Major Crimes Unit Starts with Police Academy Students

At this moment, Zhao Jiwei pushed open the door and walked in. Yang Shu quickly got up, closed his doctoral study materials, and instead opened a document: an electric vehicle tracking case report.

In Yang Shu's flustered movements, Zhao Jiwei happened to see the transition between the two pages.

He said calmly,

"Let's go out for some skewers,"

Yang Shu shook his head, not very interested.

"You guys eat, I'm not very hungry,"

Seeing the wilted poplar trees, Zhao Jiwei said curiously,

"What are you doing? You come back and immediately rush into your room,"

Yang Shu was too embarrassed to admit that his credit had been stolen, so he responded,

"Writing a report,"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Jiwei pointed to the computer screen.

"We've been back for so long, and we still haven't even written a proper title. Come on, we just bought some cold pot skewers, let's eat our fill before we start thinking about it."

Yang Shu insisted,

"Really, you guys eat, I really don't have much of an appetite."

Seeing that Yang Shu was truly adamant, Zhao Jiwei was somewhat unable to persuade him, so he had no choice but to say...

"Okay, if you want to eat, come out. Anyway, Mingcheng and Dawei haven't come back yet."

After saying that, he returned to the living room alone.

Xia Jie was taking the skewers out of the takeout packaging when she saw Zhao Jiwei come out by himself.

She asked,

"What? He doesn't eat the poplar tree?"

At this moment, Zhao Jiwei was still pondering the strangeness of the poplar tree. Hearing Xia Jie's question, he nodded and said...

"Hmm, Yang Shu is acting strange today. When I went in, he was frantically fiddling with the computer."

He said he was writing a report, but when I went in, I saw he was investigating something related to the PhD program.

Before Xia Jie returned, she heard some rumors at the institute, but she didn't say anything and just sighed deeply.

At this moment, Li Dawei and Wu Mingcheng returned, and everyone gathered at Li Dawei's house.

Li Dawei started yelling as soon as he walked in the door.

"I can guess it's cold pot skewers with my eyes closed,"

Zhao Jiwei joked,

Why don't you close your nose?

　(Nod's) Li Dawei immediately jumped to the dining table.

"Why aren't you starting to eat yet? Are you waiting for the two of us?"

He was about to reach for it when he suddenly sensed that something was off.

"What's wrong with you two, Ming?"

Li Dawei was rather nonchalant, while Wu Mingcheng immediately realized that Yang Shu wasn't present.

"Where's Yang Shu? Why isn't he coming out? Has he not returned yet?"

As Xia Jie handed Wu Mingcheng a cup of hot water, she said...

"I got back a while ago, and went straight to my bedroom after I got back. I haven't come out since."

Li Dawei glanced at Yang Shu's room at this moment.

"Oh, what's wrong with the poplar tree again?"

Zhao Jiwei said,

"We don't know either. It seems Yang Shu is leaving to take the doctoral entrance exam."

Chapter 479 Resolving the Knot in the Heart

Knowing the reason, Xia Jie glared at him.

"Zhao Jiwei, you gossip! Don't talk nonsense if you don't know. He doesn't simply want to take the doctoral entrance exam."

He was talking about the electric bikes; I overheard people in the office talking about it today.

Officer Cao claimed all the credit for installing the GPS and finding the electric scooter as his own.

Wu Mingcheng sighed at this moment. Having such a master was truly hopeless.

Upon hearing Xia Jie's words, Li Dawei was taken aback.

"What? This was Mingcheng's idea. The three of us contacted each other, and we all worked together to make it happen."

How could Officer Cao do this? Such blatant attempt to claim credit—he really has all sorts of tricks up his sleeve!

Even Zhao Jiwei, an honest man, felt somewhat indignant.

"Isn't that right? He's already in his thirties or forties, is it really necessary for him to compete with us newcomers?"

Xia Jie looked at Wu Mingcheng, who stood calmly to the side.

"Mingcheng, what? You know about this?"

Wu Mingcheng nodded and said,

"When I was at the station at 9:00, I happened to run into Officer Cao and a group of veteran officers joking about poplar trees."

Then, he recounted the whole process to them.

Hearing Wu Mingcheng's words, Li Dawei became even angrier.

"That's really going too far! Isn't this a classic case of blaming the victim? Last time, things got so awkward, and they just wouldn't listen to reason at all."

Sigh, I thought he was some great hero, but he's really nothing special.

No, let's just let this go for now. Consider it helping Yang Shu out; after all, Yang Shu is his apprentice.

Let's discuss this together. We can't just let it end like this; this is too much of a bullying."

Xia Jie shook her head and said,

"Then what else can you do? Let Yang Shu fall out with his master and become a laughing stock in the whole institute?"

Zhao Jiwei, standing to the side, said worriedly,

"Wouldn't that create an enemy?"

Li Dawei was truly unwilling to accept this.

"Then what do we do? Just leave it at that?"

　(bgfg) At this moment, Wu Mingcheng looked at them and spoke,

"Alright, Yang Shu is clearly upset about this. I guess it's partly because Officer Cao was greedy for credit, and partly because he's afraid of letting us down."

I'll go in and talk to him first. Please don't let this cause any resentment.

After he finished speaking, Li Da nodded in agreement with the others.

After Wu Mingcheng entered Yang Shu's room, Li Dawei said to Zhao Jiwei,

"Jiwei, let's go downstairs and buy a few beers. We've got some troubles on our minds, so let's have a drink together."

Wu Mingcheng pushed open the door and went inside, finding Yang Shu sitting at the table, staring blankly at the computer, not even noticing Wu Mingcheng enter the room.

Seeing this, Wu Mingcheng shook his head. He understood perfectly well what Yang Shu was thinking.

He went up and patted Yang Shu on the shoulder.

"Yang Shu, what are you thinking about?"

Only then did the poplar tree come to its senses.

"Hey, Mingcheng, when did you come in?"

Seeing Yang Shu's reaction, Wu Mingcheng said with a smile,

"I came in and saw you spacing out? What? Still thinking about today's events?"

Yang Shu lowered his head and remained silent, clearly still harboring resentment over what had happened earlier that day.

Wu Mingcheng continued,

"Yang Shu, I don't have much to advise you. You have to experience these things yourself."

Reality is different from school; in life, you encounter all sorts of people, with interests, reputation, and various other things mixed in.

This kind of thing is unavoidable. I hope you can calm down and accept it. I'm sure you'll be able to understand.

Like I told you before, what's so important about this compared to sacrifice?

Hearing Wu Mingcheng's words, Yang Shu began to ponder. Gradually, he realized that he could simply keep his distance from Cao Jianjun.

After a while, Yang Shu raised his head and looked at Wu Mingcheng.