The amount of information conveyed in those two sentences was too much for Lin Fengzi to process immediately.
The name Ruan Chen is familiar, but he is not among his team members.
Besides... "R"?
Lin Fengzi suddenly found herself on a mental note.
That mysterious "R".
In the competition in the China region, only the team captain's real name is required. When registering the team members' information form, Lin Fengzi was worried that he might offend the mysterious master "R" - yes, in Lin Fengzi's mind, the hacker "R" who single-handedly challenged Liuli Island was an absolutely unparalleled master - so he just filled in this code name and made up the rest of the information.
Anyway, we'll have to submit the application again during the finals. It would be more appropriate to let R fill it out himself when we meet him then—hackers, being tech-savvy, seem to be particularly concerned about their personal privacy.
But now, the friend that Su Jin introduced immediately asked Ruan Chen if she was his team member.
Lin Fengzi began racking her brains to recall when she had ever heard the name Ruan Chen.
Seeing that Lin Fengzi looked blank and didn't answer for a long time, Ruan Yunhan thought she had made a mistake and was somewhat disappointed.
She said apologetically, "Then I must have made a mistake. I'm sorry to have bothered you."
"It's alright, it's alright," Lin Fengzi quickly said. "They're all from China participating. By the way, which school do you go to?"
Ruan Yunhan smiled reservedly, with an unintentional smugness, "First Military Academy, my name is Ruan Yunhan."
"Oh, oh, oh, I've heard so much about you... I've heard so much about you."
Lin Fengzi's "I've long admired you" was just a polite remark; he would respond in the same way no matter what the other person said.
But just as he uttered the first "I've long admired you," long-forgotten memories suddenly came alive in his mind.
Ruan Yunhan?
His second "I've long admired you" carried a hint of gritted teeth.
He then connected the name Ruan Chen with a stunningly beautiful face from his memory.
Ruan, R.
She keeps calling herself "big boss," is she some high school freshman girl?
How old was she when the incident happened on the island?
"You know me?" Ruan Yunhan seemed not to understand the meaning behind the two "I've long admired you"s.
“I’ve heard of it,” Lin Fengzi smiled knowingly. “Huating Academy produced a reality show back then, what was it called… ‘The Geniuses of the Elite School’? I remember Miss Ruan’s performance very well.”
Ruan Yunhan truly took the praise to heart.
She lowered her head and flirtatiously tossed her hair, glancing shyly at Lin Fengzi from bottom to top.
Lin Fengzi shivered.
If he wasn't mistaken... could that look in his eyes be from lust?
He picked up the menu, gesturing for Ruan Yunhan to order. His ingrained refinement ensured that even when facing someone he disliked, his manners remained impeccable.
Even though Ruan Yunhan bought haters, engaged in comparisons and deleting negative reviews on the show back then, and even banned three of Lin Fengzi's accounts.
While Ruan Yunhan was ordering food, Lin Fengzi sent a message to the person whose contact name was "R".
There are only four characters.
"Hello, Ruan Chen."
While eating at the hotel buffet, Ruan Chen glanced at her phone screen, her fork trembled, and the fried egg fell into her plate.
"What's wrong, sis?"
Ruan Yu'er looked at her sister's conflicted expression.
"It's nothing, just a slip of the tongue, a minor issue."
Ruan Chen leaned back in her chair, asparagus dangling from her mouth, pondering how to reply, when Lin Fengzi sent another message.
"Your sister and I are having dinner and trying to get some information out of you. Are you free to meet up tonight?"
Ruan Chen sent the hotel location directly, saying, "The environment here is pretty good, and there are still rooms available if you book now."
Ruan Yunhan had already ordered the food and returned the menu.
Two cups of tea and a salad.
Su Fengzi felt nauseous.
It's also possible that they felt nauseous looking at the face in front of them.
"Mr. Lin, aren't you going to order anything?"
"I ate on the plane. Su Jin said it was about the competition. What specifically would you like to discuss, Miss Ruan?"
Ruan Yunhan smiled and said, "It's like this. This morning I met with two professors from the National University of M country, who are also judges for this competition. They expressed great interest in our group's topic and offered to buy out the patent for 50 million."
Lin Fengzi nodded listlessly, "That's a good thing, congratulations."
“To be honest, our model was a bit unstable in the last step,” Ruan Yunhan continued. “There are still five days until the final. The professors from the National University said that our two groups’ initial models were very similar and the design ideas were the same. Although the final products were very different, I think we can learn from each other. The professors also said that your model has a fatal flaw. I’m sure Mr. Lin is aware of that himself.”
Her last words were a complete deception of Lin Fengzi.
Lin Fengzi really didn't know.
Based on her understanding of Ruan Yunhan's character, Lin Fengzi did not answer immediately. Instead, she lowered her eyes to look at the teacup in her hand, pondering Ruan Yunhan's words.
Their group's model was simulated no less than ten times—"R," no, it was Ruan Chen, who seemed to have perfectionism. She not only wanted to see the model function normally under normal conditions, but also simulated seven or eight extreme conditions and conducted control experiments under these conditions.
Lin Fengzi was very confident that their design was fine—at least it didn't have any fatal flaws.
Just now, Ruan Yunhan said that Ruan Chen plagiarized and hoped that I would abstain from the contest; after I said that I did not know Ruan Chen, I changed my mind and hoped to cooperate. No matter how you look at it, she was up to no good.
And she mentioned that the final step was unstable...
Lin Fengzi recalled their group's first design, the one that Ruan Chen insisted on abandoning.
Ultimately, the reason for abandoning the project was that the last step was too unstable; the model began to collapse and disintegrate just three seconds after it started.
Who is Ruan Chen? He was ranked 98th on the Prism ranking list, and that was a long time ago.
She had no reason to plagiarize.
Then there's only one possibility.
Ruan Yunhan somehow got her hands on Ruan Chen's discarded drafts.
Lin Fengzi sneered inwardly, but pretended to be confused and nervous. "Our group was under a lot of time, so the model was not actually verified many times. It was lucky that we made it to the finals. Did the professor say what the problem was?"
Ruan Yunhan countered, "What's your final form like? Is it stable?"
"We haven't verified the final step yet, but the data projections look okay."
Ruan Yunhan seemed thoughtful. "Our group has verified it many times. Except for the last step which is a little imperfect, the professor is very satisfied with the other parts. Mr. Lin, if you don't mind, I can take a look at the data and model for you. Perhaps I can still help you correct the errors."
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