25: Chapter 25 How exactly did Lu Li do that? The more I think about it, the more something seems off.

Chen Shuyu was stunned: "What do you mean? Explain yourself clearly."

"Don't ask so many questions! Get President Su to the R&D center immediately! You must see it with your own eyes! I can't put into words how shocking it is!"

Beep, beep, beep. The call hung up.

Chen Shuyu held the phone, looking at Su Qingxue with a blank expression.

"What's going on?" asked Su Qingxue.

"Chief System Architect Zhang Chen said that the underlying code of the Xingchen System has been conquered, and we need to go to the laboratory immediately." Chen Shuyu hesitated.

"Yesterday the progress was only 10 percent, and he said it might even need to be scrapped and redone. How could it be fixed after just one night?"

Su Qingxue stood up, grabbed the car keys on the table, and walked out efficiently.

"Let's go take a look. Things couldn't get any worse than they are now anyway."

Chen Shuyu hurriedly shoved the unorganized files into her bag, then trotted after her in her high heels.

The elevator descended. In the cramped cabin, the air was stifling.

Su Qingxue stared at the descending red numbers, her slender fingers tapping unconsciously on the leather of her Hermes bag.

"Chief System Architect Zhang Chen said it was solved just now? How is that possible?"

As the helm of Guanghui Technology, she knew better than anyone the difficulty of software R&D.

The report Chief System Architect Zhang Chen gave her yesterday was clear: due to the fragmentation mechanism of the Android underlying layer, to achieve smooth underlying performance with this irregular Full-screen display, it would require modifying at least seven thousand rendering logic points and rewriting the resource scheduling algorithm.

This was a problem that the genius engineers at Google hadn't completely solved after three years of work.

The dozens of people in the Guanghui Technology Software Department could fix it in one night? Unless the development team of the Xingchen System sat at the keyboards themselves.

"Qingxue..." Chen Shuyu looked at Su Qingxue's tense profile and spoke softly, "Maybe Chief System Architect Zhang Chen and the others really found some shortcut, like sacrificing the background to preserve the foreground?"

Su Qingxue sneered: "If it's that kind of self-deceiving trick, I'll make Chief System Architect Zhang Chen pack his bags and leave on the spot."

She didn't need false prosperity. Guanghui Technology was already at the edge of a cliff; even if it was just a straw, it had to be made of real gold.

Two o'clock in the afternoon, Guanghui Technology R&D Center, Software Engineering Department.

The place that usually only had the clatter of mechanical keyboards was eerily quiet at this moment.

Dozens of thinning-haired programmers formed a circle like an iron barrel, blocking the experimental table in the center completely.

No one spoke. There was only the sound of heavy breathing.

Everyone was holding their breath, focused on the test device on the table. Their eyes were like those of people who had been starving for days, staring at a sizzling, oily steak.

Su Qingxue and Chen Shuyu pushed the door open, the sound of their high heels breaking the silence.

"Chief System Architect Zhang Chen." Su Qingxue called out.

The crowd automatically parted to make a path.

Chief System Architect Zhang Chen stood at the very center, sporting two huge dark circles under his eyes, the bloodshot veins clearly visible. He was unnaturally hyper.

Seeing Su Qingxue, he didn't say a word and handed over the test device directly. He handed it over with both hands.

"President Su, try it yourself." Chief System Architect Zhang Chen's voice was hoarse, as if he had swallowed a handful of sand.

Su Qingxue took the phone. The exterior was still the same guanghui 7 ultra, unchanged, with a few fingerprints on the screen.

She reached out a finger and lit up the screen. The lock screen interface lit up.

Su Qingxue's finger instinctively swiped up to unlock. It was much faster.

It wasn't that stiff "pop" display, but an unfolding that followed physical inertia, like a piece of paper gently blown open by the wind.

She tried sliding the desktop left and right. The icons seemed to be attached to her finger, moving exactly where she pointed, without any lag, and without even a hint of motion blur. That level of responsiveness actually gave her an inexplicable sense of pleasure.

Even MIUI9 hadn't given her this feeling.

Opening apps. Closing apps. Multitasking switching.

Su Qingxue's hand speed got faster and faster, eventually almost frantically swiping across the screen.

But no matter how she messed with it, the phone maintained an infuriatingly calm and silky smoothness. No dropped frames, no stuttering, the transition animations were fluid and elegant, not like an Android phone at all.

