The richest man: The streamer I recommended is gradually becoming yandere.

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A short while later, the office door was pushed open again.

A man wearing a gray undershirt and with graying temples walked in.

This is Professor Zhang Su.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Zhang Su said, "Please sit down."

"I won't say anything more." Zhang Su put down his pen, his gaze sweeping over the five students in front of him. A slight smile finally broke through his serious face. "I just received an email from the editor. Our article on 'self-assembly of chiral macrocyclic receptors' has been officially accepted. Congratulations everyone."

The meeting room erupted in chaos.

Everyone has been working day and night for the past few months, and hard work pays off; we've finally reaped a great harvest.

Li Hengjie was so excited he almost jumped up. "My God, all those dozens of columns I worked on finally paid off. Professor, you don't know how difficult those products were to separate. I almost cried when the yield increased, but now it seems it was all worth it."

Su Yao pushed up her glasses, a slight smile playing on her lips, and looked at Jiang Sui. "It's mainly because the initial route design was correct. Senior Brother Jiang's key looping step was too beautiful. Otherwise, no matter how precise my operation was, it wouldn't have mattered."

"Even if you say that, I might not be able to help you with anything in the next experiment," Jiang Sui teased with a smile.

Su Yao said reproachfully, "Really, why do you think of me as so calculating, Senior Brother Jiang?"

Jiang Yanci frowned slightly upon hearing this.

Stinky green tea.....

He always chatted with Sui Sui in a cheerful and lighthearted manner.

"However, the biggest contributor should be Sister Yanci." Jiang Sui changed the subject and said, "If it weren't for Sister Yanci working all night to produce such a beautiful and impeccable single crystal structure for those key intermediates, our progress probably wouldn't have been so fast."

Jiang Yanci nodded slightly, "Everyone's contributions are very important."

Chen Feng rubbed the marker dust off his hands and smiled at Zhang Su: "Professor, does this mean our group's National Natural Science Foundation of China grant is guaranteed next year?"

Zhang Su nodded, tapping his knuckles lightly on the table to signal everyone to be quiet: "We'll talk about the fund later. Tonight, I've booked a table at the 'old establishment' across from the school to improve our group's meals and replenish the energy sucked away by the fume hood."

"However, we also need to do a good job of finishing up the remaining work. So there are still some tasks ahead, but it won't be as busy as the previous months."

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Next, Zhang Su assigned tasks to everyone, with clear division of labor.

Seeing that everything was almost arranged, Zhang Su stood up and instructed Jiang Sui and Jiang Yanci, "You two will still need to mentor them. I have a meeting tonight."

Jiang Sui and Jiang Yanci nodded.

Jiang Yanci really enjoyed these moments—being mentioned at the same time as Jiang Sui.

After Zhang Su left, everyone returned to the laboratory and briefly immersed themselves in their data recording.

Li Hengjie quietly asked around, and Chen Feng, Su Yao, and the others did not refuse the entertainment activities after dinner.

Finally, he approached Jiang Yanci and cautiously asked, "Senior sister, after dinner tonight we're planning to play some board games or something... do you want to come along?"

Jiang Yanci initially wanted to refuse, since she had a live dance broadcast that evening, but she glanced at Jiang Sui out of the corner of her eye, "Is everyone going?"

"Yes, I just asked them, and now it's just you left, Senior Sister."

Asking Jiang Yanci at the very end was an unconscious act by Li Hengjie, after all, she was usually too aloof, giving Li Hengjie the feeling that she was unapproachable to both strangers and acquaintances.

"Okay, if everyone's going, I'll go too."

Jiang Yanci agreed, even though she loved dancing.

"Okay, it's settled then."

......

Jiang Sui originally wanted to go and receive the villa and car given by the system in the afternoon, but Li Hengjie and others persuaded her to stay and refused.

"Senior Brother Jiang, could you please take a look at this for me?" Su Yao walked over carrying a stack of data records, her brows furrowed, looking somewhat troubled. "I feel there's something strange about the peak assignments on this NMR. Although the computer automatically labeled them, they don't quite match the trends in the literature."

Jiang Sui stopped what he was doing, took the report, glanced at it, and lightly tapped the paper with his slender fingers: "Here, the solvent peak wasn't completely subtracted, which caused the integral of the methylene peak next to it to be too high."

"So that's how it is!" Su Yao exclaimed in realization, a bright smile spreading across her face. She leaned forward slightly, getting closer to Jiang Sui. "Senior Brother Jiang, you're amazing! I stared at it for so long and still couldn't figure it out. Without you, I probably would have had to retest this part of the data. Thank you so much!"

As she spoke, she casually took a candy from the snack box next to her and naturally handed it to Jiang Sui, saying, "Please have a candy, senior brother."

Jiang Sui smiled and thanked him, accepting the gift.

However, to Jiang Yanci, who was not far away, this scene was like a series of fine needles piercing her eyes.

Her knuckles, gripping the pen, gradually turned white, and the pen tip hovered over the notebook, not writing a single line for a long time.

That distance... was too close.

Su Yao's smile, in her eyes, was like a mask covered in heavy makeup—fake, pretentious, and nauseating.

The gratitude and admiration in those eyes stirred an uncontrollable irritation within her.

That candy... was eaten by Sui Sui.

That's something someone else has touched, isn't it dirty?

She stared at Su Yao's occasionally waving hand, a dark thought flashing through her mind.

If she can no longer lift that hand, will she be unable to hand things over?

The same logic applies... If you seal your mouth with cement and then glue it shut, will you never be able to speak again?

"Sister Yanci?"

A voice interrupted Jiang Yanci's gloomy thoughts.

Jiang Sui had finished dealing with Su Yao's problem sometime earlier and was turning to look at her, still holding the milk candy in her hand. "What are you daydreaming about? How's the data processing going?"

Jiang Yanci snapped back to reality. The sinister look in his eyes vanished the moment he looked up, replaced by his usual coldness and calmness.

She lowered her eyes, concealing the turmoil within them, her voice slightly strained: "Almost done."

Jiang Yanci didn't look at the candy in Jiang Sui's hand. Instead, he closed his notebook with a slightly muffled sound, as if he were silently fuming.

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