Chapter 0575 The Ambitious Man

Everyone actually has an extraordinary period in their life. Zhao Fusheng had his, and Tan Kaixuan had his too.

There are too many men in this world struggling desperately, striving to climb up. Whether through hard work or risking their lives, if they can complete the leap like a carp jumping over the dragon gate, it changes not only their own fate but also the fate of everyone around them.

"Old Zhao, what do you think we're busy with every day, what's the point?" Tan Kaixuan gulped down beer, eating pork rib skewers with small spring onions, and said to Zhao Fusheng.

Zhao Fusheng tilted his head, thought for a moment, and said calmly, "Maybe it's just to have a clear conscience."

A clear conscience?

Tan Kaixuan raised an eyebrow but didn't speak immediately. Instead, he carefully savored the four words Zhao Fusheng had said.

On second thought, it really was just that.

In life, no matter what you do, you seek a clear conscience, because only then can you live well without guilt.

"By the way, why are you back?" Tan Kaixuan suddenly remembered that Zhao Fusheng had shown up in the dormitory today and asked curiously.

Zhao Fusheng smiled. "I plan to skip the internship for now. I'll take leave to handle some matters."

"Haha, I told you, you shouldn't have gone in the first place," Tan Kaixuan laughed. "You're an advertising major. What can you do at school? Be a dogsbody for those teachers?"

In fact, most of the time, interns are like orderlies, helping the teaching staff with odd jobs, attending lectures, and if they perform well, they might get one or two chances to teach.

Formalism is sometimes really damn frustrating.

"You're right, so I decided not to go. I've already taken leave from there," Zhao Fusheng said to Tan Kaixuan.

Then he slapped his forehead and exclaimed, "Holy shit!"

"What's wrong?" Tan Kaixuan asked, puzzled.

Zhao Fusheng smiled bitterly. "I had arranged with a teacher from the school's academic affairs office to go to his place tonight, but after coming back, you bastard dragged me to the bar..."

He had originally made an appointment with Sun Qingfeng to go to his house tonight, but now it was already past ten o'clock, so it was definitely too late.

Tan Kaixuan was also dumbfounded. He had no idea about this; Zhao Fusheng hadn't mentioned it when he came back. He thought Zhao Fusheng had no plans today.

Thinking of this, Tan Kaixuan asked helplessly, "What do we do now?"

Zhao Fusheng tilted his head, thought for a moment, then suddenly smiled. He glanced at Tan Kaixuan, revealing a smile that baffled him.

"What are you going to do?" Tan Kaixuan looked at Zhao Fusheng suspiciously, feeling that this guy was scheming against him.

As it turned out, his premonition was correct.

Zhao Fusheng blinked and looked at Tan Kaixuan. "Old Tan, aren't you my best friend?"

"No!"

At that moment, Tan Kaixuan shook his head without hesitation. "We don't know each other."

Come on, this guy clearly had something to ask of him. Tan Kaixuan wouldn't bother with him even if his life depended on it.

Zhao Fusheng rolled his eyes. Tan Kaixuan's reaction was too fast; he didn't give him a chance to speak. But it didn't matter; Zhao Fusheng had no intention of letting him refuse anyway.

For a man to achieve great things, the three most important conditions are: first, persistence; second, shamelessness; and third, persistent shamelessness.

Zhao Fusheng knew this well.

"Here's the thing: tomorrow, get me five hundred yuan worth of KFC coupons, the recharge cards I told you about," Zhao Fusheng said to Tan Kaixuan. "Also, I know you have shopping vouchers for Wanda Mall. Get me five hundred yuan worth of those too."

Tan Kaixuan was taken aback. "Holy shit! Are you serious? Giving away so much?"

In his view, it was just an internship matter. Why go through so much trouble?

Zhao Fusheng shook his head. "The neighbor at my grandfather's place has always taken care of me."

He couldn't say that in his previous life, he owed Sun Qingfeng a favor.

"Alright, I'll get them for you tomorrow," Tan Kaixuan nodded. For him, this was a trivial matter.

Zhao Fusheng nodded and didn't dwell on it.

"By the way, what are your plans from now on? Are you really going to stay at Future Advertising?" After a few bottles of beer, Tan Kaixuan's face was slightly flushed. Instead of feeling dizzy, he became clearer-headed the more he drank.

Zhao Fusheng was taken aback, then laughed. "How is that possible."

Tan Kaixuan frowned. "So you plan to quit and go solo later?"

This question was crucial. Although he didn't know much about Future Advertising's specifics, Tan Kaixuan knew that Zhao Fusheng was a designer. In other words, if Future Advertising wasn't Zhao Fusheng's final destination, then everything he was doing now might end up benefiting others.

Zhao Fusheng waved his hand, knowing he had misunderstood. "I'm not going solo. I just think this industry isn't very interesting."

"Not interesting?"

Tan Kaixuan was stunned, not quite understanding Zhao Fusheng's words.

Zhao Fusheng said calmly, "I read a book about a foreign salesperson who once had dinner with his boss's boss. The conversation touched on a Shakespeare play, and the two of them spontaneously performed a classic scene in English. In fact, the boss's boss really liked Shakespeare, but the salesperson didn't like him at all. He had premeditated that 'accidental' encounter."

"What do you mean?" Tan Kaixuan still couldn't quite grasp Zhao Fusheng's point.

Zhao Fusheng smiled slightly. "Before that successful accident, that person must have practiced it dozens or hundreds of times to make the event inevitably successful. This world doesn't lack clever people; what it lacks are smart people who persistently do foolish things."

Tan Kaixuan fell silent. Although Zhao Fusheng's words seemed unrelated to his own development, Tan Kaixuan understood what he meant.

"Old Zhao, you have big ambitions," Tan Kaixuan suddenly said after a long while.

As Zhao Fusheng's closest friend, he had witnessed how Zhao Fusheng started from scratch and reached where he was today. In other words, many people might never achieve what Zhao Fusheng had, yet he still wanted a better life.

This was a kind of dissatisfaction, and also a kind of ambition.

Zhao Fusheng smiled slightly. "It doesn't matter how big the ambition is. What matters is that I feel I should be stronger and more successful. Otherwise, wouldn't I be letting down these days we've been through?"

At that moment, Tan Kaixuan felt for the first time that the gap between him and Zhao Fusheng was widening.