Xu Ye called their contact, and the three of them ate their bread, some in the car and some outside it. After about five or six minutes, a very slight girl in glasses came jogging over.

"Hi, are you Director Xu from Qingye Investment?" She seemed to have run the whole way, and she was a little out of breath.

"That's me."

"I'm Professor Jiang's assistant, Wang Manman. Let me take you to Teaching Building Five. That's where tonight's lecture is."

With Jiang Wei along, Jiang Chao couldn't very well show his face, so he'd left everything to Wang Manman ahead of time.

Xu Ye nodded and had her get in the car. The two cars drove over to Teaching Building Five, one behind the other.

Fudan held a lot of lectures every week, and the speakers were either well-known scholars and professors or members of the Academy of Sciences. Xu Ye might be famous at his own school, but that didn't mean he'd cause a stir at Fudan. When they reached the lecture hall, only a few people were waiting inside.

One was tonight's host. The rest were graduate students from the School of Economics helping set up.

Xu Ye said hello, and they showed him to a seat in the front row.

Just thinking about having to get up onstage himself later and speak in front of a room full of top-school students made Zhang Xinzhou nervous. He dug out the speech he'd prepared and started reading it over to himself. After a while, he noticed Xu Ye was still sitting next to him playing on his phone. He frowned. "You really didn't prepare anything?"

"Nope." Xu Ye shook his head.

"Then what are you going to say up there?"

"Whatever comes to mind. I figured something out a long time ago."

Zhang Xinzhou jumped on it. "What?"

Xu Ye smiled. "Once a man's had huge success in his career, everything he says is right."

"Uh…"

"When a rich man talks a lot, people say he's great with people. When a poor man talks a lot, they just…