America: I came here to study, not to show mercy.

Chapter 250 Confrontation
The first class in the morning has ended.

After explaining the object-oriented implementation framework and approach to a few students who came to ask questions, Li Xiaoen left Professor Sedgewick's lab.

Going down to the first floor and out of the laboratory building, I was met by Sophie's brother, Jasper, who was waiting there with his hands in his pockets. I was taken aback for a moment.

"Jasper, good morning. You're here to see me, right?"

With a sense of foreboding, Li Xiaoen stepped closer, tilted his chin slightly, and greeted her, "Is there something you need?"

Jasper glanced at Sean Lee, nodded, and then looked outside the school.

"Are you free? Let's go to a coffee shop outside the school and chat?"

"..."

With a slight frown, Li Xiaoen tentatively asked, "Is it because of Su Feier?"

"You are very smart."

Jasper's eyes turned meaningful, and he twitched his lips before quickly speaking again before Sean Lee could make a move, "Sean, don't be willful this time, okay?"

Just as he was about to turn around to look for Suffer, Lee Shawn suddenly snapped out of his daze, his blank gaze shifting to look at Jasper.

"If my plans go smoothly, Sophie is already in the car and on her way home."

Nodding, Jasper took a deep breath and turned to look in one direction of the campus.

"Ha ha……"

Looking down at his phone, which showed no messages from Suffer, Li Xiaoen couldn't help but laugh out loud. This unusual behavior caught the attention of Jasper, who was standing next to him.

"Don't worry, I won't cause you any trouble."

Taking a deep breath, Li Xiaoen nodded with a smile, "Also, could you please pass on a message to Su Feier that I will personally go to see her in the near future?"

After a moment of surprise, Jasper smiled and nodded repeatedly.

"I will pass on your message."

Jasper had originally planned to take Sean Lee out for coffee to ease his mood and offer some words of advice, but now it seemed unnecessary. "If your studio needs any help, just let me know."

"If there's a real need, I will."

Nodding in agreement, Sean Lee said goodbye to Jasper. Looking at the empty corridors of the campus, now filled with students in twos and threes, he was momentarily at a loss as to where to go next.

At this point, he no longer wanted to attend general education courses on language and thinking; it seemed that the only place he could go now was his studio.

After a moment's thought, Li Xiaoen quickly made a decision, turned around and walked towards the parking lot, driving to his studio.

To his surprise, he saw a red Ferrari supercar parked on the roadside outside the studio building. Leaning against it was a young woman in a form-fitting dress that accentuated her curvaceous figure. Above her was a fair-skinned face, with large sunglasses covering almost half of it.

Why does this scene look so much like when I first met Suffer?

Li Xiaoen sighed inwardly and pulled over right behind the other car.

Without even glancing at the other person, he turned and walked into the building.

“Hey, Sean…”

Catherine stood with her arms crossed, waiting patiently, but instead of seeing the young man approach, he ignored her and walked into the building on his own. Catherine paused for a moment, then quickly followed him. "Pretending to ignore others is very impolite."

"Oh, it's you."

Without changing her pace, Li Xiaoen turned her head to look at the other person. "Did you come to see me? I thought it was that TikTok female influencer filming since you hadn't said anything."

"you……"

The first floor of the incubation base was very spacious. Catherine, wearing high heels, walked quickly to keep up with Li Xiaoen's pace, the clattering sound echoing continuously. She gritted her teeth, about to scold him, but then thought better of it, and her pretty face turned from gloomy to sunny.

"Sean, did you get angry because Sophie was called home and you took it out on me?"

Upon hearing this, Li Xiaoen glanced at Catherine and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"

With her big, innocent eyes wide open, Catherine pursed her lips and gave a mischievous smile. "Did I guess I was right?"

"I've noticed that your head is quite small."

Li Xiaoen's sudden remark startled Catherine.

"what do you want to say in the end?"

After frowning and thinking for a long time, Catherine finally looked up at the past.

"It's nothing, I just wanted to shut you up."

