Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 453 - 453 448 The Show Begins

Chapter 453: Chapter 448: The Show Begins Chapter 453: Chapter 448: The Show Begins Following Professor Zhang, another professor made a call, rambling on for ages about his disciple and that project.

Damn it…

Professor Li put down the phone feeling frustrated and stroked his chin in thought before picking up the receiver to make another call.

“Go find out for me what’s going on with old Zhu and old Zhang and those few elderly guys. I’m restarting the project, and if they’re concerned, that’s fine, but why drag your little junior sister into it? …Right, make a thorough check.”

Even though his disciple was Yu Ci and Yu Yue’s sister, that didn’t justify their actions, right?

Could he not hear it? In those words, there was not only jealousy but also a hint of disdain.

What’s there to disdain?

He really didn’t understand.

About an hour later, the phone on the desk rang.

Professor Li picked up and listened intently—

“Teacher, I’ve found out. Professor Zhu and Professor Zhang have two doctoral students under them. They were previously in Yu Ci’s lab, but they were expelled and kicked out of the lab yesterday. I called Xiaoyue’s assistant Xiaozhu, and it turns out they were expelled because there were issues with their experimental data. Not only did they not admit their mistakes, but they also blamed a trainee graduate student. Coincidentally, they thought this graduate student was an easy target to bully, unaware that he was the nephew of the little junior sister’s maternal uncle. Yesterday, the little junior sister brought people to Yu Yue and then arranged for that graduate student to become an assistant to Sergei.

Perhaps feeling indignant, they dug into your affairs and then each approached their own mentors, claiming that the little junior sister had an improper relationship with Yu Yue, which led to their expulsion from the lab. Meanwhile, the one who should have been expelled ended up becoming Sergei’s assistant instead. Just an ordinary graduate student, what qualifies him to be an assistant to Dr. Sergei? They made it sound so believable, and now the story has almost spread throughout the entire Physics Research Institute, saying that the little junior sister at such a young age is already… Obviously, they don’t know the real relationship between the little junior sister, Yu Ci, and Yu Yue, and probably think that the little junior sister knows Yu Yue through your introduction.”

The more Professor Li listened, the deeper his frown became, and by the end, he was so angry he almost wanted to slam the table. What kind of people are these? All PhDs, yet their heads are devoid of anything proper, just filled with sleazy crap.

“Don’t get mad, teacher. This matter is easy to deal with, just make the little junior sister’s identity public and see who dares to gossip.”

Professor Li chuckled coldly, “It should be made public, but we can’t let them off that easily.”

The mentor and disciple talked for a bit more before finally hanging up the phone.

In the following days, Professor Li carried on with his project research as usual, turning a deaf ear to the rumors swirling around the institute.

However, Pan Jian and He Chong had their own capabilities. Previously, seeing Yu Ci return from abroad, the college went to great lengths to woo him, so they managed to get into Yu Ci’s lab through Ceng Tianbao. Now that they have been driven out, they have portrayed themselves as very wronged and aggrieved, and once again, their mentors have taken them into their own labs.

On September 5th, the Physics Research Institute held its monthly meeting.

With Yu Ci absent, Yu Yue attended the meeting in his stead.

When he arrived, he saw several people gathered around Professor Li, and because he was a bit far away, he didn’t hear what they were saying. However, Professor Li, who was usually composed, immediately broke into a big smile upon seeing him and raised his hand to greet him, “Xiaoyue, come over here.”

In the whole institute, probably the only person who dared to call Professor Yu Yue ‘Xiaoyue’ was Professor Li himself.

Both he and Yu Ci were young, but their strengths and international connections in the field of physics were not inferior to those of the older professors, if not stronger. Even the president of Beijing University would have to address them as Professor Xiaoyu.

Professor Zhu and others sitting beside Professor Li couldn’t help but twitch at the corners of their mouths upon hearing his call to Yu Yue, flaunting, outright flaunting!

Relying on his own disciple to pull people to his side, he was feeling smug, wasn’t he?

Professor Li glanced at them, judging from their expressions what they were likely thinking, but he wasn’t in a hurry. After all, the main event was about to begin.

“Professor Li,” Yu Yue approached and greeted respectfully.

“Xiaoyue, it seems that Professor Zhu and Professor Zhang are very concerned about your matrimonial matters. Come, tell everyone, do you have a girlfriend yet?”

