Reborn as a Mortal Heiress Pampered by Big Shots-Chapter 435 - 284 is not a teacher, it’s an old..._3

Xia Ye took the stack of tickets without having time to look at them, and noticing that Jiang Xuan was not heading toward the campus exit, she called out to him first, "Professor Jiang, do you have other business at our school?"

Jiang Xuan did not turn around, replying coldly, "I’m going to your Virtue Building to handle some matters."

Xia Ye: ?

Virtue Building? Wasn’t that where their department handled miscellaneous affairs?

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Three days had passed, and it was finally the day for Xia Ye and Shen Zhiqiao to determine the winner.

That morning, Academician Fu first called Huang Yan into his office.

"Huang Yan, the Pioneer Medical Conference in Capital City is next week. I hear many leading figures in the life sciences will attend. I have a few tickets here; ask your group if anyone wants to go. Distribute them among yourselves," he said.

Huang Yan took the tickets and counted them, his expression turning troubled, "Academician, this isn’t enough, we are short one ticket..."

Academician Fu also felt regret, "I have already given up my own ticket for you young folks. The Pioneer Medical Conference only happens once every five years; tickets aren’t easy to come by. The other groups don’t even have these, so don’t make it public. Focus on those who really want to go and are eager, but also don’t let those who can’t go feel left out."

Huang Yan pursed his lips, "Alright..."

Back with his group, he asked around.

Indeed, such a rare opportunity, no one wanted to miss it.

As it so happened, all the other researchers had arrived, except for Xia Ye.

If Xia Ye was not counted, they had just the right amount of tickets.

After a while, someone suggested, "Brother, how about... we each take a ticket, and when Sister Xia comes, just don’t tell her. She’s new, she might have more chances in the future."

Ji Xiaomin, a duty student who previously got along well with Xia Ye, felt this idea was not too great, "That’s really unfair to Sister Xia. Academician Fu didn’t say prospective students couldn’t go. She at least has the right to know, she might have been looking forward to this opportunity too."

The group was divided in opinion, and the final decision fell onto Huang Yan.

He frowned, deeply conflicted.

Overtly excluding Sister Xia like this, it certainly wasn’t right, but...

Remembering the picture on Shen Zhiqiao’s phone from the other day and thinking back to her cryptic words.

Is Sister Xia really the kind of person she described?

As time was running out and Sister Xia was likely to arrive soon, Huang Yan clenched his jaw tightly, struggling to make a decision—

"Then let’s... not tell Sister Xia for now..."

He was still speaking when Ji Xiaomin suddenly exclaimed behind him, "Sister Xia? When did you get here?"

Huang Yan’s expression froze as he turned around in slight panic to find that Xia Ye, unbeknownst to him, had already been standing behind him.

He was about to explain, but then heard Xia Ye speak calmly, "I just arrived. What were you talking about?"

She hadn’t heard everything, nor did she have the habit of eavesdropping.

Ji Xiaomin glared at Huang Yan, not saying anything else, and directly handed her own ticket to Xia Ye, "Sister Xia, you know about the Medical Pioneer Conference in Capital City, right? This is an admission ticket. Don’t mind your senior; we were short on tickets. He was in a tough spot." frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓

Huang Yan pinched his hand, unsure of what to say.

But Xia Ye looked at the ticket without any expression of surprise, her tone as usual, "The Pioneer Conference? Oh, I already have an admission ticket."

The researchers were all taken aback.

Then, Xia Ye put down the cage covered with a blackout cloth she had been carrying, placed her backpack in front of her, and pulled out a stack of admission tickets—a total of twenty!

They were all given to her by Uncle Jiang that day.

While others struggled to obtain a single ticket, she had twenty all along.

But Xia Ye showed no proud expression on her face; instead, she casually lifted those tickets, "You guys still need a few? I have plenty here, anyone who wants to go can take them, no need to be polite."

The actions of an ancestor bold and righteous contrasted starkly with just now Huang Yan and some other researchers.

The researchers lowered their heads in shame, Huang Yan’s face turning red, feeling for the first time that he, as a senior, had let himself down in disgrace.

The lab was momentarily quiet, and who knows how long it lasted, when Ji Xiaomin suddenly remembered what day it was, "Sister Xia, how’s the lab rat doing?"

Reminded by her, the others also began to take interest in the matter of the lab rat.

With a mysterious smile curving at the corners of her lips, Xia Ye bent down to pick up the cage on the floor, and in the next second, she lifted the blackout cloth—