Exactly?

There's been a lot of good news lately; the marketing revenue of the Shen Family's Ou Beiqi Pharmaceutical is steadily increasing, and profits are considerable.

Shen Qi's younger sister is about to study at Yenching University; the Shen family is full of talented people.

The LPJK1 project at Shen Qi Research Center is progressing smoothly, but it has encountered a minor problem: funding issues.

Developing a new drug typically costs several hundred million dollars or even more.

It's impossible to expect universities or research institutes to come up with hundreds of millions of dollars; only large pharmaceutical companies can afford this level of research and development expenditure.

Large pharmaceutical companies have their own new drug research and development teams, and they also collaborate with universities and research institutes, or directly purchase patents for new drugs under development.

The research funding that Shen Qi applied for for the LPJK1 project can at most support the LPJK1 project to enter Phase I clinical trials.

The work following Phase I clinical trials is the most expensive part, and Shen Qi will need at least one billion RMB in research and development funds. The government will not provide this funding, so Shen Qi will have to find partners.

Medicines are marketable commodities, not weapons.

If weapons are to be developed, all research funding should be contracted out to the state, because the state is the only customer.

For market-oriented product development, funding must be sought in the market.

Who will Shen Qi turn to for the at least one billion RMB in research and development funding needed going forward?

Of course, we should find Old Shen.

In exchange for equivalent value, the patent development rights for LPJK1 were transferred to Old Shen's Ou Beiqi Pharmaceutical.

The father and son, with a shared vision, are working towards the same goal: wishing all wives in the world health and strength.

Chemistry Laboratory, Shen Qi Research Center.

He Lin, who was conducting the experiment, had to admire Director Shen's extraordinary abilities. LPJK1 hadn't even entered the animal testing phase, yet its patent had already been sold to a pharmaceutical company for a high price.

"Teacher He, you haven't been back in China for very long, so you may not know, but the owner of the buyer Ou Beiqi Pharmaceutical, is named Shen Zhishan. He is Director Shen's father." Team member Cao Fan revealed this information to He Lin.

"Really?" He Lin thought to herself, "This is really interesting. The son's research project sold the patent development rights to his father, all to save his wife. The LPJK1 national key research project, in the end, is just an internal game within the Shen Family."

"Scientists without money are pitiful. To realize their research dreams, they humbly seek sponsorship everywhere. Once scientists have sufficient funding, they can do whatever they want. The latter situation is the work-life balance that we all yearn for. Don't you think so, Teacher He?"

"Cao Fan, you've gained quite a bit of insight. Have you finished the task I assigned you?"

"Just a little bit more..."

"Hurry up, I need to see results today."

Cao Fan a newcomer to the team, a doctoral student, and a novice among a group of highly qualified elites.

The novice Cao Fan repeatedly cooled, filtered, washed the filter cake with water, dried, and purified it using Silica Gel Column Chromatography.

To ensure the health and strength of wives worldwide, entrepreneurs invest vast sums of money, scientists utilize their unparalleled wisdom, team leaders oversee the experimental progress, and the actual team members do the most concrete work.

The most basic work in great scientific research projects is done by countless unknown grassroots laboratory technicians.

To put it nicely, Cao Fan was Shen Qi's student; he came to Shen Qi Research Center for further studies.

To put it bluntly, he was just a lab dog who dedicated his youth to experiments.

Dedicating one's youth does not guarantee a bright future.

Bottles and jars of reagents have buried countless science students.

Whether their future is bright or not depends on what real skills and knowledge these lab dogs acquire in the laboratory.

You can definitely learn something at the Shen Qi Research Center; as for how much you learn, that depends on the individual.

Cooling, filtration, washing the filter cake with water, drying, and purification by Silica Gel Column Chromatography.

Cao Fan does the same things every day. He's been here for two months, and he's been doing the basic operations required for his master's degree every day.

Unoriginal procedures, miserable lab dogs.

What kept Cao Fan going was his faith.

My faith in Director Shen.

Director Shen himself said that a year later, he would teach him something profound, something that would touch the soul—the secrets of chemistry.

