Chapter 29 "The Real and Fake Heiresses" The real heiress will sit on the judging panel (Part 12...)

Ye Xueli ran back to her territory as fast as she could. She didn't know what was chasing her, but she didn't want to stay for even a moment longer.

Ye Xiqing watched her retreating figure, then turned around.

Meng Xuedong raised his hands—

"I swear I didn't eavesdrop on purpose. I just had something I wanted to talk to you about. I didn't hear anything..."

Ye Xiqing: ...

"What's up?"

Meng Xuedong was almost in tears. She knew that working too hard would bring consequences. See? She overheard her boss's secrets about his wealthy family...

She looked at Ye Xiqing with a pitiful expression, on the verge of tears: "Boss, although the details have been finalized, where am I supposed to find people to implement them?"

"Try to figure out a solution yourself."

"I can't imagine it! I really can't imagine it! Our family has been farmers for eighteen generations, and we have absolutely no connections in this area!"

"Then why did you choose this major?"

"I don't know, I just applied because the name sounded like it would lead to good job prospects."

Ye Xiqing: ...

You're very brave.

Meng Xuedong's courage brought the first difficulty to starting a business. Ye Xiqing looked at her and asked, "Do you have time tomorrow?"

"have!"

"Come with me to visit Teacher Yang."

"Ah? Professor Yang? Could it be Academician Yang Wenqing?"

What do you think?

"Oh my god! Xi Shen! Can I also go see Teacher Yang?!"

"Otherwise, besides Professor Yang, do we have any other connections in the pharmaceutical field?"

"Hehe." Meng Xuedong said with a hint of smugness, "So you admit it yourself, boss, that you don't have any connections in the pharmaceutical field."

Ye Xiqing crossed her arms: "But I will soon have a lot of connections."

Meng Xuedong nodded, believing! Believing! Truly believing!

Once the business was over, his thoughts easily wandered, and Meng Xuedong found himself involuntarily starting to think about other things.

Ye Xiqing didn't need to look at her expression to know what she was thinking, and said expressionlessly, "If you have anything else to say, then say it quickly."

Huh? Is this something I can say?

Meng Xuedong really wanted to be more shrewd, but she couldn't help it!

After much deliberation, she convinced herself: playing dumb in front of the boss might not make her seem shrewd; maybe the boss actually prefers someone more honest and loyal!

So go ahead and say it! She's the boss's most loyal lackey! It's okay!

Having let go of his inner turmoil, Meng Xuedong whispered in Ye Xiqing's ear, "Boss, are you planning a battle for the family fortune? Do you need my help?"

"You can't say things like that in public again. Luckily, I heard it. If a competitor had heard it or if it had been recorded by a security camera, we would have been finished!"

"Domestic power struggles, I get it! I get it! I get it all!"

"Boss, you're still too naive and kind-hearted. Ask me about things like this next time."

Ye Xiqing: ...

What do you even know?

He pushed her into the house, a look of satisfaction on his face. No wonder he was a genius boss who scored 746 on the college entrance exam. She understood immediately and knew to close the door and plot something!

Ye Xiqing's ability to remain calm and composed in the face of anyone gave her the opportunity to approach Meng Xuedong with a normal mindset.

"Put away your wild ideas. Do you think I look like someone who needs to compete with others for the right of inheritance?"

Meng Xuedong wanted to say, "The door's closed, what are you afraid of?" But then he thought, "Oh right, from the moment he entered until now, the boss has always acted like he's the only one who matters in this house. He doesn't seem like a submissive second-generation rich kid who's clinging to his parents for inheritance rights."

At the Ye Group, she seemed to only hear the Ye Group boss talking about her missing daughter, who was also her boss, and she had never heard of any other heirs in the Ye Group.

Can that delicate, bunny-like younger sister really compete with such a fierce boss for the inheritance?

Meng Xuedong fell into thought. Ye Xiqing didn't want to see her continue to overthink, so she said simply and clearly, "You can understand it this way: my sister and I were born into a marriage contract, but I was taken away when I was a child, so the marriage contract naturally fell on her."

