I really don't want to date a girl addicted to the internet!

“This account was given to me by Lin Xuanqi. We can’t let her know that you and I are making money together. So you open an account, you put in one million, and I put in five hundred thousand. From now on, the profits will be split 50/50. This is our joint property as husband and wife.”

"Heh, you're spouting nonsense again. First of all, no one here is your spouse. Besides, I contributed more money, so why should the profits be split 50/50?" Shen Xi stared at him with disgust.

"Then let's make it joint property. We'll split it in half because even though I contributed less money, I contributed the technology."

"It's not like you're the one managing the trades, so it's impossible to tell which part is your expertise."

"The idea itself is a kind of technology, so it's reasonable for you to put in more capital to make up for it. Startups all do this."

"You can always tell from their self-aggrandizing rhetoric that they're good at taking credit."

"Then just consider it as borrowing 250,000 from me, okay, Teacher Shen? Are you unwilling to lend it to me?"

"Forget it, I'm too lazy to argue with a snob like you. I'll be grateful if you don't secretly run off with the money and disappear one day."

……

231. A toast to their thriving careers!

"No, Teacher Shen, the account is all yours, how could I run off with it? I'd be grateful if you could leave me with nothing one day."

"I'm sorry, but I'm not a greedy aquatic mammal like you. I wouldn't do such a thing."

"Why are you talking as if I actually did something? Hurry up and open an account, stop questioning our loyal relationship."

"Ah, loyalty."

The young man and woman chatted while simultaneously opening a trading account online under the identity of Shen Xi and depositing funds.

During the process, Cheng Fei looked at Shen Xi's ID card from left to right.

"What disgusting and lewd things are you fantasizing about again?" Shen Xi snatched the ID card back.

"Teacher Shen, you must have been the cutest girl in the whole school when you were little, right? You still are now." Cheng Fei reminisced about the youthful photo on his ID card.

"Sure enough, even a passport photo can capture your perpetually boring attention."

"Teacher Shen, if we were in the same class in elementary school, would you date me? You must have been a cute little girl back then."

"Shut up and stop your filthy, lawless fantasies."

"How did I break the law? I'm half a year younger than you. If time could go back, you would be the one breaking the law."

"That's enough with the backstabbing. Who's trying to go back to elementary school and date girls?" Shen Xi kicked him. "The account is set up, let's move on to the next step."

"Okay." Cheng Fei logged into the computer. "Xiao Yi, you'll also manage this account. The goal is to maximize the returns. The profits will be used to buy you hardware."

"Yes, Your Excellency." The young girl on the screen had shining eyes.

After assigning the tasks, Cheng Fei opened his phone's calculator and started typing with a smirk on his face.

"What are you calculating?" Shen Xi asked, puzzled.

"Let's calculate the returns, Teacher Shen. If Xiao Yi keeps hitting the daily limit and earns 10% every day, our assets will grow exponentially to eight times what they are now next month." Cheng Fei's eyes lit up just like Isena's.

"As expected, people like you only get excited when they fantasize about getting rich overnight." Shen Xi sneered. "But let me remind you, the stock market is a secondary chaotic system. When Isena participates as capital, her actions will disrupt her predictions. So even she can't maintain high returns indefinitely. Otherwise, you would have earned all the world's capital in just a few months. Do you think that's possible?"

"Teacher Shen, I didn't expect you to know so much about investing. Have you ever lost money before?" Cheng Fei asked curiously.

"I've never been interested in participating in this kind of gambling from the very beginning. It's so obvious that I don't even need to guess." Shen Xi tossed her hair, her face indifferent.

“Okay, that makes sense.” Cheng Fei shrugged. “However, since our capital is relatively small, we can cause less disruption to the market. Maintaining high returns in the short term is still possible. At least tripling or quintupling in a month shouldn’t be a problem.”

"Then please don't forget our purpose of making money and hurry up and get the new hardware working." Shen Xi looked down at him condescendingly.

“Yes, Your Highness.” Cheng Fei saluted, then said casually, “But have you considered postponing the hardware project a little, and using the money for something else first?”

Shen Xi narrowed her eyes and stared at him intently. "Are these mindless aquatic mammals already fantasizing about a life of luxury and debauchery? Please get your priorities straight. The most urgent task is to get Isena better hardware."

