Xu Yi didn't want to argue with her about this nonsense. He turned on the tap and rinsed the test tube before calmly saying, "Since it wasn't mentioned, it's just wordplay. Let's wait and see."
Xue Zhu's restless heart calmed down for no reason upon seeing him throwing himself into the next set of data collection.
She didn't know if Xu Yi was right. After some hesitation, she went to the cabinet and grabbed her cell phone before sending a message to Qiao Nian.
——[Are you alright?]
There was no response even after she waited for some time.
Xue Zhu couldn't sit still and found an excuse to see if the dean had returned.
* * *
In fact, Qiao Nian had been so busy these past two days that she had no time to care about the boring gossip in the First Research Institute.
Since she had decided to help the Ji family through its most difficult time, she had to take action.