“She and her fiancé were childhood sweethearts and developed feelings for each other. Now that I’m back, I’m telling you that the engagement should be mine, so she’s worried that I’ll steal her fiancé away.”

"Emm..." Meng Xuedong let out a series of meaningless groans, looking at Ye Xiqing in horror: "So you two sisters are fighting for the same man now!"

"Please use your brain. Anyone knows that what's more infuriating than fighting over the same man is when your younger sister likes the man who leaves her crying on the side of the road and is worried that her older sister will try to take him away from her."

"Emm~" Meng Xuedong continued to make some unintentional onomatopoeic sounds. It's working! Everything's working!

It seems to be a classic story of wealthy sisters: the older sister is noble and aloof, while the younger sister is timid and innocent. Due to the cruel twist of fate, they are both entangled with the same man.

The younger sister, who stayed in the wealthy family, is innocent, kind, and naive. She grew up pure and innocent, believing that she could be with the person she secretly loved and that they could be soulmates.

But she never expected that her older sister, who had been separated from her since childhood and suffered greatly and wandered from place to place, was already standing at the door, looking at her younger sister who had grown up like an angel with eyes full of hatred, determined to take everything away from her, including her lover!

It's such a classic! So classic that whether it's an innocent younger sister as the female lead or an ambitious older sister as the female lead, you can easily make 180 episodes, with 180 handsome male leads and supporting male characters appearing in turn.

Just as Meng Xuedong was marveling at how "the world is a giant XX novel," Ye Xiqing's next words brought her back to reality.

Yeah, it's not like the younger sister threw the older sister away. If the older sister comes back, she can take something else. Why would she steal the younger sister's things?

Aside from some pretty dresses, my sister doesn't seem to have anything else. If she had an older or younger brother, she wouldn't even get a large share of the family property.

Look at the current situation of the Ye sisters. The younger sister has enjoyed eighteen years of happiness in a greenhouse, but what does she have to compare with her older sister who has been exposed to the wind and rain and grown into a fierce beast!

The older sister has already taken over the family business and started her own venture, while the younger sister is still heartbroken and crying, begging her older sister not to steal her lover.

This is not even in the same league as the opponent. Whether it's fighting over the family fortune or stealing the man, there's no need to worry. The scenario she's thinking of is really quite idiotic.

Thankfully, Xi Shen is still quite normal. Rather than whether or not she's fighting over a man, it's definitely her sister's love-struck mind that's more of a headache.

If that's the case, then Xi Shen is really a very humane person.

If it were her, seeing her sister so love-struck, she would be overjoyed. "I'll give you 18 years and you're still useless. Then the Ye family is mine, hehehe!"

That's why people call him a god; he's noble and virtuous, and even willing to take care of his sister, though his methods are a bit rough.

Meng Xuedong's gaze towards Ye Xiqing was immediately filled with admiration, regret, understanding, and appreciation.

Xi Shen, I should learn from you!

Ye Xiqing: ...

"Can we get her into the system to write scripts?"

"Can't."

"Then you missed out on a talented person."

"Heh." The system replied to Ye Xiqing with a hint of annoyance: "If we follow her script, Ye Xueli should record everything you just said and let everyone see your ambition!"

Ye Xiqing smiled slightly: "If that's the case, I'll think more highly of her."

Wild beasts roaming in the wild, even if crippled, still retain their predatory instincts.

If a rabbit kept at home forgets how to bite people, it can really just rot in its cage.

Ye Xiqing glanced at Meng Xuedong. Meng Xuedong immediately became obedient: What is it?

He opened the door with one hand, leaving her with only a glance: "That's enough for today's discussion. We'll continue tomorrow."

...

Yang Wenqing is a very meticulous person. If he doesn't agree, he won't agree. But if he does agree, he will definitely do it.

So even though many people said that undergraduate coursework was easy and that other teachers should do it, and that Professor Yang didn't need to do everything himself, Yang Wenqing still came.

