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Chapter 328 - 326, A Place with a 12-Hour Time Difference (Fifth Update)_1

Chapter 328: 326, A Place with a 12-Hour Time Difference (Fifth Update)_1

Ren He waited until 10 p.m. to receive a reply from the other party, and the content of the email was not a standard response. Instead, it began with somewhat excited praise, first complimenting the Croatian Rhapsody, then Canon, followed by "To Alice"... It was only after that the email stated he had passed the teacher qualification assessment, and the Juilliard School would mail the employment offer today.

Ren He was bewildered. Why did they wait until now to get excited, wasting his two task exemption rights?!

Only then did he suddenly remember the matter of the time difference... Damn it!

But no matter what, having used the two task exemption rights, he finally got the employment offer, and with that offer, he could smoothly process his work visa.

Now, he was originally planning to be a student, but instead he had become a professor, although he was still to enjoy campus life, things were a bit different now...

Su Ruqin would never have imagined that her perfect plan to isolate them was broken by Ren He in a bug-like manner.

After giving it some thought, Ren He still felt that his decision was not wrong at all. With a 12-hour time difference... sometimes he would even feel that he and Yang Xi were practically from different worlds.

They were supposed to be from two worlds: one in the Eastern Hemisphere, and the other in the Western Hemisphere—the time difference was slowly severing their closely connected lives.

Her day would be his night, and his day would be her night. At that time, more than just distance was keeping them apart.

It would be like a gulf as insurmountable as the world’s rules.

After sorting this matter out, Ren He directly headed back to Luo City to deal with the remaining affairs. He wasn’t even able to tell Ren and Mrs. Ren that he was going to America. If he was going to study and had been admitted, that would be easier to explain. But once Mrs. Ren were to ask to see his admission notice, Ren He would have been stared dumbfounded. What would happen if Mrs. Ren saw the employment offer? She would probably go crazy. Wasn’t he just studying? How did he become a professor?

This was too fantastical, right?! He hadn’t even finished learning, and now he was off to teach others? Ren He was not sure if Ren and his parents would agree with his decision. He even considered getting admitted to a prestigious university as a student after going abroad, to get an undergraduate degree certificate.

In China, it’s a widespread notion that without a diploma, you’re not regarded as serious. But how useful the diploma is in reality is debatable.

Ren and Mrs. Ren were quite traditional in this aspect. Ren himself was a cadre from within the system and understood the importance of academic credentials, having a Ph.D. in Economics from Tsinghua University.

So Ren He had no intention of breaking the news. As long as he had enough money to take care of himself... if he wasn’t in a position to be independent and still needed to ask for money from home, it would be impossible to hide. If all else failed, he might as well blend in a degree from the USA.

It would spare Ren and Mrs. Ren the embarrassment when other parents bragged about their children’s diplomas. This was also to show some filial piety.

In New York, there’s a top ten school, Columbia University.

In the U.S. college rankings, first place goes to Princeton University, followed by Harvard, then Yale, and Columbia University ranks fourth, with Stanford at fifth. It seems Columbia is a very good choice.

Lucky for him that Ren and Mrs. Ren, both busy with their work, didn’t have time to bother with him. Before they knew it, their son had already made several trips abroad...

Ren He returned to Luo City with the purpose of sorting out Qinghe Games affairs. First, he called a senior management meeting to determine the subsequent promotion plans for Dota, since Qinghe Games’ core product must be taken seriously. Moreover, Dota was now preliminarily qualified to sweep the globe. Successful representatives for each country had been determined, and next, a professional international audit team would be enlisted to help Qinghe Games conduct detailed account audits for every agency.

The game Dota can no longer be sold like a murder game by just selling the foreign agency annual fees outright, simply because the figures are too big and change too rapidly. Instead of an outright sale, a revenue share was more appropriate.

Moreover, Ren He needed to ensure headquarters maintained control over Dota in each country. He planned to build the largest global e-sports system. The end-of-the-year event with a prize pool of 10 million also had to be impressive, setting a good precedent for future events. By then, countless esports youths from all over the world would travel from far and wide to China. In the past, Chinese players had to compete abroad, but now, Ren He wanted esports youths from all over the world to come here!

Of course, this doesn’t mean all future events will be in China. There will be selection criteria, picking locations that can accommodate large-scale events for a global tour. But for Ren He, this first event was of commemorative significance for his Dota dream.

Now to discuss Assassin’s Creed.

Ren He defined it as one of Qinghe Games’ core products for 2007, with the intention for Qinghe Games to become an overnight success in the single-player game domain with its help. He also mentioned changes in character design related to the Knight.

Xu Nuo was aware of Ren He’s Knight identity, so when he heard Ren He say that, his eyes lit up—he always felt Ren He was likely to make some grand move again!

But... after that meeting that lasted a whopping 6 hours, why did it somehow feel like Ren He was settling his affairs...

"Bro, what are you gonna do? Are you planning to wash your hands of everything?" Xu Nuo immediately got anxious in private.

"No, I’m just going out to study, so I’m making sure everything’s in order for you guys to work well," Ren He said cheerfully.

"That’s not right, it absolutely can’t be that simple..." Xu Nuo looked at Ren He skeptically, "Where are you going to study?"

"New York."

"Damn, going international now?" Xu Nuo gasped, before he had only thought that Ren He intended to stay in the Capital and not come back often, but now it seemed there was indeed a need for this meeting—it was actually about going abroad...

Suddenly, Xu Nuo remembered something, "Is it the Juilliard School of Music?" By then he recalled the investigation on the internet using hacker methods that Ren He had asked him to carry out before. It was for Yang Xi...

For someone like Xu Nuo to think about it, he really couldn’t understand Ren He’s actions. It was just a love affair, but why did it feel like it was leading to cataclysmic changes...

However, this was Ren He’s commitment to his second chance at life: He wanted to experience a passionate and unwavering love once again.

In his previous life, he had read a passage: At five years old, you could run a kilometer to a field just to catch a butterfly. At ten, you could scour every shop in the streets and alleys just for an ice cream. At seventeen, you could take a more than twenty-hour train to an unfamiliar city, all by yourself, for the person you like. At twenty-seven, you could settle down with just anyone for the sake of a comfortable life. You say that you’ve become too lazy, too lazy to love or be loved.

Ren He also found this deeply relatable—he just hoped that in this life he could always hold on to the initial feeling of love.

Now, Yang Xi was an obsession to him, just as he had endured countless life-threatening challenges previously, each time steadfast in his belief that he must not die.

In the same way, he could not afford to lose in this love affair.

...

After dealing with Qinghe Games’ affairs, Ren He returned to the Capital, where he received the job offer and completed the visa formalities. He then went back to No.4 Middle School and knocked on the principal’s office door. Even though the students were on holiday, the principal was still dedicatedly there.

Seeing Ren He, the principal smiled and said, "Coming to see me only after the holiday starts?"

"Uh, I was thinking of taking a leave of absence..." Ren He spoke awkwardly while handing over the job offer to the principal.

The principal glanced at the job offer. At first, he thought it was a university acceptance letter from abroad inviting Ren He to pursue his studies, but then he realized something was off...

This was an invitation to go and teach!?

...

Entering the Thin Air Zone section concludes. I am fortunate that at the age of 27, I found someone I love and reached fruition. May you also be fortunate.

Extra update for the leader of the 1234 Fun Players Alliance. Those who said I’d lose if I did five updates, did I lose now?! Hahaha!

Where’s the monthly ticket?! Where’s the applause?!