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Chapter 14 Falling Flowers Follow the Flowing Water

"The Devotion of Suspect X" was unexpectedly popular in Taiwan, especially among the students. Every day, many students came to "Life" magazine after school to inquire about the plot behind the novel. As a result, the sales of "Life" magazine have increased significantly. Of course, the more you sell, the greater Li Zetian's income, because for every copy of "Life" magazine sold, he can get 2 Taiwan dollars.

With the launch of the second issue of the magazine, "The Devotion of Suspect X" became even more popular.

For a time, the "Life" magazine office was full of people.

It can be said that in order to obtain the traditional Chinese publishing rights of the entire novel, the major publishers in Taiwan almost broke through the door of "Life" magazine.Even the film company came to the door, wanting to get the film adaptation rights of the novel.Li Chengzhi called his son to ask for his opinion. Li Zetian said that after waiting for a while, "The Devotion of Suspect X" will definitely become more and more popular. At that time, he will negotiate with the publisher and film company.My side is up for grabs, don't worry!
At the same time, Li Zetian began to write his second novel "White Night Journey", which is also a classic work of Keigo Higashino, a master of RB mystery novels.After writing "The Devotion of Suspect X", Li Zetian has become very comfortable in adapting novels.He not only wants to write out the essence of the original work, but also wants to be unconventional and add his own ideas to make the story more exciting.Of course, Li Zetian admits that it is not easy to achieve this.

If you want to be good at work, you must first sharpen your tools. Li Zetian went to the store and bought a 500 computer developed by Wang An Computer Company in 1971. He said that it was a computer, but its essence was just an automatic typewriter with editing functions. Except, it comes with a search function, which is much better than IBM's $1200 electric typewriter.

The United States was facing economic transformation at this time, the proportion of the tertiary industry continued to rise, the number of office white-collar workers increased significantly, and the existing office equipment could not keep up with the pace.Wang An aimed at this opportunity, concentrated scientific research and funds, and developed office systems.Previously, this was IBM's exclusive domain. In 1971, when Wang An Computer Company launched the 1200 computer, it was reported that Thomas Watson Jr., the chairman of IBM who was hospitalized due to myocardial infarction, was furious after reading the news in the newspaper, and reprimanded his assistant for not notifying relevant information in advance. After cursing, Watson fell into a coma!
At the end of November, "The Devotion of Suspect X" was serialized in "Life" magazine, with a total sales volume of nearly 11 copies. Li Zetian earned 60 million Taiwan dollars, which was almost 120 U.S. dollars when converted into U.S. dollars according to the exchange rate at the time!
Now Li Zetian can be regarded as a small fortune, and his entrepreneurial heart is already ready to move!

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Christmas is approaching, and each college of Harvard University will hold a Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve. This is a very grand and formal event, and most of the students in the college will attend the dinner.

Although Li Zetian is usually very homely, he still attended such a grand Christmas dinner.

The Christmas dinner was very lively, with a lot of food and drinks. Li Zetian was not very social, and he didn't make many friends in the music department.So, he probably brought a mouth to eat...

Bachabacha, it's delicious!

However, after a few minutes, when he looked up, he suddenly saw the girl Chen Ruoxi at the school opening party. At this moment, she was drinking alcohol not far from a Christmas tree covered with colorful lights, and beside her no one else!

Chance! ! !

Li Zetian's heart moved, his spirit instantly became excited, he picked up a glass of wine on the table and drank it down.

As the saying goes, "alcohol strengthens courage", after a glass of wine, Li Zetian went all out and decided to go up and say hello to her.

He walked up to her quickly, "Hi, hello! Do you still know me?"

"็ Hello Who are you……?"

"You don't remember me?"

"I seem to have a memory, but I can't remember it."

"Didn't you fall down the stairs at the freshman welcome party? I caught you."

"Oh, so it was you, I remembered."

"Hi, let me introduce myself formally. My name is Li Zetian, and my English name is Chronos Lee."

"Nice to meet you, my name is Chen Ruoxi!"

"Well, nice to meet you too..."

