Obsessive Tycoon and His Swan Girl
Chapter 323 He’s Still One Breath Away

Chapter 323: Chapter 323 He’s Still One Breath Away

The senior approved of Xia Mingzhu’s words, "Hahaha, that’s true. Speaking of which, your cousin started specializing in this field two years before you, yet you’ve managed to stand on your own feet, while he’s still lagging behind, which is indeed regrettable."

"Our Mingzhu is naturally gifted and quick to progress. It’s no surprise she’s surpassed Xia Xingzhi. In a couple of years, it will be normal for us not to be able to catch up with her," they added.

Everyone was complimenting Xia Mingzhu, making her smile radiantly.

Speaking of which, Xia Xingzhi’s personality was like his father’s, too reserved, not good at socializing, and not adept at promoting himself.

The Xia Mingzhu family were all well-rounded, with outstanding interpersonal relationships, naturally winning more favor.

In this society, it’s not enough to have talent; you must also know how to show it off.

So everyone was familiar with Xia Mingzhu, but not with Xia Xingzhi.

Jiang Zhe, who was listening on the side, looked down, his fox-like eyes slightly closed, quietly absorbing every word into his ears.

Xia Mingzhu and her group, of course, didn’t notice the inconspicuous high school student in the far corner.

...

Fu Qifang was busy today. When Jiang Zhe arrived, he didn’t have time to chat and merely said, "You help me verify that data module."

Jiang Zhe turned on the computer, connected to the internal data, and imported all the data content.

Rows of numbers and letters flashed quickly on the computer screen, operating at high speed.

She got to work and quickly completed the verification.

Just as she was about to hand over the verification materials to Professor Fu, Jiang Zhe heard someone nearby talking about a personnel shortage.

Someone was collecting résumés to review.

"This student was recommended by Wang Shifu."

"This one was recommended by Fang Chang."

"These several are the recommended slots from Aerospace University."

As Jiang Zhe approached, those familiar with her acknowledged her presence, "Xiaozhe is here."

"What are you looking at?" Jiang Zhe asked.

"We’ve been short-staffed recently, so we’re selecting new talent. There’s no shortage of talent, but there’s still a scarcity of extraordinary ones."

After all, this is a top research institute, and ordinary talent doesn’t stand out much here.

Especially among the younger kids, abilities are more or less equal, and only a few are exceptionally talented.

This leads to gaps every year when old talents leave without enough new talents to replace them.

Jiang Zhe said, "May I take a look?"

As Professor Fu’s trusted disciple, everyone knew her and said with a smile, "Your help would be great. If you can find someone like you, we’d have no worries."

Jiang Zhe picked up a few résumés and flipped through them. Just like they said, all were talented, each with their own skill set, overall very capable, but evenly so.

The reason top students are top students is that they should stand out even among the excellent, not just blend in with the crowd.

She then took over the materials from Wang Shifu’s side to review, which also listed outstanding talents, but Xia Xingzhi’s name was absent.

"Tell them to pick more people, even those with specific talents can be sent over," Jiang Zhe suggested.

Upon hearing this, everyone thought it made sense and agreed, "Then we’ll expand the selection range."

After Fu Qifang finished his tasks, he saw her there and chided, "How is it that you have the leisure to meddle in these affairs?"

"I finished the data module and was just casually looking," Jiang Zhe replied.

"Did you find anyone interesting?" Fu Qifang asked.

Jiang Zhe shook her head.

Fu Qifang laughed and said, "Every year we look for top-notch students, but as soon as they show potential, they get snatched away. No matter how many good seedlings there are, they can’t withstand being plucked like that. Whether we can find someone like you, that’s up to fate."

Jiang Zhe chuckled lightly, chewing gum, and handed the prepared data module over to Fu Qifang.

Upon seeing it, Fu Qifang nodded repeatedly, acknowledging that her hands moved rapidly, and they were getting faster.

"Stay with me today, and eat both lunch and dinner here. I still have plenty of work for you." Fu Qifang rarely got a chance to see her, so he saved all the work for her.

"Tsk, Fu Lao, aren’t you afraid of overworking Xiaozhe? How much stuff do you pile on her every time?"

"Exactly, so much work, it’s making me dizzy just looking at it."

The comment came from someone else teasingly.

Fu Qifang laughed, "The capable ones work harder."

Jiang Zhe reached out to take the storage disk he passed to her.

Before dinner, Jiang Zhe had returned all the items to Fu Qifang.

Fu Qifang nodded, "Then will you still join me for dinner?"

"I wonder if the cafeteria still has any crispy pork left?" Jiang Zhe asked.

"That’s definitely there, come on, today we have not only crispy pork but also your favorite fried mushrooms," Fu Qifang said, patting her shoulder.

After dinner,

More resumes were delivered.

In addition to some universally recognized talents with all-around grades, as per Jiang Zhe’s request, resumes of some specialists were also brought over.

However, it was not easy to pick something exceptional from the all-rounders, and it wasn’t any easier to select the truly excellent ones from the specialists.

It was a case of better than nothing.

Among the pile of resumes from Wang Shifu, Jiang Zhe reached out and found Xia Xingzhi’s information.

It was clear that Xia Xingzhi was not Wang Shifu’s favorite type of student; his information was sent in later.

However, compared to the thickness of other people’s data, Xia Xingzhi’s was much thicker.

Jiang Zhe only realized when she picked it up that he had attached his own research direction and rough content after his resume, having it specially bound together, merging seamlessly with the resume.

It showed great sincerity.

She quickly skimmed through it, her eyes focusing intently on the content.

Fu Qifang, who was looking at other materials, noticed her persistent attention on that particular resume and asked, "What’s so fascinating about that?"

Jiang Zhe snapped out of it, "You might need to take a look at this."

Jiang Zhe was known for reviewing things quickly, and the fact that this had held her attention for so long made Fu Qifang even more curious.

He took it from her, put on his reading glasses, and began to read it carefully, line by line.

"It’s written in a somewhat abstruse manner, but... the ideas are quite original, breaking new ground," he remarked.

Fu Qifang continued to read attentively.

Then his eyes lit up, "Who is this? Where’s this kid from? Have them bring him to me to meet."

Someone glanced at the resume and immediately said, "He’s Wang Shifu’s student. But the material he’s written is too complex to understand. Wang Shifu himself said it’s such a pity, he has talent but his research focus is off the mark. So he hadn’t recommended him before."

Fu Qifang shook his head; it wasn’t that the student’s research direction was off the mark, but that his thinking was too advanced, leaping two or three levels ahead, which made it incomprehensible to others!

Since they couldn’t understand it, of course, they would not recommend him up the chain.

Those who could understand his work wouldn’t have the chance to see his research writings.

It was a missed opportunity!

If Jiang Zhe hadn’t been engrossed in that resume earlier, Fu Qifang would not likely have found the time to sift through such a large pile of material and uncover such an overlooked gem.

"That’s settled then, no need to notify Wang Shifu; I’ll handle this resume myself." Fu Qifang carefully took the material.