4: Chapter 4 actually lit up!

The scorching sun hung in the sky, the hot air almost melting people's shadows onto the burning ground.

This kind of weather should belong to air conditioning, iced watermelon, and lounging around.

But Lu Li couldn't feel a hint of warmth.

He only felt a chill rising from the soles of his feet straight to his scalp, his heart turning half cold.

How to explain it?

He couldn't exactly say that the technology contained in this Full-screen display phone was all the result of his blood, sweat, and tears from his previous life, right?

Once he said that, his wife would one hundred percent pack him up and send him to the company laboratory, where he would live the life of a 996 beast of burden from then on.

Give him a vice president position?

That would just be a beast of burden wearing a golden saddle!

How could that compare to the comfort of the present, playing games every day, watching live streams, and waiting for his beautiful wife to feed him?

Thinking of the terrifying experience in his previous life where, for the sake of scientific research, his hairline was already in crisis by thirty, relying on hairpieces to go out, Lu Li's fingertips trembled subconsciously.

He definitely didn't want to go through that again.

He must think of a perfect excuse!

Lu Li's brain raced, and he squeezed out an innocent yet slightly smug smile.

"Wife, this thing... it's actually an idea I came up with, and I asked a friend to make it."

He scratched his head, his tone carrying a bit of uncertainty.

"It's just that I was looking at those geek forums online before, where some people were doing open-source hardware. I thought it looked fun, so I bought some parts, chatted with a friend, and tried changing the ribbon cable structure under the screen... I didn't expect to actually make it work."

"I originally wanted to use it secretly, but I was afraid you'd ask."

To Su Qingxue's ears, this half-truthful, half-false explanation was no less than a thunderclap exploding beside her.

What does 'messing around' mean?

What does 'thought it looked fun' mean?

A complete layman, relying on self-study from forums and another half-knowledgeable friend, solved the screen-to-body ratio problem that the entire industry found incredibly headache-inducing?

Doesn't this mean that her proud Guanghui Technology, with those hundreds of high-paid research elites with Ph.D. titles, are all just a bunch of good-for-nothings?!

Listen to that, is that even human language?

In the live stream, the bullet comments that had just been frantically spamming 'fairy-tale love' instantly fell into a deathly silence.

Deathly silence. Absolute deathly silence.

A few seconds later, the comment section exploded instantly!

"????? Did I hear that right? He said he was just 'messing around'?"

"Buddy, you call this 'messing around'? Then how are those formally trained engineers supposed to feel!"

"Is this what they call a talented player? Just playing around and he broke through the industry ceiling?"

"Quick! CEO Su! Don't let him act humble! Ask him where the battery is! I want to see the specific effect after it turns on!"

Su Qingxue's expression shifted constantly, but she forcibly suppressed the stormy waves in her heart.

She chose to temporarily believe her husband's explanation; after all, being able to piece together such a Full-screen display was already beyond her understanding.

Now, the most critical thing was to turn it on!

"Husband, then what about its original battery? I changed quite a few, but it wouldn't turn on."

Su Qingxue asked, her tone carrying a hint of urgency she hadn't even noticed herself.

Lu Li frowned, putting on a look of deep thought.

Kidding, that was how long ago? How could he possibly remember where he threw that battery?

"Battery... I don't remember. Aren't you connected to power now?"

Lu Li continued to play the role of that half-knowledgeable 'amateur enthusiast'.

"It won't work," Su Qingxue repeated the phone's status, "It has original battery detection. It prompts 'non-original battery' upon booting, and then shuts down immediately."

As she spoke, she demonstrated it on the spot; a line of small text lit up on the screen, and then it went dark.

Lu Li looked at her helpless expression and sighed in his heart.

Oh well, oh well. In the end, he had to support his wife's show.

He feigned confusion as he leaned over, staring at the darkened screen for a few seconds, then let out an "Ah," as if he had remembered something.

"Wife, I remember! For fun, I flashed a third-party system package onto it. That system is a bit weird; it might lock the hardware."

"Try entering engineering mode. I remember there's an option to skip hardware self-check."

"Engineering mode?" Su Qingxue was stunned for a moment.

"Yes, just hold the volume up button and the power button to turn it on, and enter that Fastboot mode," Lu Li instructed casually.

Su Qingxue also thought of the engineering mode, and she decisively followed suit.

Sure enough, a crude interface full of English code appeared on the screen.

