novelraw Chapter 083 I Want to Stand at the Highest Point
Chapter 083 I Want to Stand at the Highest Point
Limitless headquarters.
Top floor office.
The city outside the floor-to-ceiling windows was shrouded in smog.
Jiang Ci sat behind a large desk, holding a financial statement that had just been delivered.
He was wearing a perfectly wrinkle-free black suit, his short hair was neat, and his hard brow bone was exposed.
The person was like a sophisticated, emotionless machine.
"Knock knock".
There was a knock on the door.
"Enter."
There was no sound at all.
Su Qing pushed open the door and walked in.
She held a cup of hot coffee in her hand, her expression somewhat complicated.
She already knew that Wen Ning had left.
Although she once regarded Wen Ning as an "unprofessional pretty face" and even felt that Wen Ning was not good enough for Jiang Ci.
But seeing Jiang Ci like this now...
She didn't feel happy at all; instead, she felt a chill.
"Have something to drink."
Su Qing placed the coffee on the corner of the table.
"You've been working for ten hours straight."
Jiang Ci didn't even look up.
He quickly signed his name on the document with the pen in his hand.
"If we're not discussing business, you may leave."
Su Qing took a deep breath.
She rested her hands on the edge of the table, looking at the man she once admired but now felt like a stranger to her.
"Jiang Ci."
She tried to persuade him rationally.
"I know you're heartbroken. But is it worth torturing yourself like this for a woman?"
"It's her loss that she left. That vain woman has no idea of your worth."
"You still have us."
Su Qing spoke sincerely.
"Limitless is on the rise, and we have many battles to fight. You can't ruin your body for something that's in the past."
"Past tense?"
Jiang Ci paused, the tip of his pen touching the ground.
The ink spread out as a small black dot on the paper.
He slowly raised his head.
There was no pain in those eyes that Su Qing had expected, nor was there any emotion from being comforted.
There was only a deathly, cold silence.
"Su Qing".
He looked at her with the same gaze he would give a stranger.
"My private matters are none of your business to comment on."
"besides."
He tossed the signed document aside, his voice chillingly cold.
"From now on, at the company."
"Don't say a single word of nonsense to me outside of work."
"If you have too much free time, you can rewrite your Series C funding business plan."
Su Qing was speechless.
Looking at Jiang Ci's cold face, she felt a sense of suffocation.
Jiang Ci, who used to discuss technology with her and was at least polite despite his aloofness, is gone.
Sitting in front of her was a dictator whose humanity had been stripped away.
"it is good."
Su Qing gritted her teeth and picked up the untouched cup of coffee.
"It was meddling in other people's business."
"Mr. Jiang, you're busy."
She turned and left.
The chilling feeling of being rejected sent a shiver down her spine.
……
Su Qing was driven away.
Jiang Ci stood up.
He did not continue reviewing the documents.
Instead, he picked up the access card from the table.
Turn around.
I walked towards the heavy security door at the very back of the office.
That's the company's core laboratory.
It contains all the source code and the top-level servers.
"drop--"
The door opened.
Jiang Ci went inside.
Backhand.
Locked.
There are no windows here.
There were only countless indicator lights flashing red and green, and the huge roar of the server cooling fans.
The air was filled with the smell of dryness, static electricity, and metal.
This is the best place for him.
There is no light.
There is no temperature.
Only absolute logic and order exist.
Jiang Ci took off his suit jacket and casually threw it on the ground.
Tear off the tie.
I sat down in front of the control panel.
The cold light from the screen shone on his pale face.
In my mind.
Wen Ning's last few words kept replaying like a curse.
"play house."
"The ease you could never achieve in ten lifetimes."
"I've had enough fun."
Every single word.
It was like a knife, repeatedly cutting into his wound.
"Playing house, is this?"
Jiang Ci stared at the code flashing on the screen.
A cruel smile curled at the corner of his lips.
His fingers touched the keyboard.
This time.
It's no longer about "giving her a sense of security," nor is it about "buying her a big house."
That was for revenge.
To take revenge on her.
It was also a revenge against the world that humiliated him with money and power.
"Then let me show you."
"What is real... capital?"
……
Three days.
For three whole days and three nights.
The doors to the core laboratory were tightly shut.
No one dared to knock on the door.
Nobody knows what happened inside.
Zhang Annian and Jia Pengxiu waited outside, pacing anxiously.
"I hope something happened to Ci-ge inside...?"
"I haven't eaten for three days, so I only brought a few bottles of water with me..."
Just as they were preparing to force their way in.
"Click".
The sound of the door lock turning.
The heavy iron gate slowly opened.
A gust of wind, mixed with murky air and a chilling aura, blew out.
Jiang Ci came out.
His white shirt was wrinkled beyond recognition, and the cuffs were rolled up to his elbows.
His face was so pale it was almost transparent, and his eyes were sunken.
He had lost a lot of weight, looking like a knife that had been worn down to its skeleton.
But the light in his eyes.
It was so bright that people dared not look directly at it.
It was an ambition that had burned to its limit and was about to spread like wildfire.
"Ci...Ci-ge?"
Jia Pengxiu called out tentatively.
Jiang Ci ignored his cautiousness.
He walked straight to the conference table.
With a "snap".
He slammed the thick stack of printing paper he was holding onto the table.
That was the completely new business empire he reconstructed during his three-day seclusion inside.
"Notify all senior executives."
His voice was hoarse and rough, yet it carried a chilling pressure.
"Meeting in ten minutes."
Zhang Annian glanced at the document.
The cover features the words: "Limitless IPO Sprint Plan".
"Go public...?"
Zhang Annian asked, stammering.
"Brother Ci, we just finished our Series A+ funding round. Isn't it too early to talk about going public? Besides, the current market environment..."
Jiang Ci turned his head away.
Those bloodshot eyes stared coldly at him.
"morning?"
He asked rhetorically.
Three years.
He held up three fingers.
His tone was arrogant and left no room for argument.
"Within three years, I want Limitless to ring the Nasdaq bell."
"I want to increase the company's market value a hundredfold."
"Who can't keep up with this pace?"
"Get out now."
The entire room fell silent.
Everyone was stunned by this frenzied momentum.
Listing in three years?
This is playing with fire.
But looking at Jiang Ci's expressionless face, no one dared to question him.
Because they know.
He was serious.
He wants to stand at the highest point.
So tall that the woman could only look up to him.
So high... that she regretted it deeply.
Jia Pengxiu swallowed hard and whispered to Zhang Annian:
"Annian..."
"I think Brother Ci... has become a different person."
Zhang Annian pushed up his glasses and looked at that solitary figure.
"That's the right thing to do."
"Because of him now."
"We have nothing left but to win."