Chapter 850 Ranbao extra (23)
She looked at Wen Sichen incredulously: "Whether we're compatible or not can't be determined by this one thing. Besides, I just want to study hard and get closer to him. What's wrong with that?"
Wen Sichen scoffed, "Yes, you want to get closer to him. You pretend to be a lady and act weak for him, you dance dances you're not good at, you practice in the dance studio until your ankles are swollen, you stay up all night studying some damn physics and chemistry for him. Then let me ask you, what has he done for you?"
Kong Ran: "..."
Wen Sichen's words were almost all aimed at her sore spots. She didn't know why he was doing this, and her hands unconsciously clenched into fists at her sides: "I don't need him to do anything for me. I like him, so what's wrong with giving a little more? You can't calculate these things in a relationship."
"Wow, Kong Ran, how come I didn't know you were such a saint before?" Wen Sichen's tone was undisguisedly sarcastic: "Aren't you afraid that all your efforts will end up being for nothing, and that she won't care at all?"
"Are you sick, Wen Sichen? I'm willing to make sacrifices, what's it to you? What right do you have to interfere in my love life? Who do you think you are!" Kong Ran couldn't hold back any longer, her eyes reddening as she shoved him hard and turned to go into the room.
With a loud bang, the door slammed shut.
As Wen Sichen heard the voice, his heart felt as if it had been struck by a heavy hammer.
After a while, he turned his head and slammed his fist hard against the wall next to him.
He was breathing rapidly, and it took him a long time to calm down.
He walked to the sofa next to him, ran his hands through his hair, and after a while, slumped back against the sofa.
He didn't know what was wrong with him today; his emotions surged up unexpectedly.
The petty thoughts like "jealousy, anger, and meanness" in his heart could not be contained in the end, and he briefly took control of himself.
These days, he watched Kong Ran stay up late every night, and when she was so sleepy that she would rub her temples with Tiger Balm; he also watched her frown over and over again on questions she couldn't understand, and chew up countless pen nibs; and he watched her lose three or four pounds in just three to five days, and listen to online classes and check papers like she was possessed.
He thought, if being in a relationship has to be this torturous.
This bullshit relationship is better left unresolved.
But Kong Ran clearly didn't think so.
Perhaps, falling in love with someone means losing your rationality.
On the sofa, he gave a self-deprecating smile.
Wen Sichen, you were already prepared to watch her fall in love and get married, so what are you doing now?
His hands clenched and unclenched repeatedly at his sides until he finally regained his composure.
He let out a long sigh, got up, and knocked on Kong Ran's door again.
There was no movement inside.
Wen Sichen knew she was still angry with him.
He hesitated for a moment, then reached out and pushed the door open.
The door wasn't locked; he pushed it open.
Inside the door, Kong Ran was indeed sitting on the edge of the bed, hugging her knees. When she heard the sound, she looked up and glared at him fiercely, as if questioning him about what he was doing here again.
Her eyes were red and swollen, clearly indicating that she had been crying.
Wen Sichen's heart trembled, and he let out a long breath, saying, "Get up."
Kong Ran remained motionless, silently confronting him.
After a long while, he finally succumbed to defeat once again.
From childhood to adulthood, he seemed to have never won against her.
He sighed and said, "Didn't you want to learn these things?"
He tapped on the thick textbooks and papers on the table: "I'll teach you."
Kong Ran: "?"
Seeing that she remained silent, Wen Sichen raised an eyebrow: "What, you don't want to use the readily available teacher? If you don't want to use her, then forget it, I'm leaving."
After he finished speaking, he made a gesture as if to turn around and leave.
Before he could move, a menacing voice came from behind him: "Are you serious?"
Wen Sichen's lips curled up slightly. She casually pulled a paper from my desk, glanced at it, and said, "On the application and development of polymer materials in the aerospace field. The research topic is not wrong, but this paper was published in 2010. Ten years have passed, and new chemical materials have been developed. This paper is obviously outdated. What common ground do you expect to establish with your senior Zhong based on this?"
Kong Ran: "..."
This time, she truly believed that Wen Sichen was capable and could actually help her.
She got out of bed quickly and decisively, walked a few steps to the table, and wiped her eyes hard: "What about this one?"
She picked up another paper from the side.
"Research progress on biodegradable and absorbable orthopedic polymer materials is not even published in SCI journals. It's meaningless to look at it. Who knows which university graduate just casually wrote it to fool the professors?"
Kong Ran: "..."
This paper is indeed a graduation thesis written by an undergraduate student.
How could he have hit the nail on the head with just one sentence?
"Open the website, download the papers I found for you, and after you've read them, ask me if you don't understand anything." Wen Sichen then turned on her computer.
Kong Ran hurriedly sat down next to him, and said in a slightly ingratiating tone, "Then could you tell me your approach to finding these papers? I don't know what to look at, so I just skimmed through them."
Wen Sichen chuckled and said, "What, now you're not saying I'm meddling?"
Kong Ran: "...Don't bring up things you shouldn't talk about, okay? You were the one who went crazy first!"
Wen Sichen didn't want to dwell on it any longer, so he clicked his tongue and stopped talking, turning to look at the computer: "When looking for papers, first you need to check the publication date, preferably recently published ones. Second, you need to check where they're published, whether it's a core journal..."
...
With Wen Sichen's help, Kong Ran's studies progressed rapidly, and he no longer needed to work hard on his own.
As a result, she finally regained a normal amount of sleep and appetite.
The abundance of new knowledge in her mind was very rewarding, especially when she watched Zhong Lin conduct experiments at his company and directly asked him, "Why not use flame-retardant technology?" The astonishment and disbelief in Zhong Lin's eyes made her feel that all those nights she had spent and all the knowledge she had acquired had been worthwhile.
She did manage to have more to talk about with Zhong Lin.
Zhong Lin, in fact, did not give any feedback as Wen Sichen claimed.
Every time they went out to eat, although Kong Ran usually offered to pay, Zhong Lin would pay the bill. One day, when Kong Ran invited him to go to the movies, Zhong Lin readily accepted.
Kong Ran later learned that Zhong Lin had a very important meeting scheduled for the day he went to the movies with her.
A research whiz who only knew how to work suddenly neglected his job one day in order to go to the movies with a girl.
This is enough to illustrate some points.
At this moment, Kong Ran was only focused on being with the two of them. Even though she noticed that Zhong Lin's attitude had changed, she didn't realize what it meant.
And just as these days were flying by, the school's graduate student sports meet arrived.
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