March went by before anyone noticed.

April first was April Fool's Day, and it happened to fall on a Friday; then the fourth was Qingming, so the week came with three days off in a row.

At the company, Lü Cheng and Liu Daqing were back from finishing their due diligence, and the second round of investment in ofo was on the schedule. As for Li Tongwen, Xu Ye had already announced it at the meeting: from here on, small projects under two million were his to run.

On top of that, once Yu Jiaying had her investment money from Xu Ye, she pulled him into a WeChat group called "Shengshi Jiayan Beauty Center — Main Group." Besides Yu Jiaying there were several other women in it, presumably the well-known beauty team she'd mentioned last time.

Qin Zhiwei got his Friday off and went straight to the train station by subway. His grandfather's birthday banquet was on the second, and as the eldest son and eldest grandson, he naturally had to get home for it.

Xu Ye's three days went like this: on the first day he took Chen Qingqing over to Yang Lin's place, and that afternoon took Yang Lin to the hospital for a checkup. The other two days it rained, so they went nowhere — either resting at the hotel or over at the girls' dorm talking with them. The three-day Qingming holiday was gone in a blink.

…… Early April was uneventful.

Then on the nineteenth, the investment department picked up two projects at once. The first came from a group who had heard about the student entrepreneurship support program and sought them out on the strength of its reputation: a student startup team from Jiaotong who wanted to build a pet-related app — software for booking appointments at veterinary clinics, buying pet supplies, talking with other owners online, and so on.

Lü Cheng thought the project had real potential, so he got in touch with them right away.

The other project came in as an inquiry through the official website. The owner of a Chinese-style…