After listening to Ye Qingtu's question, Xiao Zhan didn't answer her immediately, but kept looking at the roaring fire in the fireplace, as if he was caught in a memory.

Ye Qingtu thought that he was abrupt, Xiao Zhan was reluctant to talk about this topic with her, so he hurriedly said: "Mr. Xiao, I'm sorry, if you don't want to talk about it, you can not talk about it, I just asked casually." ”

"No, I'd love to talk about it, it's just that so much has happened in the past that I don't know where to start. The reason why I was reluctant to tell the public about my past was because I thought it was too painful for me. While it is possible that people would summarize my past hardships as the cornerstone of success, I was really desperate at the time. If you hadn't experienced that kind of suffering, you would never have been able to understand my state of mind. ”

Next, Ye Qingtu heard the story of a child from a poor family who worked hard.

Of course, Qin Mo's story is not very special, and it is not even particularly outstanding among many inspirational stories.

But Qin Mo's narration deeply touched Ye Qingtu's heart.

In modern society, there is really no one who is so poor that he can't even afford to eat, but it is not easy to live as decent as everyone else, and even to be confident.

Xiao Zhan, like Ye Qingtu, was born in a small mountain village.

When he was a child, Xiao Zhan didn't think that he had to go out of the mountains, but he thought that spending the rest of his life in such a quiet and remote mountain village was a very happy thing.

It wasn't until he went to school and learned about the wonderful world outside from his teacher that he couldn't hold back his curiosity and wanted to go outside to see it.

So from the day he had this idea, he said goodbye to fun and began to concentrate on overcoming the difficulties of learning.

"I'm not a very talented person, so I do more hard work than everyone else. And my province has always had a high admission cut-off. Students like those big cities can easily get into top universities with a score on the test, but I have to do my best to get a higher score to be able to become a classmate with them. Do you know? In those dark days, the only thing that sustained me was that I wanted to go out into the outside world. ”

Ye Qingtu saw ambition and ambition from Xiao Zhan's face, but it didn't make her feel disgusted, because she thought the same way at the beginning.

Ye Qingtu really didn't expect that he would have something in common with someone of Xiao Zhan's status, so he was a little surprised.

When Xiao Zhan learned about Ye Qingtu's struggle, he couldn't help but feel quite emotional.

"It's too difficult for people like us with no background to break into the big city, and sometimes it is not only hard work that can succeed, but also luck and noble support. For example, when I first came to Kaiyuan City to start a business, it can be said that I hit a wall everywhere, and no venture capital company was willing to deal with us at all. At that time, there were only three people in the company, and all we had to do every day was to think about how to get VC funding in the next day from the moment we opened our eyes. Often when we go home with the stars and the moon, we suddenly find that all the efforts and efforts of today are just another waste.

I repeated these days for more than three months, and every day was spent in a mixture of hopes and disappointments, and I can say that every minute and every second of those three months I was doing, thinking, and I remember very clearly, because I repeated the same work and the same thoughts every day, and there was no difference at all. Perhaps it was with this tenacity and persistence that I finally impressed the investor, but he didn't give me a lot of start-up capital, and I needed to guarantee him that the company would be profitable within a year. When I signed my name on the agreement, I didn't feel a sense of relief, but a heavier feeling. Because from this day on, I no longer live for myself, but for my investors.

The next few days were even more painful for me, and I lost the passion I had when I started my own business, and every day I was thinking about how I could make more money. So the joy of starting a business has been cut down a lot, and if it weren't for the great responsibility on my shoulders, maybe I would have given up countless times.

However, there are also good things that happen, because our company's employees have grown from three to 30 at the beginning, and then to 300 later, so that now the regular employees of Hualing Group have reached 10,000.

Do you know what a difficult metamorphosis it was for me to achieve such an achievement in just a few years? Everyone saw my success, but they didn't notice the effort behind me. Often, when everyone else is asleep, I'm still working overtime. Now that Hualing Group has been successfully listed, I still dare not slack off easily. Because shopping malls are like battlefields, I don't know how many people want to watch the Hualing Group fall. At the same time, I have to guard against all kinds of guns and arrows.

Actually, success is not as good as I imagined, but there is no way to escape it. Because so many people are counting on me to pay them a salary and live better for the rest of their lives.

I'm really tired sometimes, and I especially want someone to understand my struggles and be there for me.

Even if she doesn't say a word at all, like you do now, I'll be happy. ”

Ye Qingtu originally listened to Xiao Zhan's story very carefully, and had a feeling of empathy.

Xiao Zhan suddenly turned the topic to her, and Ye Qingtu didn't know how to respond for a while.

Fortunately, Xiao Zhan was not the aggressive type, he quickly regained the smile on his face and said to Ye Qingtu: "I think you should be sleepy, it's better to rest early." I'll send you back to the city tomorrow, are you going to work or just going home? ”

Ye Qingtu was actually a little relieved that Qin Mo couldn't get along, but he didn't know how to get along with him, so Ye Qingtu thought for a while and said to Xiao Zhan: "Then please send me directly to the law firm, I should also go back and continue to work hard." ”

"Alright, you're up to the cracks."

Xiao Zhan specially gave up the largest bedroom for Ye Qingtu, and also brought her a brand new quilt and pillows.

Ye Qingtu felt Xiao Zhan's meticulous care, and his heart was warm.

At the same time, Ye Qingtu's emotional balance naturally tilted towards Xiao Zhan.

Although Ye Qingtu and Xiao Zhan didn't spend any longer with each other than she spent with Qin Mo or Wang Mingyu, Xiao Zhan's gentleness wrapped Ye Qingtu like air at any time.

Even if Ye Qingtu doesn't live with Xiao Zhan, she can always feel Xiao Zhan's care and love for her.

It's a very wonderful feeling.

For Ye Qingtu, Xiao Zhan's tenderness was really the deadliest weapon, and it successfully toppled down the wall of her heart.