especially Sohu; they claimed to be vexed by us, but they actually accepted our ads. Geez, instead of vexing them, it seems like we've ended up vexing ourselves."

"Boss Chen, burning money like this is painful."

In just three days, they had burned through a million in advertising fees, and Zhang Jianming was feeling the pinch.

"Stay calm."

"If it weren't for the internet bubble last year, with the major web portals halving their advertising costs, we wouldn't even think about advertising there."

"As for Sohu, heh, they're thinking that if money is handed to them, they won't turn it down. If I were in their shoes, I'd do the same."

Chen Yu said this, but he was feeling the pinch too.

The internet was indeed a bottomless pit, capable of swallowing any amount of money.

This was just one gaming website. If they were to undertake a larger project, they wouldn't survive without tens of millions or even billions.

But Chen Yu didn't plan to burn money for long; he just wanted to establish a reputation and get the First Gaming Portal's name out there.

"How's it going with Li Nan?"

"I checked that side. The guild system can be set up in a week."

"Good. Have you contacted the major guilds?"

"I've reached out to all the major guilds, and they're quite interested in this guild system."

"Great, in a week, we'll take down the ads and officially launch the guild system."

Chen Yu gave instructions to Zhang Jianming and, checking the time, said, "Uh, it's 6 o'clock; let's all go home."

After speaking, Chen Yu rode his bike to the school.

It had been a while since he had been to the school, and he was planning to review there.

Of course, he didn't intend to study high school-level material for real. He just wanted to smoothly get into a decent school.

As for why he wanted to get into a good school, Chen Yu was very clear.

Even though he had been reborn and possessed foresight into countless future events.

Achieving financial freedom for himself wasn't much of a problem.

But while realizing financial freedom, whether he could further change the world was not an easy matter.

In his previous life, Chen Yu was just an ordinary person. He had a lot to learn.

Without discussing anything else, Chen Yu was completely clueless about capital operation.

Why did so many enterprises in the future become so powerful?

Apart from having good products, it was more about understanding capital operation.

Chen Yu needed capital, and he also needed connections.

So, during this period, Chen Yu had to continuously enrich himself.

"Chen Yu, you haven't been to class for several days. Are you sick?"

"Well, kind of."

"How are you feeling now?"

"Better."

"That's good."

Seeing Chen Yu attend the evening self-study, Lu Xue asked with concern.

"Okay."

"What's this?"

"These are notes I've taken over the past few days. You've missed a few classes; you can take a look."

"Thank you."

Chen Yu thanked her with a smile.

During the second session of evening self-study, the class teacher, Liu Fangting, was on duty.

Seeing Chen Yu, Liu Fangting was also somewhat surprised.

"Chen Yu, step out for a moment."

Helplessly, Chen Yu followed Liu Fangting to the teachers' office.

"Rare guest, CEO Chen, visiting First High School. I apologize for not extending a warmer welcome."

"Please, speak like a human."

"Speaking like a human means, is the school a marketplace? You come and go as you please?"

"Well..."

Chen Yu felt a bit of a headache. "There have been quite a few things at the company recently, so I missed some classes."

"You've missed quite a few days instead of just 'some classes'."

"What could I do? I can't let the company go bankrupt, can I?"

"One company on the left, one on the right, very impressive. Tell me, when did you start a company?"

"This semester."

"Why didn't you tell the teacher?"

"Don't you already know?"

"Hmm?"

Liu Fangting stared.

"Teacher Liu, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to keep it from you. I can't just say to you, 'Teacher Liu, I recently started a company and made quite a bit of money, how about you work for me, and I'll pay you 5,000 a month'."

"What, 5,000 yuan, really?"

"Really."

"That's great... Go, go, go, none of this nonsense. Now, I'm asking you, will you still skip classes in the future?"

"I'll try not to."

"Hmph, remember what you said today, now go back."

Waving him off, Liu Fangting let Chen Yu return to the evening self-study.

"This kid, I almost fell for his nonsense again."

"But 5,000 yuan a month, tsk tsk, it's quite tempting."

Muttering a few words under her breath, Liu Fangting felt secretly pleased.

Just a moment ago, she had been quite powerful.

The president of a company still had to listen to her, didn't he?

Nevertheless, Liu Fangting also knew that she could only do so much. What could she do if Chen Yu continued to skip class?