Yu Yue glanced at Professor Zhu and Professor Zhang and shook his head, “No, as you know, I’m not focused on that at the moment, so I haven’t been dating.”

“I didn’t talk about it…” Professor Li drew out the last word, then smiled at Professor Zhu, “Old Zhu, I didn’t understand what you said just now; at your age, how have you started speaking in riddles? You mentioned something about my disciple and Xiaoyue; you’ve heard that too, right? That Xiaoyue doesn’t have a girlfriend at all. And the disciple of mine you mentioned, which one are you referring to? I, Old Li, have taken in three female disciples in my life, but two of them are already married, and the remaining one, Jiawen, couldn’t possibly be…”

Professor Zhu said with a smile, “Why couldn’t it be possible? Your little disciple is quite a beauty…”

Yu Yue suddenly lost his smile and looked straight at him before Professor Zhu could finish his sentence, “Professor Zhu, that’s my little sister!”

The smile froze on Professor Zhu’s face, and Professor Zhang next to him was also shockingly wide-mouthed as he looked at Yu Yue.

How did she… become the little sister?

Professor Li still smiled as he watched everyone, “My little disciple’s surname is Mu, sure, because she takes after her mother’s surname, but her father’s surname is Yu. Oh, that’s right, Professor Yu Heng from the mathematics department, he’s her real older brother!”

As soon as these words were said, the expressions on the faces of Professor Zhu and the others grew even uglier.

The mathematics department and the physics department are close to each other; Yu Heng leads the graduate students of the mathematics department and also teaches graduate students from the physics department, so unavoidably, he frequently interacts with some of the older professors from the physics department.

Just yesterday, Professor Zhang and the others were still criticizing Professor Li in front of Yu Heng, asserting that his choice of disciples was really poor, only focusing on brains and grades, neglecting character, right?

Professor Zhu immediately added on the side, “Character doesn’t matter, as long as they can bring him resources, isn’t that good? Look at his project from a few years ago, wasn’t it successful and impressive?”

The institute only has so much funding each year; without Professor Li’s project, they would have been able to get a larger share. But now, not only has Professor Li obtained another project, but he also has two more contributors—those two Professor Yus, the institute would have to allot more to Old Li because of them.

Jealousy really twists people beyond recognition!

To malign a young woman without any scruples.

Especially in front of her own brother.

Professor Zhu felt a bit dizzy; he couldn’t remember the expression on Professor Yu Heng’s face when he said those words yesterday.

But then, what Professor Zhang said next struck him like lightning, “The mother of Professor Yu Heng isn’t that Mu, Dean Mu?”

The color drained from Professor Zhu’s face.

However, Professor Li kept on smiling, “Ah, Professor Zhang, you’re indeed a smart one, to have figured out such a convoluted matter; not easy, not easy!”

A bunch of old bastards, I mentioned it when I got that painting from my little disciple, didn’t I? But they looked down upon it, didn’t take it to heart, and now they see my project kicking off, they are so jealous they’ve lost their minds!

What rubbish?

Just wait until Mu Chenyan comes to settle accounts with you old bastards.

Having been mocked through and through, Professor Zhang’s face turned as black as the bottom of a pot, but it wasn’t over yet.

Yu Yue instructed Xiaozhu to retrieve two notices of contract termination and handed them to Professor Zhu and Professor Zhang, “I also just found out that Pan Jian and He Chong are the students of you two. Initially, I was planning to handle this quietly; after all, studying for many years isn’t easy, I didn’t want this incident to ruin their chances of entering the various labs at Beijing University. But the problem is, we want to be low-key, and they don’t seem to want that. Take a look at these two, these are the reasons they were expelled from our lab, and there’s also a USB drive, containing all the processes of their experiments, clearly showing whether that set of data was messed up by them or by Mu Jun.

Normally, failing an experiment is a common occurrence; one simply needs to admit the mistake and rectify it, our lab would never expel someone over that. But they attempted to let an innocent person take the fall for their mistakes, which is no longer just a lack of competence; calling them severely deficient in character would be the highest praise for them.”

Professor Zhu and Professor Zhang’s faces changed color yet again.

In just this short while, their faces have changed back and forth, making Professor Li feel extremely satisfied.

“Tsk tsk tsk, you two, always rushing ahead to choose students, being so picky, and you picked out these two things? Old Zhu, Old Zhang, your judgment is really off!”

The same words, returned to them untouched, also led the other professors present at the meeting to cast strange looks at them…