"You...you are that senior's person. Did the senior send you here?" Zuo Qionghua could only think of this possibility after thinking it over and over, and asked uncertainly.

Qin Sheng: "I'm not."

Zuo Qionghua immediately felt relieved, her heart, which had been hanging in suspense, calmed down, and her complexion returned to normal.

However, before she could completely relax, Qin Sheng lifted his eyelids and said in his still cold voice, "But if the senior you mentioned is the main experimenter for the next experiment, then I should be that 'senior'."

Zuo Qionghua and Jin Chu's hearts pounded violently at the same time.

Zuo Qionghua was shocked into disbelief, while Jin Chu's guess was confirmed. In her astonishment, she couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Just as I expected...

There was no need to prove his identity; the best proof was Song Yi, who stood silently to the side with a cold face.

Qin Sheng... she was telling the truth.

In an instant, a strong sense of humiliation surged into her heart, causing Zuo Qionghua's cold and beautiful face to turn red and blue.

Even Jin Chun's entry into this laboratory was only possible because Song Yi begged that "senior" for permission to mentor him.

And she, who got in to help with miscellaneous tasks and had the opportunity to learn something by virtue of her relationship with Jin Chu, is actually kicking people out here?

Zuo Qionghua couldn't help but think of Qin Sheng's earlier words.

So, in what capacity did she invite her out?

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Zuo Qionghua wished she could disappear into a hole in the ground.

In the silence, Qin Sheng sat back down in her chair, casually gesturing with her snow-white chin towards the trash can, and said, "So, can you put my things back where they were?"

It is worth mentioning that it is made from sorghum seeds.

But not to mention that the contents were already in the trash, the soil and plants inside had fallen out of the terracotta pot, making it dirty and messy, and impossible to restore.

Zuo Qionghua did not move.

She bit her lip and said, "It's just a blade of grass. Tell me its name, and I'll buy one to replace it for you, okay?"

Song Yi almost laughed out of anger.

Just a blade of grass?

Does she know how many biologists and geneticists are drawn to what she calls just a simple plant?

Does she know that countless tycoons have spent countless resources and effort trying to cultivate this plant but failed?

Song Yi had met Zuo Qionghua a few times and didn't like her much. He always felt that although the girl seemed aloof and arrogant, she was actually somewhat cynical and self-pitying. However, out of respect for his prized student, he still maintained a polite facade.

At this moment, he couldn't even maintain the semblance of politeness and wanted to curse as soon as he opened his mouth.

But before he could start cursing, Qin Sheng nodded: "Okay."

She casually pulled a notebook from the lab table, tore off a page, and wrote a few words: Tian Shu Zi (天秫子).

He slammed the record sheet down on the table not far away, glancing at the time on his phone: "Excluding the preparation process, I need to use this 'Heavenly Millet Seed' in an hour and a half. Miss Zuo, please deliver the compensation to me within this hour and a half."

Zuo Qionghua stepped forward, picked up the record sheet, carefully read the three words, and then stepped back.

It was something she had never heard of, but with today's advanced internet technology, there's nothing you can't buy if you can imagine it.

Although time was a bit tight, she didn't think there was anything she couldn't buy in Tiandu if she was willing to spend more money.

Zuo Qionghua took out her phone, opened a webpage, quickly typed in the three characters "Tian Shu Zi" and pressed the search button.

The page immediately displayed the message: "Sorry, no results were found related to 'Tian Shu Zi'."

Zuo Qionghua's heart trembled, and she immediately exited the webpage and reopened the Taobao interface.

Here's another similar sentence: 【The following are search results for "Gastrodia elata," still searching for "Gastrodia elata"】

Still no.

Zuo Qionghua's heart trembled again. Undeterred, she tried searching through Xiaohongshu, Douyin, Zhihu, Weibo, and other commonly used online tools for finding lost items.

The only exception was: none.

If it's not there, it's not there.

How is that possible?

Zuo Qionghua's forehead was already covered in cold sweat. She went into Gaode Maps again, wanting to ask around at a few flower and bird markets, but Jin Chu didn't give her a chance to continue searching.

He reached out and snatched the phone from Zuo Qionghua's hand, then shoved it back into her pocket before walking into a small cubicle in the laboratory.

There was a printer there, and right now several A4-sized sheets of paper were tightly lying in the paper ejector.

Jin Chu casually pulled it out and handed it to Zuo Qionghua: "Take a look for yourself."

Zuo Qionghua reached out and took it, reading it word by word.

With each line she read, her face grew paler, and by the time she finished reading the entire document, her limbs were so weak she could barely move.

She never dreamed that the plant she thought was so inconspicuous, like something she'd picked up from a random flower stall, would actually be such a rare treasure!

The value is over 100 million...

Even if she could find the relevant purchase information, she wouldn't be able to come up with such a large sum of money!

Qin Sheng thought she was quite understanding.

Seeing that the other person's fair complexion was quite pretty, she thought that perhaps if it were even fairer, it would look even better.

So he tapped the table and said, "There's no need to go through all this trouble to look for it. I have two more plants on hand. Since Miss Zuo is so sincere in wanting to compensate me, then fine, I'll part with one and sell it to you."

“Just one hundred million,” Qin Sheng added.

Sure enough, Zuo Qionghua's face turned even paler.

She looked up, her gaze sweeping over Qin Sheng, Song Yi, and her boyfriend Jin Chu in turn.

But whether it was the former two or the latter, they all just watched her quietly.

No one was inclined to speak up for her or plead for her.

Zuo Qionghua really wanted to call out to Jin Chu, but she knew very well that given his passion for biological genetic research and his respect for his mentor Song Yi, he would definitely choose the former two without hesitation between her and the former two.

Speaking up would only bring shame upon oneself.

She bit her lip hard, and finally, under everyone's gaze, she took a difficult step.

I walked step by step toward the trash can until I stood in front of it.

At that moment, Zuo Qionghua couldn't help but recall the scene from not long ago when Qin Shengchuang bent down to pick up the sorghum from the trash can.

She reached out to stop them, and thinking she was in the right, she tried to kick them out.

Now, the scene is reversed, the positions are switched, and she is the one bending over...

It's impossible to say I don't regret it.

But things had come to this point, so she could only grit her teeth, bend her once straight back, and slowly reach her hand into the trash can…