When Bai Jiaojiao woke up in the morning, she opened her eyes and saw an eye peering through the gap in her curtains, which she hadn't fully closed. She was startled at first and was wide awake.

Upon closer inspection, it is Shen Heng.

When Shen Heng saw that Bai Jiaojiao was awake, he smiled and said, "You're awake?"

"......"

"Open the door." Shen Heng breathed on the bed and drew a heart on Bai Jiaojiao's face with his finger.

Bai Jiaojiao covered her head with the blanket and ignored him.

Shen Heng tossed and turned on the other kang last night but couldn't fall asleep. He just couldn't get comfortable. He woke up early this morning and leaned on the windowsill outside to look at Bai Jiaojiao for a long time.

"I made pancakes and boiled eggs for you. Get up and have breakfast, Jiaojiao?"

Shen Heng gently knocked on the window. He knew he had gone a bit too far last night. He was very diligent this morning, cleaning the yard, feeding the dog, and polishing Bai Doudou until it was shiny and smooth.

Bai Jiaojiao reached out and closed the curtains, then got up and got dressed.

Hearing the noise inside, Shen Heng touched his nose.

Why do I need to draw the curtains when I'm getting dressed? Am I even his wife?

He went around to the door and waited for Bai Jiaojiao to come out of the bedroom. He then hugged Bai Jiaojiao tightly and said, "Brother Heng didn't sleep well last night."

Bai Jiaojiao looked up at Shen Heng and said, "You deserve it."

"You can't do that anymore. What kind of wife doesn't let her husband sleep on the bed? Do you know how scared I was sleeping alone last night?"

Shen Heng didn't want to set a precedent. What if Bai Jiaojiao started kicking him out all the time? How could he live like that?

Bai Jiaojiao laughed in exasperation: "What are you afraid of? I really don't know there's anything in this world that you're afraid of."

"I'm afraid you'll kick me out."

Shen Heng is now using every trick in the book in front of Bai Jiaojiao; he has no regard for face anymore.

If you act like you did last night, I'll never talk to you again.

"Alright, alright, go wash your face. I'll bring the food up." Shen Heng patted Bai Jiaojiao.

I know I'm wrong, but I refuse to change.

When Bai Jiaojiao went to class, she noticed that Chen Meizhen wasn't there. Xu Yue and Shu Manling were also quite curious. Xu Yue guessed, "She must have lost her place. It's really gratifying. We're all just ordinary people who got in on our own merits. She has a good father, so as long as she's not too bad, she can easily get into Peking University. But those who get in through connections will always be those who get in through connections, humph."

Xu Yue hoped her guess was true; the thought of never seeing Chen Meizhen again made her feel better.

They waited for a whole week, but Chen Meizhen didn't come to class. When Bai Jiaojiao went to the lab, Chen Bingrui, who always liked to pick on her, quieted down a lot, or rather, he was intentionally avoiding her.

It's unclear whether Chen Bingrui was afraid of her methods or afraid of her taking advantage of his misfortune in the past, but Bai Jiaojiao was happy to have some peace and quiet.

At her age, the experiments she can do are still very basic. She's basically working for Guan Shengping, doing whatever her senior tells her to do. She needs to integrate the knowledge first and then apply it to her studies. Gradually, when she can design and produce experiments on her own, those experiments will be her own creations.

Guan Shengping was quite considerate of Bai Jiaojiao and didn't assign her particularly strenuous work. Without Chen Meizhen and Chen Bingrui constantly bothering her, Bai Jiaojiao felt her life was much more comfortable.

"Hey, be careful! Why did you open this thing like that? Isn't this what Senior Brother Guan applied for?"

Bai Jiaojiao saw Feng Zhi casually open the ether reagent and tried to stop him, but it was too late.

Feng Zhi didn't take it seriously and put the lid back on: "I'm just taking a look, what are you yelling about?"

Feng Zhi is a junior this year and has just entered the lab to prepare for his graduation project. According to the year, he is one year ahead of Bai Jiaojiao, but Bai Jiaojiao entered the lab before him, so his mentality towards Bai Jiaojiao is not quite normal.

When Bai Jiaojiao said something to him, he felt like she was bossing him around.

"Once you open the cap, the whole bottle will have to be used up quickly. Senior Brother Guan went out with Teacher Ji today, and by the time he comes back tomorrow, this bottle of ether will be essentially wasted!"

These supplies that need to be claimed have to go through several procedures. The first application is relatively easy, but the second application requires writing a self-criticism.

"What's it to you! You think you can call the shots in this lab? You'd better go back to class. Do you think I know less than you?"

Feng Zhi scoffed, an attitude that the others in the lab couldn't stand: "Feng Zhi, what's wrong with people saying a few words to you when you do something wrong? Senior Brother Guan has a good temper, you can't bully him like this."

When another senior brother spoke up, Feng Zhi immediately wilted: "Even if I made a mistake, I'll talk to him myself when he gets back."

"You need to apologize to Bai Jiaojiao."

Feng Zhi threw down what he was holding, turned around, and left the laboratory.

The senior brother was furious.

The senior sister on the side said to Bai Jiaojiao, "Don't worry about him, he's probably just feeling resentful."

Bai Jiaojiao shook her head: "If it weren't for Senior Brother Guan, I wouldn't bother with him."

"That's true. Won't Senior Brother Guan get criticized for this? What will he say about where this bottle of ether went?"

Ether isn't anything particularly valuable, but if someone with malicious intent were to get their hands on it and cause a major disaster, that would be utterly immoral.

"Let's talk about it when Senior Brother Guan comes back."

Since Bai Jiaojiao came to the lab, Guan Shengping has taken good care of her, so Bai Jiaojiao is bound to care about Guan Shengping.

Guan Shengping returned and, upon learning of the incident, flew into a rage: "Do you know how tight my experimental schedule is right now? I went through so much trouble to produce this little bit of ether!"

Feng Zhi was oblivious to Bai Jiaojiao, but he was meek and subservient to Guan Shengping, and quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, senior brother, I'm sorry. I didn't expect that just opening it to take a look wouldn't be allowed. I thought that if I was useless, it wouldn't affect the ether in the bottle."

Feng Zhi apologized repeatedly. Guan Shengping was not one to lose his temper, and although he was holding back his anger and his face turned red, he couldn't bring himself to say anything harsh to Feng Zhi.

He said, "You know how to dispose of experimental waste, right? Write me a self-criticism after you're done!"

"Understood, Senior Brother."

Feng Zhi took advantage of Guan Shengping's kind nature, knowing he wouldn't cause any trouble. When he heard that Guan Shengping had let it go, he also looked down on Guan Shengping.

Guan Shengping himself also has to go back and write a self-criticism, and he also has to rewrite the application report.

Feng Zhi didn't dare to speak loudly in front of Guan Shengping, but when he passed Bai Jiaojiao, he lowered his voice and gritted his teeth, saying, "You tattletale!"

Bai Jiaojiao thought this person was really being unreasonable. If the people in their lab didn't tell Guan Shengping about this, were they just going to watch him use the wrong reagents to produce wrong data?

Bai Jiaojiao retorted, "Troublemaker!"

"Pfft..." The senior student couldn't help but laugh, and Feng Zhi choked half to death, then stormed out in a huff.