Nature

After Chen Yuanguang returned to Jiang University from the Shu Capital, he was practically glowing. First, he found his counselor and showed him the recommendation letter he had received from Mr. Michael Levitt. Then, he explained that he needed to collaborate with Levitt to publish an article in Nature and required the use of the School of Biology's laboratory.

With the Science Fiction New Star Competition gold award as proof, coupled with Levitt's personally signed recommendation letter, the matter was highly credible. Furthermore, for Jiang University, the laboratory Chen Yuanguang needed was not some extraordinary facility. Let alone publishing in the main Nature journal, even publishing in a Nature sub-journal would be a highly profitable endeavor for them.

The counselor quickly went to find the dean and then helped Chen Yuanguang coordinate the laboratory use.

After the coordination was complete, the counselor surnamed Liu said with emotion, "Yuanguang, you really are full of surprises.

You were doing so well writing novels, why do you want to go abroad again?"

With Levitt's recommendation letter, there were many places he could go in the world. Originally, he could only apply to US top 50 universities, but now he could apply to universities within the US top 20.

If the Nature article was published, he could choose any top ten university.

"Counselor, I still want to go out and see the world," Chen Yuanguang said after taking the key from the counselor.

The counselor surnamed Liu suddenly understood, "It's because of Lin Jia, isn't it? I didn't expect you to be such a devoted person."

Chen Yuanguang didn't explain further, "Counselor, just wait for my good news."

Computer simulation of directed protein evolution was not a difficult experiment. For Chen Yuanguang, who had mastered the theoretical knowledge, it took about two weeks to transform a non-functional short peptide into a peptide segment that could bind to nucleic acids.

This result was sufficient to prove the feasibility of the simulation method he designed.

After sending the experimental results to Levitt, Levitt replicated the experiment even faster. He replied within a week, asking him to combine the two experimental results so the entire paper could be published.

With Levitt's endorsement, the review was completed in two weeks, and it was published in the main Nature journal before November.

Publishing in Nature is news worth featuring on the front page of any university's official website in China, especially when it's an undergraduate student publishing in Nature.

Moreover, Chen Yuanguang was both the first author and the corresponding author of this paper, with Levitt only listed as a co-author.

"Historical First! Jiang University Undergraduate Student Publishes in Nature as First Author, Independently Completing Over 90% of the Workload"

"Nature published the research results of Chen Yuanguang from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Science at Jiang City University on a new method for simulating directed protein evolution in the form of a long article.

The primary affiliation of the paper is Jiang City University, the first author is Chen Yuanguang, a 2015 undergraduate student from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Science at Jiang University, and the second author is Nobel laureate Michael Levitt from Stanford University."

After the Nature article was published, Jiang University's official website quickly published the news, and it was widely promoted on WeChat official accounts and Weibo.

For Jiang University, this was a great opportunity to surpass Jiang City University of Science and Technology in this year's admissions. Our undergraduate students win science fiction awards and publish in Nature, developing comprehensively in terms of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor. Do you have undergraduate students who are trained this well?

The rivalry between Luojia Mountain and Yu Family Mountain has a long history. Their admission scores are similar, they are both in Jiang City, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses. Even being collectively referred to as Hua Wu cannot eliminate their habit of competing.

"This year's admissions, the score line for the School of Chemistry will increase by at least five points," the director of the teaching management office responsible for admissions joked.

Counselor Liu said, "Five points? At least ten points! When we lead teams to high schools for promotion this year, Chen Yuanguang's case can be repeatedly mentioned."

The office director said, "The main reason is that the disadvantages of biochemistry, environment, and materials have existed for a long time. Chemistry is not easy to find a job, which leads many parents to be skeptical about it. If Chen Yuanguang were a student from the School of Biology, we wouldn't even be able to add five points.

Everyone is very realistic now; majors that are difficult to find jobs in cannot raise their price.

If we were a computer science major, I would believe we could raise the score line by ten points."

Counselor Liu: "You're right."

The office director continued to ask, "I've heard of Chen Yuanguang before, but I didn't expect him to accumulate so much and then launch such a big satellite for us just before graduating in his senior year.

The dean of the School of Biology and the school's deputy party secretary are both looking for me. The School of Biology is too cunning! They are asking if I can say that Chen Yuanguang is jointly trained by the School of Chemistry and the School of Biology, after all, the paper is in the interdisciplinary field of structural biology and computational biology."

We finally have a hot commodity here, and they want to take half of him.

The school's deputy party secretary asked me if it was possible to keep Chen Yuanguang here for graduate studies and have Boss Deng's team supervise him.

They can guarantee him an assistant professor position with tenure directly after getting his doctorate. You can sound him out later; if he's unwilling, so be it. We won't be the bad guys, just mention it."

The office director saw it clearly. With a Nobel Prize recommendation letter and a first-author Nature paper in hand, Chen Yuanguang could easily apply for direct doctoral programs at top overseas universities. After achieving some results abroad, it would be easy for him to return and become a young thousand talents professor.

Therefore, Jiang University's offer held no attraction for Chen Yuanguang at all. The department wasn't going to push it. The office director even wanted to maintain a good relationship, hoping Chen Yuanguang would return to teach in the chemistry department after getting his doctorate.

The counselor surnamed Liu repeatedly agreed, then forwarded the news of Chen Yuanguang's Nature publication to the student groups of various chemistry departments.

"@everyone, senior Chen Yuanguang has published a Nature paper as the first author. Everyone should learn from him and strive to achieve research results before graduating from undergraduate." This was sent to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors.

"@everyone, Chen Yuanguang published in Nature. Anyone who wants to publish in Nature can ask him privately for advice." This was sent to seniors, graduate students, and doctoral students.

The younger students who saw this news were fine. They were all in their rebellious phase and had ambitious aspirations. They knew publishing in Nature was difficult, but they could at least publish in a domestic journal.

However, students above the senior year felt a surge of "holy crap" in their hearts when they saw it.

"Director Liu, stop kidding. If I could publish in Nature, pigs would fly."

"God of Light is starting to make his move, winning the Science Fiction New Star and publishing in Nature."

"God of Light is too awesome."

"God of Light is too awesome."

Chen Yuanguang's former roommate posted an emoji made from Chen Yuanguang's photo in the group. It said "God of Light is too awesome" on it, and everyone started a chain reaction below. It was a stream of identical emojis.

Chen Yuanguang glanced at the group and felt a secret thrill. Publishing in Nature didn't move him much, but seeing his classmates, with whom he had spent four years day and night, compliment him like this made him very happy inside.

When they first arrived as freshmen, everyone called each other "god," everyone was a god. As time went on, they began to realize they were all mortals and gradually stopped using that term.

They usually just called him Yuanguang. After winning the Science Fiction New Star Award, his nickname at school became "Great Writer." Now, it had directly upgraded to "God of Light."

Because Chen Yuanguang won the Science Fiction New Star Competition, everyone's feelings weren't very deep, as very few people walked that path. No one's goal was to be a writer, let alone a writer in the niche field of science fiction.

Before midnight, there was still