With a smile on his face, Li Xiaoen arrived at the door of his studio while Catherine was deep in thought. He turned around, pushed the door open, and left Catherine with the door closed.

"Sean..."

Catherine gritted her teeth and took a deep breath. After hesitating for a moment, she decided not to push open the door and follow him in. After thinking for a while, she made up her mind, turned around, picked up her bag, and walked away.

Actually, that was the truth that Lee Shawn said.

Others aside, from what he's seen and known, the American girls all seem to have small heads, of course, this only applies to daughters from well-off or even privileged families.

On Monday morning, Li Xiaoen made a rare appearance at the studio, which surprised everyone. Because of the app's explosive popularity over the weekend, their faces were still beaming with excitement as they stood up and looked at him.

Li Xiaoen raised his hand to greet everyone, briefly explained the goals for the next stage and the direction for improving the app, and then immediately took the lead in sitting down to continue the busy compilation work.

In fact, just like the game of Jenga, if we want to make the algorithm more perfect on the existing, quantifiable, and unchanging machine learning foundation, we need to add other simultaneous or delayed logic on this foundation.

Simply put, this refers to horizontal expansion and vertical expansion.

Considering the challenges that users' various inexplicable or accidental touches pose to the robustness of machine learning algorithms, they also need to set corresponding error correction and review measures for the algorithms.

To achieve perfection, and at least to catch the attention of the major internet giants, the algorithm must be updated and iterated again and again, pushing its evolution and training to the limit.

The quiet studio was once again filled with the clatter of keyboards. Li Xiaoen stacked the two [Advanced Learning Domain Halo], maximizing his thinking ability, and quickly immersed himself in writing code.

He was so engrossed in his work that he was snapped out of it when a hand was placed on his shoulder. He picked up the water glass next to him and took a sip.

"Any questions?"

As she spoke, Li Xiaoen spun around in her chair and looked up. Instead of seeing one of her colleagues from the studio, she saw a small face filled with concern and tenderness.

"Sean..."

While the young man was still in a daze, the girl forced a smile and said in a sweet voice, "Thank you for your hard work. I brought you coffee and snacks."

"..."

Without saying a word, Li Xiaoen turned to look at the others at their desks and saw that each of them had a cup of coffee and a piece of bread on their desks, and he understood.

While she was focused inside, Catherine had already greeted the others. "Is there no time?"

With a sweet smile, Catherine placed the coffee she was holding on the table in front of Sean Lee's computer, then took the initiative to unpack the bread in her hand and held it to his mouth, "Here, let me feed you."

What the f**k……

Cursing under his breath, Li Xiaoen immediately stood up, greeted the others, grabbed Catherine's arm, and hurried out the door.

"What on earth do you want to do?"

Only when they arrived at an elevated rest area did Li Xiaoen release his grip, turn around and question Catherine, "Don't hold any unrealistic hopes for the studio collaboration. I've already rejected Suffer, so it's even less likely for you."

"It's nothing, I just wanted to come and see you, and maybe take a look at your studio."

Turning to look at the large lawn outside the building, Catherine chuckled casually, "After all, this is an app that can make a big splash in the market and forums, so it's definitely worth a visit to this studio."

"If you don't mind, shall I have one of my company's reporters conduct an interview?"

Upon hearing this, Catherine suddenly turned around, put her hands behind her back, and picked up her bag.

"There's no one here, can you stop pretending?"

With a dark expression, Li Xiaoen took a deep breath and crossed his arms over his chest. "This style doesn't suit you. If you want people to listen to you patiently, I think you should go back to your original look."

"is it?"

Catherine paused for a moment, then withdrew her hands and looked down at herself from side to side. "Clearly, this is the most-liked guide I found online..."

"If you don't tell me your purpose, I'm going back."

With a shrug, Li Xiaoen glanced at him rudely, "I don't have time to play role-playing games with you."

"Hey……"

A playful look appeared on her originally sweet face. Catherine strolled over and stopped two steps in front of Li Xiaoen. She spoke in a teasing tone, "Victoria wants to go back, and you take her away. Sophie wants to go back, and you're thinking of focusing on your work so you won't have time to think about anything else in order to hold back your tears?"

