Rebirth: Start to Save the Treasure Girl

"An orange grown north of the Huai River is still an orange."

Throughout the journey, Xue Rui kept repeating Lin Ruoxi's words in his mind.

It seems that in Lin Ruoxi's world, nothing is absolutely impossible.

Oranges can grow in the north, but they need a suitable environment...

Now that the seeds have been sown, whether or not oranges will grow depends entirely on Xue Rui's ability as a "fruit farmer".

When the two returned home, Lin Ruoxi noticed that Xue Rui seemed distracted, so she asked:
What are you thinking about?

Xue Rui snapped out of his daze: "I'll definitely let you eat sweet oranges in the future."

"Why...why later? But I want to eat it today."

Lin Ruoxi pouted, her tone full of disappointment, then looked at Xue Rui with expectant eyes.

Xue Rui smiled awkwardly, thinking to himself that they weren't talking about the same orange.

"Of course, you can eat whenever you want."

Although Xue Rui couldn't understand it, he couldn't stand Lin Ruoxi's pitiful look.

It's just an orange. What's with the attitude that someone can't afford it?
As soon as he finished speaking, Xue Rui noticed that Lin Ruoxi's smile was getting wider and wider, and her eyes were full of secret joy.

"When are we eating?" Lin Ruoxi asked, skipping along with great anticipation.

Xue Rui took a deep breath: "Now, I'll go buy you some oranges. You stay here and don't move."

"Hmm, it's on the coffee table." Lin Ruoxi pointed to the coffee table.

"Ok."

Xue Rui turned and walked to the sofa, intending to peel an orange for Lin Ruoxi, thinking to himself: She's such a child who will never grow up.

However, just as Xue Rui was peeling the orange, he suddenly felt a warm, soft touch on his back. A pair of arms gently supported his neck and groped his chest.

"Xi Xi, stop fooling around."

Xue Rui's tone was helpless. Lin Ruoxi's little feet in white socks were hooked on his stomach, as if she had no intention of getting off him.

"You're the one who said I should eat oranges."

Lin Ruoxi snatched the orange from Xue Rui's hand, casually placed it on the coffee table, then leaned back and pulled Xue Rui down onto the sofa, slowly climbing onto him.

"You are my orange." Lin Ruoxi looked down at Xue Rui with unusually gentle eyes.

"I'm an orange? Hmm!"

Before Xue Rui could ask anything, Lin Ruoxi had already kissed him, easily prying open his teeth, her rapid breaths hitting his face.

Just as Xue Rui was about to get up, Lin Ruoxi pressed his wrist down tightly.

Oh no, we've fallen into the lion's den.

Xue Rui glanced at the oranges on the coffee table, and many fragments of memories flashed through his mind like a slideshow.

The first time I rode the bus with Lin Ruoxi, I still smelled the fresh scent of oranges in my dreams...

tangerine?

Xue Rui remembered that he had lied to Lin Ruoxi, saying that his nickname was "Orange," in order to take advantage of her.

This silly girl, she remembers every single word he says.

Xue Rui looked utterly dejected. It turned out that what Lin Ruoxi meant by "eating oranges" was completely different from what he thought "eating oranges" meant.

Oh well, let her be...

Xue Rui slowly closed his eyes, and suddenly felt his face was wet. He opened his eyes and saw Lin Ruoxi's long eyelashes trembling, with tears hanging on the tips of her eyelashes.

He pushed Lin Ruoxi away and asked with concern, "Xixi, what's wrong?"

"I was wrong. I shouldn't have spied on your conversation."

Lin Ruoxi cried very sadly, wiping her tears haphazardly with her little hands, but her eyes were like a broken faucet, constantly overflowing with tears.

"Uncle Wu... asked if you wanted to send me abroad, and you said... it's not that you didn't want to..."

Lin Ruoxi choked up several times with just one sentence; she deeply regretted peeking at their conversation.

Lin Ruoxi felt it was her own fault; she was being too petty. Xue Rui hadn't said anything, but she kept thinking about what he had said.

Does it mean that you don't want to, but rather that you do want to?

why?

Lin Ruoxi was very sad. She wanted to ask Xue Rui for an answer, but she didn't dare to.

Xue Rui felt a chill run down his spine, wondering why Lin Ruoxi could still hear him even though he had already sent her away.
No, Lin Ruoxi just said "saw".

In other words, the little girl saw it with her eyes...

"Xixi, when did you secretly learn lip reading behind my back?" Xue Rui asked in a serious tone.

"Ugh..." Lin Ruoxi stopped crying, unsure how to explain to Xue Rui.

"You half-baked idiot, you must have misread it. I never said I wanted to send you away," Xue Rui said shamelessly.

