Super God-Level Top Student

"Uh... this..."

"Alright, enough with this and that, this is a gentleman's agreement. Xu Dajiang, you scheme and calculate every day, if you can't even handle this, you might as well retire early. Don't let it get in the way of your meal, go about your business."

Chen Yuanzhi waved his hand, clearly shooing him away.

...

After leaving the administrative building of the university, Xu Dajiang felt more and more annoyed the more he thought about it.

This clearly wasn't right.

How did he get roped into this with just a few words?

Not only did he get the responsibility of a full-scale audit of the school's special research funds thrown at him, but he also had some inexplicable burden added?

What did they mean by accommodating his wishes?

If real problems were found, the credit would go to the leadership, and if no problems were found, was it Xu Dajiang from the School of Mathematics who personally requested it?

No, even if real problems were discovered, and others were involved, wouldn't that mean he had to take the blame?

Xu Dajiang's eyebrows twitched. He suspected that, in a few days, the whole school would be spreading stories about Xu Dajiang going to the principal to demand an audit of research funds.

He was tempted to turn back and have another chat with Chen Yuanzhi, but the difference in their statuses...

This damn...

A thousand-year-old fox indeed!

Fortunately, he wasn't ambitious anymore, or else he'd certainly have been doomed!

...

At the same time, Chen Yuanzhi stood by the window, watching Xu Dajiang leave the administrative building before picking up the phone and making a call.

"Secretary Zhou, hello... Yes, I've just had a talk with Xu Dajiang... Sigh, don't even mention it, he still doesn't understand, I don't know if he's eaten gunpowder, a fifty-year-old man with such a fiery temper. He slammed the table in my office and said if this matter isn't clarified, nobody will have peace."

"Hmm... what else is there to say? Of course, he needs to be criticized... I've already told him off, yes, his attitude has improved a bit. But who knows what he's really thinking? However, to be fair, Zhang does indeed have difficulties, with so many schools in the university, how can anyone distribute resources evenly?

At least I can understand that. But doing a comprehensive audit is also a form of protection for Zhang, right? It's the summer holiday; it won't affect work... What do you think?"

"Understood, okay, I'll make the arrangements... Yes, yes, don't worry, I'll have a good talk with Xu Dajiang afterward... Xu Dajiang's work ability and attitude should still be acknowledged... Right, we should let him focus on his primary duties, not spend his nights thinking about all sorts of underhanded tactics... Okay, let's leave it at that... Yes...

You also rest early, goodbye."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Yuanzhi raised his hand to rub his forehead.

Each day was like this... not a single person making things easy, really tiring!

...

"So, Su Mucheng, thank you."

"Haha, Tan, why be so formal? It's all good."

Outside the gate of Xilin University of Technology's Xiyuan Community, after dinner returning to the research group, Tan Jingrong happened to run into Su Mucheng and Chen Yiwen.

"Tan, don't bother being polite with her. The boss lady isn't short of money; coming to help me carry a bag of apples is the real deal... it's too heavy."

"Oh."

...

When the three of them returned to the lab, they saw that the box of papers Tan Jingrong had carried earlier was already placed on the meeting table, but Li Jian didn't start flipping through the papers—instead, he was busy in front of his laptop.

He still had to send a reply to the editorial department of "Pure and Applied Mathematics Communications," providing a proof that the paper from the University of Cologne didn't plagiarize their results.

Actually, Li Jian was also rather rueful.

To prove this point, putting two years of a research group's output into an open-source repository was not a small loss.

Now the paper was also temporarily retracted by the journal.

Why bother?

When he submitted that paper, he had told those editors that they'd better recognize the favor, and who would have thought it would become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

...

"Professor Li."

"Uncle Li, it's fruit time."

"Alright, why did you buy so much?"

"Thinking that Aunt Lu would come tomorrow, we just bought a bit more of everything. I'm going off to find Qiao Ze." Su Mucheng explained and then hopped off to the lab.

As expected, Qiao Ze was still sitting there.

Tan Jingrong wanted to talk with Li Jian about Zuo Jie, but seeing his mentor busy writing a letter, he felt the timing wasn't right, so he followed Su Mucheng to the lab, planning to continue working.

After all, the project hadn't officially been handed over to the Youwei Group, and the work at hand had to continue.

As Tan Jingrong opened the work interface, he overheard the two opposite discussing the project.

"My dad just mentioned he had something to ask you. I hope it's not interrupting?"

"No, it's fine."

"Hold on, let me check WeChat. The first thing is, the Youwei side asked if you could go to the Shencheng headquarters and give their technicians a few lessons, broadly introducing this framework and algorithm."

"I won't go, but I can write an instruction document."

"Alright."

"Also, we need to arrange a technical contact person on our side, Qiao Ze, whom do you think is suitable?"

"Tan Jingrong."

"Just what I was thinking, Tan is indeed suited for the job. But it requires being ONCALL; that shouldn't be an issue for Tan, right?"

"Ah? I have no problem with being the contact or ONCALL. But what if a real engineering problem arises that I can't solve?" Tan Jingrong quickly responded.

His heart was torn between joy and concern. Being the technical contact for Youwei Group would undoubtedly allow him to learn a lot; he just feared not being up to the task.

"No worries, there's always the work log. If there's an unsolvable issue, you can ask me any time, and I'll help you ask Qiao Ze."

"Uh... then I have no problem." Tan Jingrong