Chapter 355: Misguided Perception
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After he dropped Mr. Chen off at Shengda, Gu Yu headed straight back home.
No sooner had he settled into his executive chair than his computer beeped with a message on Fetion. Gu Yu clicked on it to find a zipped file from Chen Tian.
The file was named "Kuwait Young Models Collection.zip".
Gu Yu's smile instantly froze on his face, just as Lin Xinyue pushed open the door to his office and walked in.
His hand clutching the mouse trembled violently.
If Xinyue saw this, what then?
She would definitely think he and Chen Tian had some shady dealings!
"Damn it, take it back! Take it back! This kind of thing should be sent privately!"
Looking at the 1.2 GB zipped file on the screen, Gu Yu was inwardly roaring.
[The other party has recalled a message]
Chen Tian seemed to hear Gu Yu's inner voice. Just a second before Lin Xinyue was about to sit next to him, the file was recalled.
Chen Tian sent a grinning emoji and added, "Sent it to the wrong person."
Gu Yu heaved a deep sigh of relief internally.
This was truly a life-or-death moment!
"Are you busy right now?"
Lin Xinyue sat beside Gu Yu, looking somewhat weary as she gazed at him.
"Nothing much, what's up?" Gu Yu extended his hand to tuck her stray hair behind her ear, speaking softly.
"I'm just feeling a bit tired and want to lean on you for a while."
Lin Xinyue shook her head, then reached out to embrace Gu Yu's arm and rested her head on his shoulder.
Gu Yu's expression softened as he looked at Lin Xinyue leaning against him.
He could tell she was genuinely tired.
She usually wouldn't admit she was tired, which meant she really had been overloaded with work recently.
"You've been working hard."
Gu Yu extended his left hand and gently patted the top of her head.
Lin Xinyue pursed her lips, slightly displeased, but merely glanced at Gu Yu and then closed her eyes to rest.
Seeing her close her eyes, Gu Yu felt quite tired himself.
He had been non-stop for the past few days. Although he didn't need to do anything personally, managing people and coordinating everything was very draining. Wanting everything to be perfect required full concentration.
The network of people and the organization of affairs were not things that could be handled just by moving one's lips.
"Ha~"
He couldn't help but yawn.
"Beep-beep—" the Fetion message tone rang again, this time Old Mr. Chen finally sent the correct documents.
"Kuwait Info Introduction.zip."
Gu Yu clicked to download the file, a total of 150 MB, which took less than two seconds to download with the office's internet.
This network upgrade had been strongly advocated by his second brother.
Initially, it was the broadband that came with the rented office space, which was fine when a few people were using it, but it tended to lag when more people were online.
So, Yu Shutong came to him, insisting they needed to upgrade the bandwidth.
He even said that as a programmer, wasting so much time waiting for downloads was simply wasting precious life…
"Ding!"
The system's built-in security software had finished scanning, and Gu Yu casually opened the compressed file.
The movement of his arm also disturbed Lin Xinyue, who slightly opened her eyes in a dazed expression and looked at Gu Yu's computer screen; she had actually fallen asleep in just those few minutes!
Gu Yu pinched her cheek with some tenderness, while at the same time, he pulled out a small pillow from behind his chair for her to hold onto.
"I need to look at some data on this side, why don't you go sleep on the small sofa over there?"
Gu Yu pointed to a lazy sofa in the corner of the office.
Lin Xinyue obediently nodded her head, stood up, and pecked Gu Yu's face lightly before taking the pillow to sleep.
Gu Yu watched her close her eyes and fall asleep, then continued to view the compressed files.
Inside the folder were categorized documents, covering Kuwait's human geography, economic status, national system, and some customs and practices.
There was also a separate compressed folder that required a password to unzip further.
Old Mr. Chen had already sent the password over.
[Kuwait Zhongxin Petroleum]
It was probably the data for the company he was going to take over this time.
Gu Yu didn't rush to open this folder, but rather started looking at the public documents.
Casually opening a national overview, he immersed himself in the read.
The more he read, the more he realized how wrong his previous understanding had been.
What he saw from those so-called global bloggers and self-media outlets about Kuwait being a small Middle-Eastern country, plagued by warfare, with people living restlessly, and terrorism running rampant… the sort of portrayal they provided.
So, he had always maintained a negative impression of these small Middle Eastern countries.
But today, after looking at the data sent by Old Mr. Chen,
He learned that the country was actually very stable, and incredibly wealthy, truly wealthy, and its citizens were leading happy lives...
It was nothing like the stereotype he had imagined.
This small country with a population of less than five million had a GDP topping 130 billion US dollars in 2019, and a per capita GDP of over 30,000 US dollars.
Women's subsidies, adult subsidies, loan waivers, million-dollar property installments interest-free, marriage subsidies, and even national payouts on anniversaries...
One could say, without doing anything, life could still be quite lush.
Once one of the wealthiest countries in the world, neighboring Yikela still owed this country billions of US dollars!
Prospering through abundant oil resources, it truly was a place where everyone was overflowing with wealth.
Although located in the Middle East, the public order was not bad either, far from the frequent warfare that some wild media reported.
Looking at the information sent by Old Mr. Chen, Gu Yu knew he had been duped by the self-media and wild media once again.
Damn irresponsible reporting, misleading the public!
But this also matched the wild media's traffic formula—just keep saying how good things are domestically and how bad they are abroad to attract a whole bunch of people's attention.
Those bloggers who claimed to have traveled through various countries, saying they understood a country so well—turns out, upon checking their IP address, wow! They were just in Deep City, where there's a spot called World Window...
"These wild media and fake bloggers really should all be thrown in jail, spreading wrong knowledge, shaping erroneous perceptions!"
Gu Yu muttered to himself.
Originally, everyone went online to watch videos to understand the customs of foreign lands and gain some insights or to find nice tourist spots when planning to go abroad.
But a look at these bloggers and their videos immediately killed any desire to travel abroad or caused misunderstandings about the world.
More dangerous than stupidity is people firmly believing that the misinformation they know is correct.
Gu Yu was very irritated, but could only seethe with anger. The overall environment was such that he could not change it.
With thousands of wild media outlets and bloggers, it wasn't possible for him to sue each and every one in court.
He could only warn himself not to readily believe online information in the future.
Thinking about all this, he clicked open the second encrypted zip folder.