Chapter 442: 441, don’t judge a book by its cover (part three)

This money, she felt undeserving of it and decided it would be better donated elsewhere.

The conditions at the shelter were very basic, yet the receptionist at the front desk was very enthusiastic, and Chu Jin could see hope in her eyes.

In the hall, donated clothes and food supplies from all walks of life were displayed.

Pictures were also plastered on the walls, most of them of homeless wanderers and knowledge-thirsty children from the mountains, starkly contrasting the prosperity of Capital City.

The world is like this, where the strong grow stronger and the weak, weaker, creating a polarized divide.

"Young lady, you’re here to find someone, aren’t you?" Because the shelter took in different homeless people and those who had lost their way home every day, the receptionist subconsciously thought Chu Jin was there to look for a relative.

"No," Chu Jin gently shook her head with a smile in her eyes.

Upon hearing this, the receptionist was stunned for a moment. People came to the shelter for three main reasons: to seek help, to find relatives, or to donate goods or money.

But the girl in front of her, who looked no older than a teenager with her plain clothes and clean demeanor, did not appear to be there for help. Yet, if she were there to donate supplies, she wouldn’t have come empty-handed.

So, what exactly was she here for?

Could she be some mischievous child from a well-off family, well-fed and causing trouble, coming to see what the shelter looked like?

Noticing the receptionist’s puzzled look, Chu Jin said indifferently, "I’m here to offer a modest contribution to the shelter."

Hearing her words, the receptionist looked at Chu Jin and soon smiled, "There aren’t many young girls with a heart like yours these days. Come with me."

In today’s society, human warmth is growing colder by the day. Even if an elderly person falls down, people hesitate for a long time whether to help or not, let alone offering donations actively. However, she would occasionally meet a few students donating their New Year’s money—it wasn’t much, but it always represented the children’s kindness.

Chu Jin followed the receptionist’s steps, first filling in a form as per the procedure, then handing her a cheque.

A cheque?

When the receptionist received the cheque, she almost thought she was seeing things. She had assumed the young girl would donate at most a few thousand yuan but did not expect her to donate with a cheque.

Tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a million.

When the receptionist clearly saw the digits on the cheque, her face was a picture of bewilderment. Was she dreaming? Such an amount of money...

Could buy several villas!

She glanced at Chu Jin and saw the young girl still looked indifferent, not showing any self-satisfied or superior air due to the money she donated, which actually impressed the receptionist and made her respect the girl’s composure and humility.

It took a good while for the receptionist to regain her voice, "Young lady, please wait a moment. I’ll have our person in charge come over." She couldn’t handle such a large sum of money on her own.

The person in charge needed to come personally.

Chu Jin nodded slightly.

The receptionist passed the cheque to the person responsible and explained the entire situation. Taking the matter seriously, this could be the largest donation the shelter had ever received. They promptly followed her to the hall, only to find that the girl who had been standing there was nowhere to be seen.

"Strange," the receptionist scratched her head in confusion, "She was just here!"

"Xiao Zhao," said the person in charge, also looking around, "Are you saying the donor was just a teenage girl?"

"Yes," Xiao Zhao nodded.

"Dressed plainly?" the person in charge continued.

"That’s right, the young lady looked about seventeen or eighteen, quiet and pretty..." It just didn’t seem like she could pull out tens of millions at a whim.

A person who could donate tens of millions without hesitation wouldn’t be wearing such plain attire.

She had almost no expensive jewelry on her.

The person in charge also sensed what Xiao Zhao was implying and looked at the cheque with a complex gaze,

Xiao Zhao continued, "Chief, perhaps the girl hasn’t gone far. Do you want to try catching up with her?"

If she really donated so much money, why would she run away guiltily?

It’s most likely because it’s nothing but a bad cheque, right?

"No need," the person in charge waved it off, a look of disappointment flashing in their eyes, "It’s just a mischievous girl playing a prank. There’s no need to take it seriously. Go back to your duties."

