39 May You Be Single For The Rest Of Your Life

In less than five minutes after Sun Ronghai made the call, Zhou Wen received the money transfer notification. He received a total of 137,600 RMB. 

Zhou Wen could not help but feel his heart race and breathing quicken upon seeing the number that appeared on his phone. 

He had only ever received 10,000 bucks at most in his life, with 6,000 bucks being his tuition fee. Now that over 130,000 was added to his bank account, he could feel the significance of it, even through his phone screen. 

He was caught in a daze for a moment, but soon afterward, he handed over the chemical formula in his computer to Sun Ronghai. 

Sun Ronghai sent it to the researcher in the company for verification at once. 

After roughly half an hour, the researcher from the company called and informed him that the formula worked fine. 

The transaction ended there and then. 

Sun Ronghai stood up and extended a hand, saying, "Doctor Zhou, we shall leave first then. We shall meet again someday."

Zhou Wen shook his hand and said politely, "Let's have dinner together."

"It's okay. We still have to rush back to Riverine City."

"Alright, I won't keep you any longer then."

"Goodbye."

"Bye."

Zhou Wen sent Sun Ronghai and his assistant to the door and gazed after their departing silhouettes as they walked to the hospital's car park. 

After their silhouettes vanished into the distance, Zhou Wen took out his phone and took a glance at his balance once more. His face was gradually beaming with joy. 

He went from being an impoverished man to a fairly well-off person in such a short timeframe. His mentality had also changed. 

Later, he walked to the side of the road and extended a hand. "Taxi…" He returned to his room after having dinner in the cafeteria. 

Since he was in such a good mood, he opened the black metal treasure chest in his inventory list. 

[Congratulations, you receive Sweet-scented Chewing Gum X30]

Zhou Wen felt extremely surprised to be able to gain something as good as this. 

Even though he had no idea what was the function of the chewing gum, any item given by the system had never disappointed him… except for the sour apple. 

Zhou Wen was in a good mood, so his happiness just doubled. He was as delighted as a smiley emoticon. 

He took out the chewing gum from the inventory list and examined it. It was quite similar to Wrigley's Chewing Gum, and it was packaged in foil paper as well. 

He could not keep himself from opening the sealed packaging. It looked different from a Wrigley's Chewing Gum because it was an entire chunk. Moreover, it was slightly smaller. 

He pulled out the chewing gum and took a whiff of it with his nose. It really was sweet-scented! 

He placed it in his mouth and gave it a chew, cautiously. If there were anything that did not feel right, he would… swallow it at once. This feeling was mainly due to the lingering fear caused by the sour apple. 

One second passed. 

Two seconds passed. 

Three seconds passed.

"F*ck… Me…"

"Pfft, pfft, pfft…" Zhou Wen spat out the chewing gum in his mouth hastily, yet his entire face had already become distorted in disgust. 

The chewing gum was so bitter to the point where it was ten times more bitter than gall. It was this bitterness that seeped into his internal organs and made his entire face twisted. 

He had finally known how it felt like to suffer unspeakably. It was because it was literally too bitter for him to actually speak. 

The exceedingly bitter taste lingered for about 30 seconds before Zhou Wen finally realized the function of the chewing gum. It was an energy-boost supplement. 

He did not sleep longer than a few hours today. Additionally, he had been bustling about the entire day. He was feeling rather fatigued - physically and mentally, yet after consuming the chewing gum, Zhou Wen felt energized and revitalized. He was at his peak. 

It felt as if he had just woken up naturally from a good sleep. His mind was clear, and his eyes were bright. All the negativity he had yesterday was swept into nothingness. 

Zhou Wen wiped away his tears that came from the bitterness, but he could not find joy at this moment at all. He swore an oath in his heart. 'Whoever eats it from now on is not a f*ck*ng man.'

…

He wanted to head to the laboratory department to conduct his thesis experiment since he was energized now. However, he used up all his paddy leaves, so he could not do that. 

He considered what to do next for a moment and then took out his phone to call his mother. 

He told her about the knowledge transfer from this afternoon. She could not believe it at first until Zhou Wen transferred 100,000 to his father's account via Alipay in two installments. It was only then that she believed it. 

Zhou Wen's father, Zhou Yong, said, "You gave us all the money, so what are you going to use then?"

Zhou Wen chuckled and said, "As I said, I made a total of over 130,000, so I still have over 30,000 in my bank account. It's enough. In addition, I'll be getting my salary in a few days, so I have more than enough."

"Alright… Alright then. We will help you to keep the money so that you can use it for your wedding in the future." Zhou Yong sounded elated. 

The son that he had been raising for 22 years had finally achieved something in his life. How could he not feel happy about that?

The call lasted close to one hour, and Zhou Wen hung up the call just in time to see the bank's deduction notification. 

Nevertheless, he still had over 30,000 left in his bank account. 

Zhou Wen felt very calm in his heart. 30,000 RMB was enough for him. Moreover, just as he had just said, he would receive his salary next week. Deducting the six insurances and housing fund and adding the housing allowance, car allowance, and meal allowance, he estimated that he would receive about 7,500 RMB. 

