mutual benefit [gl]

The first time Zhou Ming met Chen Yuanzhen was after the high school entrance examination.

He still remembers the scene that day, when he was taken to a luxury hotel by the head teacher of the junior high school.In the elevator, the class teacher told him that there was a rich man who wanted to sponsor him to finish college, and asked him to be sweeter when he met that person.

But at the time, he didn't think about it that much.

His father's alcoholism has left him half disabled, and his mother has long since left home.He and his elderly grandma are the only ones left in the family. They usually receive the subsistence allowance and rely on grandma to pick up some scraps to live on.

The results of the high school entrance examination have been released, and he did very well in the exam, ranking among the top ten in the city, enough to get into the best high school in Z city.

But when all the students are busy learning about high school application, he is thinking about how to hide the fact that he is under 16 so that he can work in the future.

He has already calculated, even if the school can reduce part of the tuition fee.But the rest of the expenses for the next three years are still not a small expense for his family.

Zhou Ming would rather give up studying than let his grandma continue to suffer.

When the head teacher came to his house, the grandma who understood the head teacher's intentions searched happily for a long time, but finally had no choice but to hand him the whitishly washed school uniform.

It was the only piece of clothing he had without patches.

The head teacher's face froze, but he still smiled and said that it's okay for students to wear school uniforms, and then led him to the hotel.

It was the first time he stepped into such a luxurious place, and when he entered the lobby of the hotel, he saw the front desk clerk in a suit and tie, his eyes glowing slightly.

At that time, he felt that if he could stand in such a luxurious place like this in the future, his life would be enough.

And when he saw Chen Yuanzhen with his own eyes, he couldn't help but widen his eyes in surprise.

He stood alone in the presidential suite on the top floor of the hotel, looking at Chen Yuanzhen who was sitting opposite him, smiling at him with his jaw slightly raised.

That person... is obviously a child who looks about the same age as him.

But she was sitting on the sofa with her legs crossed, looking leisurely, and behind her, the huge French windows reflected the city's eight streets and nine streets, full of traffic.

The ease in her eyebrows and eyes is something that Zhou Ming has never seen in the eyes of many adults.

She looks the same as the female classmates around her, but very different.

He was starting to think the whole thing was a complete joke.

He's obviously a child, so why talk about helping himself?

He was about to ask, but he heard Chen Yuanzhen smile.

"I heard you did well in your exams, but you have no money to go to school."

Her voice was still a little immature, but her tone was quite mature.

Zhou Ming didn't speak, just looked at her.

He smiled again when he saw her, and she took out a check from the inner pocket of her shirt, leaned forward slightly, and placed it on the wooden coffee table in front of her.

"I'll pay you to go to school."

Her voice was very soft, but every word was heard clearly in Zhou Ming's ears.

He lowered his eyes and glanced at the check. The amount on the check was enough for all his high school expenses for three years.

He clenched his fist secretly.

It's not that Zhou Ming doesn't know how to be grateful, but he didn't expect that the person who sponsored his studies would be a peer who is only one or two years older than himself.

This made him feel a sense of frustration in his still impetuous heart.

"But," Chen Yuanzhen said again.

Zhou Ming looked up at her.

"No one's money comes from the wind. I won't give you in vain."

"Then, what do you want to do?" Zhou Ming finally had the courage to speak.

Chen Yuanzhen bent the corner of his mouth.

"I want you to be admitted to the best university in this country."

After she finished speaking, she paused for a moment, as if deliberately waiting for Zhou Ming to show a shocked expression.

"If you do it, I will continue to support you for four years in college. But if you don't," she moved her body back and leaned on the sofa.

"Then you have to return the money to me."

"Why did you choose me?" He asked anxiously.

"Because you are poor."

Chen Yuanzhen looked as if it should be taken for granted.

"Among all the candidates who are living on the subsistence allowances, your grades are the best, and they are the best."

And this reason once again hurt Zhou Ming's self-esteem.

At this age, no matter what kind of family environment they are in, there will always be more or less in their hearts——

"I'm different."

Such a fantasy.

But Chen Yuanzhen ruthlessly shattered his fantasy.

He lowered his eyebrows in frustration and remained silent.

"I need your sense of urgency." Chen Yuanzhen said softly.

Zhou Ming slowly raised his eyes to look at her again.

"Because you have nothing, you want everything. I need your sense of urgency for success and for the future."

He frowned slightly, obviously the person opposite him was just a child like himself, but he couldn't understand what she was saying to him at all.

Chen Yuanzhen smiled and said, "Your name is Zhou Ming, right?"

He nodded anxiously.

"Zhou Ming, from today onwards, you have to remember: I give you your future."

That's it.

Even though so many years have passed, Zhou Ming still remembers this sentence every time he thinks about it.

In many people's minds, the most amazing person they met when they were young will become a cinnabar mole in their heart, or the white moonlight outside the window.

But for Zhou Ming, he was also surprised that he had never thought of anything other than loyalty to Chen Yuanzhen.

He still felt that he was abnormal at first, until he saw Ji Cixi.Only then did he understand where his gap was.

For Chen Yuanzhen, he is in awe, always looking up.

But Ji Cixi, that woman was not.