Sure enough, this woman's true colors were revealed to be a wicked and sharp-tongued person.

Li Xiaoen narrowed his eyes slightly, his expression darkening.

"What's wrong? Did I guess right by accident?"

Catherine pursed her lips and gave a mischievous smile.

"This result should be in line with your expectations, right?"

With things laid bare, Li Xiaoen no longer held back. He took a deep breath and chuckled, "If I'm not mistaken, you and Su Feier used to have a pretty good relationship, right?"

"Even now, even though Sophie has always been very rude to you and has verbally attacked you many times, you still act like this, as if you're deliberately playing the bad guy and doing things that annoy her?"

"What exactly caused your relationship to deteriorate to this point?"

A few simple questions caused Catherine's smile to gradually freeze. She slowly suppressed her smile and looked up silently at Sean Lee.

"what happened?"

Li Xiaoen mimicked the other person's previous manner, asking, "Did I accidentally guess right?"

"Sean, you need to understand that with your current situation, even if you are very outstanding, you are still not good enough for us."

Her voice became devoid of emotion as Catherine murmured the announcement.

you?

Raising an eyebrow, Li Xiaoen didn't dwell on the oddity of the word "other person" and nodded in agreement.

"You're right, so what?"

Upon hearing this, Catherine opened her mouth, but ultimately couldn't utter a single word.

"Is this why you provoked Suffer, causing my relationship with her to be exposed prematurely?"

Li Xiaoen tilted his head and asked again, "You know Su Feier's personality. She can't stand this kind of provocation. Even if it means being exposed and having to go home to be scolded by her father, she'll knowingly jump into a trap..."

"Based on your understanding of Suffer, you deliberately set a trap to make her suffer. Is this how you treat your friends?"

After a series of questions, Catherine stared blankly at them, unable to recover for a moment.

"Reality is not a novel, much less a fantasy in TV dramas and movies; this is something you will eventually have to face."

After thinking for a long time, Catherine finally took a deep breath and murmured, "With you two always being so inseparable, this step was bound to come sooner or later. If you wait until Sophie's father discovers you in person before you start making efforts, won't it be too late?"

"Sophie is no ordinary girl. Her ambition and her thoughts mean that anyone who can win her heart must be an outstanding and remarkable person!"

"Aren't I trying?"

Li Xiaoen laughed in exasperation and gestured with his hands toward his studio.

"If this hadn't happened, would you still be so serious and hardworking?"

Catherine, not to be outdone, tilted her head back and met Lee Shawn's gaze.

"meeting."

Li Xiaoen nodded with a clear conscience, "Not only Suffer, but Victoria is also my goal."

Upon hearing this, Catherine's face suddenly froze, and her gaze towards the young man quickly changed, replaced by a look of utter contempt as if he were trash.

"Shameless!"

With her red lips slightly parted, Catherine uttered a curse.

"Thanks for the compliment."

Li Xiaoen nodded. "Okay, is everything finished? If there's nothing else, I'm going back now. Thank you for the coffee and snacks."

"Wait a moment."

Just as he turned to leave, Li Xiaoen was stopped by Catherine. Helpless, he turned back and a hand slapped him in the chest. The force was not great, but a bump on the palm hit him.

Looking down, the hand that had been on his chest withdrew at the right moment, revealing a USB drive, which Li Xiaoen quickly reached out and took.

"Two things."

Catherine crossed her arms again. "First, this is what our company collected online about the pain points and drawbacks of your app. You can refer to it to make improvements."

"Secondly, your studio at its current size may not need my investment, but when it expands and you need your first round of funding, please consider me first."

"Is she that career-driven?"

After going around in circles, we've come full circle. Li Xiaoen raised an eyebrow, both amused and exasperated. Looking at Catherine, who stood before him with a calm and serious expression, completely devoid of her previous affected sweetness, he was momentarily reminded of the mischievous and quirky Suffer who sometimes tested him.

(End of this chapter)