Blazing Hot!

Peng City, Zhong Wei Technology.

Just as Hua Long Technology received further verification results, greatly boosting their confidence and busily arranging trial production and deeper commercial cooperation, their competitor, Zhong Wei Technology, hadn't been idle these past few days either.

Procurement Manager Peng Fan had been following up on the samples sent by Zhou Feiyu. He received them this morning and immediately handed them over to Project Director Feng Zhongfa, asking him to coordinate personnel for testing.

"What are the results?"

Project Director Feng Zhongfa had been severely criticized by his superiors these past few days. Every few words, they would bring it up, causing him to lose face. Therefore, although he was busy with other projects, upon hearing about this material, he immediately arranged for personnel to test it.

An hour later, before his subordinates could give him the results, he personally went to the Research and Development Department to supervise, urging the R&D Director to go with him to see.

"Old Feng, is there any need to rush this much?"

The R&D Director said somewhat helplessly, but still took him to the Research and Development Department to get the results.

"Everyone is watching. If we don't get a result, this matter won't be settled."

Feng Zhongfa said clearly and somewhat helplessly.

Upon arriving at the Research and Development Department, the engineer responsible for material verification had already cut the material to the required size, assembled some finished products he needed, and was preparing to arrange reliability testing.

Seeing the two directors personally come over, the engineer couldn't help but feel a bit nervous.

When he heard the R&D Director ask for the results, he breathed a sigh of relief and detailed his preliminary test results: "Director Feng, Director Wang, I've only roughly tested this material and haven't done reliability testing yet, but from its preliminary performance, this material is very remarkable. First is the thickness. Currently, the mainstream optical films used for mobile phone screens are generally 0.08~0.1 millimeters thick. This material is only 0.05 millimeters, saving a lot of thickness. Second is the optics, which I think is a very impressive point. It's actually nearly 1 percentage point brighter than King Material, which is simply incredible. You know, King Material's light utilization rate basically reaches 99%. Calculating it this way, this material has 100%, but that's impossible, so I also feel a bit strange..."

Hearing just this, there was no need to listen to the subsequent performance parameters. Both Feng Zhongfa and the R&D Director couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

Feng Zhongfa murmured to himself, "No wonder Hua Long Technology dared to bid for Oupai's project. Such high brightness and low price. How did Hua Long Technology get ahead with such a material?"

The R&D Director gave a bitter smile and said, "We miscalculated. We didn't do our job well."

Losing the Oupai customer project, besides the procurement department taking the blame, their Research and Development Department was also heavily criticized by the leadership, especially him, the R&D Director.

Only now did he realize why Oupai's project was snatched by Hua Long Technology. With such a heaven-defying material, it would be a joke if they couldn't win against them.

Hua Long Technology is the leader in ODM factories, a stronger entity than them, so it's naturally not a joke.

Feng Zhongfa turned around and left in a hurry. He had to report to his leaders and even the boss.

The R&D Director was startled and quickly followed.

Both were smart people. At this point, the subsequent reliability verification of the material was no longer that important. The current results were already sufficient. What was truly worth paying attention to and must be heavily invested in was the company, or rather, the person, who developed this material.

Hua Long Technology got ahead and obtained this material first. If Hua Long Technology exclusively possesses it, then their Zhong Wei Technology will be in trouble.

This is a strategic weapon!

In today's cost-driven environment, whoever possesses materials with stronger performance and better prices will win and dominate the market. Once their Zhong Wei Technology falls behind, there will be no chance of recovery.

At that time, they will have to compete for OLED screen projects, but OLED screen projects are basically controlled by the Koreans and domestic mobile phone glass giants like BE and HE, directly facing the mobile phone terminals. Their ODM factories have no advantage at all, and they can't even get OLED resources. The result will be equally miserable.

Nanjiang County.

Zhou Feiyu, who had visited Li Shihan's home to meet her parents, received a warm welcome from Li Shihan's parents. He had dinner at Li Shihan's house that evening.

Zhou Feiyu naturally happily agreed.

According to Zhou Feiyu's instructions, they shouldn't tell her parents about the startup for now. So, Li Shihan didn't mention it during dinner. When they asked, Zhou Feiyu took over the conversation himself, saying it was just the initial stage and he would report the good news to the elders after achieving some results.

Li Shihan's parents naturally didn't ask any more questions.

"Feiyu, you're the first boy Shihan has ever brought home on her own. Come visit often in the future, Auntie will boil you some eggs."

A mother-in-law looking at her prospective son-in-law, the more she looked, the more she liked him. Li Shihan's mother said with a smile.

Li Shihan's father was more reserved, but his words and greetings were quite casual, clearly showing a good attitude towards him. At least he wasn't putting on a stern face.

And an honest and reliable family.

Zhou Feiyu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that this kind of family environment was quite good and made him feel very comfortable.

Marrying a virtuous wife and having a stable family, as well as a stable mother-in-law's family, would undoubtedly be very helpful for life and career. Zhou Feiyu didn't expect his wife's family to be incredibly powerful; that would actually be less ideal. It was enough for him to be powerful himself.

After dinner, they rested for a while, and Zhou Feiyu lingered, not leaving.

Seeing that it was getting late, Li Shihan's parents suggested he stay the night.

Zhou Feiyu immediately agreed wholeheartedly.

"Can't you come again next time?"

Li Shihan shyly pushed him.

"I don't even have a car, it's not easy to go back now."

Zhou Feiyu quickly found an excuse.

And so, the matter of staying the night was settled.

In the evening, the night was cool like water.

Li Shihan took the initiative to show Zhou Feiyu around her village.

Under the New Countryside construction, although Nanjiang County's economy wasn't developed, basically every village was built to be quite neat and beautiful, with solid and flat concrete roads, beautiful and tall streetlights, and various fitness equipment, stone tables, and stone benches. It truly lived up to the name of New Countryside.

The two talked a lot, but this time it was basically Li Shihan talking, telling stories about her childhood, interesting things from her school days, and her time at art university.

It seemed she had never talked about so many things with anyone before. Li Shihan was exceptionally talkative that night, laughing as she spoke. The gentle breeze blew, her dark hair fluttered in the wind, and a faint fragrance lingered at Zhou Feiyu's nose. He couldn't help but feel completely captivated.

Zhou Feiyu asked himself, no other girl had ever made him feel this way, and no other girl had ever trusted and been so close to him. He felt his true feelings.

"Li Shihan!"

Under the streetlights, with only stone tables and benches around and the sound of frogs in the fields, Zhou Feiyu couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion and called out to her softly.

"Hmm?"

Li Shihan gently responded, tilting her head slightly to look at him.

After her laughter, Li Shihan's clear black and white eyes held a pool of autumn water, adding a touch of charm she didn't usually possess.

Zhou Feiyu could no longer hold back. He reached out and took Li Shihan's hands, pulling hard, directly pulling Li Shihan into his embrace.

Then, he quickly lowered his head and kissed her.

"Mmm!"

Li Shihan immediately let out a muffled sound, but it quickly disappeared.

The next moment, with Zhou Feiyu's bold actions, Li Shihan responded with passion.

Two young and fervent hearts, at this moment, began to pound, their rhythms gradually connecting.