She has also been favored by Chen Yuanzhen, but she wants to live and benefit with Chen Yuanzhen.

That woman always looked directly at Chen Yuanzhen.

At around six o'clock in the morning, Ji Cixi received a call from Chen Yuanzhen.

She was standing in front of the fried dough stick stand and waiting in line for freshly baked fried dough sticks, because there are only fast food restaurants nearby where she lives now, where it costs nearly 30 yuan for her and Ji Xu to have a breakfast, while If she went around half a street to buy breakfast at a stall in a nearby residential area, she could save nearly ten yuan.

In order to save the ten yuan, Ji Cixi got up 10 to [-] minutes earlier than usual every day, because in addition to the detour time, she also had to count the time spent queuing.

When Chen Yuanzhen called her, she happened to be at the front of the line.Before Chen Yuanzhen could speak when she picked up the phone, she said in a low voice, wait for me first, put the phone in her pocket, and went to buy breakfast.

After buying fried dough sticks, Ji Cixi took out her mobile phone from her pocket again.

"It's so early, what's the matter?"

The pen that Chen Yuanzhen was fiddling with between her fingers suddenly stopped, she smiled and said, "Ji Cixi, am I being too accommodating to you?"

Ji Cixi's footsteps were fast, she had to hurry home before breakfast was cold.

"What's the matter?"

"I can't find you if it's okay?"

Ji Cixi's footsteps stopped, she raised her head to look at the sky, and sighed helplessly.

"If Ji Xu is late for school, please ask your parents. Are you going?"

"You don't come here." Chen Yuanzhen snorted, "Why didn't I know that elementary school students would invite their parents once in a while? If they are really invited, I will go."

Ji Cixi gritted her teeth, knowing that this reason could not evade her, she said again: "Then Ji Xu had a cold breakfast and had a stomachache, why don't you carry him to the hospital?"

After she finished speaking, she walked quickly again.

Chen Yuanzhen smiled and stopped arguing with her.She lowered her eyes to look at the time on the computer. In order not to disturb Ji Cixi's rest, she deliberately found a time when she should have woken up, but unexpectedly, something went wrong.

"Forget it. Since you're still busy, I'll tell you later and hang up."

"En." Ji Cixi replied hastily, but she felt that it was not enough, so she added: "I wake up at about five o'clock every day now."

Chen Yuanzhen's expression froze, and then she reacted, her smile deepened, and she ended the call.

It wasn't until almost eight o'clock that Chen Yuanzhen called again.

"Well, are you free now?"

"So, what's the matter?"

Chen Yuanzhen smiled and said: "You have a computer by your side, go and see the homepages of the major portals."

Ji Cixi's computer happened to be on, and when she heard this, she clicked on the various portals on the homepage of the computer's navigation.

Seeing the homepage of each website, Ji Cixi couldn't help but smile slightly.

Her eyes were locked on a news item on the homepage titled "Chen's Real Estate, how the benchmark position in the real estate industry has been consolidated."

"Look at the trending searches in the search bar." Chen Yuanzhen said proudly.

Only then did Ji Cixi raise her eyes.

The first hot search item is "Fenglin Garden Phase III Collapse Accident, Two Dead and Seven Injured."

And under this hot search, there is that almost flattering news.

"What did you do?" Ji Cixi asked with a smile.

"Chen Yuanshuo did it." Chen Yuanzhen replied, after a pause, she smiled and said, "It's just my idea."

"Your brother must not know that you are so insidious."

Chen Yuanzhen pouted nonchalantly.

"The more insidious ones are yet to come."

Ji Cixi was taken aback for a moment, and she asked in confusion: "Isn't it enough to ruin his crisis public relations? Then what else do you want to do?"

"What's the use of offending some netizens." Chen Yuanzhen snorted coldly, "I have to make Chen Yuanyang offend a few more people."

Ji Cixi pondered for a moment, then asked: "Then didn't you make a wedding dress for your second brother?"

"Of course Chen Yuanshuo has to clean up." Chen Yuanzhen smiled, "But it's not the time yet."

After she finished speaking, as if she suddenly remembered something, she said, "Sun Yao."

Ji Cixi cheered up immediately when she heard the words, she gripped the phone tightly and asked with concern: "How is it?"

"He will go to the department store soon and be the deputy director."

Ji Cixi was a little surprised at first, then she frowned and said, "So it looks like I screwed up?"

"Hard to say."

"Didn't he get promoted?" Ji Cixi raised his eyebrows.

"The higher the position, the heavier the responsibility." Chen Yuanzhen said, "It will be summed up at the end of the year, and then you will know whether your move is right or wrong."

After she finished speaking, she smiled again: "Next month, you bring Ji Xu to me, and let Special Assistant Liao and Zhou Ming watch it for two days."

"how?"

"If you don't have a passport, go for it."

Ji Cixi asked in surprise: "What are you going to do?"

"Take you out for a walk," Chen Yuanzhen smiled brighter, "See the world."

The author has something to say: You can imagine the appearance of a young girl, Director Chen, as a domineering president. 233333 Zhou Ming, by the way, tells everyone that there is no other CP possibility in this article except for Director Chen and Mr. Ji~