2: Chapter 2: This brick is actually the future full-screen phone?

"Huh, what is this?"

Su Qingxue crouched down gently and picked up this piece of black "glass."

It felt smooth to the touch, with an extraordinary texture.

But the moment she flipped it over to look at the back, her breath hitched slightly.

The back was not a complete flat surface; it had a plastic texture, with a very obvious square void. Even more conspicuous were the empty battery slot in the lower half and a ribbon cable at the top.

She understood instantly.

This isn't glass!

This is a phone's screen assembly!

But neither Guanghui Technology nor the entire industry had any product like this!

The camera in the live stream followed her movements, and the curiosity of the fans was instantly ignited.

"What is that black thing?"

"It looks like a phone screen, but what phone has an entire piece of black glass on the front? Where's the earpiece?"

"There's no HOME button, no fingerprint module; how do you unlock or go back with this? It must be fake!"

"Could it be a portable hard drive that just uses tempered glass as the main material?"

"This must be Lu Li's stuff. Who would have thought that he has such a beautiful wife and still stores adult videos on a portable hard drive!"

"How lowly. If I had such a gorgeous, top-tier wife, I would definitely never watch adult videos on websites again!"

"Hey, upstairs, please share! Good people live safe lives!"

Su Qingxue ignored the barrage and walked to the front of the camera, holding the "screen" up to it.

Her voice carried a hint of professional scrutiny and confusion.

"This is a phone screen, but its form… is very strange."

"It reminds me of the integrated design concept of the samsung s8, but the S8 has a curved screen, and there are obvious cutouts for the light and proximity sensors on the forehead."

"But this one…"

Su Qingxue gently traced her fingertip across the screen's surface; it was a smoothness so flawless and unobstructed that it was breathtaking.

"It feels absolutely 'integrated' to me."

Yes, absolutely integrated.

All mobile phones on the market today must have cutouts on the screen or retain large foreheads and chins to accommodate earpieces, front-facing cameras, and various sensors.

But this screen seemed to have pushed the concept of "screen-to-body ratio" to its theoretical limit.

It was as if it were the ultimate concept of a "Full-screen display" that Lei Jun mentioned at the Xiaomi mix launch event back in the day.

A ridiculous thought flashed through Su Qingxue's mind.

Could it be a dummy model Lu Li picked up from some small knockoff factory?

But this extremely minimalist design, exuding an industrial aesthetic that spared no cost, was simply not something a small knockoff factory could imitate.

The barrage in the live stream also exploded.

"Holy crap! I see it now. The front of this thing is just one whole screen! There's light refraction at the edges, and the top and bottom bezels are almost non-existent!"

"No front camera? How does this phone take selfies?"

"I feel like this is just a fancy MP5, not a phone at all!"

"The key is looking at Qingxue's completely bewildered face; she doesn't know what this is either!"

"Could it… be designed by Lu Li?"

"Don't be ridiculous, upstairs. He's a designer who can't even make a game, and he's designing phones? This is just a brick!"

Seeing the word "brick," Su Qingxue felt a stir in her heart and displayed the back of the screen to the camera as well.

In an instant, the knowledgeable users in the live stream couldn't stay calm.

"That big square grid! It's definitely the modular space reserved for the motherboard!"

"That small round hole at the top is exactly the same size as a front-facing camera!"

"What else could that big blank space at the bottom be besides a battery?"

Su Qingxue's expression changed completely.

She didn't need the barrage to remind her; as the head of Guanghui Technology, she knew better than anyone what this meant.

"If this hole is the front camera, then what about the light and proximity sensors? Where have they been integrated?"

"If, apart from this hole, the entire front is a display area…"

A crazy image formed in her mind.

That would be a "perfect Full-screen display" in the true sense. The moment it lights up, the entire front of the phone would be a vibrant screen, and its visual impact would be enough to upend the entire current mobile phone industry!

The emotions in the live stream were completely ignited.

"Insane! If this is real, it would sell like crazy once released!"

"Impossible! It is absolutely impossible to have this kind of screen technology!!"

"Stop overthinking it; it might just be a model that can't even emit light!"

"Right, just a fancier brick!"

Su Qingxue didn't answer.

She set the live streaming equipment aside, stepped onto a stool, and scanned the top of the cabinet where she had found the screen with a sharp gaze.

There seemed to be something else there!

Sure enough, in a corner covered with a thin layer of dust, a palm-sized circuit board lay quietly, its copper contacts shimmering faintly under the light.

Her heart skipped a beat, and she reached out to take the motherboard down as well.

Picking up the live streaming gimbal again, Su Qingxue aimed the camera intently at the motherboard, her voice even trembling slightly.

"Front camera… chip… flash… and two rear cameras!"

Her gaze swept over every precise component on the motherboard, and she even saw the antenna module integrated on the side.

All parts were seamlessly fitted, the layout was perfect, and it was full of the ultimate aesthetic of industrial art.

At this point, there was no longer any room for wishful thinking.

With the screen and the motherboard, the chain of evidence was complete.

This was a phone she had never seen before, with a design concept at least two years ahead of the current era!

Whose was it, really?

It was absolutely impossible for company engineers to enter her private residence.

The only outsider who came often was her secretary and best friend, Chen Shuyu.

Su Qingxue didn't even care about the live stream, immediately taking out her own phone and dialing Chen Shuyu's number.

"Shushu, did you drop anything when you came to my house before? Like a phone, or… any electronic parts?"

The voice on the other end was very crisp: "No. What's wrong? I'm driving over to your place now, I'll be there soon."

"…It's nothing, we'll talk when you get here."

After hanging up, Su Qingxue's doubts didn't decrease but increased, eventually converging into the possibility she least wanted to believe.

This thing belonged to her husband, Lu Li.

As for the "Lu Li developed it" guess from the barrage…

The moment this thought appeared, she extinguished it herself.

It was simply a fantasy!

She knew too well that every iteration of mobile phone technology was backed by collective breakthroughs in countless fields like material science, chips, and supply chains; it could never be accomplished by one person's effort.

Unless it was a top-tier genius providing the design blueprints, a genius comparable to Jobs.

Major brands were more like top-tier "hardware integrators."

Lu Li? He seemed to be making some game; how could he have a deep understanding of mobile phone technology?

Taking advantage of the time before her best friend arrived, Su Qingxue decided to do something first.

She wanted to verify it.

Maybe this was just a part for some portable monitor or e-reader that Lu Li bought?

Yes, it must be that.

She picked up the screen, the motherboard, and the live streaming equipment, and walked quickly toward the private laboratory in the villa.

Her voice sounded in the live stream again, carrying an unquestionable decisiveness.

"Don't be impatient, everyone."

"I have various models of batteries in my lab; there's bound to be one where the ribbon cable fits."

"Let's try turning it on right now!"

"Even if it doesn't work, I can have the company's top engineers hand-craft an adapter cable for me right now!"