Ten Years Against the Current of Rebirth

September 1, 8 a.m.

The 2012 freshmen of Minhang University held a grand opening ceremony in the gymnasium.

The eighth class of freshmen in the School of Electrical Engineering sat in the seats on the west side. Xu Xing yawned and sat down with Lu Pengyou and others who were walking in front. Yan Chiju and other four girls behind him also took their seats one by one.

Before the opening ceremony officially started, class monitor Xue Weiqiang emphasized to his classmates the matters of today's class meeting, including the playground entertainment activities in the afternoon and the movie activities in the evening. I hope everyone can actively participate.

Lu Pengyou was already gearing up: "Brothers, tonight is my night of being single!"

"I think it's better not to have too high expectations." Xu Xing suggested kindly, "This way, if you get single, it will be a surprise, and even if you fail, you won't be too desperate."

"Old Xu, this mentality of yours is unacceptable." Lu Pengyou shook his index finger, "What we pursue is indomitable confidence. It would be too low to be timid before fighting."

"Then I can only wish you immediate success."

Xu Xing has little interest in class meeting activities.

Although most of those who can get into Min University will be talented people after graduation, they are still too immature now and cannot even meet the minimum standards for harvesting. Xu Xing really has no interest in building a good relationship with his classmates.

Self-taught geniuses like Yan Chijuan are considered a minority even in Min Dal.

If you have this time, you might as well do something else.

"Go to the office in the afternoon?" Xu Xing quietly leaned into Yan Chijie's ear and suggested, "I won't attend the class meeting. It's not interesting."

Yan Chijuan wasn't too interested in such large-scale social events. When he heard that he could run out with Xu Xing to spend time together, he nodded immediately.

Lu Pengyou caught a glimpse of the couple whispering there, and felt heartbroken. He didn't want to talk to his current roommate anymore.

After a while, the opening ceremony officially began.

In Xu Xing's impression, the university opening ceremony in his previous life was very simple. There was not even a large gymnasium like this. It was held directly on the playground, and the students could only stand.

However, Xu Xing was only admitted to a second-tier school in his previous life. Now that he entered Min University four years in advance, he realized that schools are completely different.

The president of Min University is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His profound but not procrastinating speech quickly ignited the atmosphere of the already excited freshmen.

Then came the appearance of heavyweights such as this year's Olympic champion and the flag bearer of the Olympic closing ceremony delegation, as well as the chief designer of the Jiaolong Diving.

This kind of reputation and deep school connections are really incomparable to ordinary schools.

The entire opening ceremony lasted about an hour and a half.

From the entrance and introduction at the beginning, to the speeches of the principal and other school leaders, to the invited alumni such as the Olympic champion and the chief designer to take the stage, and finally back to the students, the president of the student union and freshmen representatives took the stage to give speeches in turn.

As a result, after the student union president came to the stage, when talking about the spirit of military training and other content, he also improvised and mentioned some exciting events in this year's military training.

"...Another example is Lu Pengyou, the flag bearer of our military training national flag team. He was so impressive during the military training performance. After passing the rostrum, even if he kicked his right shoe out due to a mistake, he still remained calm and stepped on the red flag with his bare feet.

He walked the entire distance on the plastic track in an orderly manner, and by the time it was over, the soles of his feet were covered with flower marks."

Lu Pengyou, who was in the audience, stopped with black lines on his face: "Which beast on the horse asked him to say this?"

Originally thinking that no one would pay attention to yesterday's flying shoe incident, Lu Pengyou breathed a sigh of relief.

As a result, my dear, I was stabbed in the back directly at the opening ceremony today.

"Isn't this great?" Xu Xing suppressed a smile and consoled him, "Now you are famous. I think you might be single tonight because of this."

"How can I get out of singles after I'm so embarrassed?"

"When you are watching a movie at night, you can secretly tell the girl you like that I am the flying shoe man in military training." Xu Xing suggested, "I guarantee you will catch her."

"roll."

"Barefoot man can do it too."

Zhang Nong and Jian Jiashu on the other side couldn't help but laugh twice. Other boys in the front and back rows also heard it, and a low laughter immediately spread around them.

Lu Pengyou suddenly became angry with embarrassment: "Don't laugh! If any of you raise this issue with the work management girl at the class meeting today, who will I blame?"

