Qingming fell at the start of the month, and the school gave three days off.

Xu Ye spent the night near the Conservatory. The next morning he drove Chen Qingqing over to the new house, which was in the middle of renovations.

The demolition and the first round of plumbing and electrical work were done, and the self-leveling floor had been poured too. To make the place feel cozier, everything on the second and third floors would get hardwood, and only the first-floor common areas and the bathrooms would be tiled.

Xu Ye asked how it was coming along. The renovation company said the tiling would be done by early April. In late April they'd start on the ceilings and the built-in cabinetry throughout the house, and all of it would be more or less finished by the end of May. In June they could start on the finishing work inside.

With the renovation company on top of the schedule, Xu Ye did a lap upstairs and downstairs, then took Chen Qingqing to the company.

When they got out of the car, Chen Qingqing looked up and knitted her brows. "Isn't it in that building over there? Why'd we stop here?"

"These are the two new companies I just started. One's called Shengong Qiqi, and the other's called Ark Interactive. They're both opening for business after the holiday, so I came by to see how the prep was going."

"Oh."

Since it was a holiday, there was hardly anyone in the whole office building. The two of them took the elevator to Shengong Qiqi first to take a look. The office had long been ready. Lü Bin and his crew, though, had turned the meeting room into a lab, crammed with all kinds of manufacturing equipment Xu Ye couldn't make heads or tails of. Xu Ye just glanced in from the doorway, then took Chen Qingqing's hand and went upstairs to Ark Interactive.

Everything there had been brought in bit by bit over the past month. Since they'd be running code, every single computer had cost a pretty penny. The…