Jian Yu raised her head, her dazed gaze landing on Sheng Yue’s face.
His blue eyes were deep, his aura cold and lofty, the lines of his face clean and sharp.
The man’s eyelashes were lowered. When he raised his eyes, they were clear and sharp, with a piercing intensity that made one subconsciously want to look away.
Jian Yu’s mouth moved. She wanted to thank him, and also to ask what he would do now that he had given his brooch away.
But he quickly pulled away, averted his gaze, and swept his eyes over the others.
"No noise in the experimental labs."
Sheng Yue stood ramrod straight, motes of dust churning silently in the beam of light behind him.
It was as if the act of him bending down to pin the brooch on her had never happened.
His impeccable face, the sound of his voice—all rigid and cold.
"Go on in."
"Oh." Jian Yu looked down at the brooch on her clothes and said in a muffled voice, "Thank you, Chairman Sheng."
This time, she passed through the lab’s main door without a problem.
Jian Yu had a vague feeling that something was wrong.
’Even if our Levels are the same, I shouldn’t be able to wear Sheng Yue’s brooch, right?’
A Weis Lan Academy brooch wasn’t just a simple brooch.
It contained the student’s information and their access rights to different areas within Weis Lan Academy.
Just like Shen Gu; after Shen Gu became Xi Yu’s Executive Director, his brooch gained an additional title.
"Heh."
Before Jian Yu could figure it out, she heard Yan Qin let out a cold snort.
She looked up to see Yan Qin walk up to Sheng Yue.
Yan Qin didn’t seem to want others to hear what she was saying, so she kept her voice very low.
But Jian Yu still heard every word clearly.
"Chairman Sheng, this project spot is the final compensation you’re giving me. It was part of our previous deal. You’re not going to go back on your word, are you?"
Jian Yu froze on the spot.
She tried to find a flicker of change on Sheng Yue’s face—in his aura, his expression, even the slightest shift in emotion.
She failed.
Sheng Yue didn’t deliberately lower his voice. It was as steady and flat as ever. "The spot was given to you, and it won’t be taken back. For the rest, follow the rules."
Yan Qin smiled smugly.
’What were the rules? Long-winded and tedious.’
’It’s just official jargon. I get it.’
Yan Qin’s volume returned to normal, and her tone became slightly more intimate, as if trying to get friendly with an old acquaintance. "Well then, thank you, Chairman Sheng."
The two of them walked in, one after the other.
Jian Yu lowered her eyes and followed the others inside.
’So she doesn’t need a brooch because she can get by on her connections.’
Each person was assigned a station, a stack of documents, and various instruments, incubation pods, and so on nearby.
She was at station 3, and Xu Jianjuan was at station 2.
At such close proximity, the scent of the Soul Ghost Body on the other girl drifted over intermittently.
Jian Yu glanced up at Xu Jianjuan’s tightly pressed lips.
She withdrew her gaze, sinking into thought and memory.
Jian Yu remembered the first time she had smelled this on Xu Jianjuan was on her very first day after transmigrating into the book.
That day, Xu Jianjuan had strangely deviated from the plot, returning to the dorm with slightly damp clothes.
The moment the door opened, the smell had quickly permeated the room.
The smell was unpleasant to Jian Yu, so she buried her head in a book, quietly playing the part of a background character.
Reason told her that the smell on the heroine was probably from having some rather stinky, dirty water thrown on her.
But her intuition was frantically sounding alarms in her mind, like an animal instinctively heightening its vigilance upon encountering an enemy.
’A bullied roommate is sending out a distress signal.’
In the real world, Jian Yu would have definitely recorded evidence on the sly and helped her report it to the police.
In this world of aristocrats, although she wanted to protect herself and had sensed malice, it wasn’t enough to make her rush to condemn the heroine before she had even done anything.
Faced with the heroine’s abnormality, Jian Yu had desperately avoided her, partly suspecting she herself was paranoid, and partly using the excuse that the heroine wanted to drag her down with her.
Shi Zhao had said that the Soul Ghost Body and the Primordial Beast Clan People were natural enemies; they coveted and feared each other.
Whichever side was weaker became food for the other.
Logically speaking, a Soul Ghost Body wouldn’t waste its energy on an ordinary person.
’Xu Jianjuan was reborn. So the Soul Ghost Body that was with her before...’
Jian Yu snapped back to the present, her fingers tightening into a fist.
The gaze on her grew more and more obvious. She looked up at Xu Jianjuan.
Jian Yu didn’t act overly friendly. Her tone was lukewarm. "What is it?"
Xu Jianjuan’s eyes were downcast, her voice soft. "The brooch isn’t new."
Not new, which meant it was Sheng Yue’s own.
Xu Jianjuan looked up, her expression complex. "Aren’t you curious why you were able to come in wearing his brooch?"
Jian Yu paused.
’I actually have a guess.’
Xu Jianjuan stared at Jian Yu’s blank expression and stated the fact, "Sheng Yue erased his own information and replaced it with yours."
"Mm, that’s probably it," Jian Yu agreed, nodding.
She noticed Xu Jianjuan’s breathing had become ragged.
Xu Jianjuan turned her head, her gaze fixed on Sheng Yue, who had just walked in.
Her face was full of suspicion, and her eyes held a mix of emotions that Jian Yu couldn’t decipher.
"Open secure channel." Sheng Yue’s Star Brain flashed on his wrist, a blue light sweeping across everyone’s eyes.
A screen materialized, and a few small spheres tumbled across it.
He said coldly, "The medicine and incubation majors will form pairs. Groups will be decided by a draw."
Jian Yu waited a few seconds, and after confirming he had nothing more to say, she began the draw.
Before she could even see her group assignment, Xu Jianjuan, who was beside her, spoke up. "I’m in a group with you."
Jian Yu blinked. "I look forward to working with you, then?"
Xu Jianjuan nodded. "I’ll lead."
She had experience.
Jian Yu’s eyes lit up slightly. "Thanks."
She loved to coast and enjoyed the feeling of being carried by an expert.
Turning to the side, she started organizing her things, rearranging the instruments according to her own habits.
The documents in her hands were about incubation and genetics, not medicine.
’Good, good. It’s related to my specialty, at least.’
Jian Yu let out a small sigh of relief.
For the task assessment, each group needed to independently choose a research topic, complete a practical application, and submit a six-thousand-word paper after one week.
The assessment would be graded based on the novelty, completion, and value of the research topic, as well as the difficulty of the practical application, the quality of the paper, and so on.
Those who passed the assessment would stay. Those who failed would have to voluntarily withdraw from the project group.
When Yan Qin heard there were assessment criteria, she instantly exploded. "What? There’s an assessment?"
She pointed at Jian Yu. "Those two—one is the top student in medicine, the other is the top student in incubation. Chairman Sheng, isn’t it a bit unreasonable to put the two top students together to compete against the rest of us?"
Sheng Yue’s expression turned a few degrees colder. "Your questions don’t affect me, nor will they change the group assignments."
He stared straight ahead, his eyes devoid of any extraneous emotion.
"If you think it’s unfair, it’s not too late to give up now."
"The assessment is aimed at you, not the top students of the majors."
"Whether their results are good or bad has nothing to do with whether you get to stay."
Yan Qin’s face flushed red. "Are you saying, Chairman Sheng, that this assessment is specifically targeting me?"
She shrieked, "Is it fun to mess with me? You should have just rejected me from the start!"
Sheng Yue’s brows furrowed.
’Duan Feiye really brought me a huge problem.’
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