The God and the Newbie

Guo Yuan did not dwell on the bracelet after hearing that. Su Yurou had already noticed it, and if he kept pressing the issue, it might backfire.

After that, Guo Yuan and Wang Qiu continued to trade pleasantries as they discussed the price of the film and television adaptation rights.

In the end, Wang Qiu refused to go above one million.

Guo Yuan pretended to be hesitant, then said he would discuss it with Lawyer Hu and get back to Wang Qiu later.

Wang Qiu nodded and had Su Yurou see Guo Yuan out.

As Su Yurou escorted Guo Yuan to the door, she could not help recalling how tense Wang Qiu had been about the bracelet just now.

Su Yurou remembered that she had not known Wang Qiu possessed this bracelet at first. It now seemed that Wang Qiu had valued it greatly and deliberately kept it from her sight.

It was only after Wang Qiu had slept with her that he gradually lowered his guard and stopped hiding the bracelet in his sleeve.

Su Yurou secretly made up her mind to probe him again when she returned to the office and see just how much Wang Qiu cared about the bracelet.

After seeing Guo Yuan off, Su Yurou formulated her battle plan. She took a deep breath, put on a sweet and captivating smile, then pushed open the door to Wang Qiu's office.

"Boss, I've seen him off." As she spoke, Su Yurou sat down beside Wang Qiu and leaned into him of her own accord.

"That brat looked like he was negotiating the price with me, but he was actually baiting me into raising it the whole time. He's really sly," Wang Qiu said coldly.

"Manager Wang, are you angry?"

"Not really. I just think Guo Yuan is too slippery. It's like he can see through what people are thinking. He's hard to deal with."

"Should I find someone to—"

"No need. Just follow the normal process. Keep a close eye on things and don't let any other competitors interfere."

"Don't worry, Boss. I understand."

With the serious business finished, it was time to do something less serious.

Wang Qiu wrapped an arm around Su Yurou's waist and asked, "Yurou, what style are you wearing underneath today?"

"It's your favorite style, Boss."

Ten thousand words omitted here.

Afterward, Su Yurou took a shower in the suite attached to Wang Qiu's office.

While showering, Su Yurou clearly remembered that Wang Qiu had not taken off his bracelet even while doing that sort of thing. He had even removed his watch, yet he had not removed the bracelet. There really was something wrong with it.

Perhaps what they wanted was inside that bracelet.

Meanwhile, Guo Yuan bought a roast duck and headed to his second uncle's house.

Guo Yuan knocked on the door, but no one answered. He found the key in its usual spot and pushed the door open.

The first thing Guo Yuan saw upon entering was a floor littered with takeout containers.

Your second uncle was not home. He had a date tonight with a hot-bodied flight attendant and would not be back. However, yesterday he used mathematics to calculate two stocks, and the results were in the memo on his computer. It was recommended that you choose the latter one. The computer password was 13579.

Guo Yuan's eyes lit up at those words. He went straight to Cao Bin's study, turned on the computer, entered the password, and opened the memo after reaching the desktop.

It was densely packed with all kinds of stock information. Guo Yuan scrolled directly to the bottom and saw a stock called Qiangsheng Group.

The stock was currently priced at 71 yuan per share. It would begin rising in two days, with slight fluctuations along the way, and would last around ten days. Its peak price would be 82.3 yuan.

A gain of nearly ten yuan in ten days was not bad. He could make tens of thousands from this wave.

Guo Yuan took a photo with his phone and closed the memo.

He then opened a folder on the F drive titled Teaching Materials and quickly skimmed through it.

"Tch, boring. Second Uncle's collection is nothing special." Looking disappointed, Guo Yuan exited the folder and casually shut down the computer.

Although Cao Bin would not be coming back tonight, Guo Yuan did not take the roast duck with him. Since he was benefiting from someone else's stock tip, he ought to leave something behind.

Guo Yuan sent Cao Bin a WeChat message saying that he had brought him roast duck, then turned and left.

When Guo Yuan returned home, he turned on his computer and searched for Qiangsheng Group's stock. The data largely matched Cao Bin's records.

It was already past six in the evening, and the stock market was closed. Guo Yuan planned to buy the stock tomorrow morning—seventy-six lots in total. After that, all he had to do was wait for the price to rise.

After deciding on the stock purchase, Guo Yuan opened the job-taking group to see whether there was any relatively easy coding work he could pick up.

Most of the jobs in the group were subcontracted. For example, the first one Guo Yuan saw was for building the frontend framework for a certain high school's official website.

The person posting such a job could never be a high school teacher or someone from the academic affairs office. More likely, they had taken the job from that high school and then posted it in the group.

It was even possible that the person who posted it had picked it up from somewhere else.

Veterans like Guo Yuan would not take that kind of job.

On the one hand, such jobs usually had tight deadlines and heavy workloads. On the other hand, they did not pay much, and payment could even be delayed.

That was why only rookies and complete beginners rushed to take jobs like those.

Veterans like Guo Yuan mostly took direct jobs. Even if they were not direct jobs, they had to be jobs that some company could not handle.

There were quite a few mid- and lower-level managers from various companies in the group. They would occasionally post jobs they could not solve themselves or found too troublesome to handle.

As luck would have it, just as Guo Yuan entered the group, someone posted two jobs: one was the framework for a high school's official website, while the other was a facial recognition project posted by an internet company in the Imperial Capital.

Many of the domestic patents for facial recognition technology were currently held by Alibaba, but Alibaba was not particularly strict about those patents.

To be precise, Alibaba only guarded against big companies. They only charged licensing fees to large corporations; if small companies used it, they used it. Alibaba didn't care.

How much money could a small company have? By the time they finished all the hassle, the money they got might not even cover the cost of the lawyers they'd need to hire to sue for infringement!

So, in a sense, many facial recognition technology patents were essentially public.

This job was to put together a complete facial recognition program, then connect it to the database of the APP the company was developing.

He could just copy a set of facial recognition source code directly. As for connecting it to the database, for Guo Yuan, who was proficient in backend development, it was a piece of cake.

So Guo Yuan decisively accepted the job.

The person who had posted the job was also happy to see that Guo Yuan had taken it. Guo Yuan was one of the technical big shots in the group, and none of the jobs he had taken so far had ever run into trouble.

The two sides then discussed the price and timeline. In the end, they settled on 6,500 yuan, with the job to be completed within a week.

After signing the electronic contract, Guo Yuan got to work.

PS: Everything above was based on the author's real experiences. Back when I had just graduated and hadn't yet passed the State Grid exam, I studied and drilled practice questions at home while taking jobs in freelance groups to earn some pocket money. The big shots in those groups made several thousand yuan per job, sometimes even over ten thousand. Rookies like us worked our asses off for half a month on a frontend framework outsourcing job and only got 1,000 yuan. It was enough to make you cry!