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Afterward, the board members discussed plans for the subsequent IP development of *Lingxi’s Love*. The entire company instantly buzzed with activity once more.

It wasn’t just about building the *Lingxi’s Love* IP. Shengding Group also began improving its benefits system to attract more outstanding works and encourage innovation.

Han Feng recalled that this kind of frenetic energy was something he hadn’t seen since the first few years of the company’s founding.

At that moment, he couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.

He, too, had once been a young man full of passion, just like Ye Ling. But as time passed, he found it difficult to say things like "go beyond our borders and take on the world!"

Yet, Ye Ling had said it. What’s more, he was leading the company to constantly advance and grow.

’Shengding will definitely take on the world!’ A faint, sharp glint flashed in Han Feng’s eyes.

It was rare for someone his age to still possess such a keen drive to move forward.

And this was all due to Ye Ling’s influence!

It was truly hard to imagine that such a young man could have such a powerful effect...

...

Over the next few days, Ye Ling finally had a rare chance to relax. He had been completely run ragged with the launch of *Lingxi’s Love*.

"DING! Check-in successful. Congratulations, Host, for triggering a Great Fortune. You have obtained God-Tier Computer Skills!"

That morning, Ye Ling performed his customary check-in and finally triggered a Great Fortune again, gaining a new skill.

And why use the word "finally"?

Mainly because the system seemed to have caught a virus recently. In stark contrast to the soaring success of *Lingxi’s Love*, it hadn’t triggered a Great Fortune for almost half a month!

These days, the main theme had been cartons of yogurt, the standard reward for a Lesser Fortune!

If the system weren’t just a program, Ye Ling would have loved to ask it: ’Didn’t you say the odds of this were only slightly lower than the odds of me getting confessed to?’

’I get confessed to practically every day!’

Of course, it wasn’t all Lesser Fortunes. He had occasionally triggered a Medium Fortune, receiving a few hundred thousand in cash...

In the past, he would have been thrilled. But now, he was completely unfazed, as if he’d achieved a state of zen.

It was just as the big shots say: once you reach a certain level, money really is just a number.

Besides, Ye Ling’s current situation was what many of those same big shots considered the happiest stage of life.

He had a couple hundred million to his name, so he wasn’t short on cash. He didn’t have to do a thing and would still collect stock dividends every year.

Sure, many people on the rich lists were wealthier than Ye Ling, with assets in the tens of billions... but none of them had it as easy as he did!

Which of those top tycoons wasn’t swamped with work, constantly flying all over the world?

Take a recent example: Ning Tianliang. He was considered an incredibly wealthy financial magnate in Xia Country, right?

And yet, not long ago, he returned to the country for about a week, met with Ning Ruoxi and Ye Ling, and then flew off to the United States again...

His schedule was, to put it mildly, packed to the gills!

Contrast that with Ye Ling. If it weren’t for the *Lingxi’s Love* launch, he’d probably just spend his days teasing his girl, with nothing much else to do, right?

When you compare the two, wasn’t Ye Ling living the dream?

As for the skill he’d gotten from today’s check-in, Ye Ling was quite satisfied.

In today’s internet age, having computer skills meant you could make a living anywhere.

The major he’d been accepted for at Modu University was Computer Science and Technology. To be blunt, he’d chosen it for the good job prospects.

"But speaking of which... school’s about to start, isn’t it?"

Ye Ling muttered, doing a quick mental calculation.

Normally, school would start on September 1st, but it had been pushed back a bit this year for some reason... If he remembered correctly, Modu University’s semester started in October.

It was already mid-September, which meant October was just around the corner.

Ye Ling stretched, got out of bed, and went to the gym to run on the treadmill for half an hour.

Lately, Ning Ruoxi was focused on creating the second volume of *Lingxi’s Love*. Sales for the first volume had already surpassed one million copies, and market demand for the next one was growing louder by the day.

As for Luo Yue, she was cooped up in her room all day, and Ye Ling had no idea what she was up to. He couldn’t be bothered to find out; he just hoped the little troublemaker wasn’t cooking up any strange schemes.

"Sweetheart, you need to balance work and rest. Don’t push yourself so hard."

Ye Ling walked over to Ning Ruoxi’s side. Seeing her still poring over her art drafts, he felt a pang of sympathy and gently pinched her cheek.

Ning Ruoxi turned her head and smiled. "I’m not pushing myself... I haven’t actually done that much."

Since *Lingxi’s Love* was getting such a great market response, expectations for the second volume would be even higher. This was a double-edged sword.

Higher expectations meant greater pressure on the artist.

Ning Ruoxi was undoubtedly already feeling that pressure. Watching her follower counts grow on Douyin and Weibo, she was happy, but also worried she might disappoint her readers.

After all, she and Ye Ling had poured so much of their heart and soul into this manga. Ye Ling had mobilized every resource at his disposal, and she didn’t want to let his efforts go to waste.

Ye Ling naturally understood what she was thinking, so he didn’t try to dissuade her further. Instead, he sat with her and helped organize her drafts.

With Ye Ling by her side, Ning Ruoxi’s progress quickened, and at the very least, her earlier anxiety faded away.

"AH!"

Just then, a scream from Luo Yue echoed from the next room.

Ye Ling and Ning Ruoxi froze for a second before reacting, immediately rushing into Luo Yue’s room.

"Yueyue, what’s wrong?"

Ning Ruoxi looked at Luo Yue, her eyes filled with concern.

The young woman was sitting in front of her computer, wearing a set of pink dinosaur pajamas, her face a mask of fury.

"Waaaah, Sister Ruoruo, my computer got hacked!"

Seeing Ning Ruoxi, Luo Yue’s face crumpled in grievance.

"Your computer got hacked?"

Hearing this, Ye Ling’s lips curved into a smirk. "You little brat, be honest. You weren’t browsing any adult sites, were you?"

"Adult sites? What are those?"

Ning Ruoxi looked at Ye Ling innocently, not quite understanding.

"AHHHH! You jerk, Ye Ling! You’re the one who browses adult sites!"

Luo Yue, however, instantly transformed into an enraged lioness and pounced on Ye Ling.

Seeing Luo Yue’s reaction, Ning Ruoxi instantly put two and two together.

Her face immediately turned beet red.

"Alright, alright, don’t mind him," Ning Ruoxi said, pulling Luo Yue back. "But why did your computer get hacked?"