I am devoted to scientific research, but you want to trick me into having a love relationship?

Chapter 633 People's joys and sorrows are not the same

Xishan No. 1 Courtyard.

At 8 p.m., the moon was exceptionally bright, its milky light spilling onto the snow, adding a touch of gentleness and tranquility to the cold winter night.

Xu Qingzhou pushed open the door wearily, breathed on his hands, and returned to a familiar environment, always bringing an unprecedented sense of relaxation.

Song Yao was not in the living room; only the little good-for-nothing Er Miao was patrolling his territory. He went upstairs and saw Song Yao writing a thesis in the study.

Song, the school beauty, had already changed into her pajamas. Her face was charming and her skin was fair and cool. Even without makeup, she was still fair and beautiful. A few strands of hair on her forehead swayed in the wind, but she quickly tucked them behind her ears with her hand.

Seemingly sensing that someone was watching her, Song Yao looked up.

Xu Qingzhou leaned against the doorframe and asked with a smile, "Want to take a shower together?"

"Do not want to."

The other party has ruthlessly rejected your invitation.

Xu Qingzhou shrugged, turned around, grabbed some clean clothes, and went into the bathroom.

After taking a hot shower, most of my fatigue disappeared. Too lazy to go to the living room, I went back to the study, sprawled out on the sofa, and took out my phone to check the online situation for the day.

As predicted, the internet was abuzz with discussion and debate.

The hype wouldn't have been that high originally, since no reporters were hired to do a special report, and the research institute's official Weibo account only had a few hundred thousand followers.

He doesn't need to rely on hype to attract investment, unlike some institutions that hold press conferences every now and then, spending all their money on reporters' travel expenses.

However, the official announcement was forwarded.

"I've bought my plane ticket home for Chinese New Year. I'll be home on January 23rd."

After typing for a while, Song Yao moved from her chair to the sofa next door, snuggled up to Xu Qingzhou, and planned to rest for a bit while hugging the human-shaped pillow.

"The 23rd. Hmm, the Lunar New Year is in January, earlier than last year."

Xu Qingzhou pulled the girl into his arms, saying, "Distance makes the heart grow fonder. If I stay home too long, Ms. Wang will start to dislike me."

“It’s because I dislike you, not because I dislike myself,” Song Yao retorted.

"It's just a superficial mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship."

Ms. Wang and Song, the school beauty, are already veteran actresses.

"Tch, you're just jealous."

"With the successful announcement of superconducting thin films, the real busy period is about various collaborations, purchasing equipment, and building production lines. How much money do we have left in our accounts?"

"15."

"Is this all left?"

"Too much? You don't know how expensive life is until you're in charge. The researchers' salaries and experimental material consumption are already 2 million a month. If you buy equipment or something, it will be in the hundreds of millions."

"In addition to these, there is also the depreciation of large equipment, such as magnetron sputtering machines and aberration electron microscopes, which amount to 500 million to 800 million yuan per year."

"Stop."

Xu Qingzhou sighed, twirling Song Yao's hair with his fingers, and said, "I'm still better suited to being a hands-off manager; these numbers give me a headache."

Doing experiments is a money pit.

Especially for battery-related experiments, the funding required for a typical university laboratory ranges from about $10 to $100 million, while national-level projects can reach millions to tens of millions of dollars.

In China, CATL's R&D expenses in 2020 amounted to 35.69 billion yuan. That means that more than 1 million yuan was invested in R&D every month, not including the cost of building the factory.

"What would you do without me?"

Song Yao leaned against Xu Qingzhou's chest, a pleasant, fresh scent wafting from under her pajamas.

Hey~
The phone on the table beeped with a message notification.

Xu Qingzhou reached out and took it, glanced at it, and said, "GE Zakaria's email is probably related to our superconducting thin film."

He put down his phone and decided to reply to Zakaria's formal email the next day.

Purchasing the technology as we did last time is impossible, but there might be other collaborations.

"The Ministry of Science and Technology of Xia Guo is also in contact with us, planning to form a negotiation team in advance. We will inevitably have to deal with foreigners in the near future."

Song Yao said with her eyes closed.

Xu Qingzhou nodded, his gaze lowered to the girl in his arms, and he said in a deep voice, "I've thought of something more important."

"Hmm?" Creak~
Two cats, who were passing by the study door, were attracted by the strange noises inside. They turned around and saw the two-legged creatures pressed together.

Foolish two-legged creatures.

Er Miao meowed disdainfully twice and walked gracefully toward the living room.

"You are going to die."

Song Yao reached out and pushed away the boy who was pressing down on her.

"Do you remember when I told you this morning that you almost ruined your reputation?"

"You forgot to wipe it yourself!"

Song Yao pouted, her hands held captive by Xu Qingzhou, unable to move. She could only feign weakness, saying, "Xu Qingzhou~ I'm not feeling well~"

"No, I have to leave you something."

"You were born in the Year of the Dog!"

Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany, Europe.

In the battery research team's office, looking at the news on Twitter, researcher Carlton had a strange expression. "Jc value .5.0×10A/cm, man, is that even possible?"

Do you think they needed to lie?

Floyd shrugged, a look of admiration on his face, realizing that this Xia Guoren could not be judged by common sense.

Normally, the patents on batteries alone would exhaust a research institute's resources, making it impossible to conduct any other experiments. But Xu Qingzhou completely defied the rules.

Every breakthrough will inevitably trigger a chain reaction in the industrial chain, and many industries will undergo transformation.

The future is going to be exciting.

Whether it's controlled nuclear fusion, electricity, or medicine, all of these fields can be related to superconducting thin films.

He sighed and continued:
"Okay, I take back what I said last time. Luckily, Fleck joined Professor Harvey's lithium dendrite team, otherwise, this guy would definitely be depressed."

Two months ago, he remarked that Fleck should go back to continue his research on superconducting thin films.

but now.
It's unimaginable what would happen if they were hit again.

Carlton nodded in agreement, unsure whether to call Fleck lucky or unlucky.

I'd say I was lucky; I met Xu Qingzhou when I was working on superconducting thin films, and later I met Xu Qingzhou again when I was working on batteries.

Unfortunately, they managed to avoid Xu Qingzhou again.

"The worst off should be Maxwell's team, who were sniped by Xu Qingzhou again."

As the two were reminiscing, the middle-aged man walked in with a smile.

"Hi, Fleck."

Carlton waved and greeted him.

"Hi, it's great to have you both here. I've made a reservation at the Jazz Bar, I definitely have to go for a drink tonight!"

"my pleasure."

Inside a villa in Kyoto.

The old man stared wide-eyed at his son standing in front of him, as if he had seen a ghost, while the middle-aged woman also looked puzzled.

"Dad, Mom, are you surprised?"

Li Yi chuckled.

"Why are you here?"

"I resigned and returned to China."

"."

The old man's gaze darkened. He recalled for a moment and noticed the unusual behavior during the phone calls over the past few months. "You mean, you went back to China last year?"

"Yes, Dad, what are you doing? We were talking fine, why are you pulling out his belt? Mom, stop Dad!"

"You little brat, I knew something was off about you a long time ago. You're up to no good, aren't you!"

"Wait, take a look at this first!"

(End of this chapter)