Trouble, Fifth Master-Your Wife Has Been Bullied...

Not only Cao Longtao, but everyone else was left utterly speechless.

Jealous of Bai Jin?

Leaving aside Bai Jin's talent in medicine and his personal abilities, he was more than qualified to lead the experimental team.

This had already been made clear to everyone when Bai Jin was appointed leader of the experimental team.

Besides, hadn't Bai Jin earned Professor Jiang's appreciation and the opportunity to handle an off-campus experimental project through his own exceptional abilities?

After hearing Zhu Chaohong's reason for making the mistake, Ai Huainan could only shake his head repeatedly.

Because Bai Jin's experimental materials belonged to a Capital Medical Research Institute project and were classified at the national level, Zhu Chaohong was taken away on the spot with the evidence irrefutable and his confession complete.

As for whether he would face criminal detention, that would depend on how the Capital Medical Research Institute classified the matter.

The police took Zhu Chaohong away, leaving the others shaken and bewildered.

"Although I knew Zhu Chaohong badmouthed Bai Jin in private, I never thought he'd actually dare to steal experimental materials."

"Exactly. Even if it weren't a national-level research project, experimental materials can't just be taken away! He's one of the lab's senior members. There's no way he doesn't understand that."

"Who knows what he was thinking? He worked so hard to get into Medical University and was among the first group to enter the lab. As long as he honestly stayed in the lab until graduation, his prospects would have been far better than those of his peers."

"Now it's all ruined. Even if the Capital Medical Research Institute doesn't pursue the matter, the university will still punish him. Even if he gets to keep his student status, he won't be able to remain in the lab."

"What a pity! He threw away his future just because he was jealous of someone else."

While everyone else lamented Zhu Chaohong's fate, Bai Jin felt no sympathy at all.

Others might not know why Zhu Chaohong had done this, but Bai Jin did.

Bai Jianian and Shen Mo were most likely behind it again.

The incident had not grown too large, but the police had come to the university and taken Zhu Chaohong away. Inevitably, people would have seen it.

Still, none of that had anything to do with Bai Jin.

After handing all the relevant materials and data from the completed project to Professor Jiang, he threw himself into the team's experiments.

After Jiang Hongfeng reviewed the materials Bai Jin had submitted and personally repeated the experiment according to Bai Jin's process, he was overjoyed and immediately took the results to Elder Ai.

Zhan Zhou: "..."

Professor Jiang really was an experiment-crazed maniac.

But Bai Jin was far too astonishing as well.

An experimental project that would take others a week to complete had taken him only one day.

Why exactly did Zhu Chaohong dislike Bai Jin so much?

When encountering someone so outstanding, someone beyond one's reach, shouldn't one try to get closer, work hard to enter a higher circle, improve oneself, and pave the way for one's future?

Such a wonderful opportunity had been placed right in front of him, yet he did not want it?

They were all university students already. How could he not even understand such basic social etiquette?

Bai Jin spent the entire afternoon in the laboratory, completing the experiments they had on hand with the others. The moment the results came out, everyone cheered in delight.

"Ring, ring—"

A phone suddenly rang. It was Bai Jin's phone.

He took it aside and answered. "Hello? Second Young Master Huo, what made you think of calling me?"

Huo Hongbao laughed with particular warmth. "Hehe! It's nothing. I happened to come by the police station today to handle something, and I heard you were bullied at school?"

"Yes, but the person who bullied me is in pretty bad shape. I sent him to the police station." Bai Jin did not deny it. Since Huo Hongbao was at the police station, it was not strange for him to run into Zhu Chaohong after he had been brought in.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk! They bullied you because they thought you were weak, pitiful, and helpless, thinking no one had your back!" Huo Hongbao sounded especially righteous. "Don't worry. Since this guy dared to bully you, I'll make sure he learns why flowers are so red."

Bai Jin laughed. "Thank you, but there's no need. The police can handle it however they see fit. I don't have any demands."

Huo Hongbao clicked his tongue twice. "You really are too kind."

Was he kind?

No, he was no good person!

From joining War Wolf Base at twelve to becoming chief instructor of War Wolf Base's Third Combat Zone at fifteen, his hands had long been stained with blood.

"My brother is treating us to dinner tonight. A seafood feast! How about it? Want me to pick you up later?" Huo Hongbao truly liked Bai Jin.

Bai Jin considered it, but still declined. "No, I have something to do tonight. Next time. I'll treat you all to dinner next time."

He still had to track down the remaining eleven assassins hiding in Xu City!

Huo Hongbao did not care whether Bai Jin was merely being polite. "All right, then we'll wait until you're free to treat us. You can't go back on your word!"

Bai Jin said, "I won't."

Once the call ended, Bai Jin packed up his things and went home.

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Meanwhile, after Huo Hongbao waited for Bai Jin to hang up, he immediately sprinted back to his car and urgently called Lu Chengze.

Lu Chengze declined the first call, but Huo Hongbao refused to give up and called again.

Lu Chengze answered the second call.

Before Lu Chengze could speak, Huo Hongbao rattled off, "This is bad! Fifth Master, your wife has been bullied..."

Lu Chengze was leading people through an investigation on a mountain outside Xu City. He had originally intended to answer Huo Hongbao's call. That boy had endless energy every day, like a mischievous little monkey, and Lu Chengze feared that if he hung up again, the boy would keep calling relentlessly.

Who would have thought that the moment the call connected, he would hear Huo Hongbao say Bai Jin had been bullied?

"Who bullied him?"

No emotion could be heard in Lu Chengze's voice, but Huo Hongbao somehow detected Fifth Master Lu's urgency.

Huo Hongbao silently grinned. "Oh, it wasn't anything major. It's just that Bai Jin completed an experimental project, and someone got jealous and maliciously stole it..."

As the Second Young Master Huo, Huo Hongbao had enough influence to inquire about Bai Jin at the police station.

Lu Chengze quietly waited for Huo Hongbao to finish. "Understood. That race car you wrecked last time—I remember I have one of the same model in my garage. Take it and have fun."

"Thank you, Fifth Master! You're the best!" Huo Hongbao thanked him gleefully.

He had not expected that tattling would bring such an unexpected reward.

Lu Jin, who was following Lu Chengze, had heard it too. "Fifth Master, Young Master Bai was bullied? Should I have someone at the police station look after things?"

"No need. Zhu Chaohong is only a pawn. An ordinary man with no power or influence would not target the little one like this. There must be someone behind him. Have someone investigate who instructed him to do it."

Unlike Huo Hongbao, Lu Chengze was not so simple-minded. The moment he heard the full account of how Bai Jin had been bullied, he sensed that there was more to the matter.

Lu Jin said, "Understood! I'll have someone look into it immediately."