My Ironclad System is ahead of schedule.

Hmm? Could they be enemies?

Su Chang instinctively wanted to swing her fist to knock the thing down. But just as she raised her arm, she felt a hand press down on her.

"Hey, hey, hey, don't touch it! I spent all night working on this, don't break it!"

Ji Yuan's voice rang in Su Chang's ears.

"what?"

At that moment, Su Chang clearly saw what was flying towards her. Green leaves and branches—it was some kind of plant. But why did this plant have a pair of wings?

Watching those tiny wings flap back and forth, making the plant fly in mid-air, Su Chang wondered if she was still half asleep.

"I must still be dreaming, I must still be dreaming."

She quickly rubbed her eyes.

When I opened my eyes again, the plant was still flying around in front of me.

Su Chang quickly turned her head to look and saw that her brother's eyes were full of exhaustion and even bloodshot, but his eyes were full of pride when he looked at her.

Su Chang stammered as she asked Ji Yuan, "What... what's going on?"

"These are the results of my experiment, look."

Ji Yuan beckoned, and the fern flew to the back of his hand and began to twine around it.

Su Chang's eyes widened, and she shouted in disbelief, "Didn't you give up? I saw you sleeping all day yesterday... Ouch, why did you hit me!?"

I was halfway through my sentence when I felt Ji Yuan tap me on the head.

"You dare to secretly spy on your brother? And you said I went to sleep? Do you think I'm like you? I was meditating, thinking about the content of the article."

"You're meditating, so why am I sleeping?"

Su Chang retorted softly.

Ji Yuan said to Su Chang, word by word, "I closed my eyes and created new life. When you closed your eyes, all you got was a new nickname from your teacher."

Su Chang was so angry that her fists were itching to punch him, but she couldn't win an argument with her brother, nor could she beat him in a fight, and the truth wasn't on her side, so she could only lower her head dejectedly.

"So from now on, follow your brother and study hard. Also, don't you dare have any early romances! I'm going to see Ms. Ruan Mei now, remember to study hard."

Ji Yuan hadn't forgotten to remind Su Chang not to start dating too early.

Su Chang looked at Ji Yuan with dissatisfaction.

You won't let me date early? What's going on between you and Sister Tingyun? It's like you're allowed to do *that* and set fires, but not *that* and *that*!

Wait a minute, I never intended to be in a relationship!

Watching Ji Yuan's departing figure, Su Chang gritted her teeth in anger.

Just as she was about to stomp her foot, she heard Huo Huo say behind her, "Sister Su Chang, what's wrong with you?"

"Hmph, my brother mocked me. That guy, he was clearly studying, but he pretended to be sleeping. Then just now, he conjured up a flying plant for me. It was so infuriating!" Su Chang said angrily, watching Ji Yuan's departing figure.

"Ok?"

Upon hearing what Su Chang said about what Ji Yuan had done, Huo Huo tilted her head, not quite understanding.

However, she seemed to understand one thing.

My teacher wasn't sleeping; he actually produced something truly remarkable.

Upon hearing this, Huo Huo immediately straightened her small chest.

As expected of a teacher, that's truly remarkable.

……

Ji Yuan arrived at Ruan Mei's guest room. Before he even reached the door, he saw her. At that moment, Ruan Mei was looking at the starry sky through a glass partition in the corridor. Hearing Ji Yuan's footsteps approaching, she turned to look at him.

First, I noticed his bloodshot eyes, messy hair, and the pile of books he was holding in his right hand.

This is what she gave to Ji Yuan yesterday, and she wants to return it today. Does this mean he's giving up?

Well, it's smart of me to give up after looking at it all night without figuring it out.

Ruan Mei thought to herself.

However, that thought vanished in an instant.

She saw the flying fern on Ji Yuan's arm.

Her keen eye naturally told her that this was a newly trained trainee.

This strange creation was recorded in the study materials she gave Ji Yuan yesterday. And yet, such a creation had actually appeared in Ji Yuan's hands.

Ji Yuan handed the fern to Ruan Mei and said to her, "Ms. Ruan Mei, I understand what you gave me yesterday. Look, this is a creature I created. Please take a look."

Ruan Mei reached out and took the fern in her hand, her eyes showing surprise as she looked at Ji Yuan.

This was the first time Ji Yuan had seen genuine emotion in Ruan Mei, rather than the pretense she had shown before.

Ruan Mei said to Ji Yuan calmly, "Hmm, this is indeed a very good creation. Have you really not studied any books on life sciences before?"

As she said this, she quickly gestured across Ji Yuan's neck. Ji Yuan had experienced this several times during those five hundred hours, and he was getting used to it.

"Of course I don't have any; I learned all of this from you."

Ji Yuan quickly replied.

Ruan Mei's gaze swept over Ji Yuan, trying to see through him. Her expression remained the same gentle smile, but Ji Yuan could see a hint of sincerity in that smile.

