The moment the door closed, Li Shanshui’s face had completely darkened.
It was no different from the bottom of a burnt pot.
Stepping on her high heels, she suppressed her frustration and went to the subtitle team.
“Oh! Sister Li, you finally came!”
The subtitle team leader greeted her as if he had seen his own father, eagerly stepping forward with hands clasped together. “Thank goodness you haven’t left yet…”
“What’s wrong?”
“Come, please sit. It’s like this, we’re generating subtitles based on the live recording. Everything else is fine, except for what Goddess Yue said about that… electronic wave function spreading? And this… something something… instantaneous collapse projection? And some QP index… some kind of particle…”
A stream of confused muttering: “…how exactly should these words be typed? I only have a small bachelor’s degree and am just trying to make a living, I’ve never even heard of them. No one else understands either.”
“Luckily, there’s still you!”
Li Shanshui: “Me?”
“Yes! You have dual master’s degrees from a prestigious university and directly interview scientists from various fields, speaking eloquently and with ease, so you definitely wouldn’t be like the rest of us who don’t understand what Jiang Fuyue was talking about!”
A tall hat of praise was placed squarely on her head.
Li Shanshui stiffened her face and forced an awkward smile. “I can understand a little.”
But really only a little, no more than that.
The team leader assumed she was being modest. “You’re being too low-key. Come on, let’s start.”
Li Shanshui blinked blankly. “Start what?”
“Start translating the subtitles!”
“…”
No, I don’t want to start.
After nearly three hours of struggle, the subtitle work was finally completed with great difficulty.
When Li Shanshui left, she wished she could grow wings and fly away instantly. If she stayed any longer, she feared she might lose her life here.
“Team leader, why do I feel Teacher Li seems a bit strange?”
“Yeah, her complexion didn’t look good either.”
“Actually, a lot of the technical terms she couldn’t answer immediately either. Just like us, she had to look them up before knowing.”
“But no matter what, she’s still better than us.”
“My ears feel like there’s a swarm of bees buzzing nonstop…”
“So how did Goddess Yue manage to rattle off so many interdisciplinary terms in one breath without stopping? Sitting below the stage, it felt like listening to a thesis reading, I almost fell asleep. Too terrifying.”
“Today I truly experienced the fear of being dominated by the big demon king.”
“What are your thoughts?”
“Being able to breathe on the same Earth as her is already an enormous honor.”
“Pfft, you’re licking way too hard!”
“It’s Goddess Yue, I’d gladly lick until my tongue breaks! Hmph!”
“……”
Meanwhile, after picking up Jiang Fuyue, Xie Dingyuan first took her to eat hot pot.
By now, ordering dishes and cooking them in the pot, Professor Xie had already trained himself into an expert.
Jiang Fuyue didn’t need to worry about anything; after entering the restaurant, she only needed to sit down and eat.
Her boyfriend handled everything throughout.
Smelling the spicy hot-pot aroma and eating the food Professor Xie placed into her bowl,
The experience was perfect!
“Don’t just put food into my bowl, you should eat too!”
He verbally agreed, “Okay,” but in action he still placed more food for her and fed himself less.
Compared with eating, Xie Dingyuan actually preferred watching his wife.
There was once a netizen who captured a GIF from the Lasker award ceremony: Xie Dingyuan sat in the audience, looking up at the stage. That focused, admiring gaze, as if filled with tiny stars, the camera suddenly zoomed out, and on the stage happened to be Jiang Fuyue holding the trophy and giving her acceptance speech.
Because of that image, CP fans jokingly called him for a time, “the wife-watching stone.”
When it came time to pay, Xie Dingyuan naturally took out his phone and scanned the code to settle the bill, while Jiang Fuyue only needed to stand sweetly at the entrance waiting for him.
When they left, he also stuffed a small fragrant sachet into Jiang Fuyue’s hand. A faint lotus scent lingered. “Hold this, it removes odors.”
Seeing it was still early, the two decided to go shopping as a way to digest.
Xie Dingyuan lined up to buy her favorite desserts. During that time, two female college students recognized them and became so excited that they covered their mouths and screamed, hopping continuously in place.
“Sister Yue! Professor! We’re members of the YuanYue CP army, we actually saw the real people! Ah, I’m getting dizzy! Could we please get both of your autographs?”
Jiang Fuyue agreed.
When Xie Dingyuan heard they were CP fans, he immediately agreed happily.
Their names were signed next to each other on the girls’ backpacks.
It actually looked quite nice.
That night, the two college girls posted the picture on Weibo with the Yuan-Yue CP supertopic tag, instantly making countless “CP researchers” envious.
MoonMoonIWon’tSleepV: Queued to buy desserts and ran into Goddess Yue and Professor. They match so so so perfectly in real life!
【Autographs? Hand them over!】
【Some people can meet their dream CP just by buying desserts; I’ve squatted at the gates of Ming University and Q University for two weeks and didn’t even catch a hair】
【That backpack shouldn’t be carried anymore, put it in a display cabinet for future generations to admire】
【Am I the only one who noticed Sister Yue and the professor were lining up outside the dessert shop? So the question is, who actually wanted the dessert?】
【I bet a pack of spicy sticks Sister Yue loves sweets; the professor is just an emotionless queueing tool】
【Two packs of spicy sticks, the professor likes them! Some scientists look cold on the surface but are actually sweet inside~】
【No, I think they’d share one dessert, one bite each】
【No, No, No! At minimum there should be some mouth-to-mouth action, like in novels, “Silly, there’s cream all over the corner of your mouth!” Then wipe it with a finger, put it into his own mouth, and say in a sexy deep voice: “Baby, so sweet~”】
【Is this something I can watch without paying?! Please continue, thanks!】
【It’s over, I already have the image in my head, d*mn!】
【It’s not that what’s in the bowl isn’t tasty; it’s that the man is being flirtatious~】
【Hard to imagine Professor Xie doing something like that; feels like Sister Yue would get secondhand embarrassment】
…
After eating and shopping enough, Xie Dingyuan drove Jiang Fuyue home.
Thirty minutes later, the car stopped in front of the Han family villa. He turned his head and saw the person in the passenger seat leaning sideways, sleeping soundly.
“Mmm…” Jiang Fuyue was awakened by kisses, no, more accurately, by “nibbling.”
“You! Are you a dog?” She leaned back slightly, both hands pressing against the man’s chest.
“Yueyue, I missed you.”
They had only been apart for a week, yet it felt like a very, very long time.
Jiang Fuyue’s brows softened, and her hands relaxed, gently lowering. “I missed you too, well, a little.”
“Really?”
“Fake.”
“…Bad girl.”
The two lingered for a while before Xie Dingyuan finally let her get out of the car.
“Yueyue, ”
“Hm?” She turned back, looking through the half-lowered window at the man’s handsome face. “What’s wrong?”
“I’m preparing to gradually move Hanqing’s core business to the capital.”
That way he wouldn’t need to frequently return to Linhuai to handle company matters.
…
On the last day of October, Jiang Fuyue’s interview aired.
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