Our Child Would be in Preschool Now

It was not viable for a manufacturing company to depend on processing parts for other companies and not do its own research and development of its own products. In this competitive industry, relying on China Industrial Group could temporarily solve the issue of company survival but there was no hope of expanding beyond that. If a day came where China Industrial Group did not need Xia Lei any more, then Thunder Horse Manufacturing would be finished. Xia Lei knew this very well and he also wanted his own product and his own stake in the market but these were difficult things to accomplish. Xia Lei and Liang Si-Yao brainstormed till they felt like they had run out of brain juice and still came up with nothing at the end of the workday.

“Come to my place. My dad wants to eat the dishes you make,” Liang Si-Yao said to Xia Lei after work, “And you’ve improved quite a bit recently. I’d like to swap pointers with you.”

“Sure, I live by myself anyway so nobody cares if I don’t go home,” said Xia Lei.

“You really should get yourself a woman to manage your life.”

“Heh,...