The conversation between the two quickly switched to Shangguan Yingzi, who replied readily: "I applied to be an exchange student for half a year."
"which school?"
"Stanford."
"I should have thought that HYPSM is the only place for a college tyrant like you to apply, and it happens to be in San Francisco."
HYPSM refers to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and MIT, representing the highest T0-level universities in the United States.
In the early years, a popular concept in China was called the Ivy League. This was actually originally a sports league, and later developed into a university alliance among eight prestigious private universities in the Northeastern United States.
However, the admissions policies or admission thresholds of these schools are different. As the number of international students they recruit and graduate from here increases and returns to China, the qualifications become increasingly insufficient.
In particular, the graduation photos from the Department of Statistics at Columbia University in a certain year show that there were only two non-Asian faces in one class.
As a result, Columbia University was ridiculed online, and was called "the shame of the Ivy League school". It was almost as if it was a course and project specially developed for international students from a certain country.
Well, the more international students there are, the more "skilled" they are. Finally, the "self-taught paper" culture has been carried forward to the United States. It can barely be considered a cultural export.
Therefore, HYPSM came into being later and was used to refer to the ceiling of prestigious American schools. These schools have a strong sense of "upper class", and even old Americans who enter these schools can "change their destiny."
Stanford is the only one located on the West Coast. The rise of Silicon Valley and this prestigious school should be said to be mutually beneficial.
Shangguan Yingzi smiled and didn't take it too seriously. She had heard too many such compliments.
The two also chatted about other trivial matters. With such a beautiful girl to relieve their boredom, the long journey seemed less tiring.
After the plane landed, Lin Yi and his official Yingzi left WeChat messages with each other before saying goodbye.
After watching her walk away, Liu Jianni, who had been silent the whole time on the plane, commented: "This girl is very pretty, Stanford, pretty good."
I knew she wasn't asleep, and I don't know how many other things besides Stanford she had secretly listened to.
But this can't be blamed on Liu Jianni. The plane is so big that there is no room for them to hide.
However, these words sounded like the kind of tone used by seven aunts and eight aunts when they marry a man. Lin Yibang made a statement himself:
"We are just ordinary high school classmates, not even in the same class. We had not seen each other for more than a year before this chance encounter."
Liu Jianni said calmly: "There is no need to explain to me, I am just your subordinate and not your housekeeper. It is very common for business and private arrangements to be made, and I will not think you are unprofessional because of this."
"I just want to remind you that if you have any personal itinerary in the United States, remember to stagger it with your work time. I have already sent you the schedule I arranged."
This sentence actually means “I don’t care”, not “I believe it”.
Lin Yi felt that he was unjustly accused. He couldn't bring Gu Caiwei with him, and he was somehow blamed for it.
So he gave another piece of information: "One of my roommates in high school has been in love with this girl for more than ten years. During our graduation trip, we chased her after her, and that's how we met."
Of course he was talking about Zhang Xiaochuan.
In fact, Brother Yi is now the city manager of Wanli Travel in Pengcheng. As an important first-tier city, he reports directly to COO Li Moyan. He is considered a middle-level cadre of the company, and Liu Jianni also knows him.
However, this was Brother Yi's privacy, so Lin Yi did not reveal his identity.
When he was chatting with Guan Yingzi on the plane just now, he once thought about whether to mention Zhang Xiaochuan. After all, this is a person that both of them are familiar with, or it is the only place where they can interact.
However, considering that he never mentioned Shangguan Yingzi again after meeting Brother Yi in Yangcheng in his freshman year, he seemed to have put aside the past and was ready to move forward. In this case, he did not bother to do anything else.
If he really has lingering feelings for Shangguan Yingzi, he can naturally find out the whereabouts of this old classmate, and he doesn't need to worry about it.
What Lin Yi really meant when he mentioned this was to explain his relationship with Guan Yingzi and the fact that "they were not familiar with each other."
Liu Jianni obviously had the wrong idea. She glanced at Lin Yi and said with a smile: "Can't you see that you are quite ethical?"
What she understood was that Lin Yi couldn't do anything because Shangguan Yingzi was the woman his brother liked.
Okay, it doesn't matter.
Lin Yi was too lazy to explain too much. Liu Jianni was not a gossip after all, so she did not ask further questions. She turned to:
"I just heard you two chatting, and you mentioned that there was a big star in your class. It seems that your high school is full of talents?"
Liu Jiani is very knowledgeable about economic trends and industry development, but there is inevitably a generation gap when it comes to young people's entertainment life, so she didn't even remember the name of the new female singer they mentioned.
Shangguan Yingzi did mention Gu Caiwei just now. The context is that she and Lin Yi are now the celebrities most talked about by their old classmates.
Obviously Shangguan Yingzi didn't do much research on the gossip in her grade, so she had never heard of any scandal between Lin Yi and Gu Caiwei.
Of course, Lin Yi would not take the initiative to confess, so he just used the excuse "we have no contact after graduation" to get over it.
Now he still didn't tell the truth, but covered it up: "It's a coincidence. There are quite a lot of top students in our school. There are quite a few who go to P University every year like just now, but they didn't start a business or become a star before.
It’s rare that they happen to be in the same year.”
Liu Jiani did not doubt it because she did not know that Lin Yi and Gu Caiwei were actually in the same class.
However, Lin Yi took the initiative to change the topic: "I was quite surprised when I said it. I didn't expect that Shangguan Yingzi would take the initiative to say hello to me."
"In high school, we didn't have much contact with her, a top student in a key class, and the roommate I just mentioned had a crush on her to no avail, so we always thought she had a very cold personality."
"I chatted for a while on the plane today and found that it's not as difficult to get along with as I thought?"
They had already left the airport and got into a taxi, and were on their way to the hotel. The driver in the front seat was a white man who could not speak Chinese, so there was no risk of eavesdropping on their conversation.
Liu Jianni asked funnyly: "Little boys are really boring and self-righteously label beautiful girls."
"Is there a possibility that he is actually not aloof in the first place, but you just don't dare to get close to him because he is too outstanding, so you imagined it?"
"Do you think she treats you differently because you are now a famous entrepreneur and a wealthy man?"
Of course Lin Yi didn't mean this. He found that Liu Jianni's words made sense, and thought that everyone seemed to have preconceived ideas.
At this time, Liu Jianni felt particularly clearly that Lin Yi was indeed a young man only twenty years old.
She thought that before going abroad, Lin Yi had entrusted all matters in the country to Li Moyan, the girl he always called "senior sister".
Liu Jianni had originally intended to give a few words of advice, but considering that this person was her boss after all, not her subordinate, she did not say it in the end.