From Sidekick to Bigshot

Chapter 43: Appointment at the Research Institution

Wen Nuan didn’t even speak during the dinner. Although she was thinking about her daughter, she didn’t want to make it too obvious. As a result, she had to be careful and hide her feelings.

When they had come back to tell Yiling about the arrangements, she had deliberately avoided coming back. She was afraid her decision would be swayed once she saw Yiling.

Her heart tightened when she thought about her daughter staying at the Old Residence for a while.

Everyone ate dinner in silence.

Mo Shiyun didn’t dare to make any noise throughout dinner.

After finishing dinner, Mo Shiyun returned to her own room to do her homework. Aunt Mo hurried over to remind her about certain matters.

“Shiyun, it will be Yuncheng’s birthday in a few days. You must remember to prepare a birthday gift for him.”

“Mother, I’m not familiar with Yuncheng. I think it will be strange for me to prepare a gift for his birthday. It will appear to be a bit over-attentive and I don’t think it’s appropriate.”

“Mother doesn’t want you to be over-attentive. I only want you to take this opportunity to thank the Jian family for taking care of us during this period of time. You’ve lived here for a while and we’ve never had the chance to thank Master and Madam yet.”

Mo Shiyun thought about the matter for a moment. She realized that what her mother was saying was quite reasonable.

“But, what gift can I get him?” Mo Shiyun asked. She felt slightly inadequate.

All the clothes that were worn by Yuncheng were of the finest quality. Any single article of clothing would cost around a month of their living expenses. Sometimes, the cost could even go up to a year of their expenses.

“The act of gifting is about the thought. It doesn’t matter whether the gift is expensive or not. Yuncheng is not someone who would care about the price of a gift,” Aunt Mo persuaded. “Why don’t you make a scarf from scratch or perhaps, you could do some embroidery on a woolen scarf.”

Aunt Mo used to work as an embroiderer. Mo Shiyun learned a bit of the skill from her mother. Although she was not professional at this, her work was still quite neat.

“Okay, I understand. Once I finish doing my homework, I’ll go make it.” Mo Shiyun accepted her mother’s idea.

She was currently in her last year of high school. Her studies were becoming burdensome and it was likely that she might not be able to squeeze out that much time to prepare his gift.

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The next day was Friday. As usual, Jian Yiling went to attend school.

During the break, Jian Yiling took out her phone to reply to her messages.

There was a notification on the screen. The notification originated from the person who had contacted her previously.

[Dr. F.S, we’ve seen the research report that you’ve posted on SCI. Your research is incredibly useful and relevant to what we are doing right now. We sincerely invite you to our research institution for a chat. Would you be free on the weekend?]

The review period of research papers often took a long time. However, the auditing period of reports that were short term was relatively faster. It only took a week for the report to be published.

The other party had been closely following Dr. F.S’s movements. As a result, they had noticed this immediately.

After reading the research report, the other party wanted to meet Dr. F.S. as soon as possible.

Jian Yiling replied: [I’m busy on the weekends.]

On Saturday, she had to attend the party that the Yu family hosted. On Sunday, she had to attend the classes that her brother organized for her.

[Dr. F.S, we are incredibly sincere here. We have a competitive salary and we are open to any conditions that you may have. I hope you can think about this again.]

[Next Monday afternoon. Give me an address.]

Jian Yiling agreed to visit the research institution. Although she didn’t have time on Monday afternoon, she could pretend that she felt sick. She could slip out of school during the time that she was meant to be in the infirmary.

The other party quickly sent Jian Yiling a QR code along with an address.

[This is the address of our research institution. The QR code is used to open the gate of the research institute. You can enter by scanning it.]

Jian Yiling saved the code to her phone.