"Just call me Shihan."
Faced with the way Xiao Jianguo and Jiang Xinyi addressed her and the smiles on their faces, Li Shihan still felt a little shy, even though she had heard Xiao Jianguo call her that many times over the past few days. She hurriedly said so.
Of course, compared with a few days ago, Li Shihan had grown a slightly thicker skin. She was no longer so thin-skinned that she would blush whenever her emotions stirred.
Xiao Jianguo and Jiang Xinyi exchanged a glance and said in unison, "Okay."
Having been through it themselves, they could tell at a glance that Li Shihan and Zhou Feiyu were only one marriage certificate away from making it official.
Neither of them believed Li Shihan and Zhou Feiyu would fail to make it work. Zhou Feiyu was responsible, dependable, self-disciplined, and now ran such a successful company with a bright future ahead of him. Men like him were practically extinct. What girl would choose to let go at a time like this?
After sitting down, Li Shihan casually asked, "What were you talking about? When I came up just now, Wang Lei said you'd been chatting for over half an hour."
Zhou Feiyu smiled. "Just life and work. We also talked about some amusing things from when my old classmates and I were in school."
The moment she heard that, Li Shihan became interested. Smiling, she asked, "What amusing things? Tell me so I can hear too. I feel like I've told you most of my stories, but you hardly ever tell me about yourself."
As she spoke, she shot Zhou Feiyu a sideways glance. Her eyes shimmered, looking both cute and alluring.
Zhou Feiyu felt his heart heat up at the sight, but he was also a little embarrassed.
"There wasn't much to tell. Zhou Feiyu was pretty withdrawn in school and didn't like talking. He devoted himself to studying, so when we graduated middle school, he was the only one in the entire grade admitted to County Key High School."
Xiao Jianguo spoke up then. "Back in our second year of middle school, Zhou Feiyu had a particularly interesting period. He specifically chose math class to sleep in. He was alert and energetic during every other subject, but the moment math class began, he'd start nodding off. His head would bob up and down, and several times his chin even smacked into the desk with loud bangs. The math teacher was furious at first and used that long ruler..."
As he spoke, he gestured out its length. "The one-meter wooden ruler used for drawing on the blackboard. He whacked Zhou Feiyu hard on the butt with it."
"Haha... That really happened?"
Li Shihan laughed so hard she rocked back and forth, her mouth stretched wide enough to reach her ears. She had completely lost any image of a refined beauty.
Jiang Xinyi was smiling too. It was also her first time hearing her husband tell this little story.
Zhou Feiyu helplessly shrugged, maintaining a bitter smile without saying anything.
"Later, after he fell asleep too many times, the math teacher was rendered speechless and stopped bothering with him entirely. Of course, that was what made the rest of us furious."
Xiao Jianguo, who continued the story, even began to play it up.
Li Shihan did not notice that at all. Still laughing, she asked, "How did that make you furious?"
Zhou Feiyu found it strange as well. "What was there to be furious about? How come I didn't know about this?"
Xiao Jianguo rolled his eyes at him. "Of course it was infuriating! You have no idea. This guy slept in math class every day, yet he always ranked first in the grade in math exams. Even in province-wide middle school joint exams, he was always among the top students. Tell me, wasn't that maddening?"
"Uh..."
Zhou Feiyu was left speechless and could only say, "All right."
Li Shihan gave a nasal huff. "I didn't know you had that kind of talent. You were a math genius, getting first place even while sleeping in class."
Jiang Xinyi slapped Xiao Jianguo and scolded him with a smile, "And you have the nerve to say that? Who told you all to be so useless? You studied seriously every day and still couldn't beat someone who slept in class."
Xiao Jianguo hurriedly protested, "We hadn't figured things out back then, while he had. There's no comparison, okay?"
"Nonsense!"
Zhou Feiyu objected. "You just weren't studying seriously enough. Besides, I was only good at math in middle school. Once I got to high school, I wasn't anymore, and in college I was even more average."
Xiao Jianguo curled his lip. "Fine. You're the boss. Whatever the boss says is right."
Zhou Feiyu raised his middle finger at him in disdain, then moved on from the subject and asked about business instead. "Xinyi, you know our company currently has only one product, FY-01, used in display optics, mainly for mobile phone screens. In these fields, what materials do you think are the most fundamental and indispensable?"
Small talk was small talk, but once business came up, both Xiao Jianguo and Jiang Xinyi became serious.
Li Shihan, who had been grinning beside them, also put away her smile and listened attentively to their conversation. Whether she could understand it or not, since Zhou Feiyu's career was here, she felt she needed to start learning and understanding at least a little.
Being a little princess and being cherished in a man's palm was all well and good, but if a woman stayed a princess for too long, the man would grow tired. He would no longer see her as a princess, but as an ancestor demanding worship.
When that time came, there would be no good ending.
Li Shihan was very smart—not clever in petty ways, but smart in the sense that she understood life.
"I don't know much about other niche industries, so I won't comment on them and risk misleading you."
Jiang Xinyi thought for a moment, first setting the tone before explaining in detail. "I'm an electronics engineer for Mobile Phone Glass. Aside from being responsible for circuit design, determining glass performance, and setting various electronic and performance standards, I'm also deeply involved in selecting and validating the various materials used in Mobile Phone Glass. If you insist on an answer, I think PI Film—its technical name is Polyimide—is absolutely a field worth entering..."
"PI Film?"
Zhou Feiyu rarely let out a surprised sound. Interrupting Jiang Xinyi, he asked, "Why would Mobile Phone Glass need PI Film? Isn't it just glass?"
Zhou Feiyu was fairly familiar with PI Film, whose technical name was Polyimide, but only because he used it often and knew it had a wide range of applications. He had never studied it in depth.
Since Jiang Xinyi had brought up PI Film, she obviously did not mean using it as packaging to wrap glass. Mobile Phone Glass must require PI Film as a material.
That information could not help but leave Zhou Feiyu astonished.
Mobile Phone Glass was still glass. In Zhou Feiyu's impression, glass was simply glass, made from glass fiber, a material completely unrelated to PI Film.
But now it seemed that making Mobile Phone Glass was far more complicated than he had imagined.
"No wonder there are only a few manufacturers capable of producing Mobile Phone Glass. The technical barriers involved must be extraordinarily high."
In the span of a moment, Zhou Feiyu thought of many things.
Hearing Zhou Feiyu's question, Jiang Xinyi merely smiled before explaining, "Although Mobile Phone Glass is also glass, it is completely different from ordinary glass in terms of standards. Whether in material composition, manufacturing processes, or the equipment required for production, everything is different. Of course, to be precise, PI Film is not used to make glass itself. It is used to make Mobile Phone Glass. In other words, glass is only one raw material of Mobile Phone Glass, while PI Film is used in the process of turning glass, that raw material, into Mobile Phone Glass..."
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