He had really thought that Capital City had seen a benevolent soul, but it turned out to be nothing more than a prank by a cheeky girl, causing him needless excitement. He had planned to use the ninety million to thoroughly renovate the shelter, add some equipment, and prepare for winter, but it turned out...

Nowadays, young girls really are something else. It’s one thing not to study diligently, but to even flirt with these old folks.

Don’t they know that the elderly have weak hearts?

The person in charge looked at the check in his hand and sighed deeply.

Although he knew the check was fake, when he went to the bank to withdraw money, he brought it along. The bank teller, upon seeing the check, personally called over the bank manager.

It was only then the person in charge realized that this was not a worthless check.

He was so excited that his whole body was trembling slightly.

He didn’t hear a word the bank manager said anymore. He hurried back to the relief station, wanting to find Chu Jin’s contact information to thank her in person, but found that the form she filled out had no name, phone number, or address—only some irrelevant information.

Xiao Zhao, the receptionist, was even more astonished and couldn’t close her mouth. She had not expected that the young lady had actually donated ninety million!

This really was hiding one’s capabilities and biding time.

It seems that one should never judge a book by its cover.

The person in charge even exclaimed, "This is what a true good Samaritan looks like."

**

After leaving the relief station, Chu Jin managed to find time to drop by the king. It wasn’t the first time people there had seen Chu Jin, but every time they did, they couldn’t help but be amazed.

Her face was highly distinctive, her features were picturesque, and words simply couldn’t describe her beauty.

There were also those who were curious.

Who exactly was she?

Qin Zhenglin’s girlfriend? The daughter of a behind-the-scenes big boss? A newly appointed executive parachuted in?

"Wow, it’s the goddess!" After Chu Jin left, the cubicles burst into excited chatter.

"Hey, can you imagine how great it would be if she were our colleague?" Just thinking about working with such a beauty every day was enough to intoxicate the imagination.

"Heh, the night hasn’t even fallen, and you’re already dreaming! Look at her temperament, her face; could she really be on the same level as us?"

"Why not? We are all humans, aren’t we? That’s discrimination!"

"Heh," a woman typing at her keyboard let out a cold laugh, "She can get by on her looks alone, can you?"

"..." I was left speechless.

Chu Jin walked straight into Qin Zhenglin’s office.

Qin Zhenglin was hunched over his desk, typing away with a pitter-patter, focused so intensely that he didn’t even hear Chu Jin knocking.

Chu Jin walked up behind him and paused to observe; the computer screen displayed a page of English code which, to the uninitiated, might have looked like indecipherable English symbols—but to her, it was data that seemed to come to life.

"This is wrong." Chu Jin pressed the [Esc] key, then switched the source code, pressing [Enter] to transform the screen into a three-dimensional 3D geometric image.

A problem that had been causing headaches for days was thus smoothly resolved, and Qin Zhenglin’s face lit up with a brilliant smile.

"Thank you..." He had expected it to be a colleague from the office, but was surprised to find it was Chu Jin instead. "Chu Jin, what brings you here?"

Chu Jin casually flipped through the files on the desk, "I just stopped by to see how things were going these last few days."

In recent days, the entire theking had been working overtime to develop a piece of software. Once released, it would bring no small amount of upheaval throughout China mainland.

It might even become popular overseas.

Even M country, with the most advanced technology, had not yet produced such a ground-breaking piece of software.

"It’s going quite well," Qin Zhenglin nodded, "You can rest assured, Chu Jin. In half a month, our software will be launched. By the way, we’ve already got an experimental version ready, do you want to come and have a look?"

"Sure," Chu Jin nodded.

The two headed to the product development department where the staff received Qin Zhenglin with great respect. When they saw Chu Jin, their eyes showed not only amazement but also an unmistakable respect.

For the time being, Qin Zhenglin was the biggest boss in the company, but now, this boss was showing such deference to someone else, even addressing them as ’Chu Jin.’ It was easy to surmise just how high the latter’s status was!

Could she really be the daughter of a behind-the-scenes big boss?

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