Nie Xiguang was still somewhat skeptical. She couldn't help testing him with a question.
"Really?"
Seeing that Nie Xiguang didn't believe him, Wang Yue could only say helplessly, "Really! Watermelon, you should trust me! All these years, I've only ever cared about you. How could I have feelings for anyone else?"
Nie Xiguang thought it over carefully. It seemed that really had been the case all these years, so she didn't press him any further.
Wang Yue realized that Nie Xiguang probably lacked confidence around Bei Weiwei, so he decided to keep his distance as much as possible from then on.
For the rest of the time, right up until the holiday, he didn't interact with Bei Weiwei again. Instead, he let Nie Xiguang work with her.
As it turned out, there was a pleasant surprise: Nie Xiguang had done an excellent job arranging things during Bei Weiwei's rotation, making the handoff between headquarters and the Beijing branch run very smoothly when the second academic year began.
After all, although Bei Weiwei was very clever and had a solid grasp of her field, she was still a student who hadn't even finished her second year.
In those circumstances, taking the lead and keeping the Beijing branch running—even if it only involved handling miscellaneous tasks assigned by headquarters—was no easy feat.
Of course, another major reason things went so smoothly was that Ko was in Beijing. With him around, even particularly difficult technical problems were no big deal.
And just like that, time flew by. Before they knew it, it was the summer of 2010, and Wang Yue and Nie Xiguang were already third-year students.
After half a year, Bei Weiwei and the others had made Guangyue Technology's Beijing branch self-sufficient. They no longer relied on assignments from headquarters; they had