C423 Reenergize 6

Her eyes once again moistened as she said in a low voice, "Old mister, thank you for thinking so highly of me …" "Actually, I know that I'm not as outstanding as you make me out to be."

"Likun, you don't have to belittle yourself."

She held the teacup, feeling the warmth of the boiling water, and said in a low voice, "Those years, I really thought that I was lucky enough to walk out of the quagmire of despair. No matter what I did, everything went smoothly. I was in charge of all the good things in the school, and the professors appreciated me and offered me the best opportunity; the famous people praised my thesis and gave me warm guidance; the research institutes waved at me and said I was the most talented student they had ever met. For a long time, I thought this was my hard work in return. "But now, I know that's not the case. I'm not as good as I thought I was …"

The old man looked at her blank expression and said meaningfully, "Li Kun, you are wrong."

She looked at him blankly.

"Yes, I've been helping you in the dark. However, a person who wanted to be successful was by no means just relying on help. Especially in academia, it was incomparable to doing business. Even if I'm helping you again, can I help you with every score? For my sake, the professor will change your score so that you can get first place every time? And those excellent papers, they had to be reviewed by several authorities. These arrogant scholars from the West, would they praise a Chinese character who had no ability at all for the sake of money? If that's the case, then you're underestimating yourself and them too much! "I've never heard of a Nobel Prize winner who used his own money to buy it …"

Li Kun was speechless.

"I have three daughters and a son of my own, and the Qu family has many nephews as well. If I could buy all of these with money, then my children would have long ago become famous in the academic world. Many of them, however, had only ever made it to the University of Clayton, where they simply ate and drank and gilded themselves. With so many rich people in the world, who would be able to buy the first place grade from the University of California School of Medicine? You can think you can't, but you can't insult this university! "

Li Kun's face turned red, but he could not tell what was going on. He could only silently listen.

The old man said amiably, "Likun, I helped you because you did your best. Actually, I didn't expect much from you at first. Like all ordinary women, as long as you're able to graduate smoothly, have a diploma, a good job, and a happy family. You have saved my life before, I think, you have done your best to repay this Qu Family. But your first paper changed my mind about you. Once, when I was entertaining the talented members of the institute, they showed me a newly-published journal in which I inadvertently read your paper. At the time, I was so taken aback by the views expressed in it that I took the time to arrange several prestigious and authoritative discussions. Of course, they didn't know about my relationship with you. They only held a purely academic point of view and praised you, saying that you have the eyes and mind of a genius … From then on, I changed my mind. I wanted to see what kind of person you would become if the conditions allowed. If there really comes a day when your name is known throughout the world, perhaps, that will be my Qu Family's greatest glory … "