Gu Ning killed her "academic dream" with her own hands at three o'clock in the morning during her third year of Ph. D.
The nth rejection email lay in the mailbox, like a dull knife, grinding away the last bit of her spirit.
She turned off the dense code, stayed up late to revise a resume, and applied to Shengyuan Capital, which was rumored to eat people without spitting out their bones.
Screw academics, screw top journals. She thought she had to survive first.
On the day of the interview, she put on professional clothes that she had never worn before, and met Shen Cizhou behind the glass curtain wall on the 26th floor of Shengyuan.
The man was sitting in the main seat, pressing her resume with his knuckled fingers, and his voice was as cold as snow:
"Ms. Gu, investment banks don't believe in regression equations, they only believe in profits. Why do you think you can survive here?"
Gu Ning adjusted her glasses, her eyes were clear, and her tone was as calm as she was on the defense stage:
"Because in a non-equilibrium game, I am the only variable."
Later, in the office in Lujiazui late at night.
Shen Cizhou pushed the first draft of the paper full of red pen annotations in front of her, and his tone was rare and warm:
"Gu Ning, there is one mistake in your model. You were right about the direction of the market, but not right about the result I am also waiting for you."
He is the most rational hunter in Vanity Fair, but he personally built an ivory tower for her.
He told her: Gu Ning, write the truth you want to write, and I will share the rest equally.
——"I thought the truth was only in books, until I passed by you."
Motto: Even if you are in a trough, you still have the courage to push back and start over.