"Could it be that I arrived too early?" Professor Zheng murmured to himself.
Su Li had noticed the professor the moment he entered the door.
After all, his image was pervasive in various academic journals and magazines.
"Professor Zheng, over here..." Seeing the professor looking around and his gaze sweeping over where she was sitting several times without directly coming over.
Su Li then realized she hadn't revealed any information about herself to him, so it was obvious he didn't know what she looked like.
Professor Zheng looked around for quite a while until he suddenly heard a soft and tender voice calling out to him.
Lifting his gaze, he saw a young girl, not very old, with delicate features.
She was dressed simply, her black eyes bright and clear, exuding a kind of spiritual energy.
At first sight, Professor Zheng took quite a liking to this young girl.
After sweeping his gaze over the café again and looking outside the door, his intended meeting partner still hadn't appeared. So when someone called out to him before the meeting, Professor Zheng walked over with his hands behind his back.
"Do you need me for something?"
Su Li stood up respectfully and gestured toward the seat opposite her with an inviting hand.
"Hello, Professor, I'm the student who arranged to meet with you today..."
Professor Zheng chuckled, his face beaming with kindness, "Ha, you're saying you're the student who arranged to meet with me? Young lady, have you graduated from high school?"
Clearly, Su Li's appearance had no persuasive power for Professor Zheng.
Being able to keep up with his thinking and engage in deep discussions on a biological project was something not many graduate students at Jing University's entire research institute could achieve.
So he had always been uncertain about the identity of this exceptional student.
A young girl like the one in front of him, don't make him laugh...
Su Li wasn't annoyed; she smiled and handed over the thesis materials she had organized in advance to him.
"Professor, these are some of my recent new ideas. Would you take a look?"
Though Professor Zheng still didn't believe, he took them out of politeness.
He even suspected this could be a prank targeting him.
But as his eyes scanned the materials Su Li had passed over, the more he read, the wider his eyes opened.
Then he sat down directly in the booth, took out the pen he carried, put on his glasses, and started to ponder over the text, word by word.
This material went deeper than what they had discussed before, even predicting some difficulties that would arise in the future and provided detailed solutions.
Su Li quietly held her glass of boiled water, slowly waiting for him to flip through the pages.
Professor Zheng, while looking at them, eventually began to make calculations directly on the table.
One hour, two hours passed...
Finally, Professor Zheng took a deep breath, his gaze turning toward the young woman opposite him, his eyes filled with complexity.
"Did you really do all this?" Professor Zheng still had doubts, as Su Li's young age was quite deceiving.
Su Li smiled lightly, "Regarding the biological model we discussed earlier, I thought about it again just now and feel that there are a few more appropriate methods for improvement."
Su Li did not directly answer Professor Zheng's question but instead shared the thoughts she had during the waiting time for discussion.
Now, Professor Zheng couldn't help but believe.
Complexity filled Professor Zheng's eyes, and his facial expression was hard to describe in words.
It was truly unbelievable, such a young girl had outperformed all the proud talents of Jing University's entire Biology department.
Not until this moment had Professor Zheng finally realized that the girl was not from his own school, but rather a student from that famously gilded university in the Capital City.
The look he gave Su Li was shining, as if to say, you must be really out of your mind....
"I'm in great need of money.... Shenghua University just happens to meet my needs..."
Professor Zheng, "Jing University's research funds are especially ample, money is a minor issue..."
Such a promising seedling right before him, Professor Zheng really couldn't convince himself to give up.
Although he was engrossed in academic research, he was not a complete fool, he could even be considered shrewd.
The young girl seeking him out was definitely not here for a simple academic discussion.
He took a sip of water and quietly awaited what she had to say next.
Both individuals present were clever, and Su Li had never hidden her intentions.
Su Li, "Professor, I would like to transfer to your field, do you think it's possible?"
"But I'm only a freshman now, and my major is in finance and economics, so it might be a bit difficult to operate."
Professor Zheng almost spit out his water, utterly disheartened.
A freshman studying finance and economics had outperformed all of his own students.
It was incredibly infuriating....
Of course, his anger was not directed at Su Li, but rather at those clueless students who were about to become Su Li's senior fellow students.
"Then you prepare yourself recently, it just so happens my project is at its most critical time, you can come to the lab and be my assistant."
Professor Zheng spoke lightly of his decision, seemingly unconcerned about the trouble of transferring schools and majors for Su Li.
Su Li wasn't surprised either, as she understood that besides being a doctoral supervisor at Jing University, it seemed that the connections behind him were also not small.
That was her primary reason for choosing him directly.
A pure scholar, simply had no way to protect her under the pressure of those few at Shenghua University.
Su Li saw very clearly that even if she would not lose herself as easily as the original body, those rich and noble students would still not let her off easily.
They would only become more annoyed, and then intensify their efforts....
At this moment, Professor Zheng smiled at Su Li as tenderly and kindly as ever, but once he turned back to the college and faced those students, he was as harsh and merciless as ever.
Feeling the iron-like strictness of the professor, the trembling students couldn't find any reason to endure all this, and attributed everything to Professor Zheng's monthly hormonal imbalance.
Just like a woman's monthly cycle.
But what they didn't expect was that this increasingly strict attitude, with the enrollment of a girl, became more and more severe, and even turned into a nightmare in their academic careers.
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After parting with Professor Zheng, Su Li had just returned to the hostel of Shenghua University when she was blocked by Xia Zhilan in the hostel's common lounge.
"Su Li, what have you been doing recently? You've been disappearing all the time, and you're not playing with me anymore?" Xia Lanzi put on a face full of grievance.
She blinked her eyes, waiting for an apology from Su Li.
Although she didn't need it, Su Li would always awkwardly and dumbly apologize to her whenever she feigned grievance, and tried to comfort her.
It gave Xia Zhilan the pleasure of feeling control over someone else.
Such a fool was so easy to deceive.
Su Li glanced up at her, sidestepped past Xia Zhilan, and asked coldly, "I'm very busy, don't bother me."