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Xu Shujie waved her hand. She had met Ji Mulan before – a bit arrogant, but lacking in scheming and life experience.

“I won’t go,” she said dismissively about the Ji family, then lowered her voice: “I heard that Chen family is entering the pharmaceutical industry. They’re new to this field, so there are more opportunities.”

Xu Wenyao paused briefly when he heard about the Chen family.

After saying goodbye to Xu Shujie, he went upstairs. Xu Shujie got in her car and told the driver to drive to the intersection ahead.

A black Hongqi car overtook them, with all surrounding vehicles keeping a two-meter distance from it.

In the backseat, Xu Shujie stared at the car in shock. “How could this license plate appear in Yunxiao district?”

At Yunxiao Hotel.

As soon as the car stopped, the valet rushed forward and opened the door for Bailian before she could react.

Bailian casually unbuckled her seatbelt, thinking that Young Master Jiang’s aura was becoming increasingly powerful, making other cars give way even from a distance.

She was completely unaware of the significance of the car and its license plate. “Thank you,” she said to the valet.

The valet, seeing her beautiful face in such an impressive car and still being so polite, quickly shook his head, having never encountered someone like her before.

Young Master Jiang silently watched her leave. He had no choice but to return to Boyuan Base to tutor those two unknown individuals.

Upstairs, in a private room.

Ji Mulan, seeing Xu Wenyao arrive despite being so busy, couldn’t help feeling annoyed at Bailian’s absence.

Especially since Ji Heng and Xu En had arrived at 4 o’clock.

When Bailian finally arrived, Ji Mulan couldn’t help but open the door and speak in a low voice: “Where have you been, making them wait so long? Couldn’t you sightsee in Jiangjiang another day?”

“Go ahead, call the police,” Bailian glanced at her.

Then she walked past Ji Mulan into the room.

Ji Mulan was left speechless.

Ji Heng and Xu En, who were standing by the floor-to-ceiling windows, turned to sit at the table when they heard Bailian arrive.

Neither of them minded waiting for Bailian, knowing she was studying. Xu En particularly thought Bailian had been at the library.

“Why didn’t Shuqiong come?” Xu En looked at Xu Wenyao.

Qi Shuqiong was the girlfriend the old lady had introduced to Xu Wenyao long ago. They had been in the same class since middle school, and the old lady herself liked her very much.

“She didn’t have time,” Xu Wenyao looked up.

Xu En nodded and didn’t ask further.

The Xu family butler stood to the side, refilling everyone’s drinks. Hearing this, he lowered his eyes. How could the old lady let Miss Qi meet these people?

As they talked, Bailian didn’t participate.

She just ate while looking at her phone, which showed a message from He Wen:

He Wen: [Big shot! Thank you so much!!]

Bailian: [1]

He Wen: [Why don’t you want to be the first author?]

This was about He Wen’s paper to be published. He was good at physics and math, but few in the lab could match his level in mathematics.

This paper touched on quantum mechanics, and Jiang Fuli had shown it to Dean Ma from the start.

The subsequent description of entangled states required establishing a particle wave model Boltzmann equation…

It needed strong mathematical skills, so Jiang Fuli recommended Bailian to He Wen.

Later, Bailian helped him establish the model. Only then did He Wen realize that the person Jiang Fuli recommended wasn’t an ordinary genius. She had solved a problem that had troubled him for a long time, and he wanted to make Bailian the first author.

Bailian had asked Jiang Fuli about the meaning of first author, and didn’t feel she had contributed that much to He Wen’s paper.

So she only let him put her as the second author.

He Wen couldn’t understand this.

Bailian: [Shut up]

She was direct.

He Wen: [Okay.]

After He Wen finished, the group chat with Tang Ming, Ning Xiao, and the others lit up.

Tang Ming: [Brother Jiang is in a really bad mood today]

Tang Ming: [Sis, when are you coming back]

Tang Ming: [(Crying face) (Crying face) (Crying face)]

Bailian: […Just be smarter]

Beside her, the others were chatting casually. The Xu family butler noticed Bailian was always on her phone.

Ji Mulan noticed too. She wanted to say “Don’t play with your phone while eating.”

But she was afraid Bailian would say “I’ll play” in front of everyone.

She didn’t dare say it out loud.

“Do you want to go see Jiangjiang University?” Xu Wenyao was sitting next to Bailian and talked to her. “I’m going back to school later, I can take you along.”

The Xu family butler heard this and glanced at Bailian.

He had anticipated this and wasn’t surprised. He just frowned slightly, thinking like Xu Shujie that Xu Wenyao was wasting too much time on this family.

Bailian put her phone on the table and lowered her eyelashes: “Not for now.”

She said “not for now.”

Xu Wenyao was stunned, then smiled: “Alright, just let me know when you want to go. You have my number.”

Bailian stayed with Shen Qing at Yunxiao Hotel and only returned to Boyuan Base early the next morning.

To do today’s C paper.

The difficulty of the C paper was set. Bailian had figured it out in those three hours yesterday afternoon. She took a pen and wrote down the process on blank paper.

Early the next morning, she went downstairs. She got up early, but Jiang Fuli was even earlier.

