Chapter 130: Bonus Chapter

“Eh, could it be that President Lu didn’t tell you, Professor? We all submitted our resumes together!”

“Yes, yes, Teacher, you simply have no idea. Senior Brother Luo Ji is truly worthy of being the Eldest Senior Brother, this eye for choosing a company is simply superb. We almost couldn’t squeeze into the recruitment fair, it was President Lu who called out to us.”

To be honest, entry-level positions offering such generous treatment are truly hard to find. No wonder Senior Brother Luo Ji never came back after returning to his country.

“Teacher? Teacher, why have you stopped talking, Teacher?”

Everyone watched helplessly as their mentor clutched his chest, almost unable to catch his breath, and hurriedly gathered around.

Sophia coughed once and poured a glass of water for Professor Philenster:

“Professor, as the old saying in Country C goes: Water flows to lower places, man walks to higher places. When we earn big money in the future, won’t we be able to come back and donate to our alma mater…”

“Cough, cough, cough—”

Hearing this old saying, Philenster stubbornly choked on half the water he drank, feeling it would be better not to drink this water.

“Go, go, go, hurry up and all of you go! Consider it as if I don’t have you group of students!”

Philenster, his heart dead as ashes, knew that the Lu family’s trip here harbored ill intentions. So why exactly did he invite them over in the first place?

Oh right, it was all because he wanted to get Luo Ji back.

Then what is this now?

Not only did he not fish out the old one, but he also threw in all the new ones!?

The more Philenster thought about it, the angrier he got. The crucial point was that Charlie was still in the other party’s hands.

“Hehe, it’s fine. At least Kuliko didn’t submit a resume, right? I knew this kid is the most honest. I must personally keep him here to be my, his teacher’s, research assistant…”

Thinking it over, Philenster felt that among this batch of students, he had at least managed to keep one good soldier no matter what.

Hearing this, everyone exchanged glances, thinking that Senior Brother Kuliko had the most honest personality and was always the most miserably exploited.

Following behind the professor, although there was no lack of top-tier academic resources, the pressure was truly huge. The key point was that every time funding was discussed, the professor would start the same old talk about how scientific researchers should view their career development from the perspective of human civilization’s progress.

But when your stomach is hungry, you can’t possibly drink the reagents in the lab, can you?

And at this moment, in a private room of the Cloud Capital University cafeteria, Kuliko, after the academic forum ended, was looking at a loss at his super idolized Senior Brother Luo Ji and Dr. Lu Jing, whom he had admired for a long time, sitting opposite him.

Even Kremlin was dragged over to join this meal.

To Kuliko, the sight before him was no less than an all-star lineup. No matter what professional topic was discussed, everyone could talk with ease and fluency. It was simply his dream academic holy land.

“Sigh, it’s a pity that just talking can’t describe it accurately. It would be great to go see it in person. Do you want to take a stroll at the S City laboratory site, Kuliko?”

Kremlin sneakily extended an invitation, just short of chuckling “Hihihi” in the next second, wishing the laboratory could recruit a few more people.

In scientific research, one can weigh each other’s level after just a few sentences. This person in front of him truly was a rare good seedling. The key was that his personality also seemed very honest, without many schemes.

Ever since that incident happened in the laboratory, Kremlin’s primary criterion for evaluating technical personnel had become their moral character. Without good moral character and the ability to keep one’s mouth shut, even with the strongest ability, it would be a one-vote veto.

“This… Teacher instructed me to return as soon as possible after the meeting ends.”

Kuliko was clearly tempted yet conflicted. With his teacher calling him back so urgently, there must be an important task assigned.

“How about this, since you’re heading to S City anyway, you can just fly directly to Brisbane from the S City airport. I see your current flight ticket actually requires a layover? Rebooking this way not only won’t delay you, but you can even land an hour earlier.”

Lu Jing glanced at Kuliko’s flight ticket and realized that Kuliko’s superb sense of budget management had played a role here.

Kuliko instantly blushed:

“Right, after all, direct flights are truly too expensive and unnecessary. I am still young, unlike the professor and the others who need…”

Hearing this, everyone present exchanged glances, just short of taking a rope to tie Kuliko back and make him sign the contract.

If this kind of special talent couldn’t be kept, the laboratory might as well just disband.

