Xie Dingyuan, Jiang Fuyue, and D-country biochemist Albrecht Kossel jointly won the 2054 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine!
When the news reached the country, the whole nation was shocked.
It wasn’t surprising for Xie Dingyuan, as a top favorite, to win.
But Jiang Fuyue actually won as well!
This means that in the same year, in the same field, China produced two Nobel laureates, and these two are also a couple!
Unprecedented, never before in history!
“My god! The moment I saw Sister Yue’s name I was dumbfounded. Didn’t they say those unofficial nominations weren’t reliable?”
“To those big V’s and experts who confidently said before that Sister Yue definitely wouldn’t win, does your face hurt now?”
“This time no one should jump out and babble about shady operations or insider deals, right? Look carefully, this is the Nobel Prize, the highest award in the world!”
“The Lasker a year ago, the Nobel a year later, Professor Xie and Sister Yue have always been quietly accompanying each other, moving forward hand in hand. This is what love looks like at its most beautiful.”
“Under true strength, the strong are king!”
“Professor Xie and Sister Yue truly deserve it!”
“I don’t know why there were so many big V’s badmouthing Jiang Fuyue before. I mean, she already won the Lasker Award, known as the ‘Nobel wind vane’, is it strange for her to then take the Nobel too?”
“Exactly! Sister Yue winning the Lasker was already an obvious hint.”
“What a huge group of Zhuge Liangs, too bad they only appear after the fact.”
“No matter what, Professor Xie and Sister Yue winning together and bringing honor to the country is a tremendously good thing!”
“Following Professor Tu, now two more local scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Medicine, congratulations!”
“Professor and Sister Yue, the pride of China, forever gods!”
“……”
【Peerless national scholars】
【Salute! Devoting oneself to one cause for a lifetime, worthy of the motherland, worthy of the people】
【There is no such thing as peaceful years, someone is carrying the burden for us. They are the real ‘stars’】
At that moment, how many netizens had tears welling up, eyes burning and noses stinging.
【They say all roads lead to Rome, but scientific research is the hardest one, dry, tedious, painstaking. It is countless scientists like Professor Xie and Sister Yue who have poured their youth into the long river of academia that there is today’s glory and brilliance.】
【The motherland will not forget, and the people will not forget either!】
【Pursuing science with all one’s strength, shedding blood and passion, these are the idols of contemporary youth. As for those entertainment celebrities… not necessary!】
【Cheering for Professor, smashing walls for Sister Yue】
……
The Linhuai Municipal Publicity Department immediately sent congratulatory messages to the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ming University: “We have learned that Jiang Fuyue has won the 2054 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine… congratulations!”
The Xie family, Jiang family, and Han family all went crazy.
Fu Wanxiu, despite her age, was as excited as a child: “They got it! They got it! Both of them got it!”
Xie Zhendong turned his head and quietly wiped the hot tears from the corner of his eyes: “Our Ah Yuan did well! Yueyue did well too!”
Xie Yunzao was already unable to hold back her tears. As the eldest sister, she had watched Xie Dingyuan walk step by step to where he is today.
He used to be aloof and solitary, untouched by the mundane world, as if detached from it.
Now he has a partner he cherishes, and only then does he finally seem like a normal person.
Countless times, Xie Yunzao had silently thanked Jiang Fuyue in her heart. It was she who made Ah Yuan’s life complete, interesting, and full of vitality.
Jiang family.
Jiang Da and Han Yunru hugged each other tightly.
“Yueyue did it! She really did it!”
Jiang Da nodded: “Yes, our daughter has always been the best!”
He had been timid for half his life, humble for half his life, yet gave birth to such a brave and fearless daughter, what virtue had he accumulated to deserve this?!
As for Jiang Chenxing, he cried even worse than his parents, big tears dropping one after another.
Now, not only is his sister the most amazing person in his heart, but also in the eyes of everyone in the world.
He didn’t even know why he was crying, it felt like… the person you treasure most in your heart is finally seen and admired by the world.
Han family,
The old master posted across WeChat, Weibo, and short video platforms, with the Nobel laureate list as the image and the caption:
【This is my granddaughter. Who doesn’t know her?】
Replies:
【Who would dare not know her?】
【Don’t dare not know.】
【I still have this bit of common sense [smile]】
【Where’s your grandson-in-law? Why not post him too?】
【Sister Yue is the beloved, Professor is the bonus, got it】
【I feel like your tail is about to rise to the sky, but I have to admit, you have the right】
【Same grandson situation, yours wins a Nobel, mine skipped class yesterday and got the teacher to call the parents】
【Those with grandsons should just quietly lurk, don’t compare. Compare goods and you’ll throw them away; compare people and you’ll die of anger, yep, die mad】
Han Heng put down his phone; he had just posted too: “Before, people said Jiang Fuyue was the niece of some movie emperor. Now it’s directly become that some movie emperor is Sister Yue’s uncle.”
