Pregnant and Pampered: The Heiress in a Military Compound

He glared at Xie Changning, but the competition was over, and Xie Changning had no intention of indulging him. "What are you yelling about? You want to fight?"

As she spoke, Xie Changning rolled up her sleeves, looking ready to throw down.

Her action made the other man’s expression change slightly. He hadn’t forgotten the rumors he’d heard about Xie Changning knowing Snake Fist.

His face hardened, and he turned his head, refusing to speak to Xie Changning any further.

However, his moment of impotent rage had already been captured by countless reporters’ cameras. It would be all over the news, and the Chinese reporters, in particular, would be sure to publicize it widely.

’Our nation’s technology is so powerful, it drove a US technician into a public fit of rage!’

What uplifting news this would be!

Unlike China, other countries would report on the incident to mock the US contestant for his impotent rage.

Xie Changning withdrew her gaze and sat down on one of the sofas prepared at the venue, waiting for the results.

They hadn’t slept well in three days.

Well, not quite three days. On the third day, they had taken shifts standing guard, worried that someone might try to sabotage their upgraded products.

In Xie Changning’s words, everything in the United States was suspect.

The winner of the competition was, naturally, the Chinese team led by Xie Changning.

Xie Changning’s group not only completed all the upgrades but also finished ahead of schedule, a testament to their technological prowess.

As for the United States—

"We protest! This is unfair!" The US technicians questioned the judges’ decision. They argued that since the product was originally from China, they needed time for research, whereas the Chinese team didn’t need to do any.

"They’re already familiar with it, so of course they’d save time!"

But the judges weren’t about to indulge them either.

"When the rules were being established, you didn’t raise any objections. In fact, you seemed quite pleased. Now that you’ve lost, you’re claiming the competition is unfair?" The judges didn’t want to argue with the US contestants.

They went directly to the US officials.

They put pressure on the US officials.

After all, it was a US official who had orchestrated this whole thing.

He would have to solve this problem himself.

What could the US official say? In the end, he could only placate the technicians from his own country. Of course, no one knew what he said to them, but the final outcome was that China had won!

Upon winning the championship, the entire Chinese tech team was stunned.

They remained in a daze for a long time before it finally sank in. They had defeated the US contestants with their own skills...

"We were only behind at the starting line. Given the same amount of time, we can do better than them!" They recalled what Xie Changning had told them and wept with joy.

They really could do it!

Xie Changning watched her team members embrace, a smile spreading across her face.

The title of "champion" would undoubtedly have an incredibly positive impact on China’s tech industry.

She was very happy too!

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「In China, Lin Province」

The entire leadership team had cleared their schedules for the day and were sitting in the conference room, waiting for the phone to ring.

Even though it was already past one in the morning, none of the leaders felt the slightest bit sleepy.

They were waiting—waiting for good news from abroad.

The senior leader, in particular, sat in his chair, glancing at the phone repeatedly. "It’s alright, everyone. No need to be so nervous. The worst we can do is second place. For a country that was a latecomer to industrialization and is participating in an international tech competition for the first time, that’s already a remarkable achievement!"

He was verbally comforting those around him, but in reality, ’he was comforting himself.’

’Having come this far, of course they hoped to see what the view from the top was like!’

Everyone nodded in agreement.

’Once you make it to the finals, who doesn’t want to win first place?’

Mr. Wang rubbed his hands together incessantly and looked at Xie Changyi. "You should know your sister fairly well, right?"

Everyone in the country knew that Xie Changning’s skills were top-tier. But while she was top-tier at home, they weren’t sure how she would stack up abroad...

’Can she really take first place...?’

"When my sister left, her goal was first place. She should be able to take it."

Xie Changyi had faith in Xie Changning.

The moment her voice fell, the phone in the conference room rang. The senior leader shot up from his seat, darted to the phone in a single bound, and answered it himself. "Hello, this is the Lin Province conference room."

"Hello, I’m a reporter from the China Jingcheng Daily. My surname is Yu. I’m calling to share some good news with Lin Province. Our comrade, Xie Changning, has led the entire tech team to successfully win first place in the international technology competition!"

As Reporter Yu spoke, the senior leader of Lin Province could faintly hear the Chinese national anthem playing in the background.

He was too excited to speak.

’It’s our national anthem!’

"Yes, yes, good! I understand. Thank you, Reporter Yu!"

"Alright, I’ll hang up now. I’m going to watch the flag-raising."

After Reporter Yu hung up, the senior leader let out a deep breath. He turned to face his entire leadership team, who were watching him with bated breath, and finally allowed a smile to grace his face.

"We... are number one!"

"WOW!!!"

The usually composed leaders erupted into a huge cheer at that moment.

The drivers and secretaries waiting outside heard their leaders’ cheers and knew: they had won the international technology competition!

They had won!

While there was cheering back home, abroad, the flag was being raised and the national anthem was being sung.

Xie Changning led the Chinese technicians, their heads held high as they gazed at the red flag hanging in the number one position, their faces solemn as they sang the national anthem along with the music.

They had prepared the flag themselves, and they had prepared the national anthem themselves.

The United States hadn’t prepared a flag or national anthem for China. They had arrogantly assumed that China wouldn’t even make it to the finals.

But they never expected that the country they looked down on the most would, this time, burst onto the international stage like a dark horse and become the champion of the international technology competition!

It was a resounding slap in the face!

After the award ceremony, the group returned to their hotel.

Only after arriving at the hotel did the Chinese technicians, who had maintained their composure until then, finally celebrate happily in their rooms.

"I was about to burst!"

"Yeah, and I had to maintain that cool, aloof act just to put on a show!"

"We had to show them that even when we win the championship, we don’t celebrate on the spot like a bunch of country bumpkins!"

This competition made all the members of the Chinese tech team realize the situation China faced internationally, and the hardships the Chinese people endured on the world stage...

They also realized how much more advanced the overall environment in the United States was compared to China.

This was just their first victory. There would be many more tough battles to fight in the future!

"You’ve all been exhausted for days. Go and get some rest."

"Mr. Xie, what about you?"

"I have to go out and take care of our patent issues." ’The pager patent must be secured, and the one for the cellular phone, too. All of them must be registered under China’s name! We can’t let the United States exploit any loopholes!’