Lin Ruoxi's eyes widened in shock. She was stunned for a while before her gaze softened: "You... you say there's no such thing, then there isn't."

"What do you mean I said no?" Xue Rui frowned and said casually, "Now I'll use lip reading, let's see if you can guess it."

"Mmm!" Lin Ruoxi wiped away her tears and stared intently at Xue Rui's lips.

Xue Rui opened his mouth slightly and made an "o" shape, moving very slowly.

"I…"

"Love."

Lin Ruoxi read it aloud, word by word.

As soon as Xue Rui finished mouthing the last "you," Lin Ruoxi wore a happy smile. She hugged Xue Rui tightly, snuggling against him. She was so happy that she wished time could stand still at this moment.

Xue Rui lay on the sofa, gently patting Lin Ruoxi's back, thinking to himself that this girl was easy to coax; a sweet word could make her so happy.

Suddenly, he heard Lin Ruoxi's soft, sweet voice:

"I love you too, I love you so much..."

Xue Rui's heart skipped a beat, as if it had missed a beat.

It's said that the word "love" loses its value if you say it too often, but every time he hears Lin Ruoxi say that word, his heart is always stirred.

"Little fox, I'm hungry."

"Mmm, eat me."

"Um... I mean, I'm hungry."

……

Throughout April, Xue Rui was busy with preparations. During this time, he took some time to accompany Lin Ruoxi home to sweep the tomb. Sweeping the tomb was not the main point; the main point was that Xue Rui treated his father-in-law to a pot of drinks again.

As for whether Lin Ruoxi knew or not?
Xue Rui thought that Lin Ruoxi probably knew, but that didn't affect his relationship with his father-in-law. The important thing was that Lin Ruoxi didn't care.

Unbeknownst to them, the sweet scent in the air faded, replaced by a warm, vibrant atmosphere. The afternoon sun grew intense, and fashionable female students donned short skirts. Summer had arrived, Xue Rui's favorite season.

After the May Day holiday, Xue Rui was busy at the computing center as usual, learning some hardware knowledge from the computer assembly technicians.

At noon, Xue Rui ordered lunch for all his employees, squatted by the roadside to eat his fast food, and took the opportunity to admire the female students' thighs.

"Old Wu, do you think foreign women all have long legs?"

More than a month later, Xue Rui and Wu Hongwei had become quite familiar with each other. They often ate and chatted by the roadside, and it was common for them to joke around.

"What are you thinking? Their leg hair is longer than yours," Wu Hongwei laughed.

"I'm eating right now, don't disgust me," Xue Rui said with a laugh.

"And another thing, that perfume smells like body odor mixed with body odor, do you know what that smells like?" Wu Hongwei persisted.

"No wonder you're still single at your age," Xue Rui scolded.

"Hahahaha!" The laughter of the crowd echoed through the campus, attracting the attention of many students.

Wu Hongwei silently put down his chopsticks: "Just eat your food, why are you making personal attacks?"

"Let's eat something good. Look, this school is full of girls." Xue Rui didn't seem to care at all.

Wu Hongwei paused for a moment: "I'm more than ten years older than them, and I might be about the same age as their parents."

"Wouldn't that be even better? If you can't make it work with the students, you can try talking to your future mother-in-law who's the same age as you," Xue Rui grinned.

"grass!"

Wu Hongwei was so angry he almost dropped his chopsticks. He felt he couldn't let Xue Rui stay with him any longer, as Xue Rui was constantly making fun of him.

"Why don't you spend more time with General Manager Lin? She sends me WeChat messages every day saying she's keeping you tied to this place and won't let you leave," Wu Hongwei suggested.

Xue Rui fell silent. Lin Ruoxi was a person with very poor self-control. Whenever he was around Lin Ruoxi, she always wanted to stick to him and play.

Xue Rui wasn't worried about wasting Lin Ruoxi's time. He himself was entering an unfamiliar industry and needed to learn as well. Wu Hongwei was a very good teacher...

“Xue Rui, what you should be doing right now is finding clients. Cloud computing is the future trend, and we are already at the forefront of the times. As the boss, you need to expand the market and find stable clients. You don’t need to worry about the technical aspects,” Wu Hongwei suggested.

"Let me think about it." Xue Rui's expression instantly turned serious.

He's been thinking a lot lately about what his advantages are if he's just focusing on computing power.
He has a first-mover advantage and some talent advantages, so making money effortlessly in the next two years is no problem.

However, once internet giants enter the market and choose to burn money and engage in a price war, he cannot withstand it.

