Awakening Elementary School System in University

Secondly, and more importantly, his Yanhai Technology Consulting Co., Ltd. had just been established and was desperate for name recognition. Although President Peng and Principal Chang had said they could introduce clients to Chen Lin in the early stages, he ultimately had to rely on himself.

And this forum was a free, top-tier promotional opportunity!

’Just imagine it,’ he thought. ’Standing on that stage, presenting my research—findings that could propel the entire field of artificial intelligence forward—to an audience packed with experts and scholars from top universities, research institutions, and even high-tech corporations...’

’The promotional effect would be explosive!’

’At that point, I probably wouldn’t even have to look for clients. The orders would come lining up at my door!’

’Think of all the money I’d save on advertising!’

Having figured all this out, Chen Lin immediately stood up from the sofa, bowed slightly to Guo Qizhi again, his voice filled with sincere gratitude.

"Thank you, Director Guo, for giving me this valuable opportunity! I will definitely not disappoint the university’s expectations!"

"Hahaha, good! With you saying that, I can rest easy!"

Seeing him agree so readily, Guo Qizhi was also in high spirits. He clapped him on the shoulder, satisfied, and said with a chuckle, "Work hard. Bring glory to our Yannan University and our School of Mathematics!"

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「August 15th, Friday.」

Liu Zhuang Xin Yuan District, Building 4, Apartment 302.

The afternoon sun sliced through the gaps in the blinds, casting several bright stripes of light across the living room floor.

The air conditioner ran silently on its lowest setting, shutting out the sweltering summer heat and the chirping of cicadas, leaving only a cool and quiet tranquility in the room.

Chen Lin was sprawled out on the soft fabric sofa in a perfect, boneless slouch, enjoying this rare chance to just veg out.

Over the past half-month, from preparing his thesis to registering the company, and then yesterday’s cutthroat investment negotiation, his nerves had been stretched taut. He was truly exhausted.

Now that all the major tasks were finally settled, he could finally justify slacking off for a day with a clear conscience.

With an ice-cold Coke in one hand, he swiped his phone screen with the other, idly scrolling through short videos.

Just then, a DING sounded from the top of his phone as a WeChat message popped up.

It was from Huang Yiyi.

Chen Lin lazily reached out a finger and tapped it open. A short, professional message appeared on the screen.

Huang Yiyi: [President Chen, the first investment payment from Tiansheng Investment and the university, totaling 8.1 million yuan, has been fully transferred to the company’s corporate account.]

’It’s here!’

Chen Lin jolted, shooting upright on the sofa. The sluggish lethargy from a moment ago was instantly wiped away.

He rubbed his hands together excitedly and, almost subconsciously, called forth the long-unseen system panel with a thought.

A pale blue virtual screen unfurled before his eyes, and the familiar line of text at the very top came into view.

[Little Financial Planner (Enhanced): Your net worth increases by 20% every month! (Current Net Worth: ...)]

Chen Lin’s gaze fell on the string of numbers in the parentheses that represented his fortune, and in that instant, his breathing stopped completely.

’What was he seeing?’

’One, two, three, four, five, six, seven... eight digits?!’

Chen Lin closed his eyes in disbelief, rubbed them hard, and then snapped them open again.

That ridiculously long string of numbers was still floating clearly before his eyes.

[Current Net Worth: 23,064,197.06]

"..."

Chen Lin stared blankly at the number, his brain stalling for a good ten seconds.

’Twenty-three million?!’

’Holy shit!’

He thought he had misread it, even wondering if the system had a bug and had moved the decimal point one place to the left.

But he carefully counted the number again, starting from the ones place.

’That’s right. Twenty-three million!’

A massive wave of euphoria rushed straight to his head, leaving him feeling dizzy.

However, Chen Lin was not the same person he used to be.

The intense excitement lasted less than half a minute before he forced himself to calm down, his sharp, pragmatic mind starting to spin rapidly.

’Something’s wrong. This number is wrong.’

He quickly began to calculate in his head.

’Yesterday’s tripartite negotiation settled on a pre-investment valuation of 15 million.’

’After the dilution, the equity I ended up with is 46%.’

’So, the book value of my shares should be 15 million times 46%, which equals 6.9 million.’

’Adding the sixty-thousand-some yuan I already had in my account, my total assets would be just under seven million at most.’

’But the system panel was displaying a full twenty-three million!’

’The difference was over sixteen million!’

’Where did the money come from?’

Chen Lin frowned, staring at the string of numbers. A flash of insight struck him, and he instantly understood the crux of the matter.

’The system’s valuation of the company and the valuation from President Peng and Principal Chang were on completely different levels!’

President Peng and the others were optimistic about him, but what they saw was just his problem-solving ability from the modeling competition. Their 15 million pre-investment valuation was based more on the future potential of ’a math genius.’

’But the system is different!’

’The true power of the "Little Mathematician" title is "the ability to always get the most correct answer to any math problem"!’

’It’s a rule-breaking cheat!’

The system knew better than anyone just how terrifyingly valuable his ’core asset’ truly was.

’Therefore, in the system’s eyes, the true value of my Yanhai Technology Consulting Co., Ltd. is far more than just fifteen million!’

Chen Lin quickly worked backward in his head.

’Yanhai Technology’s real valuation in the system’s eyes is... about 50 million!’

The moment he reached this conclusion, Chen Lin himself couldn’t help but suck in a sharp breath.

’A shell company that was just founded, has only three employees including myself, and doesn’t even have office computers, is really worth fifty million?’

’This is completely absurd!’

But on second thought, it felt perfectly reasonable.

After all, he had yet to fully display his abilities. What the outside world had seen so far was just the tip of the iceberg.

At this thought, the excitement and exhilaration in Chen Lin’s heart once again began to burn like a wildfire.

’And this is just the startup phase for Yanhai Technology!’

’Once the company gets on track, once I make a name for myself at the Yanbei mathematics conference, once the company’s reputation is fully established, once I recruit more talented employees...’

’Won’t the company’s valuation skyrocket?’

’At that point, breaking a hundred million, or even a billion, won’t be impossible!’

Chen Lin did a quick mental calculation of how much money he could now earn at the end of each month from the "Little Financial Planner" settlement.

His heart gave another violent twitch.

[4,600,000]

’Four point six million!’

’I can earn 4.6 million a month now just by lying around and doing nothing!’

’If the company’s valuation breaks a hundred million... I’ll be earning twenty million a month!’

’That’s over two hundred million a year!’

Chen Lin swallowed hard, his mouth suddenly feeling parched.

He finally understood why those successful entrepreneurs were all like they were on steroids, able to work like mad day and night on only four hours of sleep.

’When your wealth can grow at such a terrifying rate, sleep? Entertainment? That’s all just a waste of time that could be spent making money! It’s practically a crime!’

This powerful driving force was more potent than any motivational speech in the world!