After Bailian got in the car, remembering what Tang Ming said last night about Young Master Jiang being in a bad mood, she couldn’t help but look at him again. His eyes were cold and aloof, but she couldn’t see any difference from usual.

Jiang Fuli slowly drove onto the main road and raised an eyebrow at her.

As if asking why.

“It’s nothing,” Bailian turned on the Bluetooth and connected to the speakers.

The car slowly started playing English short passages.

When they arrived at Boyuan Base, it wasn’t even 7 o’clock yet.

Bailian went straight to the lecture hall. Although it was still early before 8 o’clock, most people in the lecture hall had already arrived. Bailian was considered relatively late.

This study atmosphere put extra pressure on people from the other four major cities.

Except for Ning Xiao and Tang Ming.

As soon as Bailian arrived, Ning Xiao and Tang Ming gave up their inside seats and introduced the others to Bailian, “These are all classmates from the four major cities. This is Pei Qin, this is Song Min…”

Boyuan Base didn’t use a grading system, but there would be an academic presentation and project. Generally, only groups of five or more could research something substantial.

Local students from Jiangjiang naturally stuck together and wouldn’t team up with outsiders. Every year, people from the four major cities would automatically form a team, and this year was no exception.

Song Min sat calmly in front of Tang Ming, not talking to Bailian.

The two acted as if they didn’t know each other.

“I’m good at number theory,” a boy with a crew cut raised his hand, “I can be responsible for the number theory part.”

“Pei Qin, mainly researches fluid physics in competitions,” Pei Qin spoke up. He didn’t talk much.

Everyone started introducing their specialties and roles in the team.

These people had participated in many similar activities and found these arrangements very reasonable.

“Physics.” Ning Xiao.

“Mathematics.” Tang Ming.

Finally, it was the turn of the only girl in this group. Bailian sat down, took off her coat, and said, “I study everything.”

Usually, people have a specialty, but Bailian was currently studying both math and physics, so she compromised.

The others were stunned. In fact, these people had all heard of each other. Pei Qin, Song Min, and others were famous geniuses in their respective provinces and cities, each with their own specialties.

Only Bailian and her two friends were unknown to the others.

Studying everything meant she wasn’t particularly outstanding in any area.

However, the other boys didn’t have high expectations for the only girl.

Song Min just frowned and looked at Bailian.

“Hey—” the crew cut boy smiled, he was as lively as Tang Ming, “Do you know who’s coming to give us a lecture today?”

Bailian lowered her head and continued reading.

The others were very curious, “Who?”

“Gao Jiazhen, Dr. Gao,” the crew cut boy said mysteriously, “My aunt’s husband told me, surname Gao.”

Those who could be here, besides having strong personal abilities, also had certain family backgrounds. After all, not everyone could be a recommender. So these people knew a lot of things.

Ning Xiao and Tang Ming didn’t understand the situation in Jiangjiang, so they didn’t say anything, just quietly listened to the explanation.

“Dr. Gao?” Song Min raised his head in shock, apparently having heard of him.

“Yes, the genius almost on par with senior He Wen,” Pei Qin also spoke up, “You know He Wen, right? The elite student from Jiangjiang University. I heard he’s now in that lab…”

These people were being very mysterious.

This made Ning Xiao and Tang Ming curious too. Xiangcheng was almost isolated from the world, so they had far less information than these people.

Hearing He Wen’s name.

Bailian was stunned for a moment. She looked up.

This female classmate looked lazy, but always gave people a feeling of being hard to approach. Seeing her finally interested, the crew cut boy proudly said, “Yes, He Wen, he’s from Xicheng, got into Jiangjiang University on his own merit…”

He talked on and on.

Bailian was very surprised, “Is he that amazing?”

The crew cut boy: “…”

As they were talking, someone in front suddenly turned around and looked at this group sarcastically, “What Xicheng? Senior He Wen is clearly from our affiliated middle school. And stop evaluating Senior He Wen, he’s not someone you can casually judge. What are you people dreaming about? As for whether he’s amazing or not, that’s not for you to speculate. When you become elite students of Jiangjiang University and have your names engraved on the stone behind the statue of famous people, then you can talk.”

Jiangjiang University had existed for a long time. The founder of Jiangjiang University, Liang Zewen, led the way, followed by his disciple Bai Xiangjun, and then all the talented famous people from ancient times.

Behind the statue was a huge stone where the names of elite students from Jiangjiang University could be engraved.

This was the dream of everyone who got into Jiangjiang University.

But it was extremely difficult to have one’s name placed alongside the famous people’s statue. There might not even be one new student in a year who achieved this.

Most of the new names engraved were children of some academic families, while He Wen was the only typical example of someone from a humble background who achieved great success.

Those in academic research greatly admired geniuses.

He Wen’s inspiring story made him have many fans in the academic world.

“Stop talking,” Tang Ming signaled the crew cut boy and Bailian to stop continuing.

Bailian frowned and looked at the person who spoke.

“Calm down,” Tang Ming’s mind rang an alarm bell, and he quickly grabbed Bailian’s arm.

Harmony, democracy, civilization, rule of law…

Bailian withdrew her gaze.

The phone on the table lit up.

She looked at it.

Dean Ma: [[Location]]

Dean Ma: [What a coincidence, I was shopping and ended up at Boyuan Base]