Finally getting through the opening ceremony, around ten o'clock, the team of Class 8 finally walked out of the gymnasium.

Lu Pengyou and others planned to go back to the dormitory first, and then attend the class meeting after lunch. Xu Xing greeted them and walked towards the school gate with Yan Chijuan.

"Isn't that idiot Xu Xing really bringing Yan Chi to check out a room with him?" Lu Pengyou looked at the retreating figures of the two men and couldn't help but touch his chin and wondered in a low voice.

"It doesn't look like it." Jian Jiashu shook his head, "This girl Yan Chiju looks quite conservative."

Zhang Nong nodded: "Indeed."

"I'm envious." Lu Pengyou sighed, "Why is Xu Xing able to hook up with someone out of nowhere?"

"Because Xu Xing is handsome." Zhang Nong said honestly.

Lu Pengyou: "...Shut up, please."

"Obviously you asked first."

"Let's go." Jian Jiashu smiled and greeted the two of them back to bed, "Go back and catch up on some sleep. There are class activities in the afternoon."

…

On the crowded subway, Yan Chijuan was forced to lean into Xu Xing's arms. Because of her height, it was too difficult to hold on to the handrail above her head. She could only hold on to Xu Xing's clothes to maintain her balance.

Xu Xing raised one hand high to hold the horizontal bar above his head, and held the other hand on Yan Chijuan's slim waist, trying to keep his body as steady as possible.

"When the income from the game is received, let Yao Yuanyuan buy a cheaper scooter." Xu Xing pondered, trying to distract himself, "It will be inconvenient to have to squeeze into the subway all the time in the future."

Otherwise, Yan Chijiu's petite and bumpy body and the subtle fragrance when she gets close are really a bit of a test.

"Actually, it's not bad..." Yan Chijiu said softly.

Although it is very convenient to drive, Yan Chijuan would still be happy if he could take the subway with Xu Xing.

"Well, there's no rush now." Xu Xing thought for a moment, "I'll take some time to learn how to get my driver's license during this period. You too, let's learn together."

"Ah?" Yan Chijie was stunned for a moment, "Why should I get a driver's license? I can't afford a car..."

"What are you thinking about?" Xu Xing laughed, "You said there is no reason to let the boss drive and the employees take the car?"

"When the company buys a car, you will definitely be the one driving it to the office from now on."

"The bosses sit in the back and read documents. They are very busy."

Yan Chijue: "..."

It's better to take the subway... Yan Chiju thought in his heart.

To be honest, the relationship between the two of them is just the last layer of window paper.

Ever since he experienced the challenge of pretending to be a couple hugging each other in a barbecue restaurant and the power outage in his office, Xu Xing has become less and less resistant to Yan Chijue's intimate actions.

This kind of thing is a matter of time and effort. Under Yan Chijue's probing steps, Xu Xing's subconscious defense line is being conquered by Yan Chijue bit by bit.

Hmm... the word "conquer" may not be appropriate. Perhaps "erosion" and "infection" are more descriptive.

This change was so subtle that Xu Xing had gradually become accustomed to this kind of physical contact.

But Xu Xing didn't say anything, and Yan Chijue didn't take the initiative to expose it. The two of them enjoyed this hazy daily interaction in a tacit understanding, and no one was in a hurry to take that step.

Anyway, there are no other girls around the boss, so Yan Chijue is indeed not impatient at all now.

"Your hair seems to be a little longer." Xu Xing looked down at Yan Chijuan's short hair.

During the previous summer vacation, Xu Xing remembered that Yan Chijuan's short hair only reached the height of her lips. Looking at it now, she realized that it had grown to her chin.

"Hmm." Yan Chijiu lowered his head, subconsciously stroking the strands of hair around his ears, and then asked curiously, "Boss, do you think short hair or long hair looks better?"

"If it were you, I can only say that each has its own charm." Xu Xing touched his chin, recalling the image of Yan Chiju in his previous life as a long-haired strong woman, cold and decisive, and indeed very charming.

The long hair sometimes hangs loose, flutters when walking, and sometimes is combed into a ponytail, and the whole person looks capable and lively.

