On the way back, after Su Jing heard about Qing Huan's decision, she was silent for a while before she asked softly: "Have you thought about it?" Do you also know how difficult it is to be able to enter, once you enter, you know what it means, and you really want to give up like this?"

Qing Huan felt a little stuffy in the car, rolled the window down halfway, and then looked up at the gray sky, "I can't act as if nothing has happened, and accept the so-called benefits with peace of mind, I just want to do what I want to do, what I can do, and in the end, as long as I am worthy of my heart, it is enough." ”

Su Jing held the steering wheel and sighed lightly, "In my opinion, the culture of intelligence and hard work that Wall Street advocates has built an extremely elitist circle, separating investment bankers from ordinary people. This self-perception of being the "smartest, hardest-working, and most valuable" worker, combined with Wall Street's unique job instability and high pay, has given rise to a system of ostensibly mercenary, meritocratic monetary elites. As a result, many people flock to Wall Street, and with their claim that the world's brightest minds work on Wall Street, Wall Street has indeed created by far the most elite working environment in the world. It's a discourse that works as if it were magic for young people who have just stepped out of school, and for whom Wall Street is most appealing to the experience of being in the midst of some of the brightest and most ambitious people in the world, willing to do whatever it takes. However, it is such a group of young people, they are too immature, too young, and sometimes they can't tell what is worth doing and what is not worth it, so these tragedies will happen, Qinghuan, you don't have to take these things on yourself, it doesn't have much to do with you. ”

Qing Huan leaned his elbows on the window and smiled slightly, "Maybe this incident is just an unexpected tragedy for many people, everyone thinks that it is normal for this kind of thing to happen at the orientation ceremony, but sometimes I can't help but think, if those people who want to join the club know that there is not only one way to work on Wall Street? Wouldn't they be so desperate? Wouldn't they be able to weigh the weight of a decision before they made a decision? Wouldn't this type of tragedy be less likely to happen?"

"Don't you think that your power alone is too weak to change almost any outcome, and even let your hard-won opportunities go to waste, is it really worth it?"

"I just had to do what I thought I should do, and if it didn't change anything, at least I tried. ”

Su Jing turned her head to look at her in surprise, and then smiled, "Qinghuan, you are really surprising sometimes." ”

Qing Huan didn't speak, just looked sideways out the window, the rain was a little lighter, but he could still hear the sound of the raindrops falling on the leaves.

In fact, she just wanted to have an inner peace, and she silently spoke in her heart.

After returning to the apartment, after Qing Huan completely calmed down, she thought about it seriously, and felt that she had done a little too much to Joan on the hillside, probably because she almost had something like that at the orientation ceremony that day, and before she could take the time to digest it, there was another incident of the girl's accidental death, and her emotions could not find an outlet for a while, and when she saw Joan, who was the president, she would say those irrational words.

After thinking about it, she still went to Joan to apologize, after all, they were all under the same roof, and they didn't look up and see each other, so there was no need to make things too stiff. By the way, she also told Joan that she wanted to withdraw from the club.

Joan didn't change much of her mood when she heard her apology, and returned to her usual expression, but a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes when she heard that she was going to withdraw from the meeting, but it quickly disappeared again, and then she nodded expressionlessly, indicating that she knew.

After doing these things, Qing Huan felt relaxed, and carried out his studies with peace of mind, and worked part-time and domestic purchasing agents in his spare time, and the days passed day by day.

As soon as it was Christmas, before the day of the holiday, Su Jing began to invite Qinghuan to go to Silicon Valley for a vacation with her. Because she recently hooked up with a product manager who worked at Apple through a dating app, the two chatted on the Internet for a while, and then quickly developed a relationship, sometimes Qinghuan accidentally heard the goosebumps of the two people when they heard a video call between them.

On the day of the holiday, Su Jing happily pulled Qinghuan and went to California, running to San Francisco like a cheerful bird.

