Did you really think there’d only be one round of dog food? The chances of being force-fed by this pair of scientific geniuses… are infinite.
After the live stream ended, the viewers were still unsatisfied, their curiosity burning. Just then, an anonymous netizen claiming to be an insider revealed that Professor Mi’s motivation for designing mechas was entirely because, back then, his girlfriend’s wish was to pilot a mecha into the stars…
A round of heated discussion later, with the help of some in-the-know, everyone managed to locate the social media account of the original host, Gu Xin.
From then on, netizens treated this account like a wishing machine.
Meanwhile, after the livestream wrapped up and the crew gradually left, Ling Jing quietly leaned on Qin Jingzhou’s shoulder, remaining silent for a while.
She wasn’t exactly overjoyed after Qin Jingzhou made his public confession, but… somehow, she just couldn’t meet the big boss’s gaze. Otherwise, she’d definitely be blushing. So she awkwardly tried to play it cool. “Let me check social media, see what those genius, silly netizens are saying.”
And right on cue, her phone crashed.
Ling Jing gave an embarrassed laugh, then simply had her System help her filter the comments.
As her System read out the various rainbow comments from those silly netizens, the corners of her mouth rose higher and higher.
Qin Jingzhou noticed, but said nothing, just quietly took note. He spent a week and built a phone accelerator—it was extremely straightforward in principle, just add another high-performance CPU.
The real challenge lay in the main control program, but no matter how difficult, nothing could stop him.
By the way, his graphene processor amounted to his signature technique. The Officials could easily agree to disclose the Mecha Spider, but the graphene processor had to be kept under wraps a bit longer, to be revealed at the right time.
So for this phone accelerator, he used a domestic silicon-based chip he had improved himself, one with Hua Country’s own intellectual property rights.
He handed the personally made accelerator to Ling Jing.
She tried it out and wouldn’t stop praising it, saying the phone now rivaled the very worst light brain on any interstellar world. Since her boyfriend crafted the accelerator for her with his own hands, of course she kept it herself. She made a rough imitation and handed it to Chief Wang. “He saw my phone kept crashing, so he made me a little gadget. I think there’s great commercial potential here.”
Qin Jingzhou, gazing at his thesis, responded with a completely serious face, “Hope this little thing can earn me funds for my spaceship research… and, oh, pocket money for my girlfriend and the kids.”
Chief Wang called him a real talent, and solemnly kept the accelerator, taking it back to discuss and study with the experts at the Academy of Sciences and Academy of Engineering.
The field’s top experts were already gathered together researching the graphene processor, and they were convinced, often saying, “Professor Mi is a genius.”
Once they heard that Chief Wang had wrangled another treasure out of Professor Mi, everyone was so excited they dropped what they were doing to come “strongly spectate.” And when they saw it…
Half a year later, the phone accelerator officially hit the market.
Everyone, drawn by the “Developed by Professor Mi” label, refreshed the official site constantly, to the point it teetered on the edge of crashing at all times. The first tech media testers to get the accelerator did a skeptical livestream, and yet, old phones from five years ago actually outperformed foreign flagship phones by over 30 percent.
And the standard phone accelerator sold for just 199, the flagship version for 699.
Very soon, netizens realized that with a domestic flagship phone, the flagship accelerator, and even a subpar simulator, they could smoothly play PC triple-A games at max graphics with no lag, no stuttering—a level of absurdity.
Then, new insider leaks emerged: the accelerator was made by Professor Mi to save his girlfriend from the nightmare of constant phone crashes…
Netizens en masse declared: Quick, help me up, I can eat more dog food!
From then on, Ling Jing’s social media account truly became a wishing machine… Even though she didn’t interact much with netizens, because she would check and like or share posts from time to time, the ones she boosted would actually be prioritized and get good results.
So, within a year, she became Hua Country’s undisputed top influencer, with no one able to rival her online presence.
As for what happened after the Mecha Spider was revealed and the Officials started negotiations with other nations, Qin Jingzhou and Ling Jing didn’t care much.
The Mecha Spider’s visuals were stunning, but its core tech wasn’t actually that advanced.
Because it was both offensive and defensive, easy to operate, and cheap to produce, it was extremely practical, so the Officials had already decided to deploy it in large numbers. The single bottleneck was that Mecha Spiders had extremely high requirements for their operators and engineers, making training difficult… As long as they controlled the operator training, they had others by the throat.
So, if the price was right, the Officials were perfectly willing to sell downgraded versions of the Mecha Spider, but operator and engineer training would never be discounted.
In any case, over the next few years, Qin Jingzhou made over 10 billion just from royalties… Yet even so, he didn’t dare declare financial freedom, because designing and building an interstellar ship burned through money far faster than he’d ever imagined.
Still, it was the dream of all Hua Country’s people, and he was determined to integrate the tech and build the spaceship—just as principled as ever, never cutting corners or rushing it.
At present, the core engine for the spaceship still needed work, so for now, he was content to teach and enjoy a peaceful life with Ling Jing.
That “for now” lasted fifteen years.