She kept her promise. Regardless of Ye Xiqing's thoughts, she had agreed to the combined bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree program, and that was it.

But she didn't expect that while she was anxious, her students were even more anxious than she was.

Looking at Ye Xiqing, who was consulting her about setting up a pharmaceutical research and development company, Yang Wenqing remained silent: "Are you really that eager to start a pharmaceutical research and development company?"

"Yes, everything is better when it's your own. With my own lab, I can do the research I want to do without any worries."

“As my student, no one will shortchange you in terms of academic resources.”

"But there is a particular area I want to invest in."

"That's really strange. You haven't even had a single professional course yet, and you already have a direction. What direction?"

Ye Xiqing had been waiting for her to say that. She sat up straight, looked at Yang Wenqing with a serious expression, and announced her ambition.

"At this stage, my primary goal is to develop a highly effective drug to cure menstrual cramps."

Yang Wenqing: ...

Meng Xuedong: ...

That's a bit unexpected...

Yang Wenqing, having seen it all, remained unfazed. Meng Xuedong, however, couldn't hold back any longer and secretly gave Ye Xiqing a sympathetic look: "Xi Qing, are you having menstrual cramps?"

Even academic geniuses get menstrual cramps, that's so pitiful...

Ye Xiqing looked at her: "Don't pity me all the time. It's not that I'm qualified to research this kind of medicine just because I have menstrual cramps."

"Is that your aunt having menstrual cramps, or is it your sister having pain? Xi Shen, you're such a kind person, dedicating yourself to scientific research for your family."

Ye Xiqing: ...

I'm happy when you praise me, but could you please stop coming up with such weird and strange ideas?

Yang Wenqing coughed. As an old woman who had gone through menopause many years ago, she felt somewhat embarrassed to hear two young girls openly discussing such matters.

To stop them from continuing their conversation, he said with a serious expression, "Many of us in this line of work did decide to pursue this path after seeing our loved ones suffer from illness. That's a good intention. No matter how small the starting point, the desire to alleviate suffering for others is the most important belief in our profession. But—"

“But this is not what I originally intended.” Ye Xiqing interrupted Yang Wenqing for the first time.

When Yang Wenqing looked at Ye Xiqing again, he saw that her expression was still as calm and composed as when they first met. Sometimes he wondered if an overly mature soul had taken over this body.

Ye Xiqing looked intently at Yang Wenqing's face and calmly revealed her goals.

"'To eliminate the suffering of the world' is indeed a great belief, and if I could, I would gladly use this reason to deceive you."

"But the world is just too peaceful, and I have too many material resources now."

“My life is so comfortable that I don’t even want to lie, so I will tell you frankly that I did all this in order to become a female scientist.”

"You might be wondering why I chose to become a female scientist. People say that science has no borders and scholars have no gender, but the gender of a scholar, like the borders of science, has always been a strong challenge to my sensibilities."

"I don't know how anyone can get the motivation to move forward from love. At least all along, what has held me back has been negative emotions."

"So I stand here, not for love or justice, but simply to declare war, as a woman, on everything that stirs up my negative emotions!"

Yang Wenqing: ...

"You're just like a politician..."

"I did have that idea, but Professor Yang, your personal charm won me over."

"Don't say that, it puts a lot of pressure on me..."

"No, this is praise you deserve, Teacher Yang."

Yang Wenqing: ...

From a teacher's perspective, Yang Wenqing would absolutely not want his students to have such a narrow view of science.

Mastering technology means mastering powerful tools. The height a researcher can reach is limited by her abilities, but the direction she will take depends on her values ​​and beliefs.

Ye Xiqing's ideas seemed extreme just from hearing them, but when Yang Wenqing returned to her identity as a woman, she desperately hoped she would succeed...

She acted like a radical racist, easily swayed by a young student's words.

"Don't expect me to offer you much help. After all, I'm just your teacher, and I'll only teach you what I'm supposed to teach you."

She couldn't teach anyone else, even if she wanted to; her students were still young, but she was already too old.