Brainoid

Qi Min was a little surprised that Qin Zhenjun would chat with her directly in private. Could it be that he had guessed Yan Zhaolan's purpose in asking him about his situation in the group of classmates? It would be such a shame for her. But that's not necessarily the case. Qi Min thought that there weren't many people who would directly become PIs after graduating from Ph.D.s without becoming postdocs, and she now had a key project in hand. As long as she does not compare with her salary income, she is not really weak compared to others now.

Moreover, if her ex invited her, she would be too guilty if she didn't go. Qi Min knew that Qin Zhenjun was much more active than her among her college classmates. If word got out that she was so miserable that she didn't even dare to meet him, wouldn't it mean that she was the loser among her classmates?

With this in mind, Qi Min immediately replied: "Okay, where can we make an appointment?"

Qin Zhenjun sent an address and wrote: "Are you free tomorrow? I will be leaving the day after tomorrow."

Qi Min thought about it in his mind. If he said he was leaving the day after tomorrow, he was either going on a business trip, or it meant that he was back in Beijing on a business trip. It just so happens that TOP2 University has just held a forum on structural biology, which shows that the latter situation is more likely. Qin Zhenjun is from Beijing. If he is looking for a teaching position, Beijing should be his first choice. His work abroad shows that he should still be a postdoc.

Now Qi Min felt at ease. Qin Zhenjun is a postdoc in a large group, and she is a PI in a second-rate school, so they cannot directly compare with each other. After all, finding a teaching position also depends on luck. You have to be able to catch up with other schools to recruit PIs. Those who work as a postdoc in a group of academic experts may not necessarily be able to work as a PI in a first-class school in the future.

"If you're free, let's meet at 12:00 noon." Qi Min replied decisively.

Although he originally didn't go home to eat during working days, Qi Min still specifically told Anton: "By the way, I made an appointment with someone for lunch tomorrow."

"Go ahead, I didn't have lunch for you either." Anton said.

"Uh... But I hope you can go together." Qi Min said hesitantly, "After all, it can be considered my EX."

Hearing what she said, Anton, who was cutting mustard knots, raised his head and glanced at her: "Oh, the one who eats raw grasshoppers?"

The person who ate the grasshopper alive was a friend of Qi Min's in high school. In fact, it was because they were both GEEKs and they always had activities together that they were gossiped about by others.

"No." Qi Min waved his hand and said, "It's Qin Zhenjun, do you remember, I told you -"

"The one who called you LOSER?" Anton asked bluntly, and accurately repeated the dialect words used by Qi Min to scold Qin Zhenjun.

"Yes." Qi Min said, "If Ya brings his current partner, we are not wrong. If Ya doesn't, you can watch from a distance. If I can't help but take action, you have to pull me away." Living."

The latter sentence is obviously just a harsh word. Qi Min, a person who cares about face, actually despises this kind of behavior of using physical violence to retaliate after being hit mentally.

But Anton still nodded and said: "Okay, no problem."

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The next morning, Qi Min received a call from the engineer, saying that the laboratory at the "Nimbus" center was ready and asked her to take a look. But because her lunch date with Qin Zhenjun was in the city, she still postponed the acceptance of the laboratory until the afternoon.

Qi Min came out of the laboratory just after eleven o'clock. Before leaving, she told Wang Xin and Chen Linyou that she was going to the "Nimbus" center in the afternoon and would not come back.

However, Qi Min did not go directly to the appointment. Instead, he first went to the bathroom of a separate department building and looked at his appearance in the mirror.

To be fair, Qi Min looks like an ordinary person. Her facial features are neither beautiful nor ugly, so her GEEK temperament in high school will be so obvious-if a person doesn't look so If she is recognizable, then everyone can only have a deeper impression of her dressing style in plaid shirts all year round. And now, although the reflection in the mirror is not wearing the once iconic plaid shirt, but is wearing a black turtleneck sweater, it still looks a little pale and serious when paired with the face that is already light-skinned. .

With this appearance, Qi Min really didn't dare to claim that she was a winner in traditional life, but she still hypnotized herself and said that she was doing well. As if to prove this, she took out a Xingyue Bodhi 108 bracelet and wore it around her neck, trying to create an image of being free from desires and indifferent to fame and fortune. As she was almost thirty and had not bought a car yet, she had to take the subway. A “reasonable” explanation for going to a restaurant.

However, although she is a bit weak in a head-to-head competition with Qin Zhenjun, Qi Min is still relatively stable if she competes with Qin Zhenjun. There is a high probability that Qin Zhenjun's current girlfriend cannot be more beautiful than Anton - after all, not everyone looks like him when looking for a partner. Qi Min also puts his face first.

When they were about to arrive at their destination, Qi Min called Anton and asked him not to approach the hotel until she arrived before making plans.

When the subway train arrived at her station, Qi Min got off the train and walked onto the ground. Because this place was very close to her previous undergraduate school, Qi Min quickly found a hotel to make an appointment with Qin Zhenjun - it couldn't be said to be a big hotel, in fact it was just a restaurant in a shopping mall.

Then Qi Min saw Anton. He seemed to have dressed up carefully. He had changed into the brown jacket he bought last month. His long hair, which was easily messy because of its curls, was also combed properly. Tie it up again.

Taking advantage of the crowds in the shopping mall, Qi Min first pulled Anton aside and quietly looked in through the glass window of the restaurant. Unexpectedly, he saw Qin Zhenjun sitting at a table in the corner. Because Qi Min's undergraduate school has a strong atmosphere of science and engineering, people usually arrive early for the appointed time, and even those who arrive late will not exceed the time limit.

And from this point of view, Qin Zhenjun was the only one in front of that table. Qi Min said to Anton: "The other party doesn't have anyone with them, so you don't need to go... just hang around here."

"Hurry up and eat." Anton reminded her, "I haven't had lunch yet."

"Then you go have lunch." Qi Min said, "You don't have to watch me eat, right?"

"Okay, just eat quickly." Anton patted her, "I promised to watch you, so I have to watch you."

Qi Min just felt that Anton was making a fuss out of a molehill. She couldn't really have a conflict with her ex in the restaurant, right? But just wait if Anton wants to. Anyway, she probably won’t be able to eat much in this Thai restaurant.

After confirming that Qin Zhenjun had not looked over, Qi Min walked towards the door of the restaurant as if he had just come up from the elevator.

After formally meeting Qin Zhenjun, Qi Min greeted him normally and then sat down opposite him.

I haven’t seen Qin Zhenjun in the past few years, but he seems to have changed a lot since he was an undergraduate. For Qi Min, she felt that Qin Zhenjun's appearance was not as good as before, especially with Anton as a backdrop, which made her doubt her previous aesthetics. But objectively speaking, Qin Zhenjun has changed his hairstyle to a shorter and neater one, and looks much more mature and stable. This is probably more important for a man's career.

I’m afraid you’ve become bald after studying biology, right? Qi Min made a self-protective preemptive taunt in his heart, and then pretended to be just an old friend and asked politely: "Hey, how have you been these past few years? Where are you now?"

Being bald when studying biology is really no joke. Some of the big guys in our class who are obsessed with scientific research are already very bald. You're only twenty years old. You don't even have a girlfriend and you're bald. What will you do in the future...

If there are any male students here who have not yet taken the college entrance examination, I sincerely suggest that you should not major in biology if you don’t really love it. If you don’t change your career in this major, you will definitely need to study for a Ph.D., and you will lose your hair if you study for a Ph.D. If you want to change your career... why not choose another major from the beginning (face covering)