So, a few minutes later, Kuliko watched dumbfoundedly as Lu Jing chicly directed a group of assistants to help carry his suitcases and luggage, directly hoisting him along into a luxury special car heading to S City.

Why does it feel a bit like a kidnapping? But would the treatment from kidnappers be this good?

“Do you, do you usually take this kind of car when you go on business trips?”

Kuliko, thrown into the car, sat on the soft genuine leather seat, feeling his whole person sink into it.

Doesn’t everyone say scientific research requires sitting on a cold bench for ten years? This is a bit too extravagant, simply like a squandering villain in a movie.

“Of course, scientific research business trips are so hard, naturally they are equipped with special cars for full-process pick-up and drop-off. Once your employment duration is slightly longer, you can also be reimbursed for business class on high-speed rails or flights, haha.”

Kremlin and these people had long been living this kind of life delightfully.

Praise be to great scientific research innovation, allowing every scientific researcher in our laboratory to get rich through labor.

Who can say this isn’t a great spirit of struggle?

Upon landing in S City, completely touring the Lu family’s key laboratory, personally operating and experiencing the most cutting-edge new equipment, and even being invited to attend a symposium where everyone equally and enthusiastically discussed many difficult problems, even Kuliko discovered how joyful it was to no longer need to run back and forth to the administration building hundreds of times just to reimburse a little funding.

“Finally, sign here. Hurry up and finish signing, you still have to catch a flight.”

Lu Jing domineeringly slammed a contract in front of Kuliko, ordering Kuliko to sign it just like ordering him to take out a trash can.

Kremlin and the others nearby watched helplessly as Lu Jing directly pressed Kuliko’s hand to finish signing that contract. Everyone’s Adam’s apples rolled as they swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

This is simply a female demon.

Kuliko, whose personality was relatively soft, was completely dominated by this demon.

Kuliko stared blankly at Lu Jing’s enlarged face right in front of him, only realizing after a long while that he had actually signed.

After fearfully picking up the document to read, Kuliko’s expression became as bumpy as riding a roller coaster again.

Why are there so many zeros? Even if it’s a contract to sell myself, am I really worth this much?

“What, could it be we’ve treated you unfairly? [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] I specifically applied for the highest level of treatment from Eldest Brother. Work well, and there will definitely be equity incentives in the future.”

Lu Jing patted Kuliko’s shoulder meaningfully, looking forward to Kuliko formally joining after his formal graduation, to become bigger and stronger from then on!

Because this involved an important project the whole family was currently preparing for. That was Xueyan’s upcoming birthday gift, and Kuliko’s joining was also a link in it.

“Meow…?”

Just then, the office door was suddenly pushed open, and Charlie, flicking his tail, darted in from behind the door.

“Charlie? Have you hidden well?”

Dozens of seconds later, Xueyan appeared closely following behind Charlie.

Today was the day for Xueyan’s routine physical examination. As a result, as soon as he entered the door, he saw his parent and everyone else inside.

“Sister!”

After Xueyan was picked up by his sister bending down, he looked at the crowd behind her and asked softly:

“Did Brother Kuliko come to pick up Charlie to take away?”

Under Lu Jing’s suggestive gaze, Kremlin grabbed Kuliko and instantly squeezed out a brilliant smile:

“No, no. We are having a tea party, it’s just about time to get off work. How could he be here to pick up Charlie?”

“Meow!”

Seeing Xueyan being carried away, Charlie naturally stopped playing hide-and-seek. He finally stopped in front of Kuliko, his former servant, and sized him up a few times.

“Charlie? Long time no see. Did you miss me and Teacher recently? Many classmates in school missed you.”

The good-tempered Kuliko habitually crouched down, wanting to pet Charlie. Then he discovered Charlie was wearing a set of little clothes of excellent texture and style, and his neck had an extra golden, heavy little gold cup pendant.

Why does this texture seem a bit off?

Xueyan noticed Brother Kuliko’s puzzlement and thoughtfully explained:

“This is a reward little gold cup Papa gave Charlie, because Charlie is a very outstanding little cat.”

Kuliko had also heard that Xueyan took Charlie to compete and eventually won the gold award, and Sophia even said in the group that Charlie wore haute couture, but none of it compared to the shock of seeing it with his own eyes right now.