Through Cao Fan's efforts, he finally obtained the target compound.

The densely packed data from the spectral verification was displayed, but Cao Fan mechanically examined it, feeling no emotion whatsoever, and even a slight urge to cry.

Data is like love; when you first start doing it, you're filled with excitement, it feels so fresh and interesting, and you want to keep doing it forever.

After doing it for a while, I lost my curiosity, but every day in order to complete the tasks she assigned, I had to do them again and again, and to satisfy her, I worked myself to the point of nausea.

7.03(t, J=7.3Hz,1H),7.26(t, J=7.8Hz,2H),7.36(t, J=7.5Hz,2H),7.66-7.72(m,2H),8.23(d, J=8.3Hz,1H)...

Today's H-NMR data is once again so unchanging. Cao Fan, immersed in a sea of data, recalled Magellan's diary when he entered the Pacific Ocean: "The sea is exactly the same every day; the eternal calm makes me feel as if time has stopped."

Just as Cao Fan was about to hand in his assignment to the female group leader, he suddenly felt that something was amiss.

Cao Fan checked the data again and found a problem.

The H-NMR is normal, but the compound's structure is incorrect!

In the reaction that generates the target compound, a chain-like δ-aminocarbonyl compound should first be formed, then cyclization should occur through an intramolecular addition-elimination reaction, and finally the target compound is obtained under the action of an oxidizing agent.

What on earth is this isomer?

This isn't what I want.

Cao Fan's first thought was that something went wrong with his experiment.

Definitely.

Ugh, so annoying, I have to redo it again.

Cao Fan looked at He Lin tremblingly, thinking, "I'm doomed, I'm doomed, Team Leader He will kill me."

If she kills me in bed, I'll accept my fate.

But she won't sleep with me; she'll kill me in the lab.

The male lab dogs Cao Fan, who had been single for a long time, rarely interacted with women and often fantasized about impossible things. His female team leader, who was cold on the outside but sexy on the inside and had a large bust and a curvy bottom, became the object of his fantasies.

He Lin turned her head and noticed Cao Fan's furtive behavior. She walked over to Cao Fan, knocked on the lab table, and asked, "Are you finished? If not, work overtime."

Cao Fan glanced guiltily at the white crystals in the dish, then looked even more nervously at the data graph on the screen. He dared not look directly into Team Leader He's eyes because he hadn't done well enough; he hadn't completed the experimental task assigned by Team Leader He within the allotted time.

"I... I finished the experiment, but the target compound's structure showed an anomaly... Strangely, the H-NMR spectrum looks relatively normal..." Cao Fan stammered. "Teacher He, I must have made some mistakes during the experiment, but I didn't notice them in time. I apologize, I'll work overtime, I won't eat, drink, or sleep, I'll try to make amends."

"Go to hell," He Lin said coldly, showing no respect whatsoever to this young man. There were other lab technicians in the lab.

Cao Fan lowered his head in shame; before he turned 25, his head had been extremely proud.

Since arriving at Shen Qi Research Center, Cao Fan has been accompanied by feelings of inferiority, emptiness, and uncertainty about the future.

"You go... Hey, this experimental result is pretty good." He Lin's eyes suddenly lit up as she was cursing. She stared intently at the experimental data, looking very excited.

"Huh?" Cao Fan thought he had misheard.

"Cao Fan, you little fool, you did something very successful, you completed a great experiment." He Lin saved the data and asked Cao Fan to store the samples.

"I'm a PhD student, for goodness' sake, why do I feel like my IQ isn't up to par?" Cao Fan was completely baffled.

He Lin patted Cao Fan on the shoulder. "In short, you didn't make a mistake; in fact, you did a great job. It's also my fault; I only assigned you the experiment and didn't share Director Shen's new academic ideas with you. To make a long story short, the data for Macrocyclic Compounds need to refer to the new standards. I'll explain the new standards to you in detail later. Hurry up and write the lab report and upload it to the system. If Director Shen hasn't left work yet, he'll see it. I believe he'll be very happy. We've finally taken a meaningful step!"