Chapter 159: Staying After Class, the Professor’s Invitation

Chapter 159: Chapter 159: Staying After Class, the Professor’s Invitation

At that moment, Su Ruoxi and Lin Feng were walking into the classroom.

Suddenly, she saw Lin Feng look at his phone and break into a smile.

Su Ruoxi asked, a little puzzled, "What is it? You look really happy."

Lin Feng smiled and said, "It’s about the company. One of the project teams put out some bait, and a fish took the hook."

As soon as she heard it was about Lin Feng’s company, Su Ruoxi didn’t ask any more questions.

She was just a little curious, that’s all.

This was a general education course, and the classroom was packed.

Just as everyone had pretty much arrived, an old man shuffled in.

He was one of the university’s professors.

Right as the bell rang, Yang Qiniang finally made it, just in the nick of time.

"Brother Feng, I heard from my sister that our school publication wants to interview you?"

Even though class was in session, Yang Qiniang couldn’t sit still. He leaned over and looked at Lin Feng with a curious expression.

Lin Feng shook his head and said calmly, "I don’t have time to waste on boring interviews like that."

Yang Qiniang looked incredulous. "No way, man! This is our university’s publication!"

"They only put out one issue a year, and it’s full of reports on outstanding and successful people."

"Are you really not going to do the interview?"

Lin Feng shook his head firmly. "Don’t you think something like this is a complete waste of time?"

"Instead of worrying about this, you should use the time to properly sort things out with the project teams under your management!"

Hearing Lin Feng say this, a pained expression appeared on Yang Qiniang’s face.

The investment company was currently undergoing some internal restructuring.

The division of labor within some of the project teams under Yang Qiniang’s purview needed to be refined.

Yang Qiniang didn’t have much experience in this area. For the past two days, he’d been run ragged, and the task delegation for the employees under him was a bit of a mess.

So, hearing Lin Feng’s words reminded Yang Qiniang of the terror of being dominated at the company.

Jiang Chao and the others weren’t sitting far away. When they heard Lin Feng wasn’t planning to accept the school publication’s interview, they looked at each other in disbelief.

They found it hard to believe.

The professor for this class didn’t let it run late.

But right before class ended, he directly asked who Lin Feng was.

"Student Lin Feng, please stay behind for a moment..."

"I have something to discuss with you!"

The gray-haired professor said, pushing up his glasses.

Lin Feng frowned slightly, wondering why this professor he’d never met before would suddenly ask him to stay behind.

Since Lin Feng was asked to stay, some of the others didn’t leave either.

Like Su Ruoxi, Yang Qiniang, and Jiang Chao.

They sat in the back row of the classroom, waiting quietly.

They were also curious why the professor had singled out Lin Feng.

Once most of the people had left the classroom, the professor walked down from the front with a file in his hand and came to stand before Lin Feng.

"You must be student Lin Feng. I am Professor Liu, and I’m also the head of our university’s magazine club."

The moment Lin Feng heard this, he understood.

He suspected the old professor had an ulterior motive.

He hadn’t been asked to stay because of the class, but because of the magazine club.

"Here’s the thing, student Lin Feng. Our school publication has a section on influential figures at the university."

"We’d like to collaborate with you and see if you have time for an interview."

Professor Liu said with a confident smile.

As he spoke, it never occurred to him that Lin Feng would refuse.

After all, ever since he had taken over the school publication,

very few people had ever turned down an interview.

But Lin Feng frowned slightly. He looked at the gray-haired professor before him, sighed, and said, "I’m sorry, Professor Liu. I’m spread too thin recently. I’m afraid I can’t accept the publication’s interview."

Professor Liu pushed his glasses up in disbelief. Looking at Lin Feng, he asked, "What? Are you saying you don’t want to be interviewed by the school publication?"

Lin Feng nodded. "That is indeed what I mean. Thank you for the invitation from the publication."

After saying this, Lin Feng gave a nod to Professor Liu, turned, and led the others out of the classroom.

In an instant, the only person left in the room was the incredulous Professor Liu, standing frozen in place.

"Damn, Brother Feng, you really turned down the interview with the school publication!" Cao Ming exclaimed boisterously.

Yang Qiniang, who was beside them, also hadn’t expected Lin Feng to actually refuse.

When he’d heard Lin Feng say it earlier, he thought he was joking.

Not until he heard Lin Feng’s decisive refusal with his own ears just now.

Yang Qiniang was simply in disbelief.

"Brother Feng, not just anyone can get into our school publication!"

Seeing Lin Feng’s indifferent expression, Yang Qiniang felt deeply exasperated with him for not seizing the opportunity.

He immediately gave an example:

"There was once an alumnus from our school who started his own business. He was quite successful, and his company was worth around ten million."

"He wanted to get into our school publication to gild his reputation, but he was rejected outright by that same Professor Liu you just met!"

"Do you know what Professor Liu said then?"

Yang Qiniang had heard this story from his father.

The others didn’t know about it either.

So when Yang Qiniang asked, everyone’s curiosity was piqued.

Yang Qiniang looked at Wen Jiangchao and said, "At the time, Professor Liu said flatly that too many students from Yang City University go on to achieve some success in the real world."

"’Someone like him isn’t representative enough. He’s simply not qualified!’"

"I’m not exaggerating at all. Those were Professor Liu’s exact words!"

Hearing Yang Qiniang say this, the others also had looks of disbelief on their faces.

As they had all just started at Yang City University, they didn’t really understand the prestige of the school publication.

But now, after hearing Yang Qiniang’s example, everyone understood perfectly.

The Yang City University publication was, it turned out, a rather high-class magazine.

It really wasn’t something that just any Tom, Dick, or Harry could get an interview for.

"Brother Feng, why don’t you go back and tell Professor Liu you’ll do the interview after all? I feel like this magazine is a pretty big deal!"

Even Cao Ming had been swayed.

Lin Feng just smiled and shook his head. "No need. I think I’d rather spend the time at the company researching stocks!"

Seeing Lin Feng’s completely unconcerned attitude,

the others knew there was probably no way to change his mind for the time being.

At the same time, everyone could also tell that Lin Feng genuinely didn’t care about the publication’s invitation.

Because Lin Feng felt that an interview with the school publication wouldn’t bring him any tangible benefits.

It would even be a waste of his time.

Meanwhile, Professor Liu hadn’t given up after being rejected by Lin Feng.

It could be said that Lin Feng was the student with the most character he had seen in many years.

Originally, Professor Liu had only planned to interview the entrepreneurial Lin Feng because he had received an order from his superiors.

But after meeting Lin Feng, Professor Liu changed his mind.

You could say that Lin Feng had piqued Professor Liu’s curiosity.