After introducing himself, Li Zetian suddenly didn't know what to say. He had never learned how to seduce girls, and he didn't have the talent in this area.On the contrary, the more nervous you are, the more speechless you become.

Cold field.

awkward.

And Chen Ruoxi obviously knew Li Zetian's intention of coming to greet her.Pretty girls are often chased by boys!If it is a boy she likes, she will take the initiative to talk to him, but if it is not a boy she likes, she is too lazy to speak.Otherwise, just deal with it simply.Li Zetian was thin and not tall, not the sunny and handsome boy she liked.

After holding back for a long time, Li Zetian finally spoke again.

However, they all said some unnutritious words, such as "Tonight's party is really lively!" "Are you a sophomore student in the Music Department?" "Are you an American immigrant?" Li Zetian didn't know why he said these words. People who didn't know thought they were investigating the household registration.

Chen Ruoxi responded to Li Zetian's words in a random way. From the other party's conversation, Chen Ruoxi thought that Li Zetian was a boring person, but she didn't know that Li Zetian was like this because of nervousness. He usually talked to Bill Gates and Steve. · Ballmer, DEC executives and others talked about computers and the economy, and they talked with eloquence, which is admirable!
For Li Zetian, maybe it is better to let him give a business speech in front of the teachers and students of the school than to speak in front of a girl he likes.

At this moment, Li Zetian felt so embarrassed.

Falling flowers intend to flow water mercilessly, while flowing water has no heart to fall in love with falling flowers.

He was not stupid, and from the attitude of the other party, he could clearly feel that Chen Ruoxi was not interested in him.

"Who didn't have many crushes when he was young! Maybe, the other half that really belongs to him is still waiting for him in the future!" Li Zetian comforted himself in his heart.

Immediately Li Zetian bid farewell to Chen Ruoxi.

Just as Li Zetian left, Wang Lie, Wang An's son, came to Chen Ruoxi, he couldn't help frowning and asked, "Ruoxi, who is that man?"

"Just a friend."

"Friend? I don't think so, I think that kid clearly wants to pursue you!"

"So what? I want you to mind your own business!"

"Ruoxi, stop making trouble, you are my girlfriend, how can I ignore it?"

"I already told you to break up!"

"Ruoxi, I know what you're talking about is angry! Didn't I promise you that I won't make mistakes again? What do you want from me?!"

Chen Ruoxi didn't speak, but turned and left.

With a gloomy face, Wang Lie said to the companions behind him: "Hurry up and investigate that man, and teach him a lesson so that he will not appear in front of Ruoxi in the future!"

"Hehe, don't worry, he will never dare to appear in front of Miss Ruoxi next time!" A tall man grinned.

"Ok!"

Chen Ruoxi returned to her sister group, talking and laughing, as if what happened just now didn't happen at all.

"Ruoxi is different. People chase her wherever she goes! Who is that man?" Everyone joked.

Chen Ruoxi smiled and replied: "My name is Li Zetian, he is from China, he should be a freshman in the Music Department, I don't know much about him."

"I don't understand it now, but I can gradually understand it in the future! How about it, Ruoxi, have you taken a fancy to him?"

"If you want to give it to you, I don't like it anyway!"

"Of course you don't like it. The heir of Wang An Computer Company is much better than a poor boy! By the way, why don't you forgive Wang Lie? Don't you worry, someone else snatched him away?"

"I will see his performance on my birthday next week. If he behaves well, I will forgive him!"

"Oh, poor Li Zetian, he is doomed not to be able to bring a beauty home, hehe..." Everyone laughed.

"I think that Li Zetian is actually pretty good!" Suddenly one of Chen Ruoxi's sisters said.

When everyone heard the words, they all cast surprised eyes.

"Yu Jingqiu, you can't make a mistake...do you think he is better than Wang Lie?"

"Wang Lie's family background is indeed very strong. If their family background is excluded, I don't think Wang Lie can be compared with Li Zetian at all!" At this time, a girl stood up from the table and chair, and then said lightly, and her His appearance is not weaker than Chen Ruoxi's, with fair skin and beautiful appearance, slender figure, and an aura full of knowledge and wisdom!
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