Chapter 130: New Home, Aurora Countdown (Request Monthly Votes)

Gao Wei stood outside the interview room, called his boss at Zhaoye, and took another three days off.

“Dilun, what’s wrong at home? Need help?”

His boss, seeing he’d first taken two days off and now asked for three more, assumed something major had happened in Gao Wei’s family and asked with concern.

“Thanks, boss, nothing’s wrong at home—just some personal matters to handle.”

Gao Wei gave vague answers, originally planning to quit outright, but remembering his boss’s mentorship, he decided to return to Hong Kong and speak face to face.

After hanging up, Gao Wei returned to Room 206 and walked up to Chen Yan.

“This is Xu Xingxing, head of the Admin Team at Fox Tao —go with her to rent the office space.”

Chen Yan looked up and introduced Xu Xingxing to Gao Wei.

“Boss, are you saying I got promoted?” Xu Xingxing blinked in surprise, then grinned and pressed further.

“Temporary. Whether you get confirmed depends on your performance.”

Chen Yan smiled.

Xu Xingxing usually handled minor tasks in the project team—organizing team-building, arranging meals, buying office supplies—far below the actual requirements of an administrative lead.

Renting office space should have been the Admin Department’s job, but Chen Yan knew Xu Xingxing couldn’t handle it alone.

So he assigned Gao Wei to accompany her—effectively making him her mentor.

Choosing the office area and negotiating rent with landlords or agents was just the basics.

You also needed to understand budget control, calculate property fees, utility costs, renovation expenses, taxes, and other charges.

Gao Wei turned and greeted Xu Xingxing; he understood Chen Yan’s intent—to guide her.

He and Xu Xingxing walked out smiling.

They learned about the location and environment of Zhuxianzhuang Tech Park while gathering info on Fox Tao ’s development.

Watching them leave, Chen Yan leaned back, thinking: Once Gao Wei finishes securing the Orange Tech office building, the phone project can truly get underway.

Based on Wang Teng’s team’s development progress, they’d likely release a test version by early June.

Then, leveraging Fox Tao ’s traffic, they’d gather an initial user base and promote AuroraOS.

After all, whether a mature mobile OS is good or not depends heavily on user feedback and testing.

Chen Yan stayed at the incubator until 6 p.m., then called Wang Zihao and Wang Teng for dinner.

Over dinner, Wang Teng reported progress: in another week, they’d package key modules and enter black-box testing to identify functional flaws.

As he spoke, a flicker of reverence passed through Wang Teng’s gaze toward Chen Yan.

In this era gradually shifting toward money worship, extraordinary talent still commanded respect.

In Wang Teng’s eyes, Chen Yan’s programming talent was godlike!

From beginner to master in under two months.

He’d seen plenty of computer geniuses from USTC and Tsinghua/Peking University at OPPO’s R&D center, but compared to Chen Yan, they all paled.

Without Chen Yan providing countless ideas and solutions during development, they’d likely not have even reached half their current progress.

Wang Teng had originally come for the high salary, but now he felt that following Chen Yan could launch him to the stars.

The earlier funding shortage vanished after Augusta’s 800 million arrived.

After listening, Chen Yan nodded and told Wang Teng that hiring for hardware and industrial design engineers was already over halfway done.

By early June, he’d move all Orange Tech team members to Zhuxianzhuang Tech Park nearby.

Since the R&D team lived near Xu Yuan, the company would rent two buses.

To shuttle them between Xu Yuan and the tech park, easing commute pressure.

Of course, anyone who found it inconvenient could freely choose to move closer to the tech park.

Wang Teng chuckled: “I’m so used to campus life, suddenly moving out feels hard.”

“You’re not attached to campus—you’re attached to those pretty junior girls.”

Chen Yan teased.

Wang Teng laughed awkwardly, waving his hands: “I’m twenty-four—I won’t date girls barely eighteen or nineteen.”

Wang Zihao instantly felt he’d found a kindred spirit and sighed deeply: “I like older ones too.”

Chen Yan smiled and said nothing more.

After dinner, Wang Zihao and Wang Teng walked arm in arm toward the incubator.

Chen Yan went to the library and borrowed six more books.

“Classmate, are you deliberately messing with me?” the librarian, holding back for a month, finally asked.

Xu Yuan student IDs allowed borrowing six books at a time.

Usually, 90% of students borrowed two or three, returning them after one or two months.

Chen Yan, however, borrowed six every morning, returned them at noon, and borrowed six again each evening.

Twelve books a day made it impossible for the librarian to forget him.

“Borrowing for classmates,” Chen Yan offered a random excuse.

“Fine,” the librarian grumbled internally: your classmates read fast.

But Chen Yan hadn’t broken any rules, so he could only mutter a silent complaint.

Chen Yan picked up his books and headed for Room 0418.

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Two days later, Gao Wei completed the office lease task.

Orange Tech’s new office space was in Building 8 of Zhuxianzhuang Tech Park.

The building had five floors: the first floor housed the front desk, meeting rooms, a multimedia conference hall, and a reception area.

The four upper floors each had over 600 square meters of office space, accommodating 60 to 75 workstations.

Elevators and staircases were on both sides; each floor had two restrooms.

The top floor was a rooftop garden gifted by the tech park, planted with potted purple bamboo and flowers.

The second-floor balcony extended two meters outward, forming a thirty-square-meter relaxation area.

The total building area was 3,000 square meters—1,000 more than Chen Yan requested—but the environment was truly excellent.

Gao Wei brought the documents to Chen Yan for approval; Chen Yan glanced briefly and approved them.

Leveraging Fox Tao ’s reputation, Gao Wei also secured concessions from the tech park: three years of waived property fees, first-year parking fees waived, and rent at 0.4 yuan per square meter per day.

As soon as Xu Xingxing returned, she searched online for the responsibilities and required skills of an Admin Team Head, determined to cram.

Because Gao Wei had casually told her that renting office space was an admin’s job, with finance only assisting.

Only then did she realize her temporary position was still far from permanent.

“I remember you still have one day off—tomorrow, come with me to Yanjing.”

Chen Yan said to Gao Wei.

“No problem,” Gao Wei sighed, reluctantly nodding despite his weariness.

Chen Yan had promised Zhou Hongyi he’d attend 360’s Internet Open Conference—just a formality, but also a chance to introduce Gao Wei to venture capitalists.

Before leaving work, Xu Xingxing booked round-trip flights for Chen Yan, Gao Wei, and Song Yuncheng.

(End of Chapter)