"And then?"

"Use the volume keys to move the cursor, find the 'Wipe data/factory reset' option, and clear the data. That should bypass the detection."

Lu Li's voice was flat, as if he were talking about a trivial matter.

Su Qingxue operated it skillfully, but her heart was in turmoil.

This kind of operation was very familiar to her; after all, she was the CEO of Guanghui Technology, how could she not know about Fastboot mode.

But Lu Li... a game designer, why would he be so clear about these things?

After she finished the operation, she restarted the phone with trepidation.

This time, that annoying prompt did not appear again.

Instead, a pure, extreme, almost boundless screen lit up instantly!

At that moment, Su Qingxue's left hand holding the phone trembled slightly, unable to control itself.

"Good heavens..."

She couldn't help but let out a dreamy exclamation.

"This... this is simply a work of art! Its top and bottom bezels are actually narrower than the samsung s8, almost negligible!"

Her gaze toward Lu Li changed completely.

In that look, there was shock, confusion, and admiration.

Her husband, who was clearly just a failed game designer, had actually used an unbelievable method to fold the screen component behind the lower part of the body, creating such a stunning Full-screen display design!

After three seconds of silence, the live stream went completely crazy!

A perfect screen, almost invisible bezels, that ultimate visual impact pierced through the lens and slammed hard into the eyeballs of every viewer!

"Holy crap! Holy crap! This is what a future phone should look like!"

"The samsung s8 is nothing! It's just a little brother in front of this phone!"

"I get it! I totally get it! This isn't something Lu Li developed at all; this is f*cking guanghui 7 Pro! CEO Su and her husband are acting, playing the 'first suppress, then lift' game on us!"

"To the one above, whether it's acting or not, this man named Lu Li is definitely a genius!"

Su Qingxue couldn't help but open the Douyin APP.

This was a video of those mountains upon mountains with pouring rain from abroad.

The clear scenery filled the entire screen, making one's heart tremble with the changes in the video footage.

"This is simply a work of art!"

Su Qingxue couldn't help but praise it highly, then, thinking of something, glared fiercely at Lu Li again.

That look seemed to say: I'll settle the score with you later.

She took the live streaming equipment and fixed it on the table.

With her other hand, she played with this Full-screen display phone.

On the balcony, Lu Li continued to lie on the lounge chair, letting out a long sigh of relief.

Finally, he had temporarily fooled her.

Damn it, why didn't he just throw this phone away back then.

Oh, he remembered now, it seemed it was to commemorate the youth he spent struggling in R&D?

He had originally planned to wait a few years until Full-screen display technology was everywhere in the country, and then frame this "Star" phone as a souvenir of his previous life.

Anyway, by then, there would be Full-screen display everywhere, and his wife wouldn't care about such an outdated phone even if she found it.

Think again, is there anything else missed.

It seems he swatted away the system reward with a tennis racket yesterday, but that shouldn't matter.

It was just some technical titles.

But it had taken him several hours to organize them into text and save them on the computer.

...

At this moment.

Outside the villa area.

A red Audi A6L slowly pulled into a parking space.

The car door opened, and a woman wearing a black OL suit, with an upright posture, stepped out. Her slender legs were wrapped in black silk stockings, and her whole body exuded a shrewd and capable temperament.

She was none other than Su Qingxue's best friend and chief secretary, Chen Shuyu.

She walked toward the villa in high heels, but her gaze was drawn to a discordant white paper ball on the lawn at the entrance.

She bent down suspiciously to pick it up and unfolded it.

On the paper ball, a line of printed, bolded titles came into view.

"《Feasibility Report on Haihu Silicon-Carbon Anode Lithium-ion Battery Technology》?"

Under this title, one could also see a summary written below: Theoretical battery capacity increased by 40% compared to traditional lithium batteries.

What is this?

Chen Shuyu frowned slightly; she had never heard of this kind of battery technology.

This looked like the cover of some report, crumpled into a ball and thrown here.

She glanced at the villa's gate, thinking this was likely Su Qingxue's belonging, and wondered why she would be so careless as to throw it away randomly.

She refolded the paper, put it into her handbag, and prepared to ask Su Qingxue about it later.

But at the thought of seeing that "freeloader" Lu Li again soon, she felt a wave of inexplicable annoyance.

Married for two years, hadn't earned a single cent, just knew how to play games all day.

What on earth did Qingxue see in him?