There was finally a breakthrough in the core engine: a controlled fusion engine at last appeared!
It was worth mentioning that his daughter and her childhood sweetheart both participated in designing and manufacturing this engine.
After the banquet celebrating the engine’s debut, Mi Xiaoxiao married her “dating since New Year’s” childhood friend Gu Zhiwei. Her half-sister was the first to marry, and with his own relationship so steady, Gu Sheng felt he didn’t need to wait any longer and proposed to his girlfriend…
And Gu Sheng’s girlfriend was none other than the former A-list idol, Yu Guan—his own sister.
By the way, after Yu Guan cleaned up her entertainment agency and sent her boss and the whole management team off to jail, she fulfilled the rest of her contracts and announced her retirement.
She had a friend arrange excellent tutors to help her catch up academically, and three years later, signed up to take the entrance exam for Qin Jingzhou’s graduate studies.
Yu Guan’s fans took this in two ways: One, they felt justified in loving her—their idol was so inspiring. Two, they felt… relentless: Everyone knows Gu Xin is your number one fan! Now Gu Xin and her boyfriend Professor Mi are wildly in love, and Professor Mi has spent these years making all those “little gadgets” just to show off and spread dog food, and you still come running to remind Professor Mi that Gu Xin was once obsessed with you?!
How are you sure Professor Mi won’t make life hard for you?
Yu Guan’s fan posted a lengthy, heartfelt comment.
Because it was so sincere, it garnered huge likes from fans and random people alike and shot straight to the trending topics.
Most netizens felt Professor Mi wouldn’t be so petty as to sabotage Yu Guan, but as for her getting in… no one was optimistic.
If not for Yu Guan’s great reputation and all the charity she did both before and after retirement, trolls would’ve been all over her. Yet plenty of sarcastic shade commenters still populated her account.
After all, Professor Mi’s graduate program was known as “a realm only battle gods could comprehend.” Even academic prodigies had to devote 16 hours every day, with barely any break all year, or they wouldn’t even make it to an interview, let alone see Professor Mi himself.
The topic trended, and of course Yu Guan saw the post and the reaction. She replied simply: I have ALS, and these past years, it hasn’t progressed at all thanks to the custom device Professor Mi developed for me at Miss Gu’s request… Yes, the ALS assistive device that debuted a few years ago was designed and developed by Professor Mi too.
Netizens were fired up again: Wait, Professor Mi would really… arm the enemy purely to make his girlfriend happy?
That night, Ling Jing saw the trending topic too. A little bit of pride rising in her heart, and with Qin Jingzhou’s permission, she posted a photo: a birthday cake in front of her, her left arm linked with Qin Jingzhou’s, her right hand holding a cake knife, and Yu Guan standing at her right, beaming.
Netizens: !!!
Instantly the memes started rolling in: I am SHOCKED.jpg
Ling Jing gleefully collected a pile of new reaction images.
Yu Guan ultimately didn’t get into Qin Jingzhou’s graduate program, but she was hired as his assistant.
In short, not long after Mi Xiaoxiao and Gu Sheng both got married, Hua Country announced the successful R&D and manufacture of its proprietary controlled-fusion engine, then installed it onto the newly-constructed spaceship.
When the spaceship actually launched, Ling Yu—who had always been required to report to the Officials regularly—got into a major fight with her boyfriend (now husband): because she discovered he’d found someone new.
Their company had faced increasingly tough times. Even though no one deliberately targeted them, their revenue shrank while their expenses didn’t really drop, so she had to count every penny. It was nothing like her past life, where money was never a worry!
As the saying goes, “In hardship, all is sorrow for a married couple.” Though they were still far from truly poor, the most agonizing thing was “once having had it all.” She went back to her room, locked the door, threw herself on the bed, and cried her heart out—why did she even choose rebirth in the first place?!
Someone else in a similar plight was Elizabeth, who had never returned to Hua Country.
Because, in the end, in order to obtain the “black technology,” the White Eagle Federation had to make concessions to Hua Country, and Elizabeth and her parents were part of those terms.
Even tycoons, when targeted by their peers, do not fare well.
If not for Elizabeth finally giving birth to Gu Sheng’s son, the White Eagle Federation’s tycoons would have ruthlessly cut her off.
But now her own family had declined so much, it was easy to imagine Elizabeth’s state of mind.
As for Mr. Nian, who, after having all his crimes exposed, ended up in a high-security psychiatric facility alongside Mr. Zhang… Well, by that point, he’d already been buried, and except for Doctor Nian, who kept working at Capital City University of Transportation, the entire Nian family was written out of Capital City’s social circles.
Still, they managed to keep living in the city, but the Zhang family was “implicated” so badly they had to leave altogether.
As for Mr. Zhang… even missing a leg and ailing, he lived on surprisingly long, and watched the spaceship launch to completion, savoring it: Yes, standing beneath the spaceship, meticulously protected by swarms of Mecha Spiders, Qin Jingzhou really was handsome and awe-inspiring.
After saying this, he returned to his room and continued chatting with his beloved flowers by the window.