The spring river had warmed, and the ducks knew it first.
Yu Caiyi was a duck.
The first person to feel the power of Song He's textbook promotion wasn't Song He himself, but Yu Caiyi of the Bioengineering Institute.
Over the weekend, Yu Caiyi and Rutherford sat in the office, taking phone call after phone call.
"Cancel the order? Why are you canceling it? What exactly are you dissatisfied with?" Rutherford looked anxious.
"We can refund the cost of the books, but I'd like to understand why your university suddenly canceled the order..." Yu Caiyi looked grim.
One call followed another, and the despair in their eyes deepened.
A week earlier, Rutherford and Xiang Wenwei had gone all out to support Yu Caiyi. Through every connection they could use, they had contacted biology departments at universities across the country, tirelessly promoting Yu Caiyi's newly compiled Biopharmaceutical textbook.
To be fair, the textbook's quality was exceptionally high. Experts and professors from more than half of the Biology Department had taken part in writing it. It was truly a book that gathered the best from many sources. Even Xiang Wenwei and Rutherford had been dazzled when they received the sample copy, casting sidelong glances, smiling, and marveling at its excellence.
The biology departments of universities across the country had been equally impressed. More than thirty schools had successively decided to switch their new-semester textbook to Yu Caiyi's edition of Biopharmaceutical, and they had already transferred the money for their orders!
The Bioengineering Institute had even held a special meeting, celebrating Yu Caiyi's textbook project as a major occasion for the institute. Who could have expected that the moment the meeting ended, the situation would take a sharp turn for the worse?
Starting yesterday, promoting the textbook had suddenly met with resistance. Whenever