Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 998: Chapter 499: Farewell to Youth!_3

"Old Li, over here!" he whispered, waving his hand a few times.

Li Renzhe walked over and immediately complained, "Why are you still wearing a hat and glasses? Are you playing some kind of blind man’s game?"

"Screw off!"

Zhao Yi stood up and kicked at him.

"Just kidding! Haha, just a joke!" Li Renzhe quickly dodged and flopped down beside him, sighing in complaint, "I never should have chosen microbiology research as my field!"

"What happened?"

"It’s exhausting!"

Li Renzhe said gloomily, "Just when I started to relax a bit, for a while it’s been nothing but experiments, recording data, more experiments, more data. It’s so boring!"

"You’ve got it down?" Zhao Yi asked. freewēbnoveℓ.com

Li Renzhe glared and said, "If you’ve done the same experiment tens or hundreds of times, even a pig would get it."

"The most frustrating part is, even though I already know how to do it, I still have to keep doing it."

"My mentor says patience is key in microbiology research..."

"Ugh!"

Zhao Yi shook his head as he listened, understanding Li Renzhe’s frustration but also his mentor’s perspective, since it’s the microbiology lab, it definitely had something to do with Wei Shiqing’s work.

The microbiology lab had a partnership with the Science Academy, responsible for perfecting the national microbial database, which certainly required a lot of repetitive experiments and continuous data recording.

That’s what Li Renzhe was doing, but it couldn’t quite be called ’labor exploitation.’

Research in the biological field is like this, graduate students in the biomedical field do the most basic experiments. Their experiments may help the project, but the help is minimal, even negligible.

Students’ knowledge, experience, and operational level are not up to par. When they are truly involved in a project, they can only do the most basic, simplest tasks. Some experiments need to be redone by others to compare data, just in case there was an issue during the process.

So, when you enter a lab that is actually carrying out a project, you’re really there just to learn, and it’s only those mentors who don’t work on projects and whose personal expertise is limited—who do research just for the sake of writing papers—that might exploit students’ labor. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com

"That’s just how it is."

Zhao Yi tried to reassure him, "Don’t sigh. Trust me, the boring and monotonous days have only just begun. Like I said, people need to adapt to their environment. Once you’re used to the current intensity, there’s even higher levels of intensity waiting for you."

"Hang in there!"

"Screw off!"

Li Renzhe was so frustrated he was nearly beside himself and eventually just fell silent.

"What’s the matter? You’re not that fragile, are you?" Zhao Yi was a bit surprised and joked, "I was only kidding, Old Li, this is..."

"It’s not that."

Li Renzhe shook his head, "Zhao Yi... I might as well tell you, I think I’m going to break up with Huang Wenqian."

"What?"

Zhao Yi’s mouth dropped open, a gleam of gossip flashing in his eyes, "Why?"

Li Renzhe shook his head in distress, "I don’t know what’s gotten into her. After the New Year, Huang Wenqian has been finding all sorts of ways to make me meet her parents, and she’s been rushing me to get our marriage license."

"I met them, and she said her parents really liked me. Then she started pushing for marriage, even using your wife as an example, saying that it’s possible to get married while studying for a master’s, that we should just get the marriage certificate without a ceremony."

"...It’s driving me nuts."

"I don’t get it. Before, she talked about enjoying our relationship and then suddenly, she’s all about getting the certificate and marrying. And the way she talks, it feels like... she makes it seem like I’m the one who wants to marry her. And I couldn’t just say it wasn’t true..."

"Anyway, it’s strange. Women change their minds too quickly. Just yesterday I was wondering if maybe one of her friends talked her into rushing me for marriage."

Li Renzhe rambled on, then turned to Zhao Yi with earnest eyes, asking, "What do you think?"

"Ah? What?" Zhao Yi looked confused then quickly stood up saying, "Sorry, Old Li, I was thinking about my research just now. I just remembered, I have to go prepare for an experiment with your relative, Professor Li Ning."

"I’ve got to go."

"When it comes to matters of love, you have to make your own decisions. Outsiders can’t help!"

"Good luck, bye!" And with that, he dashed away before the echoes of his words had faded.

Left behind.

Li Renzhe ground his teeth in anger, "I knew it had something to do with him!"

After saying this, he took out a little red book from his pocket. On it was written ’Marriage Certificate’ in big letters, "Making me get married early!"

"If it wasn’t for Huang Wenqian slipping up after we got the certificate, I’d still be in the dark."

"Damn it!"

"I... I..." Li Renzhe stammered, struggling to find the words.

A gentle breeze blew softly.

Below the corner of his eye, a line of tears marking the end of youth trickled down.