Looking at the short-haired Yanchi vinegar now, she still has more of a young girl's green and youthful taste, like an unripe green apple, which also has a unique flavor.

"If you had to choose, would the boss choose long hair or short hair?"

"Long hair?"

Xu Xing's personal xp is indeed more inclined to have longer hair.

"Oh, that's it." Yan Chijue touched the ends of his hair that had just reached his chin, lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking.

After the subway arrived at the station, the two went to the entrepreneurial park together and took the elevator to the seventh floor.

At this time, the door of the office space was open, a cleaning lady was cleaning, and Yao Yuanyuan was instructing two brothers to install computers on the tables in the office area.

Seeing the two people walking in, Yao Yuanyuan glanced at the gap between them as they walked, with a slightly satisfied look in her eyes.

It's not bad, at least it's a few centimeters closer than before.

The safe distance controlled subconsciously between people can often reflect part of the social distance between two people.

For people like Xu Xing and Yan Chijuan, they can be so close to each other when walking, and even occasionally their arms touch each other. This is no longer something that can be explained by ordinary friendship.

"The computers in the public area here are still being installed, but the boss's office in the middle and the finance room on the right have been installed. If you want to use the computer, go over there." Yao Yuanyuan pointed to the direction of the office and secretly looked toward Yan Chi.

Jiu blinked and signaled that he had arranged everything for you.

Yan Chijiu blushed a little. She had already learned from Yao Yuanyuan that the power outage that night was her fault.

Looking back now, I feel really embarrassed.

I don’t know if I will stay until night today?

But after thinking about it, I forgot about it.

If power outages occur frequently, Xu Xing might suspect the quality of the circuits in the entrepreneurial park here.

Walking into the middle office, there are two desks in total.

The desk placed sideways near the door is mainly for future administrative secretaries, while Xu Xing's desk is located by the window, facing the door.

There are two computers placed on each of the two desks.

So Xu Xing and Yan Chijuan sat behind the boss's desk and immediately got into work mode.

During the previous military training, after getting Lu Pengyou's computer, Xu Xing would catch up on the progress every night.

Now the development progress of the Android version of Fruit Assassin is not far behind. If we catch up a little this week, we should be able to run the test next week. By mid-September, we can upload it to the domestic platform.

Yan Chijuan is obviously worried about Xu Xing. The sales are so good abroad. If there are so many people in China, wouldn't it be possible to make more money?

So she couldn't type code during the military training. Now she got the chance and started working hard immediately.

I worked for an hour in the morning, and Yao Yuanyuan came to deliver lunch at noon. After eating, I continued working.

Looking at this posture, it looks like he wants to make up for all the time he lost due to military training.

"There's no need to be in such a hurry." Seeing her like this, Xu Xing couldn't help but smile, "It's no use just making the game. We also have to do supporting publicity. I have to plan carefully in this regard. I guess it will have to wait until the middle or the end of the month.

Only then will it be uploaded to the domestic platform.”

After all, his previous plan was to switch from export to domestic sales, so the timing of this switch to domestic sales was crucial.

Especially at present, the momentum of Fruit Assassin in the United States has not yet slowed down, and is even becoming more and more intense.

Naturally, Xu Xing hopes that this foreign fire will become more and more prosperous, and even spontaneously burn all the way to China.

The most their studio needs to do is to guide the direction of the fire a little.

One thing to say, Xu Xing actually didn’t expect Fruit Assassin to ferment so quickly at first.

When he got up this morning, he checked the sales volume of Fruit Assassin. It had increased from 210,000 last night to 300,000.

This momentum is really scary.

Originally, Xu Xing had already made plans. With the initial recommendation from the App Store and the promotion plan he had prepared for more than 20 YouTube bloggers, he could make the sales exceed 50,000 or 100,000, which is already a very good effect.

But what made him a bit dumbfounded was that the Exotic Sword mobile game planner on the other side of the ocean was so cerebral that he directly criticized Fruit Assassin on Twitter for being a vulgar and inferior game.

Although he deleted his tweet very quickly, it did not prevent his words from being quickly spread by enthusiastic netizens.

In the Internet era, what kind of popularity spreads the fastest?

Of course it’s something involving controversy in the rice circle.

