The precocious genius girl spoke in such an over-the-top way that it sounded like she was telling a joke, so Gongsun Qing gave a dry laugh. She didn't find it funny at all, but as a mature adult, she felt that if she didn't laugh now, the situation would be just too funny.
Fulei's smile instantly turned a little gloomy. She couldn't help shooting Gongsun Qing a sidelong glance and asking crossly, "Sister Qing, what are you laughing at?"
"I thought of something happy," she said solemnly. "I got the lead role in The Little Mermaid."
"Didn't you tell me that last month? You even treated me to a meal and announced in the hall that Miss Gongsun was paying for everyone's lunch today." Fulei blinked her big purple eyes.
"I absolutely did not say that!"
"That's right! And even if she were treating everyone, she'd say, 'Lunch is on the movie queen, Miss Gongsun Qing.'"
"Exactly, the movie queen, Gongsun... I said, stop teasing me!"
But beyond the joke, Yu Lian couldn't help thinking about something else. He'd heard of the Golden Gear Company Fulei had just mentioned.
As everyone knew, the company wasn't a famous business known to the public, but it did have a certain reputation in the industry. If he remembered right, it manufactured all kinds of industrial consumables and large-machine parts, making it a capable local business within the Alliance's vast industrial system. Its place in the supply chain was somewhere in the middle, and it had a flagship product. It seemed like the kind of company that could survive into the next era as long as it didn't do anything stupid.
But according to Fulei, it wasn't some mid-tier local business. It was a comprehensive industrial company that had started in orbital mining and