Urban God-level Youth

Qin Hao said hurriedly, "I got it, Mom and Dad, I'm going back to my room now."

"Wait, what's this about Xiao Yun?" Qin Youguo asked.

Qin Hao, looking puzzled, said, "Xiao Yun who?"

Mr. Qin frowned at him, "You know, Mr. Liu's daughter, weren't you chatting quite happily with her at noon?"

Qin Hao said in frustration, "Dad, I was just talking to her as a normal friend, what are you thinking?"

Li Shujie jumped in, "You're not interested in Mr. Liu's Xiao Yun?"

"Mom, we barely knew each other before today; how could there be any interest? Relationships are built on mutual knowledge and understanding." Qin Hao couldn't figure out why his parents were acting like this today.

Why were they so concerned about his business?

After finishing, he hurriedly went into his room, not knowing what else his parents might say if he stayed in the living room any longer.

Turning on his desktop computer, Qin Hao logged into his chat software account, then saw a news article about him on the front page.

The headline read: "Genius Equals Diligence, Xuan Country Daily Interviews the National Unified Exam Top Scorer's High School, Changle Second Middle School"

Qin Hao glanced through it. The principal of Second Middle, and Qin Hao's class teacher, both praised how diligent and hardworking he was.

He was somewhat embarrassed reading it. In high school, he had only really studied hard during the month prior to the unified exam.

Before that, he was a notorious underachiever, the kind even his class teacher considered beyond help.

Below, the comments were many: "Perfect scores on the unified exam, is he even human? As a top student at Jinhua, I admire him."

"Jinchen University sends its congratulations."

"Bullseye, I worked extremely hard for three years in high school and only scored 660. How did you achieve a perfect score?"

"I was Qin Hao's classmate, he was known as the class underachiever. There must be a dark secret behind this."

The reply to this comment was plentiful: "You must be brain-damaged. The exam room had not only supervisors but also high-definition electronic monitoring. Someone like Qin Hao, the national top scorer, would have had his exam watched more than once."

If there were any cheating or dark secrets, the officials wouldn't announce these results.

"Your class has produced a genius, shouldn't you be happy? Coming out like this to smear him clearly shows you're just envious and resentful."

"A complete case of jealousy, assessment over."

"You deserve your low score, you big fool."

...

Sitting in front of the computer, Yuan Zhengxiang's face turned livid with anger seeing so many people insulting him.

How come nobody believes me when I'm telling the truth?

His own score in this unified exam was 610, a score that made it very difficult, almost impossible, to get into Jianghai University.

He hadn't cared much about his own score, but seeing Qin Hao's score instantly disturbed his composure.

750 points? A perfect score? A guy who was one of the lowest performers in class managed to get a perfect score?

There absolutely had to be a dark secret.

So Yuan Zhengxiang, after seeing the Xuan Country Daily's report, immediately commented to expose the truth, letting everyone see what kind of person Qin Hao really was.

He intended to destroy Qin Hao's reputation so that Qin Hao would have no grounds to compete with him for Du Wanrou.

But the outcome of his comments left him dumbfounded, as almost everyone was calling him a jealous wolf; not a single person believed him.

Qin Hao also saw Yuan Zhengxiang's comments and simply laughed it off without a care.

"Ding, a new phase of the main storyline quest opens: Road to Business Tycoon.

Reach a monthly net profit of three million (0/3M), reward five thousand achievement points."

Qin Hao was stunned, a monthly net profit of three million? Damn, when would he reach that goal?

By now, at full calculation, your roast duck restaurant is making a gross profit of over a million a month, and after deducting various costs and worker's wages, the net profit is roughly eight to nine hundred thousand.

Reaching three million in net profit in one month is too difficult unless you expand to about four stores.

Opening four stores would require an investment of several million at the very least. He doesn't have that much money right now.

If he rents stores instead, the cost would be much lower.

But with the real estate industry continuously heating up, although not by a significant margin, there definitely won't be a significant drop either.

If he buys commercial properties, he won't lose money but will actually make some.

In the end, if there's no other way, he could only rent the stores.

Because renting a store has its benefits—lower initial investment, and then you can buy them after the roast duck restaurant has made enough money.

This is actually a good approach for many startups — not requiring too much capital.

...

After dinner, Qin Hao smoothly logged onto the Black Blade Network with his laptop, and then the sounds of ding-ding-ding rang out.

Someone was sending him a private message.

He glanced over, and most of the messages were from Black Blade Network administrators, "How did you do it?"

"You better drop your own permissions now, or we will attack you."

"Can we talk? I am Walter, the founder of the Black Blade Network."

...

Initially, the administrators of the Black Blade Network were threatening him; later, they might have realized they couldn't remove Qin Hao's permissions, so their tone softened.

The messages were all in Federation text. If his Federation language wasn't pretty good, he really wouldn't understand what these people were saying.

"We can talk, but use Xuan Country language to talk to me," Qin Hao replied, then went to check his own posts.

Now his post had reached thousands of views and had several hundred replies, but there was not a single one about buying the software package.

Some people wanted to challenge his skills, others wanted him to join their companies as the head of cybersecurity, and so on.

Seeing that no one was buying, Qin Hao logged out.

Just as he logged out of the Black Blade Network, the administrators sent him another message, but got no reply.

The next day, the administrators saw that he had already logged off.

They breathed a sigh of relief. Qin Hao's account called Hei Ye had super admin permissions.

Fortunately, he hadn't messed around on Black Blade Network, otherwise they definitely would have had to shut down the net for reorganization.

Even so, the administrators of the Black Blade Network were constantly on edge, fearing that Qin Hao would cause trouble on Black Blade Network.

If Black Blade Network really had to shut down for reorganization, it would be a great blow to the network's reputation and would also significantly boost the notoriety of the hacker Hei Ye.

But they could see that Hei Ye wasn't there to increase his fame.

If he wanted to boost his fame, with his skills to hack into the Black Blade Network's backend, just breaking into any large network company would make his name well known in the hacker community.

...

The next day

Qin Hao didn't get up until after nine in the morning, ate some breakfast, and then went to the roast duck restaurant.

He spent the day mixing herbal supplements in the restaurant. They sold nearly a thousand roast ducks every day, and the supplements were used up quickly.

After mixing seven or eight batches, there were a few types of herbs he ran out of.

Qin Hao went downstairs and said to Kang Youyi, "Fatty, come with me to stock up."

Fatty quickly came over, "Okay, Hao."