This couldn’t be a pure gold gold cup, right? Just worn on Charlie’s neck like this?

“Meow!”

Charlie only let Kuliko pet him for a second before he raised his neck and proudly slipped away, standing at Xueyan’s feet again, attempting to rub his big tail against Xueyan’s short little legs.

“Right, perhaps you should tell Professor Philenster about the contract before boarding the plane?”

Lu Jing reminded the dazed Kuliko.

Kuliko finally reacted and scrambled to call his teacher before getting on the plane.

And at this very moment, Philenster, sitting in his office, looking at the uncharacteristically faintly smiling Lu Xun drinking tea opposite him, almost turned completely black in the face after answering the phone without saying a word and listening to Kuliko’s cautious explanation.

This family of robbers is simply taking everything they can lay their hands on. Why don’t they just take my entire laboratory away? This batch actually didn’t leave a single one for me!

Do they know how much painstaking effort it takes for me to painstakingly cultivate a batch of students?

“You just wait for me. Next batch, if your family can poach even one student from under my hands, I’ll admit defeat.”

Philenster ultimately stared at Lu Xun and spoke with a dangerous tone, thinking this guy dared to come over to provoke him.

Starting today, I’ll turn around and improve the laboratory treatment. The monthly subsidy for master’s and doctoral students will all be doubled!

“No matter. Actually, my trip this time, besides exchanging views with you on this matter, indeed has another presumptuous request.”

Unexpectedly, Lu Xun put the teacup in his hand aside.

“Since you know it’s a presumptuous request, then don’t…” say it!

“Perhaps you have any professor friends to recommend? Our Lu family has always been very happy to look for outstanding talents around the world and provide them with reasonable treatment.”

Lu Xun asked with a subtle tone.

Halfway through his sentence, Philenster was reminded of something by Lu Xun’s word “friends”.

You have to say, it’s not the thief stealing that’s scary, but the thief coveting. You can guard against it in a thousand ways but still fail. It’s better to let this family go ruin others for the next few years. Why just pick on me alone?

Moreover, having mixed in the scientific research circle for so long, who doesn’t have a few mortal enemies who oppose each other with equal harshness and can’t stand each other.

Today snatching a fund project, tomorrow snatching professional title evaluation, it’s simply endlessly annoying. [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] Just gather them all together. This is called raising Gu, brilliant.

Philenster tapped the armrest of his chair, an evil list already slowly emerging in his head.

A few minutes later, Lu Xun walked out of the office, successfully obtaining a brand new list.

“But President Lu, is this list truly reliable? That Professor Philenster clearly has deep grievances against us right now…”

What if he deliberately recommends some enemies or unreliable people?

The secretary following behind Lu Xun calmly adjusted his glasses, his attitude not so trusting.

Lu Xun chuckled slightly:

“Sometimes the one who understands you the most is actually your opponent.”

For these people to be remembered by Philenster, no matter what, it’s hard for them to be mediocrities. The probability of screening people from here is much higher, and it can also let Philenster vent his anger.

As for Philenster, let him cultivate a few more. Harvesting too diligently also easily leads to barrenness. Producing Luo Ji and Kuliko consecutively is already an unexpectedly great harvest.

After a few seconds of being stunned, the eyes behind the secretary’s glasses also widened slightly.

“By the way, that Designer Simmons is still trying to contact you, President Lu. Do you need to remove his contact information from the blacklist?”

Hearing this name, Lu Xun’s expression uncharacteristically darkened.

Simmons’s professional skills paired with his unreliable personality, in a sense, is like cilantro-flavored chocolate. [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] You always have to endure one aspect.

“Hey— You family of robbers, when are you planning to send Charlie back?”

But in the very next second, Philenster, who finally realized he forgot a super important matter, instantly chased out from the office.

For a time, many students in the corridor looked over.

Is Professor Philenster’s Charlie finally coming back? Charlie on the internet recently has simply been incredibly popular.

“We also want to send Charlie back as soon as possible, but recently Charlie’s schedule in the country is a bit busy.”

Lu Xun said indifferently.

“A cat, has a schedule that is a bit busy?” Philenster questioned.