However, due to RAM limitations, background apps were still being killed, but it wasn't as severe as before.

"This..." Su Qingxue raised her head, the fatigue in her eyes dissipating significantly, replaced by deep suspicion.

Instead of being overjoyed, she frowned and looked at Chief System Architect Zhang Chen.

"Chief System Architect Zhang Chen, tell me the truth." Su Qingxue pressed the phone in her palm, her voice turning cold. "Did you steal thousands of lines of code responsible for graphics rendering from that Xingchen System source code and forcefully attach them to the current UI layer?"

She also understood technology. The core logic of such an operation was to sacrifice background performance to forcefully ensure foreground visual smoothness. For example, animation pre-rendering, or resource-deception code.

Chief System Architect Zhang Chen was stunned: "President Su, I..."

"Don't rush to deny it." Su Qingxue stared him down. "I know what kind of foundation the current software department has. Yesterday the progress was still 10 percent, and today you've completely conquered the underlying logic? Don't try to fool me with such nonsense."

"Did you create this visual patch just to deal with the product launch? If it's surface-level optimization made by stealing code, the system stability won't pass, and it will start stuttering and crashing frequently in a few days!"

Su Qingxue's tone was very stern. In her eyes, this wasn't a technical breakthrough at all, but Chief System Architect Zhang Chen playing opportunistically to keep his job.

Chief System Architect Zhang Chen swallowed hard, his voice hoarse: "President Su, it really isn't stolen code. Memory management, process scheduling, even the graphics rendering channels... everything has been changed."

"And, the refactoring of the system's underlying logic was completed with remote help from Lu Li!"

"Lu Li? Shouldn't he be in class with Qin Ya?" Su Qingxue frowned deeply. Her husband had given her too many surprises lately.

"Tell me, what exactly is the situation?"

Chief System Architect Zhang Chen nodded and gave a detailed account of the interaction with Lu Li, adding at the end: "But I saw the speed of inputting code on his end was extremely fast. Could it be that Consultant Lu also understands software programming technology?"

After hearing him out, Su Qingxue temporarily put aside her suspicions and nodded: "Fine, then you all should perfect this system as soon as possible, do some more testing, and see if there are any bugs."

"Since the problem is mostly solved, everyone should go home when it's time. Stop working overtime all the time!"

As she said this, Su Qingxue took a pointed look at Chief System Architect Zhang Chen. The guy's hairline seemed to have receded quite a bit more.

Just as she was about to leave, Chief System Architect Zhang Chen remembered: "By the way, what should this system be named? Should it continue to be called Guanghui Technology?"

Su Qingxue also slowly stopped. That's right, this system's refactoring of the underlying code, plus the support of several compiler layers. Although it was still based on the Android system, it was very likely that its developer understood Android better than Google...

"I will go back and ask Lu Li, then I'll tell you!" She thought of that lazy-looking guy.

This time, he had helped her again. Out of respect for her husband, she decided to ask him what the system should be renamed. She also needed to pay the genius development team behind her husband as soon as possible.

But—the whole thing was strange. Thinking back to a few days ago, she realized that Lu Li was actually a geek. At the very least, he had a deep understanding of mobile phones and even knew how to flash them.

The Full-screen display was his idea, which he had admitted himself. Later, regarding the Xingchen System, he said he knew nothing about it, and that Ada Wong really did seem like a tech genius.

Later on, he helped Li Huairong several times to implement the Full-screen display packaging technology. This guy's network of contacts was terrifyingly wide.

And today... he did it himself, refactoring code remotely. Didn't he say he knew nothing about this system?

Su Qingxue walked out of the R&D center, her steps getting slower and slower.

Chen Shuyu followed behind, asking cautiously: "Qingxue, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing." Su Qingxue shook her head.

She just suddenly realized—her husband, it seemed, really wasn't that simple.

She desperately wanted to go home now to ask Lu Li. Whatever overseas technical team there was, everything Lu Li said was a complete lie.

Chief System Architect Zhang Chen had just made it very clear: Lu Li had solved the problem that had stumped their team for 6 days in just 1 hour and 40 minutes.

Logically speaking, even if Lu Li knew a tech genius, after the other person explained it, it would be impossible for him to input the code this fast on his end.