Su Yixia stared blankly for several long minutes because how could Gu Nuan know three years ago that the land in Zone B would not be enough? After all, she never heard any official mention that Zone B was running out of land.
Specifically, what Gu Nuan referred to here as three years means three years from now.
My God!
Su Yixia said, "Gu Nuan, you're amazing! You actually predicted six years into the future?"
Gu Nuan didn't think she was amazing at all. Anyone who put their mind to research could figure it out. One could make educated guesses from the official statistics, the speed of regional development, and data on incoming population, among others.
An even more important point was that the decision-makers were not fools. If the land in Zone B was insufficient, there were only two directions to expand. Either reclaim land from the sea in Tunhai. For the regional leaders of Zone B, maintaining a regional advantage, it was undoubtedly a good choice. However, for the decision-makers at a higher level, this strategy definitely wasn't as good as merging the two zones.
After the merger, Zone B would drive up the land prices in Zone N, increasing official revenues and making their performance look better. The perfect calculation of the higher-level decision-makers was not hard to figure out if someone really put their mind to it.
The most crucial point was, wasn't it that official positions changed hands every few years? A new official would always want to make a significant impact early in their tenure, so seizing this opportunity to achieve multiple objectives was inevitable.
A genius? She, Gu Nuan, was certainly not the only one. Hadn't Changda acquired land there two years earlier?
Su Yixia shook herself off: They were just graduates, fresh out of school. Could they compare with the think tank of the wealthiest man?
At the time Changda acquired land in Zone N, it was very cheap because nobody wanted it. Now, Changda's investment, once looked down upon by others, was as shocking to everyone as Gu Nuan's predictions.
This clearly demonstrated that Changda's capabilities were extraordinary.
Su Yixia said, "Gu Nuan, no wonder you wanted to go to Changda with me. It turns out you and Changda were already perfectly in tune."
Perfectly in tune? Why did that phrase seem a bit eerie?
The car reached the county's bus station. Gu Nuan got off the car carrying her simple luggage.
From the bus station to her home, taking a taxi would cost dozens of yuan. Gu Nuan found a motorcycle taxi that locals were accustomed to taking. Riding a motorcycle home would be twice as fast as taking a bus, taking only about fifteen minutes to reach her house.
She had called home earlier to say she was coming back. When Gu Nuan arrived, both her parents were at home.
Occasionally, during school holidays, Gu Nuan would usually go home, so her parents didn't find their daughter's return particularly unusual or nostalgic. Instead, they asked her if she was planning on getting married and was coming home to prepare.
The Gu parents had no idea they had broken up. When asked, Gu Nuan, thinking that it was better to have short pain than long pain, spoke the truth straight away.
The outcome was as one could imagine.
The live fish that Gu's mother had specifically bought for her daughter was left in the sink, uncooked, for she had no appetite.
Defying the typical male stoicism, Gu's father nagged, "How could you have broken up? What, he didn't want you?"
Gu Nuan said, "Dad, everyone has their own aspirations, and besides, I'll surely find someone better than him in the future."
But that wasn't what upset Gu's parents.
"You can know a person's face but not their heart. How come we never saw that he was such an ingrate?!" Gu's mother finally couldn't contain herself and began to curse out loud.
Just as Gu Nuan thought, her parents had always treated Wa Zicong as their half-son. His sudden betrayal cut the Gu parents deeply, as if their own son had betrayed them.