Chapter 16: Separated by a Thin Curtain

  Don't mention patent rights, patent rights can indeed be inherited, with a term of twenty years. However, in the Huaxia where counterfeiting and piracy have become a "culture", intellectual property rights are the most pathetic kind of right. And medical technology is really hard to talk about. You say someone has infringed on your rights, but how do you gather evidence? Do you want everyone to make their formulas public and compare them to see if they're the same? So, keep your formula safe, and if you can't, that's your bad luck.

  Of course, if Chu Qingyun stubbornly refuses to sell shares, the company will not change hands, but it will go bankrupt. The bank loan is about to expire, and employee salaries have been owed for two months. There are also hundreds of millions of debts owed to distributors. At that time, the state will confiscate all fixed assets of YunTai Company, hold a public auction, and use the proceeds to first repay the state, then pay employee wages, and finally settle debts with various creditors.

  At this time, the backstage black hand only needs to auction off all the company's fixed assets, and the result is the same. So no matter what Chu Qingyun does, Yuntai Company can't be kept.

  The only difference is that if dragged to bankruptcy it's a lose-lose situation, but if selling shares, Lingyun Xianzi can still be left with some, however, it would have been cheaper for her father's partner.

  Up until now, Chu Qingyun really couldn't hold on any longer. Those creditors were about to make a scene all the way to the Azure Coast.

  She could only collect some incomplete manuscripts left by her father before his death, piecing them together to see if she could find any clues. Although Chu Qingyun had studied biomedical engineering in Nevada, USA, and inherited her father's high IQ, it was just an undergraduate degree after all. Moreover, due to her father's incident, she returned without graduating. Biomedical engineering was something she learned well, but compared to her genius father, she couldn't make sense of it even after half a year.

  She even once took the manuscript to consult with a mentor at the academy, despite the risk of exposing the formula, but was told that the formula lacked its main part and could not be restored.

  Chu Qingyun no longer sought to restore the original twelve formulas, she only hoped to understand some important intermediate products, temporarily saving the bankrupt Cloud Platform Company.

  Time flies by the minute and second, Chu Qingyun is very engaged in watching, while Zhou Jian is depressed. He admits that the dedicated look of Qingyun has a kind of intellectual beauty, but... but after appreciating for two hours, he's had enough of whatever beauty there is to see.

  Zhou Jian's legs were all sore from standing, and during this time he had to N times because the stealth time was up, he had no choice but to find a corner in the room to re-enter stealth. Fortunately, the stealth consumed little magic value, plus Zhou Jian's magic value could slowly recover, otherwise his magic would have been exhausted.

  It was almost eleven o'clock, and Zhou Jian was about to fall asleep. At this time, Qingyun fairy finally moved her neck, which had become a bit sore from not moving for too long, stood up, and Zhou Jian let out a sigh of relief. "Sister, please go to sleep quickly, you should at least take off your hairpiece when sleeping, right?"

  Qingyun Xianzi walked downstairs to drink a bowl of porridge, and then she started going upstairs again. Dizzy, I won't be able to see her for another two hours, thought Zhou Jian, who was following behind her.

  Fortunately, this time the Light Cloud Fairy did not head in the direction of the book desk. She pushed open a door and Zhou Jian followed her in silently, thinking to himself that she should finally be going to sleep.

  The scenery around changed, tiles... mirrors... towels... bathtubs... and so on. Is this a... bathroom?

  Zhou Jian hadn't reacted yet when Qingyun fairy suddenly closed the door with a backhand, could it be...

  At this time, Zhou Jian's mind was in a state of utter confusion. The struggle between the little devil and little angel in his brain had not yet yielded any results when Liangyun Fairy's hands already grasped the hem of her close-fitting autumnal garment.

  Wait... wait a minute, I'm not mentally prepared yet.

  Zhou Jian hadn't decided whether to open his eyes a little wider or two points when his field of vision was already filled with a dazzling snow-white, and that pair of plump and upright white rabbits just trembled out, soft and white, jumping continuously...

  Zhou Jian's mouth suddenly felt dry and his tongue was tied, he reflexively turned his head around, but although it was just a fleeting glance, the two snow-white softness left a deep impression on him. This was the first time he had seen a real girl's body, that kind of beauty really made people dizzy.

  It wasn't that Zhou Jian was being overly cautious, but rather those two snow-white mounds were too dazzling, to the point where he couldn't bear to look directly at them. Moreover, Zhou Jian thought that if the other person was a pure and innocent girl, it would be too ungentlemanly of him to stare like this. If she was already married, then looking would make him feel slightly less guilty... but in any case, since he had already looked, there wasn't much difference between taking one glance or two glances.

  At that moment, Zhou Jian didn't know what he was thinking in his mind. He dazedly turned his head and took another look. Just then, Qingyun fairy pulled up the shower curtain, and the dazzling white in the bathroom disappeared like that...

  Zhou Jian let out a long sigh, but then felt a bit disheartened. What's the point of pretending to be a good person anyway? It's not like she'll lose any weight just by looking at her.

  At this moment, a snowy jade arm stretched out from the shower curtain and placed an exquisite diamond hairpin on the bathtub tray. Zhou Jian's heart moved, this was his goal for coming here.

  Don't think about those unrealistic things, doing practical things is more important. A girl like her now can't afford to be with someone like me.

  He quietly pocketed the diamond hairpin, and Zhou Jian tiptoed to the bathroom door, thinking he'd better make a quick escape. Although he was reluctant to leave the lovely scene inside, once Qingyun pulled open the shower curtain, he wouldn't be able to take the diamond hairpin anymore.

  Taking advantage of the sound of running water, Zhou Jian first detected the outside of the door and, after making sure no one was there, he carefully pushed open the bathroom door. He reluctantly took a glance at the spring scenery on the other side of the screen, then quietly closed the door again.

  The sound of the door lock colliding was very light, and it was even more inconspicuous in the sound of water. However, Qingyun Xianzi still heard it, "Keke, why aren't you sleeping yet? It's already eleven o'clock."

  Zhou Jian was startled, but fortunately Xiao Bai Tu's lollipop replied very cooperatively: "Ah, I'm sleeping."

  Zhou Jian didn't delay any longer, sliding down the handrail of the stairs in one breath. He used his scouting skills to detect that the nanny living on the first floor was already asleep. Quietly opening the window of the hall, Zhou Jian jumped out like a cat, disappearing into the vast night after a few ups and downs.

  Although there are cameras around the villa, the cameras will not face the doors and windows of the villa in order to protect the owner's privacy.

  Zhou Jian ran back to the hotel in one breath, Zhou Jian didn't even take a taxi, but relying on his physical strength, his speed was not slow. When he returned to the hotel, he only discovered that he had forgotten to bring the clothes covering his thief equipment.

  Dizzy, I was ruined by that beauty, even my clothes were forgotten, that's 600 yuan, never mind, with this diamond headpiece, I can also hold on to it for a while, looking at this thing, it should be worth around ten thousand yuan.

  Taking off his gaming headset, Zhou Jian's mind was still replaying the breathtaking scenery from half an hour ago, what a stunning sight...

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