Quick Transmigration: The Mad Beauty Refuses to Be the Scapegoat!-Chapter 367 - 17: This Fishpond’s Cannon Fodder Is Contracted (Part 17)
Upon hearing this, Ren Yan felt a rush of urgency in her heart, as if her words had finally been validated, unable to suppress a continuous cold sneer.
"Is that so? So it really is like this. Now do you understand why I bypassed her and came directly to you? This is my discovery, my research achievement, it has been solely mine from the beginning to the end!
Everyone knows what Jiang Lai has been doing these past three months, she has spent all her time on that Little Mermaid, it’s impossible for her to have time to invest in a new experiment project!"
The more Ren Yan spoke, the more excited and angry she became, furious beyond measure because she hadn’t imagined that Jiang Lai really would steal her research results!
However, Zhou Wenjin still had a smile full of interest on his face, and for Ren Yan, whose emotional reaction was intense, his calmness made her even more panicked and angry.
Because this project was completed solely by herself.
It was the mermaid who told her that the fins on his back could secrete a gel that rapidly healed wounds.
Ren Yan was certain that Jiang Lai definitely hadn’t realized this; otherwise, once such a research discovery was reported, it would certainly receive high honors and rewards.
One should know, if this gel could be applied to the medical industry, how much would it contribute to the prolonging of human life? How much would the country value it? What a great achievement would it be for a scientist?
So Ren Yan was sure that Jiang Lai, who claimed to know the mermaid the best, hadn’t discovered this secret about the mermaid.
She wanted to say so much just to prove that Jiang Lai had stolen her research results.
Zhou Wenjin pulled out a pen from his jacket pocket and circled a few spots on Ren Yan’s report.
"It’s pretty good, I don’t have any other intention, just to tell you that Jiang Lai already had a more complete and rigorous experimental verification of this discovery a year ago.
As for your concerns, they are completely meaningless, Jiang Lai wouldn’t stoop to coveting your small achievement."
Such a small achievement.
In an instant, it pricked that fragile nerve that had been tightly wound in Ren Yan’s mind.
She looked at Zhou Wenjin, shaking her head repeatedly.
"A year ago? Leader, are you mistaken? How could it be possible, how could Jiang Lai have discovered it..."
The fin gel is so obscure that without the mermaid actively telling Jiang Lai, how could she have discovered it?
And it was a year ago!
A year ago she hadn’t even entered the lab yet!
Zhou Wenjin was favoring Jiang Lai, that must be it, he was completely bewitched by Jiang Lai, so even knowing that Jiang Lai was plagiarizing, he would still stand by her side to go against her.
"Heh heh heh... Leader, the reason I came to you was just because I thought you needed true talent, but now I find I was wrong, I was too naive, I’m just an inconspicuous intern, what else can I do?
Leader, one day you’ll regret it, those who see Jiang Lai’s true nature will not continue working under her, this project is doomed to be ruined by Jiang Lai eventually."
Ren Yan couldn’t believe that Jiang Lai discovered the fin gel over a year ago.
All hope had vanished, she had completely lost faith in this dark place.
The result was that Zhou Wenjin just bowed his head looking at his phone, only slowly raising his head after Ren Yan had stopped talking, those gentle eyes now colder and more impatient.
"I hope you can come back and negotiate with me after reading all of Jiang Lai’s papers, I am not a professional, yet I even know more about the professional papers published by Jiang Lai than you interns, it seems you really aren’t qualified to stay on as her student."
After speaking, Zhou Wenjin got up and walked out directly, taking a deep breath at the door.
Talking to these women with more devious schemes than strands of hair is truly tiresome.
No wonder Jiang Lai’s temper was getting worse, it’s pretty impressive that she managed to endure till the end of the internship while dealing with people like these.
Deserving of a reward, as to what reward...
"Allocate an additional 40 million investment to the lab."
Jiang Lai did nothing, yet she had an additional 40 million disposable income in her hands.
Zhou Wenjin seemed to care about nothing, even if Jiang Lai ran off with the money, he wouldn’t know.
As for Ren Yan, after Zhou Wenjin left, she went straight back to the office, opened the computer and started checking the journals and papers Jiang Lai had published over the years.
Because mermaid research is confidential, these published papers can only be found through the internal network.
This was the first time Ren Yan actively searched for Jiang Lai’s published papers and related research reports, a total of eighteen pages, each page with thirty essays, totaling hundreds of articles all by Jiang Lai.
Ren Yan wanted to prove Zhou Wenjin was wrong, she clicked on Jiang Lai’s papers one by one, reading from start to finish, and the more she read, the tighter the string in her heart wound, an indescribable sense of loss and oppression swept over her, suddenly a thought flashed through her mind.
Jiang Lai is a genius.
But soon this thought was suppressed by her, no, it’s impossible, these articles were most likely ghostwritten by others, perhaps Jiang Lai took them from others.
Just when she was about to succeed in brainwashing herself, she clicked into a paper titled "On the Chemical Composition of Secretion from the Caudal Fins of the Mermaid".
Ren Yan was caught off guard, the more she read, the more agitated and angry she became, this piece’s conclusion was almost identical to hers! And she claimed it wasn’t plagiarism! Now she would show Zhou Wenjin, let’s see what he had to say!
Ren Yan quickly downloaded it, but just as she was about to get up, it was like she suddenly remembered something and quickly checked the publication date of the report.
2024, more than a year earlier than hers. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺
"How could it be..."
A year ago, she had just graduated from her master’s program, barely understood the world, and her knowledge of the mermaid species was still limited to artistic works, yet Jiang Lai had already discovered the mermaid’s most precious secret.
In an instant, a huge chasm spanned between her and Jiang Lai, making it impossible for Ren Yan to accept.
She was unwilling to admit that the arrogant and hot-tempered Jiang Lai could be so excellent, she’d rather believe the report was stolen, only then would she feel slightly better.
She actually used an article Jiang Lai had published a year ago to confront Zhou Wenjin, no wonder his smile seemed so strange.
Jiang Lai succeeded.
She had thoroughly defeated her.
Ren Yan walked out in a daze, bumping directly into Hu Xintong.
Hu Xintong saw her expression and her heart sank, a sense of crisis surged up.
"So, did you find the investor? What did he say?"
Ren Yan looked at her and coldly laughed.
"What else could he say? He said Jiang Lai has a report identical to the one I wrote, it’s useless, whatever we do is useless."
Hu Xintong was unwilling to accept this result.
"Didn’t you promise it would definitely succeed!!"