Although the term "fanquan" is unique to the Internet era, in fact, this kind of unreasonable confrontation between two opposing parties has actually existed since ancient times.

It's just that the Internet, a tool, has amplified this phenomenon countless times, and the noise it caused has become extremely huge.

This resulted in Fruit Assassin being pushed all the way to the top of Twitter's hot searches during this incident. Although it was not ranked high, it still received a lot of traffic, and it actually attracted a lot of players to Fruit Assassin.

After all, the planning of Sword of Exotics was said to be an inferior game, but this inferior game is now on the App Store rankings, crushing Sword of Exotics under its feet... Oh no, I should say

It is stepping on the sword of a foreign country to hold the position.

Then of course everyone has to take a look at what this inferior game is.

Naturally, Stand Your Ground is not to be outdone. Yesterday, the planner also tweeted, joking that the planner of Sword of Foreign Countries probably means that any game ranked higher than him on the ranking list is considered an inferior game.

Good guy.

Nowadays, people are not idle anymore. They not only take screenshots of various rankings in the App Store, but also take screenshots of various rankings on other platforms. Anyone on Sword of Foreign Countries will be pulled out by players to make fun of them.

A few words about inferior games.

A wave of public opinion started like this.

Xu Xing has been paying attention to this matter, and he is very happy that the planner of Sword of Foreign Countries will come out to curse more.

However, looking at the current situation, Sword of Foreign Countries officials estimate that it will not be long before they can no longer withstand the pressure of public opinion, and they will have to take action on the mobile game planning.

Fruit Assassin has also taken advantage of this wave of east wind, and its sales have increased rapidly. After having hundreds of thousands of players, Xu Xing no longer worries about subsequent sales.

After all, with this player base and the spread of Fruit Assassin itself, even if no publicity is done later, players will spontaneously form a running network to promote Fruit Assassin officially.

For the next version update, I have to arrange the ranking of friends who have not had time to develop before... Xu Xing touched his chin, thinking about the next steps.

At this time, Xu Xing received an email from the App Store.

The above is a recommended schedule for the new week.

Fruit Assassin will be recommended on the cover of the game category for one week.

In this way, the follow-up of the Fruit Assassin massacre list was decided in advance on Xu Xing's side.

The sales ranking list of the latest game may no longer be able to accommodate Fruit Assassin.

Xu Xing set his sights on the total sales list of game categories, wondering how long it would take before he could see Fruit Assassin at the forefront.

…

"boss."

I worked until five o'clock in the afternoon, when Yao Yuanyuan delivered lunch boxes again.

While eating and chatting, Yan Chijuan picked up his phone and looked at it, then put it down and asked Xu Xing, "Are you going to the class meeting tonight? I heard you can watch a movie."

Xu Xing originally wanted to say no after hearing this, but when he saw the expectant look in Yan Chijue's eyes, he subconsciously asked, "How long has it been since you last watched a movie?"

"Well..." Yan Chijiu lowered his head, his expression slightly gloomy, "It must have been several years."

To be more precise, she probably hasn't watched a movie since she entered junior high school.

Xu Xing pursed his lips, ate his meal, and then said, "Let's go back together later. It would be nice to watch a movie. Let's not work overtime tonight."

"Okay!" Yao Yuanyuan supported loudly, "I will drive you back in a while!"

At half past six in the evening, Xu Xing and Yan Chijuan took Yao Yuanyuan's car all the way back to the Min Gate.

After saying goodbye to Yao Yuanyuan, the two found classroom 108 in the teaching building based on the information sent by Xue Weiqiang in the QQ group.

This classroom is relatively large, with enough seats to accommodate two classes of students.

The movie hasn't started yet, but the lights in the classroom have been turned off, and only the front screen is on.

When Xu Xing and Yan Chijue came in through the back door, there were still a few minutes before the movie started, so they didn't bother their roommates and secretly went to sit in the corner of the last row.

In the dim environment, Yan Chijuan sat on a chair, looking at the classmates in front of him, and then at Xu Xing next to him, feeling a little ambiguous and exciting.

Xu Xing looked at the screen in front of him and asked curiously: "What movie are you watching?"

Yan Chijiu recalled it and said, "It seems to be called Painted Skin 2?"

Xu Xing: "...?"