"By the way, your school leaders came by yesterday and asked if we could provide them with some computing power for free. They offered to waive our rent and give us some electricity discounts," Wu Hongwei suddenly said.

"can."

Xue Rui waved his hand dismissively, not taking it seriously at all. He had originally planned to offer the school some preferential policies anyway, since he had a whole building on campus to himself, and several transformers...

Once the data center is fully operational, we might have to ask the school for more capacity, so it's always good to build a good relationship beforehand.

"You guys take your time eating, I'm going to check on Xixi." Xue Rui shoveled the last bite of rice into his mouth, got up, and headed to Lin Ruoxi's company.

On the way, Xue Rui was thinking about the problem of growing oranges.

The batch of graphics cards ordered by Nvidia has arrived, and they are now working overtime to finish them. It is expected that they can start trial operation in two months. However, he failed to set a long-term goal for the company and was just a businessman who sold computing power.

When Xue Rui arrived at Lin Ruoxi's company, he saw two unfamiliar young men carrying things into the company, looking very nervous.

"Hey? What are you doing?" Xue Rui called out a few times, but the two didn't hear him. Xue Rui jogged over and patted one of them on the shoulder.

Suddenly, the young man's hand trembled, and the cardboard box slipped from his grasp, but Xue Rui caught it with lightning speed.

"Holy crap! You scared us to death! Do you even know what's in here?"

The young man hurriedly snatched the cardboard box, his tone very impatient. He hugged the box tightly, tilted his head, and wiped the sweat from his shoulder.

"What is it?" Xue Rui asked.

"A whole box of K80 computing cards, one of which is enough to pay me a year's salary," the young man said irritably.

Xue Rui's lips twitched: "You only make 20,000 or 30,000 a year?"

The young man was astonished, thinking to himself that he had actually encountered an expert who knew so much at such a young age.

“Graduate students are in an even worse situation~ This card is worth two years’ salary for me. If we break this thing, our lives will be over.” The other person also looked scared.

"Is that all?" Xue Rui chuckled, not taking it seriously at all.

So these two are students, one of whom is even a doctoral student?
"What are you laughing at? You can't afford to pay for it either." The two snorted and walked away on their own.

Xue Rui thought that the box full of graphics cards must be from Lin Ruoxi's company.

However, Xue Rui didn't ask any more questions, but silently followed the two inside.

"Junior Lin, I've returned the graphics card. This box of durians was a gift from Professor Wang. It's getting hot lately, so remember to eat them as soon as possible." The young man's tone was slightly obsequious.

Xue Rui rolled his eyes, casually opened the cardboard box and looked inside. There were four or five durians inside. At this time in 2015, they were undoubtedly high-end fruits. This box of durians cost at least one or two thousand yuan.

"Okay, tell Professor Wang to send something else next time. I don't like durian," Lin Ruoxi said without turning her head.

One of them sighed and muttered, "Junior Lin is still so aloof; I've never seen her smile."

"Yes, she must have a beautiful smile."

"But our professor is really stingy; he won't even buy us a few durians..."

The two whispered to each other.

"Just leave your things and go," Lin Ruoxi said coldly.

Xue Rui's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets, wondering what this silly girl was saying.

He's a professor, and he sent one of his PhDs to deliver fruit to you. You're still being picky?
Next time? Do you really think you'll do this again?

It is simply the opposite of Tiangang.

"Okay, let's go back and tell him."

The two were about to leave when they suddenly noticed the clumsy young man rummaging through their durians.

The doctoral student was immediately enraged and snapped, "Who do you think you are, going through other people's things like that?"

"Who am I?" Xue Rui grinned, thinking to himself, "How can you two be so clueless?"
The employees here didn't ask me, so you're asking me?
"Oh! What brings you here!" Suddenly, Lin Ruoxi's surprised voice rang out in the room.

All eyes immediately turned to Lin Ruoxi.

At this moment, Lin Ruoxi smiled brightly, like a warm little sun, making everyone's face feel warm.

"Junior Lin, do you still remember me? I'm Zhang Feng from Northwestern Polytechnical University."

Zhang Feng felt a surge of excitement as Lin Ruoxi walked over with outstretched arms. He felt a little dizzy.

Is this a dream?

Does this ice queen have this side to her?
In fact, Lin Ruoxi was like this every day in front of Xue Rui.

"President Lin, you should address people by their titles when you're out in public."

Xue Rui reached out and pressed Lin Ruoxi's forehead. Lin Ruoxi pressed her head against Xue Rui's palm, waving her small hands in the air, but she could never reach Xue Rui's body, looking like a child pestering an adult to play.

"Okay, Mr. Xue, would you like some durian? I'll open one for you." (End of Chapter)