After half a lifetime in the entertainment industry, he still couldn’t match his twenty-something niece.
But Han Heng wasn’t upset, he was actually quite happy about it.
The old master snorted: “Admit it, you just want to ride Yueyue’s popularity.”
Han Heng: “Hehe… Yueyue lets me ride it freely, so I can’t be too polite! We’re family, no need to be so formal!”
“…You’re really good at finding excuses for yourself.”
Han Shen put down his phone and let out a long breath: “I’ve turned mine off. Recently, those partners keep calling, asking if the company plans to get into genetic engineering. The conditions they offer are very generous, it’s obvious they want to borrow Yueyue’s name.”
Han Ke: “Mine’s even more outrageous. A partner directly sent over their only daughter, saying she could be my wife?”
“Not bad, second brother. Didn’t expect you to have this kind of luck with women?”
“Luck with women my *ss! They said it themselves, no marriage registration, no wedding banquet, even not liking each other is fine, as long as the kid is born. They clearly just want to freeload off our family’s superior genes.”
Completely ridiculous!
……
When the news reached Ming University and was passed back to Jiang Fuyue’s former alma mater, Linan No. 1 High School, countless students were excited and stirred, deeply encouraged.
Among them, some had personally witnessed the birth of a legend, while others were walking the path she once walked, attending the schools she once attended, sitting in the classrooms she once sat in, solving the problems she once set…
How fortunate!
With such a towering benchmark standing ahead, don’t those who come after finally have a goal and motivation to chase with all their might?
……
Stanford University, inside a certain study room.
Ling Xuan dejectedly set down his tablet, a bitter smile creeping onto his lips.
Beside him were piles of reference books and research materials; in front of him was a paper he had gotten stuck on halfway through.
Before going abroad, he had been so confident, when he returned in glory in the future, he would surely make her look at him with new eyes, utterly astonished.
And his three consecutive years of effort had not been in vain. He had finally secured the only direct PhD spot in his department.
Just when Ling Xuan thought he had already run far enough and could slow down and take a rest, Jiang Fuyue had won the Nobel Prize!
The Nobel…
The highest award in global science, the honor every scientist dreams of!
Some people only fulfill that dream when their hair has turned white; some don’t even get to receive the award in their lifetime. But she…
In her early twenties, had already reached a height countless people could never attain in their entire lives.
Ling Xuan could no longer deceive himself.
In this lifetime, he would never be able to catch up to that girl he had once rejected and deeply hurt.
For the rest of his life, she would only be the unattainable white moonlight, the cinnabar mark hidden deep in his heart, carefully kept from everyone.
He admitted defeat.
And he gave up.
The once high-spirited youth, after the washing of time and the tempering of reality, finally began to slowly admit his own mediocrity and ordinariness.
Perhaps growing up is accompanied by the shattering of ideals, bit by bit crushing the ridiculous pride in one’s bones.
“Oh! Look! Xuan, is he crying?”
“I think he might have had his heart broken.”
“But in fact, his state is worse than heartbreak, it’s like he’s lost his faith.”
……
At a certain military base, in a simple screening room, the evening news broadcast was playing.
“Xie Dingyuan and Jiang Fuyue have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine… following Professor Tu, our country has once again broken the absolute dominance of Western nations in top scientific awards… this holds epoch-making significance…”
Yici nudged his shoulder: “Hey, your uncle and Jiang Fuyue won an award.”
Zhong Ziang: “I saw it already, do you need to say it!”
“Let me interview you, how do you feel right now?”
Zhong Ziang glanced at the TV screen. His eyes revealed nostalgia and daze, but more than that, complexity.
“Yici, actually I gave up a long time ago, but here, ” he tapped his chest, “there’s always been a breath stuck here, because I wasn’t convinced.”
“I’ve thought countless times, why could my uncle do it, but I couldn’t? I never figured that out. But just now, when I saw them standing together, appearing at an academic conference, I suddenly understood…”
“Not every liking will be returned, and the person you like doesn’t necessarily like you.”
“Jiang Fuyue and I don’t even have common topics. Even if we were together, it would only end hastily. She saw more clearly than I did, she’s always been clear-headed. I was the only one muddle-headed…”
Yici patted his shoulder: “Alright, that’s enough. Don’t get all sentimental, it doesn’t suit you. You look better being your usual annoying, punchable self.”
