Hardcore! Academic Genius!

However.

Qin Xin remained cold and indifferent, completely unbothered by the fact that she was wasting the stunning good looks and earnest enthusiasm of the boy before her.

Ao Xinghao: "Do you know why she calls me Little Dragon Girl? Because our surname, Ao, is a grand one. After all, the ancient Dragon King lineage all carried the surname Ao..."

This time, Qin Xin finally looked up at him: "Are you talking about the dragon that was skinned by Nezha?"

Ao Xinghao choked: "..."

A long moment passed.

He laughed out loud: "Do you know that the way you roast people is particularly interesting, and you have so many obscure facts?"

Qin Xin rolled her eyes hard in her heart.

Ao Xinghao continued to laugh, his brows and eyes curving into a handsome arc: "You must not know, right? Actually, you don't need to feel inferior. You're quite fine as you are. Besides, I don't judge friends by their appearance, and I don't think you're ugly..."

Qin Xin: "..."

Damn it, where did this stupid bug see her feeling inferior???

She wasn't ugly? Was he blind?

In the associate professor's office.

Gou Dachun stormed in, fuming: "That trashy woman Ao Meng is getting more and more arrogant. She actually roasted me in front of the students..."

He was just about to vent his grievances to his colleagues.

But he realized no one was paying him any attention.

Everyone was huddled around a computer, fighting to browse an international academic webpage, discussing it with great excitement:

"BMP-16 has been researched! My god, this level of scientific research is insane!"

"Legend has it that the big shot leading the experiment is an Imperial citizen, and quite young, too..."

"Hardcore, a true academic genius!"

BMP-16?

Why did that sound so familiar?

Gou Dachun suddenly remembered. Of course it sounded familiar; just earlier in the anatomy class for Class 2, hadn't he asked that sleeping slacker where BMP could be extracted from?

The result was that the slacker had nearly infuriated him to death, spouting nonsense about how BMP-16 could be extracted from plants.

Didn't she know that the latest international drugs had only reached BMP-12? Domestically, because relevant laws hadn't been relaxed, they could only import primary drugs below BMP-8, and the extraction method was limited to vertebrates.

"You're talking about BMP-16? What kind of international joke is this? If someone had the ability to develop BMP-16, they could win a Nobel Prize in Medicine!" Gou Dachun scoffed.

Several colleagues rolled their eyes: "What are you saying, Old Gou? We don't have time for you. BMP-16! This is high-purity, high-activity bone morphogenetic protein. If one day these research results can be applied to clinical practice, treating fractures, broken bones, disabilities... the future is limitless!"

"Holy crap, can it make a cripple stand up and walk?"

"Of course it's possible."

"The researcher said in the paper that it requires enough sea urchins and specific plant extracts..."

"Who exactly is this researcher? The academic paper is signed QUEEN? Queen, how arrogant!"

"Queen? A woman? Could it be one of those perverted mentors from the Royal Academy?"

"Who knows? The whole world is looking for her. I heard her contact information is only held by the International Federation of Red Cross Societies. But those people at the Red Cross, you know how they are—haughty as can be, they would never reveal even a tiny bit..."

"That's true, such an academic genius, a world-class treasure—how could she easily show her face..."

Listening to his colleagues' exclamations, Gou Dachun's jaw nearly hit the floor.

Sea urchins?

Plants?

World-class academic genius?

It couldn't be such a coincidence that the academic genius's paper was exactly the same as what that slacker Lan Qingxin had answered.

Gou Dachun muttered to himself:

"Impossible, absolutely impossible. That slacker has always been dead last. Forget about a world-shaking academic paper; if she could even pass the final exam..."

"I, Gou Dachun, will write my name backward!"