Chapter 83: A hidden big shot?

Ke Zhongying took her phone away.

"Wait." Ke Zhongyu took her phone back, zoomed in, and it was indeed "Jiang Lai."

He turned his head to look at the woman sitting quietly in the office, his eyes deep.

"What's wrong?" Ke Zhongying snatched her phone back and also saw the paper author's name was Jiang Lai.

Jiang Lai...

Jiang Lai?

Jiang Lai!

Ke Zhongying's expression changed again and again, and she also looked up.

"This, this, this..." She stammered for a moment, "Same name?"

"Don't know." Ke Zhongyu wasn't sure either. He asked Ke Zhongying, "Where did the paper come from? Which journal?"

"Didn't I just tell you? The old man sent it to me. You told me to wait on the crystal core thing, I couldn't wait, wanted to study it myself, but failed, so the old man found me a paper, published in NSC."

NSC, almost the ceiling of top journals recognized by all scientific research fields.

After Ke Zhongying finished speaking, her body swayed along with it.

"So actually, Sister Jiang Lai is... a hidden big shot?"

After saying this, her eyes lit up.

Ke Zhongyu instigated her: "Go ask."

"Why don't you go ask?" Ke Zhongying retorted.

Ke Zhongyu slanted a glance at her: "Don't you want to know?"

"I do."

In the end, Ke Zhongying was defeated, and with huge curiosity, she came to Jiang Lai, obediently pulled up a chair and sat down, opening her blinking eyes.

Jiang Lai had seen a similar expression on Shen Xi before, but there was no cunning in Ke Zhongying's eyes; it was purely asking her to do something.

"Mm? What's wrong?" Jiang Lai leaned back in her chair and watched her quietly.

Ke Zhongying took out her phone, the interface stopped at the paper title and author, and she pushed it gently to Jiang Lai with her finger.

Jiang Lai knew it was the papers she had published one after another in recent years as soon as she saw the title. A flash of surprise passed through her slightly lowered eyes, but it vanished in an instant.

"This person has the same name as me." She calmly reached out and pointed at the phone.

Jiang Lai's nature was cold, her emotional fluctuations were few, and coupled with her deliberate concealment, Ke Zhongying couldn't see any clues at all.

But she was a bit unwilling to give up.

"Is it really not you? Sister Jiang Lai."

Jiang Lai opened her phone, searched for national same-name queries, and entered her name.

The interface showed that the number of people with the same name in the country was 629, with women accounting for 63.1% and men 36.9%.

Ke Zhongying immediately shifted the blame: "I said it was the same name, my brother insisted on me coming to ask you."

Jiang Lai raised her eyes in surprise: "He told you to ask?"

"Mm-mm." Ke Zhongying nodded.

If it was just Ke Zhongying asking, the previous reason could cover it up, but if it was Ke Zhongyu, it would be different, after all, the direction was a bit obvious.

Ke Zhongyu clearly knew that the project the Ke Clan was bidding for now was the project her mentor had left behind.

A bit difficult to handle.

Ke Zhongying was already sending a message to her brother.

【Not Sister Jiang Lai, just same name.】

She didn't hide it from Jiang Lai, and Jiang Lai saw it clearly. The other side quickly replied with an "Mm."

Didn't ask again.

Didn't know if he believed it or not.

Jiang Lai looked at her phone. Ke Zhongyu didn't come to ask her, whether he believed it or not, at least he didn't mean to get to the bottom of it.

She lowered her brows.

Continued working.

Others didn't disturb her, but Shen Xun's messages were one after another, making Jiang Lai's eyes hurt, so she simply set him to "Do Not Disturb."

When she went out after work, she saw Shen Xun waiting for her downstairs at the Ke Clan again. She dodged through the crowd, returned to the lobby, and went out through another door.

When Shen Xun called again, she said she had arrived at her mentor's house. By the time Shen Xun rushed to Cui Zhai, Shen Xun's car couldn't get in.

He slapped the steering wheel angrily.

Sent a message.

【Jiang Lai, do you have to be like this?】

【When will your anger subside?】

【Can you see me once your anger subsides?】

Jiang Lai was afraid he would continue to pester her, so she replied with a "Yes," which finally made Shen Xun stop.

Shen Xun hadn't been home recently and had also deducted Shen Xi's pocket money, to the point that Shen's father and mother had to call Jiang Lai to scold her, asking what exactly she wanted before she would stop.

On the other side, the lawyer also told her that without a complete chain of evidence, the probability of successfully suing Shen Xi was not high, and the only benefit of dragging it out was probably to disgust the Shen family.

Jiang Lai asked for Ke Zhongying's opinion.

Ke Zhongying said: "Disgusting her is also good, disgust her for a few more days, and then let Shen Xi come and kowtow to apologize to you."

"Kowtow?" Jiang Lai shook her head, "Unrealistic, Shen Xi would rather die than surrender."

"I was just using a metaphor." Ke Zhongying's eyes rolled, "The day you let her come to apologize to you, I have a way to vent your anger for you, leave it to me!"

"Okay." Jiang Lai smiled faintly and said to her, "Tomorrow is the weekend, I want to invite your brother to dinner, are you coming?"

"Can I come?" Ke Zhongying of course wanted to go! She immediately took out her phone, "I'll ask my brother."

The message was sent, and she received a big rejection.

【No.】

Ke Zhongying nudged her with her elbow: "Why don't you ask? Maybe my brother will change his mind."

Jiang Lai was half-believing, and after sending the message, she received the same three words: No.

Ke Zhongying pouted.

It seemed there was no way.

Her brother wanted to have a world for two with Sister Jiang Lai, understood, understood.

"What groceries do you want to buy? I'll have someone send them directly to you, so you don't have to run to the supermarket yourself. It's tiring to carry things alone, and it's far from the supermarket here. You don't have a car, although I also want to drive to pick you up personally, but I get angry when I think there's no share for me!"

Jiang Lai nodded and said: "Okay, I'll list what I want to buy for you, but you have to accept the money for the vegetables."

"Got it, got it." Ke Zhongying nodded and looked around, "I said before to let you live in my house, you didn't want to, now you're living in someone else's, angry."

"Then how can I make you stop being angry?" Jiang Lai seemed to be coaxing a child back in the orphanage.

Ke Zhongying hugged her arm: "I'll live here with you tonight!"

Jiang Lai nodded.

She was of course happy to.

Ke Zhongying was happy, then continued: "Actually, I don't have any particularly close friends. Girls born in families like ours mostly take the art path, few inherit the family business to become female CEOs, and few bury their heads in the lab doing research, and doing research is really busy."

"Mm." Jiang Lai knew.

She had never had friends, one was that her personality was indeed not enthusiastic and outgoing, and the other was that she was really busy.

"Although everyone always sees each other at various evening parties and activities, they just exchange a few pleasantries and don't talk deeply. There are many people who want to be good friends with me, but I... am not happy." Ke Zhongying also spoke relatively euphemistically; in reality, most of the girls who wanted to be friends with her were just sucking up.

At night, the two girls lay together and chatted for a long time.

Early the next morning.

Jiang Lai received a check-in photo sent by Luo Jiaai.

【Already swiped card to attend class.】

At the same time.

Shen Xun also received a reminder text message.

He tidied himself up, intending to wait for Jiang Lai to finish class. ===== CHAPTER 84 =====