"Hey, Teacher Shen, it doesn't really matter if we do this a few days earlier or later, right? Wouldn't it be better if we made a few million to improve our lives? Anyway, money is like water in a river for us right now; we can just wait for Isena to scoop it up." Cheng Fei coaxed patiently.

"Improve your life?" Shen Xi scoffed. "Your life as a kept man with that Lin guy is already better than 99% of the world's population."

"It's because there are still so many people in the world suffering from hunger that I actually want to donate the money to those in need. After all, you know I'm an orphan. If it weren't for so many kind people helping me for free, I would have starved to death long ago. So I decided to donate my first pot of gold. Have you heard that song? 'If everyone gives a little love, the world will become a better place...'" The boy said vividly and started singing.

Shen Xi covered her ears and glared at him. "Enough! Please shut up, you tone-deaf aquatic mammal. Besides, I'm not stupid enough to believe your nonsense about being eager to offer help. Cheng Fei, what are you trying to hide from me?" The girl stared at him.

The boy paused for a second, his expression becoming complicated. "Teacher Shen, actually I owe several million in debt."

"The reason." Shen Xi crossed her arms in front of her chest, raised her chin, and glanced at him out of the corner of her eye.

"Could we please leave the past alone? Everyone has secrets they don't want to talk about..."

"I need to know, and call me by my other name." Shen Xi said expressionlessly.

The boy and girl looked at each other for a moment.

"Teacher Shen, you're really boring. Fine, I'll pay off the debt in two months, okay? Let's get Xiao Yi's hardware replaced first, and skip this topic." The boy's expression suddenly became relaxed and smug.

"Sure enough, some people are trying to do something shady behind my back again. Luckily, you still have a shred of conscience left, Cheng Fei." Shen Xi gritted her teeth.

"Teacher Shen, why don't you pretend not to know when you find out, and then suddenly change your mind and agree in a very gentle and considerate way? Your cuteness level would definitely jump to a new high."

"You should be more worried about how your dishonest attitude has made my dislike for you plummet even further."

"It doesn't matter, it resets automatically every time you open the market anyway..."

"What did you say?" Shen Xi's eyes narrowed.

"Teacher Shen, let's go downstairs for dinner. It's on me today. Pick whatever you want to eat." Cheng Fei stood up casually.

"As expected, misers only show generosity at times like this," Shen Xi said with a hint of sarcasm.

……

In the end, Shen Xi still chose the dim sum restaurant she frequented.

"Teacher Shen, let's toast to our unwavering love and thriving career!" Cheng Fei raised a bottle of Want Want milk.

"It's ridiculous. One of them is surnamed Lin, and the other is a vixen. They're entangled with each other all day long, yet they still talk about love in front of me." Shen Xi sneered, unmoved.

"Teacher Shen, don't you think that this creates a sense of detached yet transcendent fragmentation?" Cheng Fei asked, holding up a glass of milk.

"Let's just leave aside the illogical nonsense."

"Then let's toast to our thriving business, shall we? Hurry up, Shen Xi."

The girl reluctantly picked up the Want Want milk and touched it to his lips. "Cheng Fei, let me remind you again, the most urgent thing is to upgrade Isena's hardware, not to make money for pleasure."

"Teacher Shen, do I really look like someone who would be blinded by money?"

……

232. Shen Xi won third place in the Shen Xi Imitation Contest.

"Ha, I wonder who was already scrambling to figure out how to spend the millions they got."

"Just kidding, Ms. Shen, you're being too sensitive," Cheng Fei said, shrugging.

Shen Xi lowered her eyes and remained silent.

"By the way, Ms. Shen, did you read the comic I recommended before? The one about the witch and the knight?" Cheng Fei picked up one of her shrimp dumplings and ate it.

"A ridiculous, pointless romance." Shen Xi said coldly.

"So you watched it, right? Where were you?"

"See places where there are no resources online."

"She's seen quite a lot, and she's still as arrogant as ever."

"I don't know where to find them, I just spent an afternoon looking around."

"As expected of you, your reading speed is just as fast as mine."

"Enough with the beating around the bush, what are you trying to say?" The girl kicked him under the table.

"Nothing much, we were just chatting about our thoughts on the plot." Cheng Fei picked up another shrimp dumpling from her plate.

Shen Xi frowned as she watched his movements. "Which part of the plot?"

"It's just a question of whether to choose the witch or the princess." Cheng Fei picked out a piece of beef from the rice noodles and handed it back to her.

