"..." Noticing the stare, Lin Xia paused mid-bite. "What... are... you doing?"
"Sigh. I was just thinking how great it would be if you were a girl," Chu Bamboo sighed deeply. He was starting to understand why his counterpart from the dream timeline had chosen to transfer all his Z Company stock and control to Lin Xia before "eloping" with Z.
Lin Xia was reliable! More importantly, he was also very capable.
'He didn't seem to show it in the previous timelines, but maybe that's because he never got the chance!'
'Come to think of it, Lin Xia had managed to stabilize Z Company's foundations and keep it from declining too severely all the way until '75. Even with Z Company's technological advantages, that was no easy feat!'
Before now, Chu Bamboo had perhaps underestimated what that really meant.
After all, the market changed so fast! Nokia was once a titan of the mobile phone industry, at the height of its power... but it still collapsed in an instant!
