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Zuo Qiurong always knew that Scholar Liao had taken a fancy towards Qin Ran sometime ago.

However, she never expected that even Director Fang and the others would look so highly upon her…

With Qin Ran, Zuo Qiurong knew that Scholar Liao couldn’t accept herself as an apprentice. But compared to Director Fang, she felt like she could accept it if Qin Ran was accepted as Scholar Liao’s disciple.

“No.” Qin Ran was still thinking about Fang Zhenbo and didn’t have the mood to pay attention to Zuo Qiurong. She casually responded to her and then directly turned to Brother Ye. “Brother Ye, what about the research results?”

They went to Brother Ye’s experiment table.

Brother Ye already knew she had a teacher and only felt pity for Director Fang and the others. But now that they got down to business, he threw it to the back of his mind and focused on the experiment.

“This is the gamma-ray penetration rate…” He picked up the file on the bench and explained it in detail.

After half an hour, Scholar Liao returned.

Instead of watching the progress of his own experiment, he stood beside Brother Ye and Qin Ran and listened to them for a while.

The two of them were so immersed in the project that they didn’t even notice him.

They finished discussing.

“Scholar Liao?” Taking her phone to send the report to Principal Xu, she noticed Scholar Liao and took a step back.

Scholar Liao was always a little withdrawn and didn’t have many expressions on his face. He knew about Qin Ran’s participation in the international competition but never knew the content.

Thus, he was very surprised after hearing their discussion today.

“It’s okay, you can continue.” Scholar Liao waved his hand and motioned for them to continue before returning to his experimental bench.

After standing for a while, he looked over at Qin Ran’s side again. He originally wasn’t going to watch the ICNE International Competition this year, but after hearing Qin Ran and Brother Ye’s discussion, he still sat down in front of the computer and issued a note to the person-in-charge to ask for a ticket.

Ordinary audiences rarely came to see such a scientific research project and only major reporters and research people came, but it was still difficult to get a ticket.

These tickets were basically monopolized by the top 10 internationally ranked schools that would send their top students to watch.

But Scholar Liao could easily get a ticket from an acquaintance.

**

With the competition nearing, Qin Ran was basically in the laboratory every day.

February 10th.

It was another new year.

Although it was New Year’s, it was too near to the competition, so they didn’t have a holiday today.

Not many people were around at Beijing University at this time.

During the three New Year’s days in Beijing, firecrackers would be set off at a specified time. Starting at four o’clock in the afternoon, the sound of firecrackers would fade from one to the other. Red lanterns were hung in the streets and lion dances could be seen in the streets.

Not many cars were on the road and most people were walking around.

At 4:30 pm, Cheng Juan parked his car by the gate of the Physics laboratory.

The Physics laboratory was much more deserted compared to other places.

He got out of the car while looking at the gate, on the phone with Cheng Wenru.

Cheng Wenru blocked the phone with one hand to block out the surrounding noise and covered her ear with her other hand. She shouted on the phone, afraid that Cheng Juan wouldn’t be able to hear her. “You’re not coming home tonight?”

“Yeah, I’m going to Xiao Ling’s.” Cheng Juan looked down.

On the other end, Cheng Wenru stopped in the corner of the lobby. She fell silent while watching a bunch of young people in the school field.

In the past 10 years, Cheng Juan rarely came back. He was either on a mission or rushing in for surgery.

He happened to be in Beijing this year, so Cheng Wenru originally thought it would be more lively this year.

Not far away, a child in the school field shouted, “It’s time to get a red envelope from the old man!”

The group of youngsters laughed gleefully.

The Cheng family’s children naturally weren’t short of money, but this scene was extremely lively. Apart from New Year’s, the Cheng family rarely gathered.

She remembered that Butler Qin told her in the morning that Old Master Cheng had prepared a big red envelope for Qin Ran…

**

In Yunjin District.

Qin Hanqiu took a break to study the menu a few days ago and was now busy in the kitchen this afternoon.

Butler Qin, Ah Wen, Ah Hai, and Teacher Ku Ke were all there.

Butler Qin and the others were putting Spring Festival couplets on each door and window.

The doorbell rang at this time.

Qin Hanqiu poked his head out of the kitchen with a spatula and grinned. “It must be Ran Ran!”

Butler Qin quickly put down the couplet in his hand and opened the door with a big smile. “Miss…”

The first thing that caught his eyes was a slender and tall figure. The person turned his head slightly, said something to the girl next to him, and walked out of the shadows elegantly. “Butler Qin, hello.” He smiled.

Butler Qin swallowed back his words.

He immediately took a step back and suddenly felt like the originally spacious living room was now cramped. “Cheng- Young Master Cheng!”

He was in a daze. Qin Hanqiu only said Qin Ran would come today…

But he didn’t say that the Cheng family’s crown prince was coming today.

Cheng Juan very politely and amiably greeted him.

Butler Qin didn’t dare to accept his courtesy and took a few steps back.

Ah Wen and Ah Hai, originally pasting the couplet, also hurriedly jumped off their chairs, their hands and feet tied.

Just when they were still at a loss, Qin Hanqiu poked his head out of the kitchen again. He was obviously very happy to see Cheng Juan. “Xiao Cheng, you’re just in time. Help me hit my subordinates, they can’t do it!”

Cheng Juan was obviously accustomed to it. He took off his jacket and slowly rolled up his sleeves.

The kitchen wasn’t far from the hall.

Butler Qin could still hear Qin Hanqiu—

“Xiao Cheng, bring that plate over.”

“Xiao Cheng, what do you think of this side dish?”

“Xiao Cheng, stir that pot…”

“…”

Outside, Butler Qin and the others were frozen in place.

In Beijing, who else other than Qin Hanqiu would dare to order the Cheng family’s crown prince around like that?

Old Master Cheng probably couldn’t even order him around?

They exchanged glances and suddenly realized something—

It turned out that the Qin family’s Second Master was the true King!

Wearing a hat, Qin Ling was sitting in front of the computer, playing games with Ku Ke watching by the side.

The computer screen showed “Pass”.

Sitting beside while discussing with him, Ku Ke casually glanced at the screen.

He happened to see a tiny logo at the left-hand side of the page—

A small red poppy flower.

“Wait!”