We agreed not to date, so why are you crying now that I've become the richest man?

The heavy glass door closed behind him. Chen Wei, phone in hand, walked straight down the corridor without stopping, found a quiet, deserted corner, and dialed Ye Chen's number.

At this moment, in the lecture hall on the third floor of the first teaching building at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

The calculus professor on the podium was writing furiously on the blackboard with chalk, deriving a lengthy formula for definite integrals.

In the last row by the window, Ye Chen rested his cheek on his left hand and twirled a black pen in his right.

Ye Chen's phone vibrated in his pocket. He stopped writing, took out his phone, and glanced at the screen.

Seeing that it was Chen Wei calling, he patted Chen Zhiqiang, who was copying notes on the other side, on the shoulder and whispered something:

"Zhiqiang, I'm going out to take a call. If the professor looks this way, please cover for me."

Chen Zhiqiang didn't even look up, but gave a reassuring gesture.

Ye Chen bent over and, taking advantage of the moment when the old professor turned his head to write on the blackboard, slipped out of the classroom through the back door with light steps. He walked all the way to the open-air balcony at the end of the corridor before pressing the answer button.

"Hey Chen Wei, is there a problem with the server?"

"No, no, Mr. Ye, the server is rock solid!"

On the other end of the phone, Chen Wei lowered his voice and spoke a beat faster than usual, "President Ye, I have something to report to you. Wang Junhua, the person in charge of Yanjing Green Bean Pod, along with their business director and chief architect, came straight to our company as soon as they got off the plane!"

"Oh? The people from the mung bean pods have arrived?"

Ye Chen leaned against the concrete railing in the corridor and raised an eyebrow.

When he directed traffic to Temple Run and Angry Sparrow with full-screen pop-ups yesterday, he knew that Green Bean Pod would definitely be upset.

I just didn't expect Wang Junhua to react so quickly. He had just suffered a setback in the technical disassembly last night, and this morning he flew directly from Yanjing to admit defeat.

"Yes! Three people came with huge dark circles under their eyes, and they were very humble, saying they absolutely had to find a way to meet with you and discuss in-depth cooperation."

Chen Wei reported, "I've already told them you're teaching a class, and they're currently having tea in the glass meeting room. Mr. Ye, would you be free to come and see them this afternoon? If you find it troublesome, I'll just find an excuse to send them away!"

Upon hearing this, Ye Chen rubbed the edge of the cement railing twice with his right index finger, quickly calculating in his mind.

Although the Star App Market has achieved a great start by offering silent installation without requiring permissions and featuring two blockbuster games, it still mainly dominates the mobile app market.

Back in 2010, many users who were just getting used to Android smartphones were still accustomed to using a data cable to connect their phones to their computers to manage their contacts and back up photos.

Green Beans has been deeply involved in the PC market for more than half a year, and has hundreds of thousands of loyal core geek users. Moreover, they have made solid and complete mobile driver adaptation libraries for major manufacturers on the PC platform.

If we could acquire Green Bean Pod and directly transform it into a PC suite for Star Market, we could not only capture the hundreds of thousands of existing tech-savvy users, but also save Star Software the tedious work of adapting hundreds of miscellaneous Android phone and PC drivers one by one!

The readily available laborers and tools have come to our door, so why should we turn them away?

With that in mind, Ye Chen made a decisive decision:

"No need to send them away. Since they flew all the way from Yanjing, we should give them this much face."

"Go tell the people at Green Bean Pod that I have a full morning of classes and will be at the company at 2 p.m. sharp. If they're willing to wait, we can talk in detail in the meeting room at 2 p.m."

"Okay! I'll go and pass on the message right away!"

After hanging up the phone, Chen Wei composed himself, pushed open the glass door, and walked back into the meeting room.

Upon seeing Chen Wei enter, Wang Junhua and the other two immediately put down their teacups and stood up in unison.

"Director Chen, how's it going? What did General Manager Ye say?"

"Mr. Wang, I just finished a phone call with our General Manager Ye."

Chen Wei wore a gentle smile. "Our CEO Ye has a full schedule of classes this morning and really couldn't get away. However, I heard that CEO Wang came all the way from Yanjing, so CEO Ye specially postponed his afternoon schedule and said he would be at the company to see everyone at 2 p.m. sharp."

"It's only a little before 11 o'clock. How about I have the administration department book two short-stay rooms for the three of you at a hotel outside the park? You can go grab a quick bite and catch up on some sleep, and we can talk again at 2 PM?"

Upon hearing that they would have to wait another three hours, Business Director Li Ming's lips twitched, his throat tightened, and his fingers, hanging at his sides, clenched.

After all, their Green Bean Pod is a star project incubated by Innovation Works, and Wang Junhua is an industry elite from a major company. When they go out to discuss cooperation, which channel partner doesn't greet them politely at the door in advance?

Now look what's happened! I've traveled all the way to Shanghai, only to have to accommodate a college student's class schedule. We can only meet after the student finishes their advanced mathematics class and has lunch in the cafeteria!

Wang Junhua felt a tightness in his chest, but he was well aware of the current situation.

We are at their mercy, like fish on a chopping board.

He reached out and pressed down on Li Ming, who was about to speak, took a deep breath, and nodded in response with a forced smile:

"No problem. Since Mr. Ye has class this morning, we won't disturb his studies."

"We don't need to open the hotel. We can just grab a bite to eat and rest at the coffee shop downstairs in the park. We'll be up here promptly before 2 p.m.

At noon, the bell rang precisely when classes ended at Jiaotong University.

Ye Chen closed his calculus textbook, stuffed it into his shoulder bag, and followed Sun Haoyu, Lu Wenbo, and Chen Zhiqiang out of the teaching building to have lunch at the second canteen.

As soon as the plate with two meat dishes and one vegetable dish was placed on the table, Sun Haoyu, while gnawing on a pork chop, mumbled a greeting:

"Hey Lao Ye, we don't have any major classes this afternoon. Let's go straight back to the dorm after dinner and play some games! I still haven't gotten over losing to those bastards last night!"

Ye Chen picked up a piece of green vegetable with his chopsticks, put it in his mouth, and shook his head:

"You guys can play by yourselves this afternoon. I have some things to do, and I'll probably be busy until before dinner."

"So, it's back to writing code for that software company again, huh?"

Lu Wenbo adjusted his glasses and said casually, "Then you should go and get back to what you're doing."

The group finished their lunch in a whirlwind and parted ways at the cafeteria entrance.

Ye Chen walked out of the east gate of Jiaotong University with a shoulder bag on his back and turned into the underground parking lot of the adjacent commercial building along the sidewalk.

Pressing the unlock button on the car key caused the headlights of the black Mercedes sedan in the corner to flash twice.

Ye Chen opened the car door, sat in the driver's seat, casually tossed his shoulder bag onto the passenger seat, started the engine, and drove onto the elevated highway, heading straight for Zhangjiang in Pudong.