Rumors have begun to circulate at Shenzhen University that Professor Xie has engaged in academic misconduct and misappropriated students' research results.

"Professor Xie is great. I heard that everyone from our school and other schools wants to apply to be his graduate student," a girl whispered. "I want to apply, too. The benefits are great. You can top up your meal card every month, and there's a 500 yuan allowance. In the entire school, which professor offers students such treatment?"

Another boy gloated, "They say you can only judge a person by their appearance, not their true heart. Maybe this is just a false impression, and they are actually appropriating students' research results."

"No way?" another boy hesitated. "Our advisor said he didn't even think highly of our paper and felt it was embarrassing to have his name associated with it. Professor Xie is our school's leading professor of medicine, and his standards are probably even higher. How could he possibly look down on a graduate student's research? Professor Xie's research results, many of which have international patents. When purchasing foreign patents was a common practice in China, Professor Xie had already earned a large amount of foreign exchange from patents."

Others said, "Perhaps these patents contain the students' research results? They may be offering such good treatment just to silence them."

"Yes, yes, that's very likely." Many people were discussing...

Qiao Chu was one of Professor Xie's six graduate students. She was very hardworking and outstanding, but her family was very poor. She was very lucky to be admitted to Professor Xie's program, and then she lived a good life.

Adding two hundred yuan to her meal card every month not only allows her to eat well at school, with a good combination of meat and vegetables and rich nutrition, but also allows her to use the money in the card to buy daily necessities. These two hundred yuan can basically guarantee her life at school.

She kept 100 yuan of the 500 yuan Professor Xie gave her as pocket money and sent the rest back home. This way, her mother wouldn't have to work so hard to support her younger sister.

Today, while eating in the cafeteria, Qiao Chu was startled when he heard these people talking. He rushed over with his lunch box. "What are you talking about? I don't deny that there are excellent graduate students, but compared to outstanding professors, for some in-depth medical research, that kind of intelligence is far from enough. It also requires a lot of experience. You are also graduate students. Don't you know your own abilities?"

Seeing that it was Senior Qiao Chu, who had once given a speech to the entire school, everyone smiled awkwardly: "People outside are saying that. Let's discuss it. No one is saying that Professor Xie is engaging in academic misconduct!"

Qiao Chu snorted coldly, "Someone is slandering Professor Xie! Rumors stop with the wise, so stop spreading them. Don't I, as Professor Xie's student, know whether he's a good teacher or not, and whether he's engaged in academic misconduct?"

"Yes, Senior Qiao, we know we were wrong." Qiao Chu is not only a graduate student, but also a counselor for undergraduate students, and has a certain prestige in the school.

Qiao Chu carried a large bag of soy milk and a large bag of lunch boxes, and rode a shabby old bicycle that made noises everywhere except the bell, rushing to the laboratory.

"It's time for dinner!" Qiao Chu swiped his access card and called out. Everyone was busy all night.

Several people put down what they were holding, washed their hands, and came over to eat.

While eating, Qiao Chu said, "I heard someone at school today that a student reported Professor Xie for academic misconduct and for misappropriating students' research results. Who do you think reported him?"

The other five people were stunned when they heard this and looked at each other: "It can't be you?"

Everyone was suspicious of each other and no one admitted it.

Qiao Chu narrowed his eyes and looked around at the five people: "Don't pretend. Now that you've reported it, the news has spread all over the school. The next step is to accept the investigation. It's only a matter of time before we know who reported it."

Wang Heng scratched his head. "Senior Qiao, it wasn't me. For the past two weeks, except for washing my hair and showering before returning to the dorm, I've been in the lab all the time. I haven't produced any results yet. How could I report Professor Xie for misappropriating my research? Isn't that nonsense?"

Zhang Susu also quickly raised her hand: "Yes, yes, I just came here last year too. Now I'm doing experiments with teachers, senior students, and seniors. I just figured out what's going on and don't have my own ideas yet. How can I get these research results? It's definitely not me."

Excluding Wang Heng and Zhang Susu, Qiao Chu also excluded himself, so the only ones left were Tang Cheng and Zhou Wei, who were in their second year of graduate school, and Yu Meimei, who was in her third year of graduate school.

Tang Cheng wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Senior Qiao, Professor Xie didn't like my paper. He said it could be published, but it wouldn't be very useful. I published it just to make up the numbers. Professor Xie didn't even sign my paper. As for the topic of my new paper, I'm still choosing a topic and have no idea yet. I can't report Professor Xie because it won't withstand investigation."

Zhou Wei scratched his head and smiled bitterly. "My topic was chosen by my professor. He also gave me the ideas. We discussed all of this in the lab. The entire process was also documented and recorded in my email. I have no reason to report the professor."

Afterwards, everyone turned their eyes to Yu Meimei who lowered her head!

The laboratory was silent and the atmosphere was awkward.

Yu Meimei doesn't talk much, but she is very diligent in the laboratory and willing to help others.

If possible, they didn't want to suspect Yu Meimei of reporting Professor Xie.

Qiao Chu is cheerful, generous and helpful. He is usually in charge of some external affairs of the laboratory and is considered to be half a secretary to Professor Xie.

"Yu Meimei, is that you?" Qiao Chu asked.

Yu Meimei bit her lip and shook her head: "It's not me! I have something else to do!"

Yu Meimei stood up, took her bag, and was about to leave the laboratory.

Everyone is not a fool. When they saw Yu Meimei's guilty look, they immediately guessed that it might be Yu Meimei who reported it.

Qiao Chu blocked the door, and the others gathered around and looked at Yu Meimei: "Why? Professor Xie was so good to you, and you actually lied and fabricated things to slander Professor Xie. Have you forgotten that when you were in your first year of graduate school, your father was seriously ill and was in the hospital. He needed money to save his life. I and several senior students at the time pooled together a thousand yuan, and the professor took the remaining five thousand, and you took it back to save your father."

"Have you forgotten that to save money, you ate less and fainted from hunger in the lab. Who often made soup and brought it to the lab, and even gave you the biggest bowl? Have you forgotten that your shoes once showed your toes? Others only had one pair of shoes per season, but Professor Xie gave you two?"

"I admit you're smart, hardworking, and have a lot of ideas, but for every project, it was Professor Xie who helped you analyze and ultimately work on it together. Professor Xie said you could independently author one of your two research findings, but you insisted on having Professor Xie's name on it, saying it would increase the value of your paper."

"Professor Xie agreed to put his name at the end when he heard you say that. But you insisted that this paper wouldn't have been possible without the professor's help, and you insisted on putting Professor Xie's name at the front. Professor Xie has been so good to you, why did you report him?"

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