“The h*ll, who are you calling annoying and punchable?”
Yici grinned: “Whoever answers is who I mean.”
“You’ve got some nerve talking to me like that?!”
“What’s there I wouldn’t dare? Not only do I dare to say it, I dare to do it.”
Zhong Ziang raised his fist, about to swing at his face, but suddenly paused. “By the way, how do you feel right now?”
Yici was a bit confused: “What do you mean, how do I feel?”
“Seeing my uncle and Jiang Fuyue as a pair, you liked her too, didn’t you?”
Yici chuckled lightly: “I’m not like you, stubbornly devoted. Things from the past, I’ve already let them go.”
“Really? Back then you nearly fought me to the death over it. Now you’re this carefree?”
Yici straightened his sleeve cuffs: “I’m already a mature man now. I don’t do those childish things anymore.”
“…D*mn! Are you mocking me?”
Yici: “Don’t force the shoe to fit.”
Zhong Ziang: “Believe it or not, I’ll hit you?”
“Are you sure you’d be the one hitting me, and not getting hit back?”
“……”
Instructor: “Yici! Zhong Ziang! What are you two doing?! Even watching the news you can’t behave, do you want to be punished with running laps again tonight?”
Instantly, silent as chickens.
……
October passed, and with each autumn rain came deeper cold. The capital had begun to carry the flavor of early winter.
While seriously studying engineering-related knowledge, Jiang Fuyue also had to take into account new research projects.
From the beginning of this year until now, her paper output had never stopped.
She basically maintained one paper every three months, many of which were selected by Nature, Science, and Cell.
As everyone knows, CNS is an important benchmark for measuring the output of original major theories and innovative scientific achievements in universities, and also an important indicator of a university’s basic research capability and academic creativity.
Xiao Shan couldn’t wait for Jiang Fuyue to maintain stable, high output, then Ming University’s ranking would surge forward again this year.
Besides that, the number of papers produced within Wujin Building was also quite considerable.
Now the cluster effect was gradually becoming apparent, and exchanges between disciplines were exceptionally active. The excellent academic atmosphere of Wujin Building had attracted the attention of many experts and professors.
Back then, when invited, they didn’t come; now that the spots were full and there was no room, they were racking their brains trying to squeeze in, even going so far as to find Xiao Shan to try backdoor connections.
Xiao Shan’s attitude was firm: if you want to come in, rely on your strength; if your strength isn’t enough, go back and keep working hard, apply again when you qualify.
It was said he offended quite a few people because of this.
Xiao Shan spread his hands: “Doesn’t matter. I don’t rely on them to make a living anyway. If they’re offended, so be it.”
In November, Jiang Fuyue went to Little Six’s construction site to… work.
“Sister Yue, are you messing with me?” He scratched his head, a bit confused.
“Do I look like I’m joking?”
“No… you’re a proper scientist, a precious young lady, what are you doing coming here to join the fun?” The construction site was full of burly men. “This… isn’t appropriate!”
Jiang Fuyue: “What’s inappropriate?”
Little Six thought for a moment. He couldn’t exactly say she was a woman who couldn’t endure hardship, right? After racking his brains, he finally came up with what he thought was a perfect excuse,
“You should know, in our line of work, you need certificates. Otherwise it’s not compliant. If inspected, we’d have to stop work for rectification, and the entire schedule would be delayed…”
With things said to this extent, and Jiang Fuyue being so smart, he didn’t believe she wouldn’t understand.
However, the next moment Little Six was dumbfounded. He watched Jiang Fuyue return to the car, grab a bag of something, then toss it to him,
“Whatever certificates you need, find them yourself.”
After saying that, she put on a safety helmet and walked toward the construction site.
Little Six weighed the bag in his hand. Good lord, it was pretty heavy.
He opened it and immediately blurted, “Holy sh*t!”
Inside was a pile of colorful certificates, stuffed in casually and roughly like cabbages in a market, Second-Class Constructor, Second-Class Cost Engineer, Registered Safety Engineer, Supervising Engineer, Consulting Engineer, First-Class Constructor, First-Class Cost Engineer, Fire Engineer, Second-Class Structural Engineer, Second-Class Architect…
Little Six: Who am I? Where am I?
……
In the blink of an eye, it was December.
On the 6th, the whole family celebrated Jiang Fuyue’s birthday together.
On the 10th, she and Xie Dingyuan took a special plane to Stockholm…
To attend the Nobel Prize award ceremony.
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