Fu Haoming found out about what happened at the banquet and was enraged. He tried to deal with Fu Ling but his cheap father caught him and said Fu Ling isn't someone he could afford to offend.
That was what angered him the most. How could he not even compare to a fake? By now the novelty had worn off and he realized that all that glitters really wasn't gold. The relationships between wealthy families was more complicated than he thought. But he didn't regret. No matter what, he had money now. There's no way he would want to go back to that hellhole.
He tried to integrate himself into the family but apart from his biological parents, everyone else had a lukewarm attitude towards him. He tried a few times and then simply stopped. As the heir of the Fu group he lowered himself to show favour towards them but they still didn't know what was good for them.
Fu Ling didn't know Fu Haoming was planning on dealing with the members of the extended Fu family. If he did, he might have helpfully pointed out that with interests of everyone deeply entwined, it would be best to sit still and not cause any trouble. However whether Fu Haoming would have listened or not, is another issue.
He was currently chatting with Wen Jingshi. Wen Jingshi called the company Hope and Fu Ling didn't interfere.
The company was underway and apart from AI, they developed some protective programs that were sold at a very high price to several companies to resist hacker attacks which seemed to have gotten more rampant lately.
Hacker Fu claimed he was only trying to see how strong their firewalls were and didn't have any other intention but thet enough scared several big companies and as a result business was booming for them.
The only downside was that Fu Ling was exceptionally lazy. He wanted no part in the programing and Wen Jingshi couldn't persuade him no matter how hard he tried. The only thing was that whenever they developed a new program, Fu Ling would develop an even higher level one personally fir just Gu Yunnain.
Wen Jingshi was helpless. What was it like having a super talented boss who is very lazy but also a loved brain? Wen Jingshi would tell you it was simply torture. But fortunately he wasn't completely abandoned. Whenever there was something he really couldn't understand, he could ask his boss. But if he tried to make his boss take charge, he wouldn't care about him anymore.
After this happened a few times, Wen Jingshi understood in his heart that the only person who could make the boss work was Mr. Gu. Mr. Gu who was reluctant to let the boss even walk a few more steps than necessary. He knew it was hopeless in his heart so he became honest.
Working with Fu Ling had completely smoothed out the edges. Even though he was humble and had slight inferior complex, he also had the arrogance of a genius deep down but spending almost a year with Fu Ling made him calm down and become a younger brother honestly.
Whenever he was with Fu Ling he felt like his identity as a genius was a scam. Fu Ling was like God's own son.
Fu Ling took note of Wen Jingshi and could more or less guess his mentality and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He did know alot and did alot but notwithstanding, if it wasn't fir his years if experience in fast travel, he wouldn't be too far above Wen Jingshi in terms of knowledge but he couldn't just tell the young man he was thousands of years old already so he just comforted him silently.
Wen Jingshi who noticed this was even more devoted to being a good subordinate. This was why he admired Fu Ling so much. He didn't put on any airs and was very easy to talk to. He also knew that if he was working with anyone else, he might have suffered a huge mental blow but Fu Ling took very good care of him and without knowing, he had already adapted.
Fu Ling explained everything to Wen Jingshi slowly and after making sure he understood, he let him go. Wen Jingshi ran off with the new knowledge eager to make more progress.
Hope made a significant splash in the market and everyone was scrambling to know who was behind the company. Many wanted to cooperate and act as middlemen while some wanted to directly buy out the programer. Everyone was making moves behind a scene but they all ended in failure.
Some even managed to poach some of the staff only to realize they didn't know anything at all. Wen Jingshi had his own team of people who were all carefully screened and apart from those people, only Fu Ling knew what the experiments actually consisted of so after buying off useless people, the only news they could get was that the boss managed the experiments himself.
When this news spread, the people acting reduced. It would be okay to just poach someone but who would be stupid enough to leave their own company to work for another person? Since they CEO was the lead programmer, the chances of getting him to join them were nill so they focused on cooperation again.
Fu Ling wasn't interested in all these things but Wen Jingshi was very talkative and kept him up to date. Fu Ling could never have guessed. The kid looked quiet normally.
Fu Ling knew the company couldn't go on like this. As a new company that had already squeezed out many others, they were in a precarious situation. The best bet was to cooperate with someone. When interests were tied together, naturally they would lend a hand but business men were too messy. Fu Ling didn't want to be involved in that.
For now, they were still trying to curry favor so no one would attack them but if they realized they had no interest in cooperation, those people might turn around and start causing them problems. It was be no problem to clean up the mess, just a bit troublesome.
He thought for a while and decided to talk to Gu Yunnain about it later.