"...I don't want to cite it anymore!"
Jiang Han refused to put that paper written by Lily Cabell into her references. Decisively, she wrote a paper from another angle entirely, using the data and various cultivation conditions of the Dark Lake Eternal Flower as her foundation, then went wild with it. Once she confirmed the plagiarism check was clear and there was no academic misconduct, she uploaded it to a minor academic journal called Secret Arts.
Histeria sat beside her, quietly smiling as she watched her carry out this whole series of actions.
Seeing "Under Review" displayed on the computer, Jiang Han happily hummed.
"Alright. Once it gets through review, I can cite my own paper—and I won't even have to pay Angelite and the others."
"I've only ever seen Angelite do something like that." Xiya covered her mouth and laughed. "She's just as concerned with saving face. Or rather, her bottom line gets strangely high in the weirdest places? Just to avoid using a paper with a bizarre title as a reference, she'd rather go to great lengths to take the long way around. What an unusual line of thought."
Meow-ow! Jiang Han scratched her cheek and smiled again.
"Master Xiya, how many points do you think I can scrape together with this paper?"
Jiang Han handed her draft over once more.
Xiya might look underage—like a chuuni girl even after reaching adulthood—but she was still somewhat famous in academic circles, known as the woman who had "changed the calculation of witches' impact-score coefficients."
Back then, the witch academic world had still been quite innocent. The Ghost Witches especially had only one Eve Harkins standing head and shoulders above the rest. With more than ten Magic Web papers every year, she had become a research witch of both fame