Chapter 596: To Promote Rong Ci

Everyone also began speculating that Nan Zhizhi’s participation in the award ceremony this time was because of Rong Ci.

Otherwise, why would Nan Zhizhi, who almost never attended such events, suddenly show up this time?

【It seems Rong Ci is highly valued by Academician Nan.】

【Of course she is—I heard Academician Nan will personally mentor her.】

【With a genius boyfriend like Yu Moxun and Academician Nan as her mentor, holy hell, how lucky is Rong Ci? With this insane setup, I wouldn’t be surprised if she publishes even more papers from now on.】

【Exactly—I’m so jealous. But come to think of it, I’ve always found it strange: why are all the papers published under Rong Ci’s name? Where’s Yu Zong’s? Logically, Yu Zong is Academician Nan’s student.】

【Yes, yes, I feel the same—it’s totally unreasonable! It can’t be that Yu Zong has already made a name for himself and doesn’t need papers to prove himself, right?】

【Um, could it be that Rong Ci isn’t actually that talented, and Yu Moxun is just promoting his girlfriend… you know what I mean?】

This netizen likely meant that Rong Ci’s published papers weren’t actually written by her—Yu Moxun was the real author, and he published them under her name to promote her.

Paper fraud can be serious or trivial, but due to the suspicions, many insiders online specifically observed Rong Ci—and all concluded she truly had real ability.

But having real ability doesn’t prove the papers were written by her herself; after all, if Rong Ci had zero talent, Yu Moxun and the others wouldn’t have taken the risk.

Besides, as many netizens said, even if Rong Ci had no talent at all, after being with Yu Moxun for so long and being mentored by someone like Nan Zhizhi, even a pig would pick up a few scraps.

Suddenly, discussion around this topic surged.

Rong Ci rarely went online and didn’t know about these online discussions about her.

Yu Moxun occasionally browsed the web and did see some netizens’ comments.

He told her.

But neither he nor Rong Ci paid much attention to these things—they were both busy with their own work.

The next day, she, Yu Moxun, Gu Yan, and several engineers from the company attended the Global Artificial Intelligence Technology Conference.

This grand event focused on cutting-edge technical and academic frontiers, covering embodied intelligence, large models, and more—all of which deeply interested Rong Ci and Yu Moxun.

Many corporations and scholars would attend this conference.

Rong Ci and the others arrived neither early nor late.

When they arrived, the venue was already bustling; just greeting people kept Rong Ci and Yu Moxun busy for a long time.

But after they finished chatting and were about to rest, they spotted Lin Wu and Feng Tingshen.

Seeing them wasn’t surprising—but one of their engineers noticed a familiar face among them: “Qiu Yu?”

Rong Ci and Yu Moxun both paused.

Rong Ci, noticing Yu Moxun’s unusual expression, followed his gaze and saw someone vaguely familiar: “Who is he…?”

“Ye Qiuyu,” Yu Moxun leaned close to her ear and whispered: “The year you returned to the company, Lin Wu…”

He didn’t finish—he saw the look on Rong Ci’s face and knew she remembered.

Rong Ci indeed remembered.

Ye Qiuyu also noticed them.