Nguyen Mai wouldn't completely ignore him.

Ruan Mei said to Ji Yuan, "To achieve this level in one night, even I couldn't have done it back then. Your talent in life sciences truly intrigues me."

Could she possibly meet someone even more talented than herself?

At this moment, Ruan Mei's expectations for Ji Yuan increased greatly.

I felt a sense of excitement.

Chapter 65 Ruan Mei: Ji Yuan actually shares my thoughts? [First Update]

"Come, let me see the creatures you have created."

Nguyen Mai reached out and took the flying fern from Ji Yuan's hand into her own.

The flying fern was powerless against her.

Ruan Mei immediately returned to the room, and as she went in, she took Ji Yuan's hand and led him into the room together.

At this moment, Yanqing was patrolling the area. When he saw Ruan Mei pulling Ji Yuan into the room, he couldn't help but widen his gaze.

"What, what's going on?"

Yanqing's still very young mind couldn't quite understand the current situation.

Didn't my brother already give up yesterday? What does this woman mean by bringing him into the room?

Unbeknownst to Yanqing, she abandoned her patrol and began to keep an eye on the area, wanting to see what that woman would do to her elder brother.

……

After bringing Ji Yuan to the room, Nguyen Mai ignored him and instead placed the winged fern on the table to study it. She didn't even sit down, but instead bent down to examine the plant.

Ji Yuan stood behind her, perfectly positioned to admire her graceful, bent-over figure. Her waist was slender and delicate, almost too delicate to be grasped in one hand, while her hips, beneath the smooth satin, were remarkably full.

Ji Yuan, worried that Ruan Mei would find out, quickly looked away.

Ruan Mei paid no attention to Ji Yuan's gaze; she was lost in thought as she looked at the plant.

At first, she wanted to check the completeness of Ji Yuan's work and see if there were any shortcomings in Ji Yuan's production process.

"Yes, the movement is normal, the connection is normal, there's no trace of forced fusion using energy." She nodded noncommittally upon seeing this. If he couldn't even do this much, then he wouldn't be qualified to study her life sciences, but considering he grasped the basics in just one night, he could already be considered a noteworthy genius.

She then began to observe carefully, wanting to see the situation in detail. After careful observation, she discovered that the plant created by Ji Yuan was missing several genetic information compared to the one she had created, and that a little bit had been added.

After a moment's thought about adding or subtracting Ji Yuan, Ruan Mei's face showed surprise.

She discovered that the deleted information points were redundant and useless, which she had unintentionally added according to the manufacturing habits of other organisms. Not only did they serve no purpose, but they also took up space in her genes.

The information points added by Ji Yuanxin actually made the fern fly faster and increased its lifespan.

These are things she should have noticed herself, but she was busy with other experiments and didn't pay attention to them. They weren't written in her textbook, but Ji Yuan had to figure them out on her own.

Ruan Mei wondered if she could have achieved this level at his age and with his experience.

No, I can't do that. Is this really Ji Yuan's first encounter with life sciences? Or had he been secretly studying it before?

Ruan Mei silently recited in her heart.

"Come on, tell me your ideas for revisions."

She turned back to Ji Yuan and asked him.

"That's right. I think this is because ferns inherit the ability to absorb nutrients from the soil, but since it's being allowed to move, there's no need to preserve this genetic information. On the contrary, if it's to be able to fly, it should be able to absorb nutrients in the air..."

Having received five hundred hours of instruction, Ji Yuan was extremely proficient in this introductory knowledge. Upon hearing Ruan Mei's question, he immediately began to answer.

As she listened to Ji Yuan's words, Ruan Mei's expression gradually became serious. She had occasionally done some of the things Ji Yuan mentioned in his experiments, and if someone looked carefully, they might be able to find them. But as for the later things, she had only thought about them in her mind, without saying them out loud or writing them down. Some of them were just vague ideas she had. This young man in front of her had no way of knowing them.

This means that these things were actually conclusions reached by the young man himself through his own thinking.

Ruan Mei was very confident in her abilities, and what Ji Yuan said was not only exactly the same as what she thought, but even more advanced, which made her very curious about Ji Yuan.

As a member of the Genius Club, she always believed that the experiment she most wanted to complete could only be done by herself in silence. But now it seems that if Ji Yuan's talent were properly nurtured, it might become an aid to her.

No, that's not right, it should be "helper".

His abilities and talent are beyond what an assistant could describe.

Looking at Ruan Mei, who was deep in thought, Ji Yuan was also a little uneasy. He wondered how Ruan Mei would react after he said that.

They should approve, right?

At first, Ji Yuan was quite certain, but now, seeing her deep in thought, he became somewhat uncertain.

He looked at Nguyen Mai and said, "Um, Ms. Nguyen Mai..."

Nguyen Mai then snapped out of her thoughts and looked up at the boy in front of her.

"May I learn about life sciences from you?"