What should he do next then? Rent a house!

He was working in the hospital now, so it was time-consuming for him to travel back and forth to campus every day. It would be better off for him to rent a house near the hospital. 

At the thought of this, he immediately brought up his internet browser to start searching. 

Everything could be found on the internet. He found pages filled with advertisements for house rental websites that made him grow dizzy with too many choices. 

The house rental websites were all filled with traps. There were traps hidden within traps that one would fall into if one was not careful. 

Frankly, if he was a regulatory authority, he would certainly penalize these shameless companies until they could no longer swindle people anymore. What a waste that this matter was not under his jurisdiction.

As a result, the best way to do this was to head to an agency in the area or receive a close family member's referral. This way, the result would be more dependable. 

Zhou Wen checked out the housing estates near the hospital on the internet. After a few comparisons, he chose one of the housing estates, which was new on the west side of the First People's Hospital. The environment and facilities in the housing estate were rather satisfactory. 

Moreover, the rental fee was still within his capability after he combined the quotes he found online. 

Having made the decision, there was nothing else for him to do next. 

Then, he remembered that he could still accumulate experience in the library. 

There was no deadline for his thesis mission. Moreover, the mission was not activated all this time when he was still making the preparation works. As a result, it did not affect him from taking on the other missions. 

However, he realized later that it was the first of May. It seemed that the library was not opened. 

Zhou Wen truly had nothing else to do, so he turned on his WeChat and began scrolling through his Moments page to check on his friends. 

However, he lost count of when this started, but his ex-classmates, seniors, and juniors had all turned into online business entrepreneurs. Therefore, his Moments page was filled with people selling their products. 

Deer Maiden and Zhang Wei's girlfriend were no exception too. 

One of them was an agent of breast-enlarging products while the latter was involved in direct sales. 

After seeing those notifications, he hid the Moments page right away. 

He was just about to close the page when he scrolled to Xu Shuangyu's page, coincidentally. 

Ever since he rejected her call, Xu Shuangyu did not call him anymore. It felt as if she had completely forgotten about him. 

On the other hand, he had been busy with his experiments every day, so, had it not been for the fact that he found his Moments page out of boredom, it was possible that they would never talk to each other again. 

Zhou Wen clicked on her profile page and took a look. 

All her traveling photos were there. The profile photo was Xu Shuangyu standing facing the fiery-red setting sun with her back to the camera. Her hands were raised to form a heart with her fingers wrapped around the sun. 

It was beautiful and also very aesthetically pleasing. 

He gave it a 'like'. 

He continued to scroll down the page and saw that there were photos of activities at the university, traveling photos, as well as her shopping trip with her friends to Europe. 

He could tell that Xu Shuangyu came from a very wealthy family. The branded shopping bags that she unintentionally revealed in the photos and also branded jewelry were all very costly. 

He left the page after scrolling for a while and began watching biology videos using the outer net. 

…

In a classy community development located in the center of Deer City, Xu Shuangyu dressed in blue patterned pajamas with a pair of bunny ears hair-drying cap wrapped around her head as she was scrolling through her phone. 

Meanwhile, a classmate sent her a text message, so she turned on her WeChat to reply to her classmate. Then, she noticed that Zhou Wen unexpectedly liked her photo. 

Even though she was not acquainted with Zhou Wen for a very long time, Xu Shuangyu could roughly figure out Zhou Wen's temperament and behavior. He was a man who was eager to excel and was also very pompous. 

Moreover, he was especially confident in himself. She wondered where he got that from?

It was not an easy feat for a man like this to click 'like' on her photo. 

Xu Shuangyu muttered to herself and typed a text message, "For the sake of you liking my photo, I shall give you a chance to admit that you were wrong. Was it your fault?"

The text message was sent out for a full ten minutes before she received a reply. 

'My finger slipped earlier. I shall go and unlike now."

Xu Shuangyu sent him a poop emoticon with a caption on it, saying, 'The sender doesn't want to speak to you, and she is tossing you a poop.' 

A minute later, Zhou Wen replied with a photo with a caption saying, 'The sender has already rejected your message, and he is tossing you into the trash can.' 

Xu Shuangyu shrieked aloud in rage, "You b*st*rd, may you be single for the rest of your life…"

Upon saying that, Xu Shuangyu tossed away the phone, covered herself with a blanket, and went to sleep. 

It was raining cats and dogs the next morning. 

It was already pouring heavily by the time Zhou Wen retrieved the paddy leaves and rushed over to the laboratory department. 

Water was gushing down the drainage pipe along the wall of the opposite building while a strong, sweeping wind blew with the rain and turned the outside misty white. 

He made his way to the meeting room located on the sixth floor and found the place to be crowded with people already. A total of 27 people from the PCR team were all there. Zhang Shuguang, who was standing in front of the meeting table, noticed his arrival and said, "Quick, we're waiting for you."

Zhou Wen said smilingly, "I'm sorry, there was a traffic jam."

Zhang Shuguang rolled his eyes. "You came using the public railway... where's the jam?"

"Hah-hah-hah…"

Zhang Shuguang waited until everyone was done laughing before he said, "There are two important matters to discuss today…"