Shen Xi hesitated for a moment, then put the slice of beef in her mouth. "What exactly are you trying to say?"

"Teacher Shen, why are you so wary? We were just talking about comics."

"I just think that someone like you, who doesn't do things without a reason, is probably up to something else by suddenly bringing this up."

"You're being too suspicious. I'm just curious about what you think is the best way for the Knight to handle his relationship issues."

Shen Xi stared at him for a second, then lowered her eyes. "Heh, that's easy. The witch is the first female lead to arrive, so she just needs to distance herself from that vixen princess as soon as possible."

"As expected of you, you effortlessly displayed an attitude that sets you apart from the rest." Cheng Fei clapped his hands.

"Stop talking nonsense. How is being faithful to one person in a relationship considered being different?" Shen Xi glared at him.

"I'm not just making this up, Teacher Shen. According to my personal survey, your decisive approach only gets 33.3% approval rating," Cheng Fei said seriously.

Shen Xi narrowed her eyes, a cold, mocking smile on her face. "Who are your targets for investigation? Besides Ye Shuang, it wouldn't happen to be just yourself, would it?"

"How could that be? Who fills out a form just to make up the numbers during a survey? That would be too pathetic." Cheng Fei finished speaking, lowered his head to slurp his rice noodles, then looked up again, "Teacher Shen, why are you staring at me?"

"Tell me your opinion. If not the princess, are you going to cut up the witch?" Shen Xi stared at him expressionlessly.

Cheng Fei hesitated for a moment, "This involves spoilers. I still have several physical copies of Ye Shuang's book. Why don't you take them and read them first?"

"I don't want to waste any more time, please just get to the point." The girl raised her chin.

“Okay, the ending of the comic is that the knight decides that the three of them should be together.” Cheng Fei said casually. “By the way, Ye Shuang strongly agrees with this ending. Nana doesn’t object, but after doing a thorough feasibility analysis, she thinks it would be difficult to make both sides happy.”

After saying this, Shen Xi gave a heavy, cold laugh, lowered her head to drink her porridge, and seemed to have lost interest in the topic.

"Teacher Shen, what's with your reaction?" Cheng Fei raised an eyebrow.

"What's the problem?" Shen Xi looked up at him.

"I thought you would give them a sharp critique."

"There's nothing to say about it. It's just a mindless, comedic romance comic." Shen Xi lowered her eyes.

"I see." Cheng Fei smacked his lips.

Shen Xi raised her eyes again, expressionless, "Cheng Fei, or are you trying to imply something?"

"It's not really a metaphor, I just wanted to understand your thoughts better, Professor Shen," Cheng Fei said casually, munching on a chicken foot.

Shen Xi frowned, thought for a second, and asked, "If you are the knight and I am the witch, who is the princess?"

Cheng Fei bit his tongue. "Ouch... Hey, Teacher Shen, you're getting a little too involved in the story. I just wanted to learn more about you through the comics. It has nothing to do with real people and events. Any resemblance is purely coincidental."

“Now that I’ve finished speaking, could you please share your thoughts on the plot? I’d like to know more about you.” Shen Xi stared intently at him.

"Teacher Shen, is this a confession?" the boy asked in surprise.

"Answer the question directly." The girl's eyes turned cold.

"Well, I don't really have any opinion on this. It's just a lighthearted, comedic romance manga. The ending doesn't matter, as long as everyone enjoys it. I must say, the author's artwork is excellent, the panel layout is good, and the world-building is very appealing..."

Shen Xi stared at the incessantly chattering boy and sneered, "It's one thing to use ridiculous rhetoric to test someone, but to run away from the topic you started yourself, you really are a despicable and cowardly Cheng Feiyu."

"Huh? This works?" Cheng Fei was shocked.

"What do you mean?" Shen Xi asked, puzzled.

"Ms. Shen, congratulations on winning third place in the Shen Xi imitation contest." The boy placed a shrimp dumpling in front of her as if it were a prize.

"What are you suddenly talking about again?" Shen Xi frowned, looking puzzled.

……

After dinner, the young man and woman walked out of the dim sum restaurant side by side.

"Teacher Shen, are we having a regular meeting today?" Cheng Fei asked, his hands in his pockets.

Shen Xi turned her head and stared at him expressionlessly for a second, then turned her face away and flicked her hair. "Open."