“Mm, because many advertising companies and brands are contacting Charlie. Oh right. I did forget this matter, Li Rui.”

Lu Xun looked at the secretary and gave an instruction, and the secretary hurriedly took an envelope out of his bag.

“Professor Philenster, this is Charlie’s remuneration for being invited by Masis to shoot a poster in the country. Please make sure to accept it.”

Seeing the envelope, Philenster, who originally wanted to vigilantly push it away to refuse blatant bribery, was stunned.

My Charlie can actually work and earn money?

“What what? God, is this really our Charlie’s salary?”

The Carlos University students nearby who were quietly listening to gossip were even more stunned seeing this scene.

We didn’t expect that while we haven’t even graduated and made money, Charlie has already preemptively become a big internet celebrity earning cat food!

In fact, Simmons, who was agreed to visit for the first time, was furiously holding a pile of materials. Even his initial good mood of being able to see his little muse again was ruined.

He only knew that that child model was controlled by his parents to terminate the contract overnight for a better job, but he didn’t expect that pair of parents to move so fast.

“Look at this, look at this, this is simply an inferior imitation! As a result, such photos are actually going to be published first! How unreasonable!”

As soon as Simmons was led by the butler to step into the Lu family’s door, he exasperatedly held up a stack of materials obtained through internal inquiries and started shouting.

Lu Li was the first to frown and look at the materials, only to discover it was actually that little model from the banquet, who shot a set of extremely similar raincoat cat photos.

It was just that the distribution lines of the diamond water droplets on the raincoat were clearly much worse. It wasn’t as agile anymore, but instead had a more artificial feel.

The most crucial point was that even that white cat, who knows where it was chosen from, was a circle thinner than Charlie, having a kind of black humor.

“Meow—?”

Charlie saw the familiar photos and was the first to run over with a pitter-patter.

Because Charlie liked this set of photos of himself and Xueyan the most. No matter how many times he looked at them, he would stare and admire them for a long time, and even carry them in his mouth to hoard in his cat villa.

Recently, Charlie had hoarded quite a few paper photos in his cat villa.

As a result, just as Charlie was about to bite and take it away this time, he noticed something was wrong. The person on it didn’t seem to be Xueyan, and there was even an ugly kitty!

The mangosteen cat claws instinctively revealed their sharp tips, wanting to scratch the ugly kitty on it.

“I believe we must announce the truth to the world in a stunning manner! We can’t let the other party be so smug, let him know that this wave of stolen traffic can be very hot to handle. For example, let me personally shoot a set of Xueyan’s… Eh?”

Simmons, who was still furious a second ago, as he spoke, his gaze fell on Old Dad Lu Ting sitting in the main seat.

Ever since accepting the interview as a parent representative at the competition, Dad had gradually become accustomed to the existence of professional stylists. Sometimes before going out in the morning, he would even consult Old Third for advice on fashion pairing.

Because Lu Ting observed and found that as long as the parent dressed handsomely enough, when picking up and dropping off the sweet cub to and from school, the sweet cub would truly be more willing to be held by the parent in public all the time!

Heh, I’ve finally discovered the secret to Old Third’s status rising sharply after his concert.

And Lu Li also never thought that the originally somewhat dull and stiff communication between his adult self and his dad would actually completely change because of a competition of Xueyan’s.

However, Dad’s foundational conditions were naturally extremely solid. Once he paid attention to pairing, the natural cold and mature aura of an Alpha became even more impressive.

Every day on the way to the company, the appearance of the Alpha in a dark suit leaning back slightly in the back seat, with sharp and handsome facial features, had a distinct light and shadow layering that looked like the texture of a movie shot.

At this moment, staring at Lu Ting, Simmons simply couldn’t use words to express his bursting thoughts and inspiration.

This kind of mature Alpha male of this age is clearly a treasure of the fashion world—!

I should have thought of this long ago. The existence that could give birth to an astoundingly heavenly little muse is naturally a great muse!

Seeing his friend’s familiar eyes, Lu Li’s head already started to ache.

If you even dare to provoke my dad, I completely have nothing more to say.

Nowadays, Dad’s temper has already improved a lot. Back when we were kids, a beating was truly heavy-handed. I remember even Eldest Brother was taught a lesson once.