After getting off the plane, Su Jing's boyfriend Jamie came to pick up the plane, he was a very polite and polite-looking man with a pair of blue eyes, which was the main reason why Su Jing was confused from the beginning. In addition, he is also a Harvard graduate, which is one of the factors that Su Jing is infatuated with him. Qing Huan found that a person who graduated from Harvard was like a curse to Su Jing, and she never seemed to be able to refuse the affection of a boy who graduated from Harvard, not to mention that this person was also a product manager at Apple......

After lunch, Jamie offered to take them around Silicon Valley. Qing Huan has been in the United States for so long, except for Manhattan, where the school is located, she has hardly been to other places, and this time she can see those legendary big companies, and she can't help but have some expectations in her heart.

Silicon Valley is located south of San Francisco, and after arriving in the South Bay, you will get on a main road by the sea, and you will be able to drive for almost an hour to reach the legendary place.

"You guys, that's Google. Jamie said, pointing a short distance ahead.

Qing Huan looked over, only to see a group of buildings in the place hidden by a jungle in front of him, forming a park, which looked quite imposing.

"This is the heart of Google, about a mile from that is Google's industry, east is LinkedIn's headquarters, and further east is Microsoft, Samsung and Yahoo. Jamie parked his car in a parking space next to a building and looked at them with a smile, "Let's go, ladies, I'll show you around." ”

So the three of them started their trip to Silicon Valley under the bright sun of California, because of the holiday, there were few people in the whole park, and a short walk ahead was a central sand pool, where some tourists took pictures, and Jamie took them to visit some robots in front of the building, and after taking a photo for them, the group continued to walk forward.

"It's a new district over there, and Facebook's office is right there. As they walked to the new campus to the south, Jamie pointed to an office area in front of them.

Qing Huan looked over, only to see that the direction was like a spacious and bright garage, with no ceiling, looking very casual, and in the middle of the glass house in an area in the center of the office, there was a man sitting in a gray T-shirt that had not changed for thousands of years, and there was no difference between herself and the video, so she recognized it at a glance, this is the youngest rich man in the United States, the president of Facebook - Zuckerberg.

She suddenly felt a little agitated in her heart, and she didn't expect that this legend, who was only seen on TV and the Internet on weekdays, would expose himself to the public like this, just like any ordinary employee. There is not the slightest hint of abruptness or admiration.

Thinking of some scenes she has seen in China, Qing Huan has to admit that the impact of this cultural difference is still relatively large, and this feeling and experience will even have an indelible impact on her future work style.

"It's sunny, Jamie, can we go to your company and have a look? I'd love to see what Apple looks like." Su Jing turned her head and said to Jamie Jiao.

Jackie, of course, readily agreed to the beauty's request, and immediately took them to Apple's headquarters.

Apple is located on Infinite Loop Road, not like Google and Facebook have their own campuses, it is made up of office buildings, so it looks unremarkable and nothing surprising, but it does a very good job of secrecy, and there is a strict gate in front of each building, and non-employees are not allowed to enter, except for the cafeteria.

They walked through the reception hall to Apple's atrium, which was not big, with some flowers and trees, surrounded by six office buildings, and the characteristics of the whole company, very ordinary, and there was nothing to admire.

Although Jamie had tried his best to tell some interesting articles about the company and some of Jobs's previous deeds, Su Jing was still a little disappointed, and after a perfunctory turn behind Jamie, she said that she was tired and wanted to go back to the hotel to rest.

"It's still early, and if you can hold on, I can take you to Stanford, it's a little more interesting than here. Jamie seemed to notice that Su Jing's mood was not high, and hurriedly spoke again.

This aroused Su Jing's interest again, so they left Silicon Valley and went to Stanford University.

If Qing Huan had the ability to predict the future at this time and knew what she would encounter during this trip to Stanford, then she would rather that she had never promised Su Jing to travel here. However, some things, some people are like fate, no matter how you try to escape, how much you want to forget, it will always appear in front of you when you are most unexpected and unprepared, and stab you in the heart.