Metropolis: My Rising Life

"Time flies so fast, it's coming to winter."

In the library of Shenyu University, Chen Yi sat in a corner, looking at the yellowing leaves outside the window through the window.

The warm sun outside the window shone on him through the screens, reflecting a golden glow. He turned his head to the side, leaving a side face, like a sculpture of Michelangelo marble.

It is now the end of November, and December is coming soon, and after December, there will be exams, and winter vacation is also approaching.

Time flies, Chen Yi feels that this is really a blink of an eye.

He retracted his thoughts and noticed that he was looking at him. When he went to the library, he saw that several girls quickly retracted their eyes and pretended to be looking at the book in his hand.

Chen Yi just smiled when he saw this. He had experienced too much of this situation.

If the temperament of the previous ‘golden horse and iron horse’ made many girls tempted by him, it was the coldness that made people feel embarrassed and did not dare to contact him.

So now Chen Yi has been replaced with a temperament of ‘warm and moist as jade’.

The temperament of that noble son of the family, let alone an ordinary girl, even if it is a young lady like Nan Jiyue, sometimes looking at him will be lost.

After all, for an oriental woman, that kind of elegance to the bones is the pursuit that the culture here bestows on them.

Of course, it is not uncommon for various seniors and classmates of the same grade to stuff him with small notes. The previous Chen Yi was quite happy, but now he feels that this is the case.

It's a pity that he still understands the truth that rabbits don't eat grass around their nests, otherwise it would not be impossible to sing songs every night in college.

When the time comes, it will be interesting to think about turning the university into a sorrowful harem.

Thinking of these and none, Chen Yi once again put his eyes on the book in his hand.

What he read was Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations". This book laid the theoretical foundation of capitalist free economy books, and there is still something to learn from it.

For example, in "The Wealth of Nations", people's nature is self-interested, and the pursuit of personal interests is the only driving force for people to engage in economic activities. Chen Yi agrees with this sentence.

However, the so-called price mechanism in "The Wealth of Nations" is guided by the ‘invisible hand’. People will maximize their personal interests and promote public interests. Chen Yi sneered at it.

Because the United States, the representative of liberal capitalism, which is admired by people, has thoroughly proved that the so-called ‘freedom’ is nonsense after three years.

Understand Wang tells you with facts, what is economic intervention, what is meant by hitting yourself in the face, hitting a well-known face.

When Wang Wang launched a trade war and sanctioned Xia Wei and other large companies, it meant that the so-called free economy simply did not exist.

It also thoroughly beaten the face of the domestic neoliberal economics.

Let those so-called economists who are clamoring to reduce government intervention and fully market economy every day, their faces are as ugly as shit.

Sometimes Chen Yi felt that the liberal theories in high school textbooks on economics should be changed. After all, reality has proved that Adam Smith’s theory is no longer in line with the times.

Of course, there are still many things in "The Wealth of Nations" that are useful, and the failure of liberalism does not mean that this book has become worthless.(Read more @ mtlarchive.com)

And Chen Yi wants to take the essence and remove the dross.

This kind of theoretical books has no practical use, and if you read it thoroughly, it won't make you a rich man, but the knowledge in it can still make people think and think.

After all, knowledge is the greatest wealth.

Just as Chen Yi was reading affirmatively while criticizing, he suddenly smelled a fragrance.

It is not a modern perfume with a long aftertaste, nor is it like a simple shampoo, but a more natural, pure floral fragrance.

Chen Yi sniffed, raised his head and looked at a figure standing in front of him.

She is small in stature, dressed plainly, holding a textbook of "Travel English" in her hands, and standing there with her head down, like a frightened deer.

Chen Yi glanced at her fixedly, then smiled and said, "...What are you doing here stupidly, Zixi?"

Yu Zixi glanced at Chen Yi secretly, then lowered her head shyly.

If Chen Yi in the past made her feel a little awed, a little scared, and a little longing.

So now Chen Yi, whose temperament has changed drastically, makes her more of the shyness of giving birth to a little girl.

It was like Pan An of the Western Jin Dynasty walking on the street, making countless girls rush to witness, throwing flowers and fruits at him to make fun of him.

Today's Chen Yi is simply the spotlight in the eyes of women, and his suave temperament is simply a girl killer.

"I... can I sit like this?"

Yu Zixi plucked up the courage and asked in her soft voice with a little Sichuan-Chongqing accent.

"The library is not owned by my house. You can sit wherever you want."

Chen Yi laughed dumbly and joked.

With Chen Yi's consent, Yu Zixi was finally relieved, and she sat directly opposite Chen Yi.

Chen Yi's nose moved, staring at Yu Zixi's pale and pure face with shallow dimples and asked, "...what smells so fragrant?"

"what……"

Yu Zixi was taken aback, she hesitated and said, "...maybe it's a sachet."

With that said, she carefully took out a sachet from her pocket, put it on the table and said, "...This is what my grandma taught me to do."

"...A lot of flowers in spring, summer, autumn and winter can be made into this kind of sachet, but the taste is relatively weak, not as strong as perfume, and now no one uses it anymore."

Perfume is very expensive, she can't afford it, but girls are all beautiful, but Yu Zixi uses this kind of thing most commonly used by ancient women.

Chen Yi took the sachet and looked at it. She sewed very beautifully, and the small sachet seemed to have an ancient charm hidden in it.

It is also a pity that modern Chinese people have been influenced by Western culture, and many of the things left by their ancestors have become uninterested.

"Very good smell, very fresh and lasting smell...Although the scent is a bit monotonous and faint, it is much stronger than those inferior perfumes."

Chen Yi commented objectively.

Although some ancient things are good, it is impossible to say that everything is better than modern ones. At least this kind of sachet is not as good as those high-end perfumes that cost a lot of research in modern times.

Chen Yi handed the sachet back and asked with a smile, "...Is it here to read a book?"

When Yu Zixi heard the words, he nodded and shook his head, and replied: "...When I was in high school, I found English to be the most difficult, and I spent a lot of time reciting it every day."

"...But the teacher speaks English very importantly and we must study it hard, so I was admitted to the English department...It's just that some business English is too jerky and difficult to understand, and I have to spend time to memorize it every day."

For some truly prestigious schools, this is actually the norm for most students, and only those college students in ordinary colleges and universities are really messing around.

"However, I am not only memorizing words, but I also came to you."

Yu Zixi said with a little shame, her eyes evasive.

"Why are you looking for me?"

Chen Yi smiled gently.

"This... what you asked me to do, I finally got it right, sorry for taking so long."

Yu Zixi handed over a very old Android phone and said.

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